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OT: Book Publishing Industry

san_jose_guy
money was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
Friday, July 14, 2017 4:47 PM
"The number of new print titles issued by U.S. publishers has grown from 215,777 in 2002 to 316,480 in 2010. And in 2010 more than 2.7 million “non-traditional” titles were also published, including self-published books, reprints of public domain works, and other print-on-demand books." [view link] [view link] "The number of books being published in the U.S. has exploded. Bowker reports that over one million (1,052,803) books were published in the U.S. in 2009, which is more than triple the number of books published four years earlier (2005)..." [view link] [view link] "UK publishers released more than 20 new titles every hour over the course of 2014, meaning that the country published more books per inhabitant than anywhere else in the world." [view link] SJG

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  • Book Guy
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    7 years ago
    According to my name, this should be my subject. But I don't exactly know what your point is and I don't want to take the time to follow the links. I think that self-publishing and vanity-press-publishing are coming out with lots of new books of the sort which used to have to pass the test of an editorial board and a reasonable marketing projection. Since any book can sell, regardless of content; and any book can get published, regardless of sell-ability; and the technologies of layout, infrastructure, etc., are all pretty much home-based now (you can make a whole book-publishing HOUSE with nothing but a laptop and an email address) ... well, it's just crap. So, instead of those stats, please show me the data on how many GOOD books are now'days being published.
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    What I am seeing is that the number of new titles continues to increase every year, and all the more so in these non-standard presses. This happens, while book sales continue to drop. Thanks, SJG
  • Dougster
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    7 years ago
    san_jose_guy is a gay! Lol!
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Great Books of the Western World, second edition of the set, ~= 1990? Yes, 1990. Everything in the volumes after Freud was added to this second edition. Some from before the 20th Century, but some of the 20th Century. Not sure what was taken out. The first edition was from 1952. [view link] [view link] [view link] So I guess they still sell this, the 2nd edition: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Not clear that Britannica offers the Great Books series or their encyclopedia on paper any more. Online only for the encyclopedia. But to buy say a 2nd Edition Great books, over $1300 new, which is about what it used to cost. [view link] For institutional libraries though, that is the kind of thing which is likely to be donated. Good as reference, but for actual reading, the manuscripts in individual books. SJG Law Enforcement Grade, 400lb's tensile strength cable ties [view link] Alester Crowley's A:.A:. [view link] How It Works In America [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Yes, they also had this: [view link] Gateway to the Great Books. I know of it because a friend had it, a 10 volume set, released in 1963. A number of authors in the Great Books set – such as Plutarch, Epictetus, Tacitus, Dante, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin and William James – were also represented by shorter works in the Gateway volumes. And several Gateway readings discussed authors in the Great Books series. For instance, a selection from Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres critiqued the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Indeed, many writers in the Gateway set were eventually "promoted" to the second edition (1990) of the Great Books, such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Molière, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein and John Dewey. [view link] [view link] [view link] I guess none of this stuff is published anymore. It had been by Encyclopedia Britannica. But they don't even offer their encyclopedia on paper anymore. Just online. Again, the list: [view link] They have always made it clear that the Bible is to be considered part of this Great Books Cannon. Seems though that the translations of Plato and Aristotle and of Virgil and Tacitus are not controversial or needing regular updating, as the translations of the Bible are. SJG
  • DoctorPhil
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    7 years ago
    @san_jose_guy " I know of it because a friend had it" you dumbass. don't you know that if you are going to lie it should be at least plausible even if it isn't believable. the suggestion that you have a friend is neither plausible nor believable
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    There are a few of these Great Books Colleges. I guess it had been intended that U. Chicago would be one of them. This Thomas Aquinas College in Calif is a Right Wing Catholic school. St. Johns, is where I know some people from. It is not like above. [view link] [view link] As I have heard, all they do is read and discuss these Great Books, including the Bible. Even that, as I see it, would be too much for 4 years. I don't know if they have an lectures or examinations, or write any papers. Don't know. I don't think they read much outside commentary either. But as some have said, it is a real trip to be with the same group of people discussing such books, and going on year after year. One of the Hutchins ideas was that these greatest of book are readable and understandable, and especially if you are reading lots of them, an in chronological order. And then if you read books of interpretation and commentary, these are lesser books and should not be considered worth the time. Hutchins was also refuting the older idea, that the books had to be read in their original languages. Yipes! [view link] SJG
  • DoctorPhil
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    7 years ago
    @san_jose_guy "St. Johns is where I know some people from" the mental hospital is the only place you've been. is St. Johns the name of the place where your mother had you institutionalized?
  • san_jose_guy
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  • san_jose_guy
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    Tremendous number of authors they added to this 1990 second edition, but obviously they had to be extremely selective as to what works they chose. [view link] About St. John's College, my friends were from the Annapolis Maryland original campus, not the Santa Fe campus. [view link] Here it explains about their seminar, and they do write papers. The ongoing discussions are a huge part of it. [view link] They have expanded to also include eastern texts. Here are some other books: Paulist Press has its Classics of Western Spirituality: [view link] Many of these have had to be abridged to keep the size reasonable, but they are good. [view link] SJG Glen Campbell, this guy is really good and it shows! [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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  • san_jose_guy
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    The Greek magical papyri [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] This is something Crowley and the Golden Dawn used, but not sure where it comes from. Folks say it should be Headless, not Bornless, and there is at least some connection to this Greek Magical Papyri. [view link] Gordon White makes much of all this. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Finite And Infinite Games, James P. Carse [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (Live In Las Vegas) [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Dover Mathematics [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Aristotle in 90 minutes [view link] Power Plant Instrumentation [view link] Thermodynamics for Dummies [view link] SJG Evanescence Live Full Concert 2017 [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Just started to read a bit of an older edition of: [view link] Want to learn more about Keynesianism. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    This Polly is very interesting. Much of her narrative is about the struggles of learning to live outside of monogamy. She talks about this Bernard A. Lietaer. He has written books. He talks about how the rules of money and the rules of sex are closely related. Duh! Seriously, are people into owning or controlling, or into openness and sharing. [view link] All patriarchal societies in history ... [view link] And also along those lines: [view link] Saying that in hunter gatherer times there was no monogamy. Rather, when land ownership was invented for agriculture, then also was monogamy invented. Polly was also heavily involved in this Superstar Avatar: [view link] [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    [view link] Not sure if they print this new. But it is a good type of thing to get donated. Not sure if it is full text online either. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Folger Shakespeare Library, trade paperbacks, under $5 [view link] SJG Dave Bruebeck [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Penguin Classics [view link] Penguin Random House, Portable Library [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Der Fuehrer: Hitler's Rise to Power (1936) by Konrad Heiden [view link] Internet Classics Archive [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Inner Traditions Press [view link] Rochester Vermont [view link] [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    [view link] Near Minneapolis [view link] published now by Tarcher SJG Emerson Lake and Palmer [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Red Wheel Weiser [view link] Seems now mostly in Massachusetts, was once the premier occult books store in NYC, but long since mostly a very respected publisher. James Wasserman [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG [view link] Dog headed, may be at least in part the influence behind St. Christopher. sometimes dog headed [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    James Wasserman on Temple of Solomon, Inner Traditions. [view link] Ibis Press [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    [view link] So this Studio 31 is James Waserman West Palm Beach FL? Ibis Press / Nicolas Hays [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Keynes [view link] Hayek [view link] Ibanez, fretted / Fretless [view link] Bernard Lietaer - Why money needs to change now! [view link] Veblen [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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  • san_jose_guy
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  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    So providing men with the highest quality of intellectual books is quite easy. But how many women will also want to read them and also want to be in discussion groups? I would say only a small minority. So I need to supply them with an additional selection of books. I don't want to supply Lint Head books. But they needn't be that. Probably the best will be just to also have lots of books written by women, or otherwise known to be of interest to women. So some will go for Simone de Beauvoir And then maybe [view link] and also the biographies written by Deirdre Bair [view link]. [view link] [view link] anti-mental health activist and then the classic Anti-Social Family [view link] And then I think much written by these five: Normandi Ellis [view link] Nicki Scully [view link] M. Isidora Forrest [view link] DeTraci Regula [view link] Jean Houston [view link] SJG I'm tied up on f2f political matters right now, that's why I've not been posting much. [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Also, I believe that most women would go for the books written by the British occultist Dion Fortune, and also those of her successor Garth Fowden. And also Isha Schwaller Delubicz and Lucie Lamay. SJG
  • DoctorPhil
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    7 years ago
    @san_jose_girl “I'm tied up on f2f political matters right now, that's why I've not been posting much.” lying bag of shit. you fell off the wagon again, got drunk again, stole your mother’s car again and got tossed into jail again for another DUI again
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    So continuing with books likely to be of appeal to young women. Dion Fortune [view link] Gareth Knight [view link] Though of course I am not promoting drugs, and these guys do, and these books are very much male oriented, many of today's young women go for them Peter J. Carroll, Phil Hine, Austin Osman Spare [view link]. [view link]. [view link] old 1971 book which should be real good: [view link] Though I don't go along with LaVey, his book does focus on the high heels and make up aspect: [view link] And though I don't promote Crowley Thelema, or Geomatria, these two should still be great: [view link] [view link] Eventually we will have our own people writing our books. And I'll be looking for women who have that kind of a potential, for writing, clothes design, visual art, and music. SJG Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three different Ones) [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Treadwell's This would seem to be a London occult books shop. [view link] Kenneth Grant's books are a bit obscure, but not at Treadwell's [view link] Eugen Grosche allias: [view link] His books are obscure and numerous. So I wouldn't know what to expect. But Kenneth Grant was drawing upon his ideas about sex magic. And then of course: [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Her-Bak, novel in two parts, Inner Traditions Opening of the Way [view link] Lucie Lamy, Thames and Hudson [view link] Tehuti Research Foundation [view link] Tehuti Research Foundation P.O. Box 39491 Greensboro, NC 27438 U.S.A. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    We'll make our own books, like this, "art covers", pressed in designs. Old fashioned. Max Heindel's stuff goes back before WWI. Well make them this way because the books are for keeping long term, and because they are for comfort and for show. The same info is also always on computers. [view link] Well have some things, paper backs, just to give away to the curious too. SJG
  • ime
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    7 years ago
    Fag
  • san_jose_guy
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    French lovers: From Heloise and Abelard to Beauvoir and Sartre [view link] SJG Sartre and de Beauvoir with Castro and Che Guevara [view link] Chicago - I'm A Man (Remastered) [view link] Diane Ravitch: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools [view link] Public Schools for Sale? [view link] Stop Rocketship [view link] Public Library Privatization: Evading Civic Responsibility [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Plato Complete: [view link] [view link] [view link] The above two use the Benjamin Jowett translation. This has two volumes, sold separately. Could be convenient. [view link] BIG BIG BIG GIRL [view link] Panentheism, by John W. Cooper [view link] Penguin Cloth Bound Classics [view link] Look like art hard covers. Do they come with dust jackets too? Maybe not. Yes, they say they are impressed, so the covers have texture. [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Zone Books, always most interesting: [view link] Catalog [view link] Accursed Share [view link] Theory of Religion [view link] Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution [view link] ^^^^^ In libraries, getting heavily used too. Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Brown’s study begins by engaging and revising key arguments in Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics with the aim of analyzing different ways that democracy is being hollowed out by neoliberal rationality.[41] She describes neoliberalism as a thoroughgoing attack on the most foundational ideas and practices of democracy. The individual chapters of the book examine the effects of neoliberalization on higher education, law,[26] governance,[42] the basic principles of liberal democratic institutions,[43] as well as radical democratic imaginaries.[44] Brown treats “neoliberalism as a governing rationality through which everything is 'economized' and in a very specific way: human beings become market actors and nothing but, every field of activity is seen as a market, and every entity (whether public or private, whether person, business, or state) is governed as a firm." To address such threats, Brown argues, democracy must be reinvigorated not only as an object of theoretical inquiry but also as a site of political struggle.[45] Wendy Brown [view link] Wendy Brown [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Wendy Brown: How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy. We all need to understand this, if we are to fight the Dougster's and the Mark94's [view link] Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Picketty [view link] I'm a bit new to this, but maybe this SEIU is more radical than the AFL-CIO. and SEIU local 1000 represents workers for California state. [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions) [view link] 482 pages, I think w/o commentarty Benjamin Jowett translation, from 1920's. Timaeus and Critias [view link] SJG Creating bubbles to cover up, instead of fixing a broken economic system! Picketty, Stiglitz, Krugman [view link] [view link] [view link] McCain, Opposes Obama Care Repeal [view link] GOP Senators who could block Obama Care Repeal [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Everything Books [view link] SJG Tied up in political matters now.
  • san_jose_guy
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    One of the measures of a bible commentary is how big it is, relative to the bible itself. And this one is the biggest, about 8 shelf feet. Pricey books too. Two volumes for Exodus, 4 volumes for John's Gospel. Also, the translations are wild. They have the author of each commentary do their own independent translation of just that books. [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Melania Trump fires back at librarian who rejected 'racist' books she donated [view link] Elementary school librarian rejects books donated by Melania Trump [view link] ‘Steeped in racist propaganda’: School librarian rejects Melania Trump’s Dr Seuss books [view link] Michael Moore, on his Broadway show [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    7 years ago
    These Collegeville Bible commentaries have been around for a long time, and they are great. Some said they were outdated, considering all that has been learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls and all. Well, they have been updated. These are available in one big book each for the OT and NT, and without the scripture. But I recommend the small books, with the scripture. Its about 2x of commentary for every 1x of scripture. Good books for taking with you someplace, like maybe Viet Coffee. [view link] But a whole set will cost money, unless they give some bargains. Never seen such bargains. We have one religious book store which used to always have these. Though it was closed. But no, it still runs. SJG Always liked this song. I think what distinguishes it is something about the rhythm. [view link] Accent on 3rd of 4 beats? There are actually no rules about accenting within a measure. But nevertheless, sometimes intent is communicated by using pickup notes. Consider: [view link] and even just the instrumental part: [view link] Very important book, everyone should read: [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Never read this guy's works, but they have always looked interesting. The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are by Norman Podhoretz [view link] A Neo-Con [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Shimano 11 speed gear hub [view link] Shaft drive system. Of course this needs a special frame. [view link] [view link] [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Everything Book Series, like Dummies and Idiots [view link] Everyman's Library [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Remembering Che, 50 years later [view link] "Times have changed, and the incumbent President Evo Morales is a fervent admirer of the revolutionary leader." Read more: [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Isis : queen of Egyptian magic : her book of divination and spells / Jonathan Dee, 2003 [view link] The book of magic : from antiquity to the Enlightenment / selected and translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Copenhaver, 2015 [view link] These books might be of interest to women. Especially the first. Looks like an assumed author name, though I don't know. Seems to deal in the light occult, and that stuff can lead to superstitious New Age Lint Head thinking. Need to look it over. The second author has translated other books. Looks good. SJG Brothers In Arms - Joan Baez [view link] Mark Knopfler [view link] Leonard Cohen, The Partisan [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Isis : queen of Egyptian magic : her book of divination and spells / Jonathan Dee, 2003 published by Sterling Isis : queen of Egyptian magic : her book of divination and spells / Jonathan Dee, 2003 [view link] The book of magic : from antiquity to the Enlightenment / selected and translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Copenhaver, 2015 Penguin Classics reprint. Copenhaver is in the Philosophy Dept at UCLA SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Isis Queen of Egyptian Magic, by Jonathan Dee Dee has written a number of novels and teaches English. Still not convinced that he is using his original name. [view link] [view link] The Isis book is interesting, published by: Sterling Publishing [view link] Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 1166 Avenue of the Americas Floor 17 New York, NY 10036 Other books which could be similar [view link] not really in print, but new and used available ********************** Magic and Prosperity, Oliver Hart [view link] *************************************** [view link] Isadore M. Forrest Isis Magic Llewellyn Publications [view link] ******************************************* Evoking the Egyptian Gods [view link] ************************************ Ancient Egyptian Magic, Bob Brier [view link] *********************************** Mysteries of Isis [view link] Lyellyn. **************************************** Magic of Isis, Llewwllyn [view link] ********* SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    The Secret Lore of Egypt and It's Impact On the West by Erik Hornung, well known academic in I think Germany 2001 Cornell University Press SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    The Sacred Tradition In Ancient Egypt, by Rosemary Clark (2004) Llewellyn [view link] full text online? [view link] SJG London must be an interesting place: 144. Chaos Magick | Daily Practice | Divine Masculine ☽✪☾ [view link] In A Casual Vacancy, one woman, a social worker, had moved out to the small city from London, and one jr high school age by with the worst sort of jerk for a father, wanted to move to London. [view link] Hermetic Hour [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Communism a history by Richard Pipes A Modern Library Chronicles Book [view link] Other books written by or of interest to women, the poetry of Ann Sexton and Sylvia Plathe SJG To me, this music sounds East Indian influenced. Though I don't know the technical details, I believe that you have to alter the tuning. [view link] Here, a mirco tuning piano made to sound like that [view link] [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Isis : queen of Egyptian magic : her book of divination and spells / Jonathan Dee, 2003 Jonathan Dee This is really good. Not in print anymore, Sterling Publishers, NY Dee does a very good job at something very difficult , weaving egyptian mythology into a single coherent narrative, and making it understandable. Written all as Isis first person. SJG Do you like the girl on the cover? I do! [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    The book of magic : from antiquity to the Enlightenment / selected and translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Copenhaver London, Penguin Books Starts off talking about the Bible, and with Exodus. [view link] Guy is in UCLA Philosophy Dept, though I suspect retired now. [view link] well, maybe not [view link] SJG portal address, please save this address: [view link] King Crimson, live in Japan [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    .The Art of Music Copying by Clinton Roemer 1st ed 1973 2nd ed 1985 Roerick Music Co, Sherman Oaks Californa [view link] There are newer books about this subject, but if this one was handy I would certainly go thru it, make sure there was nothing I was ignorant of. I believe 12-tone systems makes music processing software. SJG King Crimson awesome and long play list [view link] 35 years ago I used to listen to this album all the time. Today, after having listened to lots more music, this does not have that much of an appeal for me anymore. Apple Juice, Tom Scott [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Zone Books, tied to MIT, their stuff always awesome! [view link] [view link] SJG Tobias Churton, Occult Paris [view link]
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    American Transcendentalism ( 2007 ) by Philip F. Gura, who is at U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Hill and Wang, division of Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York. [view link] The cover picture is from multiple faiths, the figure is from Zoroastrianism. They say that transcendentalism is planted deeply in California. I think this was someone writing about Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and the sequel, Sweet Thursday, and about the "bums". Some aspects of transcendentalism I do go along with. Some of it comes from Kant. But other I do not. I call the people, "New Age Lint Heads". I trace this to what is desribed in William James's 1901 "Varieties of Religious Experience", and what he calls "Healthy Mindedness", and then the rise of things like New Thought. I don't go along with any of this whatsoever and I make my disgust with its proponents known. It looks to be a reaction to Calvinism and the Second Great Awakening, but as I see it, it is just a repackaging. Its people trying to be different from their parents, but actually being no different. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities Awesome new book, now in hand. [view link] We all should learn from this example. SJG Pink Floyd, great compilation [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Georg Feuerstein [view link] [view link] A book on Tantra, eastern Tantra, not American neoTantra. A book on Sacred Sexuality. And the book about interpreting Jean Gebser's Ever Present Origin, and its different than where Ken Wilber tries to go with it. [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Aristotle for Everybody, by Mortimer J. Adler. Good, deals with Nichomachian Ethics. SJG
