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Just finished CS Lewis The Problem of Pain ... and how humans bring it on by making ignorance into something exhaulted.
Somehow there is a parallel here that few see or absorb as light poring through the Ayes of the Dora soul ... powers deny intelligence being contrary to vast powers ... and destruction of the Higgs Field from within ... spontaneighty? Neigh ... tis close to Midnight ... and under the midnight sun .. nuff sayed ... can such things be fixed in reality ... nope! Why the soul is beyond us as the event horizon in other hole theories ... wells of Jacobean nature ,,,demonic, or even democratic as advantages are dispersed ... few hogs???
My guess is that you can't say that in some halls ...
Somehow there is a parallel here that few see or absorb as light poring through the Ayes of the Dora soul ... powers deny intelligence being contrary to vast powers ... and destruction of the Higgs Field from within ... spontaneighty? Neigh ... tis close to Midnight ... and under the midnight sun .. nuff sayed ... can such things be fixed in reality ... nope! Why the soul is beyond us as the event horizon in other hole theories ... wells of Jacobean nature ,,,demonic, or even democratic as advantages are dispersed ... few hogs???
My guess is that you can't say that in some halls ...
Mendalla
Happy headbanging ape!!
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Read this this morning. Following on the heels of my latest spooky opus, StoriesSpace site admin Molly posted a nice dark piece of her own, apparently her first story in two years. Very tense, even intense, horror story based on a photo from a story prompt that was posted last Fall.
www.storiesspace.com
Never Go Woods
Everything on this end of town was dead, except for Evergreen Woods...
www.storiesspace.com
GordW
Church-Geek-Oramus
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Right now I am working my way through the Mark Carney book Values. In the middle section he uses the 2008 crash, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Climate Crisis as exemplars that push us to name our values and what we value. At times (like the discussion of the 2008 crash) it is a bit of a tough slog for one who has never taken an economics course but I a truly appreciating the book. Right now I am in the middle of his discussion of the Climate Crisis.
BetteTheRed
Resident Heretic
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I am still totally enamoured with Wynne-Jones and wished I'd known to introduce her to my kids. Better writing than Rowling, really. I am totally into a totally fun book of hers called The Merlin Conspiracy, at present, and enjoying it hugely.
Merlin Conspiracy; is that a plot, scheme or plan that lies in the unconscious state?
If it has some sense of order to it, the gods of chaos ... and roots of irrational disorder will make a wasteland of that ... prodigal? Burning civility!
Nancy
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So...Did you start the Mod's Book Squad @Carolla? And, if so, are you enjoying it? I lead a book club at our church and today we discussed "An Ordinary Grace" by William Kent Krueger. There sure was a lot to talk about! And each of us enjoyed the book. It was interesting that the author moved away from his traditional mystery books to write something with a looser construction, and, in the process, explored spirituality.
I am reading the roots of Satan* ... bottom end of the hated tree of knowledge ...
* actually The Origin of Satan --- E Pagels (the Gnostic Scholar) it is very well studied topic of the divide between the world of doing as you pleases vs a drive controlled by responsibility and conscience cultivated by empathy for the greater being ... conscience is not that well favored in many circles due to inhibitionary trends!
* actually The Origin of Satan --- E Pagels (the Gnostic Scholar) it is very well studied topic of the divide between the world of doing as you pleases vs a drive controlled by responsibility and conscience cultivated by empathy for the greater being ... conscience is not that well favored in many circles due to inhibitionary trends!
Carolla
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Hi Nancy - thanks for asking. No I'm kind of in the 'read it or not' book club mode LOL. I did listen to a couple of videos by the author & found it to be a fascinating concept, enough to listen in with some sense of knowing to the book discussion. The book you
mentioned sounds interesting!
Mrs.Anteater
Just keep going....
I relly liked reading “Skipping Christmas” from John Grisham. So I got myself “Atime for mercy” from the library. I am not really getting into it. It’s starting so slow. Anybody has a recommendation for another book from him?
Delightful Life
M&M, Cascadian Lovers
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He is also a lawyer telling stories from inside what is projected to reveal the guts of corruption ... if you happen to get a glimpse of it!
It came and went like a flash ... in the gourds ... inky and binky ...
I have spoken on this site in the past of Aaron James (developer of a test for psychopathy) just called A* Theory.
