eg wrote:

Emanuel Derman's "Models. Behaving. Badly."

Hopefully lavishly illustrated with many never-before-published photos?

Sammy Ambrose wrote:

Meditation and Activity in the Sun
Third Level Light and Sound vegan practitioners (go into Samadhi, meditate under the Sun)
up to +30 million points per hour
Buddhists (non-vegetarian person or now-and-then vegetarian) sit in the Sun and recite the Buddha’s name with all their sincerity
+200,000 points per hour
Any denomination (Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist) sit in the Sun and pray
more or less +200,000 points per hour
Vegetarian Zen monks practice Zen in the Sun (like breathing meditation – they count it, like, “One, two”…until 10 and then they start it again, backward, forward)
up to +5,000,000 points per hour (non- vegetarian are less)
Vegan recites the Buddha’s name in the Sun
up to +5,000,000 points per hour
Normal Zen people (not very spiritual Zen or not vegetarian)
+500,000 points per hour
Vegans (don’t practice meditation – they’re just vegan because of compassion), sunbathe in the Sun on the beach
+6,000,000 points per hour
Non-vegetarian sunbathes in the Sun (peak hour is the best, on the beach or on a balcony)
+100,000 points per hour
Vegan meditates on anything in the Sun (during peak hours)
+10,000,000 points per hour
Breatharian meditates in the sun (during peak hours)
+13,000,000 points per hour
Farmer works at the peak hours in the Sun
+2,000,000 points per hour (But it is always deducted
because he’s not vegan, or he probably kills some
worms or insects for people’s sake, and so on.)
Road builder works in the Sun at the peak hours
+2,000,000 points per hour (But it will be deducted
similarly, if he is not a vegan.)

That's why the authorities always spread stupid lies about the dangers of the sun and tell us to wear sunscreen (sunscreen blocks the sun and has been said to cause cancer), because they know how good the sun is for us and don't want us to get the benefit from it and rise up and get wisdom. They want us dumbed down so they tell us that the sun is bad and will kill us and give us cancer. The sun doesn't give us cancer, only living a bad lifestyle and sitting under the sun will give you cancer...they misrepresent the truth. lf you eat lots of fresh greens and don't consume meat or refined sugars, you can build it up and learn to sit under the sun all day and not get burned. Even people who are vegan and have a history of all their family getting cancer (including skin cancer) don't get get cancer when they sit out in the sun all day.

The authorities never said anything about the sun years ago, but in 1968 they decided that the sun was bad and out to kill us and said we should stay out of the sun. OMG...LOL. We are such dumb buggers, we believe everything the authorities/illuminati tells us.

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I read Paul Fussell's Class a few weeks ago - fun to read, often eerily accurate, ultimately kind of mean and self-serving. Required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the iGentry.

I've just started Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet, which is a total delight, and almost as much a satire of the middle class as Fussell's book. The title characters are 19th century nerds, and the first few chapters have followed them as they attempt to rationalize a farm based on agronomic books that they have ordered by mail. The parallels to the igentry are striking.

The version that I have comes with the Dictionary of Received Ideas, which is also wonderful. Flaubert found the automatic, thoughtless knowledge of the petit bourgeois deeply annoying; again, the parallels to igent forum wisdom are inescapable.

''The Junior Officers' Reading Club'' by Patrick Hennessy.

Insight into what makes a young man join the Grenadier Guards and his experience in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just got my own copy to keep of::
Seeing Through Clothes
By
Anne Hollander

Looks to be very good.

I already have her::

Sex  and Suits

Lolita by Nabokov, never realized how well written it is.

formby wrote:

Film Noir Buff wrote:

Lolita by Nabokov, never realized how well written it is.

All the more when you realise it wasn't his first language.

I hope you have your thesaurus ready.

...oh....and don't go getting any 'dodgy' ideas.

Heh heh

formby wrote:

Film Noir Buff wrote:

Lolita by Nabokov, never realized how well written it is.

All the more when you realise it wasn't his first language.

Conrad had the same gift for writing in a second language, which reminds me I was planning to reread a couple of his books.

Not reading yet - but have ordered based on reviews::

Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite : evolution and the modular mind / Robert Kurzban. Author:  Kurzban, Robert, 1969- Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

"In fact being ignorant,wrong, irrational and hypocritical can make you much better off than being knowledgeable, correct, reasonable and consistent. As long as you're ignorant,wrong, irrational and hypocritical in the right ways"

Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking / Susan Cain. Author: Cain, Susan, Imprint: London : Viking, c2012.