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    [view link] Nice atlas, not super thick. Some stuff is done well by Google Maps. But for other stuff, like being able to see more information on a map at one time, paper atlas is best. SJG
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    [view link] [view link] I've read the Earth Sea Trilogy. But Le Guin probably has other good stuff. Some likely have works with female protagonists and action heroes now. This does not work on TUSCL because of that comment sorting selection option. But this does, the free web proxy version, work well on lots of other stuff. Slow though. [view link] A specter is haunting Europe [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    " Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. " I've been saying things like this for decades. I had no idea that Marx and Engels were so far ahead of me. In Section 2, near the beginning. [view link] [view link] SJG
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    Just learned of this: The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Rebecca Skloot, series editor Tim Folger [view link] [view link] SJG
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    Senator Jeff Flake (R) AZ, declining to run again. [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    [view link] Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (4th Edition) by Randall D. Knight One of the current first year Physics texts, versions used by both UC Berkeley and Stanford. $203 !!! In the organization I am building we will be buying up used copies so that we at all time have many copies of this and similar books always available. SJG
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    A long established name in Physics text books, except that now these guys are a brand name, and younger people, living people, actually write the book. Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics, 13th Edition 13th Edition by Hugh D. Young (Author), Roger A. Freedman (Author), A. Lewis Ford (Author) [view link] Really need to go thru about three different such texts, if educating yourself. This is what I have found. Though most very well written, they each have their own way. People who know this material well, like they teach the classes and write the books, they can read such stuff just like it is the morning newspaper as they already know it so well, and there are only so many types of examples which can be given. Again, in the orgnaization I am building we will have a robust supply of such books, most bought used. And I am expert at gluing damaged books back together so they are even better than new. This Douglas Gioncoli, in my view his book is a little bit lighter weight, just a touch. [view link] Fundamentals of Physics Extended 9th Edition David Halliday (Author), Robert Resnick (Author), Jearl Walker (Author) [view link] Halidy and Resnick, this is great. The old ones from the 70's written by them, sometimes one volume, sometimes to. A beautiful and very formal writing. These kinds of books are large and heavy. The new ones, written by Jearl Walker, lots of real good and modern examples. In some ways easier, but not any less depth. Can be as many as 5 volumes, which makes it easier to handle. But all of these books are just an introduction to something which goes much much further. Again, those who really know this material well can just go right through it like it were a pile of newspapers. SJG
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    [view link] radical philosophy philosophical journal of the independent Left SJG
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    Marxist-Humanist Forum [view link] SJG
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    Marxist Communist Discussion Forum, but newest stuff is 2010 [view link] SJG
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    Hardt and Negri, Open Democracy [view link] openDemocracy is an independent global media platform publishing up to 60 articles a week and attracting over 8 million visits per year. SJG
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    Berkeley Physics Course, volume 2 of 5 [view link] Feynman Lectures, volume 1 of 3 [view link] I introduce both of these together, both written about the same time. Both being written by a school, rather than a single author or a book publishing company. Both intended to improve and accelerate the way physics is taught. Both extremely interesting books to work through for those who already understand the material. But neither works well for actually teaching the undergraduates, as intended. And today neither is used. The Berkeley course is unusual in that in Vol1 they go all through mechanics and even go all the way to relativistic mechanics where momentum and energy become proportional, instead of the latter being the square of the other. They do all this without ever talking about electromagnetism or traveling waves, or in any other way explaining what light is. And then when they do talk about even mechanical waves, it is after they have done electromagnetism. Also opposite of the norm. And then finally they only do thermodynamics at the very end, macro and micro together. A very ambitious project they under took, and with a preface by none other than Clark Kerr. The Berkeley books also use these CGS units, and this also makes all the electrical units completely strange. No one uses this today, except that maybe for some computer programing these units may be convenient, better to keep the numbers within bounds. For someone who knows the material, you can go through and work out all the differences on paper. But for people just learning it is an undesirable complication. Cal Tech had found that its first year Physics had expanded to two years, and so they wanted to make it go faster. So they had Feynman give these video lectures. I guess they used early Ampex reel to reel video tape. They had others then prepare the books. The first is awesome, the second okay, and the third so so. Hearing reports from someone who tried to teach from these books, an experienced Physics teacher, he was having to spend 6 hours per lecture just to come up with other things to say on top of Feynman. But alas, people cannot learn in courses using such books. There are now lots of better new first year Physics books on the market. Feynman's series are for people who already understand it and just want to revel in the beauty of it. I believe that both of these experiments did contribute to the writing better text books. SJG Yardbirds [view link]
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    an old book now, but still every bit as relevant Solid State Physics, Ashcroft and Merman [view link] This I have not read: A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics) [view link] Because it is published by Dover, it would seem that it is deemed a classic. If you want to know a field well, you do need to work through all such highly regarded texts, as their way of explaining something is widely disseminated. SJG I'm A Man [view link]
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    David Griffiths, this guy's book is way off the charts [view link] I would say that it is for third year Physics and EE's. But compared to the other books like it, this one goes much much deeper. I went through it once, and wow. Need to work through a number of the others before being ready. Surprised when I see a school using this. Griffiths also has one on quantum mechanics and particle physics. I have no doubt that they are just as good. And of course he does not shy away from showing how with electrodymanics you can go right to the Lorentz Transform and to Special Relativity. But he goes into lots more really advanced things too. SJG
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    Of course nothing has received the critical acclaim that this has, Kittel and Kroemer, Thermal Physics [view link]. A really fun book to work through too. SJG
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    Extremely good too. Many people don't see Quantum Mechanics or Relativity as having any role in industrial applications. Not true. [view link]
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    Modern Physics, by Paul Tipler [view link] This is a later edition of an extremely good book. Really traces the developments, starting with Relativity. Shows it all in historical context, completely rigorous. Now of course by today's standards, particle physics has gone so far, that this is still just the tip of the iceberg. Tipler also has his own general first year type book too: [view link] For people educating themselves, having multiple books, even if they are written to the same sorts of specs, is very helpful. SJG Yardbirds, studio [view link]
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    Introduction to high energy physics / Donald H. Perkins [view link] Though dated now, 2000, this is still a very good introductory book. SJG
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    This Peter Atkins, his books are always good, and very accessible too. [view link] Higgs : the invention and discovery of the 'god particle' / Jim Baggott 2012 [view link] also very good SJG
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    [view link] I think this is what I read before, 2014. Rather bleak view on the prospects for getting energy from nuclear fusion. Problem is that it always puts out hot neutrons. So it eventually it destroys all the components of the reactor. Also, sometimes it needs not only deuterium, but also tritium. This latter has to be made in a nuclear reactor and doing so uses up vastly more energy than you will ever get back from it. Not like the sun. Not encouraging. The author says that the quest for nuclear fusion power is ultimately just another chapter in the quest for military and economic power which has always driven the development of fossil fuel and nuclear fission power. SJG
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    Dance of the photons : from Einstein to quantum teleportation / Anton Zeilinger Zeilinger, Anton 2010 This guy is one of the leaders in the movement to use quantum entanglement, good book. But this book is probably better: bookbag Reviews & More The God effect : quantum entanglement, science's strangest phenomenon / Brian Clegg Clegg, Brian And then, this is really something: [view link] SJG
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    Principles of chemistry / Michael Munowitz (2000) Extremely good, more amenable for self study. Explanations go into greater depth. Good supplement for standard text. [view link] This standard text is really good, as are many others [view link] SJG
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    [view link] This guy, Raymond A. Serway has also written a bunch of Physics text books And this Karen C. Timberlake has written a bunch of Chemistry books. I went through one of her earlier ones, knowing that it would be thinner. She has been through some program about how to visually explain things, and her books do communicate well. [view link] And we also have this John McMurry [view link] Lots of other people have written such books too. Our organization will be getting lots and lots of them, purchasing them used, or by donations. And of course this: [view link] SJG Yardbirds, For Your Love, Full Album [view link]
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    Also Control System Design, An Introdution to State-Space Methods, 1986, Bernard Friedland Outstanding Book. Seems to offer what in 1982 Ian Rhodes was saying did not yet exist! Lagrange's Equations, way to treat motion via energy and momentum. Suggests Goldstein H., Classical Mechanics 1953. and Synge J. L. and Griffith B. A. Principles of Mechanics 1949. and then goes on to rigid body issues and the 6 degrees of freedom and standard ways of laying out the 12 equations for space and aircraft. Suggests Erkin B. Dynamics of Flight, 1959 and Seckel E., Stability and Control of Airplanes and Helicopters, 1964 Gets into differential equations and how to solve them, and all the issues with initial conditions and whether or not the A matix is time independent. Then goes into all the Laplace Transform material and then into pole placement and observers. Then into LQC, and then into Kalman Outstanding Book! Does not deal with H2, H infinity, much with non-linear or any fuzzy or neural stuff
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    So reviewing some of this: Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering) [view link] a 2005 Dover re-print. Usually that means that it is good. they recommend: Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition) 3rd Edition by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole Jr. originally 1953, this edition 2001 [view link]. Should deal with Lagrange Equations [view link] and the Hamiltonian, kinetic and potential energy, as well as momentum, used in mechanics, and also as the basis of quantum mechanics [view link] and the standard 12 dim matrix approach used for aerospace mechanics They also recommend Principles of Mechanics Paperback – 1959 by B.A. Synge J.L. & Griffith (Author) , originally 1949 and 1942 definitely going into the 6 degrees of rigid body freedom, and the associated 12 dimensional equations. [view link] My organization will have mountains of such books, either donated or purchased used. I am expert at gluing damaged old books back together, better than new. And: Dynamics of Flight: Stability and Control (Paperback) -International Edition Paperback – 1995 by Bernard Etkin (Author) originally 1982 and 1949. And I also find: The dynamics of flight : the equations / Jean-Luc Boiffier ( 1998 ) [view link] and also: Stability and Control of Airplanes and Helicopters ( 1964 ) Seckel Edward SJG John Mayer sings American Pie [view link] [view link] [view link] Hollywood Film 'The Lively Set' Premieres In Detroit 1964 - Historic Stock Footage [view link] theme song [view link] better [view link]
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    A most curious book: Calculus deconstructed : a second course in first-year calculus / Zbigniew H. Nitecki. [view link] SJG
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    Highly acclaimed book: The Anti-Social Family (Radical Thinkers) [view link] SJG Craze 4 Toys, Adult Super Store, 25 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA has lots and lots of stripper shoes out on display, always full height, always with the straps to hold them on. Lots of styles, sorted on on the display shelves by size, Pleaser and Ellie. [view link]
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    Some Calculus Books: Sherman K. Stein Calculus in the First Three Dimensions (Dover Books on Mathematics) [view link] These Dover reprints are usually very good. [view link] Stein has other books too. Modern calculus and analytic geometry / Richard A. Silverman, another Dover reprint, originally 1969 Calculus with analytic geometry / Earl W. Swokowski, 1975. Don't get me wrong, I like the new books too. But it is also important to learn from the old ones. Believe it or not, even going back a few decades, calculus was not taught the same way it is now. Actually today I think it goes further, more accepted. Even as recently as 1900, it was not all set in stone, not all fully accepted. Need to understand the history, need access to the old books. Advanced Engineering Mathematics Erwin Keryzig, and he has other books too. Out of Canada, where they seem to have lots of good mathematicians. [view link] And then of course there are the James Stewart Calculus books, new, and there are lots of others too. And then Calculus to Chaos, David Acheson [view link] SJG
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    Listening To Music, by Craig Wright w/ CD [view link] [view link] SJG B1-B [view link]
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    This kind of stuff, vector fields, is lots of fun, but it is not easy. Div, Grad, Curl and All That - An Informal Text on Vector Calculus [view link] There are lots and lots of other and newer books about this too. And then it goes further: A short course in tensor analysis for electrical engineers, by Gabriel Kron Kron is a guy from the 30's, and this is a 1942 book. But he introduces tensor analysis, normally reserved for General Relativity, into Electrical Engineering, the analysis of AC circuits. Most curious. Totally over my head, from U Vienna, depends entirely on tensor analysis Computational physics : an introduction / Franz J. Vesely. Also should mention Leon o. Chua Introduction to nonlinear network theory / Leon O. Chua ( 1969 ) But he has lots of other books, like about his Chaos Circuit, and lots of other stuff too. SJG
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    Network analysis / [by] M. E. Van Valkenburg. This guy has written lots of other books too ,and there are also lots of others like this. This guy has written lots of books too, and one of his active filter books is extremely mathematically rigorous and a very useful book. All in favor of new books, but you still need to have old books to compare them to. SJG
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    Also, a very mathematically rigorous book. Analog and digital filters : design and realization / Harry Y-F. Lam SJG
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    Charles A. Holt, this is an old book, but still good [view link] David Griffiths, one of the most demanding such books I have seen [view link] Good: Electromagnetism: Principles and Applications 2nd Edition Paul Lorrain (Author), Dale R. Corson (Author) Lots of other books like this. And also now: Research Advances in Magnetic Materials (Materials Science and Technologies) [view link] SJG Big Tits, not much coverage [view link] more [view link] old style burlesque [view link]
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    Linear control system analysis and design : conventional and modern / John J. D'Azzo, Constantine H. Houpis Semiconductors and electronic devices / Adir Bar-Lev ( 1984 ) Physics of semiconductor devices / [by] S. M. Sze ( 1969 ), but lots of later books too. Again, lots of newer books, but need to have the older books to compare them with. SJG Big Tits, not much coverage [view link] more [view link] old style burlesque [view link]
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    Probability, random variables, and random signal principles / Peyton Z. Peebles, Jr 2001, but originally 1980. SJG Nothing Dougster likes better than when people make it rain on him: [view link] Big Tits, not much coverage [view link] more [view link] old style burlesque [view link]
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    Linear Prediction of Speech (Communication and Cybernetics) by J.D. Markel (Author), A.H. Jr. Gray (Author) Microwave filters, impedance-matching networks, and coupling structures [by] George L. Matthaei, Leo Young [and] E.M.T. Jones SJG
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    Communication systems: An introduction to signals and noise in electrical communication (McGraw-Hill electrical and electronic engineering series) [view link] Lots of new books like this, and lots more specifically about digital and new modulation schemes. But need the old books to compare with. SJG
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    Classic WWII era book [view link]
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    University Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable (2nd Edition) by Joel R. Hass (Author), Maurice D. Weir (Author), George B. Thomas Jr. (Author) [view link] This is a new calculus book, friend was using it at Evergreen Community College. I got one and went through it carefully. It is a thinner book than one might expect for a year long course. But I see that it also references supplementary chapters which are available online. The book is not watered down at all. I also got to see some of the exam questions. Quite difficult, so these classes are still quite demanding. And then if one is educating themselves and those online chapters are no longer available, one can simply add in another book or two. SJG
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    The Recovery Movement is alive and well, strong as ever. Most of the people at the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy are always being subjected to it, and usually they go along with it. Often government authority and money behind it. It is also usually used to destroy the boundary between church and state. Its basic premises are just a re-working of the doctrine of original sin. Good book: [view link] Explains how in the 1970's feminists surfaced the pervasiveness of incest. But in the 1980's that got converted into a malady to be recovered from, hence neutralizing the political impact. SJG
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    Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists, J. K. Truss Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications, by Kenneth H. Rosen old books, but we need both old and new books, to be able to compare and better understand. The nature of mathematical modeling / Neil Gershenfeld (1999) Finite elements for electrical engineers / Peter P. Silvester, Ronald L. Ferrari ( 1996 ) SJG
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    Gary Becker, U Chicago Economist [view link] [view link] ********************** Haykin, Simon S., 1931- Transistor circuits in electronics; basic principles for amplifier, oscillator and switching applications [by] S. S. Hakim [and] R. Barrett Haykin has written many books, from the early 60's forwards. One of the first was about Germanium transistors, PNP only. It showed every kind of amplifier circuit, then adding diodes, every kind of multi-vibrator and every kind of logic gate. Haykin has two spellings of his name, different Anglicizations of a middle-eastern name. He has moved through a number of specialties in his teaching and writing. His stuff should all be mandatory reading, even the old stuff. ************* Kittel, Charles Introduction to solid state physics originally 1956 SJG Big Girl, Yes or No? [view link] Karl Marx [view link]
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    ^^^^^^ That books is titles "Dougster's Guide To Investing In Gimicks" SJG
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    Charles A. Holt [view link] Good book. He also has an electromagnetism book William Hayt, also good [view link] Besides Ramo, Whinnery, and Van Duzer, this is also very good, 1975 Johnk, Carl T. A. (Carl Theodore Adolf), 1919- Engineering electromagnetic fields and waves / [by] Carl T. A. Johnk. Communication systems : an introduction to signals and noise in electrical communication / A. Bruce Carlson ( 1986, but goes back further and up to 2002 ) Frederick, Dean K., 1934- Title Linear systems in communication and control / Dean K. Frederick and A. Bruce Carlson ( goes back far like 1971 ) This guy is good: Shanmugam, K. Sam Digital and analog communication systems / K. Sam Shanmugam ( 1979 ) but has other books too. And of course : Oppenheim, Alan V., 1937- Signals and systems / Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky with Ian T. Young and his other book about Digital Filtering Lyons, Richard G., 1948- Understanding digital signal processing / Richard G. Lyons. This is a bit of an overview, lighter on math, kind of book. Ralph J. Smith [view link] And lots and lots of newer and older books. You need the older books to be able to put the new books in perspective. SJG TJ Street [view link] Marx [view link]
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    Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (MIT Press), 2014, by John H. Holland [view link] also by John H. Holland Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Helix Books) 1999 and Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books) 1996 Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (Complex Adaptive Systems) 1992 SJG Lester Young [view link] Karl Marx [view link]
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    The god of war / Marisa Silver (2008) Interesting novel set in the 1970's in the Salton Sea area of California Ursula K. Leguin, I have read the Earth Sea Trilogy. [view link] Today their are probably such books with female protagonists and action heros. SJG
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    This could be good: Introduction to Communication Systems (Electrical Engineering) by Ferrel G. Stremler (1977-07-07) [view link] [view link] Introduction to Signals and Systems, Edward W. Kamen, he has other books too SJG
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    Jury Eliahu Ibrahim 1923, lots of stuff about discrete time systems and some widely referenced mathematical techniques. As should be clear there is a book a friend had that I am hoping to find. It could be this: Introduction to Communication Systems (Electrical Engineering) by Ferrel G. Stremler (1977-07-07) But to actually know I would need to see it, and this means shelf browsing. I have found a better place to look things up, Melvyl, connects all the UC libraries, some with as many as 10 Meg of items, and also WorldCat. [view link] To actually get access to the books is another matter. But clearly I will be dealing with used book dealers and getting books donated, and also buying lots of current books new. You need both the old and new books. Early early book about sampled data controls Analysis and synthesis of sampled-data control systems [by] Benjamin C. Kuo (1963) Benjamin C.Kuo would go on to write great books up at least thru 1995 SJG Hermetic Hour [view link]
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    Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations by Rumelhart, David E.; McClelland, James L.; Group, PDP Resear published by A Bradford Book Paperback [view link] As I know, the above is the primary source for the neural networks approach. This can be made to work with a standard Von Neumann architecture. But speed is also supposed to be one of the benefits. To get this you need a special kind of hardware. I am not aware of many examples of this in use. Now of course there are also lots of newer books I am sure. SJG
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    William S. Burroughs [view link] Of course we want Naked Lunch and Junky. And then there is a short story Junkies Christmas. He wrote lots and lots of stuff. One is Journey to the West, and ancient egyptian themed work. It is part of a trilogy. We want that. and lots more too. SJG [view link] Jeff Beck [view link]
