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Reading books is easier than I thought
#22107701 - 08/18/15 05:27 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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For the longest time I avoided books because I thought they'd take forever to read. I've read through about 10 this year lmao. It's so worth it. Just start out by getting a book you're interested in and read 10 minute a day or when ever you got some extra free time. So much can be learned from books that you don't get from internet articles. Wisdom not just data.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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i bought a ton of books from a local library when they were having a big sale at their bin. I have only read one (from cover to cover) but there are like, 30, 40 of them in total. i am set for life, lol
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I got a kindle and have read to many books to count off the top of my head. SO easy to torrent Ebooks.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: WAN]
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WAN said: i bought a ton of books from a local library when they were having a big sale at their bin. I have only read one (from cover to cover) but there are like, 30, 40 of them in total. i am set for life, lol
Go for it. I actually bought a bunch at once too. If I start getting bored I leave a bookmark in one and go to another. Jumping around is ok if you start getting bored with one. It doesn't seem to mess with my comprehension. Philosophy books are awesome.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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WAN said: i bought a ton of books from a local library when they were having a big sale at their bin. I have only read one (from cover to cover) but there are like, 30, 40 of them in total. i am set for life, lol
Go for it. I actually bought a bunch at once too. If I start getting bored I leave a bookmark in one and go to another. Jumping around is ok if you start getting bored with one. It doesn't seem to mess with my comprehension. Philosophy books are awesome.
haha, I do this too (jumping around). Sometimes I would be reading a few pages into a book, got bored, and had to go for something else.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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I've always loved it, I was home schooled so I never had too many friends growing up and spent a lot of time reading. Now that I don't have a job I find myself spending most of my days reading hours at a time. Just cuddle up next to my wife and we both read and every now and then take a break to smoke a bowl and discuss what we'd been reading. Beats the hell out of TV if you ask me.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22107783 - 08/18/15 05:47 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was seriously dyslexic as a child. Around the age of 20-21, I made myself read books to try and get over it. Since then I have become an avid book reader. Now, I read more than most people that I know. A while ago I estimated how many scientific articles I read per year and it was somewhere around 500. If a dyslexic guy can do it, then anyone can. When I took my college entrance exam at 18, I tested into a remedial reading class. But, I got over it and I love to read now. Books FTW.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: WAN]
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the problem is once you get into a great book you don't want to put it down!
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: 4HO-DMT] 2
#22107799 - 08/18/15 05:50 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i learned infinite life from Infinite Jest.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: 4HO-DMT]
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SARAtonin said: I've always loved it, I was home schooled so I never had too many friends growing up and spent a lot of time reading. Now that I don't have a job I find myself spending most of my days reading hours at a time. Just cuddle up next to my wife and we both read and every now and then take a break to smoke a bowl and discuss what we'd been reading. Beats the hell out of TV if you ask me.
Haha sounds like an awesome life. I can't even watch live t.v. anymore. The first time I did lsa I spent the day watching t.v. It felt like cancer. Do to time dilation the ads seem to last a infinite amount of time but the show only lasted mere seconds. I have a feeling the same thing happens when you watch t.v. not high you're just not conscious of your brain's frustration. It's a treadmill for the mind. The news is even worse.
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That's amazing. I've been having this idea lately we're only limited by our idea that we are limited.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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read Infinite Jest. test your limits.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22107859 - 08/18/15 05:59 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's true. If you work hard and put your heart into it, you can do just about anything.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: 4HO-DMT]
#22107876 - 08/18/15 06:02 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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As of January 1st I have read 16 books. Cover to cover.
Easily could have been 25 due to my "fuck it, I'll do something else" mood.
I'm trying to get to 1 book a week. It's a hard target but achievable.
The more I read the more I realize how much of an idiot I am. Some books teach me shit about fields of science I didn't even know existed. Some of them being vast and very advanced. Here I was, almost 30, not knowing it even existed. How shameful is that? I'm telling you, I'm a fucking idiot. Not because people think I am, but because I have made myself aware of all the shit I didn't know. That's a crucial step. How the fuck do you learn about something if you don't even know it's out there?
