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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: benchthis on April 21, 2009, 05:43:36 PM
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well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week
i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
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shhh, read this
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i forgot to mention this purchase ;D
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haha freud'S book is a piece of shit and doesn't many anything today
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Don't let some shut-in browbeat you into doing something on this board.
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well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week
i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
what's this crap?? none of those books is going to help you to become a huge, ripped, oiled up glittery thong wearing muscle machine
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Don't let some shut-in browbeat you into doing something on this board.
well he was kinda right maybe more reading and less sport center would be a good thing
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Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Return it ;)
download it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/44260817/Man_27s.search.for.meaning.pdf (http://rapidshare.com/files/44260817/Man_27s.search.for.meaning.pdf)
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well he was kinda right maybe more reading and less sport center would be a good thing
Live your life as you see fit.
We accept you as an illiterate :)
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i dl 2 books for the kindle iphone app. it sucks cock. >:(
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Who needs books?
Books are for petty crooks. -Weezer
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well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week
i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Sounds like a lotta of mental wanking. Go find yourself a good fiction book and read for pleasure, not because you think you need 'self-improvement.' The fact that you're a Getbigger means there isn't much room for improvement, anyway. ;)
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Books are in the past...........the internets is the way to go.
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Go find yourself a good fiction book and read for pleasure, not because you think you need 'self-improvement.'
Fiction is of greater philosophical importance than History, because History represents things only as they are, but fiction represents them as they might be and ought to be - Aristotle
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Books make my head hurt - CARTEL
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Fiction is of greater philosophical importance than History, because History represents things only as they are, but Fiction represents them as they might be and ought to be - Aristotle
Sounds like a smart guy, this Aristotle. Wasn't he the guy who wrote 'There once was a man from Nantucket?'
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Sounds like a smart guy, this Aristotle. Wasn't he the guy who wrote 'There once was a man from Nantucket?'
Nope. I think he was a shipping magnate.
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Check This book out brothers... "THE ART OF FUCKING WOMEN"
BY NONE OTHER THAN BIG FUCKING DICKED FUCKING BOB
With a Forward by Baygbm
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Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors Volume one
Randy Roach
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so for you serious readers what books do you recommend ?
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so for you serious readers what books do you recommend ?
See my above post
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is it worth the 69$
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I resort to this allot.
Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding: The Master Blaster's Principles of Training and Nutrition
(http://static.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9780/8092/9780809247158.jpg)
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I resort to this allot.
Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding: The Master Blaster's Principles of Training and Nutrition
(http://static.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9780/8092/9780809247158.jpg)
I HAVE IT :)
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I recommend the Chronicles of Narnia. You will be immersed in a magical world of adventure and fantasy. Plus they have good christian themes.
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well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week
i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Man's search for meaning is a great read.
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is it worth the 69$
YES, I am already going to purchase Volume TWO and it that book totally opened my eyes to so many things!! If $69 is to much money for you to spend, save all of your money because all these other books are garbage.
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History and historical fiction.in historical fiction you can find authors lead character intersting and end up reading a series on that person.
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Who the hell buys books?
Library cards people come on, havn't any of you seen "Good Will Hunting"?
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Any of the Jeeves & Wooster stories by PG Wodehouse. I laugh 'til I cry.
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Who the hell buys books?
Library cards people come on, havn't any of you seen "Good Will Hunting"?
You spent 150 grand on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at your public library. ;D
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You spent 150 grand on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at your public library. ;D
You should have money to spend on books. They run like $75 a piece
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I resort to this allot.
Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding: The Master Blaster's Principles of Training and Nutrition
(http://static.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9780/8092/9780809247158.jpg)
I had it lol and just about every other book on bodybuilding
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Return it ;)
download it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/44260817/Man_27s.search.for.meaning.pdf (http://rapidshare.com/files/44260817/Man_27s.search.for.meaning.pdf)
Awesome, thanks man
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Two great books , if you can find them.
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You spent 150 grand on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at your public library. ;D
" Do you like apples? " " Yes I like apples " " I got her number , how do you like them apples?"