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    COLL PHYS & FLIPIT+SAPLING ACCESS LL Author FREEDMAN [view link] Okay, this Roger Freedman has College Physics and also University Physics, and one with Modern Physics with Hugh Young. This stuff is currently being used in highly regarded schools SJG
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    All of Morton Borden's US History books are good, including one about how it would have been if the Age of Jefferson had continued and Andrew Jackson had not been elected President. [view link] SJG
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    Morton Borden's Speculations book which I alluded to before: [view link] The Trump Survival Guide [view link] Antifa [view link] SJG [view link] Bonobo Handshake [view link] Republicans suddenly fear disastrous 2018 [view link]
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    Ordinary differential equations / Robert H. Martin, Jr (1983) Old book, still very good. Martin is in North Carolina Ordinary differential equations : an elementary textbook for students of mathematics, engineering, and the sciences / Morris Tenebaum, Harry Pollard Dover reprint of 1963 book, usually these are very good, this one certainly looks it. various books about the wavelet transform, like: Wavelet analysis : the scalable structure of information / Howard L. Resnikoff, Raymond O. Wells, Jr Never read this anywhere, but I feel that the wavelet transform is motivated by interest in doing machine detection, and this of course is always non-linear. So they are looking for something between the time domain and the frequency domain. Lots and lots of wavelet books, and then also now this Sparse Fourier Transform. This is a weak book, E. Oran Brigham. But again, one needs old books for perspective: The Fast Fourier Transform: An Introduction to Its Theory and Application [view link] and then this: Partial differential equations for scientists and engineers / Stanley J. Farlow SJG [view link]
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    What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason Revised ed. Hubert Dreyfus [view link] This is a brilliant critique of the entire AI project, especially as it first started at MIT with Marvin Minsky, in the late 50's. Dreyfus actually left MIT and came to UC Berkeley because of his difference in views. Suffice to say, I agree with it, and see the 'expert system's' or natural language, or rules inference approach to AI as idiotic. And this still applies today. I must add though, that I do still see rules inference as a good way to write certain types of programs. Dreyfus and his brother Stuart have other books about AI and Computer Issues. Hubert was a leading authority on Martin Heidegger's :Being In Time". SJG Mister Bond - A Jazzy Cocktail Of Ice Cold Themes [view link]
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    The Path of the Everyday Hero: Drawing on the Power of Myth to Meet Life's Most Important Challenges Paperback – November 11, 2004 by Lorna Catford (Author),‎ Michael Ray (Author) [view link] Really interesting book, starts with the Perceval story. and a most interesting unusual book: A Book of Men: Visions of the Male Experience Paperback – 1975 by ross firestone [view link] Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the Sacred by Jeremy Naydler Naydler studied under Jonathan Anthony West [view link] The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt: The Esoteric Wisdom Revealed by Rosemary Clark ( 2000 ) [view link] just learned of: [view link] Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt: The Erotic Secrets of the Forbidden Papyri by Ruth Schumann Antelme ( 2001 ) The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West by Erik Hornung (Author),‎ David Lorton (Translator) ( 2002 ) [view link] Isis: Queen of Egyptian Magic: Her Book of Divination & Spells by by Jonathan Dee ( 2003 ) [view link] SJG Pink Floyd - Animals, full album [view link]
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    lofts, about how it all started and the politics of it. I read this years ago, a reprint of an old book: [view link] As some local commentators have said about San Francisco, "Artists are the shock troops of gentrification." SJG
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    Liz Renay, My First 2000 Men [view link] They had to do a few thousand minimum just to get beyond the neophyte grade: [view link] SJG
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    Sabrina Aset [view link] SJG
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    Status Anxiety (2005) Alain De Botton [view link] Money and the Meaning of Life Jacob Needleman ( 1994 ) [view link] SJG
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    Laura Kipnis I've read, "Against Love" and "The Female Thing". But I believe some here would like her newer books, critical of certain strains of feminism. [view link] OT: Computer Programming [view link] SJG Pink Floyd - Pigs [view link] Peter Levenda Order of the Golden Dawn 2017, Occult Origins of Nazi Party [view link]
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    TTL Cookbook, by Don E. Lancaster [view link] CMOS Cookbook [view link] IC Op-AMP Cookbook, by Walter Jung [view link] Active Filter Cookbook [view link] I have read all of these, and they are all good, and still good. OT: Computer Programming [view link] SJG Pink Floyd - Pigs [view link] Peter Levenda Order of the Golden Dawn 2017, Occult Origins of Nazi Party [view link] Graham Bond, Love is the Law, full album [view link]
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    Antenna Physics: An Introduction, ARRL, 2016 [view link] ARRL books are always good, and they go way beyond the scope of amateur radio. you have their basic handbook: [view link] And then lots of antenna books. Their books are so good that you really want to collect every new edition of each of them! Try to get old ones from the used book markets. SJG
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    Transitive Vampire, Ultimate Grammar Handbook [view link] Random House Handbook, also very good, more traditional type of grammar book [view link] SJG Printing 3d circuits [view link] Heart, Little Queen [view link]
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    King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette [view link] above, the intro book, and then the 4x following books: [view link] [view link] etc. I give a guarded endorsement of these books. Nominally Jungian, and clearly part of the Mytho Poetic Wing of the "Men's Movement", these books are full of reactionary thinking. Like for one thing, they are anti-porn. Anyway, you can read and think about it all and decide for yourself. SJG
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    Okay, these books are obscure 1. "The Plague" 2. "Have Fun At Work" 3. "Friends In High Places" [view link] All by William L. Livingston, a blistering critique of corporate culture during the 1980's. Livingston used to publish this news letter called, "Fuzzball Eater's Society". They seemed to be aerospace engineers from the North East. All most interesting. But the books came out through non-standard channels. May be very hard to get, but well worth. Also draws upon this Swiss Dr. Rudolph Starkerman. SJG Have fun at work (Engineering Empowerment) It is dangerous, and often fruitless, to try and solve problems without considering the underlying social system. This is the message of William L. Livingston, a mechanical engineer with over 100 patents and decades of industrial experience. Several books and a newsletter detail his disturbing but important worldview. They are all available from FES Ltd Publishing, [view link] 158, Stuart, FL 34995, phone (407) 229-5654, fax (407) 229-5636. ``Have Fun at Work'' (1988, ISBN 0-937063-05-3, $24.95) is the basic work. It's also available from [view link]. This book discusses chronic patterns of organizational malfunction that I have observed personally many times while working for computer firms (4 years at Hewlett-Packard and 6 years at Tandem, among others). Man is not well-adapted for solving complex problems, he argues. Our brains and bodies and, to a large extent, our social systems evolved for the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Faced with truly complex problems, our managers generally fall back on instinct. This can produce legendary debacles like the original baggage handling system at Denver International. The book sketches a different social structure that is better equipped to cope with complexity: the Skunkworks. The term comes from a legendary aircraft development shop that produced the U-2 and Blackbird aircraft. In general, a Skunkworks is a small (3--5) team of battle-hardened, generalist engineers equipped with the latest in software tools for simulating the behavior of all the involved systems (mechanical, electrical, software, and social). On a purely practical level, this book is an excellent survival manual for results-oriented engineers who have developed attitude problems about the structural barriers to success in their work environments. Livingston discusses how to evaluate your social structure's potential for success, ways to get working projects out the door in spite of these barriers, and how to tell when you're wasting your time even working there. Livingston's more recent work, ``Friends in High Places'' (1990, ISBN 0-937063-06-1, $28.50), spends less time discussing organizational pathologies and more time discussing the Skunkworks procedure. It is a somewhat more positive, less bitter work than ``Have Fun at Work.'' Livingston's work has continued in a quarterly newsletter called ``Short Circuit.'' I find these newsletters very exciting, as Livingston and several colleagues report back from the cutting edge of the Skunkworks movement. They have thrown down the gauntlet: they will demonstrate the method to skeptics. They have asked for thorny problems to solve. The ones they have taken on have proved the method. The main reason why they haven't done more is that they almost always tell clients that their social system has to change if they want success---and people are often very reluctant to abandon their social system, however badly it may work. Update: Livingston has put up a web with the latest material, The Front End. Please see this site for current information. Also see Dee Hock's Institutions in the Age of Mindcrafting, which is strongly congruent with Livingston's ideas.
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    I had always been worried about Livingston, as he had seemed to go silent. And I knew he had had an office in the World Trade Center. But here 2005, alive and well. [view link] [view link] [view link] not sure if this is he. [view link] seems to be same guy, but I think not my Bill Livingston [view link] This is my Bill with a 2010 email address [view link] SJG
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    Jon Kabat Zinn, mindfulness [view link] Lots of other books too. He is really good. Also, The Four Agreements, also good. [view link] As I have written, in the organization I am building, our libraries will have all of these and much more. Just one hour spent with most any of these books, and a guy will learn so so much. And all right there for you to avail yourself of. So think about it, you come for a ritual event, maybe you have some early time, so the library. Then the ritual and that goes directly into sex with one of our stripper grade hotties. So then maybe you have a project meeting, you go to that. Then more sex. Then back to the library. Then picking one of our hotties to bed down with and pump more loads into. So much better than the completely wasteful ways most people's lives are set up. SJG
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    Cybernetics and Autopoeisis Just ran across: Dark hero of the information age : in search of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics / Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman (2005) Norbert Wiener [view link] In addition to him there is also Heinz von Foerster, at U Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [view link] And then I especially want to draw attention to the works of Maturana and Varela, and a book which really challenged my own thinking: The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding ( 1992 ) [view link] And then from that same group, originally Chile, then UC Berkeley, came: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, and this is a revised edition I am just now seeing for the first time! [view link] But then this also connects to: Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind [view link] These guys were undoubtedly in communication with UCB's Hubert Dreyfus. Then there is also an early Maturana and Varela book which deals with their special idea of autopoeisis, in a strictly mathematic way, and draws upon the legendary: George Spencer-Brown Laws of Form: The new edition of this classic with the first-ever proof of Riemans hypothesis ( 2008 ) [view link] And again I am seeing here for the first time a revision of a book now over 45 years old! [view link] [view link] And of course, in the organization I am building, all of these books will be right at your finger tips. Computer Programming [view link] SJG Republican Tax Scam Passes House [view link] Playboy, Substantial Size Girl, Yes or No? [view link] [view link] Lou Reed - Egg Cream [view link] Talking Heads 1980 [view link]
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    Andrew Bard Schmookler, written lots of books. I see one for 2015. I've read some of his older stuff, but always wanted to read: Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny [view link] FWIW, I am becoming ever more painfully aware that most people, including myself do not have access to adequate libraries. Even large universities do not necessarily have such. So they use more book sharing. UC and CSU do this. In the organization I am working to build, this deficit will be corrected for our people. SJG youtube terminates exploitive kids channel [view link] Stones, awesome long playlist [view link]
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    G. Randy Slone, books on solid state audio: [view link] [view link] Very interesting man and interesting DIY oriented books. Though I don't agree with all of his methodologies or conclusions, and I certainly don't agree with his Born Again Christianity, the man is trying to address some extremely complex matters, and so his books deserve serious treatment and analysis of all of his circuits and claims. [view link] The idea of having discrete audio op-amps instead of monolithicly integrated is not new. Again, warranting serious analysis. JBL T-Circuit Audio Op AMP, 1967 [view link] Jensen Discrete Audio Op-AMP [view link] Usually if you are aiming for The Best, it will come down to trade offs between noise and distortion, and also the quest for the best transformerless CMRR on balanced inputs. Sometimes power consumption and heat are also issues, as mixing boards can otherwise be very power consumptive. Most commercial stuff is quite compromised, and much audiophile stuff is not pure non-sense. Douglas Self, UK, has 5 books now, and I am sure they are all good. [view link] And this should be mandatory reading for everyone: [view link] And John Linsley Hood has other books too. Also to really understand this stuff, important to study all the materials on monolithic op-amp design, to understand the strengths and weakness and design issues, versus discrete or hybrid. Again, it comes down to noise and distortion trade offs, along with CMRR, of power supply (PSRR), and balanced inputs, and now also D to A conversions. And then also, do you want to use switching power supplies, and all the issues with that. SJG Yardbirds, live [view link]
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    Warren Farrell is a controversial writter. I believe that many here will be offended by him, but I still say that much of what he says is true. I've read much of this and I think it goes back to the 1970's. [view link] This is only indirectly related, but I still want to read it. [view link] SJG Steely Dan [view link]
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    On the shelves now. And you don't need the new 2018 edition. Any edition will do. Many libraries keep the old editions, and I encourage this. I once used ILLIADs to get lots of the earliest editions, so that I could study the development of the author's thought. I only recommend this book, because it helps you learn how to explore yourself and find your own way. It shatters most of the folk lore and adages about job searching. But, as much as I recommend it, it is rare that I find someone really willing to hear what it says. [view link] SJG A Specter Is Haunting Europe [view link]
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    Ken Wilber, written lots and lots of books. I have read some, but not his huge sex book. [view link] Supposedly following the ideas of Jean Geber, but others say he misunderstands Gebser. [view link] SJG
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    Jean Houston, writtenSJG lots of books, both good and bad to them. Supposedly she was infuenced by someone from the UK, with a theory of levels of consciouness. Always wanted to read him, but I can no longer find mention of him. [view link] Her husband, Robert Masters, also interesting. [view link] I am 100% opposed to psychotherapy, but I still want to read these: About Wilhelm Reich, a guy I know much about already. This, from an occultist Robert Anton Wilson, should be good, but it also might reveal some about Israel Regardie, a mystery man as I see it. [view link] And also, a neo Jungian, [view link] SJG Yardbirds Tangerine [view link] Led Zeppelin - For Your Love - rare live tape [view link] Yardbirds, Train Kept A Rolling, 1968 French TV [view link] Dazed and Confused [view link] Rare early Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin [view link] Humble Pie 30 Days In The Hole [view link]
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    Real interesting novel: Amnesia by Douglas Anthony Cooper (1994), and he has written others since [view link] William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1986, actually the first of a trilogy [view link] [view link] And I have also read his Virtual Light. And then Mirror Shades, 1988, an anthology Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology [view link] Also Bruce Sterling, Islands On The Net, 1988 [view link] And then his Schizmatrix [view link] He has a couple of short stories which layout the ideas, they might be in this: [view link] Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction ( 1993 ) [view link] SJG Serious Shooting In Cleveland [view link]
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    Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis First Edition Edition by Richard J. Bernstein 1983, very good book [view link] SJG
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    How about statistical quality control? Now part of the much larger field, total quality control, and the various standards established. I had an old and very expensive book. But I don't feel it really spoke to what I wanted. How about: The certified Six Sigma yellow belt handbook / Govinda Ramu ( 2017 ) Actually not that giant of a book either. Not everyone goes along with the six sigma objective, and my own intro to statistical quality control pre-dates that concept. SJG Peter Frampton - Do you feel like we do [view link] Good: The Communist Manifesto: An Analysis [view link]
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    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner [view link] friend recommends this and also Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain [view link] SJG Alert in Bali Raised to Highest Level The alert level for erupting volcano Mount Agung in Bali is raised to its highest point as the local airport closes, stranding tourists and other travelers. [view link] Lawsuits against Tesla in Fremont, CA [view link] Black Workers at Tesla File Class-Action Lawsuit, Saying Tesla Is “Hotbed for Racist Behavior” " Black workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Tesla of being a “hotbed for racist behavior.” A former African American worker at Tesla says he was routinely called the N-word while working at the factory, and that after he complained, he was fired for not having a positive attitude. Tesla is also facing lawsuits accusing the company of discriminating against LGBT workers and older workers. " A most curious development.
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    Art of the Pimp, by Dennis Hof [view link] I don't think much of Hof, and you know his title is a play on DJT's book. Nevertheless, I would probably enjoy reading this, just to try and understand him and where he is coming from. One thing Hof has said is that he "only dates prostitutes". That I have definitely come to understand. SJG Led Zeppelin, full concert, I believe Earl's Court. Awesome. [view link] part 2 [view link] Do you like the blues influenced Led Zeppelin with its strong bass, or do you go with the progressive rock which though seemingly blues derived has lost the strong bass? I go with the former. No reason to give up the strong bottom end.
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    Design and applications of analog integrated circuits / Sidney Soclof ( 1991 ) Digital integrated circuits / Thomas A. DeMassa, Zack Ciccone ( 1996 ) This Paul R. Gray is I believe at UC Berkeley, lots of books. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th EditionJan 20, 2009 by Paul R. Gray and Paul J. Hurst Integrated Circuits for Wireless CommunicationsDec 24, 1998 by Asad A. Abidi and Paul R. Gray Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits by Gray, Paul R., Meyer, Robert G. (January 26, 1984) by Gray, Paul R., Meyer, Robert G. Though some do not seem to understand this, if you want to understand a subject matter well, you need to read both the old and the new books. Sometimes public libraries will have the above types of books, usually because they have been donated. It will be the same in the organization I am building. Also, much which is written about integrated circuit design applies just as well to discrete design, but not all of it. Sometimes you can find places where discrete can outperform integrated. Also for example, Semiconductor and Electronic DevicesFeb 1, 1993 by Adir Bar-Lev, book actually goes back to very early 1980's SJG
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    Microchip fabrication : a practical guide to semiconductor processing / Peter Van Zant ( 2000 ) Need new books and old books. Right now I am focused on old books, as the horizon of 'new' changes very fast, and it is something to worry about later. SJG
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    Low-power CMOS design / edited by Anantha Chandrakasan, Robert Brodersen, 1998 IEEE Press. A dense book of papers written by lots and lots of people, packed with ideas. Old books are still very important.
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    End This Depression Now, Paul Krugman [view link] [view link] “Casino Capitalism”: Economist Michael Hudson on What’s Behind the Stock Market’s Rollercoaster Ride [view link] Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy [view link] [view link] The Bubble and Beyond [view link] SJG Yardbirds [view link]
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    Book about cult leaders that I have long wanted to read: [view link] Runs from Gurdjieff and Ignatius of Loyola, thorough to Rajneesh. [view link] Yep, more often than not, counter culture groups end up like those. Solar Temple and Heaven's gate were some of the most recent. Its not good, not at all. If it doesn't go that bad, then its just the group dissolving into factions, or at least not lasting beyond the life of the founder. SJG Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff [view link] Suspect in 35 yo mass murder on Alaska fishing boat breaks silence: [view link]
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    Women of the Light [view link] [view link] SJG [view link] [view link] Las Chavelas Bar Gallery [view link] password: 28chavelas10 What is Marxism? [view link] BART Through Downtown San Jose, A Tunnel? Cost, Time? That area has a very high water table. [view link]
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    The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible ( 1998 ) [view link] SJG Bonobo or Chimpanzee? [view link]
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    Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel Shurkin Shockley really is beyond belief. David Packard found him highly offensive. Joel Shurkin was a counselor of students at Stanford. He also wrote: Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up [view link] Terman was also quite a piece of work. Shockley wrote: Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors: With Applications to Transistor Electronics, originally 1953 [view link] Though published in 1953, much of the work came from a paper Shockley published in 1939. Many people had to shift their focus to more immediate things, on account of the war. Shockley's work I believe is the first example of where you can treat semiconductor valence band "holes" as a particle. About Solid State Physics and its history: [view link] And a Dover Classics reprint of Stanford's own Walter A. Harrison's book on the Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals. All about using computers to work beyond the limits of analytic solutions to the multiple electron quantum mechanics problems: [view link] And then of course Standord's Jim Gibbons, a kind of Shockley protegee, the ion implant man, as semiconductor manufacturing moved beyond vapor phase epi to get shallower devices, vertical scaling, using ion implant: [view link] [view link] also another book on III-V semiconductors: [view link] But mostly these books are just a theory and then pages of tables generated by computer simulations. Today better to run your own programs. Lewis Terman and his IQ testing of US inductees for WWI is, in my opinion, the basis of Aldus Huxley's Brave New World idea of their being 5 different intelligence categories for humanity. Who studied under Terman at Stanford was one Harry Harlow, known for his crazy money experiments on behalf of National Institute of Health at U Wisconsin Madison. Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection [view link] And about Frederick Terman, and the history of Silicon Valley, extremely telling: [view link] SJG Marxism 101 [view link] Yardbirds [view link] [view link]
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    @SJG is a gay cocksucker! LOL!
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    Also about Stanford, very telling. I read this when it first came out: [view link] And as I remember, this Jossey Bass publisher is based in San Francisco.
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    [view link] William Livingston SJG
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    [view link] related to Livingston. SJG
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    A book I should read: The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity [view link] SJG Karl Marx: A Life [view link]
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    Interesting book I just saw. Actually quite a few books like this: [view link] Ken Kundert [view link] [view link] Met him when he was a doctoral student at UC Berkeley. Good guy, also wrote a chapter for a book on sparse matrix analysis. But, working for so long at Hewlett Packard, and in that era when it was saturated with bullshit, that can have an effect on people. SJG Oscar Peterson Trio - "Satin Doll" - 1989 [view link]
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    Just saw this: The civil engineering handbook / editor-in-chief, W.F. Chen, CRC Press [view link] SJG There is one guy who would always play it differently: [view link] More: [view link]
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    Roger F. Harrington, numerical analysis of electromagnetic waves, some done using Green's Them instead of Finite Element method, as I know. [view link] [view link] original 1961 Edition [view link]
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    [view link] [view link] [view link] Harrington has several other related books [view link] SJG
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    Optical Integrated Circuits, just found [view link] SJG Bitcoin Plunges, Extending Bearish Run | CNBC, yippee! [view link] Worst Cities To Live In Every State [view link] Albany Georgia, lowest median home price? Merced CA, near Fresno, also site of newest UC campus. Warren Haynes ­with Joe Bonamassa [view link]
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    Probability, Random Variables, and Random Signal Principles 4th Edition by Peyton Peebles (Author) [view link] Very good, but sure there are also newer books. Need both old and new books. Linear prediction of speech / J. D. Markel, A. H. Gray, Jr 1976 Should be more books by each of these authors. Augustine H. Gray, born 1936, should be more books. SJG The World Is A Ghetto [view link] Malo-Suavecito [view link] Carlos Santana - Samba Pa Ti [view link] Curtis Mayfield - Diamond in the Back [view link] Say a guy last night had this Rolls-Royce in a parking lot. Not sure the model. May have been a phantom. Like this, but not the extended wheelbase: [view link] Do these cars really have wheel covers over steel rims? They have retractable hood ornaments. Not sure if it works by and electric motor or by vacuum. This one was parked, but still retracted. Not sure the guy turned a switch for that, or if something was broken. [view link]
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    Solid state physics / J.S. Blakemore (1985) This is good. Blakemore is with the Oregon Graduate Center. Principles of the solid state / H.V. Keer (1993) Some other good books: [view link] [view link] [view link] Irving M. Gottlieb has written many many books, and they are all good. [view link] SJG
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    Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History by Marvin Jay Greenberg (1993-07-15) [view link] SJG
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    [view link] curious SJG
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    Opener of the Way, by Robert Bloch [view link] Hollywood SciFi, Horror, and Occult writer. Above anthologized in some later works. SJG
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    From back in the 80's, when we had independent book stores everywhere. This was always on display and I always wanted to read it. The time will come still. [view link] SJG
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    Jon Kabat Zinn, mindfulness [view link] Lots of other books too. He is really good. Also, The Four Agreements, also good. [view link]
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    The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War [view link] Many, including I, believe that the kept the wool pulled over Eisenhower head. It actually goes back to the 1920's and the Sullivan and Cromwell Law Firm and the Dawes and Young Plan, recapitalizing the German Cartels, and then bringing Hitler into power. SJG
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    Very useful stuff. But to do interesting things, you really need to understand it: [view link] SJG
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    Creation-Doctor-Biography-Bruno-Bettelheim [view link] Interesting book about a guy with a serious credibility problem, though in my view not necessarily wrong. SJG
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    The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People [view link] SJG Documentary- Secret History Of The Freemasons [view link] Freemasons Worldwide: 10,000 temples, 5 million members Manley Palmer Hall wrote the the Masonic ritual about the murder of the master mason is actually a handed down version of the Egyptian myth of the murder of Osiris. And generally occultists want to go back before Solomon's Temple, but to Ancient Egypt. Italy's P2 Lodge was known to be a crypto Masonic Lodge, really a shadow Italian Gov't, and tied to the German Nazi Party. AMORC's San Jose Temple [view link]
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    Skulls 2000, patent reference to Yale's Skull and bones society. Protagonist could be seen as someone like the young George W. some hotties: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] believed to practice the Nazi SS Initiation Rite [view link] [view link] SJG
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    ^^^^^^ [view link] SJG
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    Jim Marrs, Rule By Secrecy [view link] he has many other books too. Rosslyn Chapel [view link] SJG
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    Modern calculus and analytic geometry / Richard A. Silverman, originally 1962 Calculus with analytic geometry / Earl W. Swokowski (1975) The theory of algebraic number fields / David Hilbert ; translated from the German by Iain T. Adamson ; with an introduction from Franz Lemmermeyer and Norbert Schappacher Complexity : a guided tour / Melanie Mitchell (2009) Simplexity : why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) / Jeffrey Kluger (2008) Poincaré's prize : the hundred-year quest to solve one of math's greatest puzzles / George G. Szpiro (2007) SJG [view link] [view link] Ticket To Ride [view link] [view link] [view link] Myth Of Osiris [view link]
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    Talked a lot about old text books. Now lets look at some new ones, ones I have not read generally, that are known to be used at reputable schools. [view link] and also: Geometry : includes plane, analytic, and transformational geometries / Barnett Rich, Christopher Thomas. (2013) Numerical analysis / Richard L. Burden, J. Douglas Faires, Annette M. Burden. (2016) NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, Burden [view link] Linear Algebra ( 2014 ) [view link] Linear algebra / Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence. ^^^^^^^ The above books cost a fortune, sometimes exceeding $200 US. In the organization I am building you will be inundated with such books. We will be able to do this mostly because we do not worry about having the very newest books, and because it is supervised independent studies, so we don't have to have anything like class sets. SJG Clapton - Layla [view link] Yes - Roundabout [view link] King Crimson - Epitaph - Greg Lake [view link] [view link]
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    In China they have a book known as the Art of War, written by Tun Szu. [view link] and Three Boxes Of Life [view link] SJG Jefferson Airplane, Rooftop [view link] Fat Angel [view link] Rev William Barber, and on Christian Hate, used to maintain White Supremacy [view link] [view link]
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    Horace Mochizuki, did this guy write any math books? Can't tell. Sherman K. Stein certainly did, quite a few, and some intended as popular books [view link] Applied Mathematics Inc [view link] in CT Elementary number theory in nine chapters / James J. Tattersall (2005) [view link] SJG
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    The Myth of Osiris: Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio [view link] Embodying Osiris: The Secrets of Alchemical Transformation, by Thom Cavalli (2010) [view link] A couple of this guy's books are in libraries, but not the above. SJG Led Zeppelin, Earl's Court, 1975 [view link]
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    This is good, based on the work of Elisabeth Kubler Ross [view link] [view link] SJG MLK [view link]
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    This Michael Kimmel has written dozens and dozens of books. Looks interesting. [view link] [view link] [view link] Michael Kimmel, Angry White Men, video [view link] SJG Gimme Shelter [view link] Dave Matthews Band - All Along The Watchtower [view link]
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    Lots of room for things in this Order, and lots more I still need to learn. But the most important things are rejecting psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, recovery, and salvation. And then most of all, SEX! The most important of our f2f rituals always amount to sex. Otherwise no reason to take the time and trouble to journey to the temple. Everything else can be done online. So some will be ritualized, but most will be completely informal. And never any cost to it. If you don't pick one of the women quickly, then it won't matter because they'll pick you. Drained dry 365 days a year. For on site sleep overs, since that ties up a girl all night, we do have to ration it, to 4 times per week. But you can still stay at the temple every night and go and get extra rounds whenever you are ready, and if you know the women outside, then sleep overs are between you and them. I assume you know about Peter Levenda: [view link] [view link] [view link] awesome book: [view link] In my opinion Kenneth Grant's work is under appreciated. His later books I can't find in libraries or used. The Necronomicon & Government Occult True Believers with Peter Levenda [view link] SJG
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    Joe Siecinski Brainshare: How Business Owners Make More Money And Have More Time [view link] [view link] As a Business Coach and Executive Coach, Joe has helped hundreds of businesses get more customers, make more money, and have more time. His book Brainshare: [view link] gives some insight to how he works and helps his clients. His background includes responsibilities in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Quality and Management at a fortune 50 company for over 20 years. He owned the relationships with over 1500 businesses and personally conducted over 2,000 face-to-face sales calls. He has a B.S. in Engineering, M.B.A. in Marketing, Certified Business Coach, Certified Executive Coach, Bestselling Author, Speaker and NLP Practitioner He sees abundance everywhere, comes from a place of generosity of spirit and channels that energy helping his clients to thrive. So as a business owner, what keeps you awake at night? Call Joe today to get your business where you want it to be. [view link] SJG
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    What is Shamanism? [view link] A Chaos Magician [view link] Visual Magic [view link] SJG
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    PTC Mathcad [view link] New Engineering Mathematics, saw this at a book store some years back [view link] Volumes up to 4, but not in academic libraries. [view link] MATLAB for engineers / Holly Moore, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah. (2018)
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    This guy at Stanford has written lots and lots of very interesting looking books Modernity and self-identity : self and society in the late modern age / Anthony Giddens. (1991) and also: Rose, Nikolas S lots of awesome looking books SJG HK Bar Mexican Sweetie [view link] Knows that high heels are for the bedroom and for the bed.
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    Governmentality, biopower, and everyday life / Majia Holmer Nadesan 2008 Governing childhood into the 21st century : biopolitical technologies of childhood management and education / Majia Holmer Nadesan 2010 Governing the soul : the shaping of the private self / Nikolas Rose 1990
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    Additional Books Of Note: Paul Rabinow, French DNA (1999) French DNA : trouble in purgatory / Paul Rabinow (1999) Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority / Kathleen W. Jones (1999) Robin Trower, live [view link] SJG HK Bar Sweetie. She has what many girls lack, enough ass. And she knows that besides for the bed, high heels are also for the shower. As @n0tmyf1r5t explained, the shower is the place for anal. [view link] [view link] Another HK Bar Sweetie [view link] [view link] Lot Lizards [view link] [view link] [view link] TJ Street [view link] Lingerie [view link] [view link] [view link] Rev. William Barber: U.S. Policies on Healthcare, Poverty Are Immoral & a Threat to Democracy [view link] Jet Strip Cabaret, Lennox CA, pricey [view link] Erwin Kreyzig [view link] Analogy Simulation Environment in Python [view link] Analogy delivers simulator, redefines strategy [view link] [view link] DSPACE [view link] [view link] Robin Trower, live [view link]
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    So some additional books of note: J. Donzelot 1977 The Policing of Families M. Foucault 1979 Discipline and Punish 1965 Madness and Civilization 1988 "The Ethic of care for self as a practice of freedom" in The Final Foucault, ed by D. Rasmussen 1991 "Governmentality" in The Foucault Effect ed G. Burchell, C. Gordon, and P. Miller M. H. Stone 1997 Healing the mind, a history of psychiatry D. S. Napoli 1981 Architects of Adjustment: A History of the Psychological Profession In The United States T. Richardson 1989 The Century of the child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States And Canada J. Grant 1998 Raising Baby By The Book: The Education Of American Mothers SJG Seymour Hersh [view link] TJ Street Girl that knows how to dress to please! [view link] [view link] More [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] DSPACE, the German Company I've seen lots of stuff from [view link] DSPACE, something totally different [view link] [view link] TJ HK Bar Sweetie [view link] [view link] and [view link] [view link] Saber, Simulation Software [view link] [view link] Seems to be separate: [view link] Erwin Kreyszig [view link] Rev. William Barber: U.S. Policies on Healthcare, Poverty Are Immoral & a Threat to Democracy [view link] KISS - Domino [view link]
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    E. West (1996) Growing Up In Twenty-Century America Also from unrelated sources: Guyland : the perilous world where boys become men / Michael Kimmel (2008) SJG Kiss Madison Square Garden 1996 - Deuce [view link] KISS - I Was Made For Lovin' You (Live At Dodger Stadium) - 1998 [view link]
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    Mothers of psychoanalysis : Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein / Janet Sayers. (1991) [view link] The analysis of defense : the ego and the mechanisms of defense revisited / Joseph Sandler with Anna Freud. (1985) [view link]. SJG
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    Going to read this, not too far from now: After the new economy / Doug Henwood. (2003) [view link]. SJG
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    This is a really fun book: [view link] SJG
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    Programming With Sets An Introduction To SETL by J.T. Schwartz etal, 1986 Springer-Verlag [view link] This is a beautifully made book of the very highest quality. [view link] [view link] With its syntax diagrams and reserved words list appendices, and binding of the highest quality, it is every bit the equal of the Niklaus Wirth books they have published. Even though this is a 1986 book, having access to it is still very important. There need to be more copies of it on library shelves. SJG A specter is haunting Europe [view link]
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    Templar heresy : a story of gnostic illumination / James Wasserman with Keith Stump and Harvey Rochman. Book is actually a novel. Templar Crusaders encounter contingent of Niziri A**a**ins coming out from their base near Caspian Sea and Tehran, to Syrian sea coast. Looks like it will later go back to the South of France and the Cathars, and then to the Crusade against the Cathars, and then to the French Monarchy's Purge Against the Templars. So I want here to chronicle some information from the above, about other books and one organization: So we have Karen Ralls [view link] And we have Peter Seals (Frater Puck) host of Thelema Now! [view link] Frater Puck [view link] The Aeons In Thelema - Edward Mason [view link] Mark Stavish Mark Stavish, Director of Studies Mark Stavish, the Director of Studies for the Institute for Hermetic Studies, is a life-long student of esotericism with over 35 years experience in comparative religion, philosophy, psychology, and mysticism with emphasis on Traditional Western Esotericism. His articles have appeared in academic, specialty, and mass market publications specializing in spiritual studies, making Mark one of the leading authorities in Hermeticism today. In addition to being a member and officer of several prominent Rosicrucian and Martinist societies, Mark served as the Director of Research for the Occult Research and Applications Project, of the Philosophers of Nature (PON). The Philosophers of Nature was founded by Jean Dubuis in France in 1979 and for twenty years was the leading resource for practical information on mineral and plant alchemy, as well as qabala. ORA, a statistically based research wing of the American branch of PON performed detailed exploration into the validity and practicality of various traditional esoteric methods. Original research from the ORA Project was published in the organization's journal, The Stone. Mark has been a return guest on Coast to Coast AM (C2C), Just Energy Radio, and Animal Planet/History Channel, as well as been a consultant for documentaries and print article dealing with spirituality. A graduate of King's College, in Theology (B.A.), and Communications (B.A.), and Rhode Island College (Providence), with a Master's degree in Counseling emphasizing psycho-spiritual modalities and Psychosynthesis, Mark brings a unique blend of tradition with modern research to the application of esoteric philosophy. [view link] J. Daniel Gunther [view link] Okay and then of interest by James Wasserman Pythagoras His Life and His Teachings [view link] SJG Universe 1971 (FULL ALBUM) [Hard | Blues Rock] [view link] Imagining Life After Capitalism What can Star Trek tell us about life after capitalism? Peter Frase discusses four possible futures in a world where workers are increasingly being replaced by machines — ranging from communist and socialist societies to ones in which workers are literally disposable. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Verso, 2014 [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    Postmodern magic : the art of magic in the information age / Patrick Dunn. (2005) SJG Katherine S. Newman, on campus safety, 2008 [view link] Why 20-Somethings are Moving Back Home [view link] Katherine Newman - America's "missing class" presentation [view link] Elliot Rodger The Virgin Killer 2014 Isla Vista killings Documentary [view link] The Secret Life Of Elliot Rodger 2020 FULL Interview [view link] Channel 4 Elliot Rodger The Virgin Killer Full Documentary [view link]
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    So reading: Postmodern magic : the art of magic in the information age / Patrick Dunn. (2005) Actually better than I had expected. He has a newer book: The practical art of divine magic : contemporary & ancient techniques of theurgy / Patrick Dunn. (2015) So let me now try to record the references for the first book: Heraclitus, the pre-socratic most compatible with Hermeticism. [view link] Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness Frater U:.D:. [view link] [view link] Phil Hine, Prime Chaos ( some of his stuff had originally been online ) [view link] Condensed Chaos [view link] ToBeContinued SJG
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    So let me continue from above, Postmodern Magic by Patrick Dunn, looking to record his references: Charles Fort, "Fortean Times". panpsychism, idea promoted by Joseph Campbell. Glossalalia, "speaking in tongues", used in some occult circles. Christian Pentecostalism is occultism, but veiled in Christian bullshit. Talisman, Amulet. Michael Harner, "The Way Of The Shaman", using drums to achieve trance. SJG Reply to Nicole: [view link] This one here, I think London, Kelly-Ann Maddox, she goes with the Chaos Magick leaders, Peter J. Carroll, Ray Sherwin, Phil Hine, and Austin Osman Spare. She talks about all of these in some of her hundred plus videos. [view link] TJ Street [view link] Elliot Rodger Manifesto 2014, 11 hours, am listening through this, and I see it differently now. [view link] Baker Gurvitz Army [view link] Vu speaks. He is who he claims to be. [view link] SJG
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    So reading: Postmodern magic : the art of magic in the information age / Patrick Dunn. (2005) Actually better than I had expected. He has a newer book: The practical art of divine magic : contemporary & ancient techniques of theurgy / Patrick Dunn. (2015) So book is really really good. Dunn has exensive wealth of understanding and shows the results of decades of private reading, research, and practice. In a few areas I would break with Dunn, but only in a few. Taking me much longer to work through the book then I had expected. Still want to document his references, and read his second book. Anybody read things like this? Any women read such things? SJG
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    Postmodern magic : the art of magic in the information age / Patrick Dunn. (2005) Actually better than I had expected. Anyone wanting to be able to use this stuff, they need to have this on their shelf. And I will be reading his a newer book: The practical art of divine magic : contemporary & ancient techniques of theurgy / Patrick Dunn. (2015) So let me now start documenting Patrick Dunn's phenomenal references: Frater U:.D:. [view link] Charles Fort, Fortean Times [view link] Panpsychism, advocated by Joseph Campbell Panpsychism [view link] Thunderbolt or diamond, in Tibetan Buddhism, this symbolizes enlightenment. Michael Harner's Way of the Shaman, talks about drumming, in "core shamanism" Melita Denning and Osborn Phillips 1. Mysteria Magica 2. Psychic Self-Defense and Well Being W. Adam Mandelbaum, The Psychic Battlefield lararium ( sacred space in your house ) [view link] Albertus, Frater, The Alchemist's Handbook, Weiser 1976 Arrien, Angels, The Tarot Handbook, 1997 Barrett, David V. Sects, Cluts, and Alternative Religions 1998 Campbell, Joseph, Thou Art That, 2001 Cooper, Phillip, Basic Magick Weiser 1996 Crowley, Aleister. 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings Magick Ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, Weiser 1977 DuQuette, Lon Milo. The Magick of Thelema Weiser 1993 Eliade, Mircea Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1964 Farber, Barry. How to learn any language 1991 Fortune, Dion. Applied Magic Weiser, 2000. Godwin, David. Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. Gray, Eden. A Complete Guide to the Tarot 1972 Hamilton, Edith, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros. Harner, Michael. The Way of the Shaman. Hauck, Dennis William. The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation, 1999. Hay, George Ed. The Necromicron, said to be entirely fictional. Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos Prime Chaos. LeGuin, Ursula, Left Hand of Darkness, 1991 Simon. The Necromicron, 1980, said to be a fraud. Spare, Austin Osman. The Book of Pleasure 1975 U:.D:., Frater, Practical Sigil Magic, Llewellyn, 1980 Whitcomb, Bill. The Magician's Companion, LLewellyn, 1993, said to be very useful. Also his Magician's Reflection. Llewellyn, 1999 [view link] SJG Truth Point, Louisville KY, Front Room Makeout Sessions [view link] Burritozilla [view link] Raspberries - Go All The Way [view link] [view link] [view link] Elton John - Bennie and the Jets [view link] Creedence Clearwater Revival: Have You Ever Seen The Rain? [view link] The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) [view link] The World Is A Ghetto by War [view link] Curtis Mayfield, Pusherman (1972) [view link]
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    Dehaene, S. The Number Sense: How the Mind Create Mathematics 1997 [view link] The number sense : how the mind creates mathematics / Stanislas Dehaene. (2011) Alain de Botton Status Anxiety [view link] Consolations of Philosophy [view link] Religion for Atheists [view link] S. Wolff. Loners: the Life Path of Unusual Children, 1995 Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children, by Sula Wolff Loners : the life path of unusual children / Sula Wolff 1995 SJG
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    The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine / by Arthur Edward Waite Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin SJG
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    Three famous mystics: Saint-Martin / by Arthur Edward Waite ... Jacob Boehme, by W.P. Swainson; Swedenborg, by W.P. Swainson. (1940) SJG
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    Bruce Chilton, lots of books now [view link] SJG
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    Papus The tarot of the Bohemians, absolute key to occult science ; the most ancient book in the world, for the exclusive use of initiates / by Papus [pseud.] Translated by A. P. Morton. Gérard Encausse The Qabalah : secret tradition of the West / by Papus (Gerard Encausse) ; [translated from the French]. So not many books about Martinism. Need to go online instead for what there is. SJG
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    Lots of Dion Fortune books also The Llewellyn practical guide to astral projection : the out-of-body experience / Denning & Phillips. (1990) SJG
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    Ok, so much is not available. So after Patrick Dunn, Eliphas Levi Transcendental Magic (1856) The History Of Magic (1860) The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868) The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations SJG
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    Sacred relationships : the practice of intimate erotic love / Anaiya Sophia, Padma Aon Prakasha. (2017) Gnostic mysteries of sex : Sophia the Wild One and erotic Christianity / Tobias Churton (2015) SJG
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    The Rosicrucian Science of Initiation [view link] These guys, Asherville North Carolina, support the material from Rudolph Steiner and his Anthroposophical Society. So it is a kind of Esoteric Christianity. They endorse this author: Smith, Edward Reaugh, 1932- they endorse his book, which I have not read: Burning Bush [view link] And then he also has other books, like: The temple sleep of the rich young ruler : how Lazarus became the evangelist John / Edward Reaugh Smith (2011) And then there is also the Steiner affiliated Valentine Tomberg in libraries Meditations on the Tarot : a journey into Christian hermeticism / Anonymous. all not in libraries: [view link] There are other writers of Esoteric or Occult Christianity.. James Carse [view link] He has other books The gospel of the beloved disciple / James P. Carse. (1997) The religious case against belief / James P. Carse. (2008) SJG
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    The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. by Neil Strauss, brought PUA community into main stream. [view link] The game : penetrating the secret society of pickup artists / Neil Strauss (2005) GAME OVER / Neil Strauss. (2015) disclaimer, I had not known about this and do not go along with it. SJG Classify Your Troll [view link] James Carse was the Director of Religious Studies at New York University for thirty years. James P. Carse [view link] [view link] The religious case against belief / James P. Carse. (2008) [view link] Patriarchy, dividing women into categories, eradicating witchcraft, restricting access to prostitution to men of high status [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Clapton, Old Love, electric and really good! [view link] Trump Faces Probe into Tax Fraud After NYT Exposes How He Helped Parents Scam Millions from Gov’t [view link] Elliot Rodger: Infamy & Obscurity (2014 Isla Vista massacre) by Jordan Owen [view link]
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    Marcus Borg, Heart of Christianity Here is a 9 part video, with Borg as the main speaker The Heart of Christianity (Part 1/9) Borg comes on towards the end of the second video. The Heart of Christianity (Part 1/9) SJG
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    So the next book I will get off of this thread is: Finite and infinite games : a vision of life as play and possibility / James P. Carse (2012, 1986) SJG
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    [view link] Antifa, The Anti-Fascist Handbook, by Mark Bray In hand now. [view link] Expecting a thin book, lots of pictures. But more like a paperback novel. From back cover: So long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism, also known as 'antifa.' Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920's and 30's, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amid opposition to the Trump administration, the rise of the alt-right, and the resurgence of white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. SJG Can a Cat Have an Existential Crisis? [view link] Black Magick Volume 1: Awakening I [view link] Black Magick Volume 2: Awakening II [view link] The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 4) [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    Ok SJG take a hint... No one seems to have posted anything other than you topically into this forum thread. That would be a good social cue that your topic or content are things that no one here is interested in and you should stop posting. If you can start trying to pick up on social cues like this maybe you will start making friends and simply be a happier person. It is really unhealthy to keep coming back to a place where everyone bullies and makes fun of you.
