What are you reading?

[vckums]

What book are you currently reading?


I am reading Motherless Daughters- The legacy of loss by Hope Edelman

[Yo Mama]

I'm between books, actually.

I think I'm next going to read Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha
(http://www.amazon.com/Women-Pleasure-Quarters-Secret-History/dp/0767904907/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206054017&sr=1-1) next.

[mojo]

I'm reading XTRO by Alfred Bester, great old SF author.

I thinkl i might pull out some of my old Arthur C Clarke books next, my little tribute. :)

[Iori Komei]

I' currently reading a few right now.


The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang by Paul Steindhart & Neil Turok
Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose by Kenneth B. Pyle

[Grand]

Ah good thread.

Reading The General's Labyrinth.

[JiveTurkey]

Well shit, don't I feel like a "mainstream whore"?



Currently reading "Blasphemy" by Douglas Preston.


After this one, "The Wheel of Darkness" by DP and Lincoln Child. The latest in the Pendergast saga.



Jasn

[gunner]

I am reading beyond band of brothers, by Richard Winters, WW2 book. I finished reading d day by stephen ambrose, after beyond band of brother I have the white book, by ken mansfield about his time at capitol records and working with the beatles as the american apple records dude. Looks interesting, I am a pretty big beatles nut, so that alone will make it worth the read.

I need some more books, I like Dean Koontz, but have kind of strayed off into the history books instead of fiction. I couldnt put that book about D day down.

[1972]

I am reading beyond band of brothers, by Richard Winters, WW2 book. I finished reading d day by stephen ambrose, after beyond band of brother I have the white book, by ken mansfield about his time at capitol records and working with the beatles as the american apple records dude. Looks interesting, I am a pretty big beatles nut, so that alone will make it worth the read.

I need some more books, I like Dean Koontz, but have kind of strayed off into the history books instead of fiction. I couldnt put that book about D day down.

My mom sooooo got to meet Dick Winters! I was all angry at her but it was cool because she had no idea who he was until she heard him speak.

~~~
Anyway.

I am re-reading my wife's novel: Sanguisuga. Now, if I could just get her a REAL agent because this is an AWESOME book. Biased? Sure, but it is the truth. She is wicked smart and hot to boot!

Check her out or not at:

http://www.Sanguisuga.com

[Yo Mama]

I'm reading the Painter from Shanghai, a fictionalized biography of Chinese woman artist Pan Yuliang, written by Jennifer Cody Epstein.

It's very interesting and good; I just don't have a lot of time for books so I'm taking much longer on it that I usually would.

Once I've finished it, I think I'll give A Soul Haunted By Painting another viewing, as I didn't understand a lot of it before -- badly edited and confusing Chinese movie that will probably do much better by me now that I have some idea of what was really going on with Pan Yuliang.

[1972]

I'm going to start reading anything that is NOT recommended by Oprah.

[vckums]

I just finished a book called Forever. It was really good.
http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Novel-Pet ... 674&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Novel-Pete-Hamill/dp/0316735698/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209426674&sr=1-1)

[1972]

I just finished a book called Forever. It was really good.
http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Novel-Pet ... 674&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Novel-Pete-Hamill/dp/0316735698/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209426674&sr=1-1)

Pete Hamill. Yup, finally got my wife to read it and she loved it as well.
Now you know where they "STOLE" the idea for the gay TV show Amsterdam.

[vckums]

Yeah we watched Amsterdam and did some research and found this book. I understand not being able to duplicate a books greatness in a movie/tv show, but damn they could've done so much better. Amsterdam had potential until I read the book.

[1972]

Yeah we watched Amsterdam and did some research and found this book. I understand not being able to duplicate a books greatness in a movie/tv show, but damn they could've done so much better. Amsterdam had potential until I read the book.

Pete Hamill decided not to sue because he would be dead before the court case saw the light of day. Too many similarities to not be stolen...

[vckums]

Oh wow didn't know that! That's too bad. There's a shitload of similarities, I don't think he would've lost for sure.

[1972]

Oh wow didn't know that! That's too bad. There's a shitload of similarities, I don't think he would've lost for sure.

Yeah, like I said, the article I read from a while ago made it sound like it wasn't worth. But the assholes that produced the show were like, "I had never heard of the book until after production was done". Yeah, okay, and I am the Last King of Scotland.

[vckums]

LOL tards.

If you find the article can you post it here? Only if it's an easy search, otherwise forget it.

[1972]

LOL tards.

If you find the article can you post it here? Only if it's an easy search, otherwise forget it.

Your wish is my command. This time.


Hamill does not intend to sue over the similarities, claiming the legal fees wouldn't be worth it. Still, he points out similarities between the two characters: O'Connor still bears the scar that "killed" him, and Amsterdam's body is similarly ravaged with scars; O'Connor uses his infinite time on earth to teach himself piano, and Amsterdam does the same; O'Connor must find his true love in order to find peace, and Amsterdam must also find his soul mate in order to grow old again.

edit to add: I am 99.9 percent sure that this assbag show is cancelled anywho...

Article on Pete (http://www.today.com/external.php?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/tvsquad/~3/150289583/&reffurl=http://www.today.com/view/is-new-amsterdam-a-rip-off/id-247880/)

[vckums]

Darn if I knew I was only getting one wish I'd have chosen a much better one.

*smooches* thanks for the link! Im off to read it.

[1972]

Once a day.
Duuuuurrrrr

[vckums]

I read the comments on there, they do got a point. A story about an immortal isnt new, however one stuck in Manhatten is too coincidental.

I think the writers knew.

And sweet, I'll think of a favor for tomorrow.

[1972]

I read the comments on there, they do got a point. A story about an immortal isnt new, however one stuck in Manhatten is too coincidental.

I think the writers knew.

And sweet, I'll think of a favor for tomorrow.

Well, I loved Campbell and agree with the way he thought but yes, there are/were to many thinigs that were almost EXACTLY the same. Fuck and everyday I wake up and forget why I hate people.

[vckums]

:cry: hate? I think I need a tissue

[1972]

:cry: hate? I think I need a tissue

Strongly dislike.

Is this better?

[vckums]

*sniffles louder* Noooooooo....say it aint so...Tito I need a tissue.

[1972]

*sniffles louder* Noooooooo....say it aint so...Tito I need a tissue.

Well, we can't all be Mary Poppins can we?
Society fails when we need it most and humans are proving to be the animals that we are. But hey, I'm just some guy at a computer. But mommy said I was special damnit!

[mojo]

Re-reading "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony...been a few years since i read it last.
Great book.

Part of the Incarnations of Imortality series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnatio ... mmortality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality)

[Yo Mama]

I'm currently reading The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (http://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291476).

I have no idea what possessed me to buy it, except maybe to see why someone would even WANT to do something this nutty. And a secular guy to boot.

I'm finding it hard going because I'm afraid that in the end he'll get all insipidly spiritual and I might want to vomit.

It has some pretty funny moments, but he's not as hilarious as the book club blurb led me to believe. At least not in the first two chapters.

[1972]

Re-reading "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony...been a few years since i read it last.
Great book.

Part of the Incarnations of Imortality series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnatio ... mmortality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnations_of_Immortality)

Wow, just WOW Mojo!
I love's you.
I know of no one who reads Piers.
I grew up reading the Xanth series.
And of course the Incarnations.
On a Pale Horse was my favorite our of the series.
Though I did like Bearing an Hourglass.

Oh, and the Apprentice Adept series . . .

[Yo Mama]

I read everything of his I could get my hands on in high school. And I really loved him. Until I noticed that his books were all written to formula and then they got boring pretty quick.

Xanth was cool for a long time with me though.

[1972]

I read everything of his I could get my hands on in high school. And I really loved him. Until I noticed that his books were all written to formula and then they got boring pretty quick.

Xanth was cool for a long time with me though.

True.

Though I will always love the first maybe 10 Xanth novels.
I think I stopped shortly after Vale of the Vole.
I had a Xanth game for my old PC.
My 386 I mean.

He did write some pretty fucked up stand alone shit though.
Very hardcore sci-fi.
Though I made it through, Macroscope was one that always had me scratching my head.

[mojo]

Yeah Piers is the shit. And lets be honest, there aren't too many authors that don't write to some sort of formula.
Haha, Jasn and i had this argument at another site, lol.

I've got about 3 or 4 hundred SF and Fantasy novels from E.A.P to Gibson and Banks.
I really love the older stuff though 50's through to the 80's, though Iian Banks is the best of the new breed imo.

[Yo Mama]

Banks is really good. Interesting new perspective on things.

I think I'm going to put aside The Year of Living Biblically for a bit, because Costco had two books I couldn't resist:

Salman Rushdie's latest, The Enchantress of Florence (http://www.amazon.com/Enchantress-Florence-Novel-Salman-Rushdie/dp/0375504338/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213155899&sr=8-1)

and The Host (http://www.amazon.com/Host-Novel-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/0316068047/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213155957&sr=1-1) by Stephenie Meyer.

I don't know which to choose first. Salman Rushdie is one of the greatest living writers, IMO, and the other one seems like a love story version of The Puppet Masters.

Decisions, decisions.

i think I'll start with the Host, because Rushdie deserves an un-tipsy brain.

[1972]

The Host (http://www.amazon.com/Host-Novel-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/0316068047/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213155957&sr=1-1) by Stephenie Meyer.

I don't know which to choose first. Salman Rushdie is one of the greatest living writers, IMO, and the other one seems like a love story version of The Puppet Masters.

