What are you reading ?

[Baley]

 

S

[Pidesco]

I've read that myself.

 

I thought the prelude was worth the whole book.

[Baley]

Ah, yes, I make a habit of only reading Kierkegaard when partly intoxicated. In fact, I still have a beer bottle lying around somewhere. It's not very good. Though that's not why I drink it.

[Pidesco]

I'm confused, is it the beer or the book that isn't very good?

 

 

I'm not reading anything right now. I should, though.

Edited July 3, 2006 by Pidesco

[WITHTEETH]

Ah, yes, I make a habit of only reading Kierkegaard when partly intoxicated. In fact, I still have a beer bottle lying around somewhere. It's not very good. Though that's not why I drink it.

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Fun fact, Kiekagaard means church yard, his afather use to work at a church yard and damned god fior giving him such a hard life thus creating in his mind a curse which he later told Soren about. Thats the story I've read. His father use to teach him logic as a child too.

 

As the father of existentialism, how well do you think Soren justifies believing in faith when he knows its a paradox as he calls it in the first place. Whats your impressions of this book?

[Baley]

Well, P, I've yet to drink a book. What should you be reading?

 

 

 

Buffalo Bill - EE Cummings

 

  Buffalo Bill's

 

defunct

 

        who used to

 

        ride a watersmooth-silver

 

                                  stallion

 

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat

 

                                                  Jesus

 

 

 

he was a handsome man

 

                      and what i want to know is

 

how do you like your blueeyed boy

 

Mister Death

[Gromnir]

For leisure reading I am reading Stephen King's On Writing.

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...

 

would be kinda likes ray kroc writing a book on how to cook, no?

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Baley]

As the father of existentialism, how well do you think Soren justifies believing in faith when he knows its a paradox as he calls it in the first place. Whats your impressions of this book?

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Pedersen, love, I'm sort of drunk and have only managed to read a small portion of A Panegyric Upon Abraham. I'd prefer posting my opinion on this book once I finish it.

 

As for my own view, I'd state that the spiritual world exists outside the realm of logic (perhaps even outside the realm of reality) and that analysing it is most often pointless and a terrible waste of time. It ain't supposed to make sense. That's where "faith" comes in, filling the gaps and healing the wounds. Of course now, there's nothing out there to heal faith. Shame bout that.

Edited July 3, 2006 by Baley

[Pidesco]

I should be reading a huge pile of books that I have lying around. I've been too lazy to pick them up.

 

Among these books are:

 

Kafka's The Trial

Sartre's Nausea

Dostoevski's The Gambler

Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus

Stendhal's The Red And The Black

[Baley]

I can picture your flat.

[Pidesco]

Describe it.

 

Edit:Actually the picture of me in the picture thread is also a picture of my living room.

 

 

Edit2: Picture! Picture!!! Picture!!!!!!!!!!! Picture...

Edited July 3, 2006 by Pidesco

[Baley]

That living room of yours is way too clean, tidy and hygienic. It reeks of married. Honestly. I doubt most birds fancy that.

 

 

Charles Bukowski - Be Kind

 

we are always asked

to understand the other person's

viewpoint

no matter how

out-dated

foolish or

obnoxious.

 

one is asked

to view

their total error

their life-waste

with

kindliness,

especially if they are

aged.

 

but age is the total of

our doing.

they have aged

badly

because they have

lived

out of focus,

they have refused to

see.

 

not their fault?

 

whose fault?

mine?

 

I am asked to hide

my viewpoint

from them

for fear of their

fear.

 

age is no crime

 

but the shame

of a deliberately

wasted

life

 

among so many

deliberately

wasted

lives

 

is.

Edited July 3, 2006 by Baley

[Pidesco]

That living room of yours is way too clean, tidy and hygienic. It reeks of married. Honestly. I doubt most birds fancy that.

 

 

Actually, they seem to adore it. The only problem is when I'm in a longer relationship, and don't clean the place every time the lady drops by. That's when they start complaining.

[Baley]

You mean most women don't like filth and sloth and dance around naked in the middle of your flat high on coke stripping as if a fire was to purify your home in mere seconds?

 

Oh God, how I hate 'em.

[Pidesco]

Apart from the "dance around naked" bit, you're pretty much wrong. ^_^