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2021 Jun 27, 8:34pm   29,948 views  240 comments

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In my early retirement, I've decided to read at least an hour a night in real paper books. So far, I've read:

- my dad's old college English book (always felt I needed to improve my grammar)
- Candide by Voltaire
- Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
- The Politics by Aristotle

Now I'm reading The Prince by Machiavelli, and really enjoying it. One tip: before invading, look for minorities who will help you because they resent the traditional rulers in their own country. They may in fact invite you in to help them overthrow their own country. This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.

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153   Patrick   2022 Jun 27, 10:27pm  

Thanks @NuttBoxer I did not know about Schneider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schneider_(pastor)
154   Patrick   2022 Jul 25, 7:39am  

https://t.me/kagbabe/8695


Tucker Carlson gives advice to young men.

"Read books. Actual, physical books. Set aside an hour every day. Any book written before WW2 has a kind of ease about it. There’s less self-censorship. This was a much freer country before WW2. It’s very obvious in the literature."
156   Patrick   2022 Oct 16, 11:45am  

I'm still on my Aunt Millie's old Latin textbook. This is going to take months, but I'm enjoying it.
157   AD   2022 Oct 16, 12:52pm  

Patrick says

This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.


Look at who funds groups like AntiFa and other Woke statists and militant groups. It non profits like Act Blue and Bend the Arc.

Have to find out how these non profits get funded and from who. I would not be surprised if Chicom money such as from Chicom-connected businesses are involved with indirectly funding these non profits.

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159   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2022 Oct 24, 1:28pm  

Patrick says






won’t be removed by cancel culture from your book shelf remotely
160   fdhfoiehfeoi   2022 Oct 24, 2:39pm  

I might have plugged it before, but Richard Taylor's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer), is a very good application of Lee's letter. I've heard the same of Stonewall Jackson's, although Sheridan certainly his an interesting take on the man.
161   Patrick   2023 Jan 7, 1:48pm  

I found "San Fran-Sicko" in the Menlo Park public library, which was surprising because usually their new books are all promoting anti-white hatred and little else.

I'll post some choice insights from the book on this thread. First one : the homeless shelters and public housing are primary locations of drug dealing in SF, with the people who run them often being the dealers. That is, government employees are using their proximity to the homeless as an opportunity to sell them drugs.
162   HeadSet   2023 Jan 7, 5:53pm  

NuttBoxer says

Sheridan's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer),

General Sheridan was a Northern officer. Famous for ripping up Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
164   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jan 8, 8:21pm  

NuttBoxer says

I might have plugged it before, but Richard Taylor's book on his experience in the Civil War(Southern officer), is a very good application of Lee's letter. I've heard the same of Stonewall Jackson's, although Sheridan certainly his an interesting take on the man.


Yikes, corrected.
165   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jan 8, 8:22pm  

Trying to read Ulysses, haven't made it very far. Definitely understand the critique on it being a tough read.
166   Patrick   2023 Jan 8, 8:31pm  

I agree. I just can't understand Joyce.
167   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jan 8, 9:27pm  

That makes me feel better. Lots of Irish specific references I figured I'm missing the meaning of, but if even an Irishman can't fathom them, I'm not doing as bad as I thought.
170   Ceffer   2023 Jan 8, 11:29pm  

NuttBoxer says

That makes me feel better. Lots of Irish specific references I figured I'm missing the meaning of, but if even an Irishman can't fathom them, I'm not doing as bad as I thought.

Learn to read current and ancient Latin, Greek, and Irish, study Irish mythology in depth, as well as Greek Mythology, take some shrooms once in a while to relate the schizoid frame of reference, mixed analogies, and puns, think of a wobbly camera reeling through Dublin changing perspective constantly, and it will be one of the best books you have ever read (so I heard, I barely got past 'riverrun').
171   Ceffer   2023 Jan 8, 11:36pm  

Patrick says



I've known some former 'homeless', including one of my oldest friends who was quite prosperous, but the drugs and booze got him. He wound up living in his car, then behind his car, until the car got towed, which is a common spirol for addicts. He was on the streets of Oakland for a couple of years. He wound up getting sober, rebuilding his life, and becoming quite prosperous again. Mentally ill, oddly enough, with medication can usually function enough to live in group homes and do OK as long as they are not taking or seeking street drugs.