That's part of the reason why I constantly question everybody's opinions. I'm at the point where I know that I know more about a lot of shit than most people and I got a larger pool of knowledge to see if they actually are as smart as they think, thus deducing whether their opinion is worth listening too. Nothing better than a question of mid to high level of obscurity to determine whether the guy has a clue about anything. You know, the kind of question that isn't obvious to the masses but is popular enough for most mid level intelligent people can either know or deduce the right answer. That's when you know you aren't talking to an idiot.
Read up people. Reading is cheap. Reading is everywhere. Reading is the most important thing ever. 99% of TV stations wont give you the knowledge and if you don't know what to google, than the Internet wont give it to you either.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
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what books have you read Patlal?
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
#22107919 - 08/18/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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not only do books entertain you through entrapping stories... but they also expand your vocabulary impose cadence broaden your brainpower and deepen your empathy~
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22107935 - 08/18/15 06:13 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Whatchu reading mostly Patlal?
Book club?
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Haha sounds like an awesome life. I can't even watch live t.v. anymore. The first time I did lsa I spent the day watching t.v. It felt like cancer. Do to time dilation the ads seem to last a infinite amount of time but the show only lasted mere seconds. I have a feeling the same thing happens when you watch t.v. not high you're just not conscious of your brain's frustration. It's a treadmill for the mind. The news is even worse.
Ya I have a real hard time watching TV, especially movies, it just can't captivate my attention like a book. I mean there are a few obvious exceptions like Game of Thrones or the Office, and the occasional Netflix. And ya, the news is the worst, especially American Media. The only news I get I get from Vice and BBC.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: SARAtonin]
#22107945 - 08/18/15 06:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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anybody here read House of Leaves?
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: akira_akuma]
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
#22108077 - 08/18/15 06:47 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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which books have you read.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: akira_akuma]
#22108082 - 08/18/15 06:48 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Alright, I'm not gonna list like 200 book titles.
Specifics please.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
#22108095 - 08/18/15 06:50 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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this year.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: akira_akuma]
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Patlal said: As of January 1st I have read 16 books. Cover to cover.
Easily could have been 25 due to my "fuck it, I'll do something else" mood.
I'm trying to get to 1 book a week. It's a hard target but achievable.
The more I read the more I realize how much of an idiot I am. Some books teach me shit about fields of science I didn't even know existed. Some of them being vast and very advanced. Here I was, almost 30, not knowing it even existed. How shameful is that? I'm telling you, I'm a fucking idiot. Not because people think I am, but because I have made myself aware of all the shit I didn't know. That's a crucial step. How the fuck do you learn about something if you don't even know it's out there?
That's part of the reason why I constantly question everybody's opinions. I'm at the point where I know that I know more about a lot of shit than most people and I got a larger pool of knowledge to see if they actually are as smart as they think, thus deducing whether their opinion is worth listening too. Nothing better than a question of mid to high level of obscurity to determine whether the guy has a clue about anything. You know, the kind of question that isn't obvious to the masses but is popular enough for most mid level intelligent people can either know or deduce the right answer. That's when you know you aren't talking to an idiot.
Read up people. Reading is cheap. Reading is everywhere. Reading is the most important thing ever. 99% of TV stations wont give you the knowledge and if you don't know what to google, than the Internet wont give it to you either.
Water keeps you hydrated, air keeps you oxygenated and reading keeps you alive.
Haha DMT showed me this before reading but it is true. I had no idea how many ideas are out there and how few I had looked at. I was seeing the world from only 1 point of view and thought it just looked like shit. I see now I was the cause of all my problems and answer to all my questions
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akira_akuma said: read Infinite Jest. test your limits.
ha, i fucking dare you sir!
No to both. infinite jest sounds like a more USA capitalist themed 1984. Dystopia is usually a fun rabbit hole to jump into but sometimes I freak myself out haha
House of leaves sounds more interesting and mysterious to me.
