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Old 04-17-2008, 06:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 04-18-2008, 02:04 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I am reading John Grisham's King Of Torts.
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is it good so far? maybe I will read that next.
Old 04-18-2008, 06:48 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Not counting text books for school (or, when I actually have the time):

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

"The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World" by Paul Davies
I read Franklin's autobiography some years ago. He was quite a character. And not quite the pious Bible-thumper that the far right would have us believe. (If I remember correctly.)
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Old 04-18-2008, 02:06 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I read Franklin's autobiography some years ago. He was quite a character. And not quite the pious Bible-thumper that the far right would have us believe. (If I remember correctly.)
Yeah, he certainly was the deist. To label him as diligently religious would definitely be a mischaracterization, but he certainly wasn't a skeptic either (after all he was friends with the then famous evangelist speaker George Whitefield). The only thing he was primarily skeptical about is how to be 'a good Christian' and how to best emulate Christlike qualities. He mostly deviated from the New Englander line of thought that the best way to do that is to pray, worship, and take place in organized religion; and instead thought the best way was to attempt to help other people by contributing to society. In these respects, Christianity/deism may have been his faith but politics was his religion, and natural philosophy was his charity.

That's how I interpreted him anyway.
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Bullshit! You're jacking off to a Hustler magazine right now I bet.
You would think that, but I've never seen a porn magazine in my life, compared to the hundreds stashed under your matress or in you closet.

I'm also reading "The Last Days" By Joel C. Rosenberg
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PN is jacking off to a picture of Larry Flynt
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is it good so far? maybe I will read that next.
It's okay, but other fans don't think it was his best book.
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