OT: The Good Book: What are you reading right now?

[Runner77]

I was sure you had typed A L I E N bible. Mind blown. lol.

That could make for a hell of a movie script.

 

[GordieHowYaDoin]

Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald

 

[rik schau]

That could make for a hell of a movie script.

Visions of Arnolds ''Total Recall ''

Credit Eric Von Dänikens literature,he put ideas to so many.

Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald

Isn't that the racist POS bigot? why contribute to his royalties?

 

[GordieHowYaDoin]

Visions of Arnolds ''Total Recall ''

Credit Eric Von Dänikens literature,he put ideas to so many.


Isn't that the racist POS bigot? why contribute to his royalties?

I received a copy and I study Zionist power structure and their over-represention in government, media, banking/investments and so forth.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Visions of Arnolds ''Total Recall ''

Credit Eric Von Dänikens literature,he put ideas to so many.


Isn't that the racist POS bigot? why contribute to his royalties?

From my own experience, reading extremists is a good way to find good counter-arguments and own them.

In other words, you should read Ayn Rand as much as Marx.

Also, no matter how much Von Daniken gets cited/referenced, he remains a huge fraud and a sociopath.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

I received a copy and I study Zionist power structure and their over-represention in government, media, banking/investments and so forth.

Doing that serves nothing but giving them further shield and inciting hatred.

Concentrate on the structure itself and how it attracts and enables sociopaths.

 

[rik schau]

I received a copy and I study Zionist power structure and their over-represention in government, media, banking/investments and so forth.

Now I'm curious who gave it, possible this person likes to dress in white and wear a hood? What benefit is there from reading such material?

 

[rik schau]

From my own experience, reading extremists is a good way to find good counter-arguments and own them.

In other words, you should read Ayn Rand as much as Marx.

Also, no matter how much Von Daniken gets cited/referenced, he remains a huge fraud and a sociopath.

People read for various reasons,but to read it to ''own'' them is rather unique.
A lot of people are ''out there'' and many get published,unfortunately the human species is so impressionable, gullible and naive and blindly play follow the leader and believe that what is being said is good. and that's never a good thing as everyone can see.

If you've ever met Eric,you'd know he's not a sociopath. You can see it in the interview from a few weeks ago that he is not.Yes he was convicted of crimes and paid his due.

 

[GordieHowYaDoin]

Now I'm curious who gave it, possible this person likes to dress in white and wear a hood? What benefit is there from reading such material?

Well, now I know you have a baseline understanding of how this world is operated, which it isn't my intent to take a dig, its just not many will trade netflix and other useless entertainment for books or have an open mind to question the orthodox narrative. The hooded boogie-men was funded by Zionists (Rothschild). Executive Intelligence Review did a piece on it in the 70's and provided their sources. Today, that clown show is basically defunct except for a few stragglers in the backwoods clinging on to something they don't even understand.
What are the benefits? To see all perspectives and navigate through the propaganda for truth.

 

[cphabs]

I was sure you had typed A L I E N bible. Mind blown. lol.

Of course

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

People read for various reasons,but to read it to ''own'' them is rather unique.
A lot of people are ''out there'' and many get published,unfortunately the human species is so impressionable, gullible and naive and blindly play follow the leader and believe that what is being said is good. and that's never a good thing as everyone can see.

If you've ever met Eric,you'd know he's not a sociopath. You can see it in the interview from a few weeks ago that he is not.Yes he was convicted of crimes and paid his due.

I'm sorry, but to do what he did, one has to be sociopathic. It's not a one time occurence either, it was serial. He's a con man, plain and simple. "Paid his due" doesn't make the pathology go away. It just gets refocused unto other forms where he was less likely to get caught doing something wrong. The mindset remains and lo and behold, spent his time selling fantasies to gullible crowd. The "alien conspiracy" crowd is repleat with conmen; EVD, the collator David Icke and their ultimate godfather of 'ET' frauds, Zecharia Sitchin.