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This is very true. I use to say "what the fuck is wrong with that person" when some one was the slightest bit rude to me but now I care about them. Crazy the difference perspective makes.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: akira_akuma]
#22108129 - 08/18/15 07:00 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sadly, mostly fiction... it pisses me off but I'm in a story mood lately. You'll see the patern.
Angels and demon - Dan Brown Hand of the devil - Dean Vincent Carter The murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha CHistie Th Seven Dials Mystery,- Agatha Christie The Big Four - Agatha Christie Mystery of the Blue train - Agatha Chistie The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie The murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie The Sittaford mystery - Agatha Christie Peril on end house - Agatha Christie The Black Echo - Michal Connolly The Gunslinger - Stephen King The Golem - Edward Lee Laughing Man -T.w. Wright Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell. The name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
#22108134 - 08/18/15 07:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Reeding teh bookz is many phun. Wunce yoo lern, it rilly is eezee. I aktully red all teh bookz wunce.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: jahrastafareye]
#22108138 - 08/18/15 07:05 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Good for you fella!!!!! I'd recommend DMT the spirit molecule. It's quite the read!
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: SARAtonin]
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SARAtonin said: I've always loved it, I was home schooled so I never had too many friends growing up and spent a lot of time reading. Now that I don't have a job I find myself spending most of my days reading hours at a time. Just cuddle up next to my wife and we both read and every now and then take a break to smoke a bowl and discuss what we'd been reading. Beats the hell out of TV if you ask me.
I'm much older than most of you and when I was growing up we didn't have 100 channels. I had two or none. I read books. That was my entertainment. There were no Kardashians. That was pretty much the case until well after college. Cable started right after but it wasn't what it is now. Some of it is good but most of it is garbage. I watch nature shows. How It's Made. Some history stuff. I like stand up comedy, too. That's pretty much it.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Janky Tits]
#22108146 - 08/18/15 07:07 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Janky Tits]
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This one is even better.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: jahrastafareye]
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No to both. infinite jest sounds like a more USA capitalist themed 1984. Dystopia is usually a fun rabbit hole to jump into but sometimes I freak myself out haha
House of leaves sounds more interesting and mysterious to me.
Infinite Jest is nothing like 1984 at all, really, it's not. nothing like it at all. no big brother; just subsidized time, that's it. oh and the Convexity.
and House of Leaves is really interesting so far, and it's getting more trippy.
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This one is even better.

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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: akira_akuma]
#22108173 - 08/18/15 07:12 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Eye nevur posted dat, u mussed hav me confewsed wit sumwon else.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
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This one is even better.

That's some new age pseudo science bullshit.
You have just insulted my religion!!!! BIGOT!!!!!
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Patlal]
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Patlal said: Sadly, mostly fiction... it pisses me off but I'm in a story mood lately. You'll see the patern.
Angels and demon - Dan Brown Hand of the devil - Dean Vincent Carter The murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha CHistie Th Seven Dials Mystery,- Agatha Christie The Big Four - Agatha Christie Mystery of the Blue train - Agatha Chistie The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie The murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie The Sittaford mystery - Agatha Christie Peril on end house - Agatha Christie The Black Echo - Michal Connolly The Gunslinger - Stephen King The Golem - Edward Lee Laughing Man -T.w. Wright Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell. The name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
I have bookmarked Black Box by Michael Connelly. sounds like a hoot.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Janky Tits]
#22108201 - 08/18/15 07:22 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” -Mark Twain
I never watch TV. I have so many ebooks but it's just not the same as a physical book. I generally wander around listening to talk radio, audio books, lectures or podcasts. Music for lifting weights only. Oh, someone mentioned philosophy. I found a killer 23 gig psychology and philosophy torrent. Books, videos, and tons of lectures from various university professors. A goldmine for a college student or anyone who can't get enough of that kinda stuff. The lectures are the best.
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Xplicit RelapzZ said: Good for you fella!!!!! I'd recommend DMT the spirit molecule. It's quite the read!
