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Quote from: wotr1 on May 15, 2014, 11:31:54 PM
Does this mean that so long as somebody has read the entire bible, koran, or book of mormon that you are cool with them preaching at you/

As long as they are willing to listen to my interpretation as well.  I don't claim to know everything about the Bible, but I've heard some interesting theories about the meaning of some parts...

I wonder how painful it would be to attempt reading one of Noory's books.

Toomeric the Pizza Roll's Adventures in High Strangeness: by George Noory.

"Boy, there's some strange stuff going on out there, isn't there?" Toomeric thought to himself, as he watched the UFO lift yet another startled cow high into the air. "D... d... d... d... do you think extra-terrestrials could be involved?"

"It's the government!" foamed Alex Jones the Uber-Patriotic Hot Pocket, cocking his AR-15. "They've come for our guns!"

"Well, yeah... I agree." agreed Toomeric, because Toomeric agreed with everything anyone ever said to him ever.

Quote from: McPhallus on May 16, 2014, 09:15:04 AM
I wonder how painful it would be to attempt reading one of Noory's books.

Shouldn't be too bad.  Bill Birnes probably was the actual writer.

Quote from: bigchucka on May 16, 2014, 11:50:09 AM
Shouldn't be too bad.  Bill Birnes probably was the actual writer.

I must've been thinking of this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B005SNODQ6/ref=mw_dp_cr

I don't mind Bill, but the reviews on Jerker in the Light are pretty bad.

Quote from: ItsOver on May 15, 2014, 03:20:27 PM
"Differential Equations."  I get a headache just thinking about it.

Ha ha! How about the sequel "Partial Differential Equations"? Truly migraine inducing

Quote from: McPhallus on May 16, 2014, 12:33:21 PM
I must've been thinking of this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B005SNODQ6/ref=mw_dp_cr

I don't mind Bill, but the reviews on Jerker in the Light are pretty bad.

Heh. One of the reviews called him George Snoory. Wonder who that was?

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on May 17, 2014, 05:41:16 AM
Ha ha! How about the sequel "Partial Differential Equations"? Truly migraine inducing

You know it's bad in math when you can't even understand the question, much less the answer.   

DUNE! 1st book.

If you read it when you're 16 it's great. Actually I still like it

Quote from: ksm32 on May 19, 2014, 11:29:03 PM
DUNE! 1st book.

If you read it when you're 16 it's great. Actually I still like it

It's funny, I actually had trouble reading it when I was a teen.  But I read it recently and quiet enjoyed it.  I guess I have more patience now to get into all that brooding and intrigue.   

Dune is one of the most exquisite novels produced in its time.

The spice is oil. Get it?

Quote from: Jackstar on May 20, 2014, 01:45:45 AM
Dune is one of the most exquisite novels produced in its time.

The spice is oil. Get it?

I read a passage in one of Paul Stamets' books that has it being based on psilocybin mushrooms.  He also says that he knew Frank Herbert.

Oh man. I would change my oil, every week.

Quote from: MV on May 20, 2014, 01:46:34 PM

I was never convinced by the motivation behind Spot running... seemed somewhat forced.

Fun?

Dogs have no concept of fun. They eat, sleep, shit,  and if you haven't chopped their knackers off, fuck.

See Spot Fuck Some Dude's Leg! Fuck, Spot! Fuck!

That would have been a far more believable storyline.

I'm jaded and I need alcohol.

Just picked up David Icke's latest "The Perception Deception" from the library after listening to the Jimmy Church interview. Almost gave me a hernia picking it up- being 914pages long on cheap Indian paper plus an appendix on the Boston bombings and ads for various healers and consultants in the back. Wow. Don't think I'm going to do anything with but read a few sections....and I thought "Behold a Pale Horse" could just about include every conspiracy theory known to man. Icke has just thrown down a gauntlet. Every conspiracy PLUS just about every woo-woo New Age concept.

Chaucer. Fuck Chaucer.

I was seriously mystified by "The Cat in The Hat"

I thought it was a mystery novel....

Same. The fact that my father shares a birthday with Dr. Seuss has been no help.

Quote from: zeebo on May 14, 2014, 11:29:02 PM
Maybe they're good books but were just too long, or complicated, or dense, or weird.  Here's mine:

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Dhalgren - Samuel Delany
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

Alien I-Beam Equations & Decoding

Shame, forsooth say the friair on hist wy ostensibly to The 'bury (swear that's what the kids called it back then)

Much like Noorons call it The 'kraine.. anyhow, just pointing out how Caller in The Rough (Rye, Catcher? man I drink too meow)


Or something was diffiuclt...

