OK, time for a proper reply to some of Inkosi's posts in this topic.
The most essential, important and obvious thing that we all share, life. We were all born, and we are all going to die, so it is the truth about it that concerns us all. We all know that in the end, life all boils down to how good we feel. If the truth was something horrible, it would make sense to just ignore it and hide in the illusions of our minds, but it turns out to be the best it can be. It's my duty to share what i've found.
So in three lines of pure waffle, you've said 'people die'. Hold the front pages 
Nobody has been able to challenge the books, nobody has even been able to CORRECT a single thing in the books for 5 years, this tells you how accurate it is.
This is because the book is chock-full of banal platitudes that everyone knows already.
It's the only book that has ever attempted to explain the big picture of life.
Yeah, this is a lie, pure and simple.
You really need to read some proper literature and read some books by people who know how to write prose properly. I've read about 20 or so pages of 'The Present' so far and it is turgid at best and leaden to the point of unreadability at worst. I will try and read it all; it's not a long book (thankfully).
As you read on in the book and start to understand more, it makes you wonder how the hell a single man with no education or experience could have written this book.
He writes in very simple English with little depth, so it's pretty understandable to me.
The books are completely free online, the author has never made any money on it and he is the most fulfilled human being on earth.
Says who?
I can now read the bible and understand it, unlike so called christians who claims they believe in the bible, but have no clue what it says, just believing in what they are told and not checking things out for themselves.
This sounds pretty conceited. What makes your knowledge so great?
Keep in mind that there will be a lot of things you don't understand until you have read the whole book, or twice like i have.
You must have the patience of a monk to read this stuff two times. Thirty pages in and I'm already as annoyed as fuck.
I don't need something to hook at because i'm not following the flow of animal chemistry (even though it's tempting at all times) and i am much more fulfilled that way than i was before.
Huh?
it wasn't until 2008 or so the present was submitted to the contest and it has stayed on the top for 5 years without any major changes.
Has it been peer-reviewed by respected academics, or has it only been peer-reviewed by spurious, fly-by-night internet reviewers like ourselves? Is it a well-respected, classic book of the genre that will be read by generations to come?
You seem to be chasing these ideas down a rabbit hole to the expense of other things in your life; at least, this is what it appears to bystanders like other people in the elite. People are not questioning your right to hold these beliefs, but to be so beholden to a spurious 130-page book that has only been written on the internet has all the trappings of something cultish, I'm afraid.
You make some very fair points, hopefully i can clearify it for you.
1. Honestly no idea what you meant there.
2. Impossible. If all people already knew it at a conscious level, mankind would be living in a very different way now. You would know this if you read and understand the book.
3. The english used has to come in a very simple, pure and easy way to understand for anyone and it is also the best way for truth to be as simplified as possible. If you judge by one's writing, (same goes for spelling, unless it's so horrible that you can't make out the word) it's more likely that you'll miss the message the person is actually trying to reveal. For example, ten authors with completely different writing styles could be writing about the same thing. What is most important, the literature or the actual content? These different forms of writing styles can mislead readers by misinterpreting it by replacing the content which is the core, with literature. Literature, fancy words and gramma, writing of the scholar, whatever you want to call it is just misleading and an attempt to make things more complex, it makes them look like real authorities on the matter, when it can be simplified instead. Words are just the result of the mind trying to convert life into thoughts, thus trying to convert thoughts, feeling etc into words making it a mental code for life in the first place anyway. It doesn't have any value other than we can communicate with each other. Thoughts and words doesn't come any near close to the fulfillment of true life (To the point your mind only knows only what is necesary so you can leave it behind) that's why simplification should be very important.
4. Same as the third one ^
5. Says i, says the author. Besides, chasing money, wealth, power etc would just go against what he is saying in the book. The middle class is the most fulfilling place to be because of the evidence of the balance (keep reading) It becomes very obvious.
6. This question just leads to something much deeper, i'm not going to write pages about it here. It has a lot to do with the collective unconscious working behind the scenes of the myth (truth revealed in a myth) You will understand if you read the present with religion.
7. Haha i wouldn't be surprised if i am going to read the book 100 times in this lifetime, because each time i read it, i notice more.
8. You will know exactly what i mean if you read and understand the book.
9. You make a very good point here, i would have been thinking the same from you current perspective, and i did. Anyway, many people will ignore the book because of fear of change or the new. ANY big changes or revelations that has been made on this planet started out to be very unpopular, this is a fact. Examples, nobody liked Jesus very much at his time around, he had very few followers (even though his followers didn't have a single clue of what Jesus was trying to say) and was executed for being a blasphemer and a threat to the jewish elite. And look now, Jesus is one of the most popular figures ever, even though he is still being misinterpreted by religions. Take Einstein's work, which has a major influence on today's science and pysics. He was the black sheep of the family in his young days, the teachers at school didn't like him because he was always questening them and in their perspective, was a threat to their authority and Einstein dropped out. The truth is it takes a long time for uninspired people to understand or accept what an inspired person is saying, they are ahead of time and you can see this clear pattern at many points in history. Why does it always take place? Because of the collective unconscious. Right around when it was proven that earth was round, many people would deny it because it was a threat to their core belief, religion etc. People who thought earth was round got murdered. It takes time for mankind to accept new revelations and it's merely the result of cognitive dissonance. It is exactly the same thing with this book, it will take time for mankind to accept the new revelations. Usually everything that is popular was once very unpopular, it's a fact you can't deny and it shows clearly all over in the time of history.
Tyler - I'm very sorry if it appeared i was generalizing christians, everyone is reading with their own unique level of perspective and awareness. What is troublesome is that you seem to take stories and metaphors literally and the language was also very different two thousand years ago as you already know. For example, Adam and Eve. People actually think the story literally took place, when it is just metaphorically speaking with an inspired and true meaning behind it. It is the collective unconscious working behind the scenes, the truth in a myth. Besides, the bible is a lot of misinterpretations, myths and truth blended in, the myths have been glorified for ages, while the truth in them hasn't even been seen yet. The events in the bible are not even in order. If you read the present with religion, you will know exactly what i mean.
It is exactly why religion and churches have gone downhill, science was a strong competitor, and it's sad because science actually helps religion revealing the truth in them. I'm not saying i'm against religion, i'm for religion, but religious people are gonna have to wake up to the truth the bible and other religious books contain, and religion will be a lot more popular. Ateists are just as ignorant to me, because science is not even trying to reveal the big fundemendal picture of life, but rather focusing on detailed parts of life, spending an incredibly large amount of money on theory developments.