Drugs, alcohol etc. can make you crazy as well as addicted, and typically, it requires at least six months to a year drying them out to even diagnose mental status, and who is going to go to the expense for a possibly brain damaged and homeless person(s)?
172   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jan 9, 3:21pm  

Patrick says






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First, prohibition created alcoholism. Maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but fact is, most people never tried hard liquor until prohibition.
Second, I don't know of any addict who's quit because they got arrested. Does anyone?
Third, my relative who sold cannabis in Chicago would still be alive if it was legal. He was shot during a deal that went bad.

You cannot legislate morality or good choices. Black markets are always more dangerous than buying and selling legally. And the War on Us is still one of the greatest failures in American history, preceded only by the War of Terror, but still ahead of the Scamdemic.

Watch The Wire, Season 3, then tell me about drug laws.
173   Patrick   2023 Feb 19, 1:05pm  

Patrick says

Just finished Going Solo by Roald Dahl, the children's writer. It's about his time before WWII in East Africa, and during WWII as a British fighter pilot.



174   Ceffer   2023 Feb 19, 2:19pm  

Why aren't you reading books emblazoned on flayed and tanned human flesh? That's where you will find out the way the world really works.
175   Patrick   2023 Feb 19, 3:33pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/why-do-you-need-to-own-so-many-books-they-ask-heres-why


In eras of mass censorship and overzealous ideology, books are often the first thing to go. Books are perfect mass mediums for the transmission of knowledge, which is why they're so often targets of censors and busybodies and dictators.

Keep your large book collections. Make them larger. Don't give them up. They're necessary.
178   HeadSet   2023 Feb 25, 1:14pm  

Let me try a crack at the new Mother Goose:

There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She lived in a Red State
So abortion was moot
She still having kids
So she moved to a Boot

-HeadSet
179   Patrick   2023 Feb 28, 7:55pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/never-in-a-million-years-did-i-think-id-ever-see-this-headline-but-i-am-so-here-for-it


British government warns that reading Tolkien, Lewis, Orwell, and John Locke radicalizes people into far-right extremism ...

Britain has a government program called "Prevent" that was founded in 2019 to research what causes a Muslim to become a terrorist.

[Hint: It's reading the Quran]

... Since it would be very bigoted for this program to look into the actual ideologies that are causing the vast, overwhelming majority of violence, terror, and crime on the planet, they had to make sure they gave those evil conservatives and Christians a shake down. ...

There is also a reading list of historical texts which produce red flags to RICU. These include 'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government' and Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' as well as works by Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith. Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes '1984' by George Orwell.
180   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Mar 1, 8:56am  

No Dickens!? I bet it's coming...
181   Patrick   2023 Mar 19, 11:14pm  

I've started learning a bit of ancient Greek, so I'm going to bookmark this nice presentation of the alphabet here:



I'm going to run through this before getting a paper book to study:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/getting-started-on-ancient-greek/content-section-overview?active-tab=content-tab
183   richwicks   2023 Apr 5, 10:55am  

HeadSet says

Let me try a crack at the new Mother Goose:

There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She lived in a Red State
So abortion was moot
She still having kids
So she moved to a Boot

-HeadSet


Sounds like a slut with a lot of baby daddies, and is on welfare, and is using her kids for income.
184   richwicks   2023 Apr 5, 10:58am  

Patrick says






This Tom Wolf?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolf

I'm always suspicious about rags from riches stories.
185   HeadSet   2023 Apr 5, 12:11pm  

richwicks says

Sounds like a slut with a lot of baby daddies, and is on welfare, and is using her kids for income.