Anyhow, Yertle the Turtle was difficult until I found it as a 'book on tape"

Red Hot Chili Peppers yertle the turtle with lyrics

Quote from: George Drooly on May 27, 2014, 06:28:07 AM
Jackstar

Dude! I am not a book.

Although, I won't lie: flattered!!!

The first book to kick my butt was, "Being and Nothingness" by Sarte. His sentences are fifty words long.

Another navel-gazer I hate is Focault. don't know why, just do.

Here to tell you why I hate Focault -
http://www.neoliberalismo.com/Foucault.htm
"American students, forget Foucault! Reverently study the massive primary evidence of world history, and forge your own ideas and systems."
- Camille Paglia

What were we talkin about? Oh yeah, George Noory Sucks!

He's asks this guest if the, "Necronomicon", is like, "The Egyptian Book of The Dead." Wait, it gets worse. He asked that so, as soon as the guest quit interrupting, he could tell us that- " I've read both, 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' and, 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead."

This:

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Les Miserable s

"The Celestine Prophecy"

Granted, I was in 10th grade when it came out and in retrospect, it was pretty poorly written.  It did open up my mind to other possibilities, however.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
I got through it, but damn.  I was a fractured man for weeks.

Quote from: albrecht on May 20, 2014, 02:51:06 PM
Just picked up David Icke's latest "The Perception Deception" from the library after listening to the Jimmy Church interview. Almost gave me a hernia picking it up- being 914pages long on cheap Indian paper plus an appendix on the Boston bombings and ads for various healers and consultants in the back. Wow. Don't think I'm going to do anything with but read a few sections....and I thought "Behold a Pale Horse" could just about include every conspiracy theory known to man. Icke has just thrown down a gauntlet. Every conspiracy PLUS just about every woo-woo New Age concept.

Should make good toilet paper, at least.

Quote from: WildCard on June 04, 2014, 03:26:31 PM
The first book to kick my butt was, "Being and Nothingness" by Sarte. His sentences are fifty words long....

I've heard that Hegel is up there as well on the philosophy difficulty level, although I have not tried myself.  Here's a random excerpt of his Philosophy of Mind that I pulled for kicks.

To comprehend a thing means in the language of practical intelligence to be able to trace the series of means intervening between a phenomenon and some other existence on which it depends,â€"to discover what is called the ordinary course of nature, in compliance with the laws and relations of the intellect, e.g. causality, reasons, etc. The purely sensitive life, on the contrary, even when it retains that mere nominal consciousness, as in the morbid state alluded to, is just this form of immediacy, without any distinctions between subjective and objective, between intelligent personality and objective world, and without the aforementioned finite ties between them. Hence to understand this intimate conjunction, which, though all-embracing, is without any definite points of attachment, is impossible, so long as we assume independent personalities, independent one of another and of the objective world which is their contentâ€"so long as we assume the absolute spatial and material externality of one part of being to another.

Quote from: The General on June 04, 2014, 04:15:36 PM
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
I got through it, but damn.  I was a fractured man for weeks.

Holy shit, dude!

William Burroughs recommend 'Decline'. But I thought it was *a* book, not six friggin volumes!

Reading the wiki on it . . . sounds really interesting.

So, was it worth it?

Quote from: zeebo on June 04, 2014, 04:55:02 PM
I've heard that Hegel is up there as well on the philosophy difficulty level, although I have not tried myself.  Here's a random excerpt of his Philosophy of Mind that I pulled for kicks.

To comprehend a thing means in the language of practical intelligence to be able to trace the series of means intervening between a phenomenon and some other existence on which it depends,â€"to discover what is called the ordinary course of nature, in compliance with the laws and relations of the intellect, e.g. causality, reasons, etc. The purely sensitive life, on the contrary, even when it retains that mere nominal consciousness, as in the morbid state alluded to, is just this form of immediacy, without any distinctions between subjective and objective, between intelligent personality and objective world, and without the aforementioned finite ties between them. Hence to understand this intimate conjunction, which, though all-embracing, is without any definite points of attachment, is impossible, so long as we assume independent personalities, independent one of another and of the objective world which is their contentâ€"so long as we assume the absolute spatial and material externality of one part of being to another.

What kills me with that one is I know there's real wisdom in there somewhere.

Not so with Sartre.