What are you reading right now?

OccultHawk · 12-23-2018, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Far out

BassoonPlatoon · 12-23-2018, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

and...

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Beyond Future Shock by Alex Alaniz

These are kind of more morbid entries. The first especially makes you reflect on how all of us are just slowly aging and dying right now. An interesting take to be sure, but I definitely have to pick up a copy of The Wizard of Oz immediately after entering these worlds or something.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 12-23-2018, 09:45 AM

Read The Tao Te Ching again. Always good for the soul. I have an audio copy as well. I need to get my PC fixed. I was able to create audio books from any text using a free program called eSpeak.

BassoonPlatoon · 12-23-2018, 09:49 AM

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I have to wonder if the people who worship On The Road have read Heart of Darkness.

Well what I like about On the Road is that it casts Moriarty as the antagonist. It makes too much sense for it not to be good.

OccultHawk · 12-23-2018, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by BassoonPlatoon

Well what I like about On the Road is that it casts Moriarty as the antagonist. It makes too much sense for it not to be good.

tbf if I read the book now w/out a sense of punk vs hippy counterculture rivalry and the internet to know who the characters really represented and what they did

long story short my lack of appreciation for that book is admittedly on me

I should read it again and read it right this time

BassoonPlatoon · 12-23-2018, 11:12 AM

Well also tbf, the author himself claims that the book is about “love”. Those books are...shall we say an acquired taste.

So, regardless of whatever cultural thing you may have going on, there are probably parts of it that can just be skipped altogether.

OccultHawk · 12-27-2018, 10:19 AM

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pythagoras

Does it go into where he heard the voices of his dead homies inside the sound of barking dogs?

OccultHawk · 12-27-2018, 11:16 AM

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It’s reported that one day Pythagoras encountered a man beating his dog. As the dog whimpered and yelped in fear and in pain, Pythagoras recognized the noises as the voice of a recently departed friend. He physically intervened upon the man to release the dog, thus allowing his reincarnated friend to escape a life of misery.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/78/..._of_Pythagoras

He died because he refused to hurt a bean. He was being chased by an angry mob when he happened upon a bean field.

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Suddenly Pythagoras came to a stop. A vast bean field stretched before him. He stood frozen, uncertain what to do. His eyes focused on a single bean dangling inches from his papyrus- covered feet. So true was he to his ideals that, even at the risk of losing his own life, he was unwilling to trample upon even a single bean. Staring down upon that vibrant bean, the sun low in the sky, he imagined it to be blossoming into a divine ripeness before him. And as he stood there, hesitating, contemplating his next move, his pursuers caught up with him. They lifted their weapons, and bringing the knifes down hard, spilled Pythagoras’ blood on the plants – ending his life for the sake of a bean, and for the deep wisdom immersed in that diminutive cosmic object

He was also a cult leader.

The Batlord · 12-27-2018, 11:18 AM

What a pretty pile of horse ****.

OccultHawk · 12-27-2018, 11:26 AM

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What a pretty pile of horse ****.

https://grbs.library.duke.edu/articl...load/9121/4593

Heraclitus covered himself in so much manure that he got stuck in it and was eaten by starving dogs.

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~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,823	Read The Tao Te Ching again. Always good for the soul. I have an audio copy as well. I need to get my PC fixed. I was able to create audio books from any text using a free program called eSpeak.