This one is even better.

That's some new age pseudo science bullshit.
OK Mr. mature adult  That's a easy way to dismiss ideas I bet you haven't even read it. Maybe you're actually being driven by your emotions and not reason so when you dismiss things so quickly you miss out. I use to do this because I was forced to be brought up as a christian so any time I heard the word spiritual or divinity I automatically assumed it to be what had been forced down my throat so I said bullshit. I was afraid I was going to be lied to again. When approaching this stuff from a skeptical point of view you can learn some very interesting things. It's actually not all the same. If you know it's bullshit then it can't hurt to read it huh?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447742/
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Although several articles in the October 2002 issue on Complementary and Alternative Medicine reflect the interest in spirituality that exists in the field, they appear unable to discuss it directly. One of the reasons for this may be that scientific medicine has its roots in a rift from spirituality. Before Western medical practice and research began to involve what was considered to be an unnatural curiosity about the human body, medicine was intricately involved with a person’s spirit or soul. It was during the 16th century in Europe that men began to commit the heresy of stealing dead bodies from graves and actually looking at bones, muscles, and organs. “Laws against dissecting human corpses began to relax during the Renaissance; as a result, the first truly scientific studies of the human body began.”1
The dissecting of bodies has become such a basic feature of medical school education, it may be difficult to imagine the historical sacrilege of this act initially. The Church condemned these “body snatchers,” contributing to Western medicine’s alienation from the spirit. Larry Dossey writes,
From the sixteenth century on, mind has been progressively expunged from the phenomenal world. . . . Scientific consciousness is alienated consciousness: there is no ecstatic merger with nature, but rather total separation from it. Subject and object are always seen in opposition to each other. . . . The logical end point of this world view is a feeling of total reification: everything is an object, alien, not-me; and I am ultimately an object too, an alienated “thing” in a world of other, equally meaningless things. 2
As an American Indian, I am aware of an entirely different tradition of healing that never split from spirit world. There is no difference, for example, between Navajo religion and Navajo medicine. American Indian medicine consists of spoken prayers, songs that are prayers, rituals, and instruments of prayer. Even herbal medicine comes with prayers for a person’s spirit. It is interesting to me that modern providers have recently “discovered” holistic medicine. It is something like the way Columbus “discovered” America. Suddenly our spiritual practices exist, though they have been practical for centuries. We also experience alienation as a byproduct of would-be spiritual genocide, what Eduardo Duran calls the “soul wound”: “The notion of ‘soul wound’ is one which is at the core of much of the suffering which Indigenous peoples have undergone for centuries.”3(p127)
When modern public health and medical practitioners are able to talk about the spirit and understand what they themselves have lost, I think their wound will begin to heal. Perhaps then they can help the rest of us.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Oh books. 
I actually haven't read novels in quite a moment. The last series was discovery of witches and I watch alot of tv series or movies. The books that I mainly read are usually handy man books or learning skills or sciences. Lots of herbal and gardening books lately. Farming and that sort of thing.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Janky Tits]
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Xplicit RelapzZ said: I'd recommend DMT the spirit molecule. It's quite the read!
We own that book! I started it but haven't finished but my fiance has and that's the book he mostly pushes me to finish. Good recommendation.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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I have always struggled with reading books. Back in high school, I always failed reading assignments and shakespear because I cannot follow books.
I didn't read any novels until I was about 13-14 which might be the culprit.
I find that when I read a book that I am just reading the words but not forming them in my mind into the story unless it is an easier book. That is why I always just watched movies instead of novels.
It's weird because I read a LOT, my job is programming and I do a LOT of studying in my free time. Never struggled with anything else like it before, but it has always been a crux.
I have read a few easier novels but when they start using strange vocabulary and small print I cannot read it. I was NEVER able to comprehend shakespear when reading it, I had to watch it for it to make sense.
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Gottaloveacid said: I have always struggled with reading books. Back in high school, I always failed reading assignments and shakespear because I cannot follow books.
I didn't read any novels until I was about 13-14 which might be the culprit.