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    Checking these two books a bit, both by: Nadesan, Majia Holmer Governmentality, biopower, and everyday life / Majia Holmer Nadesan (2008) Governing childhood into the 21st century : biopolitical technologies of childhood management and education / Majia Holmer Nadesan for the second book, table of contents: Introduction to Biopolitics, Risk, and Childhood 1 (18) A Genealogy of Family Life and Childhood Governance 19 (44) Risk, Biopolitics, and Bioeconomics 63 (48) Biopolitical Sorting: Comparing Neoliberal and Social Welfare Problem-Solution Frames 111 (42) Biopower, Security, and Development 153 (26) Children and the Twenty-First Century: Risky Economies 179 (22) Notes 201 (4) Works Cited 205 (36) Index 241 SJG [Talk Gnosis] An Introduction to Martinism [view link] Simians Cyborgs and Women [view link] Cyborg Manifesto, full text [view link] And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men ) [view link] BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire [view link]
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    So reading 'Antifa' by Mark Bray, 2017 Bray teaches at Dartmouth, and he was an organizer for Occupy Wall Street. material in ROAR Magazine [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York [view link]
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    So reading 'Antifa' by Mark Bray, 2017 [view link] So the first chapter deals with everything up through 1945. They talk about a street battle in the Montmartre district of Paris, 1925. That I guess was a Left stronghold. But this fascist with his youth movement, in blue shirts and blue Basque berets marched, shouting out anti-semetic stuff.. And the Left encountered them and shooting broke out. So Fascism and Anti-Fascism they say started in the late 1890's, over the Dreyfus Affair. The wrongly convicted and imprisoned Jewish Army Captain. The left supported his release and eventual exoneration. The Right opposed him and made him into an anti-Semitic cause. But they also site Robert Paxton: [view link] He had commented on the Trump situation during the 1916 election. Paxton feels that all Fascism started in the US, after the Civil War, with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. And then others go the more often cited way, saying that it started with the 1815 Vienna Conference, settling the Napoleonic Wars, reinstating the Prussian monarchy, and generally being reactionary. Though the 1848 revolts did fail, these did in much of Europe lead to movement away from monarchy. SJG LifeBoat Forum [view link] [view link] [view link] Martinism [view link] Talk Gnosis: The Rosicrucians part 1, Dr. Jeffrey S. Kupperman [view link] [Talk Gnosis] Martinism & Gnosticism [view link] Gnostic Sex [view link] Early Christian Magic [view link] Killing Me Softly [view link] [view link] Elysian Encounter-Baker Gurvitz Army - playlist full album [view link]
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    So continuing with chapter 1 of 'Antifa'. Talks about the out break of WWI, the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand. For years the socialist parties of Europe had discussed plans for a massive continental general strike at the outset of war, to stop militarism dead in its tracks. But when the trumpets sounded, most parties fell in line behind their nations states. A notable exception was the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolshevik) and their fiery leader Vladimir Lenin for whom the conflict was quite simply "a predatory imperialist war". It was actually Weimar Socialist Leader Friedrich Ebert who sent the paramilitary Freikorps to put down the Jan 1919 Spartacist uprising and the murdering of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknect. And it talks about all the complexity in the rise of Mussolini. SJG
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    Speaking of the origins of the Nazi Party and the SA, "When Hitler formed his new Party, he didn't really bring any innovations to existing right-wing ideology. The mix of militarism, traditionalism, hypermasculinity, anti-Semitism, and anti-Marxism that he set within a social Darwinist framework of national and racial struggle was but a particularly virulent strain of prevailing far-right thought." "Hitler, on the other hand, had come to master the psychological element of propaganda. Rather than put forward "reasons" designed to "refute other opinions," he aimed at the "elimination of thought" and the creation of a "receptive state of fanatical devotion" through a dynamic politics of constant action." SJG
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    So reading 'Antifa' by Mark Bray. Getting into the autonomous movement. Don't know much about this, want to learn. So I had seen Antonio Gramsci as the origin of the autonomous movements. But he was all pre WWII. [view link] Book says the Autonomous Movement started in Italy right after WWII, by Marxists shift their focus back to local workers. So we have: Steve Wright, Storming Heaven, Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (2002) Storming heaven : class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism / Steve Wright (2002) an updated or reissued version: [view link] SJG Baker Gurvitz Army - Memory Lane [view link] Peter Kuznick: Three False Myths Americans Believe (about WWII) [view link] Oliver Stones Untold History of the United States Prequel A [view link] The Concorde [view link] TJ Street [view link]
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    So reading 'Antifa' by Mark Bray. Getting into the autonomous movement. As I thought, this Autonomous Movement was not about violent revolution, not about following Moscow. Not even about trying to win at the ballot box. It advocates for the left, usually something like Social Democracy. But mostly it is just some form of communalism, or worker ownership. Maybe they are squatting somewhere, but otherwise it is perfectly legal. [view link] Early theorists (such as Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Sergio Bologna, and Paolo Virno) Like other Marxists, autonomists see class struggle as being of central importance. However, autonomists have a broader definition of the working class than do other Marxists: as well as wage-earning workers (both white collar and blue collar), autonomists also include in this category the unwaged (students, the unemployed, homemakers, etc.), who are traditionally deprived of any form of union representation. Well, in general I do like this. But being involved in community organizations, I say that in the US today, doing this with those at the bottom, the homeless, would be completely impossible. Their brains are fried, on Alcohol, on Street Drugs, on Born Again Christianity, on Recovery, on Psychiatric Medications, and on Libertarian Anti-Government ideology. So you could never make any kind of communalism or political action work with such persons. So let me get some here out of the 'Antifa' book: No Pasaran ( You shall not pass ) from Antifa defense of Madrid. book, mostly about West Germany: Geronimo, Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomous Movement (2012) Jeremy Varon, Bring The War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2004) Page 52 " Italian autonomia spread to West Germany in the late 1970's where it coalesced with the developing feminist, alternative, antinuclear, and squatters' movements to forge a robust milieu of autonomous squats and social centers. The Autonomen, as these militants of all genders were called, rejected the "stale" traditions of the Left. Instead they sought to "practice different forms of life in the here and now." "We fight for ourselves," one autonomous journal explained in 1982, "We do not engage in representative struggles. We do not fight for ideology, or for the proletariat, or for 'the people." We fight for a self-determined life." Black Science Vol 7 Extinction Is The Rule [view link] [view link] SJG Bruce Chilton [view link] [view link] Everything for everyone : the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy / Nathan Schneider. (2018) Clamato, great tomato juice for drinking straight. [view link] Motts LLP Plano TX [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    So here, more of "Antifa" by Mark Bray page 108 " the Alt Right is defined by racial nationalism, the inequality of people and races, the need for traditional gender roles, the necessity of hierarchy and general anti-democracy, and anti_Semitism. When compared with screeching neo-Nazis waving Swastika banners, what separates the Alt Right is its tech savvy adherent, clever memes, and upper-middle class, college educated constituencies." and "The core of alt-right makes little to no effort to conceal its fascism." page 111: " Trump even named Steve Bannon, a former Breitbart News executive chair and admirer of the fascist ideologue Julius Evola , as CEO of his campaign, and then White House Chief Strategist." Julius Evola was a Fascist and Racist Occultist who positioned himself to the Right of Mussolini. Five Historical Lessons for Anti-Fascists 1. Fascist revolutions have never succeeded. Fascists gained power legally. 2. To varying degrees, many interwar Anti-Fascist leaders and theorists assumed that Fascism was simply a variant of traditional counterrevolutionary politics. They did not take it seriously enough until it was too late. 3. For ideological and organizational reasons, Socialist and Communist leadership was often slower to accurately assess the threat of Fascism, and slower to advocate militant Anti-Fascist responses, than their parties' rank-and-file membership. 4. Fascism steals from left ideology, strategy, imagery, and culture. 5. It doesn't take that many Fascists to make Fascism. SJG Deconstructing Gurdjieff : biography of a spiritual magician / Tobias Churton. (2017 Inner Traditions) Bruce Chilton [view link] TJ Steet [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Jeff Healey, While My Guitar Gently Weeps [view link] Dragnet 106 "The Bank Examiner Swindle" Original Air Date February 23, 1967 [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York [view link] Here's Why the Ferrari Portofino Is Worth $250,000 [view link] Here's Why the Ferrari F40 Is Worth $1.3 Million [view link] The Lamborghini Diablo Was the Craziest Car of the 1990s ( Diablo was a really wild car. Much better designed than Contach ) [view link]
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    The Browns of California [view link] [view link] SJG Mainstreet [view link] Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty [view link] Golden Earing ~ Radar Love (extended) 1973 [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Attributed to Denis Diderot, "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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    Business model generation : a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers / written by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur ; design, Alan Smith ; editor and contributing co-author, Tim Clark ; production, Patrick van der Pijl ; co-created by an amazing crowd of 470 practitioners from 45 countries. (2010 and widely available) SJG
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    So this small Richard Rorty book is very good and very easy to understand, a kind of anti-philosphy, following on what he wrote in his much larger and more challenging "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature": [view link] SJG Two books written about the same time which seem to span the chasm between religious and occult kabbalah Kabbalah : three thousand years of mystic tradition / Kenneth Hanson (1998) Heavenly powers : unraveling the secret history of the Kabbalah / Neil Asher Silberman (1998) Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper [view link]
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    Guerrilla Furniture Building [view link] HK Systems makes Warehousing and Library Automatic Retrival Systems [view link] now owned by Dematic [view link] Systems Engineering Simplified CRC Press (2015) Systems Engineering, Dahai Liu, also CRC Press SJG
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    Cyberspace: First Steps (The MIT Press) Paperback – July 1, 1992 [view link] by Michael Benedikt (Editor) So this is a really old book now. But for me it was eye opening, especially its archeological perspective. Want to revisit it. Cyberspace : first steps / edited by Michael Benedikt (1991) So I am planning on letting some threads die off and close, unless someone else has something to add. For myself, I have run out of things to say. The Levels of PLdom [view link] Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooter 2014 [view link] Car Keys and Wallet Dating [view link] ... tried to distance himself from Nazi policies and was never held accountable [view link] Yippie, Dow drops 831 points! [view link] Sex In The Home Of Your Parents? [view link] So What Do Women Like To Read? [view link] ***************************************** So then the current open threads: Vocels (Voluntary Celibates) [view link] Bible and related materials [view link] OT: Anglo-American Philosophy from Hobbes forward [view link] OT: Assembler, C/C++, Embedded Systems, Machine Architectures, Development Systems, JTAG, Rust [view link] American's Will Not Be Free Until The Last Preacher Has Been Strangled To Death By The Entrails Of the Last Libertarian. [view link] The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box [view link] JavaScript & jQuery [view link] OT: Mathematics [view link] R Programming Language [view link] OT: PC-AT Numeric Key Pad, who used it, and for what? Like it? [view link] OT: Book Publishing Industry [view link] SJG Nirvana - Come As You Are [view link] This song in my head last night. It must be in the Key of D. Most everyone can hear relative pitch. But very few can hear absolute pitch. The reason every key sounds different is because the percussion tuning is not changed. Musicians deny that percussion is tuned to any specific pitch, saying that rather it is just tuned until it sounds right. But that is silly, because that is exactly how a violin is played, by making it sound right. Tympani tunes with a crank handle, and it has a gauge right on it. So the kick drum is tuned to A of the 16ft octave, the same as the second to lowest string of a four string bass, 55 hz. All the drums are tuned. These kind of songs are always in D. I think it has something to do with that A note, the dominant. So to really know you almost have to play along with it. The D scale has F and C sharped. But it can be done with accidentals too. And some music revolves around other notes than the tonic. Some is Mixolyidian and so it revolves around the dominant and has the 7th ( C# ) flatted. Lots of ways. In the end it is just listening to it and trying to play along which will resolve this. This ends on the D major triad and the chorus versus end on the D major triad. Usually that is the final determinant of what key it is in. Alternate guitar tuning is being used, one suggestive of D. [view link] [view link] [view link] Wicked Temptations, how life should be: [view link] Lust, red only [view link] [view link] Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album) [view link]
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    Cyberspace : first steps / edited by Michael Benedikt (1991) and also Terminal identity : the virtual subject in postmodern science fiction / Scott Bukatman (1993) Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction [view link] SJG
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    She is out there: Staying with the trouble : making kin in the Chthulucene / Donna J. Haraway. (2016) SJG
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    Looking at Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter, Donald Palmer (2006) [view link] Looking at philosophy : the unbearable heaviness of philosophy made lighter / Donald Palmer. (2010) Palmer has written other intersting books too. SJG
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    Does this Palmer have good palms for my PUSSY??
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    You were away for a while. Glad to see you back Trish. SJG
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    Browns of California [view link] SJG FWIW, my ex-wife sounds very mellow and contented. She and I each suffered much. Now the venom is gone. Need to feel that there is no enduring hatred or anything like that. I have other battles to fight, ones which never did have anything to do with her. [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks [view link] And now his own forum, harmonic notes: [view link] Midnight Blues [view link] Guitar Harmonics [view link] Beth and Joe - Black Coffee ( a Steve Marriott song, quite a vocal legend to try and imitate ) [view link] Beth and Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind ( Live Amsterdam ) [view link] Robin Trower, live ( more harmonic notes ) [view link] Beth and Joe, Strange Fruit [view link] Seems to be imitating Holiday's vocal style too, not at all easy.
