Question
What One book yoursquore currently reading now?
Answer
Hustler...not really a book though!! nice pictures!
What One book yoursquore currently reading now?
Hustler...not really a book though!! nice pictures!
What one book has made the biggest impact on your life?
Or any type of poem, speech, song etc... Im sure lots of you will pick whichever Holy Book you go by, but is there another besides that? Also, how has it affected your way of living, thinking, and feeling about a certain thing or about everything in life?
Mary Olivers quotPoppiesquotbrbrhttpwww.poemhunter.compoempoppiesa
What one bit of wisdom would you like to teach humanity?
Suppose everyone would listen...
That the Socratic understanding of knowledge, that it begins with understanding our own ignorance, is the beginning of human awareness and that it is representative of our relationship with each other and to the cosmos. For we exist as middle beings, we know too much to be skeptics of all knowledge, yet we also know too little to be dogmatic about the knowledge we have. Time and time again the human race has attempted to deny this fact. Religion, when tied in with political authority, has repeated moved with frantic dogmatism to suppress, maim, and kill those who denied its central positions. The horror of the dogmatic regimes of the th century also showed us again how much humans crave blind certainty. In our own time, the rise of nihilism, a form of radical skepticism, denies our middle status by not seeing that radical skepticism is but the other side of the coin from dogmatic horror. Every period of total uncertainty always ends in a blind embrace of some form of dogmatism. The echoes of the Weimar Republic haunt the Western World right now so let us hope it ends better for us then it did for them.
What novels do you think had a effect on your life ?
Mine arebrbrA Wrinkle In Time Madeleine LEngle brLord of the Flies William GoldingbrDemian Herman Hesse
What Novel are you reading at the moment if any?
Im rereading quotHungerquot by Knut Hamsun.
Im currently trying to get through Watchmen Alan Moore, because I read it in college, but want to refresh my memory before I see the movie.brbrYou and another mentioned The Republic by Plato Id like to actually read The Symposium again.
What never ceases to amaze you?
life itself. . sometimes i am just amazed at how my life can turn sideways and sometimes encounters bumpy roads and slippery slopes. . i guess, its because of all the people that contributes to the development of my growth, and my self, who i always think that can amaze me, for sometimes i know my self but then i dont quite know me. . and it just amazes me how i still can live but others die of suffering, i live to live while others live to die, and i love to live, while others just want to die. . . isnt it amazing how you can change your lifes direction just by rthe flick of your hand? or how we manage to survive, day by day, while others unfortunately dont. i dont know. sometimes my amazement borders on cynicsm and skepticsm, even doubt. that all this is not happening and its all just an imagination. but then, i wake up and pinch myself, and its all real. thats also one of the things that amazes me. im real. this is real.
What nation has purchased . billion worth of arms from the U.S., since invading East Timor?
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