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Started by Arturo, March 15, 2017, 11:02:09 PM

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Biggus Dickus

Quote from: Magdalena on October 02, 2019, 06:41:35 PM
^^^


Do you often derive please from the misfortunes of others Mags? I mean this is a curse, a curse I tell you! (Getting teased when I was younger for example...partners not caring about you as a person, etc...)

:-X :'(
"Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair."

Magdalena


"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant

Red_Cloud

I've just read my gas meter! . . . LOOK!  :mysterious:


:thinking:


Icarus

Just finished a book titled: Leaving The Witness, by Amber Scorah.   The author was from Vancouver BC where she grew up as a Jehova Witness.  She describes the required Witness behavior rather thoroughly. Sheesh!  She ends up in China, Shanghai , where she is assigned so to save some Asian souls by revealing the word of Jehova to them.  But she must be very careful, even sneaky, to do that sort of thing.  If caught she might land in a prison.

One of the most interesting parts of the book is her explanation of how the Chinese think and behave. Over time she comes to realize that her JW presence is perhaps....no not perhaps, but for sure..... based on bullshit.  She describes her slow withdrawal from her faith to find a whole different world out there.

I enjoyed the book 

billy rubin

mark twain, life on the mississsippi, again after many years

QuoteIn the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.


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Tom62

Java 9.0 to 13.0 New Features
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Tank

If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

xSilverPhinx

I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey


Tom62

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 25, 2019, 08:07:25 PM
Quote from: Tom62 on October 25, 2019, 07:23:34 PM
Java 9.0 to 13.0 New Features

:snicker:

Sounds...interesting.  ;D


Not really, but I have to keep myself up-to-date.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Anne D.

Quote from: Icarus on October 23, 2019, 01:39:34 AM
Just finished a book titled: Leaving The Witness, by Amber Scorah.   The author was from Vancouver BC where she grew up as a Jehova Witness.  She describes the required Witness behavior rather thoroughly. Sheesh!  She ends up in China, Shanghai , where she is assigned so to save some Asian souls by revealing the word of Jehova to them.  But she must be very careful, even sneaky, to do that sort of thing.  If caught she might land in a prison.

One of the most interesting parts of the book is her explanation of how the Chinese think and behave. Over time she comes to realize that her JW presence is perhaps....no not perhaps, but for sure..... based on bullshit.  She describes her slow withdrawal from her faith to find a whole different world out there.

I enjoyed the book

This sounds awesome. Will have to check it out.

Icarus

I am having post operation difficulty with reading. At the library I am choosing only large print books.  This time around I selected only large print books from the new editions rack.

I have a book titled: The Girl Behind the Red Rope.  I'd think it a far out fantasy except that there are actual places and cultures as in the book.

The book is about a small community of religious and manipulated extremists who live in a remote part of the Tennessee wilderness. Anyone who ventures past the boundaries of the village, surrounded by red ropes, is in danger of being consumed by the "Furyies.' Furies are instruments of the devil who destroy the unbelievers with viciousness and unbearable pain.  Within three years Sylous will come and all the unbelievers will be annhilalated for their sins. 

The young unmarried women are assigned husbands with with whom they cannot co-habitate until they deliver a baby.  They are obligated to have two times a week connubial visits with the husband, but have no contact with him at other times. Residents of the community are obligated to attend church services each morning at seven A.M. 

The book is a far out piece of fantasy that does actually, unbelievably,  exist in the real world.

I do not know why I am reading this stuff but I do find it rather fascinating.  It is Jim Jones, David Koresh, or some other set of nutters all over again.

Large print easy to read.


jumbojak

I'm reading the latest release in Phillip Pullman's prequel trilogy to His Dark Materials. That was difficult to describe when you can't remember the title of the book you are reading.

"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz