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Default Sep 27, 2017 at 02:32 PM
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lol. Yeah his deck of cards he just keeps on posting was getting stale on twitter. A lot of bitter people voiced their opinions and he has blocked a lot of people.

Wise Man's Fears, which picked up during the final 1/3 of the book was a massive 960 pages. It took me two years to write 230 pages... He must have an outline of the entire trilogy in order to be able to publish the first book I would think.
Omg yes I hope he has an outline at least....

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Default Sep 27, 2017 at 10:00 PM
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I think im gonna quit reading the book by seneca for awhile and start on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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Default Sep 28, 2017 at 04:43 PM
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Actually...i want to read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Gonna have to get another copy of zen because the print is extremely small and some of it it bled through the pages. I made the mistake of buying an old copy. I shouldve bought a newer updated copy. Oh well.

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Default Sep 28, 2017 at 06:26 PM
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I recommend the Marcus Aurelius Penguin Classic edition translated by Staniforth. It's written in noble language. Maybe there is a newer edition of this translation, but I foind this one to be my favorite. I'm very particular about translations more than I am about hardcovers. I have some passages you might want to read. His thoughts are numbered and short so you can hop around and peruse at your liking. I read his incessantly while under psychosis. He might have been Plato's ideal philosopher king. I believe he just wanted to be a philosopher though, not a king. He had patience like a statue. Shoot me some lines you like of his!
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Default Sep 29, 2017 at 06:05 AM
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Nevermind.

I didnt know meditations was basically short sentences. I will still read the intro and some of it but i really need a book to actually read.

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Default Sep 29, 2017 at 08:04 AM
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This is a pretty interesting book if you want to read about someone's account of their own delusions and the different stages that he went though. It is also interesting how he was able to get released.

https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Nervo...ervous+illness
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This is a pretty interesting book if you want to read about someone's account of their own delusions and the different stages that he went though. It is also interesting how he was able to get released.

https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Nervo...ervous+illness
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In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman...."
WOW. Newtus, you should read this next.
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Well the reasons are the same for all, the stories make me happy and engaged. Fraid I'm not that deep.

You know Name of the Wind.

Also enjoyed the dragonlance novels and the early books about Drizzt Do'urden from RA Salvatore....excellent fight descriptions.
Writing fight descriptions is so hard!!! It's such an art. I'm looking up the dragonlance novels and fravotited them.

I'm trying to write a fight scene in my own book which is between a student and his master, but it's such an art. You don't want to be too technical, and you want to keep adrenaline high, it's a fine balance.
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Default Oct 21, 2017 at 03:17 PM
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Reading through Thomas Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense and I am writing down quotes from the book to slide into a dialogue for my book. I've read through the book 3 times, but the last chapter is a SOB, because it's so technical. Here I go. Sunday I might be able to post a blog on the chapter.
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Default Oct 22, 2017 at 07:38 AM
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Last book i read was The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good people Turn Evil. by Phillip Zimbardo

He created the stanford prison experiment. the book was very good. i recommend it

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Default Oct 22, 2017 at 10:01 AM
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Zimbardo's prison experiment brings back memories of my psychosis and how people transform when going against an individual. I wonder if Zimbardo lost face at all with he colleagues for that experiment.

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Last book i read was The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good people Turn Evil. by Phillip Zimbardo

He created the stanford prison experiment. the book was very good. i recommend it

https://books.google.com/books?id=_q...page&q&f=false
Do you remember what the main cause of people turning ugly? I remember the prison experiment have to do with power and people playing authority. I'll never forget the guy in the shades. This is related to philosophy and Plato's ring of Gyges. If you had power, and you could get away with it, would you? Socrates in the Dialogue says it was never about what people do in power, but what people ought to do, and it depends on the condition on one's soul whether they will be corruptible. Looking at Marcus Aurelius as an example of uncorruptable power. However, his death led to his son's rise and there went the empire.
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Default Oct 22, 2017 at 02:01 PM
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Do you remember what the main cause of people turning ugly? I remember the prison experiment have to do with power and people playing authority. I'll never forget the guy in the shades. This is related to philosophy and Plato's ring of Gyges. If you had power, and you could get away with it, would you? Socrates in the Dialogue says it was never about what people do in power, but what people ought to do, and it depends on the condition on one's soul whether they will be corruptible. Looking at Marcus Aurelius as an example of uncorruptable power. However, his death led to his son's rise and there went the empire.
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The book intrigued me because of what My former therapist did to. me

He also talks about Abu Graihb

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Default Oct 23, 2017 at 07:27 AM
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Reading I Am Legend. Its great

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Default Oct 25, 2017 at 05:52 PM
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Ugh, so the author finally figured out an ending to his final novel in his name of the wind series. I thought authors were suppose to write outlines of this stuff. https://twitter.com/PatrickRothfuss/...92749872316417
No He's been working on it for ten years now. He Never had an outline.
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Default Dec 01, 2017 at 08:52 PM
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Oh hell no, im not letting this gem of a thread die! RESURRECTION!

So what books have people been reading? Any books on the ol Christmas list? I'm thinking about reading something on Panpsychism. It's a philosophical theory where every particle has a fundamental aspect of consciousness, how else is consciousness possible? It's just a theory but it solves the mind body gap problem, because if it's one type of stuff with two different aspects (mental/physical) then that explains how we can use our mind to move matter, like when we lift out arms at will, or act on moral principles.

I might also read Wilhem Meister Aprenticeshi.
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive world of economics and seeks fulfillment as an actor and playwright.
Goethe's Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther resonated with me deeply. Faust is the best book I've ever read. It's an encyclopedia of different kinds of poetry.
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Default Dec 03, 2017 at 10:22 PM
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Finished my chapter on the philosopher Thomas Reid was battled extreme forms of skepticism with vigor, after 6 months of avoiding it. It honestly needs some fine tuning but there I did it. I just want to take on something more meaningful now. Never in my life have I had such trouble as i did with his work titled An Inquiry into the Human Mind, On the Princples of Common Sense. It was a shift away from Modern Philosophy, so new ways of thinking were developed that i kept on having hang ups with and giving up. It was worth it though.
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Reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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Hey Newtus, we have a newer reading thread over here What are you reading?

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