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If there were a Third Reicht ... would there be no room for what's remaining ... all that's' the left behind syndrome used to scare people about the end that is already guaranteed by fates ... some say by faith!

Thus lagging socialism when nationalism is overwhelming ... some small-town nationalists can be overpowering ... consider Napoleon! Indicative of the little big man dissonance ...
 
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Just started reading a book by Billy Graham called, "Where I Am." He's talking about the afterlife. Not sure quite what I'll take from the book. I used to have a lot of respect for Rev. Graham, until, "There's a wiiidness in God's mercy."
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Tis an arid pastoral field of acacia trees ... from which a form of crown can be drawn ... just to impress with the points ... after she led you off rye in the sans ... after that mud and wattle shacks ... without windows they are shadowy ...
 
Jae said:
Just started reading a book by Billy Graham called, "Where I Am." He's talking about the afterlife. Not sure quite what I'll take from the book. I used to have a lot of respect for Rev. Graham, until, "There's a wiiidness in God's mercy."
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Speaking of Graham
Herez an interesting article
Arguing for the amazing way Oral Roberts changed religion in America:
How Oral Roberts Changed Religion
 
Hilary said:
Checking my library for this. Thanks for the suggestion!
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I've been really enjoying it a lot - read it on the plane to & from BC this week (I'm a slow reader!!) Such interesting stories in a wide ranging realm of observations, characters she meets, and wisdom from life. I will be rather sorry to say goodbye to Granny D when I soon finish!

Next up is "The Heaviness of Things that Float" by Jennifer Manuel - highly recommended by (and a gift from) my dtr. She tells me it is beautifully written, but rather sad story. Central character is a woman who has been a nurse on an island of Haida Gwai (fictitious tho), a tragic event, unfolding secrets and sorrows. It will make leaving Granny D a little easier when I know another is waiting in the wings!
 
Re reading Fifteen Dogs after finishing Hegels Philosophy of Right (whether right or wrong, what's left).

15 Dogs is for next book club ... should be an interesting scatter of opinions after the expressions exposed after doing Me after You. My wife was disappointed there wasn't more said about the story string rather than the scheme of the book to raise opinions about the indecency of death! Since god gave us death is god indecent as compared to the devil that accepts all for retrieving their thoughts? Bottom line observation as humble? The old goat gets us again ...

When the thoughts are scavenged ... what then? Nothing ... and we are back to the begetting (i.e. the beginning)! Something more to leer at and google over ... regardless of the grammar of how it is done ... and a pile of mumbling by Mummers or those unknowns ... possibly you didn't wish to know them anyway ...
 
Reading Andrea Martin's Lady Parts by Andrea Martin the famed Canadian* comedienne. It's fun!

*She's not actually Canadian.
 
As I said on another thread, I'm currently reading a biography of Jefferson Davis - first and only president of the Confederacy during the US Civil War - written by William C. Davis. It's about 25 years old. I picked up the Kindle edition for $1.99 through the Book Bub app. Interesting read, especially the opening chapters about his early life which shed a lot of light on his time as Confederate president.
 
I'm reading a non-fiction book called: "Fearless Writing", by William Kenower, and doing the exercises at the end of each chapter. It is a good read, as well as informative.

It talks about The Flow vs. The World - and I'm finding spiritual/ theological significance in that - the timeless, placeless reality of the writer in the "Flow" vs. "the 'real' world", and though the Flow has no hard and fast rules other than to go with it - the scientific, rule-bound, time bound, constructed, material world can get in the way (for writers and people in general) - but, in "The Flow" is where timelessness and creative imagination can be found, and while in it, is every bit as 'real' as the real world. And in order to be in the Flow - you have to have a kind of 'faith' in it and let it take your writing where it wants to go, not necessarily where you expect it to go.
 
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I am really afraid of what might come out if I truly entered the Flow when writing. I've started a couple of writing practices/courses, and have really had a hard time letting go.
 
But then, there are people like J.K. Rowling who have let themselves go to the "dark" places - Tolkein, too - and the sparkles of light and goodness shine through, even brighter.
 
I really prefer Atwood's dystopias to the world of fantasy. I'm sorta interested in some more practical reactions to what might really happen in life. (Not that I don't absolutely adore Rowling...and of course, Tolkien. As a teen, I thought the sun shone out of his ass...)
 
Still into The Hero Within ...a dark probe on the nature of ignored archetypes as the cooler sorts (Freud) work with hysteria ... excessive passion where thoughts are displaced and rejected ... thus generation of naïveté as a break from wisdom?

Sometimes there is a hint at go rounds and loops ...

Kind 've like reading Tillich or Barth ... non superficial ... no skimming allowed ... could generate jest facetiae ...
 
Just read Peter Watts' entry
"Incorruptible"
LOL its a beaut...a Utopia that only he could think of
Who knows? Maybe one day we will actually be able to make such a selfless human being as the story's protagonist?
The X-Prize peeps r trying to change the world
 
Do X-Prize 'rs rate as strange crosses in the night?

Depends on where you come from and where you're headed ... and many cannot deal with grand uncertainty like the Shadow of Sol and midnight perspectives of aspirations ... dreams as laid out?
 
Inannawhimsey said:
Just read Peter Watts' entry
"Incorruptible"
LOL its a beaut...a Utopia that only he could think of
Who knows? Maybe one day we will actually be able to make such a selfless human being as the story's protagonist?
The X-Prize peeps r trying to change the world
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Is Utopianism an incorruptible aspiration as it is only a dream ... really complex or unreal as imaginary numbers out there an alien host? Then there's the healer of a Strangelove

I did say I was reading The Hero Within a buried wealth hinted at by RL Stevenson in the isolated sense of unseen treasure found where the X marks it ... now 3X is a triad and 4X is something that like white lightning can leave your head in a spin ... tis a dark passion ... share intimately ... if the alternate gets wind of your archetypes they'll be hammer down (Whack a Moe-Le) possession is overwhelming in many hosts ... got ta love the beautiful dream Eire ... a lode on the unsinkable mine? Could be Moe lee Brown ... John's false cistern?

Some say myths don't count ... thus countless ness as cerise ... cherry Pi? Got ta go a long way to beat it ... even with the pits to be contended with ... as Dante with be a Trice done over ... a trick myth that can truss you up as bonded or bandit ... due conflict or take off as Icarious ... Vicarious state?
 
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Vicarious; experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.

Does that define alternate sympathy as appearing as empathy in the far removed hosts ... kind' ve out a here to those holding pain of learning close to their core Pis? That's the streak-Eire ... a smear with those despising intellect ... some midst attributes may be good as in depth character ... adepts! Could the institutionalized adapt to alternates? Thus the remnants are Left ... and Pistis Sophia is also out ...

Core Pis delecti ... or Corpus Christi as a chance Mist ... somewhat foggy due to presence of oligarchs ... oil bearing powers? Appears slippery to me ... like chicken fried at stake in the confrontation with consumption needed to feed the body ... while the mine simply absorbs the sight of real support of the go round issue of ouroboros ... as it slips into the myth in various forms of terror in the delight of doing what parental control said was denied ... toxic to their desires ... ta Boo?
 
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Do people learn anything if they cannot crack the tome containing the myth of an old thoughts coming to light?

Thus sparks ... at the magi of it all ... some say Mag J'Zus can that really be subtle or hypo?

The underground rages ... just put an ear tuit (rounder)! Simply listen up ...
 
My book club took a bit of a hiatus but we're back on track now. We're going to be discussing "Final Girls" by Riley Sager. It's a crime/thriller which is not usually my go to choice but it wasn't as bad as I thought (I don't do well with horror movies etc).
 
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