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There are many books that are just latent ... especially when it comes to how the meaning sinks in ... that's devoid understanding ... a result or irrationality ...

Let us pray for rations ...
 
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I yam reading a BF Skinner (behavioral psychologist) called Wald enTwo. In one place he mentions mob rushes in where individual fears to tread!

May take a bit to sink in but Elvis once hooted a tune of that order!

When dealing with mental and intellectual matters ... people will push your over the edge ... thus 2 slices at once ... as in a Knives' edge ... stabbing lyrics ...

Enough to crank a mined that's run down over time ... mousis fuzzy lipids ... go figure! Tis all hare EH given what little actually know compared to what some folk declare they know ... all-there-is?

Not in an imperfect world that is proving more and more corrupt for alien rationale. Alas and anon, one is not allowed to speak like that for respect of furors' ... high winds! Some say these may whip up the waters ... and it can get bad under the bridge ... drole?
 
With my book study group, I'm currently reading "Let's Talk About Hard Stuff" by Anna Sale. She has divided it into 5 topic areas - death, sex, money, family, & identity. I'm just on money at the moment. I like the author's style of approach - storytelling in a variety of contexts, leaving the readers to discern what aspects of the reading might be useful to themselves. Not a 'you must do this' kind of approach.
The section on death had materials similar to what our group already covered in a prior read - "Being Mortal". The chapter on sex could perhaps have been more widely inclusive - but perhaps that might another whole book! We've had some good discussion so far. I know of one church that is using it as Lenten book study. Anybody else read it?
 
I was reading an article the other day on the enigma of sex and how families deal with it, something like 3 different ways:
  1. Totally ignore it an thus intercourse of all sort is lost ... silence is noted in adolescent stages!
  2. Treat it like it is nothing and it swallows you hole ... everything is silent!
  3. Treat it with observational science and discuss all that you know to extract useful matter as Kohl! What racket evolves ... as if a stormy, stormy occasion! Something was initiated ... indigenous or heathen? Good ole Dais ... bit dizzy, but ... some get the bite of ide ...
Some go off into the unknown and kind of get lost in it as an addiction. Myself I'll just byre (bare) with it as something gone in time that you can create myths about ... passe, or pathE ... the way of heat in the night? Complicated G-radiant --- Sisyphus! An old concern about ups and down in the pum pas it appears ... there are implications and alternate concerns ... all kinds of stasis ... that's rest ... a break from always being right as you veer off to observe ... por views, delinquent phus ... no graphics?
 
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Around the time I turned forty, my mother recommended a favourite book of hers, and I knew she felt it significant to her experience as a woman in her seventies. I felt she wanted me to know she saw herself in the character. I read it and liked it, but at the time I was engrossed in my own life. My mum passed away before we could have those conversations. I doubt at the time I could have understood her anyway. Fast forward thirty years. I bought a copy of "The Book of Eve", by Constance Beresford-Howe. I have been reflecting so much on my mother's life lately, particularily as I approach the age she was when she passed away, and felt ready to meet a bit of her in this book. I get it completely. Choose freedom. Don't waste yourself on those who don't value you. A small, handmade life can be grand. Women are smart and self-sufficient. Never too old to try something new....And yes. I wish I knew all that sooner.
 
Still slogging through the Canada Reads long list. Lots of autobiographical stuff this year, not all of it good...
 
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Around the time I turned forty, my mother recommended a favourite book of hers, and I knew she felt it significant to her experience as a woman in her seventies. I felt she wanted me to know she saw herself in the character. I read it and liked it, but at the time I was engrossed in my own life. My mum passed away before we could have those conversations. I doubt at the time I could have understood her anyway. Fast forward thirty years. I bought a copy of "The Book of Eve", by Constance Beresford-Howe. I have been reflecting so much on my mother's life lately, particularily as I approach the age she was when she passed away, and felt ready to meet a bit of her in this book. I get it completely. Choose freedom. Don't waste yourself on those who don't value you. A small, handmade life can be grand. Women are smart and self-sufficient. Never too old to try something new....And yes. I wish I knew all that sooner.
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An early favourite of mine; wonder if my copy survived the great cull?
 
Book of the Nigh Club strikes in the folly of de Sun ... in primal mode it was entirely oral ... words in the dark ... since even the torch was not invented!
AD dition ally ... the requirement for mores to come ...
 
an anthology called Witches

thanks to a friend a collection of an author who is tragically unknown, R.A. Lafferty. his stories are funny and very whimsical

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Myths in the modern world. Effortless writing

The Indiginous Bible. Funfunfun. Love the poetic names of everyone in it -- i actually ENJOY the Begats lol
 
A Pinker Book ... on Black Slates! Spiritual emptying ... as if there is nothing to it. Ever try dropping a thought in reality? It just won't go unless enshrouded in myth ... thus clouding the original ... shall I say screw up in vast spaces? All in the whole ... accrued becoming ... ruagh! Everyone had to dress down ... it was an awesome state and God pelted them ... harried blow?

Tis all laid out in the manuscript one known as Que'd and later as a cute myth of two essences messing up deep parts ... further denied as it came to be!
 
