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What are you reading Chapter 4
- Thread starter slobake
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Just Finished
. His stuff is hit and miss with me, but this was an interesting thought experiment and I turned pages like mad. I read it in a day.
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky...
Pretty good!
Pretty good!
How Jesus Became God - Bart D. Ehrman
Book outlining The Gospels and the writings/viewpoints of Paul. Deals with the first 4 centuries of the Christian Church, mostly the century after Jesus passed.
Written by a very educated and well read teacher who was raised Christian and studied it all his life, who taught at some very prestigious schools, but eventually became agnostic.
Explains how the early church viewed Jesus and the question of when he became exalted. At birth, at baptism, at resurrection, was he always divine?
Shows the differences in describing events between the chapters of The Gospels, being as they were written at diffent times - between 60 - 150 yeaqrs after Jesus death, by different people, living in different places speaking diffent languages.
How the Christian religion developed and view of Jesus as a man, or an angel, or Son of God, or God himself. Then throw the Holy Spirit into the mix and one can see why their are so many different viewpoints and factions regarding this history of this religion.
Also throw in the Jewish viewpoint from the Jewish leaders of that time and the Romans and their Emporers and it all gets pretty heady.
Reads well in a casual, modern style. The guy tends to be pretty short on his points - doesn't drag on and on and belabor, so the book moves right along.
I'm not regular religious, but I like Yahweh and JesusMichael and Spirit. The things I feel are left out in Christianity I have found interestingly enough through "Womens studies." I'm not into Goddess worship or Wiccan really, but some interesting gaps and insights were pointed out to me when talking to a woman Catholic Minister who was my guitar player's mom. Very interesting lady.
As far as The Bible: just give the Prayer Book of St Thomas and I'm happy. The Bible is an interesting read in itself. An eye opener for sure!
Book outlining The Gospels and the writings/viewpoints of Paul. Deals with the first 4 centuries of the Christian Church, mostly the century after Jesus passed.
Written by a very educated and well read teacher who was raised Christian and studied it all his life, who taught at some very prestigious schools, but eventually became agnostic.
Explains how the early church viewed Jesus and the question of when he became exalted. At birth, at baptism, at resurrection, was he always divine?
Shows the differences in describing events between the chapters of The Gospels, being as they were written at diffent times - between 60 - 150 yeaqrs after Jesus death, by different people, living in different places speaking diffent languages.
How the Christian religion developed and view of Jesus as a man, or an angel, or Son of God, or God himself. Then throw the Holy Spirit into the mix and one can see why their are so many different viewpoints and factions regarding this history of this religion.
Also throw in the Jewish viewpoint from the Jewish leaders of that time and the Romans and their Emporers and it all gets pretty heady.
Reads well in a casual, modern style. The guy tends to be pretty short on his points - doesn't drag on and on and belabor, so the book moves right along.
I'm not regular religious, but I like Yahweh and JesusMichael and Spirit. The things I feel are left out in Christianity I have found interestingly enough through "Womens studies." I'm not into Goddess worship or Wiccan really, but some interesting gaps and insights were pointed out to me when talking to a woman Catholic Minister who was my guitar player's mom. Very interesting lady.
As far as The Bible: just give the Prayer Book of St Thomas and I'm happy. The Bible is an interesting read in itself. An eye opener for sure!
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Very long
I've been reading it for almost a year, on and off. Broad range of topics covered, categorized under Art, Philosophy, Religion, Society, Science and Psychology. Just by opening random pages I found Think Tank, Religious Pluralism, Gymnastics, Antimatter, Artworld Theory, The End of History and Gradualism. Really made me think about lots of things. I'd buy it again, for sure 
The first novel I've read in several years..."The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared"...even mo bettah than its title!
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Don't feel bad; I don't think many people do. I sometimes wonder if Friedrich Nietzsche himself actually understood it.
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph! (Thick Irish Brogue required)...
Kant, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Hugo...Is it any wonder that the Bassist is ALWAYS the coolest member of the band???!!!
Kant, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Hugo...Is it any wonder that the Bassist is ALWAYS the coolest member of the band???!!!
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Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
A sort of a love story about what makes love stay. A romp through romance with a former Princess.
Philosophy and observations about the gymnasium of life, about choice, and phun.
Very witty writer and very deep in a fun way. Reads fast and wise!
Very enjoyable!
A sort of a love story about what makes love stay. A romp through romance with a former Princess.
Philosophy and observations about the gymnasium of life, about choice, and phun.
Very witty writer and very deep in a fun way. Reads fast and wise!
Very enjoyable!
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I'm currently on the fourth book of the Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) series, A Feast for Crows. The characters have drawn me in and all of those years of writing for TV have given the author a pretty good grasp on plot tension and weaving cliffhangers throughout the plot. Despite everything I'd heard, Martin has been introducing characters much faster than he is killing them off, so fortunately the appendices are lists of characters.
Just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Moving on to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
OK...so, here's the deal...
Staying busy at school...early mornings...early nights...it took me a bit more than a month to read "The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared" 15 and 20 minutes at a time before closing my eyes each evening...and that's just too long for a book I enjoyed so much. It really is a great read!
The only logical thing to do is: enjoy it even more by beginning again...and reading it in digestible chunks.
I started it over last night and read for an hour, and that seems about right.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! TKK
Staying busy at school...early mornings...early nights...it took me a bit more than a month to read "The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared" 15 and 20 minutes at a time before closing my eyes each evening...and that's just too long for a book I enjoyed so much. It really is a great read!
The only logical thing to do is: enjoy it even more by beginning again...and reading it in digestible chunks.
I started it over last night and read for an hour, and that seems about right.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! TKK
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
Medicine and What Matters in the End
Doctor talks on aging and death and how treatment and care have changed over the years.
The modern change from nursing homes and hospital room care is trending back to home Hospice Care.
Medicine and What Matters in the End
Doctor talks on aging and death and how treatment and care have changed over the years.
The modern change from nursing homes and hospital room care is trending back to home Hospice Care.
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Another score from my coop's laundry room lending library, James Bamford's Body Of Secrets. Non-fiction about the NSA: how it was formed, what its specific tasks were through the years, very detailed descriptions and first-hand reports about international eavesdropping
