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Started by Thurnez Isa, December 03, 2006, 04:11:35 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Just started reading Helen Fisher's "Anatomy of Love" last night. It's pretty interesting.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Juana

Risus - got the sequel yesterday, whipped through most of it in the last couple hours and it's pretty good! Bits are kind of annoying (Julia at first, but that's explained), but mostly it's good.
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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

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The indecipherable Codex Seraphinianus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
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He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


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Cain

Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures With Global Extremists.

The first chapter is utterly hilarious, with Ronson following around Omar Bakri.  Some of the things he came out with were genuine LOL moments, such as the Koran even commanding which direction a devout Muslim must fart in ("in the direction of the unbeliever, ha ha!" was Bakri's response).

The second chapter, with an interview of Randy Weaver's daughter, Rachel, is less so.  In fact, it is incredibly sad and it is almost impossible not to feel angry when reading about it.  Alex Jones provides some light relief, but not much.

Onto the third chapter now, with Ronson attempting to gatecrash the Bilderberger meeting in Portugal.

Cainad (dec.)

Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2011, 12:17:56 AM
Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures With Global Extremists.

The first chapter is utterly hilarious, with Ronson following around Omar Bakri.  Some of the things he came out with were genuine LOL moments, such as the Koran even commanding which direction a devout Muslim must fart in ("in the direction of the unbeliever, ha ha!" was Bakri's response).

The second chapter, with an interview of Randy Weaver's daughter, Rachel, is less so.  In fact, it is incredibly sad and it is almost impossible not to feel angry when reading about it.  Alex Jones provides some light relief, but not much.

Onto the third chapter now, with Ronson attempting to gatecrash the Bilderberger meeting in Portugal.

I loved that book. And I agree, the Randy Weaver case is... ugh. :argh!:

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

The Book of Imaginary Beings (El libro de los seres imaginarios) by Jorge Luis Borges
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


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Placid Dingo

Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2011, 12:17:56 AM
Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures With Global Extremists.

The first chapter is utterly hilarious, with Ronson following around Omar Bakri.  Some of the things he came out with were genuine LOL moments, such as the Koran even commanding which direction a devout Muslim must fart in ("in the direction of the unbeliever, ha ha!" was Bakri's response).

The second chapter, with an interview of Randy Weaver's daughter, Rachel, is less so.  In fact, it is incredibly sad and it is almost impossible not to feel angry when reading about it.  Alex Jones provides some light relief, but not much.

Onto the third chapter now, with Ronson attempting to gatecrash the Bilderberger meeting in Portugal.

This book is fucking PHENOMENAL. I really really loved it, and the stuff about Bilderberg is probably the most down to Earth account I've heard of.

I'm back onto reading Three Musketeers and LOVING it. Very funny.
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Cain

I have an academic account of the Bilderberger's role in international politics somewhere (its from a critical theorist and the author is a legit professor) which I intend to read one day, but yeah.  Ronson goes deeply into the Weird, but he tries not to get sucked into all the crazy surrounding it, for which I am grateful.

But, in the meantime, I shall be reading The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul.  I loved Saul's other major book, Voltaire's Bastards, so this should also be good.  He's a humanist at heart, Saul, but a very witty, educated and skeptical one, and so makes excellent and enjoyable reading.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

The expurgated version (couldn't find the complete one) of Jorge Luis Borges' "Book of Imaginary Beings"
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Epimetheus

Just got The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein and Star Maker by Stapledon. Looking forward to the next few weeks.
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Stelpa

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on August 25, 2011, 11:29:52 PM
The indecipherable Codex Seraphinianus
This is incredibly interesting... For some reason, it reminds me of "The Humument", a very interesting, stylistic, surrealist book :)

Cain

Smashed through A Doubter's Companion during a slow shift at work.  Utterly fantastic.  I especially liked the bit on how existentialism and democracy are linked, philosophically, while some of the bits of comedy (such as explaining how European royalty intermarrying spread dessert recipes throughout Europe) were both educational and funny.

Epimetheus

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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

I also read a lot of clopfics and stuff.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

I've also been re-reading The Joy Of Work by Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert). The chapter on office pranks, and the chapter with his theory of humor are both awesome!
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago