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[Martin]

Irish, ever heard of this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_god_but_God

I saw a talk or two of this guy and he really comes off fascinating. I should probably read this book already.

 

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[JBF]

@IZ:What did it say? In short of course.

 

[IrishZebra]

I have not heard of it no, and I doubt i'd be interested in reading a liberalisation thesis on something which is a fallacy at its very base, I do not see the point .

 

[IrishZebra]

@IZ:What did it say? In short of course.

Basically everything from the birth of islam through the schism,persian influence up to modern times and the hijacking of radical islamists.

 

[Martin]

I have not heard of it no, and I doubt i'd be interested in reading a liberalisation thesis on something which is a fallacy at its very base, I do not see the point .

I know, but you're a fundamentalist. You're saying whatever could happen in Islam the whole thing is complete bs anyway and we have to get rid of it.

But if you could liberalize it and introduce some gender equality, make it less authoritarian etc, then you could potentially make it relatively harmless, like Christianity is

 

[IrishZebra]

I know, but you're a fundamentalist. You're saying whatever could happen in Islam the whole thing is complete bs anyway and we have to get rid of it.

But if you could liberalize it and introduce some gender equality, make it less authoritarian etc, then you could potentially make it relatively harmless, like Christianity is

That defeats the purpose of freeing your fellow man from the shackles of theism.

 

[Martin]

That defeats the purpose of freeing your fellow man from the shackles of theism.

The more you make religion similar to our worldview the less of a canyon there is to cross, the easier to give up. If you're able to tell someone that they can have the exact same life they already have but without the man in the sky, it's a lesser compromise.

 

[IrishZebra]

It'd be simpler to let them knock the shit out of each other to be fair.

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

House of Night Series : Marked, actually i dont like vampire things and never find them cool, but insistence of my cousin i started the novel with prejudice but liked it indeed, cos' the excitement never ended and tempo wasnt down till the end

also now i am reading the second novel of the serie Betrayed..***..

Betrayed, second one of the serie by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, as excited as the first one

..***..

 

[IrishZebra]

The Southern Vampire Mysteries

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Freakonomics

 

[GordoDeCentral]

not a bad bathroom read

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Or at work read. I expected it to be more "provocative" like the cover and reviews repeatedly boast, but it's all good.

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

House of Night Series : Marked, actually i dont like vampire things and never find them cool, but insistence of my cousin i started the novel with prejudice but liked it indeed, cos' the excitement never ended and tempo wasnt down till the end

also now i am reading the second novel of the serie Betrayed..***..

Betrayed, second one of the serie by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, as excited as the first one

..***..

Chosen,3rd one so far the most excited one also, finished it last night and started Untamed immediately

..***..

 

[JBF]

What's with the half moon printed on each cover...

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

What's with the half moon printed on each cover...

vampire's sign on their foreheads..***..

 

[JBF]

Aha..

 

[Fred]

I know, but you're a fundamentalist. You're saying whatever could happen in Islam the whole thing is complete bs anyway and we have to get rid of it.

But if you could liberalize it and introduce some gender equality, make it less authoritarian etc, then you could potentially make it relatively harmless, like Christianity is

 

[Martin]

Today I'm reading Coetzee - Disgrace. A book I just found around the house.

You'd think they wouldn't just hand out Nobel prizes to people at random, and that it took a certain amount of effort to read books of that nature, but this thing is such an easy read.

Anyway, don't know what I think of it yet. Took a good while to get going but now I'm past halfway and it's starting to go places.

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

House of Night Series : Marked, actually i dont like vampire things and never find them cool, but insistence of my cousin i started the novel with prejudice but liked it indeed, cos' the excitement never ended and tempo wasnt down till the end

also now i am reading the second novel of the serie Betrayed..***..

Betrayed, second one of the serie by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, as excited as the first one

..***..

Chosen,3rd one so far the most excited one also, finished it last night and started Untamed immediately

..***..

Untamed,4rd one i read it breathless,too.. things are getting confused increasingly

..***..