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Offline Pyraxis

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #570 on: July 28, 2008, 11:03:51 PM »
 :lol:

Look! Over there! Shiny!
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #571 on: July 29, 2008, 06:41:50 AM »
Quote from: Pyraxis on July 28, 2008, 11:03:51 PM
:lol:

Look! Over there! Shiny!

ADHD-ish?  ME?!?

'Kay, next!

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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #572 on: July 29, 2008, 03:26:25 PM »
"Strip Jack", Ian Rankin
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #573 on: August 05, 2008, 04:59:57 PM »
I received a paperback, pre-sale copy of this book and it is a very interesting read.

13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time   by Michael Brooks

He has opened a forum to discuss .....


I don't think of him as a scientist, but more of a reporter, yet he has done some possibly valid research and collected quite a bit of other's work in one volume.
Lost mass theory has always bothered me.
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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #574 on: August 05, 2008, 08:04:24 PM »
Fascinating. I just checked out the site.

BTW, Pea -
Quote from: Michael Brooks
11. FREE WILL

EVERY day, we live under the spell of an illusion: that our conscious mind is autonomous, and in control of our bodies and decisions. We think we have free will, yet as neuroscience digs ever deeper into the mystery of the human brain, that delusion becomes harder to justify. We are, as one neuroscientist told me as he used a powerful magnet to take control of my body’s movements, brain-machines.

This runs contrary to our every impulse. Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea. Is science wrong when it says free will is a delusion? If not, what does it mean for our sense of self? And for our morality – can we prosecute people for acts over which they had no conscious control?
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #575 on: August 06, 2008, 12:38:03 AM »
"The Black Book", Ian Rankin
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #576 on: August 06, 2008, 04:08:45 AM »
Kafka - Collected Stories
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« Reply #577 on: August 10, 2008, 01:26:45 PM »
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #578 on: August 10, 2008, 01:56:01 PM »
rankin.  might as well, so odeon's got someone to talk to about them, lol.  :D

going to the library tomorrow, though, so could be anything...
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #579 on: August 10, 2008, 02:09:14 PM »
The sunday papers
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #580 on: August 10, 2008, 02:18:46 PM »
"The Black Book", still.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #581 on: August 13, 2008, 04:06:56 PM »
GeoTimes Magazine
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #582 on: August 13, 2008, 04:37:35 PM »
"Mortal Causes", Ian Rankin
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #583 on: August 19, 2008, 09:07:32 PM »
2003 IECC building codes :yawn:
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #584 on: August 20, 2008, 02:00:27 AM »
The Silmarillion
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