what are you reading?

Welcome to Wondercafe2!

A community where we discuss, share, and have some fun together. Join today and become a part of it!

Register Log in
Jae said:
Reading "Soul Detox," a gift from when I was a Deacon.
Soul Detox
Click to expand...
Interesting success story by that author. Based on market research of the non churched he started the Life.Church out of a 2 car garage:LOL: and in a mere 20 years now is among the largest Churches in the USA.

Maybe UCC could pick his brain or something.
 
Are thoughts toxic to those supporting pure desires?

Desires are like a gap .. schism ... something causing a fall ... just for a short experience ... and then regress!
 
The Hidden Family ????

Those stuffed down the well .. reminding me of the movie that was shot in Shelburne, NS ... forget the titles ... more insubstantial stuff down the well! Memes are considered useless to some essences ...
 
Pinga said:
The Rose Project by Graeme Simsion
The Hidden Family by Charles Stross
Click to expand...
What do you think of the Stross book? The world sounds like an amazing one, where if you are one of those special people, you can try snd try until you succeed. I really enjoyed World of Tiers by Farmer and Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber (I even played the rpg once...it has no dice...)
 
I liked #1, and #2, but am struggling with #3. Not sure if it is where my head is, or the writing style, or...the topic...more about intrigue..
 
Inannawhimsey said:
I also heard that Rose Project could become a movie
Click to expand...

Actually, it looks like the movie may be dead. The latest I could find was the both the star (Jennifer Lawrence) and director (Richard Linklater) had dropped out in 2015 and there was no further news after that. I must admit, the thought of a movie bringing those two together is kind of intriguing.
 
Mendalla said:
Actually, it looks like the movie may be dead. The latest I could find was the both the star (Jennifer Lawrence) and director (Richard Linklater) had dropped out in 2015 and there was no further news after that. I must admit, the thought of a movie bringing those two together is kind of intriguing.
Click to expand...
Lawrence and Linklater yeah
They woulda made just Matrix 1
And at the end
It would have spun back 2 the beginning again
And NO MATRIX MOVIE BLOAT
 
Mendalla said:
Finished "Whisperer" and considering what to read next. Perhaps "The Dunwich Horror", another tale of horrible goings-on in the backwoods that hews closer to traditional horror tropes ("demon" worshipers bearing strange children) even if it eschews the Christian imagery that is usual in such tales for Lovecraft's own Mythos (e.g. the "demon" is an extra-dimensional alien known as Yog-Sothoth).
Click to expand...

Read "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Call of Cthulhu". Probably slipped a couple HPL shorts in there, too. Call is a biggie. It kind of sets out the whole background for what is called "The Cthulhu Mythos" - powerful beings descending from the stars to influence humanity, cults that worship them, heroic scholarly types unravelling the mystery. A man studies the papers of his late uncle and learns about a mysterious cult and events seemingly related to Cthulhu, their object of worship, centred on a particular date. Finally, he learns of a horrific encounter sailors had with that very being on that very date. Again, a bit of an X-Files investigative horror vibe going on. I think a TV show based on the Mythos but updated to today would end up very like the X-Files.

Just finishing Lovecraft's "The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath", a short novel about a dreamer exploring the weird world of Earth's dreamlands in search of the Great Ones (the gods of the dreamlands) and a mysterious city that he glimpsed once in a dream. A very different piece of work from Lovecraft's s-f/horror set in the waking world. Very stream of consciousness (in spite of the length, there are no chapters or breaks of any kind) and pulls in references to a slew of other Lovecraft characters and works. Randolph Carter, the narrator, is himself a Lovecraft staple, appearing in several other stories. While there are some epic battles, this is really not your typical epic fantasy. The quest is very personal, not about saving the world or anything. And the whole atmosphere is a bit strange, with things like cats battling evil, faceless toad-things and weird, vaguely demon-like creatures known as nightgaunts who turn out to be allies. A recommended read for those looking for fantasy that is very different from what we expect from that genre today or those who like the weirdness dial turned up to 11. I know I first read it in a period when fantasy was starting to trend to Tolkien clones and vaguely D&D-eque stuff and it blew me away. Still ranks as a personal favorite, even though I acknowledge its flaws (a bit too long, some clunky writing, Lovecraft's racism and classism rearing their ugly heads from time to time).
 
Just starting "Granny D" - with sub-titles of "a Memoir" and "You're never to old to raise a little hell" :-) By Doris Hancock - with Dennis Burke. Doris was 89 I think (she lived to be 100!) when she started a cross-country walk in the US in 1999 to raise awareness of the issue of campaign finance reform in the US. So far, I'm really enjoying it! Walking about 10 miles/day, and relying on kindness of strangers for finances, food and accomodation along the way ... like the "Peace Pilgrim" she had read about at another time. Yes - she apparently finished the walk!
 