The A* is often said to be unspeakable because of its relation to rectilinear colonization and what erupts from there as waste but of use to little beasts!
I received a gift called the A* Theory of Trump by the same author an evaluation of the crap we are fed by folks wishing to be winners at all costs to existence creating the theory of anti existentialism where folk retreat into their minds (said to be a dark, shadowy spot given its strange and alien nature).
Isn't that out there like BPD? Fringe-like manifestation ... fuzzy ... like the enigma of whether governing is "of" or "for" the populace and against the powers!
Remember no cooperation is allowed ... competition is the thing at all costs ... thus imp loosing's ... implosion! It all goes down in the end ...
The A* is often said to be unspeakable because of its relation to rectilinear colonization and what erupts from there as waste but of use to little beasts!
I received a gift called the A* Theory of Trump by the same author an evaluation of the crap we are fed by folks wishing to be winners at all costs to existence creating the theory of anti existentialism where folk retreat into their minds (said to be a dark, shadowy spot given its strange and alien nature).
Isn't that out there like BPD? Fringe-like manifestation ... fuzzy ... like the enigma of whether governing is "of" or "for" the populace and against the powers!
Remember no cooperation is allowed ... competition is the thing at all costs ... thus imp loosing's ... implosion! It all goes down in the end ...
Delightful Life
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i am currently mainlining the British humourist Terry Pratchett
Called Terry Pratchett The BBC Radio Drama Collection
Very well done
Abridged
Here are the works
Wyrd Sisters (@BetteTheRed alert, I think you would also enjoy his Equal Rites a lot too)
Guards! Guards!
Eric
Small Gods (my current fav book of his)
Night Watch
Only You Can Save Mankind
Enjoying the imagination and humour
Called Terry Pratchett The BBC Radio Drama Collection
Very well done
Abridged
Here are the works
Wyrd Sisters (@BetteTheRed alert, I think you would also enjoy his Equal Rites a lot too)
Guards! Guards!
Eric
Small Gods (my current fav book of his)
Night Watch
Only You Can Save Mankind
Enjoying the imagination and humour
Nancy
Well-Known Member
I keep track of my reading and try to read a variety. Cozy mysteries and historical fiction are my favourite genres. But sometimes I step out of my comfort zone. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton was a contender for the Giller prize but did not win. Someone called it a thriller, or an eco-thriller. It is set in New Zealand and deals with some serious environmental and socio political possibilities. I finished it last night and I’m trying to think of who, in my life, to gift it to. If anyone here wants to read it pm your address and real name and I’ll send it to you.
Carolla
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I am about to begin "The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters, a young Indigenous author from Nova Scotia.
@Nancy - you mention 'cozy mysteries' - have you read any of The Thursday Murder Club series? I'm just waiting for an audio version of that from my public library so I can listen while knitting. I would also recommend the Sherlock Holmes & Mary Russel series by Laurie R. King - I've enjoyed so many of those - best read in order. Do you have any you'd recommend?
@Nancy - you mention 'cozy mysteries' - have you read any of The Thursday Murder Club series? I'm just waiting for an audio version of that from my public library so I can listen while knitting. I would also recommend the Sherlock Holmes & Mary Russel series by Laurie R. King - I've enjoyed so many of those - best read in order. Do you have any you'd recommend?
Northwind
Stationary nomad.
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My current cozy mysteries read is The Irish Village Mystery series by Carlene O'Connor. I'm waiting for the next book in the series to be available from my library.
I've been reading books by V.S. Alexander lately. The first one was The Magdalen Girls about the Magdalen Laundry in Dublin. It's viewed from the perspective of two young women who find themselves incarcerated there. Very good. I read The Traitor next. It's about a young woman who joins the White Rose movement in Munich during WWII. Another great read. Now I'm reading The Taster, about a young woman who becomes a food taster for Hitler. I'll be looking for more books by this author.
I've been reading books by V.S. Alexander lately. The first one was The Magdalen Girls about the Magdalen Laundry in Dublin. It's viewed from the perspective of two young women who find themselves incarcerated there. Very good. I read The Traitor next. It's about a young woman who joins the White Rose movement in Munich during WWII. Another great read. Now I'm reading The Taster, about a young woman who becomes a food taster for Hitler. I'll be looking for more books by this author.