Decisions, decisions.

i think I'll start with the Host, because Rushdie deserves an un-tipsy brain.

Thats sounds promising as long as it is copying the Master!
Nobody fucks with Heinlein.
Let me know if it be any good.

I have the extended version of Stranger in a Strange Land if you want to borrow it.

[Yo Mama]

The Host is so good I'm having trouble putting it down long enough even to come on here.

I like sci fi that's so close to home. Normal Earth with something weird happening to it.

Not that I don't like space operas too, but something about post-apocalypse or alien invasion really turns my wheels.

[1972]

The Host is so good I'm having trouble putting it down long enough even to come on here.

I like sci fi that's so close to home. Normal Earth with something weird happening to it.

Not that I don't like space operas too, but something about post-apocalypse or alien invasion really turns my wheels.

I thought the when they finally made The Puppet Masters into a movie that it was pretty well done. Weird that Sutherland was in it. And I also thought that the Kidman remark called Invasion was spot on except for the sped up gay, we're all ok in 5 minutes, ending...

I have been thinking of re-reading the Strawmen triliogy.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

[apeci]

Just finished More Soviet Science Fiction introduced by Isaac Asimov. Picked up In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.

[boycotteverything]

i recommend that you read anything available by arthur afterburn.

[Yo Mama]

I'm still chugging away at The Year of Living Biblically. It's mildly amusing, but mostly painful. Even when he finds out the why behind some of the obscure biblical passages, they are still pretty much random and weird reasons.

So I'm simultaneously reading the short and edifying Watch Your F*cking Language (http://amkon.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=2570) by Sterling Johnson.

[apeci]

LOL painful I bet! How many people does he stone?

Reminds me I recently read Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. They tell the saga of one year eating strictly foods produced within 100 miles, in Canada. They actually keep the dirty hippie politics to a minimum and there's some really funny lines. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

[Yo Mama]

Heh. The stoning chapter was actually one of the better ones. He struggled with it for a while, decided on little pebbles and found some curmudgeon in the park to throw them at. The old dude threatened to kick his ass. :lol:

turns out the original definition of stoning in the biblical sense was pretty much how the Romans executed their own citizens: threw them off a high place onto rocks. Not what we think they meant at all.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

http://www.emandlo.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/why_women_have_sex2.jpg

[Alessandra]

proof that LI is gay. Right fucking there.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

So I leave for about an hour to go visit a friend of mine and come back to discover that your monkey ass is STILL talking shit.

Listen to me right now goddamnit. You're like some kind of battered wife. I've kicked your ass relentlessly all over these fucking boards yet you keep coming back for more. Just like a battered, tired, bruised, tormented, sorry excuse of a wife keeps coming back to her husband that beats her ass 24-7. Why? All I wind up doing is taking more years off your pathetic, useless, misspent, and wasted life.

Anyway, I find it amusing that I actually like you and you hate my guts. :D

Edit to add that since it seems as if people are getting tired of the flame wars, I guess we can call a truce. It was fun while it lasted. :D

[Royal]

Internal Forever, come here. Ima tell you what. uh, I like ya, and I want cha. And uh... And we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The choice is yours.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

Internal Forever, come here. Ima tell you what. uh, I like ya, and I want cha. And uh... And we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The choice is yours.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa86/etothedouble/ummmmmmmwtf.gif

[Royal]

Someone is going to have to give up some booty. Eris isn't. So uh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLNOLCJC3A

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

Someone is going to have to give up some booty. Eris isn't. So uh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLNOLCJC3A

That was..painful, and I mean VERY painful to watch. SMH.

[Royal]

I'm reading "Trance-portation- Learning to Navigate the Inner World". Then I'm reading "why woman have sex"... good call Eternal, good choice...

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

I'm reading "Trance-portation- Learning to Navigate the Inner World". ..

I've actually thought about reading this. Is it any good?

[Royal]

Yes, she breaks it down pretty good and it's not complicated with too many methods and it's thorough.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

Wurd.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31jsYDgRUcL._SL500_AA246_PIkin2,BottomRight,-2,34_AA280_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[Jackinthebox]

The Stand, complete edition.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Fox in socks

by

Dr. Seuss

Fox (not in socks)

[anarch]

I like books by R.M. Meluch also David Palmer is THE BEST!!!!!

[Jackinthebox]

I was reading some of the "Ashes" series by William W. Johnstone. He writes westerns too, but the Ashes series is like post-apocalyptic politics/warfare/survival type shit.

[Leesha]

I'm not reading a book right now.
I am reading a 'short' story that I wrote though.
It's about my past.

But I do plan on reading a couple books that inspired the Bones TV show.

[Eyeforalie]

Im reading high times.

[Cogburn]

Just arrived today.

http://i50.tinypic.com/259wc3d.jpg

[mojo]

re-reading "the hammer of darkness' by L.E.Modesitt for about the 30th time.

[Ducky]

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Shhhhhhh...

and

Hurry Santa.

By, can't get it, my son fell asleep on it!

Fox

[MissSilver]

Not much at the moment, just waiting for a paper back version of Stephen King The Dome.

[Lexion]

"Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin.

Jesus.

That woman is not a fucking
writer.

Having to force myself through it.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

"Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin is propaganda to have her as pres for 2012.

Fixt.

[Lexion]

I'm sure some of it is spin.

But, she has 2 things going
for her, IMO. (not her tits)

She is a first generation politician.

She's not a lawyer.

While the book is boring as fuck,
it does a decent job at describing
where her policies come from.

Quitting as Governor was a stupid
move, though.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

It was the night before Christmas.

*Turn the wheels and match the pictures* Version

Fox

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

Quitting as Governor was a stupid
move, though.

This move (as well as the book) was just an attempt to extend her 15 minutes of fame that ended awhile ago. Needless to say they both worked.

[Lexion]

I had a strange thought, today.

Palin/Dean in 2012.

A bi-partisan ticket.

How strange would that be ?

[boycotteverything]

I had a strange thought, today.

Palin/Dean in 2012.

A bi-partisan ticket.

How strange would that be ?Howard Dean or Dean Wormer? hahahah....

[boycotteverything]

"Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son." Dean Wormer

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[Lexion]

D5FzCeV0ZFc

[captainkiwi]

Stone of Destiny by Ion L Idriess
Just started it yesterday the history of diamonds and diamond cutters, fucken interesting stuff so far. And as always and endless stream of pulp fiction.

[boycotteverything]

D5FzCeV0ZFchahahah that kinda killed him off, didn't it?

[boycotteverything]

Stone of Destiny by Ion L Idriess
Just started it yesterday the history of diamonds and diamond cutters, fucken interesting stuff so far. And as always and endless stream of pulp fiction.
fuckit, Capt'n. go with me and Lex and read the label on your 5 gallon bucket- that is, if you're looking for truth.

[Lexion]

Hey !!!!

Those buckets are fucking killers !!

[boycotteverything]

hahahah if ya liked the bucket read your ladder!

[Lexion]

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa20/Lexion07/bucket.jpg

[boycotteverything]

that's me in the picture-

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tbone/warningsigns/photos/extension%20ladder.jpg

[Eyeforalie]

I'm reading some book on new age hermetrics, The high times grow guide 09' and Amkon.

[Lexion]

that's me in the picture-

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tbone/warningsigns/photos/extension%20ladder.jpg

You're famous !!

[captainkiwi]

hahahah if ya liked the bucket read your ladder!
head stuck in bucket please advise asap

[Eyeforalie]

Oh snap! I have a great warning label!!

