D.o.S. wrote:Honest question (based on jfrey's book):
Do any of us read non-fiction that's antithetical to our beliefs?
The book Free Will by Harris is - or at least was - antithetical to my beliefs until I started reading it. I'm a firm believer though in the idea that when confronted with strong evidence against what you think you have to simply discard your disproved beliefs.
Totally.
I went back through some of my bookshelf after I asked this question--I tend to read a wide variety of things that center around a common historical subject. So I've got Nixon's VIetnam book, which has some seriously suspicious statements, but I wouldn't say it's antithetical, just wrong.
As is stands with about half of the political books I own, actually.
Casavettes wrote: i saw him on the daily show, i enjoyed him.
Yeah, I saw him on the Colbert Report and decided to pick up his book after learning how ridiculously good he is at predicting how states would vote in the 2008 & 2012 elections
really well written, but my attention is starting to wander because I keep having to go back and reread certain sentences...this is part of the reason I never got into philosophy or logic: the language just fucks with my head to no end.
I just started "Future of an Illusion" by Sigmund Frued. I tried reading it four years ago, but had no basis of psychology to go on, but now that I've learned a little something something in my intro to psych class I've started reading it again, from the beginning . I keep a dictionary on hand. The first word I came across that I didn't know, that repeats a lot, is Coerce. Which means to control by force usually government like.
What dictionary you using? Because that's kinda strong. Coerce is more convincing someone to do something they don't want to using a negative motivation.
ie: Behndy coerced the schoolgirls to give him their panties under threat of tentacle rape.
Tom Dalton wrote:You're a dumbass for making this thread to begin with.
magiclawnchair wrote:fuck that bitter old man
smile_man wrote:
ifeellikeatourist wrote:
Pedals aren't everything, yada, yada, yeah I know.
fuck you.
McSpunckle wrote:I ctrl+f'd mountain goats and decided we aren't friends anymore.
[quote="futuresailors"]What dictionary you using? Because that's kinda strong. Coerce is more convincing someone to do something they don't want to using a negative motivation.
ie: Behndy coerced the schoolgrrLs to not report the delicious things that they enjoyed way too much by BRIBING THEM with moar tentacle interactions.
fix'd'd'd'd'd'd for you homie.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
Definitely one of my top 10 favourite books. When I read it I'd heard a lot about the controversy, but the book itself blew my mind, I absolutely love Salman Rushdie's writing style and the stories are always fantastically crafted. Have you read Midnight's Children?
futuresailors wrote:What dictionary you using? Because that's kinda strong. Coerce is more convincing someone to do something they don't want to using a negative motivation.
ie: Behndy coerced the schoolgirls to give him their panties under threat of tentacle rape.
My Dad's copy of Meriam Webster's 20th Century Dictionary, unabridged. It weighs fifteen pounds at least and has pictures too!
Picked this up at the library today. A narrative in the second person about a character who committed suicide. No chapters, just short anecdotes/thoughts about the character and his life & death. It's quite interesting so far. Levé committed suicide a couple days after submitting the manuscript for this book, so that kind of adds something to the reading experience as well.
D.o.S. wrote:I'm fucking stupid and no one should operate under any other premise.
That's awesome! I used to go nuts on the one we had in my elementary school library. Flipping through a book the size of you is just neat.
