Just started in on another book, have lots of time this weekend that'll let me get most of it read.
Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Cultural Wars Divert Education and Distract America
Takes a GOOD look at the education system and it's many failings over the 20th century. So far I'm about 30 pages in, and think I'm going to have to get my old high school english teacher reading this. Unless his opinions have changed a lot in the last 8 years, he'll enjoy it too.
What're you folks reading now?
What are you reading right now?
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vampyrewolf
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What are you reading right now?
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Just finished Shopclass as Soulcraft by a guy named Matt Crafword. Basically musings of a guy who has been both a motorcycle mechanic and a think-tank intellectual. Quite intellectual at times, interlaced with real life stories, experience and wisom accumulated from living. One of the things he talks about is taking the mass produced and making it personal--kinda like tweaking your spydies.
Also trying to slog through a zombiegeddon novel called The Estuary, slow in the beginning or maybe I'm just tired.
Also trying to slog through a zombiegeddon novel called The Estuary, slow in the beginning or maybe I'm just tired.
Right now? With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge.
Over the last month I've also read Ford County by John Grisham, Generation Kill by Evan Wright, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and One Second After by William R. Forstchen.
Still on my "to read" list are One Bullet Away by Nathanial Fick and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie.
Over the last month I've also read Ford County by John Grisham, Generation Kill by Evan Wright, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and One Second After by William R. Forstchen.
Still on my "to read" list are One Bullet Away by Nathanial Fick and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie.
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this thread :p sorry, i couldnt resist. right now i am not reading anything, all my free time has been spent modding kiwis or kopas. the last book i read was S. King's Under The Dome
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I'm about 50 pages into that one, not really grabbing my attention.tonydahose wrote:this thread :p sorry, i couldnt resist. right now i am not reading anything, all my free time has been spent modding kiwis or kopas. the last book i read was S. King's Under The Dome
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Reading the SOTIC Manual (Special Operations Target Interdiction Course). Studying the ballistics of shooting through barriers and glass with the various long range calibers. Take Good Care and Be Safe Always.
God Bless :)
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God Bless :)
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ISAIAH 40:31 But those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They will mount up on wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
No-one can choose your mountain or tell you when to climb... It's yours alone to challenge at your own pace and time.
No-one can choose your mountain or tell you when to climb... It's yours alone to challenge at your own pace and time.
Just finished a book on the June 1967 Six Day War between Israel and numerous other countries. They lost more soldiers in six days, as a percentage of their population, than the US did the entire time we were in Viet Nam.
Just started What Paul Meant by Gary Wills but may put that one back on the shelf in favor of one of the twenty odd books I picked up at a used book sale this morning. (spent $8.75)
Just started What Paul Meant by Gary Wills but may put that one back on the shelf in favor of one of the twenty odd books I picked up at a used book sale this morning. (spent $8.75)
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
reading
Charles Cardinal Journet's Theology of the Church, Code of Canon Law and John currently; but last semester it was Confessions - St. Augustine, Interior Castles - St. Theresa of Avila, Journey of the Mind to God - St. Bonaventure. I'm hoping it will one day be St. Tpro68. :rolleyes: Good stuff, but it feels like the deep end of the pool.
Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" & Timothy Keller's "The Reason for God".
Mike :cool:
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1 Peter 3:15
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
EDC
Spyderco Meerkat Sprint
HDS Systems EDC Executive 140W
Fisher Space Pen
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GRITS the debut novel by Welsh author Niall Griffiths.
"In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves washed up in a small town on the west coast of Wales. Here they explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions which have brought them to this place: promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life lacks."
"In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves washed up in a small town on the west coast of Wales. Here they explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions which have brought them to this place: promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life lacks."
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Halfway thru I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter. Just finished Game Change, that controversial "tell-all" book about the 08 presidential race. Heckuva book. Not much into political books but this'un was pretty good. And written from a surprisingly "fair" standpoint. You can't tell who the authors are "pulling" for, in other words. They got dirt on EVERYBODY!! :) Insightful. Planning to read Shutter Island before seeing the movie. Love to read. A great escape.
I just finishedDies the Fire by S.M. Stirling. Working on Atlas Shurgged, but my college studies have been encroaching on my recreational reading. I'm also working on Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer for my ethnography class. Other readings this semester include selections from John Locke, Lenin, Malinowski, and many others.
"It's like he channels dead crazy people!"-Brock Samson
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Officially corrupted by Sequimite
Own:E4W E4W trainer, D4W, D4W trainer, Centofante 4, Swick II, FFG E4 w/ foliage green G-10,Mule Team 5 and 6
Want list: ZDP Stretch, Original and New Yojimbos, Perrin PPT
My wish-existed list: More MBC-esque blades.
I loved Malinowski's theory that South Pacific myths were coded navigational instructions; the stories making them easier to remember.sarguy wrote:Other readings this semester include selections from John Locke, Lenin, Malinowski, and many others.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
OOO that does sound good. I haven't got there quite yet. Being a Methods course, all we've done is dissect the introduction and explaination of his method so far.Sequimite wrote:I loved Malinowski's theory that South Pacific myths were coded navigational instructions; the stories making them easier to remember.
"It's like he channels dead crazy people!"-Brock Samson
Officially corrupted by Sequimite
Own:E4W E4W trainer, D4W, D4W trainer, Centofante 4, Swick II, FFG E4 w/ foliage green G-10,Mule Team 5 and 6
Want list: ZDP Stretch, Original and New Yojimbos, Perrin PPT
My wish-existed list: More MBC-esque blades.
Officially corrupted by Sequimite
Own:E4W E4W trainer, D4W, D4W trainer, Centofante 4, Swick II, FFG E4 w/ foliage green G-10,Mule Team 5 and 6
Want list: ZDP Stretch, Original and New Yojimbos, Perrin PPT
My wish-existed list: More MBC-esque blades.
I thought Generation Kill was great. Not long ago I saw a 2nd edition with more info on the outcomes of the people featured in the book.JBE wrote:Right now? With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge.
Over the last month I've also read Ford County by John Grisham, Generation Kill by Evan Wright, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and One Second After by William R. Forstchen.
Still on my "to read" list are One Bullet Away by Nathanial Fick and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie.
How's With the old Breed? It's on my Amazon wishlist.
"It's like he channels dead crazy people!"-Brock Samson
Officially corrupted by Sequimite
Own:E4W E4W trainer, D4W, D4W trainer, Centofante 4, Swick II, FFG E4 w/ foliage green G-10,Mule Team 5 and 6
Want list: ZDP Stretch, Original and New Yojimbos, Perrin PPT
My wish-existed list: More MBC-esque blades.
Officially corrupted by Sequimite
Own:E4W E4W trainer, D4W, D4W trainer, Centofante 4, Swick II, FFG E4 w/ foliage green G-10,Mule Team 5 and 6
Want list: ZDP Stretch, Original and New Yojimbos, Perrin PPT
My wish-existed list: More MBC-esque blades.