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Prodijal_Son
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What Should I Be Reading?
#4080673 - 04/21/05 10:09 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm bout to move to Hawaii for three months. I was wondering what you kids suggest I read while on the island. Thanks for the help.
*btw ... i like philosophically, socially, politically, or historically guided works. But, whatever's clever.
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Learyfan
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4080688 - 04/21/05 10:14 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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How about..................Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch.
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Prodijal_Son
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Learyfan]
#4080700 - 04/21/05 10:18 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Does he really talk to God?
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4080708 - 04/21/05 10:20 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah and God turns out to be drunken pederast.
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Prodijal_Son
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What's a pederast?
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4080714 - 04/21/05 10:23 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Prodijal_Son
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Right on. Sounded like you made it up. Thanks for the reference bud.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4080723 - 04/21/05 10:26 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Heh. No problem.
If you like historical books check out "SALT" it's a history of Salt throughout all human existence. It's actually really fucking fascinating. There's a book like that on coal too.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Learyfan
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4080728 - 04/21/05 10:28 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, I'm talking to God (you) right now. So in that sense, yes. The philosophy in this book is incredible and inspirational, but I wouldn't take it (or anything!) as "the gospel".
This series of books basically show you why religion is rubbish and why you should look to yourself and your own experience for your truth. Here's some mp3s......
Click here!
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Boom
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4080731 - 04/21/05 10:29 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Midnight Express, Pop Goes The Weasel, anything by Stephen King, Fear and Loathing (of course)...
Agatha Christie is good too..
I could be entertained by reading anything really, I like how different authors tell stories and have drastically different writing styles.
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Boom
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Learyfan]
#4080738 - 04/21/05 10:31 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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off topic post ---->
Learyfan, I love your posts. Have you ever made a post without a picture?
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Boom]
#4080747 - 04/21/05 10:34 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Booooom said: off topic post ---->
Learyfan, I love your posts. Have you ever made a post without a picture?
When that day comes I'll look to the sunset for the arrival of the Four Horsemen.
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Prodijal_Son
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My day is never complete without a healthy mix of famine, pestilence, death, and war.
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mamasharones
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4082300 - 04/21/05 05:40 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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tibetian book of the dead
There are many translations just pick one
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TheDudeAbides
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: mamasharones]
#4082628 - 04/21/05 07:06 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Dark Tower series - By Stephen King The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy series - By Douglas Adams. (I read those books before the idea of a fucking movie : )
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4082637 - 04/21/05 07:07 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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yea fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. the way of zen - alan watts.
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TheDudeAbides
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Merkin]
#4082677 - 04/21/05 07:16 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Great Shark Hunt For first time Thompson readers....I say.
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dr0mni
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no no no! You want to read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand!
This book is Loonngg as hell, but it's actually not long enough! I wish that book went on forever! From the very first page I was hooked...
Rand is really good at creating new realities out of ideas, if that makes sense. The book is ostensibly about a gifted architect, Howard Roark, who battles the mediocrity of the masses to produce unique, innovative, and beautiful structures. The way that the architecture is described, it sounds like Howard has the divine knowledge of geomancy or something and is quite an enigmatic character (he was based off of Frank Lloyd Wright). The whole world created seems like some complex puzzle that slowly fits itself together. The characters grow and develop and have hugely dynamic relationships with each other.
Underneath is a bunch of Rands philosophy of Individualism and Virtuous Selfishness... or some such crap. She was basically against sacrificial altrusim and promoted uncompromising individuality. Good food for thought, but nothing I'd prescribe to.
Either way the book is something you'll always remember if you can finish it. Some people don't have the kind of patience to read a long storyline, so if you are one of those people, I'd recommend Rands' book "Anthem". Incredibly short but good! The theme goes along the same line as the Fountainhead, but it's set in a futuristic Dark Ages where universal altruism has destroyed advanced culture....
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Prodijal_Son]
#4083084 - 04/21/05 09:39 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Jitterbug Perfume. Great book.
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Re: What Should I Be Reading? [Re: Boglyn]
#4083298 - 04/21/05 10:52 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey I recommend The Bible Fraud and the Secret in the Bible by Tony Bushby. The former is about the real story of the life of Jesus and his twin brother Judas. It also goes into the history of deceit and corruption within the church. Amazing read. The latter is about the history of the Giza Plateau and how initiates received the keys to life and death. This book talks about how the "Secret of the Dead" was hidden within the Bible. This was a very fun and insightful book to read as well. Bushby has good credentials and had access to vital ancient manuscripts that are inaccessible to the public.
Check it out http://www.joshuabooks.com/bushby/biblefraud/internalgif/fraud.htm
"How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us" - Pope Leo X
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