I find that when I read a book that I am just reading the words but not forming them in my mind into the story unless it is an easier book. That is why I always just watched movies instead of novels.
It's weird because I read a LOT, my job is programming and I do a LOT of studying in my free time. Never struggled with anything else like it before, but it has always been a crux.
I have read a few easier novels but when they start using strange vocabulary and small print I cannot read it. I was NEVER able to comprehend shakespear when reading it, I had to watch it for it to make sense.
Just keep pushing. I had to push through Nietzsche because I think I bought a couple bad translations. I would read a sentence and it would go into the ether haha I found by the 2nd to 3rd book I was starting to pick up on more.
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Gottaloveacid said: I have read a few easier novels but when they start using strange vocabulary and small print I cannot read it. I was NEVER able to comprehend shakespear when reading it, I had to watch it for it to make sense.
I had to read King Lear twice and watch the movie before I felt I was getting a grasp of it and I like to think I am a decent reader. The Shakespeare I read in high school I got very little out of it as I did not work over it at all.
A Midsummer Night's Dream might be an easier go; more light-hearted, playful.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: WScott]
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I barely passed AP Lit this year. I was so lazy and the books we read were dry as fuck. Passage to India, Solomon's Song, The Awakening, Their Eyes were Watching God. All shitty ass dry books that had me bored out of my mind, I didn't read any of them and just spark noted everything and barely passed with a EEB. I love reading, I could read The Spirit Molecule or The Catcher in the Rye multiple times because those books are interesting and have interesting material and I enjoy the dialogue and the overall pace and reading of it but I cant stand the god damn books we read this year in AP Lit. My teacher was this annoying so called hippie lady who acted like a hippie but the fact that she supported and reinforced the shitty school system made me dislike her and see her as a fake
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: WScott]
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I had to read King Lear twice and watch the movie before I felt I was getting a grasp of it and I like to think I am a decent reader. The Shakespeare I read in high school I got very little out of it as I did not work over it at all.
A Midsummer Night's Dream might be an easier go; more light-hearted, playful.
Yeah I hear ya guys. When I actually become interested in a novel, I tend to read it 2-3 times to fully grasp it and each time I read it I am always finding key details I missed that make the entire story make much more sense.
As for shakespear though... I was always in the "normal" english classes (which were actually full of idiots) and even they could understand it better than I could. I will never forget how I was NEVER able to answer a single question on shakes after reading an act. I can easily understand the sentences and what they were saying in them but when it came to recalling it all to form a complete story, I was 100% unable to do it. I wouldn't say it was hard for me, rather impossible
I still try to pick up a book now and then to read it, and when I understand the story they are always awesome but that rarely happens.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
#22108486 - 08/18/15 08:35 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Marijuana and the Internet have wrecked my attention span for reading to the point where I have a hard time focusing on a book for very long. The last fiction book I read a significant chunk of was "Makers," kind of a near-future sci-fi about 3d printing. Otherwise most of my reading relates to school (computer science.)
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: WScott]
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I had to read King Lear twice and watch the movie before I felt I was getting a grasp of it and I like to think I am a decent reader. The Shakespeare I read in high school I got very little out of it as I did not work over it at all.
A Midsummer Night's Dream might be an easier go; more light-hearted, playful.
I'd recommend midsummer nights dream too.
In school I was pretty much the ONLY person who understood it for some reason. I would read the characters in my head with ridiculous accents with pauses at the end of verses to understand better. For some reason it helped me more. Honestly in my head they were super dramatic.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: pachoo]
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My favorite Shakespeare play from high school was "Richard III."
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Janky Tits]
#22108576 - 08/18/15 08:51 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Reading seems to overall increase my intelligence. I think clearer, I articulate words better, it increases my vocabulary, and it helps me view the world from different points of view. I haven't read in a long time and I really do feel stupid. Or I guess it could be the copious amounts of drugs I consume. Ehhh it's a toss up. Seriously though I do overall feel better while I read book after book for months.
