Great Reads (With Special Alert for Veritas and Empedocles)

[MOON Ki]

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This probably ought to be in the "Reviews" forum, but it's been dead .... for how long?   

I got a "book voucher" for Christmas, and I used to get a book that is the best value for free money that I've had in a long time ... for a book.    If you haven't already read it, go get:

https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/0062464310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487903039&sr=1-1&keywords=homo+deus

This review sums it up nicely:

[Empedocles]

This probably ought to be in the "Reviews" forum, but it's been dead .... for how long?   

I got a "book voucher" for Christmas, and I used to get a book that is the best value for free money that I've had in a long time ... for a book.    If you haven't already read it, go get:

https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/0062464310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487903039&sr=1-1&keywords=homo+deus

This review sums it up nicely:

Looks interesting. Just bought the e-book.

We've come far.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I'll check it out when I am done reading Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer.

[MOON Ki]

Looks interesting. Just bought the e-book.

I don't believe in those things; I like to touch and feel my book.  It's like the difference between, say, a flesh-and-blood women and one of those pump-up dolls you can get in a good sex shop: the end result of "use" is the same, but there is something more satisfying with one than with the other. 

[veritas]

it's nice to know you treat your books with such tenderness, dearest Moon.

not sure if "homo deus" is for me. i say this because it doesn't reconcile with history. there were once gods among us according to greek mythology and the bible. they intermingled with humans and those generations phased out. back in the day people lived longer and then didn't and not, and now slowing rising again for rich populaces say 1% of the population this book alludes to, with the rest not. life expectancy in kenya is dismally low.. in the 30s from my memory. while the super rich are busy with mass culling initiatives, the poorest are selling their bodies for nefarious activities. who would've thought organ harvesting and people left to die in the street is now mainstream.

the book's plot doesn't resonate with me, i am lived and traveled, have witnessed too much. i get the hunch whoever this author is, yearns for a utopia bubble, he's disillusioned, smells like a zionist, and obviously suffers from a messiah complex. i see this sort of beh. a lot particularly among parliamentarians who think they're special, invincible, entitled, gods etc.

i'm quite picky as to whom i share my tenderness with. this book doesn't do me.

[veritas]

The title doesn't do me too.

Do you read it on the train Moon? Let me just say as an occasional commuter, if you were holding that book cover to my face I would immediately think you were homosexual.

Homo Deus

Translates as "God of homosexuals."

[Kichwa]

Jeez, Veritas, you are rough.  I commute too. I am going to listen to it.

The title doesn't do me too.

Do you read it on the train Moon? Let me just say as an occasional commuter, if you were holding that book cover to my face I would immediately think you were homosexual.

Homo Deus

Translates as "God of homosexuals."

[MOON Ki]

The title doesn't do me too.

Do you read it on the train Moon? Let me just say as an occasional commuter, if you were holding that book cover to my face I would immediately think you were homosexual.

Homo Deus

Translates as "God of homosexuals."

Many people---men and women alike---have all sorts of fears in relation to the imagined  prospects of back-door entries.    You shouldn't let that cloud your mind in such a manner.  In fact, I suggest that you confront your fears directly, by ...

[veritas]

Kichwa, it's not a song.

Moon, keep telling yourself that.



God forbid, it even has a cum spot. Evil.

[Kichwa]

Veritas: Lol,  I am unashamed, card carrying member of Amazon's audible.

READ BY DEREK PERKINS

Kichwa, it's not a song.

Moon, keep telling yourself that.



God forbid, it even has a cum spot. Evil.

[veritas]

that makes sense now.  smart too! no need to carry such a heretic HARD COPY (Moon's wo/man) out in public.

Veritas: Lol,  I am unashamed, card carrying member of Amazon's audible.

READ BY DEREK PERKINS

Kichwa, it's not a song.

Moon, keep telling yourself that.



God forbid, it even has a cum spot. Evil.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

veritas may be a homophobe.

[veritas]

Windy, you know that's not true. i'm just merely pointing out something Moon, may not have been aware of. sometimes people are oblivious to their sexual orientation until most often, a woman, opens their eyes.

veritas may be a homophobe.

[veritas]

Let me also please clarify, the heresy bit, isn't the "homo" bit. but the plot about humans trying to be God, that's exactly what satan tried to do. Evil.

[MOON Ki]

that makes sense now.  smart too! no need to carry such a heretic HARD COPY (Moon's wo/man) out in public.

An e-book is like a pump-up doll; an audio-book is like a cardboard cutout.     

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Windy, you know that's not true. i'm just merely pointing out something Moon, may not have been aware of. sometimes people are oblivious to their sexual orientation until most often, a woman, opens their eyes.

veritas may be a homophobe.

A point that can be rammed home with more authority when the said woman opens her legs.  Some would blame it on age though.

[MOON Ki]

Windy, you know that's not true. i'm just merely pointing out something Moon, may not have been aware of. sometimes people are oblivious to their sexual orientation until most often, a woman, opens their eyes.

veritas may be a homophobe.

A point that can be rammed home with more authority when the said woman opens her legs. 

MOON Ki would be happy to show appropriate authority.     And, with enough recreational substances consumed, perhaps even solidly help said woman conquer her innate fears.   

[Kichwa]

Moonki: Nothing beats Audio books in my life as a commuter. I am almost halfway through and I cannot figure out why the hard copy invokes so much erotic imagery in you.  My be its the cover.  My grandmother was a great story-teller and when I discovered audio books years, it was a match made in heaven.

that makes sense now.  smart too! no need to carry such a heretic HARD COPY (Moon's wo/man) out in public.

An e-book is like a pump-up doll; an audio-book is like a cardboard cutout.   

[MOON Ki]

Moonki: Nothing beats Audio books in my life as a commuter. I am almost halfway through and I cannot figure out why the hard copy invokes so much erotic imagery in you.  My be its the cover. 

You and veritas have filthy minds.    You probably didn't attend church in childhood.

My grandmother was a great story-teller.

Story-telling used to be quite an art form all around.   Sadly, many of those stories of yore have been lost.    An example is in the "gima omiyo"--translated as "the reason why"---stories of Luos, which explained why the world is the way it is.    Why the lion roars, why fowl don't have teeth, etc.    I have it mind to someday go around with a tape-recorder and start a preservation project.     

[veritas]

Kichwa, that's pretty cool. I haven't tried listening to books, I think I'd enjoy it, thanks, will give it a go. 

Moon, I attended church since a fetus in my mother's womb. thank you. very. much.

You are the one who wanks with your book.. .. heresy.

I don't believe in those things; I like to touch and feel my book.  It's like the difference between, say, a flesh-and-blood women and one of those pump-up dolls you can get in a good sex shop: the end result of "use" is the same, but there is something more satisfying with one than with the other.