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RE: Books
October 29, 2018 at 5:03 pm
Talking about books you can take a peek into what books and movies late Arthur C Clarke collected if you go to his house in Sri Lanka and bribe the guard, because his house is still as it was when he was alive. But if you can't go there you can visit this site and see the photos by people that were there
https://hackernoon.com/what-i-found-on-a...c602bc1fdc
I mean the guy had books by James Randi - imagine that! As well as from Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov. As well as some interesting photos
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Books
November 26, 2018 at 11:41 am
About to start:
Kafka by the shore, by Murakami
"Be Excellent To Each Other"
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RE: Books
November 26, 2018 at 9:01 pm
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I'm reading "Origin" by Dan Brown. LOVING IT! The ultimate in atheist fiction. I don't know how it slipped past me this long. I usually zero in on anything new from him quickly. Must have been checked out/on reserve all this time before it hit the shelf of Tinytown library.
Where are we going and why am I in this hand basket?
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RE: Books
November 27, 2018 at 3:07 pm
Reading "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
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RE: Books
November 27, 2018 at 3:28 pm
‘Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes’ by Cory O’Brien. A kind of sidewise look at various mythologies.
You know how, when you’re in the pub, you’ll run across someone with a passionate interest in something or other and they cannot WAIT to share it with you, but at the moment they are just the short side of being drunk to the point of incoherence, but just drunk enough to be entertainingly enthusiastic about whatever it is they’re on about?
That’s how this book reads. Fucking great!
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RE: Books
November 27, 2018 at 3:30 pm
Started "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson last week. Immediately fell in love with it. His take on fantasy is so different than what I've read before and a refreshing change from Game of Thrones (which I also adore). Such weird, interesting....well, fantastical stuff in there. Really fun so far.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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