I saw someone earlier mention they read the gunslinger. I just wanted to say the Dark Tower series is one of the more intriguing fantasy novels I have read. Stephen Kings diarrhea of the mouth really paid of while he was writing those books, he made it easy to picture the world he created. I wish I could forget everything about those books and read them again.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: superbob57]
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You'd be amazed these ideas are ancient. I'm starting to trip slightly now. I thought I took less damnnnn
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All of us tend to work with expectations in mind: we work hard in our jobs to get respect and appreciation from our colleagues and promotions from the boss. We clean our yards and make them lovely with the hope that our neighbors will be appreciative if not downright envious. We work hard in school to get good grades, anticipating that this will bring us a fine future. We cook a splendid meal with the expectation that it will be received with plaudits and praise. We dress nicely in anticipation of someone’s appreciation. So much of our lives is run simply in expectation of future results that we do it automatically, unconsciously.
This, however, is a perilous pattern. From a spiritual viewpoint, all these expectations and anticipations are Trojan horses that will bring us misery either sooner or later. Misery is inevitable because our expectations and desires are unending and unappeasable. We will live from disappointment to disappointment because our motivation is to gratify and enlarge the ego; instead of breaking the bonds of karma, we are forging fresh chains.
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Ultimate Reality is transcendental. It is not perceived by the senses or comprehended by the mind. It is a matter of indubitable experience for the inmost consciousness of man. It is directly and immediately experienced without the instrumentality of the senses and the mind, and does not depend for Its proof upon any external authority. The perception of the external world is neither direct nor immediate, but is dependent upon the senses and the mind and is always coloured by them. On the other hand, the experience of Reality is both immediate and direct, and becomes possible only when the senses and the mind, through the practice of rigid spiritual discipline, have been made absolutely calm. It is the consciousness in man that experiences the Universal Consciousness, the two being, in reality, identical.
But there are infinite possibilities of self-deception.
To protect the aspirant from error and delusion the seers of Vedanta lay down three Criteria a of Truth. These are scriptural authority (Sruti), reasoning (yukti), and personal experience (anubhava). Any one of these, singly, may enable a man to realize partial truth, but when all three point to the same conclusion, the aspirant may be assured that he has realized the whole of Truth. The meaning of the scriptures, which contain the recorded experiences of knowers of Truth of the past, must be explained by a competent teacher. In order to free reasoning from the pitfalls of rationalization, rigorous mental disciplines are prescribed so that the aspirant may be grounded in detachment not only from the external world but also from his own pet ideas and exclusive loyalties. The aspirant must be able to view his own thinking objectively and submit it to a searching analysis. Ultimate values must be judged by the standard of eternity and not of time. Lastly, the conclusions of the scriptures, reaffirmed by reasoning, must be experienced by the aspirant himself. Ultimate Truth, the basis of the universe, is self-evident, non-contradictory, and free from fear and friction. The seer perceives Truth everywhere and in everything, and thus becomes completely free from fear, sorrow, and expectation, which characterize the life of falsehood in the relative world.
A spirit of synthesis generally pervades the philosophy of Vedanta. The search is always directed to the discovery of the First Principle, through which the multiplicity of the universe can be known and explained. The Hindu seer insists that the aspirant after knowledge should first, through self-control and meditation, realize Ultimate Reality; only then can he know the nature of the world. As Ramakrishna said, "To know the many, without knowledge of the One, is ignorance, whereas to know the One is knowledge." But it must not be overlooked that some noted Indian philosophers, such as Kapila and Patanjali, have shown remarkable acumen in their analysis of the mind and the material world.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
#22108726 - 08/18/15 09:23 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I read on avrgae 1-2 books a week. I love my Kindle because finally I don;t have stacks of paperbacks to donate or sell back for pennies.
Recently on another site people were discussing a top 100 science fiction list; the most avid science fiction fans claimed "have read" counts in the 30s, with a couple in the forties. My count for that particular list was something like 79 but I didn't claim it for fear people would think I was bullshitting.
