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05-20-2017, 07:05 PM #2251
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05-29-2017, 11:53 PM #2252
The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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06-02-2017, 04:01 AM #2253
The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich but to be honest, I'm more leafing through it to find passages that interest me the most
Great art captures a time, a place and an emotion.
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06-02-2017, 05:28 AM #2254
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Reading a book written in the ninties some irish guy touring "catholic europe" and its more interesting than I'd have guessed, its called the sign of the cross, more autobiographical than anything else, the title ties into a weird therapy session he was involved in relating to the loss of his father when he was twelve.
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06-05-2017, 10:01 AM #2255
"The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life", by James Martin, SJ
(Society of Jesus, aka Jesuit, not Sensing Judging - so, not my kind of SJ, but still a lovely kind of SJ.I went to a Jesuit university and I miss those jerks and their wisdom.)
”We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous.”
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06-08-2017, 07:38 PM #2256
"Stealing Fire". A book about research of a state of consciousness known as "the flow".
When neuroscientists at DARPA and Advanced Brain Monitoring used a different technique - neurofeedback - to prompt flow, they found that soldiers solved complex problems and mastered new skills up to 490% faster than normal. It's for this reason that, when the global consultancy McKinsey did a 10-year global study of companies, they found that top executives - meaning those most called upon to solve strategically significant 'wicked problems' - reported being up to 500% more productive in flow.You can lead a donkey to water, but you can't make the donkey drink it.
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06-11-2017, 06:19 AM #2257
I started reading The Hunger Games series. I like it.
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06-11-2017, 10:40 PM #2258
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06-14-2017, 06:32 PM #2259
Just reread By the Waters of Babylon by Steven Vincent Benet. It was written in 1937. I had remembered reading this short story as a kid. A young man takes a journey to a forbidden place and learns the true fate of the gods.
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06-15-2017, 10:52 PM #2260
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Just finished the 6th book of the Expanse series, Babylon's Ashes. Very enjoyable SciFi series. Currently a tv series based upon the books as well....
“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
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