Or by having many baby daddies, get a separate child support from each. Anyway, the joke is the moving to a boot, not any jab at Red states as I agree with outlawing abortion.

Revised:
There was and Old Women
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many kids
She did not know what to do
She's still putting out
To bring in the loot
But with so many kids
She's moved to a Boot
186   richwicks   2023 Apr 5, 4:55pm  

HeadSet says


Or by having many baby daddies, get a separate child support from each. Anyway, the joke is the moving to a boot, not any jab at Red states as I agree with outlawing abortion.


I am anti-abortion and pro-choice. I don't think people should get an abortion, yet, I think they should be allowed to.

Since abortion exists, and it's "a woman's choice", I don't believe in child support either. SHE made the choice to have it, he didn't.

When abortion was legalized, there were very few birth control methods allowed. I know that in the 1940's LYSOL was used to prevent pregnancy as a douche. I have heard women from that time SWEAR by it as well. There was a time where in many states, women could only get birth control if their husband allowed it.

I'm a proponent of RISUG:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345756/

which is now being trialed (forever) as Vasagel

https://www.parsemus.org/2022/07/next-steps-for-vasalgel/

This will NEVER get through FDA approval, I view them as a scam. I've known about them for over 10 years, it would make female contraceptives obsolete. The way it works is a gel is injected into your vas deferens (basically your male fallopian tubes) and this destroys sperm. It might be that it simply blocks sperm flow, it's odd they don't know. Anyhow, it's reversible male sterility, and has been EXTENSIVELY tested in animals, and people - RISUG was used in India, but India also forcibly sterilized males up until like 1970.

As we all know (now) you can't trust the medical establishment as to whether its reversible or not, but it costs like $5 for the injection, it's an outpatient procedure, and it's not available in the United States, because it would make female contraceptives obsolete. Male sterility is permanent until the man decides he wants to have children, and its reversibility isn't well known.

Although it's been extensively tested in animals, animals aren't human beings. RISUG has been used in India since the 1970's, but reversibility wasn't studied. It might be an alternative to castration for animals. When I did dog fostering and rescue, I really didn't enjoy doing castration and spaying. The dogs I had were unwanted and had nobody to care for them, but I still felt like shit taking away their reproductive ability permanently. I had some great dogs, and they should have had children. They were better dogs as dogs than I am a good human being in humanity.
188   mell   2023 May 7, 7:48am  

Savage!
189   HeadSet   2023 May 7, 11:36am  

Elect that kid now. Imagine him in a debate with Kamala.
190   AD   2023 May 7, 11:39am  

Patrick says






Very true Patrick, as read what Robert Downey Jr has said about this.

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191   AD   2023 May 7, 11:41am  

There are some easy read books that are very helpful such as 7 Habits of Effective People, and How to Make Money in Stocks (written by the founder of Investors Business Daily).

If I am going to reach fiction, I like James A. Michener. I read his Caribbean book when I was stationed in the early 90's at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico.

It gave an appreciation as far as the cultures around me especially when I traveled to different islands.

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192   Patrick   2023 Aug 16, 10:52am  

I just finished vol 9 of "The Life and Works of Thomas Paine". I haven't read the previous volumes. I just happened to find this book on a book-exchange shelf near me run by the owner of this local used bookstore:

https://www.abebooks.com/feldmans-books-menlo-park-ca-u.s.a/69651/sf

I like old books, so this one caught my eye.





It was printed in 1925 and apparently never read through, since some of the pages needed to be sliced apart to open them.

I flipped through it and could feel the fire! Hoo boy, is Paine an unorthodox guy. He was a Deist, saying that the universe itself is proof of God, but denying all "revealed" religion and their books.

He was the OG memer, writing little tracts and distributing them. Some of the stuff is hilarious, as in speculating that angels must shit, since the bible says they eat, and comparing that to the way birds shit in flight.

I must read "Common Sense" now if I can find a copy. Our local library does not have it, amazingly. They do have a ton of books on how to be gay and why white people are bad though, all prominently displayed.

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