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    Oneida Community, started in 1848. Dissolved in 1881. [view link] John Humphrey Noyes A Yankee saint: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community. (1973) Communal love at Oneida : a perfectionist vision of authority, property, and sexual order / by Richard DeMaria (1978) Communitarian societies / [by] John A. Hostetler, with the assistance of Eric Michaels and Diane Levy Miller. (1974) Desire and duty at Oneida : Tirzah Miller's intimate memoir / [edited by] Robert S. Fogarty. (2000) Free love in utopia : John Humphrey Noyes and the origin of the Oneida Community / compiled by George Wallingford Noyes ; edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Foster (2001, look really good ) God's blueprints : a sociological study of three utopian sects / John McKelvie Whitworth ; foreword by David Martin (1975) Many many books about this. Zorba the Buddha : sex, spirituality, and capitalism in the global Osho movement / Hugh B. Urban. (2015) Tertium organum : the third canon of thought : a key to the enigmas of the world / P.D. Ouspensky ; revised translation by E. Kadloubovsky and the author ; originally translated by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon(1982) The fourth way: a record of talks and answers to questions based on the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1957) A further record : extracts from meetings, 1928-1945 / P.D. Ouspensky. (1986) A new model of the universe : principles of the psychological method in its application to problems of science, religion, and art / P.D. Ouspensky. (1997) In search of the miraculous : fragments of an unknown teaching / P.D. Ouspensky. (2001) Conscience : the search for truth / P.D. Ouspensky. (2008) All of the above are of course republication dates, but this was 1922 Tertium organum; the third canon of thought; a key to the enigmas of the world / P. D. Ouspensky, translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon--with an introduction by Claude Bragdon. (1922, may be the place to start ) Published works [view link] So actually this came first: The psychology of man's possible evolution / [by] P. D. Ouspensky SJG TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Jennifer Lopez [view link] JohnSmith69 has a front room makeout session with an 18yo hottie. Only problem is that he is so cranky that he describes it all in negative terms and blames it on the girl. [view link] Trescal US [view link]
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    In hand now: Cyberspace : first steps / edited by Michael Benedikt This book is old and worn. I actually had purchased a copy of it in 1991, from an independent book seller. I read some of it. Today I revisit it. SJG
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    In hand now: Cyberspace : first steps / edited by Michael Benedikt So this brings back memories as I had read much of it when it was first published back in 1991. Has chapter by Michael Heim, someone I had just been reflecting on. Also a Heidegger scholar. The metaphysics of virtual reality / Michael Heim (1993) Virtual realism / Michael Heim (1998) Electric language : a philosophical study of word processing / Michael Heim (1987) [view link] [view link] And as I am reading Michael Benedikt's I am struck by just how Heideggerian it all is. But if it is Heideggerian, then it is not Deleuzian. Deleuze is the first post Heideggerian. Do it is not Deleuzian, except maybe for Benedikt's 4th Thread, as that is based on Mathematics. This may be the way that Deleuze gets beyond Heidegger. Michael Benedikt, teaches in School of Architecture, U Texas, Austin [view link] Ran Mental Technology Inc, in Austin, a software consultancy. Might be defunct now. [view link] a paper: [view link] 40 page CV [view link] Michael Heim had taught at CSU Long Beach. Then he became a "Free Lance Professor of Philosophy". Seems to be doing quite well too. So Benedikt talks about Karl Popper. In 1972 Popper laid out his idea of there being 3 worlds. World 1 is the objective world of material things. World 2 is the subjective world of consciousness, calculations, feelings, thoughts. World 3 is objective and real public structures, though not necessarily intentional. Again, very Heideggerian. But now Benedikt lays out his four threads. Thread 1, the oldest, begins in language, perhaps before langauge. Makes reference to Vygotsky and Mead [view link] commoness - of -mind (very Heideggerian ) Thread 2, myth, media technology, enscription Thread 3, spun out of the history of architecture. Thread 4, based on mathematics. Curious. But this could be Deleuzian, and post Heideggerian. SJG Democracy Now, Live Election Night Coverage [view link] [view link] [view link] " Virginia might be the most important early sign of where the House is going. The Democrats’ must-win there is in the 10th District, where strategists in both parties say Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock is unlikely to hold onto her seat in the DC suburbs. Republican Rep. Scott Taylor’s race in the Norfolk-area 2nd District, though, is a much better bellwether for the national environment. And if the GOP Rep. Dave Brat loses in the 7th District outside Richmond — or even if he’s in a tight race — it could be an early sign of a building Democratic wave. " Ekaterina Mechetina plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] How Life Should Be [view link] [view link]
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    SJG, following the link you have on your profile to your google site, I have a couple of questions. [view link] 1) is the guy hugging the bidet your mug? 2) You need to tell Mary to update the page since she seems to be the only one updating it and some of the links do not work. 3) Is Mary your mom or are you actually Mary? If she is your mom, what does she think about all the pics of strippers on the page? 4) Wonder what all those kids spelling out SJG would think if they knew they were on a website detailing strippers and sex? Edit log: Oct 15, 2018, 8:01 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Apr 5, 2018, 7:22 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 10, 2016, 8:59 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian Park Oct 10, 2016, 8:38 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 10, 2016, 8:37 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian Park Oct 10, 2016, 8:35 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian Park Oct 10, 2016, 7:59 PM Mary Carroll edited Untitled Oct 10, 2016, 7:59 PM Mary Carroll edited Untitled Oct 10, 2016, 7:57 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian_Park Oct 10, 2016, 7:46 PM Mary Carroll created Rosicrucian_Park Oct 10, 2016, 7:12 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 5:14 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 5:11 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 5:05 PM Mary Carroll edited Mexico Oct 6, 2015, 4:57 PM Mary Carroll edited Mexico Oct 6, 2015, 4:54 PM Mary Carroll edited Mexico Oct 6, 2015, 4:50 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 4:47 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Sep 6, 2015, 4:53 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:51 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:49 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Sep 6, 2015, 4:45 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:43 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:39 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:26 PM Mary Carroll created Las Chavelas
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    Reading now: Cyberspace first steps / edited by Michael Benedikt (1991) Brings back lots of memories. This has references for each chapter. So I want to start recording some of them, as they are really good. Aaron Betsky, Violated Perfection (1990) Peter Cook, ed. Archigram (1973) [view link] The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field Paperback – June 1, 1954 by Jacques Hadamard (Author) [view link] Fourfield (Fourth Field): Computers, Art & the 4th Dimension [view link] Marshall McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962 Yoneji Masuda, The Information Society as Post Industrial Society, 1981 Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, 1989 Karl Popper, Objectiv Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach 1972 Edward R. Tufte, Envisionioning Information, 1990, and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983 SJG Baker Gurwitz, live [view link]
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    Continuing: J. G. Ballard, Crash (1974) William Gibson's Novels Michel Serres, Language and Space: From Oedipus to Zola, in Hermes: Literature, Science, Philosophy and also his Platonic Dialogue. Bruce Sterling's writings with Gibson, and his prefaces. Victor Turner's works, the liminal versus the merely liminoid. and the same in Arnold Van Gennep, The Rites of Passage (1909 I believe ) Jean Baudrillard, Seduction, believed to be printed multiple places. Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, 1961 Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror, 1982 Benoit Mandelbrot, about fractals. The place Michael Heim writes about Leibniz and his Monadology and about Indra's Web, is in Heim's Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of WOrd Processing (1987) want to read this. and in talking about his thread 4, the thing which makes him not completely Heidegerrian, talking about mathematics, he particularlyl talks about Descartes and his joining algebra and geometry, analytic geometry, and even his coordinate system for 3D space. So of course this opens the door right up for talk about Leibniz, and also to Deleuze and Guattari. Many of the contributors to this work are really out there, and very challenging. Better I am reading it again now. SJG
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    So reading this 1991 Cyberspace first steps by Michael Beneditk at U Texas Austin. This Michael Heim is good. Remember reading decades ago an essay where he lamented being among hundreds and hundreds who got down sized out of CSU. Scary thought. But truth is, Heim is too good to be teaching such classes. He is a colorful and imaginative writer. He gets a better audience now. Now working on a 10 volume set: [view link] But these are also available as CD Audio Books [view link] I want to learn about some of the other contributors, like Allucquere Rosanne Stone [view link] also at U Texas, Austin UT Austin ATC Lab Beginning in 1993, Stone established the New Media program she named ACTLab[18] (Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory) in the Radio-Television-Film department here: [view link] and this Tim McFadden well, here on facebook Timothy Dogger McFadden [view link] SJG Jeff Healey, w/ Toucu, and name confirmed as Healey introduces her [view link]
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    The rise of realism / Manuel DeLanda and Graham Harman (2017) Assemblage theory / Manuel DeLanda (2016) Philosophical chemistry : genealogy of a scientific field / Manuel DeLanda (2015) A new philosophy of society : assemblage theory and social complexity / Manuel DeLanda. (2006) Intensive science and virtual philosophy / Manuel DeLanda (2002) A thousand years of nonlinear history / Manuel DeLanda. (1997) War in the age of intelligent machines / by Manuel de Landa (1991) I don't know how it is in other countries, but I know from experience that most Americans find it hard to read such books. They are not intended to be inordinately difficult to read and comprehend. We are horrible under educated, or I should say, miseducated. Far more than enough time with our buts in the classroom seats. But it still falls far short of what is needed to be a participatory citizen in our society and the world if ideas. SJG Action Uniform Dream Girls: [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] The Jeff Healey Band - Live at Montreux 1999 [view link] Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (Official Video) [view link]
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    okay, this Allucquere Rosanne Stone, also at U Texas Austin has by far the most references. Try to record some: Gloria Anzaldua Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 Francis Barker, The Tremulous Private Body: Essays in Subjection, 1984 Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication, 1987 Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1990 Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, 1959 Michael de Certeau, "The Arts of Dying: Celibatory Machines." In "Heterologies", 1985 J. Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society 1979 to be continued SJG
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    James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science 1987 SJG Waring of Rising Nationalism [view link] [view link] [view link]! Adam Hochschild [view link] Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, underneath the Arch of Triumph, should be visible from this East side angled view [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Theatre Chochotte - Paris [view link] Hookers in Paris [view link] Baker Gurwitz [view link]
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    So how about Christian Nationalism? [view link] Kingdom coming : the rise of Christian nationalism / Michelle Goldberg. (2007) SJG God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016) [view link] [view link] video, Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang [view link] Stan Tenen The Alphabet In Our Hands, Part 1: The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View [view link] Bernhard Riemann [view link] Riemann, topology, and physics / Michael Monastyrsky ; with a foreword by Freeman J. Dyson. (1999) Saturday I reported on a man who had vanished from a 49er's stadium game the previous Monday. Saturday they found a body in the water near the old unused Alviso Marina and some old concrete boat ramps. The stuff is unused because silt comes in from the bay and fills it up. I have years ago explored all around there. It is interesting, but even in the day time potentially dangerous. I once got stuck hip deep in mud and a shoe came off. Getting my foot back into the shoe I was able to recover it. But I was taking more risks in doing so. This man was in the military, maybe Special Forces. So likely he handles himself quite well in the outdoors, even at night. Not sure if any conclusions have been reached, but to me it sounds more and more like a suicide. Left his cell phone, battery run down to zero, in his car at the stadium. Also left his girl friend and her two kids there. But talking on the phone and using video up until the point he vanished. [view link] [view link] Here SJPD say that the body was found floating face down about 1 mile out from the Marina and the Ramps. [view link] [view link] I believe that police probably have more tidbits of information which they are not going to disclose until they are ready to close the case. In a homicide it is usually those closest to the deceased who did it, and they are exposed by the contradictions in their stories. To me, this is sounding more and more like a suicide. Here it sound like he was found at the boat launch, though those concrete ramps are unusable do to silt. [view link] [view link] Still waiting to hear that they have confirmed the identity, and then of course for any conclusions. [view link] Jeff Healey Band, full concert [view link] Theatre Chochotte, Paris [view link] [view link] Here, outside view, use zoom outs and changing back to maps to see exactly where this is: [view link] Inside scene [view link] 34 Rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France Here: [view link] Very close to the Seine and to the Luxembourg Gardens park. [view link] [view link] [view link] Here, their own page: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Emmanuel Marcon ‘Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism’ [view link] The US and Russian leaders listened in silence as Mr Macron took a swipe at the rising tide of populism in the US and Europe, warning: “The old demons are rising again, ready to complete their task of chaos and of death.” “In saying, ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others’, you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: its moral values.” [view link] [view link] [view link] EXPLORING PARIS: The Red Light Sex Shop Area (Pigalle) [view link] [view link]
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    Patrick Modiano Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize. [view link] [view link] SJG An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time [view link] Bill Moyers, Forrest Church Interview [view link] Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev · Vienna Philarmonic · Salzburg Festival 2000 [view link] So you folks like these no proscenium concert halls? Disney Music Center [view link] San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, not designed that way. [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    Business the Richard Branson way : 10 secrets of the world's greatest brand builder / by Des Dearlove. (1999) SJG Hidden in Plain Sight ( Sex Tr*****ing) I say that this women is just wrong, especially about the US and about CA [view link] [view link]
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    So need some more reading to complete a political action project: So the issue is John S. Spong so besides what I have read already, want Jesus for the non-religious : recovering the divine at the heart of the human / John Shelby Spong.(2007) and this, probably more important than above: Re-claiming the Bible for a non-religious world / John Shelby Spong. (2011) F. Forrester Church The American creed : a spiritual and patriotic primer / Forrest Church. (2002) and his book about Universalism, and the one about God and Other Liberals. SJG
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    in hand right now: God and other famous liberals : reclaiming the politics of America / F. Forrester Church. ( 1991) F. Forrester Church is the son of the US Senator from Idaho, Frank Church. He is trying to take back the cross and the flag, take it away from the Right. Pastor of the U.U. All Souls in New York City These kinds of books are slowing me down, but I have a political project on the table. SJG Previously talked about local government having to pay construction costs of $1k per sq ft. Now they are talking about $1.2k. And these are not just projections, this is what is actually being paid. Graham Bond - Love Is The Law - full album + bonus tracks [view link] The Dynamex Decision: The California Supreme Court Restricts Use of Independent Contractors [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link]
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    page 14 " The next paradigm shift occurred when on tribe intuited that its God was everyone's God. " Talking about the Assyrian King, Cyrus, and the exile. The Born Again Christian Movement still does not understand that just as the sun shines on everyone, so too does God smile upon them, even if they won't profess allegiance to their idol. It is right and fitting that F. Forrester Church should have emerged as a leader of the UU's. Speaks well of he and of they. The UU's are about the only honest religious denomination in this country. SJG
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    So F. Forrester Church talks about Thomas Jefferson and John Adams being Unitarians. He talks about Unitarians and Universalists merging in 1961. And he talks about a complex subject, Unitarianism, versus Trinitarianism, and about his own thought on that. And he talks about how nuts people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are. He of course is writing in the wake of the 1988 Republic Convention. L*I*B*E*R*A*L and Card Carrying Member of the A*C*L*U. And he is writing just before the 1992 Clinton campaign, trying in more moderate terms to take back the Flag, Family, and Religion. F. Forrester Church is a Liberal, where as I am a Radical Left Occultist. SJG Stage Side Makeout Session, lots more going on in the shadows too. [view link] Lap sitting, prelude to a real nice DFK + FIV makeout session, if the guy wants to come on to her some and go for it. [view link] Stage side DATY discernable ( abajo ) [view link] Heavy thighs and tush, in white. Such girls are best for TLN, and she looks very ready for that. [view link] Led Zeppelin: Live on TV BYEN/Danmarks Radio [Full Performance] 1969 [view link] Nicki Minaj [view link]
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    So always trying to finish up with F. Forrester Church, but his book is really good. Very well written. So his forbeaers were Puritans, coming over with John Winthrop, 1630. [view link] Lots of great visions, but with Christianity it would never work. SJG
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    So here, proceeding with F. Forrester Church's "God and Other Famous Liberals" Talks about Rodger Williams Roger Williams (c.1603 – April 1, 1683) [view link] A fierce support of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. And a fierce supporter of social justice. How strange then that this country would come to have politicians like Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz, and that our politics would be driven by scapegoating immigrants, minorities, and the poor. Pitches for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship would replace good jobs. And psychotherapy, recovery, and evangelical Christianity would replace social justice. SJG Joe Jackson Night and Day [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] Baker Gurvitz Army - Vinyl Album High Quality [view link] Belly Dancing in High Heels [view link] Belly Dancing in Liquid Dress and High Heels [view link]
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    So here, proceeding with F. Forrester Church's "God and Other Famous Liberals" You know that in TIAACM ( The I Am A Christian Movement ) churches they tell people to ignore politics, and this is how they advance a reactionary political agenda. Well if you ever visit a UU Church, you will quickly see that they have always been wired in to some of the greatest things about this country, and particularly the movement to abolish slavery and to give women the vote. page 101, F. Forrester Church, speaking of Lincoln's Gettysburg and Second Inaugural addresses, "For Lincoln the American proposition was a religious proposition. Universal in nature and liberal in spirit, the American covenant transcended all other creeds by placing its adherents under a higher judgment." And then back on page 82, "Removed from its foundaton in natural theology, the principle of equality of opportunity is reduced to social Darwinism -- the economic survival of the fittest. Instead of a cooperative social thick, facilitated by law to promote the cultivation of every individual's promise and to protect every individual's rights, self-interested individualism emerges as our model, often draped with patriotic bunting ripped from the fabric of such documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. This misrepresents not only Jefferson but also John Locke. Both believed that the liberty of one person has neither ethical nor political validity apart from the protection of others' liberty." Then F. Forrester Church looks at the language being used and shows how focusing on things like Freedom and Liberty in isolation amount to idolatry. He looks at the language being borrowed and being altered to show how Jefferson and Madison are actually moving quite a ways away from Locke. A very well written book, everyone should read it, and everyone should have the kind of an education that F. Forrester Church has. SJG TJ Street [view link] [view link] Issac Hayes - Walk On By (From Montreux 2005) [view link] Dionne Warwick [view link] Dione Warwick and Burt Bacharach - Walk On By, I Say A Little Prayer, Do You Know The Way To San Jose [view link] Bacharach now 90 years old. Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973 - love this song! [view link] This was 1973, and that's Jessie Jackson up there on stage with him. Jessie had a way of getting in front of cameras at the right time. This is a really gross subject. But in 1968 Jessie was not up on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis with Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy at the critical moment. The photo which shows that he was there was a publicity photo taken the day before. But somehow, as the television crews were arriving, somehow Jessie must have gotten some blood, because it was smeared all over his shirt and he got in front of the cameras, and he was still wearing that same bloody shirt the next day on a television interview show. And his explanations for all of this have changed over the years. Dr. King had already politely told news reporters that he was cutting Jackson loose. And King talked about the "band leader instinct", seeming to refer to Jackson. [view link]
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    Finished now with F. Forrester Church's "God and Other Famous Liberals" (1991) Extremely well written book. Impossible for me to speak to everything he raises within it. Though old now, this is a book one really needs to have on their own shelf. Seems to have been written to influence the 1992 Presidential Election. Wants to introduce a language which takes back all the symbols from the Right. To me now, F. Forrester Church is really a moderate. But his approach is very effective. So he was Pastor at All Souls UU, in NYC. [view link] 1157 Lexington Avenue, New York NY 10075 Manhattan, Upper East Side, just East of Central Park, close to Park Ave. Use zoom outs and then changing back to maps and more zoom outs to see where this is: [view link] So the UU's have partnered with another church, and they have got an extensive tutoring program going with the local school children. So Sylvia Ann Hewlett, book: When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children When the bough breaks : the cost of neglecting our children / Sylvia Ann Hewlett. (1991) [view link] So Hewlett is one of their congregants. One quarter of all preshcool children live below the poverty level, a figure more that twice that of adult Americans. More than a quarter of all children fail to graduate from high school. We have an estimated one million homeless families. Neglected children become problem children at an extraordinary cost to society. One estimate puts it at $300,000 per child. Ever dollar spent on prenatal care saves more than $3 in hospitalization costs for premature babies. In 1990 the White House Task Force on Infant Mortality estimated that one-quarter of the 40,000 infant deaths that occur yearly in this country could easily be prevented, as could many of the 100,000 handicaps that may accompany premature births. A low birth weight baby may incur medical expenses of some $400,000. And then this was all back in 1991. Today the cost numbers will be much higher, but the situation far worse as the wealth gap and job stability situation has gotten far worse. Some think capital punishment is the answer. Prosecuting a capital case costs between $1.8 Meg to $ Meg, and this far and away exceeds the costs of incarcerating someone for 40 years. Creating a vicious circle, each new generation of children is further victimized, for many of dollars spent on new jails and additional policement are picked directly from its teachers' pockets. We need nothing less than a Marshall plan to save our children. A liberal pro-family policy would dispense with moral posturing and self-righteous rhetoric, replacing both with vigorous remedial action to address this crisis at its source. Education must become our first priority, with strong emphasis on preschool programs, better paid and trained teachers, more exciting schools, a longer school year, enhanced educational programming, and more adequate educational loan and job training programs.Though expensive, anything we do to save our children will be cost-effective in the long run. "If you take good care of children they will add to the productive capability of an economy; if you fail to look after children, they will drag a nation down", Hewlett writes. To Be Continued SJG
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    going back earlier in the book, page 82 "Removed from its foundation in natural theology, the principle of equality of opporunity is reduced to social Darwinism -- the economic survival of the fittest. "the pursuit of happiness," codified in our Declaration of Independence as an unalienable right, today forms the trip wire for many who cite our founders as authorities to legitimate their overweening reverence for unbridled liberty. American liberalism is perverted when it lapses into either libertinism or libertarianism. Idolatries of freedom enshrine liberty as an unholy sacred cow, predicating happiness on the principle of self-gratification or self-interest. In biblical parlace, idolatry results when something less than God ( even something good ) is worshiped as, or in the place of, God. When worshiped apart from other goods, such as justice and neighborliness, even so noble a principle as freedom can have a corrosive effect. When they spoke of the pursuit of happiness, our liberal founders had something more redemptive in mind than mere self-gratification or self-aggrandizement. They thought of it as a divine right, with attending moral consequences. pursuit is a vocation or calling, not a chase, and happiness is an attainment of the good, not of goods. George Washington said it in his First Inaugural" "There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage...." Garry Wills writes that "When Jefferson spoke of pursuing happiness, he had nothing vague of private in mind. He meant a public happiness which is measureable; the test and justification of any government." The text explains how by invoking happiness, Jefferson was breaking with Locke's more narrow call for property rights. It explains that Jefferson likely was drawing from the French translation of the Beatitudes, the word being used "heaux", instead of our 'blessed". He kept this French translation always by his bedside. So he talking about something more like Right Livelyhood, Right Living, Right Everything. SJG
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    So Isiah is an intense book. They say that the imagery of the Seraphim comes from Testament of Adam, ch 4 [view link] [view link] [view link] Well here, we have two sources talking about this: [view link] [view link] SJG The Jeff Healey Band - Live In Belgium (Full Concert 1993) [view link]
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    Manly Palmer Hall [view link] [view link] Reasons to suspect foul play in his death. Interesting man. There had been no biography, but Gary Lachman says that now their is one, in his Revolutionaries of the Soul can't find it, but I find this about Pythagoras [view link] SJG
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    Black Madonna, Nu-Isis, Church of Bey [view link] [view link] SJG Official Parking Lot Bouncer As Most Diverse Congress in History Takes Office, Dems Push to End Shutdown Without Funding for Wall [view link] 'Leaked' Video Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proves She... Has Friends, Can Dance [view link] [view link] [view link] Edwin Starr [view link] [view link] War - The World Is a Ghetto 1972 Full Album [view link] How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Warren Haynes ­with Joe Bonamassa -- Guitar Center's King of the Blues 2011 [view link] Beth & Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind - Live in Amsterdam [view link] Beth & Joe - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Live in Amsterdam [view link] Amazing Performance by Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In [view link]
