What are you reading?
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Shao Feng-Li - Posts: 5187
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Currently reading Wuthering Heights. Evil Heathcliff <3
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Hurry up and install your home security systems, 'cause Jesus is coming like a thief in the night.
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Hurry up and install your home security systems, 'cause Jesus is coming like a thief in the night.
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yukishiro128 - Posts: 72
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We have a copy in the house.
I think that Captain Janeway's Gothic holonovel on Voyager was derived from
either Wuthering Heights or one of the other Bronte novels.
I think that Captain Janeway's Gothic holonovel on Voyager was derived from
either Wuthering Heights or one of the other Bronte novels.
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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300 by Frank Miller
The graphic novel that inspired the film, of course. Not sure what to expect of it, given the film's purported slavish devotion to the source material, but it won't be heavy reading. Interesting to note that the sex scenes were added into the movie, from what I've read so far.
Let me also amend my previous comments regarding The Divine Conspiracy, which I have completed. It turned out to be an excellent volume on spiritual disciplines. Somewhat introductory (albeit over 400 pages) but this is necessary due to how it goes against many unfortunate popular understandings of what it means to be Christian. I recommend it for most people, even if they have a hard time getting into the writing.
The graphic novel that inspired the film, of course. Not sure what to expect of it, given the film's purported slavish devotion to the source material, but it won't be heavy reading. Interesting to note that the sex scenes were added into the movie, from what I've read so far.
Let me also amend my previous comments regarding The Divine Conspiracy, which I have completed. It turned out to be an excellent volume on spiritual disciplines. Somewhat introductory (albeit over 400 pages) but this is necessary due to how it goes against many unfortunate popular understandings of what it means to be Christian. I recommend it for most people, even if they have a hard time getting into the writing.
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uc pseudonym - Posts: 15506
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Monster by Frank Peretti
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King Moonracer: I asked you not to tell me that. geocities.com/arphage/sbc.html
Hermey the Elf, D.D.S: You need a root canal. Secret Bumping Club Member #9
King Moonracer: I asked you not to tell me that. geocities.com/arphage/sbc.html
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TallHobbit86 - Posts: 507
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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THe Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. I appointed you to be a prophet of all nations."
--Jeremiah 1:5
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Hit me up on social media!
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rocklobster - Posts: 8903
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I am about 2/3 of the way through Playing with Fire by Walt Russell. He offers a really insightfull way to look at scripture, explains many verses that have a history of being taken out of context, and shows how to read the different sections of the Bible so as to get the full meaning of what is written.
If you are staring to feel like reading the Bible is getting a little boring, or BLA, I highly recommend giving it a try. Beware though, he may challenge you to reevaluate they way you have always looked at portions of the Bible.
If you dont get anything else out of the book, you will atleast be able to impress your youthpastor by knowing what 'hermeneutics' means. ^_^
If you are staring to feel like reading the Bible is getting a little boring, or BLA, I highly recommend giving it a try. Beware though, he may challenge you to reevaluate they way you have always looked at portions of the Bible.
If you dont get anything else out of the book, you will atleast be able to impress your youthpastor by knowing what 'hermeneutics' means. ^_^
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
- J. Hudson Taylor
- J. Hudson Taylor
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.
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kaji - Posts: 1281
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i'm reading Spartacus, by Howard Fast.
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
- J.I. Packer[/SIZE]
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
- J.I. Packer[/SIZE]
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jon_jinn - Posts: 3261
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I finished Wuthering Heights last night. It was... intense. I could hardly put it down.
I also recently finished Un Lun Dun, by China Mieville, an inventive young adult fantasy novel.
I also recently finished Un Lun Dun, by China Mieville, an inventive young adult fantasy novel.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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Alice - Posts: 1707
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Well, I'm still reading Crime and Punishment. 
Unwise Toasting Sermon
The Sweet Smell of CAA
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The Sweet Smell of CAA
The Avatar Christian Ronin designed for me
An Avatar KhakiBlue gave to me
The avatar Termyt made for me
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bigsleepj - Posts: 3432
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bigsleepj wrote:Well, I'm still reading Crime and Punishment.