Wait till I'm off work...aww man...I'm laughing just thinking about it...

It's on my dads jet-boat...haha

[Lexion]

Gonna take a pic ?

[Lexion]

head stuck in bucket please advise asap

Don't inhale !

[boycotteverything]

Don't inhale !jesus, man. that needs to be added to the label. it solves everything.

[Eyeforalie]

Gonna take a pic ?
yup, you'll get a kick outa it.

[mojo]

And as always and endless stream of pulp fiction.

check out Robert E Howards short stories on project gutenburg.
his conan stuff is well known, but his other stuff, westerns and murder mysteries not quite so well known.

[captainkiwi]

check out Robert E Howards short stories on project gutenburg.
his conan stuff is well known, but his other stuff, westerns and murder mysteries not quite so well known.
will do thanks for the heads up Mojo

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f817CDETL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[Cogburn]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MW49RQ9WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Heady shit and tough to read in a single sitting. I've been wading through it for about 2 months now.

[Lexion]

Still trying to get through
Palin's book.

Jesus.

[Cogburn]

Still trying to get through
Palin's book.

Jesus.

It's not that bad, is it?

Even I could make it through Twilight.

[Lexion]

Dude.

I'm not a bio or history buff.

Plus, it's as dry as Jesus Toast.

[MissSilver]

Still at Under The Dome by SK... 16 pages so far of characters descriptions... Just hope it is not like Cujo where I had to go through a 100 pages of who is in the storyline and what they do in life before the story kicks off.

Sarah Palin eh?

You are brave.

[mojo]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MW49RQ9WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Heady shit and tough to read in a single sitting. I've been wading through it for about 2 months now.


fuck cog....you need to get out man.



i'm re-reading 'orion" by Ben Bova.

has an interesting twist regarding the neandertals at the end of the book which i've always found kinda spooky.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

http://www.womensinfidelity.com/images/cover2.gif

Just ordered this. Can't wait to read it all through. I'm not married at all and won't be for a long time, but women are my passion and I'm always down to learn even more about em. :D

[skunk]

One thing I've learned is they're always right, even when they're wrong :D

Just shut the fuck up, nod, and smile.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

One thing I've learned is they're always right, even when they're wrong :D


Only guys who are pussywhipped actually believe this. You tell me skunk, what could it possibly mean? :D

[skunk]

I get more pussy than you?

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

I get more pussy than you?

No. It means that the pussy you're getting is causing you to place it above all else. :(

[skunk]

Haha that maybe true. I do love her.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

Haha that maybe true. I do love her.

There's difference between loving her and her pussy

[RubyRocket]

*peeks in the locker room...leaves.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

*peeks in the locker room...leaves.

Bad ruby! Bad, bad, bad!

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41978AYKQ3L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

I was in therapy about 4 years ago. My therapist was FINEEEEEE. Had a hell of a figure on her as well as nice feet. I remember I told her that she had nice feet :lol:

I thought she wasn't going to like it but she seemed kinda pleased when I said it. :D

Anyway, I'm reading the book because I'm obsessed with psychology and the human mind. :D

[Cogburn]

We're all anxiously waiting for you to start applying it to yourself.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

We're all anxiously waiting for you to start applying it to yourself.

When you typed that up you should have been doing your job instead. Which is worrying about my money. Clown.

[Cogburn]

What's wrong, boo boo, can't let a perceived slight go by unanswered?

What does your book say about that?

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

What's wrong, boo boo, can't let a perceived slight go by unanswered?

What does your book say about that?

I wonder what the book says about assclowns with an inferiority complex? :o

[theeindiee]

I'm currently reading Fucked in The Anus by Britney Spears

[theeindiee]

and the collected works of Carl Jung, volume 9: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.

[theeindiee]

After that, it's Christina Aguillera's newest book, Fucked Severely in The Anus By 9 Rap Stars At Once After The MTV Music Awards In The Diamond Studded Alleyway Behind My Diamond Studded Miata, And Then Fed My Owm Shit Clumps

[theeindiee]

And also the follow-up to Britney Spears' first delightful romp, entitled I'm Getting One Eyeball Removed... Guess Why.

[theeindiee]

And Lady Gaga's "Oh I... am gunna show you my dicklet growing off the side of my vagina."

See, we're allowed to make fun of celebrities because they are complete pieces of shit.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

See, we're allowed to make fun of celebrities because they are complete pieces of shit.

I'll have to co-sign this. Well most of em are anyway.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hCOkAs-JL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[WITCH HUNT]

I'm currently reading Fucked in The Anus by Britney Spears

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/NoelleyS9827/BritneySpears.png

[FancyFree]

lol oh god, Witch.

[pack3tg0st]

Back on topic I guess...

I'm Finishing up like the 100th time I've read Le Morte D'Arthur and just started reading Candide again...

[WITCH HUNT]

Back on topic I guess...

I'm Finishing up like the 100th time I've read Le Morte D'Arthur and just started reading Candide again...

Oh ok, back on topic...... I am reading "The Joy of No Sex!" by Helen Thomas.

[pack3tg0st]

Oh ok, back on topic...... I am reading "The Joy of No Sex!" by Helen Thomas.

WTF dude?

Girly friend not 'putting out'?

[WITCH HUNT]

WTF dude?

Girly friend not 'putting out'?

Nahhhhhhh! I just like books that are full of truth..... and irony.

Here's Helen.....

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/135633/81079608.jpg

[Alessandra]

Im going to have nightmares for the next week, thanks

[WITCH HUNT]

Hey Alessandra, you like Star Wars right?

"You have done well Lord Vader. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen."

http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/helen-thomas-new.jpg

[Alessandra]

:lol: xD!

[WITCH HUNT]

You have noooo idea how much pity you should have for me! Because let's be honest, I would probably hit that!

:facepalm:

[Alessandra]

tsk tsk

[Eyeforalie]

The words on the inside on my eyelids.

[FancyFree]

You have noooo idea how much pity you should have for me! Because let's be honest, I would probably hit that!

:facepalm:


lol say it isn't so, Witch!!!!!!!

[WITCH HUNT]

Oh it's so! Didn't you know? I love cougars. lol

[century]

Why The Bankers Love The Left


By Henry Makow

Count Cherep-Spiridovitch was a Czarist general who battled the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Russian Revolution.

In 1926 he published a book entitled “The Secret World Government” which shows how the Rothschild’s plan for world tyranny dominates modern history. (See my “The Jewish Conspiracy is British Imperialism.” (http://www.savethemales.ca/000447.html))

The fact that Secret World Government is generally considered “right wing” and “antisemitic” is revealing:

1) It shows the extent society already has been brainwashed and subverted by the Rothschild conspiracy.

2) It reveals how the bogus issue of antisemitism is used to divert attention from a genuine mortal threat to humanity.

3) It explains the true meaning of “right wing” and why the Left is an instrument of the bankers.

EXAMPLE: THE US CIVIL WAR

Compare the treatment of this war in “The Secret World Government” with “A Peoples History of the United States” by Howard Zinn, a leftist, who cannot utter the word “Rothschild.”

Cherep-Spiridovitch cites an interview with the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1876. Bismarck explained that the Rothschilds who controlled Europe were afraid the United States would become independent of them if it remained one nation.
“They foresaw tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies indebted to the Jewish financiers to the vigorous republic confident and self providing. Therefore they started their emissaries in order to exploit the question of slavery and thus to dig an abyss between the two parts of the republic.” (180)

The Illuminati used the Masonic “Knights of the Golden Circle” formed in 1854 by George W. L. Bickley, to spread racial tension by making slavery an issue. Members included Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and his adviser Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of War, a Rothschild agent.

