Currently I re-listening too "Orgin of Species" - Chuck D
If I'm in a bit of lighter mood, I have Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" as well as the "Tao of Pooh" from Benjamin Hoff in my mp3 player.
I have somewhere around 180 books in mp3 format. This is easier than real reading for me. I have only managed 11 books, let's say real books of more than 300 pages, in the course of my lifetime. This includes the Bible (amplified edition... required for my degree in Philosophy and Religion). It was perhaps better due to the dyslexia. God was still a bit of a "prick" in the OT. Kind of mellowed out with the birth of his son. I think Louis Black noticed the same thing that I did, if my memory serves me correct.
I actually made it through High School and two years of College without ever reading a book. I did not know that my condition was indeed dyslexia. A professor noticed it when I was typing on her computer. Since then, I have made an effort to overcome my "word salads". Writing is better now, but reading is a real challenge. Then again, I have managed to become fluent in 3 languages. Go figure?
In terms of real reading, I'm quite illiterate. My wife reads about 200 books a year. Our house looks like a library. Sort of frustrating for me, but hey... you cannot really have it all, otherwise life would be damned boring.
I have an open source link that I'll place here for those who wish to access audio books, most all for free. I have the link over another Forum that is currently under a renovation. I find audio books a great change of pace to music in my headphones from time to time.
Meow!
GREG
If I'm in a bit of lighter mood, I have Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" as well as the "Tao of Pooh" from Benjamin Hoff in my mp3 player.
I have somewhere around 180 books in mp3 format. This is easier than real reading for me. I have only managed 11 books, let's say real books of more than 300 pages, in the course of my lifetime. This includes the Bible (amplified edition... required for my degree in Philosophy and Religion). It was perhaps better due to the dyslexia. God was still a bit of a "prick" in the OT. Kind of mellowed out with the birth of his son. I think Louis Black noticed the same thing that I did, if my memory serves me correct.
I actually made it through High School and two years of College without ever reading a book. I did not know that my condition was indeed dyslexia. A professor noticed it when I was typing on her computer. Since then, I have made an effort to overcome my "word salads". Writing is better now, but reading is a real challenge. Then again, I have managed to become fluent in 3 languages. Go figure?
In terms of real reading, I'm quite illiterate. My wife reads about 200 books a year. Our house looks like a library. Sort of frustrating for me, but hey... you cannot really have it all, otherwise life would be damned boring.
I have an open source link that I'll place here for those who wish to access audio books, most all for free. I have the link over another Forum that is currently under a renovation. I find audio books a great change of pace to music in my headphones from time to time.
Meow!
GREG
Moral is as moral does and as moral wishes it all too be. - MoS
The absence of all empirical evidence for the necessity of intuitive X existing is evidence against the necessary empirical existence of intuitive X - MoS (variation of 180proof)
Athesim is not a system of belief, but rather a single answer to a single question. It is the designation applied by theists to those who do not share their assumption that a god/deity exists. - MoS
I am not one to attribute godlike qualities to things that I am unable to understand. I may never be in the position to understand certain things, but I am not about to create an anthropomorphic deity out of my short-commings. I wish not to errect a monument to my own personal ignorace and demand that others worship this proxy of ego. - MoS
The absence of all empirical evidence for the necessity of intuitive X existing is evidence against the necessary empirical existence of intuitive X - MoS (variation of 180proof)
Athesim is not a system of belief, but rather a single answer to a single question. It is the designation applied by theists to those who do not share their assumption that a god/deity exists. - MoS
I am not one to attribute godlike qualities to things that I am unable to understand. I may never be in the position to understand certain things, but I am not about to create an anthropomorphic deity out of my short-commings. I wish not to errect a monument to my own personal ignorace and demand that others worship this proxy of ego. - MoS