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    That Isaiah book took quite a while to read. Can't speed read any of it. I wish that St. John's Abbey would also do the same thing with the NRSV and the New Jerusalem Bibles. But as it stands, NABRE, real good! The next one: [view link] Also covers "Letter of Jeremiah" and then: [view link] Look at the cover picture, must be from that St. John's Caligraphy Bible which they made, for Ezekieil. He is the bible's Leonardo da Vinci. They do the whole bible, needing 37 volumes. Not sure if you can still buy hardcovers. SJG SJG's New Headquarters, coming soon to a strip club parking lot near you. 12' x 20', and with over 9' of center stand up height. [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Nirvana-Come as you are lyrics [view link] Casino Royale 1967 Sound Track Album [view link] Mobile Kitchens, by Carlin, Fresno CA [view link] just saw one built in a huge 24,000 GVWR Walk-In Van, still okay for Class C License, huge diesel auxiliary power unit. Mister Bond - A Jazzy Cocktail Of Ice Cold Themes [view link] Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album - New 2017 [view link] Soundgarden Half, playlist [view link] Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages ( really good ) [view link]
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    Okay, so Manly Palmer Hall, someone I had clearly underappreciated, and now need to learn more about, and need to read him, starting with his masterpiece, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Biography, and how it does indeed seem that he was murdered: [view link] And yes, here the biography I spoke of, new edition, with new materials [view link] SJG
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    Mitch Horowitz [view link] looking at his books, maybe his talks are better than his books SJG Steve Blank, Lean Startup Model [view link] [view link] Baker Gurvitz Army - Love Is / Memory Lane / Drum Solo / People - Live 1975 (Remastered) HD [view link] Deep Purple - Lazy [view link] THE MOODY BLUES - RIDE MY SEE-SAW [view link] THE GUESS WHO - NO TIME [view link]
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    The Last Man One Small Step [view link] a graphic novel SJG Daath The Doorway to Knowledge [view link] Steve Blank [view link] [view link] Freemasonry is inherently opposed to slavery but what slavery remains for us to fight against today? [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    This is a good video Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages [view link] But what I am concerned about is this guy's books: [view link] An uncritical book about Alcoholics Anonymous? [view link] Well he is just an abridger and wrote an intro. But still! Napoleon Hill? No thank you! [view link] No thank you. Richard Smoley, on the other hand, is fantastic! [view link] [view link] SJG Herb Alpert 1965 [view link] Where did the idea for this originate? Herb Alpert - Rise (HQ Audio) [view link] Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione [FULL VERSION] [view link] Diana Ross: Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Ashford / Simpson), 1970 [view link] The 5th Dimension ≈ AQUARIUS ≈ Let The SUNSHINE In [view link] Three Dog Night "Joy To The World" 1972 [view link] ^^^^^ obvious lip sync 1975, clearly recorded live [view link] Eli's Coming [view link] No Time (1992) Ringo Starr, Burton Cummings, Joe Walsh and Todd Rundgren at Montreux [view link] No Sugar Tonight [view link] Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 - 7/21/1970 - Tanglewood (Official) [view link] Chicago - Old Days ( Live At The Dick Clark Show New Years Eve 1975 / 76 HQ ) [view link] Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006 [view link] Trump has capitulated to Pelosi Trump to Delay State of the Union Address Until Shutdown Ends [view link] Carly Simon - That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be - 1971 [view link] You're So Vain, a song I have always liked [view link]
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    Richard Smoley, Shamanism [view link] SJG T-Pain - Im In Love With A Stripper [view link] Tag, You're It/Milk and Cookies Double Feature [view link] w/ lyrics [view link] Daniel Castro - I'll Play The Blues For You [view link] Its not that I'm against acoustic guitar, its just that I like the electric music so much. And note the 5 string bass. Eric Clapton - Old Love (Live in Hyde Park 1997) [view link] Badge [view link] Layla [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York [view link] Computer Written Music, 1 hr [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "I'll Play The Blues For You" - Live At The Greek Theatre [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" - Live At The Greek Theatre [view link] JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues [view link] Jeff Beck - LIVE Full Concert 2017 ft/ Rosie Oddie [view link] [view link] Move flavors of Aiva generated music [view link]
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    So the Red and Blue banded publications of Blavatsky, are by Theosphoical Univ Press, but paper back. How about the hard backs? And they also offer all of this full text online too. And how about the MPH abridgement of Isis Unveiled? Well here, someone abridged Secret Doctrine [view link] Year of the Pig [view link] SJG Robin Trower - Full Concert - Rockpalast Crossroads, Bonn - 2005 [view link] Floyd, ELP, YES, Genesis K Crimson- 70's Classic ProgRock [view link]
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    So need a book about Masonry. Some books claim to tell all their secrets. But Universal Co-Masons recommend: [view link] [view link] The meaning of Masonry / by W.L. Wilmshurst. ( 1995 edition, author born 1867 ) And also consider: The complete idiot's guide to Freemasonry / by S. Brent Morris. (2013) SJG Sexy Girls World Map ( consider Ecuador and Argentina ) [view link] Argentina [view link] Year of the Pig [view link]
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    In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take a human life. He replied: "I don't know, I've only ever killed communists"
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    Go is a semi-autobiographical novel by John Clellon Holmes (1952) considered the first of the Beat Generation novels. Always wanted to read it. Deals with a difficult marriage. [view link] Go : a novel / by John Clellon Holmes SJG Conscious Love with Richard Smoley [view link] Mexico City [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Ninos Heros seems to be the main street hooker place in Mexico City [view link] Calzada de Tlalpan ( its West side ) and then from Viaducto Piedad going South to Napolean. So let me see what I can find in street view: In red dress: [view link] another in red dress: [view link] Notice their rubber tired public transit train, running down the center of: Calzada de Tlalpan [view link] Black Mini Dress [view link] Hotel [view link] Red Dress in front of small hotel [view link] Giant Size PEMEX station [view link] Starting over at the Northern Boundary, as I am seeing it. [view link] Diverting Right Down Calle Segovia, not disapointed [view link] Certainly not [view link] back to going South on the East side of Calzada de Tlalpan Little bit further South than Napoleon Lots of Hotels on this East side of Calzada de Tlalpan at Napoleon [view link] [view link] Remember this awesome find? I think the effect is mainly in how she is dressed. [view link] Yes, seems to be this corner: [view link] Intersection of San Simon and Limon, next to a park, close to Catholic Church. Close to their international airport Yes, so she is about 600ft West of H. Congresso de La Union, its west side, San Simon and Limon, adjacent to a park, close to a Catholic Church, Paroquia de la Santa Cruz y Nuestra.... Parroquia de la Santa Cruz y Nuestra Señora de la Soledad [view link] Yes, here, found her anew from the world map! [view link] Second Pic [view link] Poetry Slam [view link] More Poetry [view link] Howl, Ginsberg [view link]
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    So finishing up with Kingdom Coming, The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg 2006 [view link] She gets into some of the things which really infuriated me about these abstinence advocates. First, around 1990 there was this contraceptive sponge which was going through public testing. Billed as being the most ideal of contraceptives ever invented. And then more recently, a vaccine for the HPV viruses. Well the Christian Right and the Abstinence Advocates fought hard against these, and not because they might be ineffective or have side effects, they fight against them precisely because they might work exactly as intended. So here I want to record some of Goldberg's more interesting looking references: SJG Mexico City looks to have its pluses, but TJ's Zona has so many in a concentrated area, just a few steps from suitable accommodations. Yes, I guess its obvious, I like looking at street hookers, and how they are dressed and the fact that it is in public in full daylight are a big part of it. [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Debussy Playlist [view link] Rebels: A Journey Underground #1 - Society's Shadow [view link] Planned Parenthood: SCOTUS Halts Louisiana Abortion Law for Now, But Roe v. Wade Fate Uncertain [view link] Ocasio-Cortez & Markey Unveil Sweeping “Green New Deal” to Radically Shift U.S. Off Fossil Fuels [view link] Dems Accuse Trump Admin of “State-Sponsored Child Abuse” as Separated Migrant Children Scandal Grows [view link] Jeff Healey [view link] Baby Lookin' Hot [view link] Oscar Peterson"Round Midnight"(T.Monk),Piano Solo [view link] Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues [view link] Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Giants Of Jazz Copenhagen 1971 [view link]
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    So Goldberg's more interesting references: Spiritual warfare : the politics of the Christian right / Sara Diamond (1989) Roads to dominion : right-wing movements and political power in the United States / Sara Diamond. (1995) The origins of totalitarianism / by Hannah Arendt (1951) The right man : the surprise presidency of George W. Bush / David Frum. (2003) The nature of fascism / Roger Griffin (1991 and beyond ) The politics of cultural despair : a study in the rise of the Germanic ideology / Fritz Stern. (1974) Marvin Olasky ( SHIT!) Right-wing populism in America : too close for comfort / Chip Berlet, Matthew N. Lyons (2000) SJG Joe Pass - Satin Doll [view link] Patti Austin ( quite good ) [view link] Patti Austin full concert [view link]
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    Christian reconstructionism [view link] Christian reconstructionists advocate a theonomic government and libertarian economic principles. They maintain a distinction of spheres of authority between family, church, and state. So a major influence in this is : Christian reconstructionism's founder, Rousas Rushdoony, wrote in The Institutes of Biblical Law (the founding document of reconstructionism) that Old Testament law should be applied to modern society, and he advocates the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's penal sanctions. Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which carried a death sentence would include murder, homosexuality, adultery, incest, lying about one's virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying, kidnapping, rape, and bearing false witness in a capital case. I also notice that they names of a bunch of break away Presbyterian groups always come up, promoting Creationism / Intelligent Design, and Abstinence only no condom programs. The breakaway Presbyterian groups usually include in their name, "Evangelical" or "Redeemer" And most all of this seems to be coming right out of the John Birch Society. And then above I failed to mention one important reference: Talk about sex : the battles over sex education in the United States / Janice M. Irvine (2004) SJG Mexico City, has so many people and cars on the streets, that if one is interested in hookers, likely best to find a bar, or you would really have to know that area. [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Richard Smoley, Inner Christianity [view link] Business Law Today, 10th and 11th Edition, Roger LeRoy Miller [view link] New, Used, purchase as ebook (pdf) and in libraries Esoteric Christianity -- Don Baker -- Theosphical Society in Seattle [view link]
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    So reading: Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, by John Shelby Spong [view link] Its kind of Spong's guided tour through the Bible. Thing is though, this is not quite what I was expecting. For me, this would be more like recreational reading. So as I have other things to read, I am hurrying through it. It is good though. SJG The End of Work and the Case for Universal Basic Income Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), author of Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream, and Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy [view link] How Ayn Rand Became a Hero to Right Wing Nerds -- Thom Hartmann [view link] Thom Hartmann: Atlas Shrugged - bizarre philosophy at work -- Thom Hartmann [view link] Alec Baldwin: Trump's 'SNL' Attack May Be 'A Threat To My Safety' [view link] Kim Kardashian [view link] Thierry Mugler [view link] [view link] [view link] Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him -- New York Times [view link] Venus, Shocking Blue, actually live, with only what you see on stage, and not hamming for the camera, quite good, a coffee house grade performance [view link] Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues [view link] JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues [view link] Joe Bonamassa - I'll Play The Blues For You [view link]
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    So I am getting a great deal out of John Shelby Spong. This is not really the kind of reading that I want to be doing at this time. But is necessary to be able to do a good job in some political matters. But my reading balance plan which served me well for over 1.5 years, has just completely fallen apart. So Spong cites Jeremiah as one of the source of Universalism, as opposed to the Tribal War God. I had known this, when Jeremiah endorses Nebuchadnezzar. But then he also sees in in Malachi. Of the twelve minor prophets, Spong discounts as adding very little: Joel, Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Haggai He does find the value in: Hosea, Amos, Micah, Jonah, Zechariah, and Malachi SJG Radio astronomy parabola project [view link] How to Build a Radio Telescope [view link] How Composers use Fibonacci Numbers & Golden Ratio | Composing with Fibonacci [view link] How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!) [view link] Losing Arguments with Your Wife After Her Brain Surgery - Jim Gaffigan [view link] A most impressive article: [view link] The origins of freemasonry : facts & fictions / Margaret C. Jacob. (2006) Ending the Punishment of Poverty: Supreme Court Rules Against High Fines & Civil Asset Forfeiture [view link] Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY [view link] [view link] NOLO, Bourbon Street [view link] AZTECA [view link] Peter Green - In The Skies ( Full Album ) 1979 [view link] [view link] I love the smell of napalm in the morning [view link]
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    Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, by John Shelby Spong [view link] Finished with it for now. Actually a very good book, but now what I most need to be reading now. Very little of the Bible, or especially of the New Testament could be considered a first person account, reliably what Jesus said, or anything you or I should take as a prescription to live by. John generally is seen as the greatest of the Gospels, but it by far the furthest removed from a literal historical record. Almost no statements attributed to Jesus now seen as authentic. Anyway, They say the first writings of the NT were 1 Thessalonians, 51 CE. And Paul was expecting an immanent second coming, and he was definitely a religious rules fanatic. Then Galatians, commonly referred to as the Manga Carta. Then Corinthians 1 and 2, doing so much to lay out his theology, and his ideas about speaking in tongues. Spong sees the middle Paul as being embodied in the two Corinthians and Romans. The the later Paul in Phielemon and Philippians. These make for the only agreed upon Authentic Paul. Colossians and II THessalonians are still in debate. And the rest is considered in-authentic. This includes Ephsians, and this is what the Evangelicals always use for their 'prayer warfare' stuff. For Spong, Paul's Thorn is his homosexuality. And what Christ means to Paul is that he finally has found what he has always wanted, that God accepts us as we are. But remember, Paul was originally a persecutor. And then even after, he still does not really seem to get it, not truly a universalist, not by a long shot. SJG Zucked [view link] Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe [view link] "worldwide apparatus of persuasive technology designed to keep users engaged by appealing to lizard brain emotions and modifying their behavior, all while harvesting personal data and metadata to sell to advertisers" Broken Book [view link] Hidden Camera inside a Freemason Lodge ???? Looks good to me! ( stripper ) [view link] Miles Davis, Love for Sale [view link] John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961) [view link] New York Jazz Lounge - Bar Jazz Classics [view link] Do strippers usually makeout [view link]
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    Aleister Nacht, Satanic writer. Could be interesting. [view link] [view link] Books not in libraries SJG
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    A New Christianity For A New World by John Shelby Spong (2000) This is a brilliant book. He goes very far, completely rejecting Theism. But he does not go far enough, as he is still trumpeting Chistianist identification. So let me look here at his other books: I had read the previous book, when it came out in 1999 Why Christianity must change or die : a bishop speaks to believers in exile : a new reformation of the Church's faith and practice / John Shelby Spong. But the one I have now goes much much further, and he has a lot of books since. Consider Jesus for the non-religious : recovering the divine at the heart of the human / John Shelby Spong. (2007) SJG
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    Days of Awe and Wonder How to be a Christian in the 21st Century Marcus J. Borg (2017) SJG
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    Reimagining Christianity : reconnect your spirit without disconnecting your mind / Alan W. Jones (2005) Trying to limit how many more of these books I need to read. I want to master the material for political purposes. But truth is I really do not agree with it. I want to be reading esoteric and occult books. The above with the three I am working on now, might finally be enough. SJG
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    Finished with [view link] Marcus Borg says lots of interesting things, but still at core I do not agree with him and find him tedious. Mostly all he is doing is apologizing for the worst of Christianity, and he is still teaching people to say on queue, "I am a Christian". This book was assembled posthumously, I think mostly by his wife. She is a cannon at the Episcopalian Trinity Cathedral, Portland. And they had made him a theological cannon. He says he grew up in a small town in North Dakota, where everyone identified as being a Christian. He seems to want to preserve that. What the hell for? I just encourages the worst, the Evangelical Movement. Make no mistake, I do not like spending my time reading such books. But I need to master the material for political purposes. How many more such books? Not sure. The Episcopalians have indeed created their own version of the I AM A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT. SJG [view link] Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (Live Knebworth 1979) [view link]
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    A most highly responsible religious organization. The exact opposite of those preying on fear and prejudice, just to keep the money coming in. Great book too! [view link] SJG
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    Reading Huston Smith, this guy is interesting. As always, need to better understand where he is coming from. [view link] Now Marcus Borg claims that this was written as a refutation to his Heart of Christianity. I say that such a refutation has been long over due. Still have to read it to see if it fits this bill. SJG My Troubles With Women, Robert Crumb [view link]
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    Reading Huston Smith Soul of Christianity [view link] Quotes at length a mystical experience of Jonathan Edwards [view link] Quotes Origen, effectively inverting Jacob's Ladder, saying it all originates from above. [view link] Apparently, they sent Smith a copy of Borg's "Heart of Christianity" and asked him if he would endorse it. Smith read some of it and then called them back. He explained that he would not endorse it, and that he would write a rebuttal. Well, it took almost 10 years, but the rebuttal is really good. I also felt that Borg's Heart of Christianity was stupid. See, Borg and Spong, they are people responsible for collection totals. Spong was an Episcopalian Bishop. Borg is married to a Cannon at the Episcopalian Trinty Cathedral in Portland. Then he was installed as a Theological Cannon. All they care about is Christian Identification because that is what keeps the money coming in. In Huston Smith I see none of this. Not clear that he even goes to any church. Short book, but very challenging reading. SJG President Trump Threatens Political Opponents with Violence President Trump appeared to threaten his political opponents with violence in an interview published Thursday by the far-right website Breitbart. Trump accused his opponents on the left of “playing tough” but said his supporters are tougher, telling Breitbart, “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough—until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad.” Jeff Healey Band [view link] The Way Life Should Be, Awesome Slut Dress [view link] Frantz Fanon, by Peter Hudis [view link] [view link]
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    Above book is phenomenal! Talks about Plato, Aristotle, Neo-Platonism, and Hermeticism. Smith taught in Philosophy Departments. Very few people could speak to these subjects the way he does. The standard Bible in isolation, I AM A CHRISTIAN stuff is for morons. Talks about holons [view link] following Origen talks about levels of meaning or exegesis: literal, ethical, allegorical, anagogic. SJG We're Still Right [view link] Kenny Wayne Shepherd - While We Cry - live Summerfest 2015 [view link]
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    so continuing to read Huston Smith Soul of Christianity Remarkable book by a remarkable man. But still not really getting to what I want. He outlines three branches of Christianity. 1. Roman Catholic 2. Eastern Orthodox 3. Protestantism He sees number 2 as being kind of in the middle. Maybe he means in terms of the authority structure it is in the middle. Most people tend to see number 1 as in the middle. That is, before 1054 they were all the same. But then East and West separated. In the West they adopted the ideas of Thomas Aquinas, largely based on Aristotle. That then made the church compatible with Science. So as people say, the Western Church was half Protestantized. When he talks about the Protestants, he talks about Justification by Faith. This is how you end up today with the "I Am A Christian" movement. This is what we must oppose. It actually is heresy and blasphemy. I know that the real opposition to it will be found in the Existential Theologians, like Paul Tillich. Though I do not know if they phrase it this way. Lots of Episcopalians claim inspiration from Tillich, but then their church has invented its own branded version of the I AM A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT, teaching people to say it in the church building, but to practice a Jewish Style Quietism outside. The UU's reject the movement. But this does not mean that they advance a counter argument. F. Forrester Church was a UU leader, so maybe his book showcasing Tillich's writings will show me what I want. Then there are other existential theologians [view link] and then [view link] SJG Sister is frightened of her own people [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] Pleaser 9" and 10" [view link] We're Still Right, They're Still Wrong [view link]
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    Okay, so this John D. Caputo, he might be the link between Paul Tillich and the more radical and postmodernist theologians? [view link] "Postmodern theology emerged in the 1980s and 1990s when a handful of philosophers who took philosopher Martin Heidegger as a common point of departure began publishing influential books on theology." Maybe a good place to start? The essential Caputo : selected writings / edited by B. Keith Putt (2018) SJG Thank you Founder for opening our old threads! This will make the forum better. Less posts, but posts that are of higher quality and threads which are more topically focused. We still though need some way of finding our old threads too though, like it used to be. Pleaser 10", 2 pages, anyone know where these are made, and where they mold the acrylic bases? [view link] The Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump [view link] Best of Sade - Sade Greatest Hits Full Album [view link]
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    Eugene V. Debs A Graphic Biography "One of the most important Americans of the 20th Century ... The most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had." --- Bernie Sanders SJG
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    Read da book of da lawerd
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    Its da good book
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    Paulist Biblical Commentary, prepub price only $99.95 [view link] 1686 pages, one volume, full Catholic Bible [view link] [view link] Not able to see which Bible translation this is based on. SJG
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    Clement of Alexandria [view link] Gnosis, theophany, theosis : studies in Clement of Alexandria's appropriation of his background / Arkadi Choufrine (2002) looks real good: Gnosis : an introduction / Christoph Markschies ; translated by John Bowden. 2003 After the New Testament : a reader in early Christianity / [compiled by] Bart D. Ehrman. (1999) 436 pages. Elaine Pagels Beyond belief : the secret Gospel of Thomas / Elaine Pagels. (2004) SJG Pablo Sender: Living Theosophy―Light on the Path: Part 1 [view link]
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    Modern Library [view link] Iamblicus [view link] [view link]
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    Manfred Max-Neef [view link] Economics unmasked : from power and greed to compassion and the common good / Philip B. Smith & Manfred Max-Neef but selection warning SJG
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    In hand now: Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho by F. Forrester Church [view link] Remember that the son was Pastor of All Souls UU, NYC. And the father was US Senator from Idaho, and led the Church Committee, in the wake of Watergate, giving us most of what we now know about the intelligence community and the CIA. SJG Rosicrucian Music [view link] The American Electoral Republic has failed [view link] Ocasio-Cortez: Ukraine allegation one of the most serious we have seen [view link]
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    Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho by F. Forrester Church So it always helps to get the birth and death dates straight from outside sources. Frank Forrest Church III And the father was US Senator from Idaho, and led the Church Committee, in the wake of Watergate, giving us most of what we now know about the intelligence community and the CIA. Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981. He is known for heading the Church Committee, which investigated abuses within the United States Intelligence Community. Elected to Senate in Nov 1956. Sought Democratic Nomination in 1976, but withdrew in favor of Jimmy Carter. Church narrowly lost his re-election bid to a Republican in 1980. Church passed away in 1984. Age 59. Died of a pancreatic cancer. But he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer back in his 20's, after he had just gotten married. [view link] Frank Forrest Church IV Remember that the son was Pastor of All Souls UU, NYC. Frank Forrester Church IV (September 23, 1948 – September 24, 2009) was a leading Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and theologian. He was Senior Minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City, until late 2006 when he was appointed as Minister of Public Theology. [view link] Born in Palo Alto when father was student in Stanford Law School. Church was a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Divinity School. He received a Ph.D. in early church history from Harvard University in 1978. On February 4, 2008, Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation informing them that he had terminal cancer. He told them of his intention, which he successfully realized, to sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been pervasive in his work in a final book, entitled Love & Death. Church died of esophageal cancer in New York City on September 24, 2009, a day after his 61st birthday.[4] He is buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise. SJG Rod Stewart and The Faces- Maggie May- TOTP 1971 [view link] Rod Stewart Feat. Faces - You Wear It Well - TOTP2 1972 [view link]
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    So at the age of 23, Frank Church III was found to have cancer. It was pancreatic, but in his entire abdominal area. They did a 6 hour surgery, removing glands and as much as they could. They gave him 3 months to live. But this was at Stanford, and they had just started doing radiation work. So everyday they burned Frank Church with radiation. It made him nauseous each night. They would say that just that daily radiation cut 10 to 15 years from his life. But it worked, he lived another 34 years, 24 of which was spend in the US Senate. When this cancer was detected, F. F. Church IV was just one year old. Says parents owned a baby blue Desoto convertible, which had a lighted nude for a hood ornament. Maybe like this: [view link] Drove car all through Mexico, but then in Boston it was stolen. This made III's wife insist that they leave Harvard and go back West to Stanford. IV went to Stanford, late 60's. Got involved in student politics, ended up begin campaign manager for woman candidate who was topless dancer, who would campaign by taking off her clothes to music. F. F. Church IV is a really interesting guy, which is why I am reading this. [view link] SJG SJG Chris Hedges [view link] BrandFX Truck Bodies [view link] and here on the cutaway van [view link] in Fort Worth Texas [view link] Archive408 [view link]
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    So in Idaho they did not seem to like Adlai Stevenson much. And it was basically a Republican state. But F. F. Church III still felt that 1956 could be a democratic year. One who had held the office was Glen Taylor. He would later come to CA and found a men's hair piece company, Taylor Topper. I have met members of that large family. When they went to Washington, they owned a Kaiser. Not sure which model. [view link] F. F. Church sounds like a really nice guy. Fun guy too, sliding down banisters in public buildings, even after he was serving in the Senate. SJG
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    Senator Frank Church, Idaho, keynoting 1960 Democratic National Convention [view link] SJG
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    It was considered a very good speech. But they only show that small snippet of Frank Church. SJG
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    From Forrest Church's book, page 4 "Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die." SJG [view link] At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more. I have recommended this book to EVERYONE, and for decades. But I have to concede that with most people it seems to go over their heads.
