What are you reading now?
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it's been mentioned a few times on the board. i think the biggest deal about it is the fact that it's Premium Link Upgrade . he makes a compelling argument equating belief in god with everything wrong in our society. (i might be guilty of hyperbole here).
if you're an atheist and want ammo in your quest to convert theists, this book is all you'll need (along with a willingness to make enemies).
they did it:
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i'm reading the gulag archipelago by aleksandr solzhenitsyn, interspersed with pagan babies by elmore leonard
DC is also awesome, definitely gotta get that I got many of the comic encyclopedia's, Spider-Man, Batman, Transformers. Hell, keep em coming. Although I really have to start reading more sophisticated books, to blend in.:wave2:
Goodbye 20th Century - A Biography of Sonic Youth
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What a tense and intricate read. I had a difficult time grasping it all. Some very valid points, but a seemly one sided view even though all the solid and interesting references.
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Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
It's actually very good.
It's actually very good.
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Satan Burger - Carlton Mellick III,
God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossesing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-like machine called the Walm - an interdimensional doorway that brings His New ******** into the world. He loves these new ********, but He doesn't love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there's nothing you can do about it ...
God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossesing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-like machine called the Walm - an interdimensional doorway that brings His New ******** into the world. He loves these new ********, but He doesn't love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there's nothing you can do about it ...
sems kind of interesting. but from the reviews it seems to me that the author asserts that human social models have some thing to do with biological evolution. which I think is nonsense. Of course social conditions effect genetics on the small scale, because people are born and die and genetic patterns are mixed up... but if you took just the genetic traits of humanity for the last two thousand years and put them in a line without the dates, no one would be able to draw a conclusion between that and our historical record. And especialyl as far as the species is concerned, there is relatively no signifigant biological difference between people today and people 100,00 years ago or more.
I can see some debate among whether evolution favors complexity or simplicity, but I think that society has very little to do with it. technology i'd say goes even further and has nothing to do with it. Most species in the past few million years have had little or no technological "advancment". You can even argue against specialization as being a signifigant factor, even though most evolutionists put a lot of emphasis on it. In truth, some adaptations favor specialization and some favor generalization.
Look at a great example of an adapted lifeform: the cockroach. It can thrive in almost any environment and it is a relativley simple organism that hasn't changed much in millions or years, it has virtually no specialization, no technology, and simple society.
or if you really want to look at the champion of evolution it is hands-down the Virus. they are the best adapted and constantly evolving lifeform on the planet.
stupid monkeys with thier SUV's and democracy don't got nothin to compare.
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