XD Gotten much farther?
You can find out things about the past that you never knew. And from what you've learned, you may see some things differently in the present. You're the one that changes. Not the past.
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it."
- Brad Stine
- Ellone, Final Fantasy VIII
"There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it."
- Brad Stine
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the_wolfs_howl - Posts: 3273
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Actually, yes. It's just that I've been busy these past few days. 
Unwise Toasting Sermon
The Sweet Smell of CAA
The Avatar Christian Ronin designed for me
An Avatar KhakiBlue gave to me
The avatar Termyt made for me
Current Avatar by SirThinks2much - thank you very much!:)
The Sweet Smell of CAA
The Avatar Christian Ronin designed for me
An Avatar KhakiBlue gave to me
The avatar Termyt made for me
KhakiBlueSocks wrote:"I'm going to make you a prayer request you can't refuse..." Cue the violins.
Current Avatar by SirThinks2much - thank you very much!
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bigsleepj - Posts: 3432
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Finished with the Inuyasha Profiles book.It was fun but now have to think of what to read next.And no,it won't be CRIME AND PUNISHMENT or WAR AND PEACE!
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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CS Lewis's Dangerous Idea by Victor Reppert
Rereading, actually, but considering I sat down and ended up reading half of it, I decided to post once again. I had forgotten how many quotations are from online sources, so I may go back to the Infidels website to check up on some of those.
Rereading, actually, but considering I sat down and ended up reading half of it, I decided to post once again. I had forgotten how many quotations are from online sources, so I may go back to the Infidels website to check up on some of those.
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uc pseudonym - Posts: 15506
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I just finished reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes since my school suddenly decided to start a summer reading program out of nowhere.
I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when he is silent.
~Author Unknown
~Author Unknown
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RubyJewelStone - Posts: 228
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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Salamandastron by Brian Jacques.
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SnoringFrog - Posts: 1159
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Today I finished reading Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, by Suzanne Collins. It's book three in the "Underland Chronicles." I find myself really impressed with this inventive young adult fantasy series. It's fast moving, well-written, and always interesting.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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Alice - Posts: 1707
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I'm currently rereading The Cost of Discipleship by Bonhoeffer, and next up is Gogol's Dead Souls.
Let others believe in the God who brings men to trial and judges them. I shall cling to the God who resurrects the dead.
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
MAL
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
MAL
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Kaori - Posts: 1463
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Balckwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill.
http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9911058-1138458?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183294161&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9911058-1138458?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183294161&sr=1-1
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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Technomancer - Posts: 2379
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Currently, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Took me long enough, huh? XD
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Radical Dreamer - Posts: 7950
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Plastic Man On the Lam by Kyle Baker.
I really needed some light reading and I guess you can't get any lighter than
Plas!
I really needed some light reading and I guess you can't get any lighter than
Plas!
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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I'm about a third of the way through a light romantic Regency read: At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple, by Marion Chesney.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
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Alice - Posts: 1707
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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Virtually Eliminated by Jefferson Scott....
This book is pretty creepy becuase it's about a world where everyone can hook themselves into the internet and the internet is like second life....
...and this book was written in 1996, before the Matrix, and before there were really any MMORPGs, yet it feels pretty modern...
I didn't even know they had the internet back then...
This book is pretty creepy becuase it's about a world where everyone can hook themselves into the internet and the internet is like second life....
...and this book was written in 1996, before the Matrix, and before there were really any MMORPGs, yet it feels pretty modern...
I didn't even know they had the internet back then...
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Danderson - Posts: 1277
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I'm taking care of a friend's house while he is away and he has a massive fantasy collection. Consequently my reading for the next while will reflect this. To start off:
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
It has been a bit since I read the first book, so I fully expect to be lost given the plethora of characters. Commentary will have to wait until I've gotten further in.
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
It has been a bit since I read the first book, so I fully expect to be lost given the plethora of characters. Commentary will have to wait until I've gotten further in.
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