What are you NOT reading?, Anyone out there who doesn't read books? |
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What are you NOT reading?, Anyone out there who doesn't read books? |
 Dec 28 2006, 06:28 PM
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 Pundit?  Group: Full Member Posts: 5,509 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member  |
QUOTE (Kalisurfer @ Dec 27 2006, 11:11 PM) Currently Not Reading: / Funny thoughtful posts by Evakurvan that never make it online /  Oh?  If they never make it online, then where do they make it? I have seen many funny thoughtful posts by Evakurvan here online... what gives? 
-------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Dec 28 2006, 08:32 PM
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 Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
QUOTE (Dhyana @ Dec 28 2006, 02:28 PM) QUOTE (Kalisurfer @ Dec 27 2006, 11:11 PM) Currently Not Reading: / Funny thoughtful posts by Evakurvan that never make it online / Oh? If they never make it online, then where do they make it? I have seen many funny thoughtful posts by Evakurvan here online... what gives? I meant recently...for it seems that she has taken more of reading position than a posting one in the last 6 months or so...just trying to encourage more of the good stuff so I can take her off my list of things I am not reading because I can't! Then again, maybe I'm just not looking into the right threads, anyway…it was just a strange way of showing appreciation for something that there seems less of. 
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Dec 29 2006, 06:50 PM
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Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,509 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
AHAAAAA.....!
THUS THE NON-NUN DHYANA ATTAINED ENLIGHTENMENT.  
-------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Dec 30 2006, 12:25 AM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
QUOTE (Dhyana @ Dec 29 2006, 02:50 PM) AHAAAAA.....! THUS THE NON-NUN DHYANA ATTAINED ENLIGHTENMENT. …and thus she became the ONE FUN NUN DHYANA Boddisatva in the light presence of the WOW NOW!!!! 
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Jan 8 2007, 10:55 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
Flame Wars: The kind that gratify egos and tends to want to humiliate an opponent. When piss words fly into the sphere of electronic pixels that attacks the person and not the argument posted in order to provoke an emotional reaction that calls for more deeper and heated retaliation.
Appeals to Authority: Anyone who claims that something is true because something or someone important says that it is. 
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Jan 9 2007, 06:46 PM
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Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,509 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
Wow, it's a computer monitor with the Gaudiya Repercussions start page on it!
-------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Jan 9 2007, 07:19 PM
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What I am NOT reading is smartass posts.
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Jan 9 2007, 07:58 PM
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 in cervinus veritas Group: Full Member Posts: 3,890 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Phallus Falls, FL, Amurca Member No.: 5 devolutionist |
I'm not reading this thread. I mean I am. I don't know.
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Jan 9 2007, 09:20 PM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
QUOTE (angrezi @ Jan 9 2007, 03:58 PM) I'm not reading this thread. I mean I am. I don't know. We never read this thread when our eyes are closed, but do when they are open, so I think you're quite right! -------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Jan 21 2007, 05:36 PM
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 Enlightened One Group: Full Member Posts: 2,278 Joined: 4-July 05 From: FINLAND Member No.: 111 Future Paul Newman Cup winner |
I will never again read any of these Da Vinci code or Angels&demons- type of books written by Dan Browne. They are just too much! They start in a good and promising way and then they just get gradually more and more ridiculous. He should learn the art of "kill your darlings".
-------------------- It is healthy to react in a relevant way to the facts of life.
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Feb 3 2007, 01:10 AM
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Postmodern Punditeer Group: Full Member Posts: 4,960 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 24 |
 Looks like I will not be reading the books my local library is currently culling! The county I live in has a new computerized inventory system installed that lets them know where all their books are and how often they are checked out. They have also instituted a policy that any book that is not taken out in 24 months has to go and make room for books that are more popular and move. The only problem is, they are culling a lot of classics like, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, Herman Hesse, Walt Whitman, Maya Anglelou, C.S. Lewis and Gertrude Stein, while stacking the racks with current best sellers from John Grisham, James Patterson Alice McDermott and Stephen King! An amazing development that has me going to the Library every week and taking out a classic, just to make sure it stays on the rack. I always envisioned libraries as a place that preserves our literary heritage and not one that is worried about what books are hot and move the fastest! You should have both actually, but never should they rid the shelves of the classics, for they are history and heritage wrapped between a cover! Reminds me of the book and movie titled "Fahrenheit 411," where in a futuristic society all books were banned and illegal to own, when found the police would come and burn them all. So outlaws went into the woods and started a new society, where each individual memorized a book and was named after the book, thereby insuring that great books would not be lost to time. I think it may be time to pick my book! 
-------------------- "It's not how many times you draw breath that counts in a lifetime, but how many time something takes your breath away."
