Currently I enjoy Sagan alot, who seems highly respected by the posters here, all of whom I hope to both learn from and exercise my reason and imagination with. See you all soon.
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- The March: A Novel - by E.L. Doctorow
- The Ethical Brain - by Michael Gazzaniga
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond
- The Battle for God - by Karen Armstrong
- The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson
- What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live - by A.C. Grayling
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- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan
- How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God - by Michael Shermer
- Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - by Antonio Damasio
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- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - by Matt Ridley
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - by Richard Dawkins
- Atheism: A Reader - edited by S. T. Joshi
- Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century - by Howard Bloom
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History - by Howard Bloom
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond
- Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - by Dee Alexander Brown
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Since I'll be lurking for a while w/ the occasional post, here's a little about me... raised super-religious, (though when very young I remember the twilight of the free-love days vicariously through my parents) Fell away from the church, still strongly believing in something I was naturally attracted to Gustav Jung and Joseph Cambbell, (who had a large influence on Tool, really the only band that keeps me captivated).
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Weclome to the BookTalk community! I hope you find it interesting enough here to join in on the conversations. Even if you don't get around to reading each book selection it would be great to meet you in the chat room for our Thursday night chats. Chris |
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Hey Dethe!
Wow! I'm glad you made it to the board. I'm looking forward to reading your comments in the discussions. It looks like the poll for the March/April book is still open. If you're planning to read it I hope you get your vote in. I'm definitely a fan of Sagan. Pale Blue Dot is one of the best books I've ever read. Perhaps that is partly because of where my thinking was when I read it. I still had such a limited and biased worldview. It was the first "real" (non-JW) book I had ever read and it presented such a different perspective of our world and life. I felt such a sense of awe and wonder after reading that book and it really triggered a desire to read, learn about and explore science. I really enjoyed Demon Haunted World too. It helped destroy some of those lingering irrational feelings of the supernatural. I'm looking forward to starting a new book next month, whichever one we decide on. And I'm looking forward to some good discussions as well. I'm really glad you're here. Cheryl |
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All apologies for not responding sooner,, had typed a response, hit update, server error screen, hit back button, all typed info was gone. Grr.
Anyhow, simply put, I was pretty much raised and kept in private schools all my life, covering my catholic, baptist, and pentecostal influenced education. Backing that was church sunday mornings and night, wednesday nights, and devotional/bible study tues and thursday nights. If I hadn't eventually believed the stuff I would have gone crazy, which, from a catch-22 point of view, put me in a pretty screwed up situation. |
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- Religion, Philosophy & the Arts
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- Science, Nature & Technology
- General Discussion & Miscellaneous Topics
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- Additional Book Discussions
- Godless in America: Conversations With an Atheist - by George A. Ricker
- Interventions - by Noam Chomsky
- Religious Expression and the American Constitution - by Franklyn S. Haiman
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future - by Bill McKibben
- The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - by Jared Diamond
- The Woman in the Dunes - by Abe Kobo
- Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction - by Eugenie Scott
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - by Michael Pollan
- I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 - by Robert Graves
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett
- A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - by David Fromkin
- The Time Traveler's Wife - by Audrey Niffenegger
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - by Sam Harris
- Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon
- Value & Virtue in a Godless Universe - by Erik J. Wielenberg
- The March: A Novel - by E.L. Doctorow
- The Ethical Brain - by Michael Gazzaniga
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond
- The Battle for God - by Karen Armstrong
- The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson
- What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live - by A.C. Grayling
- Civilization and It's Enemies: The Next Stage of History - by Lee Harris
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan
- How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God - by Michael Shermer
- Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - by Antonio Damasio
- Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - by Al Franken
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - by Matt Ridley
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - by Richard Dawkins
- Atheism: A Reader - edited by S. T. Joshi
- Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century - by Howard Bloom
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History - by Howard Bloom
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond
- Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - by Dee Alexander Brown
- Future Shock - by Alvin Toffler