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    So Idaho, being a Republican leaning state, Frank Church had a hard time getting re-elected in 1968 and 1974. And then in 1980 he was defeated by a small margin. Most of the vitriol against him was driven by the John Birch Society. They handed out formulaic pamphlets throughout the state. Even his Republican opposition would usually distance themselves from the Birch Society, as their stuff was such bullshit. And we know how much cross over there has been from the Birch Society to the Christian Right. At the Harvard Divinity school, Forrester Church studied under George Huntston Williams. This fit with Church's interest in Unitarianism and in Thomas Jefferson. Also, George Williams was one who showed that in making the Soviet Union our enemy, how much were were becoming more and more like them. Frank Church led a special subcommittee. Usually the majority party led the committees. But this was something so important that it needed bipartisan leadership. At that time the POTUS was ruling though 420 different emergency declarations. They would be declared, but they never expired. Nixon was using some of these to conduct his war in Vietnam. So they researched all of this and wrote a bill to terminate it. Gerald Ford signed it, but he did it discretely, in the Oval Office, not the Capital Signing Room. Church went after corporate corruption, the multi-national. It was prevalent. ITT offering the CIA millions of dollars to stop Salvador Allende, dully elected President of Chile, from assuming his office. Exxon, 27 million dollars to Italy. Gulf Oil, money to Saudi Arabia, then United Fruit, and of course Lockheed. Church exposed it all and did what he could to stop it. Like cleaning up a pre-trump mess. And then dealing with the Intelligence Community, attempts on Castro, and then Lumumba. SJG
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    So Forrest Church had intended to be an academic theologian. But two months after he finished his doctorate at Harvard, he started as Pastor at All Soul's UU Manhattan. As an elementary school child, Forrest Church attended schools in both Idaho an DC. It was at this latter that he was in class with both Julie and Tricia Nixon. It was in late November 1963, that one of these schools had been converted to a UU Church. First time Forrest Church attended a UU church. It was to listen to his father Senator Frank Church, deliver a eulogy for President John F. Kennedy. Frank Church was not a minister, like so many in his family, he was a lawyer, specializing in International Law. Frank Church had had a radical surgery in his abdominal and groin area, removing glands and one of his testicles because of cancer. They still gave him only 3 months to live. But as this was Stanford, they were doing new work in radiation treatment. They gave Church 3 months of daily radiation treatments. This left him not impotent, but sterile. He did get though it and it kept the cancer at bey for 35 years. In 1980 he was voted out of the Senate by a narrow margin. Then the cancer did come back, and he only lived until 1984. Forrest Church has written many books, and he was national leader of the UU denomination. He did come down with esophageal cancer. He recieved many type of treatment and held out, serving as Pastor, for as long as he could. Died in Sept 2009, just after his 61st birthday. [view link] SJG
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    So Senator Frank Church and his wife Bethine spent an entire 3 days in the company of Fidel Castro. Fidel driving them around the island in a Soviet made jeep. This was in 1979. Then later in '79 there was some incident where Soviet troops were found to be in Cuba. Don't know anything about this. [view link] Amounted to nothing, but it did derail SaltII treaty. Here, in Forrest Church's book, page 4: "As both psychiatrists and theologians have pointed out, the story of the fall and many other stories from the biblical tradition are stories of generational conflict, stories of filial impiety, stories of a parent's blessing being bestowed or withheld or taken away." SJG
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    So the Soviet Troops in Cuba did not amount to anything. Eventually they were being called a brigade. But the CIA reviewed its info and they had been there for many years. But it did embarrass Frank Church and Jimmy Carter. Some observers have said that the CIA was working to destabilize Carter. Frank Church worked for a NY International Law Firm, thus getting 4x what he had ever gotten in the Senate. His cancer returned, again starting in the pancreas. But it had spread to his liver and was deemed inoperable and terminal. Ted Kennedy and George McGovern visited, as did Alan Simpson of Wyoming. SJG
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    WARNING - The following accounts are considered to be forum trolls and may not be trustworthy: san_jose_guy - Commonly referred to as SJG this forum member may have some sort of mental illness and is usually mocked or ignored. SJG has a long history of posting incendiary comments including being pro-rape. His comments should NOT be taken in any way as legitimate.
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    So finished up here with Forrest Church's book about his father. And it is supposed to be a book about the father, not a coming of age book for Forrest. But still, it is worth looking at some of the things the book never talks about. Almost nothing about Forrest's experiences with girls. It mentions about him having a date with the one he would marry, Amy. Says that there were some contacts with others which could have screwed up their date. But says that Amy did consent to a second date. The way he says this it make you think that he had had many one date only situations. But we really don't know. Only guessing, cause the book tells us nothing. Zero mention of any Elliot Rodger Incel type stuff. Never laments that girls did not seem to like him, or that they liked other boys more. Says nothing of anything like this. Forrest does not seem to think like this. No mention of physical intimacies outside of marriage. Just a complete blank. And this was late 60's to early 70's. Zero mention of any conflicts with this Amy, before marriage, or after. No mention of drugs, only the very most minor mentions of alcohol. Seemingly zero conflicts. No coming of age issues about anything. Graduated from Stanford, then to Harvard Divinity School, then to Pastorship at All Souls UU Manhattan. Don't know what to make of this vacuum, issues did not exist, deemed unimportant? SJG
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    Reading the words of Elliot Rodger, and seeing and hearing his videos, you can feel his pain. He is believing that just as things go, at some point in time, some age, girls will open up to him, and things will happen. And you can feel his pain in seeing that this is not happening. He does not understand why, and so he listens to misogynistic sources. There in nothing of this, zero, in the writing of F. Forrester Church. Even though it is more about his father, Forrester still does say a great deal about himself. Nothing at all like Elliot Rodger. SJG
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    Swedenborg Emanuel 1688 1772 Connects Swedenborg to Balzac ! Swedenborg : an introduction to his life and ideas / Gary Lachman (2012), Lachman is always extremely good. Founding bass player for Blondie as well. also The hidden levels of the mind : Swedenborg's theory of consciousness / Douglas Taylor ; with an essay by Reuben P. Bell (2011) Godwin, Joscelyn , she writes extremely interesting stuff. Boehme Jakob 1575 1624 far less books available Science, meaning, & evolution : the cosmology of Jacob Boehme / by Basarab Nicolescu (1991) ^^^^ so originally in French and with preface by Joscelyn Godwin. Looks real good!
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    Will have soon, A. E. Waite, bona fide British Occultist and 19th Century Golden Dawn veteran. [view link] SJG
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    ^^ You have to STFU!
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    Very available: Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft Gabriela Herstik [view link] ^^^^ looks very good! Crystals: Understand and Connect to the Medicine and Healing of Crystals (Updated Edition) Rachelle Charman [view link] The Chakras Handbook: Tap into Your Body's Energy Centers for Well-Being, Manifestation, and Positive Energy Athena Perrakis [view link] Also, want to spend more time with these: Christian Gnosis Leadbeater, C. W., 1854-1934 Freemasonry and Its Ancient Mystic Rites Leadbeater, C. W., 1854-1934 SJG
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    Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography [view link] SJG
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    So Gary Lachman, Georg Fuerstein, and Tobias Churton, want to read their stuff. Some I have read some of and need more time with. Some is not in libraries. But what I especially want is Lachman: Blavatsky, Ouspensky, Collin Wilson, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Imagination Churton, Rosicrucians Fuerstein, Sacred Sex, Tantra, Gebser Levels of Consiousness. I just have to learn little by little, and so much else to read on top of the above. SJG
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    [view link] Graphic movel, looks entertaining! SJG
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    Someone gave me this for Christmas. Book is a fold out wall chart, 3 meters long. Cool! [view link] SJG Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace - Live at Beat-Club - 1971 - Remastered [view link] [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link]
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    Have you ever published a book? I have. It’s used as an educational text in 5 countries. Translated in Japanese, German, and Chinese. Used in those countries as well as Canada and USA. Hell, I don’t even speak those three foreign languages, but my words affect their practice. Kind of a good feeling.
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    ^^^^^ Cool! SJG
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    Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City Paperback – April 9, 2019 by Amanda Kolson Hurley [view link] [view link] SJG
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    1908, want to read. there are multiple translations. [view link] SJG
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    Of all the places to have a self-publishing vs traditional discussion, I didn't think it'd be here. Are there way worse books being published? Probably, but there are also a lot more people starting to write who will eventually become great writers because of the opportunity that self-publishing allows by having less gatekeeping. Physical book sales may have dropped, but ebooks and especially audiobooks have grown a ton in sales.
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    I think physical book sales are still quite strong. Self publishing, as I see it, works best with special market books, certain types of utility books, and things where you want to make annual updates. Books that are more manuals, than straight fiction v non-fiction. Could be good if you are running a larger organization where your publishing arm is also your house organ, and maybe where you want to bring out a series. Some fields deal more with old books than others. Esoteric-Occut seems to be all old books. Some of the publishers, like Samuel Weiser have been mostly about republishing old titles. Most Esoteric-Occult people have huge collections of really old books. So makes sense to have your own publishing arm, as the dynamics are completely different from the mainstream. Thoughts??? I can give examples of all that I have said. Welcome to TUSCL! SJG
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    Thanks, we'll see if I stick around :P. I'm really not sure about your points because honestly, I don't know much about non-fiction. I read a lot more fiction, where it is the more niche genre books that seem to be doing great (romance, sci-fi, fantasy, etc).
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    And when I say I read fiction I mean just straight sci-fi/fantasy lol. Don't know much about occult/old books.
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    Well, there are special publishing companies which deal exclusively with sci-fi/fantasy. Know anything about this Disc World and Terry Pratchett? [view link] [view link] I guess The Colour of Magick is where it started [view link] [view link] The ideas in that book, the 8 rays and the 8 colors influenced the Chaos Magick writter Peter James Carroll, and he changed his whole system to follow it, in his "Liber Kaos". [view link] SJG
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    General chemistry as a second language / David R. Klein (2015) Looks like Klein writes great general chemistry and O chem, and this later covers epoxies and acrylics! SJG The One Thing Each Zodiac Sign Should Try In Bed In 2020 [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Stockroom [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Leave the panties off of course: [view link] Larsa Pippen [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] ELP | Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 40th Anniversary Reunion - Full Concert ᴴᴰ 2010 [view link]
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    [view link] [view link] Better for where I need to go: [view link] SJG
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    The Good Earth [graphic novel] [view link] [view link] Remember the locust swarms? Most of the Chinese just throw up their hands. We are doomed. Nothing can be done. I was poor, not I am rich, but soon I will be poor again. I am just a bad luck sort. Well in my view, Asians are like this, unless they are influenced by Western ideas. And the most common of these Western ideas are Christianity and Marxism. If they have these influences, they cannot be broken. So the son who had been educated, I think at Harvard, he took a different view. Difficult to stop locusts, but not impossible. I feel that Buck was deliberately telling her story so that it would sound like the Bible so that Westerners could identify with it. [view link] [view link] SJG
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    Need to keep track of some book references: The Hermetic Link: From Secret Tradition to Modern Thought Paperback – April 1, 2012 by Jacob Slavenburg Robert Ambelain books, French only, not in libraries. The Hermetic Link: From Secret Tradition to Modern Thought Paperback – April 1, 2012 by Jacob Slavenburg Mircea Eliade, he was a fascist, and people use him to tar Ambelain. But I don't think Robert Ambelain was any kind of a fascist. [view link] ********************** Transcendental magic : its doctrine and ritual / by Eliphas Levi ; translation [and] biographical preface by Arthur Edward Waite This is due soon: Hidden intercourse : eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism / edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jeffrey J. Kripal ( available now ) The Gnostics and their remains, ancient and mediaeval / by C.W. King. (1887, available) Magic and mysticism : an introduction to Western esotericism / Arthur Versluis. (2007 - 179 pages, awesome cover ) Readily available The secret history of western sexual mysticism : sacred practices and spiritual marriage / Arthur Versluis (2008, and this guy has a lot of interesting books, above is available right now! ) Magic and mysticism : an introduction to Western esotericism / Arthur Versluis. (2007 - 179 pages, awesome cover ) Readily available Clement Salaman etal, The Way of Hermes, 2011 Francis Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, 1971 and of course Mark Sedgwick George Steiner, Martin Heidegger (1987) okay Hermes explains : thirty questions about western esotericism : celebrating the 20th anniversary of the centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam / edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Peter J. Forshaw and Marco Pasi (2019) Tertium organum : the third canon of thought : a key to the enigmas of the world / P.D. Ouspensky ; revised translation by E. Kadloubovsky and the author ; originally translated by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon In search of the miraculous : fragments of an unknown teaching / P. D. Ouspensky. And then Gary Lachman, always good: Beyond the robot : the life and work of Colin Wilson / Gary Lachman (2016) In search of P.D. Ouspensky : the genius in the shadow of Gurdjieff / Gary Lachman (2006) And then Collin Wison: G.I. Gurdjieff / by Colin Wilson 1986 And then Georg Feuerstein, who has written lots of good books: Structures of consciousness : the genius of Jean Gebser-- an introduction and critique / Georg Feuerstein (1987) Sacred sexuality : living the vision of the erotic spirit / Georg Feuerstein (1993) Schuré, Edouard, 1841-1929. The great initiates : a study of the secret history of religions / translated from the French by Gloria Rasberry. Introd. by Paul M. Allen. , available 1961 English edition Andrei Zamenski, Red Shambhala, Quest Books 2011 The Rite of Memphis-Misraïm [view link] [view link] Alessandro Cagliostro 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795 [view link] The practical art of divine magic : contemporary & ancient techniques of theurgy / Patrick Dunn. (2015) but not available Condensed chaos : an introduction to chaos magic / by Phil Hine ; foreword by Peter J. Carroll. ( should soon be available ) SJG Great Enclosed Heel Stripper Shoes [view link]
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    The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism (2016) [view link] [view link] SJG
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    The lost keys of Freemasonry / Manly P. Hall. (2006 republish) Freemasonry and its ancient mystic rites / C.W. Leadbeater. Glimpses of Masonic history ( originally 1926 ) SJG
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    Libertarian principles? There is no such thing. Libertarianism is just a scam to promote Social Darwinism. The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia [view link] From the book's back cover: Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on far-right political thought. The "Politics of Bitcoin" exposes how much of the economic and political thought on which this cryptocurrency is based emerges from ideas that travel the gamut, from Milton Friedman, F. A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises to Federal Reserve conspiracy theorists. SJG Gnosticism as a Viable Political Movement [view link]
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    Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie [view link] [view link] ^^^^^ Books like the above are usually stupid. But sometimes one still does need to skim through them just to immunize yourself from the way they will play out in popular culture. SJG Very interesting newer writer! [view link] [view link]
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    The Technological Singularity (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Murray Shanahan [view link] [view link] ^^^^ seems to be AI oriented [view link] SJG
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    Dwight Goddard [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Jack Kerouac was staying with Neil Cassady in San Jose. He stole the book from the public library and he took it with him all over the US, and it became the basis of many of his books.
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    Alberto's Mountain View [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG
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    Disturbing the universe / Freeman Dyson (1979, 1981), an autobiography [view link] " Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and his postgraduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world-be it as scientist, citizen, student, or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, Dyson discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament, and even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxies. " SJG
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    The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll (2019) [view link] SJG Think of the muscle control they must have to make this work hands off: [view link] TJ Street [view link] Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton - Dear Mr. Fantasy (HQ)(Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010) [view link] Little Wing [view link] Blues in 'A' [view link]
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    Cooperative Economy Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy by Nathan Schneider, a leader in the Occupy Movement [view link] [view link] Ten Years Since Economic Collapse Sparked Occupy Wall Street, the Cooperative Movement Is Surging [view link] SJG AOC reads Green New Deal into House Record, 14 pages. Green New Deal full text, 14 pages [view link] [view link] Daniel Castro - I'll Play The Blues For You [view link] Slow Blues/ Blues Ballads 1 - A two hour long compilation [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] Old thread, valuable info, closed: OT: Programmable Logic Devices [view link]
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    Cooperative Economy Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy by Nathan Schneider, a leader in the Occupy Movement [view link] Everything for everyone : the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy / Nathan Schneider. (2018) * pretty good dissemination, and has other books too. SJG
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    People who have lots of books in their homes. Kind of need to go to full height built in book shelves. Living With Books [view link] SJG School of Rock AllStar Students perform "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by CCR [view link]
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