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Feb 5 2007, 08:55 PM
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 Sage Group: Full Member Posts: 1,136 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 7 |
I am not reading books on religion or philosophy. At first, I stopped reading BBT books, then gradually any Krishna books and finally anything to do with transcendence presented in an abstract, didactic way. I don't mind reading books about somebody's personal experience and realization of transcendence, but as far as ideas are concerned, I am too attached to mine and feel that I know already something and what I still don't understand doesn't seem important enough for me to explore somebody else's ideas about it. I just don't feel like it. I don't have that teenager thirst anymore.
As far as not reading fiction, I don't know how many people have told me that they don't anymore and I mean people who used to devour books in their youth. It's a common phenomenon, and I really don't see anything embarrassing about it. I, for example, don't go to the opera -- it's just not my thing. I think that culture is meant to serve us as we see fit and not the other way around. It is such a relief not to be concerned with snobbery in its various manifestations. -------------------- Like a rock in a stream, smiling as it lets anything and everything float over and around it
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Feb 6 2007, 05:48 AM
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 Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 712 Joined: 6-March 05 From: Near London, England Member No.: 42 |
QUOTE (Kalisurfer @ Feb 3 2007, 02:10 AM) Looks like I will not be reading the books my local library is currently culling! The county I live in has a new computerized inventory system installed that lets them know where all their books are and how often they are checked out. They have also instituted a policy that any book that is not taken out in 24 months has to go and make room for books that are more popular and move. The only problem is, they are culling a lot of classics like, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, Herman Hesse, Walt Whitman, Maya Anglelou, C.S. Lewis and Gertrude Stein, while stacking the racks with current best sellers from John Grisham, James Patterson Alice McDermott and Stephen King! An amazing development that has me going to the Library every week and taking out a classic, just to make sure it stays on the rack. I always envisioned libraries as a place that preserves our literary heritage and not one that is worried about what books are hot and move the fastest! You should have both actually, but never should they rid the shelves of the classics, for they are history and heritage wrapped between a cover! Reminds me of the book and movie titled "Fahrenheit 411," where in a futuristic society all books were banned and illegal to own, when found the police would come and burn them all. So outlaws went into the woods and started a new society, where each individual memorized a book and was named after the book, thereby insuring that great books would not be lost to time. I think it may be time to pick my book! I must admit I do like reading Sci Fi books that present dystopias like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny is another of my favourites. For a short summary http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~mcelroy/review/books/rzlord.html In some ways reading such "trash" to me puts books on religion and philosophy into a "proper" perspective. What if RogerZelazny is the origin of the vedas..... -------------------- The legal concept of a reasonable person is about as unreasonable as you can be.
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Feb 6 2007, 07:07 AM
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Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,509 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
QUOTE An amazing development that has me going to the Library every week and taking out a classic, just to make sure it stays on the rack. I always envisioned libraries as a place that preserves our literary heritage and not one that is worried about what books are hot and move the fastest! You should have both actually, but never should they rid the shelves of the classics, for they are history and heritage wrapped between a cover! This is bhakti. No kidding!
-------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Feb 6 2007, 07:09 AM
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Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 712 Joined: 6-March 05 From: Near London, England Member No.: 42 |
Another dystopic book worth reading - The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad.
-------------------- The legal concept of a reasonable person is about as unreasonable as you can be.
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Aug 6 2007, 03:31 PM
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I'm NOT reading any new posts by Kalisurfer.
Where is he?
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Aug 7 2007, 04:37 AM
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Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 595 Joined: 27-March 05 From: victoria b.c. Member No.: 66 |
QUOTE (Aran @ Aug 6 2007, 08:31 AM) I'm NOT reading any new posts by Kalisurfer. Where is he? Maybe he's waiting for inspiration to write here I haven't read every entry; Started from the top, down to the first ones and reading sporatically. My favourites so far are White Mary and Orbit. A search for Kalisurfer on Google suggested he may be involved in some technical stuff or he may be found hanging out with these guys |
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Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM
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QUOTE (Bhaktavasya @ Aug 7 2007, 06:37 AM) A search for Kalisurfer on Google suggested he may be involved in some technical stuff or he may be found hanging out with these guys Or he might not, I followed your link, found Kalisurfer mentioned but then I also found myself! and I had never heard of the site. Apparently I was linked through the photo-sharing site Flickr.com and Kalisurfer through LiveJournal. |
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Aug 8 2007, 04:55 AM
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Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 595 Joined: 27-March 05 From: victoria b.c. Member No.: 66 |
QUOTE (Softbrain @ Aug 7 2007, 08:30 AM) QUOTE (Bhaktavasya @ Aug 7 2007, 06:37 AM) A search for Kalisurfer on Google suggested he may be involved in some technical stuff or he may be found hanging out with these guys Or he might not, I followed your link, found Kalisurfer mentioned but then I also found myself! and I had never heard of the site. Apparently I was linked through the photo-sharing site Flickr.com and Kalisurfer through LiveJournal. |
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Aug 8 2007, 04:55 PM
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in cervinus veritas Group: Full Member Posts: 3,890 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Phallus Falls, FL, Amurca Member No.: 5 devolutionist |
kalisurfer is on vacation
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