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Icelander
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Hey! What are you reading now?
#10137191 - 04/09/09 03:36 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm curious.
I'm reading books about animals and emotion and how we can relate to them. Monty Roberts (horse whisperer) Cesar Millan (dog whisperer. I'm very interested in the practice of interspecies communication and looking at non violent training of the animals we call pets.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137209 - 04/09/09 03:39 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just ordered two books by Paramahansa Yogananda after Swami mentioned him
Autobiography of a Yogi, and his translation and deconstruction of the Bhagavad Gita
looking forward to them
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137210 - 04/09/09 03:39 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I am reading yet another one of your _ _ _ _ _ _ threads.
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137211 - 04/09/09 03:40 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything - Ervin Lazlo
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Icelander
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: deff]
#10137239 - 04/09/09 03:44 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Autobiography of a Yogi,
This is a fun read.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: deff]
#10137242 - 04/09/09 03:44 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
deff said: I just ordered two books by Paramahansa Yogananda after Swami mentioned him
Autobiography of a Yogi,
Here, I will give you the condensed version: I am special!
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137269 - 04/09/09 03:48 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Autobiography of a Yogi,
This is a fun read.
Be sure to read the companion piece: 'Boo Boo Steals a Pic-a-nic Basket'.
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I am reading Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, and am also about to begin Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" again. Supposedly they are good companion pieces. And of course this is supplemented/distracted by the shroomery as usual.
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: daytripper23]
#10137342 - 04/09/09 04:00 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Fiction?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137592 - 04/09/09 04:38 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cormac McCarthy is fiction, and "The Road" is coming to theatres. Another one by him that you might recognize is "No Country for Old Men", which was also adapted.
He seems like a pretty bleak guy.
Alot of people really like him, but I am not sure I like his style too much; although its sort of early to tell since this is his only book Ive read. I liked the movie No Country for Old Men, so Idk. I am only reading this a second time for a class.
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137603 - 04/09/09 04:39 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm reading Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis.
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137606 - 04/09/09 04:40 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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hmm... The Present!
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Icelander
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Sventington]
#10137607 - 04/09/09 04:40 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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What's that about?
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Icelander
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Jethro Tull]
#10137611 - 04/09/09 04:41 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jethro Tull said: hmm... The Present!
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137631 - 04/09/09 04:43 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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"I love Jesus, I hate Christianity" - Kim Michaels
Basically about how far Modern religion has diverted from the truth. Really good so far.
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Icelander
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: sandman_130]
#10137665 - 04/09/09 04:47 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I dig that title.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10137977 - 04/09/09 05:33 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas. He's the author of 'The Western Mind' which I haven't read.
Cosmos and Psyche is intriguing.
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: daytripper23]
#10138136 - 04/09/09 05:56 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I want to read "The Road" (Cormac McCarthy) too. I bought it at least a year ago to read on a vacation and ended up not having any time while out of town.
I'm reading: "Against His-Story, Against Leviathan" by Fredy Perlman. It's a dense, poetic essay about the history of western civilization from the point of view of anarcho-primitivist, Fredy Perlman (deceased). -excerpt-
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: Icelander]
#10138164 - 04/09/09 06:03 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Between the Monster and the Saint - Richard Holloway This guy knows what he's on aboot
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Re: Hey! What are you reading now? [Re: mr_kite]
#10138409 - 04/09/09 06:48 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I assume that against Hobbes's Leviathan?
Interesting coincidences, I am going to write my critical essay (on the road, and other novels) partly in respect to Leviathan. I have read a few modern critics as taking a similar approach. Also its just for fun to bring Hobbes in, I have never read much into "enlightenment" era philosophy, so I figured it might be interesting. I am sure that I will be leaning towards criticism of Leviathan, but the social contract is pretty fundamental to my philosophy these days. (I got wind of the concept from later philosophers)
I suppose this is somewhat of a tangent, but I want to mention that the class I am taking is bullshit. Its called "Evaluating literature" (you might imagine), so I always need some philosophical tangent to go off on.
I have learned a different uptake on art criticism, if you don't have anything positive to say, there's no use in saying anything at all. It is one thing to be critical of the world we live in, but art must be considered harmless (as opposed to a censored consciousness). That is, one should direct his attention to his conditions of existence, his humanity. That is briefly what I see as the purpose of art. The critic who instead directs his attention to the art itself, is distracted, absurd.
Everybody else seems to approach the class in a negative fashion, comparing good books only to bad books, or good techniques to bad techniques. I have learned to just keep my mouth shut in there. I don't see any reason to bring these dualities into the aesthetic itself. Basically, I think evaluating (imposing a duality of scale upon) literature is a flawed idea. I am more interested in just reading, and understanding symbolism and semiology in language. There is no flaw to meaning. It may concern certain depths and complexity, but so does our path in life, and so most critics come off as imposing their own path to say what quality is.
To say the least, this class is frustrating me. I am more interested in just reading, and anything else of interest would be of symbolisim and semiology in language. What is a sign, what is meaning? How is it expressed? Explicit "Art", is in my mind, is just positioning an abstraction, a way of recognizing that something is an expression. I don't think people sincerely experience the art when they face it as the critic does.
-------------------- Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
Edited by daytripper23 (04/09/09 07:01 PM)
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