The plan was to divide the United Sates between England controlled by Lionel Rothschild and France, controlled by James Rothschild. France was to take over the whole South while Canada annexed the defeated North. In 1863 France and Spain invaded Mexico with 30,000 troops. The embattled Confederate States actually offered Louisiana and Texas to France in exchange for assistance.
Britain and France were ready to snuff out the young republic but were deterred by Russia, the only European power not in the Rothschild’s thrall. Czar Alexander II sent his fleets to New York and San Francisco and declared that an attack on Lincoln would be an attack on Russia.

Meanwhile Lincoln created “greenback” dollars to finance the war and escape indebtedness to the foreign financiers. “They understood at once that the United States would escape their grip,” Bismarck said.” The death of Lincoln was resolved upon. Nothing is easier than to find a fanatic to strike.” (180)

Compare this with Howard Zinn who although a “socialist,” makes no mention of European financiers. His book is a soap opera of the oppression of the poor by the rich. He depicts the Civil War as a clash of capitalist “elites.”

“The Northern elite wanted economic expansion…. The slave interests opposed all that. ” (189) Again, “The American government had set out to … retain the enormous national territory and market and resources. ” (198)

In other words “capitalism” in general and not the Rothschild Illuminati caused this heinous war that cost 500,000 soldiers’ lives and eight billion dollars. Is it any wonder these bankers, who are the real establishment, love the Left? Is it any wonder they populate our universities with pious Marxists (and feminists) who never question why they are pulling down big salaries if they are really defying the establishment?

Another Pied Piper is Noam Chomsky who attributes all evil to capitalism and American imperialism. As far as I know, he never mentions the Rothschilds, the llluminati, the Council on Foreign Relations or the New World Order. He pretends that Oklahoma City and 9-11 were not inside jobs.

“We shall erase from the memories of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us,” say the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. “And leave only those which depict all the errors of the government of the goyim.” (Protocol 16)

The problem is not American capitalism but the control of the nation’s credit by a small private international cartel which has used this advantage to build a monopoly in every key industry. This international group is behind western imperialism and every war. Its totalitarian occult agenda (a.k.a, globalism, feminism, diversity) is now corporate policy.

The big government vs big business paradigm diverts attention from the Illuminati bankers who run both. It places the blame on capitalism and the US, which has been under Illuminati control for at least a century. It teaches each new generation to be alienated from their country, culture and economic system, and to become dysfunctional and impotent.

The bankers love socialism and Big Government. They have a monopoly of money and need a monopoly of power (i.e. government.) Together, these Rothschild banker monopolies are the essence of Communism. Rothschild pawns (liberals, socialists etc.) are elected by bribing the people with social services and jobs which create debt (and profit.)

The bankers need to institute a global police state (New World Order) to ensure that no nation challenges their credit monopoly or defaults on their “debt.”

ANTISEMITISM

Antisemitism is another tactic to divert attention from the Rothschild’s plan for world tyranny.- For BE

Cherep-Spiritovitch concludes:

“According to Bismarck the awful Civil War in America was fomented by a Jewish Conspiracy, and Abraham Lincoln the hero and national saint of the United States was killed by the same Hidden Hand which killed six Romanov Czars, ten kings and scores of Ministers only to easier bleed their nations.” (181)

He is not talking about Jews in general but only those who advance the Rothschild Illuminati agenda. His book makes an appeal to righteous Jews, and recognizes that many non-Jews have sold out.

“The Jews should bring to bay the ‘Satanists’ who corrupt the countries in which they have found asylum,” the Preface says: ” the Gentiles should render every Judas who accepts the bribes of the Jews.”

Bankers and their agents (B’nai Brith etc.) deflect this challenge by conflating the Rothschilds with all Jews.

Thus they transform a political cultural and economic issue into a racial one that can be dismissed as ‘prejudice.’

Why do so many Jews think they are responsible for the Rothschilds and the Illuminati? It looks suspicious.

The bankers’ Satanic Conspiracy is the source of antisemitism. The sooner more Jews oppose it; the sooner antisemitism will disappear.

Who actually was behind the assassination of Bhutto Thursday? I can’t pretend to know. But throughout history the central bankers routinely have assassinated politicians who stand in their way or whose removal will result in war. Lincoln, Arch Duke Ferdinand and JFK are the most prominent but there are hundreds.
See my “Illuminati Murdered At Least Two Other Presidents” (http://www.savethemales.ca/002009.html)

CONCLUSION

The Rothschild Illuminati Conspiracy is the essential challenge facing mankind. Talk of US imperialism, capitalism and “hate” (antisemitism) is a red herring.

Modern world history is nothing but the process by which this satanic force is replacing Western Civilization with an occult world police state managed by taser and television. The whole world is being colonized by this imperialist financial power, which is behind all left, liberal, Communist and revolutionary movements. What they call “progressive” is progress only in their occult terms.

Socialist Presidential candidate Norman Thomas said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

The world is in the advanced stages of a diabolical multi generational conspiracy. The general method and goals have all been revealed in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm). Our educators, leaders and media have largely been subverted.

Thus, a “right wing crackpot” such as Cherep-Spiritovich is anyone who favors individual freedom and self-reliance, family, nation, race, and God. These are the things that the Illuminati need to destroy.

The ruling classes have been hoodwinked to believe they are building a Brave New World. In fact they are accomplices in the mental, spiritual and possibly physical enslavement of humanity.:circle:

[FancyFree]

Oh it's so! Didn't you know? I love cougars. lol

I think she's WAY past the cougar stage but whatever floats your boat! lol

[BE2]

Antisemitism is another tactic to divert attention from the Rothschild’s plan for world tyranny.- For BE

Cherep-Spiritovitch concludes:

“According to Bismarck the awful Civil War in America was fomented by a Jewish Conspiracy, and Abraham Lincoln the hero and national saint of the United States was killed by the same Hidden Hand which killed six Romanov Czars, ten kings and scores of Ministers only to easier bleed their nations.” (181)hahaha Thanks for enlightening me, Cent.

[century]

Are you a Romanov fan BE?

[BE2]

nah. although i should add i would not wish them dead...

[century]

HEHEHE

[theeindiee]

I haven't been reading at all lately. Makes me really really sleepy within 5 minutes.

It's just "blah blah blah I can write a few million words about a subject."

How much time do people waste writing huge books like "Secret Teachings of All Ages" that basically you could sum up the entire thing with circles and squares and criss crosses and triangles arranged in a few different combinations of ways?

I'm gunna write a huge book with 1000 pages blank, and on the 1001 page, I'm gunna draw a small black dot in the middle of the page, The End..... and I'll call it "Everything That Ever Happened". People parousing the book will finally be able to experience what God's first thoughts were.

First 1000pages are an implied "what the fuck?"

Page 1001 ends the book with an exuberant ending, the implication of which is "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!"

The front cover has some very fancy golden designs of occult origin....

The back cover has poop all over it and is used if negative truths are to be confessed:

Like I'm worried and sleepy.

Where are you, were flittery, you were flittery.

Nghuyyyy!!!!

[BE2]

that about sums up human futility. and vanity, to boot. nice post.

[century]

How much time do people waste writing huge books

Its the little details that make the big difference

Like Churchill was a bad alcoholic for example....
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[BE2]

what great man isn't?

[guy]

I picked up a used paperback copy of Spandau Phoenix on Saturday, about halfway through...so far, so good.

[BE2]

i thought they tore it down after Hess croaked.

[guy]

i thought they tore it down after Hess croaked.
That is what the story is about.

[BE2]

i expect a book review. hess always intrigued me.

[guy]

