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What book(s) are you reading now?
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Herr Heinrich
Student of Mythology
I have being reading a bit of the OT and I just finished that new Dan Brown book (I forget the name though). I plan on reading the Toa Te Ching (by Lao Tzu) once it gets here.
What version of the Tao Te Ching did you get? Who is the translator?
Herr Heinrich
Student of Mythology
Mr Spinkles
Mr
I admit I don't know much about Holographic Universe but I've seen it, and I'm a little doubtful....I have a tendency, perhaps an unfair one, to write it off with the other books like "Death by black hole", "The science of Star Trek", "The elegant universe", and "Physics of the impossible". Again, maybe that's unfair. But every year there is a new batch of popular "physics" books that basically turn physics into a mushy mess of catchy words. And there are plenty of popular physics books that have outlived fads and clever marketing and stood up to the test of time.
I highly recommend The Whole Shebang by Ferris for an accurate but fun read on modern cosmology, and also The Second Creation for a history of the personalities and experiments in the physics of the 20th century and how they lead us to where we are today. They are "popular" books but also accurate and informative, this was required reading in my undergraduate modern physics course.
I highly recommend The Whole Shebang by Ferris for an accurate but fun read on modern cosmology, and also The Second Creation for a history of the personalities and experiments in the physics of the 20th century and how they lead us to where we are today. They are "popular" books but also accurate and informative, this was required reading in my undergraduate modern physics course.
Mr Spinkles
Mr
Can you recommend authors who balance Chomsky? That's my next project, to read the best criticism of Chomsky's political writing.
Mr Spinkles
Mr
Do you recommend it? Does it have a lot of accurate information I won't find elsewhere?
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
I guess my natural answer would be Bernard Lewis.
Apex
Somewhere Around Nothing
Whats wrong with The Elegant Universe? I read that and I didn't see it as any kind of fad.
I will check those out.
Ba'al
Active Member
Me neither. I also liked Michio Kaku's books. I haven't started the Holographic Universe yet but it links modern physics with the paranormal. It's actually a book I must read for a religious studies course. Btw, Noam Chomsky keeps popping up on this thread and I just have to say I love him. Just remember, most people that critisize Chomsky don't have near the education he does. He has something like 30 honorary degrees!
Harshtotem
Member
What do Barack Obama, John McCain, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden all have in common? New book reveals little-known facts about the influence of a ‘secret’ Order in both the Democratic and Republican parties and how each has implemented the Order’s agenda in America…
October 31, 2008, Enfield, Middx.-
New book gives a hard-hitting exposé of the political and religious forces behind both Barack Obama and John McCain.October 31, 2008, Enfield, Middx.-
Codeword Barbêlôn-Danger in the Vatican: The Sons of Loyola and Their Plans for World Domination, by author P.D. Stuart is a groundbreaking book that gives an extraordinary account of international power and intrigue which drops a bombshell, of some magnitude, into the lap of the reader. It exposes a subtle attack on civil and religious freedoms, revealing a plot so sinister that as Pope John Paul II warned “We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through… wide circles of American society and wide circles of the Christian community do NOT REALIZE THIS FULLY.”
Codeword Barbêlôn exposes, in unequivocal terms, the secret connections and codewords of the powers that be….
Beyond doubt, this is one of the most significant books to appear in decades.
P.D. Stuart’s work possesses all of these qualities. Consisting of 48 chapters, and hundreds of footnotes and references, Codeword Barbêlôn covers a vast period of history, from the second and third centuries to the present day. Spatially, the work spans three continents, and focuses on Europe and North America and the hidden influence of secret societies on that continent. Indeed, reading Codeword Barbêlôn, one cannot help but feel as if he were travelling in H. G. Wells’ time machine, finding himself sometimes at the City of Rome in the 16th Century, at other times in Bavarian Germany in the 18th Century, yet at other times in the political intrigues of North America of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries.
In doing so Codeword Barbêlôn uncovers a plot so sinister, that in the words of ex-FBI Director and founder, J. Edgar Hoover: “The individual… coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous… cannot believe it exists….” Some of it is unsettling, disquieting, and often downright scary.
This book reveals the wide and pervasive influence of the Jesuit Order and proves that as American historian J. Wayne Laurens wrote, the Jesuits “are not merely priests, or of one religious creed; they are merchants, and editors, and men of any profession, having no outward badge by which to be recognized.” They “serve in any capacity required-as plumbers, carpenters, lawyers, doctors, teachers, economists, bankers, politicians, and advisers of states.” P.D. Stuart shows that even “The Sovereign Prince of Masons, etc, etc., are nearly all the offspring of Ignatius Loyola… and worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits.”
What possible the connection could there be between the Jesuit Order, Freemasons and the globalists in the Democratic and Republican parties? Bill Clinton’s Georgetown professor and former Council of Foreign Relations member, Carroll Quigley, revealed that they all believe “national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established.” And what about the fact that Barack Obama is related to both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney? It’s all revealed in this new book.
Codeword Barbêlôn is indeed a `tough book’: direct, honest, and thought provoking, with no compromise, no apologies, and no vagaries; it spares no characters-all are lashed without ceremony. Rarely does one source “connect the dots” as completely, thoroughly, and intelligently as does this one! This extraordinary project is the literary equivalent of turning over a flat rock. A work of high scholarship and intelligence, this book sounds a clear warning….
To borrow the words of Henry Lincoln, “Something extraordinary is waiting to be found….”
Thoroughly thought-Provoking…
A powerful and hard-hitting exposé of those “who have bound
Buttons*
Glass half Panda'd
Well, while I SHOULD be reading for my essays that are coming up... I've decided to get into the Sara Douglass series: "The Troy Game" ... I just finished book two. The first and second book are called, "Hades' Daughter" and "Gods' Concubine." I seriously can't wait to get book three. I'm asking for it as a late birthday gift.
StevieHummingbird
Singing, Dancing, Living
I am currently reading a book called "may belles daughter" by a woman named eva self.I am helping host a meeting with her on the forth of febarary, I am really excited, it is a moving story about a woman who found God and her mother as support after an accident caused her to be in a wheelchair the rest of her life.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
I just finished "A Painted House" by John Grisham.
Outstanding.
Outstanding.
te_lanus
Alien Hybrid
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
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KatNotKathy
Well-Known Member
Hourou Musuko by Takako Shimura. It's one of the few animu books I've actually found myself liking.
It's alright I guess. Just a couple of elementary students growing up...and did I mention that 3 of them are transgender? It's almost painful watching the characters going through what was essentially my childhood (though with more support and validation, those *******).
Edit: You can read it online here: http://www.onemanga.com/Hourou_Musuko/
It's alright I guess. Just a couple of elementary students growing up...and did I mention that 3 of them are transgender? It's almost painful watching the characters going through what was essentially my childhood (though with more support and validation, those *******).
Edit: You can read it online here: http://www.onemanga.com/Hourou_Musuko/
Vasilisa Jade
Formerly Saint Tigeress
I have a bit of A.D.D.
I am reading Green Witchcraft by Ann Moura, The Book of Ceremonial Magic by A.E. Waite, and Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter Carroll.
I am reading Green Witchcraft by Ann Moura, The Book of Ceremonial Magic by A.E. Waite, and Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter Carroll.