After 30 years of reading at least one book a week (most years though I had some gaps with much lower averages), I have managed to catch a great number of books and many many "classics" from many a fiction genre, as well as a large and broad swath of non-fiction works. Love to read.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Void_Hawk]
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It's hilarious how many people on here (and just in general) have pretty much only read the general highschool bullshit they were forced to. Even then a lot of them (the younger ones anyway) just said fuck it and cliffnotes'd it. Surprised we haven't had some fucktard come in here yet claiming that books are boring...
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: akira_akuma]
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No to both. infinite jest sounds like a more USA capitalist themed 1984. Dystopia is usually a fun rabbit hole to jump into but sometimes I freak myself out haha
House of leaves sounds more interesting and mysterious to me.
Infinite Jest is nothing like 1984 at all, really, it's not. nothing like it at all. no big brother; just subsidized time, that's it. oh and the Convexity.
and House of Leaves is really interesting so far, and it's getting more trippy.
Infinite Jest is 10x the book House of Leaves is David Foster Wallace was on a whole different tier of authorial skill. That book is a fucking slog though, at certain points continuing is more fighting a war with yourself than actually wanting to continue. That said, it's easily the best book mentioned in this thread by a pretty significant margin.
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Cj-B]
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I just counted and I have 96 books about Psychedelics, the universe, and ancient civilizations. But I've only read 11 front to back so I should start reading a lot more.
My next choice will either be, The sacred mushroom and the cross, or Food of the Gods
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Cj-B]
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House of Leaves seems lighter than IJ by a long shot, but it's not bad so far. Zampano's parts are great, Truant's parts are great. it's different.
Infinite Jest is...the anti-confluential tome of entertainment as the antithesis of literature.
and i have a laugh and had fun with every single paragraph, line, word placement. it took me a LONG time to finish it, (months and months).
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: FruitOfLife]
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FruitOfLife said: I just counted and I have 96 books about Psychedelics, the universe, and ancient civilizations. But I've only read 11 front to back so I should start reading a lot more.
My next choice will either be, The sacred mushroom and the cross, or Food of the Gods
I'm tripping right now and I'm pretty sure most people have been throughout history I mean come on look at this shit So detailed they understand the flowing dualities of natural evolution.
The archaic revival haha.

 Let's make it happen again. Here and now

Hahaha I just saw this
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Eggtimer]
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Personally fond of reading religious texts and analysis of the impact of various spiritual traditions through history. It is interesting to consider how pursuit of developing the mind and spirit has touched different groups through the ages.
But any time anyone brings up reading my mind goes back to this:
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Re: Reading books is easier than I thought [Re: Tantrika]
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But any time anyone brings up reading my mind goes back to this:

Thanks for that video it was extra hilarious while stoned out of my mind 
I see a lot of people have become aware of this. A lot of the music I listened to for years was talking about these ideas and I didn't even know it. How funny. It's like we're a species with amnesia as some have said.
We are the infinite void in physical matter
The core principle of freedom Is the only notion to obey The formulae of evolution and sin Leading the way
The rebirth is near completion As we slowly awaken from slumber
The malpractice of the spirit ends Gateways! When the gift is once again attained Gateways! No rules or restraints are longer valid Gateways! When the ancient future is reclaimed Gateways!
No rules or restraints are longer valid Gateways When the ancient future is reclaimed Gateways
It is all there for the eyes that can see The blind ones will always suffer in secrecy For it is the omen of what lies submerged - Breeding Untouched within us - Bleeding
The core principle of freedom Is the only notion to obey The formulae of evolution and sin Leading the way
The rebirth is near completion As we slowly awaken from slumber To receive the light that shines in darkness The light that shines forevermore (forevermore)
Be the broken or the breaker Be the giver or the undertaker Unlock and open the doors Be the healer or the faker The keys are in your hands Realize you are your own sole creator Of your own master plan
Be the broken or the breaker Be the giver or the undertaker Unlock and open the doors Be the healer or the faker The keys are in your hands Realize you are your own sole creator Of your own master plan
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