Into some deep theological commentaries by some famous theologians of the past century ... requires looking up a few theologically specific words to understand the depth of what is not all that simple as touted by some that say there is only way to accept the complexity of god near everything and the vanities hidden there ...

Then creation did make folk to be rival-like in nature ... ever since A' damn and Eve and all their sibling messes ... leading to much nihilism ... except in the imagination of the pragmatic dream. A lot of real based theologians do not believe in mind, spirit soul upsets ... as these things are intangible ... not a ghost of a chance of thought ... if you do not believe the mind as essence can co-exist in the physical world as an attribute of unseen nature !

I've even been told by some authorities that this is why thoughts are denied and disposed of rapidly in exchange for substitutionary fears and anger management enigmas ... unresolved problems in the impossible aspiration zone ... no dreams of intelligence allowed! Thus the ontological end to that. Where do these attributes go?

I do believe it a funny process ... given all we've forgotten ... Trump and Jae have opinions that it is all the right Christianity though ...

Next read for me is Hegels Theory of the Right ... my mind will possibly be blown and nothing remaining of it but left-ova's ...
 
Did you know that various professions use specific linguistics to preserve their wisdom from people outside their circles of certification?

Out siders can peek though ... and sometimes see AB normal stuff ... you will get sour leers from the authorities thought ... like Lady Macbeth ... the caldron stir goes on with 3 witches and the guy in the broth ... sometimes know to make a stew ... cannibalism in finest form of sacrifice to whatever will pick up the pieces ... Master of Styx picking up?

Now I find some interesting comparisons that may compare ... and maybe not in that Theological Etude ... some wouldn't just have everything and anything ... Polytech? Broad-based wisdom!
 
Mendalla said:
Read "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Call of Cthulhu". Probably slipped a couple HPL shorts in there, too. Call is a biggie. It kind of sets out the whole background for what is called "The Cthulhu Mythos" - powerful beings descending from the stars to influence humanity, cults that worship them, heroic scholarly types unravelling the mystery. A man studies the papers of his late uncle and learns about a mysterious cult and events seemingly related to Cthulhu, their object of worship, centred on a particular date. Finally, he learns of a horrific encounter sailors had with that very being on that very date. Again, a bit of an X-Files investigative horror vibe going on. I think a TV show based on the Mythos but updated to today would end up very like the X-Files.

Just finishing Lovecraft's "The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath", a short novel about a dreamer exploring the weird world of Earth's dreamlands in search of the Great Ones (the gods of the dreamlands) and a mysterious city that he glimpsed once in a dream. A very different piece of work from Lovecraft's s-f/horror set in the waking world. Very stream of consciousness (in spite of the length, there are no chapters or breaks of any kind) and pulls in references to a slew of other Lovecraft characters and works. Randolph Carter, the narrator, is himself a Lovecraft staple, appearing in several other stories. While there are some epic battles, this is really not your typical epic fantasy. The quest is very personal, not about saving the world or anything. And the whole atmosphere is a bit strange, with things like cats battling evil, faceless toad-things and weird, vaguely demon-like creatures known as nightgaunts who turn out to be allies. A recommended read for those looking for fantasy that is very different from what we expect from that genre today or those who like the weirdness dial turned up to 11. I know I first read it in a period when fantasy was starting to trend to Tolkien clones and vaguely D&D-eque stuff and it blew me away. Still ranks as a personal favorite, even though I acknowledge its flaws (a bit too long, some clunky writing, Lovecraft's racism and classism rearing their ugly heads from time to time).
Click to expand...

Finished. Had forgotten about how nicely psychological the ending is. The writing seems to get worse towards the end though. Lovecraft never met a noun he couldn't modify. His excessive love of adverbs is exceeded only by his even more excessive love of adjectives.
 
Does a psychological end suit those that despise psyche events and thus don't read into it?

Creates shades and shadow ... dark tomes! Some say tombs as these skills are buried ... as doubted ...
 
HEGEL's Philosophy of Right ... brutish chaos as they start out trying to understand how to interpret "right" or "recht" into English without the chaos of whether it stands for powerful morals (popular) or ethical (individual) strength!

Is this enough to put normal people off their grub? Then we turn around and question waht's normal.

I find how this depth philosophy makes some people fearful that they don't understand and thus shift to an opinionated anger stance ... due to Trump-like insecurities ... and thus the insecure has to reinforce their subjective sense ... by saying how great we are in our bigly nature ...

Most would get little out of such a buch-headed tome ... thus the hang up on the stag ... and words based on upright icons .. just become shafts or rods for rabbi's to beat us with if you don't enjoy the work of learning about Semites/symbols and all that chit ...
It can turn into a warren and be commissioned ... adding further to the knowledge distributed everywhere as if with gods help!
 
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."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top