"Introversion (..particularly in USA..) - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness and shyness - is now a second class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology"

and from a Melbourne author

The office : a hardworking history / Gideon Haigh. Author:  Haigh, Gideon, Imprint: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2012. Collation: xiii, 609 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Summary: The office: for many of us, it’s where we spend more time and expend greater effort than anywhere else. Yet how many of us have stopped to think about why? In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces its origins from merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York. A lively social and cultural history blending its birth, growth and emergence as a means of organising a company, an institution or a bureaucracy to the place in which most of us spend more time than any other.

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4F Hepcat wrote:

[The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury is ]not a rascist or Islamophobic book...

I haven't read it. However, I would say two things for starters:

1. In my experience a lot of racist comments have the habit of beginning 'I'm not racist but ..."

2. Here's what someone who supposedly HAS read the book says about it and its author.

Nick Lowles wrote:

A name that pops up in our office from time to time is a local journalist by the name of Danny Lockwood.

Not only a journalist, Lockwood is owner and Managing Director of The Press Newspaper, based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

Lockwood first came to our attention in 2003 when his newly launched newspaper started giving a huge amount of positive coverage to the British National Party.

The coverage increased alarmingly when the BNP had three councillors elected in the Kirklees area between 2003 to 2006.

Writing mostly sympathetic articles regarding the BNP councillors, Lockwood even called two of them, Colin Auty and David Exley his personal friends.

With a letters page dominated by BNP members as well, you can understand why Kirklees BNP liked the newspaper as much as it did.

With the newspaper giving regular coverage to the BNP, Lockwood also pushed his own anti Islamic agenda in his “Ed Lines” column.

Eventually, Kirklees BNP imploded and the coverage of the councillors came to end, much to the disappointment of Danny Lockwood.

Lockwood continued to ramp up tensions in the Dewsbury area , In 2010 he wrote about the Cumbrian mass murderer Derrick Bird saying “If Derrick Bird had been carrying a Koran he would have been celebrated as a hero by tens of thousands, possibly more of so called “British” Muslims”.

This infuriated local Muslims who held a protest outside Dewsbury police station, demanding that action be taken against the journalist.

Lockwood realised that prejudice sells and in December 2011 released a book entitled “The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury”, rather unsurprisingly this book has become popular with the BNP and EDL and not just in the Dewsbury area.

And just this week Lockwood revealed a very interesting fact. He admitted that in January he attended a far right meeting that was held in Bradford.

This was the “Nationalist Unity “meeting that hosted members of The National Front, British Movement and the neo Nazi BPP, along with Yorkshire BNP MEP Andrew Brons who was guest of honour.

Why was Lockwood there? His book came out before the meeting so he can’t use the excuse of “research”. He certainly hasn’t written about the meeting before, so was it just a meeting of political minds for Lockwood?

A bigot sharing a dingy pub with other washed up bigots, sounds about right.



http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/arti … urns-rogue

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'Ulysses' by James Joyce.

No, not really. Too much like hard work.

It is featured on radio 4 today as part of Blooms Day. I have read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'.

4F Hepcat wrote:

^That is covered in the book, and at no time has he supported the EDL or BNP. The book is venimous against the thugs of the BNP.

It is a book written on the front line of multiculturalism and mass immigration of an alien culture from Pakistan, which we all know and must accept has greatly enriched our nation and culture. However, this is an alternative view, which challenges this notion and is worthy of reading as a different perspective from someone living in a town that has been greatly effected by immigration, heroin and also the decline in occupations for the working class.

Of course, rather than confront issues that Lockwood raises, it is much easier and expedient, to right him off as a rascist, Islamophobic bigot as some in the media have. The forces that are at work in the UK and those sponsoring it from Saudi and Pakistan, will change the political landscape, will impose Pakistan cultural and Islamic norms on swathes of the country; to consider without any debate that this is ultimately positive and to stifle any alternative views of the negative aspects of these cultural norms under accusations of racism or Islamophobia is morally wrong.

What's sad is that so-called Liberals have lost confidence in debate, relying in many cases on ad-hominem attacks in lieu of cogent argument.

It increasingly seems that the modern Liberal mind, a mind that historically placed tolerance and the belief in a free exchange of ideas at its centre has become strangely intolerant to any ideas/views except its own not to mention its increasingly contradictory thinking.

Maybe, liberalism itself is essentially contradictory in nature. That the pluralism and liberalism, oft championed by liberals is in fact incompatible.

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