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 Re: What are you guys reading at the moment?  [Re: Thebooedocksaint]
#649633 - 12/05/12 04:29 PM (12 years, 16 days ago) |
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Wait... What?
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: NameInUse]
#649635 - 12/05/12 04:49 PM (12 years, 16 days ago) |
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It's a fact, statistically lower overhead is present in public healthcare as opposed to privatized healthcare. I'm pretty sure everyone would agree having a higher % of your insurance payments going towards medical costs (meaning it would cost less) is how you would define good health insurance practices. The government can also do other things better than privatized alternatives.
regardless we are derailing so I'm not going to post in here anymore unless I have another book to post.
I just hate ayn rand and randians.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Thebooedocksaint] 1
#651503 - 12/16/12 08:46 PM (12 years, 5 days ago) |
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www.goodreads.com is a really cool site I found for dicovering new good books and they have a phone app that makes it easy!
I've been reading a lot lately, especially philosophy, of which I'll update soon...
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Dr. Siekadellyk]
#679649 - 07/29/13 07:55 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well guys, its going to be my birthday pretty soon and my parents keep asking me for gift suggestions, so I am making a list and was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for a good book, I prefer spiritual or non-fiction stuff, but I'm pretty much open to anything.
And just to revive a bit this thread, atm I am reading the first book of Lord of the Rings, I like it so far, I love how Tolkien really elaborated the whole history of his world, as well as the cultures of the races, and the maps, its all so complete!
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Manitou] 1
#679651 - 07/29/13 08:15 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Mycophile]
#679700 - 07/29/13 11:48 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just finished Watership Down last night. Tomorrow I start The Last Of The Incas.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: nannybooboo]
#679718 - 07/30/13 01:36 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Watership Down is so fucking good.
I'm reading this right now
First Edition 
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#679719 - 07/30/13 01:40 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wowww, I just picked up a copy of that at a thrift store a few days ago. Have you read any other Castaneda books?
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Actually I got watership down at another thrift store down the street 
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: nannybooboo]
#679720 - 07/30/13 01:43 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have not! This one is pretty interesting so far.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#679748 - 07/30/13 08:59 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I read most of Castaneda's books, they are great but you have to be careful, he's highly criticized, lots of people say he made all that up but it is not sure as he died with this secret. Still, even tho he made it up, his writings are still pretty genius!
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Manitou]
#679753 - 07/30/13 10:20 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Of course they say that. People always have to doubt things they don't understand or can't do themselves.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Mycophile] 1
#679759 - 07/30/13 10:43 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Man Nietzsche is an Elitist douche, and this is coming from an Elitist douche. He actually criticizes those that "casually" read, and makes some of his shit purposefully misleading to scorn the casual readers.
Probably going to be my last summer read... :/
Last couple of books I've read since I posted are as follows:
 
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Thebooedocksaint]
#679762 - 07/30/13 10:47 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's easy to constantly read when you only casually work.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Mycophile]
#679770 - 07/30/13 11:05 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mycophile said:
Of course they say that. People always have to doubt things they don't understand or can't do themselves.
Theres a shitload of sketchy things about Castaneda, you should check out a bit about his life, theres some doccumentaries about him that you should watch.
Its most likely that he never expected his book to be so popular, I mean it became basically one of the main new-age book. He got stuck in that circle I think and didn't want to be known as a liar so he just kept going, I mean just from his first book, theres some huge parts there was just taken word for word from a thesis that can be found at the university he went to. Thats just an example, but theres much more that does not necessarely proves he made it all up, but it points towards that, he is an HIGHLY criticized author, just for example, his books aren't considered as ethnographies, but as spirituality/fiction, my teachers at university won't even allow them in bibliographies n shit.
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Manitou]
#679774 - 07/30/13 11:11 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Gaskelort said:
Theres a shitload of sketchy things about Castaneda, you should check out a bit about his life, theres some doccumentaries about him that you should watch.
I'm not opposed to that. Got a specific documentary in mind?
I always hated bibliographies, damn things took longer to finish than the essay they were for.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Mycophile]
#679775 - 07/30/13 11:16 AM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Give me a second, I don't remember the name of it, I will ask my roommate as soon as he wakes up and I'll come with answers
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Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
Harmonium - Pour un instant
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Manitou]
#679795 - 07/30/13 03:00 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just finished The Game by somedude. Currently ready Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas again.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Sham87]
#679805 - 07/30/13 06:14 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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im reading a thriller called "the quiet game".... its gettin a lil slow in the middle if it dont pick up soon i might switch to something else
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Thebooedocksaint]
#679842 - 07/30/13 09:04 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Thebooedocksaint said:
Man Nietzsche is an Elitist douche, and this is coming from an Elitist douche. He actually criticizes those that "casually" read, and makes some of his shit purposefully misleading to scorn the casual readers.
Well, I look it at like he purposefully is conceited in order to cause his readers, especially the ones who just just through books, and the one's who hang on every word or worship the writer's ideologies. It's a challenge to every reader in order to get him or her to not only question the author but to question themselves within the archateche of his philosophy as a whole. In short, the man wanted people to take his writing seriously, and if not, you could either fuck off or experience a fresh, or as Nietzsche would put it, a greater way to see how the human mind progressed or regressed from the time we first thought of ourselves as I.
Right now I'm reading: 
...and my God how good it is! It's definitely a very well researched and joyously written for the joyous reader
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: King Koopa]
#679926 - 07/31/13 12:56 PM (11 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yea it's just more "work" to read it because after a page or five I have to sit back and absorb what was actually said. It's not like reading Pedagogy theory where it's more about just absorbing the message, and for a future educator like myself seeing how that fits into my philosophy of education.
Does that book cover much on the two books that are in that translation?
Below is the edit
-Also maybe I should have actually taken a "real" philosophy class instead of "Philosophy of Science" this semester. Then maybe I could learn more about him. Then again I just wanted third semester in a row of all science/math.-
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Edited by Thebooedocksaint (07/31/13 01:00 PM)
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