i expect a book review. hess always intrigued me.

So far it involves a West German police officer who was assigned to guard the perimeter of the Spandau ruins ( the 4 controlling powers of the USSR, The US, France, And the UK are in control of the actual ruins) who stumbles upon papers that may indicate that prisoner #7 ( Hess) was not actually who they thought he was. Of course in reality this is still a question. It involves the CIA, the KGB, The Stasi, a rogue agent for the Mossad, and even South Africa, although I am not sure as of how yet. Lots of torture in it. Even a neo-Nazi group called the brother hood of the Phoenix.

[BE2]

hahahah sounds like a great read! link?

[guy]

hahahah sounds like a great read! link?
http://www.amazon.com/reader/0451179803?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link

[BE2]

ordered

[guy]

ordered
if the second half of the book is as good as the first has been it will be well worth it.

[BE2]

fuckit. i'm taking your word for it. if it sucks i will kill you.

[guy]

fuckit. i'm taking your word for it. if it sucks i will kill you.

oh well, it is inevitable that I will die anyway.

[BE2]

there is much truth in that.

[guy]

yep, and the more evident it becomes, the less fear I have of it.

[BE2]

there's no percentage in fearing the inevitable. point well taken...

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

The words on the inside on my eyelids.

You try too hard.

[Eyeforalie]

You try too hard.

How?

I don't understand.

[Infinite`Eternal`Forever]

How?

I don't understand.

Fuck it. N/M

[Eyeforalie]

Well, you must have stated that opinion for a reason, right? You cant see words when you close your eyes? Bummer if you can't.

Or are you just board?

[KentishMaid]

I'm ploughing my way through The Fall, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, among other things. I don't really know why, it's not brilliantly written and it's so long since I read The Strain I've forgotten who all the characters are and what they're doing. It seems to be an 'I've started so I'll finish' thing.

[mojo]

Currently reading 'The Hammer of Darkness' by L E Modesitt for about the 15th time and its still as brilliant as the first time i read it.

http://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Darkness-L-Modesitt/dp/076531567X



Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is smart, aware, provocative, and engrossing on several political, economic, and professional levels."
--Kirkus, starred review on Flash

"A marvelous thriller that plausibly extrapolates from current possibilities in IT, AI, media, and crime. . . Modesitt-at his best."
--Booklist on Flash



Product Description

Martin Martel is an exile in trouble with the gods in this SF novel by the bestselling writer L. E, Modesitt, Jr, now back in a new trade papeback edition from Tor.
After finding out that he has unusual powers, he is banished from the planet Karnak. Martin is thrust into the tranquil world of Aurore, vacation paradise for the galaxy. There he finds that the reality of Aurore is much different from its serene veneer. The gods are wantonly cruel and indifferent to the chaos they cause: are they really gods or just men and woman with larger-than-life powers? Whatever the answer Martin Martel must challenge their supremacy to defend his life, love, and the fate of all mankind.

[WhispersInTheDark]

I'm ploughing my way through The Fall...

Next: Camus

who begat:

QzivmOQWkVQ

[egg]

Rereading Clockwork Orange for the first time in over a decade. Lex's post got me started on it. It's a good piece of ultraviolence, o my brothers. :D

I reread autobiography of a yogi before that. Before that, I read plato and the platypus,.

[egg]

I love me some Camus. I do prefer Hesse, though. He's more hopeful.

[mojo]

Mmmm, got clockwork orange out to watch last week for the first time in ages. I guess ive become immune to savagery as it doesn't seem to have the same impact anymore.

[MrPenny]

"What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell

"The Elegant Universe" by Briane Greene

[mojo]

Elegant Universe is cool. I only understood about 15% of it though. :D

[egg]

I understand that. I'm reading the book and am somewhat desensitized to what's going on. Although, it might be the thug-speak. So much of it, I think it sort of undermines the "horror" of what they're doing. Although, I can see how it might have the opposite effect on some, making things more horrible. Meh..... 140-something pages to go.

Hammer of Darkness is worth the read I take it, Mojo? :D 15 times kinda gives that away. As far as sci fi goes, Asimov, Herbert and .... what's his name.... Well, my favorite book of his is "Stranger in a Strange Land." Heinlein! That's it! I love that book. Great idea followed through well. I love Philip K Dick's ideas but not always his stories.

Do you know that Total Recall is a Phil K Dick story. Originally, they were going to use Richard Dreyfus for Ahnold's role. Then, they made it faaaar more violent. HA!!! They should have had Dreyfus pulling off some of the ultraviolence. :D

[mojo]

I have just about every Phillip Dick book and short story he wrote. As well as Asimov, Heinlein, Vonnegut, Modesitt, Bradbury and hundreds of others too numerous to mention.

And yes Hammer of Darkness is definately worth a read, the political undertones are particulalry interesting given whats occuring in the world now considering when the book was written.

[egg]

Bradbury's good. Haven't read him in forever. Vonnegut is like a great meal followed by a delicious dessert. I love that guy. Aside from a book or two, I've read whatever he's given the world.
Modesitt I've never heard of. Worthwhile?

[egg]

If you want a great book, I guess it would be considered horror (which I never read), read "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's fucking amazing and this guy's first published work. Honestly, an amazing book. More of a psychological mind fuck than a horror book.

[mojo]

Bradbury's good. Haven't read him in forever. Vonnegut is like a great meal followed by a delicious dessert. I love that guy. Aside from a book or two, I've read whatever he's given the world.
Modesitt I've never heard of. Worthwhile?

I love Modesitt and imo never was given the accolades he deserved for his books. I don't think critics of the time understood his metaphorical style.

[egg]

I'll check him out. Always looking for another author.

[KentishMaid]

Next: Camus

who begat:

QzivmOQWkVQ

Albert?

The Plague looks good.

[mojo]

I'll check him out. Always looking for another author.

I'm mostly into Sci Fi authors post 1945 - 1980's. Not everyones cup of tea. Not a big fan of the Gibsonesque sci fi authors of today. However i am a big wrap for Iian M Banks, he at least makes your mind twist and turn in confusion.

[egg]

Ive read a bit of Banks. A couple of his sci-fi books and The Wasp Factory - not sci fi - fucking darkly hilarious.

[mojo]

yeah, hes about the best of the new wave.

[Hazelnut]

I'm listening to a Lecture, Entering the Castle. Exploring Your Mystical Experience of God - 9 CD set.

I'm worn out.

[egg]

Has God made its appearance yet? ;)

Any good?

[Hazelnut]

Not yet. I'm told that I must first accept and live in humility. After that I will know that God speaks in terms of chaos.

[egg]

God speaks in terms of chaos? Does that mean that the chaos all around us is part of God's message and that we're not deciphering it? Or, am I getting you all wrong?

[Hazelnut]

That's what its saying. It goes further. Humility is actually the armor and protection of God.

[egg]

I can buy that. About the humility. It isn't easy to completely armor yourself in it, is it? ;)

The chaos being God's language.... never thought about it that way.... It makes sense in a way. ... language sounds like gobbledygook unless you understand it. If that's the case, God's had a lot to say recently.

I wish I had a translator.

[Hazelnut]

Well, these ideas are new concepts for me too but somehow make sense.

The idea, I think, is to fully explore your inner self as the pathway to the soul, which is your higher power, voice of God, etc. choose your term.

Facing the fear of humiliation and accepting that it (the fear) causes us to make choices against our best interests is a very interesting idea.

:)

[MrPenny]

Humility is actually the armor and protection of God.

Until it evolves into hubris.

[egg]

If there is a God or higher power, the only way to know it is through yourself. There's no way to know what's really going on with anyone else.
Fear, anger and happiness all have the potential to have us make choices that are against our best interests. Shit, anyone who has "wasted" part of their youth following their happiness knows that's the truth. ;)
Fear is good if it's seen as an indicator and not succumbed to. Same with anger and happiness. At least, that's what I think.
I've been feeling more and more that life is chaos (I even told someone that here recently) and that all we can do is our best and not to worry overly much about it. ;)
I've been meditating again lately, it helps.

[Hazelnut]

Until it evolves into hubris.