It almost feels like these charlatans are intentionally proped-up to create widespread discrediting of independant researchers who are actually serious and concentrate on actual real life corruption and power.

 

[rik schau]

One of the chaps picked up this help guide,lots of material and some history. It also mentioned that June is a particular lovely time to visit,but seems rather cold if we were polled. For the fun of it, I checked back home as winter is approaching,it is still hovering around 30C lol.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Reading The Hyperion Cantos , at the fourth book now , second best piece of sci-fi I've ever read after Dune many years ago. Absolutely fire

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Herman Wouk - The Winds of War.
Just finished James Clavell - Shogun, which was a fun read for me, given my past (2001-05) in Japan and my enduring link there; wifey is Japanese (Visiting my inlaws in August actually).
All on Audible of course.

 

[angusyoung]

After reading countless threads and posts, thought this book might be of interest

 

[angusyoung]

Tried repeatedly to get into this book that the mrs gave in the car picking me up at the Naha airport and said ''read this'' prefer selecting my own reading material thank you very much! It is informative and perhaps interesting if the brutal grimness of war can be considered interesting.

Much more fascinating for me was falling on to some of my great grandfathers ( to the power of 10,11,12? would have to check the tree ) personal journals when he was Admiral of the Fleet and the first Governor General of the Dutch east Indies. Almost felt like being there,tough life for all those then.So many difficult decisions to make. Such a shame that the last ones were lost when several ships sank of the coast of Mauritius and many lives were lost. Nice tribute they made for him as they named a mountain after him,hiked it partially decades ago but it requires more time and skill and equipment than we had. Guess that's where I get my rugged good looks from!

 

[kyne]

Herman Wouk - The Winds of War.
Just finished James Clavell - Shogun, which was a fun read for me, given my past (2001-05) in Japan and my enduring link there; wifey is Japanese (Visiting my inlaws in August actually).
All on Audible of course.

Shogun is an excellent read as are Taipan and King Rat. My mother-in-law is a former Japanese beauty queen. By all accounts, the reaction and unwanted romantic attention she received from random strangers and neighbours here due to the book's popularity was persistent, even disturbing. Thankfully, there was no social media at the time.

 

[HabbyGuy]

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Reading (listening to) a lot of Bernard Cornwell this summer. The second Uhtred novel - Pale Horseman, and now, Agincourt. I like novels with a battle setting, as any meat-eating hockey fan should. Listening to them on Audible is even more fun than reading, not only since it allows me to drive at the same time as I "read", but also because the narrator typically does myriad voices, male, female, child, aged, occasionally toothless, which amplifies the theatrical effect of the plot.

I will probably order Taipan shortly. I've also just downloaded Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. Meanwhile, I have a trip to Japan planned to visit my in-laws (unilingual Japanese), and I have to review my Japanese language material.

 

[kyne]

Reading (listening to) a lot of Bernard Cornwell this summer. The second Uhtred novel - Pale Horseman, and now, Agincourt. I like novels with a battle setting, as any meat-eating hockey fan should. Listening to them on Audible is even more fun than reading, not only since it allows me to drive at the same time as I "read", but also because the narrator typically does myriad voices, male, female, child, aged, occasionally toothless, which amplifies the theatrical effect of the plot.

I will probably order Taipan shortly. I've also just downloaded Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. Meanwhile, I have a trip to Japan planned to visit my in-laws (unilingual Japanese), and I have to review my Japanese language material.

We are doing Okinawa and the Ryu Kyu Islands next summer.

Not sure if you've read it already, the Winter King series by Cornwell is also worth a look. If you like battle settings, may I suggest "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield? You won't look at "300" the same again.
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I enjoyed "Master and Commander". You can see how much it copied from C.S. Forester's Hornblower. The latter's "The Happy Return" and its follow up "Flying Colours" are terrific examples of the genre. Grittier and much more realistic than O'Brian, imo, and completely unlike the portrayal on film and on television.