Consider those shots of the Earth from out there! Blue and white t'is raeling with shades of green, etc. Roan vessel ... hoars of a different shade ... MOG there are people that say: "You couldn't pay me to do that!" Then they fall for it ... that stone passing event ... like stuttering over the word ineffable ... good God it has to be in there somewhere ... what? That unspeakable extraction ... the unspoken word? Mores ... say nothing about the populace declared they didn't wish to know the paradigm as it became endogeneity ... divide between stats and belief ... the status quo is shaky ...
Why? because of all the unknown ... we can't say ... it's an order from ... only God knows! The logic is its out and Luce as Ceil ... up there lodging ... aberration of loading ... as luddites' do ... sometimes a crash in the dark ... critic Osis? Additions or addictions ... and there it was stuck!
 
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Just listening to all the friends that are out there in the vast unknown ...

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Extant hummers ...
 
My main cruise reading has been The Age of Vikings by Anders Winroth. Good book on early Medieval Scandinavia. Goes by various facets of the civilization rather than chronologically. So a chapter on war and violence, a chapter on Scandinavian shipbuilding, a chapter on the Norse emigration to places like Iceland and Russia, and so on. Good, well-written book though it is a decade-old and I believe there's been some revisions to some of our knowledge based on recent archaeology.

I am also intermittently reading from a collection of poems by William Morris as my way of honouring National Poetry Month. Morris was a novelist, poet, and graphic artist of the Victorian era. I read a couple of his novels back in the eighties but have not read his poetry before. He is one of the progenitors of the fantasy genre, weaving fantastical stories drawing on medieval romances for inspiration. His poems are good, but not stellar. Still, I am enjoying them, esp. the ones that tell stories. Those seem to be his strongest ones.
 
Just finished Elle: a Novel by Douglas Grover.

Wild book to read. Totally fascinating in writing style.

Takes place in the 16th century primarily in Canada.
 
I couldn't tell you because someone would be opposed ... like some world leaders about peace in the channel ... straight up?

Most ignore such bunged up conditions caused by idiom ...
 
Just started a book called: The Arts and the Creation of Mind.

So far the message is that the creative arts aren’t anti-intellectual but they are anti-efficiency. Efficiency is not their greatest value in an efficiency wired society, nor should it be.

Ironically - speaking of efficiency - I do feel like I read a lot but it’s all over the place. I’m not so good at reading books efficiently anymore for a number of reasons, internet/ social media brain being among them. I’m easily distractible…I had to stop and tell you this after only a few pages lol! When I have to re-read the pages I tend to fall asleep (whereas screens keep me awake). Maybe I’ll read the whole thing? I have several started books here. I do like books but they don’t seem to like how my brain works.
 
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A recent controversy about Marcan, Marsan, Marci and other strokes in the ether ... caused me to pick up another text in the Nature of Gnosticism by Kurt Rudolph. The pious faction has denied such activity as anything NU is considered contrary to the stoned opinions.

It start out early with oppositional ideas about Gnostic meaning knowledge and also unknown ... leading to a realm where knowledge is unknown and the options of finding a way out are mortal (limited). It seems that one would have to experience this out side a body that is otherwise an ass 've a bother to those that would rather stay unintelligent. Is it bas to define that as stupid or something with a brain being consumed by an innate worm ...

How did that arrive from nowhere but out there? Thus there must be mores tu it ... tout-la? Honkers???? AD continuum ... differing font! Even Coptic and Sy iliac comes into play ... with incredible complications especially when people refuse to look, listen and rant on about the silent unknown ... idealism that was corrupt? Standards collapsed ... civilizations failed ... except the outsiders! Free floaters ... carried by time and light ... to elsewhere ... not in my back yard ... so it goes! Can you grasp the things we've disposed of as prodigal?
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Just started a book called: The Arts and the Creation of Mind.

So far the message is that the creative arts aren’t anti-intellectual but they are anti-efficiency. Efficiency is not their greatest value in an efficiency wired society, nor should it be.

Ironically - speaking of efficiency - I do feel like I read a lot but it’s all over the place. I’m not so good at reading books efficiently anymore for a number of reasons, internet/ social media brain being among them. I’m easily distractible…I had to stop and tell you this after only a few pages lol! When I have to re-read the pages I tend to fall asleep (whereas screens keep me awake). Maybe I’ll read the whole thing? I have several started books here. I do like books but they don’t seem to like how my brain works.
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Our son used to read a LOT. Now he doesn't read anything for pleasure - just instructions. His traumatic brain injury left him with deficits - one of them is poor short term memory. He can no longer hold a story in his head as he turns pages.
 
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Our son used to read a LOT. Now he doesn't read anything for pleasure - just instructions. His traumatic brain injury left him with deficits - one of them is poor short term memory. He can no longer hold a story in his head as he turns pages.
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Now that is severe ... when one looses the story ... the implications of where it goes fascinates some scholars in human nature as if there is a great unknown out there that we recapture in another time! Or alternatively is some part of them gone into that NU place ... where Gnostics are cultivated ...
 
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