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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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New book recommendation?
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I need one.
Don't know what I want though.
I just want something philosophical :ancientaliens:

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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: cez]
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Well, I don't know what sort of philosophy you are into but I would recommend:
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's "Mulamadhyamakakarika"
translated and discussed by Jay L Garfield.
And anything by Bertrand Russell.
Or (of course :smile: )The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer, but it's a bit big and is sometimes heavy going.

The Cosmological Anthropic Principle by John Barrow and Frank Tipler is a modern mindblowing tour de force of the "Design Argument" - if you can be satisfied at taking the equations at face value (I'm assuming that, like me, you are not a genius mathematician or physicist. Apologies if you are, lol!)


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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: Schopenhauer]
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Thank you.
I will be looking those up.
Since my op, ive been browsing amazon.  I see alotta interesting stuff, but I haven't been able to pull the trigger on anything.

The Funadamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way sounds enticing.:smile:

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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: cez]
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I highly suggest 'Physics as Metaphor' by Roger S Jones. Its an older book (1882) but the explanations for "high" concepts like cardinality are accesible to someone like me who didnt have that basic math understanding. Plus, it takes the stance that "objective" is really just "agreed upon subjective" so that was interesting.


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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: cez]
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cez said:
I need one.
Don't know what I want though.
I just want something philosophical :ancientaliens:


Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Thundersqueak by Angerford & Led.


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"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: New book recommendation? [Re: cez]
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"War and Peace" ~ Tolstoy

I've recommended that one a few times, but its a very thought provoking book. Its not a short story, and you won't really get the jist of it if you stop halfway but when I think back on the hundreds of books I've read its the first one which comes to mind.

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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: Repertoire89]
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I Ching - deoxy.org


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Light up the darkness.

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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: hTx]
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island - aldous huxley


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Walk where you like your steps

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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: JohnnyZampano]
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prometheus rising - robert anton wilson

angel tech - anterro ali


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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: hTx]
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Prometheus Rising!!!....what an incredible mind blower that was when I read it in the 80s! Love Robert Anton Wilson and everything he wrote!
Of course, Illuminatus! is worth a mention too, even if it is/was only "fiction"!


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www.rawilsonfans.com/downloads/prometheus.pdf


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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: cez]
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I'll give you a quick, easy one - The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Read it now, because I was 18 when I first read it and in the 13 years since I have realised more and more about how genius it was.


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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: viktor]
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This is a wonderful thread that i will constantly refer to :heart:

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viktor said:
I'll give you a quick, easy one - The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Read it now, because I was 18 when I first read it and in the 13 years since I have realized more and more about how genius it was.


Also read it first in my teenage years, and many times since then.

"Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas."

One of the strongest introductory sentence to a novel I have read to date. We call it "attaque" in french, what is the English word ?


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L'intérêt à croire une chose n'est pas une preuve de l'existence de cette chose.
Voltaire ; Remarques sur les pensées de Pascal (1728)

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Re: New book recommendation? [Re: easyskunkin]
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I'm not sure, but you could mean "hook," if you're referring to an opening that engages the reader.

On my first reading I thought those sentences were stupid, childish and inane :goat:

I like The Plague more, but I think that there is more value in reading The Stranger first.


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