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well that dude who called us out on the amount of books we read got me thinking... maybe he's right...
so i took a trip to Barnes and Nobles and made a few purchases... im going to try and read a book a week
i bought
The Pathway by Laurel Mellin
Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Excellent book, and perfect rebuttal to Marxist principles and way of thinking.
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THE ONLY TWO BOOKS I RECOMMEND.
1) "Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz
2) "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie (second most selling book of all time after the bible)
At the moment I'm bussy reading "The 48 laws of power" by Robert Greene,
* Law 1 Never Outshine the Master!
* Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
* Law 3 Conceal your Intentions
* Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary
* Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life
* Law 6 Court Attention at all Cost
* Law 7 Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit
* Law 8 Make other People come to you, use Bait if Necessary
* Law 9 Win through your Actions, Never through Argument
* Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
* Law 11 Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
* Law 12 Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim
* Law 13 When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
* Law 14 Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
* Law 15 Crush your Enemy Totally
* Law 16 Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
* Law 17 Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
* Law 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself. Isolation is Dangerous
* Law 19 Know Who You're Dealing with. Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
* Law 20 Do Not Commit to Anyone
* Law 21 Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark
* Law 22 Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
* Law 23 Concentrate Your Forces
* Law 24 Play the Perfect Courtier
* Law 25 Re-Create Yourself
* Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean
* Law 27 Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
* Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness
* Law 29 Plan All the Way to the End
* Law 30 Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
* Law 31 Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
* Law 32 Play to People's Fantasies
* Law 33 Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew
* Law 34 Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
* Law 35 Master the Art of Timing
* Law 36 Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
* Law 37 Create Compelling Spectacles
* Law 38 Think as you like but Behave like others
* Law 39 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
* Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch
* Law 41 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes
* Law 42 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
* Law 43 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
* Law 44 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
* Law 45 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
* Law 46 Never appear Perfect
* Law 47 Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop
* Law 48 Assume Formlessness
oh and ofcorse.. "Mein Kampf" in German by Hitler himself.
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Yes
No shit Bob?
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so for you serious readers what books do you recommend ?
The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
I think this list provides a comprehensive entry into the world of Higher Intellect. By all means though, read what you have already purchased first. I think your books constitute a fine beginning. Also, try to make it to a quality art museum in your area. Just walk around and absorb the sights.
The very fact that you have purchased those books makes you more intelligent than 70% of Americans. You are on the right track.
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The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
I think this list provides a comprehensive entry into the world of Higher Intellect. By all means though, read what you have already purchased first. I think your books constitute a fine beginning. Also, try to make it to a quality art museum in your area. Just walk around and absorb the sights.
The very fact that you have purchased those books makes you more intelligent than 70% of Americans. You are on the right track.
You forgot Charles Darwin, my friend.
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Mexicans!
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The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
I think this list provides a comprehensive entry into the world of Higher Intellect. By all means though, read what you have already purchased first. I think your books constitute a fine beginning. Also, try to make it to a quality art museum in your area. Just walk around and absorb the sights.
The very fact that you have purchased those books makes you more intelligent than 70% of Americans. You are on the right track.
you also forgot Machiavelli's The Prince.
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you also forgot Machiavelli's The Prince.
I read that my freshmen year of high school, on my own lol.
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I read that my freshmen year of high school, on my own lol.
Wow! You read without being forced to??
Impressive! ;D ;D
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Wow! You read without being forced to??
Impressive! ;D ;D
;D
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i just finished a touching collection of literary vignettes between Napoleon and Josephine
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i just finished a touching collection of literary vignettes between Napoleon and Josephine
Mmmm!
Don't wash yourself, darling, i'll be back in three weeks? ;D ;D
Napoleon sure was a midget with funny fetishes.
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Mmmm!
Don't wash yourself, darling, i'll be back in three weeks? ;D ;D
Napoleon sure was a midget with funny fetishes.
haha yes indeed
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i just finished a touching collection of literary vignettes between Napoleon and Josephine
Ha,I'm just about to read a copy of the dispatches from Arthur Wellesley. ;D
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The Holy Bible
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Socrates
Complete Works of Aristotle
Complete Works of Euripides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by Milton
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Wow! I was under the impression that Socrates never wrote.
