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11-17-2011, 09:54 PM
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About to start reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild...
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11-18-2011, 02:45 AM
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Just started reading a book called Buddhayana
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12-16-2011, 04:12 AM
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Always listening to The Orb: O.O.B.E...  My fanfic "The man who learns only what others know is as ignorant as if he learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." -Chronicle of the First Age "Try to see the forest through her eyes." Réalisant mon espoir, Je me lance vers la gloire. Je ne regrette rien. (Making my hope come true, I hurl myself toward glory. I regret nothing.)
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12-16-2011, 07:33 AM
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Naww, poor you.
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Always listening to The Orb: O.O.B.E... My fanfic "The man who learns only what others know is as ignorant as if he learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." -Chronicle of the First Age "Try to see the forest through her eyes." Réalisant mon espoir, Je me lance vers la gloire. Je ne regrette rien. (Making my hope come true, I hurl myself toward glory. I regret nothing.)
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12-31-2011, 02:54 PM
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I just got done re-reading The Catcher in the Rye (which is probably my favorite). I'm also making my way through some of Salinger's other short stories, like Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories etc. But mainly now I'm reading Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky.
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12-31-2011, 03:00 PM
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Wild An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths. Finding it tough to put down
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01-03-2012, 02:24 AM
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An free online book, "Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure" by Daniel Quinn - Beyond Civilization - by Daniel Quinn (electronic text)
Basically from what i can tell, its about the New Tribalism Revolution, and the author is one of the main 'speakers' of the movement. I haven't actually previously read or even taken intrest in the new tribalism movement, but have just decided to give the book a read, to see what its about. Not sure whether what i think about it yet. Anyways, it was these quotes and then his opening dedication that caught my attention! We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free. MARSHALL SAHLINS "Revolution without upheaval Toward the New Tribalism Because revolution in our culture has always represented an attack on hierarchy, it has always meant upheaval—literally a heaving up from below. But upheaval has no role to play in moving beyond civilization. If the plane is in trouble, you don't shoot the pilot, you grab a parachute and jump. To overthrow the hierarchy is pointless; we just want to leave it behind. As everyone knows (especially revolutionaries), hierarchy maintains formidable defenses against attack from the lower orders. It has none, however, against abandonment. This is in part because it can imagine revolution, but it can't imagine abandonment. But even if it could imagine abandonment, it couldn't defend against it, because abandonment isn't an attack, it's just a discontinuance of support. It's almost impossible to prevent people from doing nothing (which is what discontinuing support amounts to). But won't the powers that be try to prevent people from doing nothing? I can imagine them trying (but I honestly need help imagining them succeeding). The incremental revolution I say again that, because we don't expect to overthrow governments, abolish world capitalism, make civilization vanish, turn everyone in the world into walking buddhas, or cure all social and economic ills, we don't have to wait for anything. If ten people walk beyond civilization and build a new sort of life for themselves, then those ten are already living in the next paradigm, from the first day. They don't need the support of an organization. They don't need to belong to a party or a movement. They don't need new laws to be passed. They don't need permits. They don't need a constitution. They don't need taxexempt status. For those ten, the revolution will already have succeeded. They probably should be prepared, however, for the outrage of their neighbors." Dedication "The homeless and the young are rapidly converging on the socioeconomic territory I identify in this book as "beyond civilization." The homeless have for the most part been thrust into it involuntarily, while many of the young unknowingly yearn for it, as anyone does who wants more from life than just a chance to feed at the trough where the world is being devoured. It is to them and their hopes that this book is particularly dedicated."
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01-03-2012, 04:55 PM
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"Inheritance" by Christopher Paolini..there are clear references to Avatar in it
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01-03-2012, 10:55 PM
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01-04-2012, 01:39 AM
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