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Manifestor_of_Light

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8. Yes.
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 05:44 PM
Aug 2014

Right now I'm reading Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life, by Jonathan Sperber.

Also have been reading pieces of Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow, Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Bernstein.

I recommend Healing the Shame that Binds You to a lot of people, especially in the Religion groups on DU.

I recently read All Quiet on the Western Front, which is classic fiction. I don't read contemporary fiction.

I see in your picture you have Alan Watts, who was the only writer on Buddhism in English when I started investigating Buddhism back in the 1970s when I was in college. Now there are lots of baby boomers who studied Buddhism and write about it, like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron and Bhikkhu Bodhi. Bhikkhu Bodhi has done complete translations of the four books of the Nikayas and recently finished the Numbered Discourses.

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Mine don't, but I'm replying since this group never gets any action arcane1 Aug 2014 #1
I know libodem Aug 2014 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Sweeney Nov 2014 #12
What are your nonfiction libodem Aug 2014 #3
I'm surrently re-re-reading "Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast. arcane1 Aug 2014 #4
hmmm? libodem Aug 2014 #6
My non fiction runs heavily SheilaT Aug 2014 #5
I pulled out these libodem Aug 2014 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Sweeney Nov 2014 #11
Yes. Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2014 #8
I usually read fiction libodem Aug 2014 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Sweeney Nov 2014 #10
Mine are mostly on History, Science, Buddhism, and Philosophy. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #13
I love those subjects libodem Nov 2014 #14
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