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Rainswept
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Re: Favourite Book
You can't post books you haven't even read all of!
I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.
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Ubi Dubius
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Re: Favourite Book
So hard to name a favorite.
Hitchhiker's Guide (never saw the movie)
For Love of the Game (much better than the movie)
Killer Angels (much better than the movie (Gettysburg))
Lost Moon (the movie (Apollo 13) was also very good)
Simple Justice (there's no way they could make a movie out of this)
Simple Justice has had the biggest actual impact on my life. It is the story of Brown v. Board of Education and picks it up during the Civil War. The heroes are the lawyers of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who worked for decades for equal rights for blacks. It's a great book for the history and for the law. It really helped solidify my thoughts on race relations and helped me start to understand just how horrible things were in my own Virginia.
It also physically has a big impact. That's one heavy book.
Hitchhiker's Guide (never saw the movie)
For Love of the Game (much better than the movie)
Killer Angels (much better than the movie (Gettysburg))
Lost Moon (the movie (Apollo 13) was also very good)
Simple Justice (there's no way they could make a movie out of this)
Simple Justice has had the biggest actual impact on my life. It is the story of Brown v. Board of Education and picks it up during the Civil War. The heroes are the lawyers of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who worked for decades for equal rights for blacks. It's a great book for the history and for the law. It really helped solidify my thoughts on race relations and helped me start to understand just how horrible things were in my own Virginia.
It also physically has a big impact. That's one heavy book.
Davros, Attorney and Pieces of Law
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We make an idol of our fear and call it God. -Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
Keeping up appearances is a very important activity in religion; in fact, maintaining tattered illusions is its main activity. - Richard Wade, on Friendlyatheist.com
We make an idol of our fear and call it God. -Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
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Scott the Pirate
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I'll have to get that for the gf....She's off to law school soon.
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Ubi Dubius
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Scott the Pirate wrote:I'll have to get that for the gf....She's off to law school soon.
I read it when I was getting ready to start law school.
Davros, Attorney and Pieces of Law
Keeping up appearances is a very important activity in religion; in fact, maintaining tattered illusions is its main activity. - Richard Wade, on Friendlyatheist.com
We make an idol of our fear and call it God. -Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
Keeping up appearances is a very important activity in religion; in fact, maintaining tattered illusions is its main activity. - Richard Wade, on Friendlyatheist.com
We make an idol of our fear and call it God. -Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
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Scott the Pirate
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She has 3 credits left. The system at UMD is set up so that "Senior Seminar" is only offered only once every other year, so she's taking that in the fall. Stupid. "Graduated" summa-cum-laude (she got departmental honors as well) with a 3.979/4.0 gpa. I'm still amazed at how such a smart person can stick to her guns (in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary) after claiming that the statement "In general men are taller than women" is false....
(No need to go 'splainin' Roy)
(No need to go 'splainin' Roy)
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The best series of books ever made in this world is the "Discoworld" series written by Terry Pratchett. 
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Detective TurtleHolmes
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RAmen!Eniavlys wrote:The best series of books ever made in this world is the "Discoworld" series written by Terry Pratchett.
A flap of the wings yesterday means big changes tomorrow.
Let's work together to keep the present inevitable.
So yeah, I went and got a blog.
Let's work together to keep the present inevitable.
So yeah, I went and got a blog.
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Is "Discoworld" Discworld set to eighties dance music?
"We're gonna put on a *show*!"
"We're gonna put on a *show*!"
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But weep that they bin too small to sin to the height of their desire,
(Kipling)
But weep that they bin too small to sin to the height of their desire,
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You realise I now have the disco version of the Star Wars theme stuck in my head?Cricket wrote:Is "Discoworld" Discworld set to eighties dance music?
"We're gonna put on a *show*!"
Has anyone seen the Earworms thread...?
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks.
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"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln
"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)
Re: Favourite Book
Cricket wrote:Is "Discoworld" Discworld set to eighties dance music?
"We're gonna put on a *show*!"
Well, Rincewind's theme song is Stayin' Alive.
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Detective TurtleHolmes
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It's the other way around. Stayin' Alive was recorded for Rincewind.Edd wrote:Cricket wrote:Is "Discoworld" Discworld set to eighties dance music?
"We're gonna put on a *show*!"
Well, Rincewind's theme song is Stayin' Alive.
A flap of the wings yesterday means big changes tomorrow.
Let's work together to keep the present inevitable.
So yeah, I went and got a blog.
Let's work together to keep the present inevitable.
So yeah, I went and got a blog.
Re: Favourite Book
Detective TurtleHolmes wrote:It's the other way around. Stayin' Alive was recorded for Rincewind.Edd wrote:Cricket wrote:Is "Discoworld" Discworld set to eighties dance music?
"We're gonna put on a *show*!"
Well, Rincewind's theme song is Stayin' Alive.
I agree with DTH.
Hey I'm just thinking that the Death is a good example of omniscience. * Go on serious discussion part*
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Scott the Pirate
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Hey Rainswept! Was the name of that book "Anthem"? It's probably one page back, but i'm too lazy today...
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Rainswept
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Re: Favourite Book
yup.
I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.
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Scott the Pirate
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Thanks. I'll get to it soon...assuming that i don't get a job...
Roy Hunter wrote:Then, when you've got to know them a bit and their defences are down, you go all Scott the Pirate on them...
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