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the communist manifesto - by marx and engels

dear fellow proletarians... where the fuck are we heading??? :?
 
fear & loathing on the campaign trail '72 - hunter s. thompson
the devil's home on leave - derek raymond
early correspondences - antonin artaud
 
Why are you all reading such high-tier shit?

dear fellow proletarians... where the fuck are we heading???
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Sorry because you're new I should be encouraging you. I'm just fucking tired of academics. And psuedo-intellectuals. I think, basically, people read what they want to read. And what people want to read can be taken as a sample of the times. And the times aint wrong, it's just the mother fucking times.

Welcome to Words.

I think I should stop drinking vodka now.
 
lol

I'm a pseudo dick, does that count? ;)

I've been reading "The Gentlemans Guide to the Golden Age of Blowjobs."

Far better that the "Riot Act" which I read previously. And I didn't like it, either; I considered it wordy and poorly thought out





In all seriousness?

Napalm and Silly Putty. ;)

What else?

Don't mind Foreverafter there laugh, he's been taking alcohol intraveinously. We're all quite worried about him, well some are.

Others invested heavily in him being locked in a tube somewhere in the swiss alps with a thousand chimpanzees with a thousand typewriters. I think the budget only called for 300 give or take vials of preclinical antiobiotics, a collection of Garflield cartoon strips, and an ibogaine forest. They're going to write the great American Novel.

Or get parasites.


Either way it's being filmed so my investors really can't go wrong on this one.
 
They were supposed to give me a thousand alcoholic chimpanzees... Fucking investors.

I'm reading: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), Beyond Good and Evil (Neitzsche), Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), Perfume (Suskind), Nausea (Sartre) & The Outsider (Camus)... I wish I was reading Barker or Heinlein or Palahniuk.
 
addictivepersona said:
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

I am absolutely enthralled, and that is putting it lightly. Took me about a month to read The Fellowship of the Ring due to time constraints; I am currently blowing through The Two Towers (half way through in two or three days) and am really glad I picked up the third from the library.
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Nearly a month later I am almost done with The Return of the King. I have maybe 25 pages to go until I reach the appendices (which I'm sure I won't be the only one to have read. :P)

I know what I'm going to spend my next free bit of income on. ;)
 
virginia woolf if one of the many novelists who seriously sets my teeth on edge.
i'm reading a biography of brion gysin (nothing is true, everything is permitted by john geiger), still campaign trail by thompson and we learn nothing by tim kreider. of which i'll particularly recommend the last book.
 
One of my friends said she didn't know who Bette Davis was the other day, and somehow this made one of my other friends think that I am a huge Bette Davis fan, which yanno....I'm not really. Anyway, he has now lent me a biography called Bette written by some fellow named Charles Higham. I started reading it just to be polite, and the actual style of writing is nothing even a little bit special, but I must admit I am finding it kind of interesting seeing what life was like for her back in the day and what Hollywood and the cult of celebrity was like in the first half of the 20th century.

Also, it is all old and yellowed (it was published in 1981) and so there is kind of an aesthetic appeal to reading it as well. :)
 
I'm finally reading Junky by William Burroughs. Have been meaning to read this for years, and it finally came in the mail this morning. More than half way through now, I really dig Burroughs writing style - this is the first of his books that I have read.

Ash. <3
 
Ashley said:
I'm finally reading Junky by William Burroughs. Have been meaning to read this for years, and it finally came in the mail this morning. More than half way through now, I really dig Burroughs writing style - this is the first of his books that I have read.

Ash. <3
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graduate on to naked lunch, and prepare to have to mind completely fucking blown. junky (and queer) is absolutely nothing like the majority of his work, and not really representative of burroughs. although a well written book in its own right.
 
I must admit that I haven't really been following the order of things historically, rather whatever I "felt" I needed to read at the time; starting with Shamanism, then Daoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian Mysticism, Hermeticism and finally, only now, Christianity... 8(
 
pk. said:
I must admit that I haven't really been following the order of things historically, rather whatever I "felt" I needed to read at the time; starting with Shamanism, then Daoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian Mysticism, Hermeticism and finally, only now, Christianity... 8(
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noticed any similarities yet?!?

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i have been having a running debate going on lately, that i have been sorting out writing in a story format.
 
panic in paradise said:
noticed any similarities yet?!?

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i have been having a running debate going on lately, that i have been sorting out writing in a story format.
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Oh for sure, they all have ways of directing your thoughts to the one source, just many different ways to reach it... I've often found that the more simple belief systems (Buddhism, Daoism, Egyptian Mysticism) are more effective in directing your thoughts to God, rather than the extravagant ones (Christian, Hinduism, Hermeticism), as there's too much dialogue and story-telling which makes it more complex than it needs to be.
 
... With the Bible I feel it isnt fair with how secretive it is explaining things like regeneration and karma etc, what is known as eastern theory and beliefs. The Gospel of Mary and many Apocryphas have that content explained directly. sure it says "he has ears to hear the infinite, let him hear", and Christ explains thoroughly his reasoning for using so many darn parables ;) but after all the translations and changes that have been made ( an example is the orthodox catholic constantinople vatican II drama ) there is much to question about the similarities of the details with the process of creation and the cycles of life and what is in the Bible and Christianity. The Qur'an is much more direct about this stuff then the Bible. There are also the Apocryphas, the book of Enoch, the Pistis Sophia and Dead Sea Scrolls on&on&on

personally, what i learn/realize while meditating, even if while taking walk, as i said before to you pk., having a rosary or mantra, practicing yoga all through out the day; yoga by definition not necessarily what we think of as yoga, that is stretching around and what ever. but observing what you are doing, creating a bond of awareness between the body and mind, by balancing the two, in order to allow for attainment of that bliss/nirvana/grace state through out the day.
 
I agree, and some of the teachings I've found to be subjective in meaning (I've often felt that my mood influenced how I understood certain parts) however I do think that the correct way to know how it is meant to be interpreted is when you read with your heart full of love (like directly after meditation). The regeneration aspects are very subtle in the Bible (as far as I've heard from Christians, they don't believe in reincarnation) but the Rosicrucians who are heavily influenced by Christianity, and who are essentially a more Eastern-like sect, do agree and believe that there is reincarnation (and in certain texts outline certain phrases in the Bible which indicate the reason for this belief).

I haven't read the Qur'an yet, although I will certainly do so. The Apocryphas, the book of Enoch, the Pistis Sophia and Dead Sea Scrolls - other than the Dead Sea Scrolls, I haven't heard the rest; looks like I have some reading to catch up on ;)

Most of my spiritual endeavours have been practical in nature, I only read spiritual books when I have bouts of excessive "logical reasoning". Meditation and the repetition of mantras and prayers have been the most valuable of all my spiritual endeavours; how can we be in direct communion with God, when we are trying to learn from other humans, spiritual or not? I really find direct contact through the self to be the only way of coming to the same conclusions you read in the book. Human language will never be sufficient in detailing the mystical/religious/spiritual experience, it simply cannot be explained, only directed towards that feeling through the breakdown of "logical thinking."
 
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