I can see how some people might deceive themselves into believing they are gifted with the protection of God if they think God exists only outside of themselves.

Is that what you mean?

[MrPenny]

Bingo.

[egg]

I think Penny's right. A lot of people who think they're "walking" the path of God end up becoming overly prideful. They're good and you're not.

[Pam]

What if you have no belief in a higher being? We all just live and die...who controls what you do in between?

[egg]

I don't know. Who are you? Why are you you? Are you in control of your reactions?

[Hazelnut]

If there is a God or higher power, the only way to know it is through yourself.

I believe that too.


There's no way to know what's really going on with anyone else.

QFT!!!!!!


Fear, anger and happiness all have the potential to have us make choices that are against our best interests. Shit, anyone who has "wasted" part of their youth following their happiness knows that's the truth. ;)
Fear is good if it's seen as an indicator and not succumbed to. Same with anger and happiness. At least, that's what I think.

You think fine. :)


I've been feeling more and more that life is chaos (I even told someone that here recently) and that all we can do is our best and not to worry overly much about it. ;)

What do you think about chaos simply being change? We hate change unless we ourselves direct and manage it. But if you think about it, everything changes and nothing stays the same.


I've been meditating again lately, it helps.

I tried to before but could never manage it. My mind wants to be in control. ;)

[Pam]

I think I am....I don't hear anyone telling me what to do and I can change my mind at will.

[Hazelnut]

I think I am....I don't hear anyone telling me what to do and I can change my mind at will.

I'm not sure of anything except that I am partial to exploring ideas. :)

[Pam]

I'm not sure of anything except that I am partial to exploring ideas. :)

I explore ideas too...... just not looking for a higher being to help me explore them. All that seems to be important to me now is love :D

Blog it!

[egg]

You think fine. :)
Thanks. ;)


What do you think about chaos simply being change? We hate change unless we ourselves direct and manage it. But if you think about it, everything changes and nothing stays the same.
That's definitely true. Nothing lasts, nothing stays the same, most things don't turn out how we think they will - for better or worse.
I've both hated and loved change. It's neither good nor bad, we put those labels on it. But, I think we hate it because we don't understand it quite often. If you don't understand something, how can you control it? Which is where I think the humility you're talking about comes in. Some things, many things are out of our control. It's why people pray, have fetishes, are obsessive compulsive, etc. Humility that it is out of our control and that that's ok will armor us against fear, anger, etc. We can deal with what life gives us without negativity weighing us down. I don't know if it helps us control the outcome of the chaos, just our reaction to it.


I tried to before but could never manage it. My mind wants to be in control. ;)

That's the whole thing. Are you your mind? It never stops - the thoughts I mean. You don't want them all or like them all. Meditation is just focusing on something and letting the rest of those thoughts fade into the background. IF those thoughts have life, of course they're going to attempt to override being driven into the background, you're killing them or diminishing them. I've had trouble before - both while meditating and just living. But, our minds just generate thoughts constantly. I think of meditation as a way to help you feng shui what's in there. You feng shui your house, why not your mind? I usually end up turning to it at some point where things seem bad. Like so many other things I have done that are good for me, I usually drop it when things seems good. ;)

[egg]

I think I am....I don't hear anyone telling me what to do and I can change my mind at will.
You've never had thoughts that you can't control well or feelings for that matter? Why do you like what you like or hate what you hate? Are you your likes and dislikes?
There's a great mantra where you picture yourself and then ask yourself, "Am I me if I lose my fingers, my toes, my love of ice cream, my sense of humor? "
I'm speeding it up there but, basically, if you strip yourself down, who are you? Do you have any idea who you really are?

[Hazelnut]

who are you? Do you have any idea who you really are?

Yes! I am Queen Kitteh of the Universe!

seriously

[egg]

Hahahaahaahaahaaa..... MEOW!!!!

[Pam]

You've never had thoughts that you can't control well or feelings for that matter? Why do you like what you like or hate what you hate? Are you your likes and dislikes?
There's a great mantra where you picture yourself and then ask yourself, "Am I me if I lose my fingers, my toes, my love of ice cream, my sense of humor? "
I'm speeding it up there but, basically, if you strip yourself down, who are you? Do you have any idea who you really are?

The thoughts and feelings and likes and dislikes are all created by me..just as I can forget things, I can remember things too. It is all a game playing in the theatre of my mind and I can stop one thought and think of another ...what happens around and outside of me creates my thoughts and then I bounce it around. I guess the only time it stops is when we sleep. We dream and focus on one thought at a time.

[Hazelnut]

I would give just about anything for well organized, sensible dreams that follow one train of thought.

[egg]

If you're that in control of your thoughts and feelings then you have a gift, I think. I believe that most people don't. I believe that most people don't know themselves all that well. I could always be wrong, though.

[egg]

I don't seem to remember my dreams much anymore. When I was a little guy, I could dream lucidly, now I can't even remember them. Oh well.... :D

[Pam]

They don't have to be sensible, mine just come one at a time. During the day my brain is in a constant multi-task mode.

[Hazelnut]

I've been hearing that a lot from people who used to dream vividly and lucidly. Me included.

[Hazelnut]

They don't have to be sensible, mine just come one at a time. During the day my brain is in a constant multi-task mode.

Pam, you are a cyborg. Admit it. ;)

[Pam]

If you're that in control of your thoughts and feelings then you have a gift, I think. I believe that most people don't. I believe that most people don't know themselves all that well. I could always be wrong, though.

Interior feelings, yes I am in control. Exterior and physical...no :(

[Pam]

Pam, you are a cyborg. Admit it. ;)


Hahahahahaha.... I wish :D

[Hazelnut]

:lol:

[egg]

That's more than most. You should be happy. HA!!!! I guess, if you're not, you can just make yourself happy. :D

I had a girlfriend tell me once how she was turned on by how in control of my emotions I seemed to be. But, that was a long time ago. I don't always know why I feel the way I feel. I believe that Hazel is right. Only through self knowledge can we know anything about... anything that really matters.

[Pam]

HA! Does anything really matter?

[Hazelnut]

That's more than most. You should be happy. HA!!!! I guess, if you're not, you can just make yourself happy. :D

I had a girlfriend tell me once how she was turned on by how in control of my emotions I seemed to be. But, that was a long time ago. I don't always know why I feel the way I feel. I believe that Hazel is right. Only through self knowledge can we know anything about... anything that really matters.

You could have left out everything except "Hazel is right". :rock:

[egg]

Good question. :D In what way? To whom? We all have things that matter to us. Some of those things seem to last throughout your entire life.

[egg]

You could have left out everything except "Hazel is right". :rock:

:lol: :lol: :lol: It's my new mantra ;)

[Hazelnut]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

You know I'm jest messin!

[Pam]

I'm feeling better now.... that matters only to me :D

[Hazelnut]

It matters to me Pam. I'm glad you're feeling better. It makes me feel better. :)

[egg]

I'm sure that's not true. ;)

[Pam]

Your glad... but I feel it :D

[Hazelnut]

Then its good. I feel that.

[Pam]

I'm speaking physically...... a pain has subsided :D

[WhispersInTheDark]

If it makes Pussycat feel better when you feel better, former Princess Feet, then your feeling better makes me feel much more than doubly better.

[Pam]

I'm not feeling good again... it sucks for me :(

[1972]

god is Not Great ~ Christopher Hitchens

And

The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. 1

[Hazelnut]

god is Not Great ~ Christopher Hitchens

And

The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. 1

How many volumes in Mark Twain's autobiography?

[skunk]

Survival Wisdom & Know How: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive in the Wilderness (http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Wisdom-Know-How-Everything/dp/1579127533)

:)

[century]

