What's in your Library ?

[vorlon13]

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Dianetics ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


Ick !! Ptooey !!!!



BURN IT BURN IT !!!!

[emjay]

What is it? You've got me curious now

[account_inactive]

What is it? You've got me curious now

One of the books by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics:...tal_Health

[emjay]

What is it? You've got me curious now

One of the books by L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics:...tal_Health

Oh, right. I don't really think of Scientology as a religion... I don't know what the hell it is but that title looks like it would probably make my blood boil reading it.... theism and psychology don't mix what has scientology got to say on mental health?

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One of the books by L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics:...tal_Health

Oh, right. I don't really think of Scientology as a religion... I don't know what the hell it is but that title looks like it would probably make my blood boil reading it.... theism and psychology don't mix what has scientology got to say on mental health?

Well, considering that many mental health groups have denounced it as batshit crazy that should tell you enough. But seriously, I couldn't really tell you as I didn't bother reading the full book. It's just a bunch of nonsense and nobody should ever subject themselves to it.

[emjay]

Oh, right. I don't really think of Scientology as a religion... I don't know what the hell it is but that title looks like it would probably make my blood boil reading it.... theism and psychology don't mix what has scientology got to say on mental health?

Well, considering that many mental health groups have denounced it as batshit crazy that should tell you enough. But seriously, I couldn't really tell you as I didn't bother reading the full book. It's just a bunch of nonsense and nobody should ever subject themselves to it.

Yeah, I know it's batshit crazy... I was just asking what crazy things it had to say. But anyway don't worry, I won't subject myself to it... all it would do was make my blood boil, especially if it was being taken seriously by some people, which it inevitably would be

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Well, considering that many mental health groups have denounced it as batshit crazy that should tell you enough. But seriously, I couldn't really tell you as I didn't bother reading the full book. It's just a bunch of nonsense and nobody should ever subject themselves to it.

Yeah, I know it's batshit crazy... I was just asking what crazy things it had to say. But anyway don't worry, I won't subject myself to it... all it would do was make my blood boil, especially if it was being taken seriously by some people, which it inevitably would be

Yeah, it's a shame people get sucked into cults.

[emjay]

Yeah, I know it's batshit crazy... I was just asking what crazy things it had to say. But anyway don't worry, I won't subject myself to it... all it would do was make my blood boil, especially if it was being taken seriously by some people, which it inevitably would be

Yeah, it's a shame people get sucked into cults.

Yeah it is one of my mum's friends joined one twenty odd years ago and was never seen again and we've got jehovahs witnesses in the family and they cut themselves off from everyone else too. It's hard to know what the difference is between a religion and a cult but I'd guess it has something to do with the level of autonomy each person has to think for themselves. So I'm never really sure if Catholicism should be considered a cult; everyone in it has believe whatever the Vatican deems as true - almost like a standards organisation, they have to ritualistically reaffirm their beliefs regularly, and it came as a kind of disturbing surprise to me to learn that all Catholic churches the world over teach the same things on the same days. So it seems just like a hive mind... and that sounds a helluva lot like a cult to me.

[Funky_Gibbon]

I'm trying to get through two tomes at the moment.

"Religion in Human Evolution" by Robert Bellah

Very interesting book tracing the evolutionary origins of religion from its roots in the prehuman to the Axial Age.

And

"A Secular Age" by Charles Taylor

A counterpart to the above, instead tracing the decline of religion as a meaningful force in Western Society from around the time of the Reformation to the present.

Also recently Read

"Reviving Old Scratch A Guide to Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted" - Richard Beck
(What it says on the cover basically.)
"Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology" - Various

A collection of essays by Roman Catholic and Anglican thinkers around the subject of, well, Christian orthodoxy.

[Alex K]

Oh you guys are also listing *anti*-religion books?

Dawkins : TGD
Dennett : Breaking the spell
Mark Twain : The bible according to Mark Twain

I think that's it, though. I mostly collect science books of various levels, and many of those. I find it more interesting.

* German bible (Translation according to Martin Luther)

* Creationist propaganda book "So entstand die Welt"

That's it... the only other documents that would classify are scores of sacred music (some copies of Bach and Mozart)

Are you the type to follow along to a score at a performance?

I admit that I did that the last time I went to a performance of St. Matthew's Passion in the city, though I don't always do that. Some scores I own because I sing in choirs, others because my father worked as a conductor and singer. I'm a fan of old music such as Monteverdi, and sometimes, on a slow evening I'll read along in the Vespers while listening.