You, my friend, are a pompous idiot.
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Fuckin trolls are everywhere >:(
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Wow! I was under the impression that Socrates never wrote.
You, my friend, are a pompous idiot.
While at the present moment there are no written works personally personally attributed to Socrates, his works have been translated by Xenophon, who compiled The Complete Works of Socrates.
Now that we have discussed Xenophon, let's discuss your incorrect assertion that I am your "friend". I am nothing of the sort. I am set above you socially and academically, and it irks you. You have tried to use a crumb of knowledge that you barely recall from High School to discredit me, and you have fallen flat on your face. Please disappear. Thank you.
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just finished reading
A child called it...
going to being
The lost boy tomm and hopefully
A man named Dave by Sun....
still havent started on my initial purchased books....
but im liking this reading thing...
although my post count has suffered as of late
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While at the present moment there are no written works personally personally attributed to Socrates, his works have been translated by Xenophon, who compiled The Complete Works of Socrates.
Now that we have discussed Xenophon, let's discuss your incorrect assertion that I am your "friend". I am nothing of the sort. I am set above you socially and academically, and it irks you. You have tried to use a crumb of knowledge that you barely recall from High School to discredit me, and you have fallen flat on your face. Please disappear. Thank you.
Wrong again. Xenophon wrote in Sokratikoi logoi, much like Plato. Socratic dialogues are stylistic of Socrates and in no way are they his translations. Also, there is no such thing as "The Complete Works of Socrates."
P.S. I receive my BA in Phil in about two weeks. ;D
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Wrong again. Xenophon wrote in Sokratikoi logoi, much like Plato. Socratic dialogues are stylistic of Socrates and in no way are they his translations. Also, there is no such thing as "The Complete Works of Socrates."
P.S. I receive my BA in Phil in about two weeks. ;D
I just hope your big house and expensive cars will be enough for you. ;)
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I just hope your big house and expensive cars will be enough for you. ;)
lol Yeah, I'm already thinking deep thoughts about unemployment. :-[
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lol Yeah, I'm already thinking deep thoughts about unemployment. :-[
law school...
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law school...
The Peace Corps, actually. I leave in August.
I like the avatar.
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The Peace Corps, actually. I leave in August.
I like the avatar.
even better.... i hope you find a good gym though where ever you go :-\
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The Peace Corps, actually. I leave in August.
I like the avatar.
congratulations in advance. it's a wonderful opportunity.
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lol Yeah, I'm already thinking deep thoughts about unemployment. :-[
The history of thought seems to me to be something that every school should teach from elementary level onwards. Instead it gets relegated to a few classrooms in some out of the way university building. Makes no sense.
Is there a school of thought that particularly enjoyed? Any books you would recommend to a relative neophyte?
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Wrong again. Xenophon wrote in Sokratikoi logoi, much like Plato. Socratic dialogues are stylistic of Socrates and in no way are they his translations. Also, there is no such thing as "The Complete Works of Socrates."
P.S. I receive my BA in Phil in about two weeks. ;D
Actually, I am correct. I am startled that you allegedly are being granted a degree. First, your grammar is unacceptable and not University level. Second, you have devoted 19 days, 5 hours and 4 minutes to this website since 2005. You obviously have no ability to focus very long on academic work.
If there is any truth to you earning a degree, it is no doubt from an American institution. You see, America has been on the skids academically since the late 1960's. You may as well take your diploma , line a bird's cage with it and rush off to your job at Jack In The Box.
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Actually, I am correct. I am startled that you allegedly are being granted a degree. First, your grammar is unacceptable and not University level. Second, you have devoted 19 days, 5 hours and 4 minutes to this website since 2005. You obviously have no ability to focus very long on academic work.
If there is any truth to you earning a degree, it is no doubt from an American institution. You see, America has been on the skids academically since the late 1960's. You may as well take your diploma , line a bird's cage with it and rush off to your job at Jack In The Box.
::)
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congratulations in advance. it's a wonderful opportunity.
Hey, thanks! I appreciate it.
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The history of thought seems to me to be something that every school should teach from elementary level onwards. Instead it gets relegated to a few classrooms in some out of the way university building. Makes no sense.
Is there a school of thought that particularly enjoyed? Any books you would recommend to a relative neophyte?
Yeah, I agree completely. I wish it had a stronger bond with the average person/citizen. But we tend to worship the almighty dollar and thus philosophy gets relegated to the darkened corners of academia.
My focus is in analytic philosophy, i.e. no Nietzsche, Sartre, Schopenhauer.
First, I would recommend a good survey book. B. Russell's History of Western Philosophy is excellent. W.V. Quine is great. And a nice little coffee shop read, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Juilian Baggini is a real thought provoker.
Then once you determine what you're interested in, (ethics, epistemology, religion,etc.) search for the most lucid thinker in that field. All the post-modern, continental writers are too muddled with mysticism and bullshit. Look for writers practicing inside the halls of western universities.
A neophyte or not, it doesn't take years of technical college to be an interested thinker. :)
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Actually, I am correct. I am startled that you allegedly are being granted a degree. First, your grammar is unacceptable and not University level. Second, you have devoted 19 days, 5 hours and 4 minutes to this website since 2005. You obviously have no ability to focus very long on academic work.
If there is any truth to you earning a degree, it is no doubt from an American institution. You see, America has been on the skids academically since the late 1960's. You may as well take your diploma , line a bird's cage with it and rush off to your job at Jack In The Box.
Judging by your fallacious attempt of ad hominem, I can reasonably infer that you have no rebuttal to my previous claim. ;)
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Yeah, I agree completely. I wish it had a stronger bond with the average person/citizen. But we tend to worship the almighty dollar and thus philosophy gets relegated to the darkened corners of academia.
My focus is in analytic philosophy, i.e. no Nietzsche, Sartre, Schopenhauer.
First, I would recommend a good survey book. B. Russell's History of Western Philosophy is excellent. W.V. Quine is great. And a nice little coffee shop read, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Juilian Baggini is a real thought provoker.
Then once you determine what you're interested in, (ethics, epistemology, religion,etc.) search for the most lucid thinker in that field. All the post-modern, continental writers are to muddled with mysticism and bullshit. Look for writers practicing inside the halls of western universities.
A neophyte or not, it doesn't take years of technical college to be an interested thinker. :)
I read The World As Will and Idea many years ago, but not having any sort of context for it, most of it was lost on me.
Like Kevin Klein said, "Oh yeah? Well apes don't read philosophy!"
Jamie Lee Curtis: "Yes they do Otto. They just don't understand it." :D
I listened to a survey audio book awhile ago and enjoyed the rationalists, the romantics, and James' radical empiricism (if I am remembering this right) was all new to me and piqued my interest.
Thanks man. I'll check the torrents for these. ;) Then maybe even the bookstore!
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Here is a really good radio show coming out of Stanford. They have a wide range of approachable topics and I think they are available for download.
http://www.philosophytalk.org/
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Here is a really good radio show coming out of Stanford. They have a wide range of approachable topics and I think they are available for download.
http://www.philosophytalk.org/
'DUDE!'
'SWEET!'
:)
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lol Yeah, I'm already thinking deep thoughts about unemployment. :-[
"Enter the dragon"
You can tell people how they should live their lives
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Judging by your fallacious attempt of ad hominem, I can reasonably infer that you have no rebuttal to my previous claim. ;)
You may impress your THC addled professors with your verbosity. I, however, find your attempt at scholarship to be both sophomoric and feeble.
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Sounds like a lotta of mental wanking. Go find yourself a good fiction book and read for pleasure, not because you think you need 'self-improvement.' The fact that you're a Getbigger means there isn't much room for improvement, anyway. ;)
Right now for me Tim Dorsey is the KING of Fiction.
A sick puppy writing about a lovable psychotic and his crime in partner in Florida.
Very funny!
Stephen Kings latest was ok. Scared me a little.
Sistah Souljah....
Loved the Coldest Winter Ever.
Everything after just mediocre
Sandra