Good blowgun recipe ..:rock:


yjIUuvausnw

[anarch]

I am reading fire sea.

I would like to read some greg egan.

[g_swal]

I just got done reading The War of Art, Steven Pressfield. Now onto I Drink For A Reason, Dave Cross.

[egg]

I just got done reading The War of Art, Steven Pressfield. Now onto I Drink For A Reason, Dave Cross.

How's the David Cross book, man?

[anarch]

cross...LOL!!!!

[BE2]

Anarch just got done reading, "while you're reading this you're pissing on your shoes" on the wall of his dual purpose dining room in his trailer.

[skunk]

Really, me too? Awesome!

[g_swal]

The Cross book is really good, each chapter is set up like a joke, but sometimes there"s no punch line just him ranting about a topic that pisses him off. Really funny!!

[egg]

The Cross book is really good, each chapter is set up like a joke, but sometimes there"s no punch line just him ranting about a topic that pisses him off. Really funny!!

I'm gonna get it. Thanks.

[Red Skare]

A boot legged coppy of hooked on fonicks
and
The Dawkins Delusion

[LaResistencia]

Lots of deep thinkers here. I mostly read romance novels. I particularly like historical romance and erotic romance. There's a ton of them for free on Kindle. I just finished The Keeping, a second book in a series about werewolves. Very cute story, and shik-shik worthy love scenes. I'm in between novels, but there are these free novellas on Kindle called Naughty Nooners (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_15?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=naughty+nooners&sprefix=naughty+nooners). They only take 15-20 minutes to read, so I can read them on my iPod on my lunch break at work.

[TheSyndicate]

Just finished The Illustrated Man by Bradbury for the third or fourth time.

[13erk0witz]

The creature from jeckyll island still. Books huge.

[13erk0witz]

le-UIERniHg

[Ozfactor]

I'm reading my Botany encyclopedia. Tonight's episode is " Datura Stramonium" aka...jimsonweed, devils trumpet and locoweed.

I'm having a heck of a time trying to get it to grow in containers.

[13erk0witz]

whatever you do, don't eat any.
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[Ozfactor]

I enjoy my dark gardening. It'll come in handy if we're ever over run by fanatical Muslims

[13erk0witz]

i heard stories from my friends at the hippy store i go to fresh valerian will knock you on your ass.Supposedly they make crowns on their heads while they are picking it for the store and pass the fuck out. They have some seriously strong valerian. Grow that shit.

[LaResistencia]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAH, oz. Mail some to Ducky for her husband.

[guy]

I'm reading my Botany encyclopedia. Tonight's episode is " Datura Stramonium" aka...jimsonweed, devils trumpet and locoweed.

I'm having a heck of a time trying to get it to grow in containers.

It grows wild here in nw Az...it is all over the roadsides kids get sick from it.

[13erk0witz]

There are some great jimson weed trip reports on erowid.

After hearing my friends talk about there experiance with Jimson weed I figured I would like to be able to tell a story as crazy as them. I didnt know exactly what I was doing so I just ate one large ball (a little smaller than the size of a baseball), flesh, seeds, spikes and all. It was the most terrible tasting thing I have ever eaten in my life.

After about 10-15 mins or so I could feel almost like a hot poison was running through every bludvessel in my body and I started to feel a bit strange. It was getting to be late summer and the sun was going down and I had left my jacket at home so I decided to run back and get it, BIG mistake! Running caused my trip to excellerate and as I was running home there was a large silent vortex forming in the middle of the road, it was starting to swallow everything that was on the opposite side of the street. It was almost like the cars and buildings were painted on a big sheet of cloth and the vortex was pulling it down (kinda like the magic trick where you pull cloth out from under dishes) into the hole.

I cant remember getting to my house, but I do remember my mom finding me lying in the middle of the living room talking gibberish. Needless to say she freaked and took me to the hospital, I guess I had told her that I was shooting heroin into the ends of my toes. She had to help me to the car because I couldnt walk, and my mouth was soo dry it was painful. After I got in the passenger seat of my moms car, people I knew were appearing to me in the space between my legs under the dashboard. They were all curled up with there knees under their chins asking me where I was going, and soon as I would start to answer them they would vanish in a puff of silver sparkles. When I reached the hospital I couldnt remember my name anymore and I could just barely understand where I was, this was the beginning of the real intense hallucinations.

A lady and her kid were sitting across from me and my mom in the waiting room, at this point I was having severe audio hallucinations, I though there were people talking to me all the time but I couldnt really tell what they were saying. Every now and then I would yell 'WHAT!' at the lady and her kid; after yelling 'WHAT ARE YOU SAYING TO ME!' a couple of times she got freaked out and left. When it was our turn to see the nurse at the front desk I could no longer walk at all and I thought my mom was a fat man that ran a french fry wagon on the roof of the hospital. When the nurse began to ask my mom questions concerning my condition I would butt in loudly saying that this french fry guy should come over and meet my mom sometime cause they looked alot alike.

The next thing I remember is sitting on a hospital bed hooked up to heart machines, I kept thinking that the heart monitors stuck to my chest were someone's headphones and that I needed to return them. I wasnt very happy being in the hospital, that is to say when I wasnt hallucinating that I was elsewhere (note: visual and audio hallucinations were soo intense I could not decipher between them and reality, much of my reality was made up of these hallucinations) ie: partying with my friends, sailing my yacht down the streets of London, reading ancient books in enormous libraries. So when I was cognisant of the fact that I was in a hospital I was looking for ways to escape. I had noticed that there was a space where the walls didnt meet with the floor and I figured I could get out through there. My wife (at that time she was my girlfriend) said she cant remember how many times they had to drag me back onto the bed after finding me trying to leopard crawl my way through an imagenary space in the wall.

I remember one instance when I was sitting on the bed where I could hear a very loud rusty screeching noise. Out of the tops of my eyes I could se a garage door opening in my forehead. Once it was up and had retracted back into my skull, small black triangles started flying out of my head, 100s of them! I then looked over at my girlfriend and asked her why she was crying so much (at that point in time I couldnt remember her name and she appeared to be a fat balding man with a greenish atomic glow). Some time after that I met a friend for the first time that night which would stay with me for the remaining three days of my insanity. He was a small albino chihuaua with a large cheshire cat type smile and red eyes. He was always asking me if I wanted a smoke, but his mouth never moved and he was always smiling. Whenever he went off to find me smokes he would always return a couple of min later with a single duhmorier hanging out of his pointed tooth smile, the agravating thing was that everytime I would light one and take a drag it would immediately burn all the way down to the brown filter and the melt into hot orange wax all over my hand.

My memories of this trip are very fragmented, I can only recall certain things I had done in the three days that I forgot my name. I remember nurses asking me by name, 'Rob, do you remember your name?', and I would answer 'of course I dont, stop asking such stupid questions' One time my girlfriend was asked to bring me into the bathroom to help get a urine sample out of me, but when she went to help mister happy pants out of his house I smacked her hand away violently, thinking that it had been a hungry cat. I cant really remember leaving the hospital with my mom but I do remember that strange green fat man sitting beside me in the back seat crying his face off because I couldnt remember who he was, hahaha. Thats about all I can remember, I think I came close to a lethal dose that night, I definately had the symptoms of being poisoned. Even havin moisture from ice chips touch my tongue was enough to make me cry from pain. I highly recommend using caution when taking this substance; I think I just got lucky.

[Ozfactor]

i heard stories from my friends at the hippy store i go to fresh valerian will knock you on your ass.Supposedly they make crowns on their heads while they are picking it for the store and pass the fuck out. They have some seriously strong valerian. Grow that shit.

The smell is horrendous. It's used for back pain.