Literacy equates METAL
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Literacy equates METAL
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I HATE stereotypes. The general perception of "metal fans" is that we, as a collective, are a bunch of caveman-haired dopers that cannot function in society. This, obviously, is true, so let's take step one towards improving the public image of the subsect, shall we?
Let us discuss what we are reading at the present. If you are not reading any material at the current juncture, I'd recommend you start practicing the "Wal-Mart wave" immediately, as your career options are surely limited to "department store greeter" and "traveling carnival roustabout".
Personally, I prefer to go over seemingly dualistic tomes simaltaneously. Per, at the present, I am reading Heidegger's "Being And Time" in conjunction with Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago". It's certainly an enlightening experience, to say the least; Heidegger, the high and mighty Nietzsche student rambling through his National Socialist humanistic rhetoric, diametrically opposed to the courageous, humanitarian political-struggle of Solzhenitsyn.
OK, board; what are you reading right now?
I HATE stereotypes. The general perception of "metal fans" is that we, as a collective, are a bunch of caveman-haired dopers that cannot function in society. This, obviously, is true, so let's take step one towards improving the public image of the subsect, shall we?
Let us discuss what we are reading at the present. If you are not reading any material at the current juncture, I'd recommend you start practicing the "Wal-Mart wave" immediately, as your career options are surely limited to "department store greeter" and "traveling carnival roustabout".
Personally, I prefer to go over seemingly dualistic tomes simaltaneously. Per, at the present, I am reading Heidegger's "Being And Time" in conjunction with Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago". It's certainly an enlightening experience, to say the least; Heidegger, the high and mighty Nietzsche student rambling through his National Socialist humanistic rhetoric, diametrically opposed to the courageous, humanitarian political-struggle of Solzhenitsyn.
OK, board; what are you reading right now?
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"World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler
"Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence" by Robert Bryce
"Crashproof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse" by Peter Schiff
"Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" by Michael Ruppert
"Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence" by Robert Bryce
"Crashproof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse" by Peter Schiff
"Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" by Michael Ruppert
Re: Literacy equates METAL
Hellburner, by C.J. Cherryhjswift wrote:...
I HATE stereotypes. The general perception of "metal fans" is that we, as a collective, are a bunch of caveman-haired dopers that cannot function in society. This, obviously, is true, so let's take step one towards improving the public image of the subsect, shall we?
Let us discuss what we are reading at the present. If you are not reading any material at the current juncture, I'd recommend you start practicing the "Wal-Mart wave" immediately, as your career options are surely limited to "department store greeter" and "traveling carnival roustabout".
Personally, I prefer to go over seemingly dualistic tomes simaltaneously. Per, at the present, I am reading Heidegger's "Being And Time" in conjunction with Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago". It's certainly an enlightening experience, to say the least; Heidegger, the high and mighty Nietzsche student rambling through his National Socialist humanistic rhetoric, diametrically opposed to the courageous, humanitarian political-struggle of Solzhenitsyn.
OK, board; what are you reading right now?
Creating Health by Deepak Chopra
It's stereotypical to try to disprove stereotypes imo.
Personally I don't care if people make such an assumption about me; if they really know me they'd know that I defy most any stereotype or demographic profiles. It's kind of fun to see people's reactions when they find out I'm more multi-dimensional than they assumed.
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Civilization: A New History of the Western World -- Roger Osborne
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 -- Walter McDougall
The Castle -- Franz Kafka (which probably is a bit of a cliche, but this is actually my first exposure to Kafka; needless to say, he is excellent, and his senses of dread, paranoia, and powerlessness neatly mirror my own)
Speaking of dread, paranoia, and literacy, I have to take this opportunity (as I do on pretty much every board I've posted at) to recommend a writer named Thomas Ligotti. If you liked Poe and Lovecract, but were sometimes put off by their respective inconsistency and hokiness (that can't possibly be a word), Ligotti is for you. He posted an online manifesto entitled The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, and I'm betting Leviathan's Wrest was thinking of that title when he came up with Massive Conspiracy Against All Life.
Anyway, Ligotti writes dark fiction, of the kind where the world we know is a facade protecting us, not very well, from the terrible oblivion of our ultimate doom. Cheery stuff. And recommended more highly than I woud any other author.
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 -- Walter McDougall
The Castle -- Franz Kafka (which probably is a bit of a cliche, but this is actually my first exposure to Kafka; needless to say, he is excellent, and his senses of dread, paranoia, and powerlessness neatly mirror my own)
Speaking of dread, paranoia, and literacy, I have to take this opportunity (as I do on pretty much every board I've posted at) to recommend a writer named Thomas Ligotti. If you liked Poe and Lovecract, but were sometimes put off by their respective inconsistency and hokiness (that can't possibly be a word), Ligotti is for you. He posted an online manifesto entitled The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, and I'm betting Leviathan's Wrest was thinking of that title when he came up with Massive Conspiracy Against All Life.
Anyway, Ligotti writes dark fiction, of the kind where the world we know is a facade protecting us, not very well, from the terrible oblivion of our ultimate doom. Cheery stuff. And recommended more highly than I woud any other author.
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alot of scientific journal articles for my research at Ohio State. They're all about GPS Meteorology and precipitable water vapor. I'm learning all about the technicalities of GPS, zenith wet delays, zenith hydrostatic delays, and zenith neutral delays...and I am learning how to work Linux. Now that is a challenge but I'm getting it! So I'm not reading any one thing in particular, just alot of stuff to get a good background feel for the research.
Yeah I don't think I'm gonna wind up being a cashier...not that I haven't been one before!
Yeah I don't think I'm gonna wind up being a cashier...not that I haven't been one before!
They had you do a drug test and the forgot to test for drugs???
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Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira.
Bogira is a journalist who spent a year hanging out in one courtroom in Chicago's massive criminal court. This is the book that I have begun to recommend when people ask me what the criminal justice system is actually like. A lot of folks read Grisham and think that they have the flavor of what the practice of law is actually like. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, as Grisham is in the business of writing best-selling fiction.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I am reading this book -- it's like being in the office.
Bogira is a journalist who spent a year hanging out in one courtroom in Chicago's massive criminal court. This is the book that I have begun to recommend when people ask me what the criminal justice system is actually like. A lot of folks read Grisham and think that they have the flavor of what the practice of law is actually like. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, as Grisham is in the business of writing best-selling fiction.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I am reading this book -- it's like being in the office.
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Vhyle wrote:Ok...
I'm not currently reading anything. I admit, I'm not a big reader.
So, I should automatically assume that I am illiterate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I will go promptly fill out an application to Wal-Mart, since apparently that's all I'm good for.
Right?
GIVE ME A GODDAMN SMILEY FACE STICKER MOTHER FUCKER!!!!
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I just relinquished all ambition one day earning a master's degree in philosophy.Vhyle wrote:Ok...
I'm not currently reading anything. I admit, I'm not a big reader.
So, I should automatically assume that I am illiterate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I will go promptly fill out an application to Wal-Mart, since apparently that's all I'm good for.
Right?
See you in the electronics department!
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