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

We are doing Okinawa and the Ryu Kyu Islands next summer.

Not sure if you've read it already, the Winter King series by Cornwell is also worth a look. If you like battle settings, may I suggest "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield? You won't look at "300" the same again.
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I enjoyed "Master and Commander". You can see how much it copied from C.S. Forester's Hornblower. The latter's "The Happy Return" and its follow up "Flying Colours" are terrific examples of the genre. Grittier and much more realistic than O'Brian, imo, and completely unlike the portrayal on film and on television.

Wow, you and I share a lot of parallels. I'm the original Japanese connection: JapanMontrealExpat, dating back to 2002, which I followed up with GermanyMontrealExpat, NCarolinaMtlExpat, and now my current and hopefully stable username.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Winter King series. I read them all via Audible. The various voices supplied by narrator Jonathan Keeble represent a perfect example of the theatricality to which I alluded. At some point, it's almost distracting how utterly entertaining the narrator is. I'm hooked on Audible as a result. I track down Gates of Fire. The 300 movies are just iconic for me: both of them.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

A few weeks ago, I came upon the longest Big Think video I'd ever seen. They usually run for 10-30 minutes. This one was documentary lenght, with nearly 2 hours of running time. It presented political scientist Brian Klaas as he narrates about his work on power and corruption. So after watching it i decided to get his book, Corruptible and so far it's pretty good. He draws from everything I expected, going from psychology, psychiatry, sociology and neurobiology. Very good insight into our systemic problems.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

A few weeks ago, I came upon the longest Big Think video I'd ever seen. They usually run for 10-30 minutes. This one was documentary lenght, with nearly 2 hours of running time. It presented political scientist Brian Klaas as he narrates about his work on power and corruption. So after watching it i decided to get his book, Corruptible and so far it's pretty good. He draws from everything I expected, going from psychology, psychiatry, sociology and neurobiology. Very good insight into our systemic problems.

I just realized what your profile picture is lol nice one , what's your favorite out of the three books in there? For some reason BNW is my favorite book ever , maybe its because I'm a big Iron Maiden fan too though

 

[Runner77]

Herman Wouk - The Winds of War.
Just finished James Clavell - Shogun, which was a fun read for me, given my past (2001-05) in Japan and my enduring link there; wifey is Japanese (Visiting my inlaws in August actually).
All on Audible of course.

If it was on Audible, was it really a « read »?

Must say that the idea of a narrated book seems appealing.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

I just realized what your profile picture is lol nice one , what's your favorite out of the three books in there? For some reason BNW is my favorite book ever , maybe its because I'm a big Iron Maiden fan too though

Nineteen Eighty-four

I have to say though, I love reading dystopias, so all three books are right up my alley. Haven't read Bradbury since my teens and I plan to go back to his work. Really like Orwell, read all his major works. Huxley, not so much. His ideas come majorly from his father and his father's friends. Thomas Huxley was known as Darwin's pitbull and while he did help ChuckyD's ideas to become more widespread, they were all big on eugenics and BNW is a fundamental expression of their ill-conceived ideas. With genetic determinism being almost completely dead, at least in academia, I feel Huxley's book has become less relevant. Our understanding of behavior and development has greatly evolved since then.

I find Orwell more impressive, not only for his writting style, but also because despite not benefitting from being born in wealth and academia, he was just as prescient as Huxley, if not more.

BNW kinda falls flat at the end, while 84 hits its crescendo. I remember thinking "that's it?" first time I finished BNW. It felt like Huxley's goal was to present his vision of a world and its ultimate dilema, but couldn't find the proper device/character to make a really good story out of it. The world building is just as good as in 84 though.

84 always leaves me with a sense of dread and that's because Orwell did a great job blending the world he wanted to portray and its story together. They both tug you torwards this bleak and inevitable end.