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He annoys me - mostly because of how right he is and how calm he is about his certainty in arguments

You say that because you know he's right, and displays the confidence in the rightness of his arguments, he annoys you?

I saw one talk of the guy. Although I agreed with the wrongness of Institutionalized Religion, I feel that atheism is a delusion. I understand that atheism is a reaction to Institutionalized Religion, but I consider myself to have a belief in something that surpasses our understanding.

I practice live and let live and the militant stance of some atheists reminds me of the dogmatic indoctrination of the Church, and it makes me laugh at the irony.

But in cases like this, I always try to remember that there are idiots everywhere.

greg taylor is editor of the daily grail website, a news site replenished daily with links to articles on topics at the edge of what is known, like ufo sightings, cryptozoology stories, new theories and research on historical mysteries, scientific discoveries, and conspiracy theories. he put out an e-zine called sub rosa for a number of issues and has published several collections of original essays along the themes of his site called dark lore, both with many notable contributors. his writing is always thoughtful and he has a good mind for research and skepticism, so this book of his in which he examines the phenomenon of end of life experiences and other things relating to the possibility of an afterlife is a great thing.

Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

Supervert's - Perversity Think Tank

The Monk - Matthew G. Lewis

Thinking: fast and slow. Kahneman. A good book about biases.

i haven't read a new book in about 6 months which is strange as i normally have about 3 on the go.

just started Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin

  On 5/18/2014 at 6:08 PM, logakght said:

The Monk - Matthew G. Lewis

Great book, one of my favourites.

  On 5/19/2014 at 10:20 AM, tec said:

 

  On 5/18/2014 at 6:08 PM, logakght said:

The Monk - Matthew G. Lewis

 

Great book, one of my favourites.

 

Yes! I'm really liking it. Really dark and gothic, and gloomy atmosphere.

People of the Lie by Morgan Scott Peck

(the 'new age' is not a part of the title and it's not a new age book. usual amazon confusion at work i'd say)

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Miles The Autobiography

Very conversational writing and he uses the word "motherfucker" a lot. Learning a lot about the new york jazz scene in the 40's

LOL this is why his autobiography is awesome, all the ways he uses motherfucker (and all the possible variations) in it.

He's a true motherfucker!

PKD - The Father Thing

Volume 3 of the collected short stories. Packed full of imagination, ideas just flying everywhere and coming alive in your mind. Wonderful stuff.

Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber - Early going, but lots of interesting insights on how we think about debt and why.

Infinite Jest - Only about 70 pages left, but my opinion of this beast changes every time I open it.

Finally finished The Weird, all 1126 pages (110 stories).

Now I'm half way through:

after that:

Doctor Sleep, really hoping (but not expecting) it to live up to the first.

I'm listening to Dr Sleep on audiobook, it's been making me fall asleep. Think I have spent several hours getting 20 minutes in.

Totally gonna read that after Yellow King.

Grabbed the hardback for 50p in a charity shop a month ago

finished "Enochian Physics" the other day. an old man who visits my work gave it to me after i struck up a conversation about theosophy with him. it was strange reading.

now idly reading philosophy essays and finally getting round to Feyerabend's Against Method, after being inspired by reading a Dawkins essay denouncing Popper and Kuhn (calling them "pseudo-philosophical poseurs unworthy of attention") . Not sure who I agree with yet.

  On 5/22/2014 at 10:13 PM, xox said:

People of the Lie by Morgan Scott Peck

 

(the 'new age' is not a part of the title and it's not a new age book. usual amazon confusion at work i'd say)

this looks pretty great btw, as does the road less traveled -- added to my summer reading list

  On 6/8/2014 at 12:04 AM, luke viia said:

 

  On 5/22/2014 at 10:13 PM, xox said:

People of the Lie by Morgan Scott Peck

 

(the 'new age' is not a part of the title and it's not a new age book. usual amazon confusion at work i'd say)

 

this looks pretty great btw, as does the road less traveled -- added to my summer reading list

 

the road less traveled changed my point of view on lots of things drastically; this one too which was hard to read cause of the subject. i really highly recommend them both.

objective/realistic people are such a rarity and m.s.pack is surely one of them, and besides of that he's also a contagiously positive person.

T.C. Boyle - A Friend of the Earth

Jeff VanderMeer - Authority. Part 2 of three of the Southern Reach Trilogy. The first one, Annihilation, was pretty solid. Lots of strangeness, but more questions than answers. This one seems to be lining up to give some answers while still opening up the world somewhat. Good writing, great sci-fi weirdness.

just recently finished John Buchan's 39 Steps. Quick little thriller that has a lot of Hitchcock DNA in it's style and pace.

Moved from this to starting Alan Moore's Neonomicon. Have had this sitting on my shelf for a while and threw it in my bag because I was needing something to read after finishing up what I had lying around (39 steps was last of a bunch of books a friend lent me). Had a little panic because I started reading it and then realised it's a sequel to The Courtyard, but turns out this graphic novel includes those issues at the start as well. I've had a quick flick through this one though and not sure if i'll able to continue reading this one at work/on the train. But other than that, it's actually seeming enjoyable. Not sure why I held it off for so long.