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The Transhuman Union
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Postby The Transhuman Union » Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:59 am

Don't be corrupt and don't let yourself be bribed. If you do that, you are better than 99% of politicians, a book is not really a prequisite

I'm currently reading The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
A big, 1.8 M blob filled with joy and enthusiasm, with a small dash of ingenuity combined with a youthful, healthy dose of idealism.
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Hindia Belanda
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Postby Hindia Belanda » Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:59 am

How Art Can Make You Happy by Bridget Watson Payne
Nederlands-Indië - Hindia Belanda
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Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Senator (independent)
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Banogo
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Postby Banogo » Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:00 pm

Mein Kampf
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Ethel mermania
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Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:24 pm

William tecumseh sherman, in the service of my country.


Didn't finis Lee book yet.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Shikihara
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Postby Shikihara » Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:29 pm

Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima. A Don Quixotic tale of a man named Honda who believes he's found the soul of his long dead friend Kiyoaki reincarnated in the form of an ultra-nationalist boy named Isao. I'm really quite excited because it seems much more interesting than the previous book in the tetralogy Spring Snow (which wasn't that bad, simply failed to keep my interest).
Hegel wrote:“Spirit certainly makes war upon itself - consumes its own existence; but in this very destruction it works up that existence into a new form, and each successive phase becomes in its turn a material, working on which it exalts itself to a new grade..”

Shikiharan Factbook
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Coccygia
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Postby Coccygia » Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:27 pm

Magic for Beginners, a collection of stories by Kelly Link. Her stuff is hard to describe...except maybe to say it's magical. The collection includes a fairy tale, Catskin, a ghost story, Stone Animals, and the title story, about a strange pirate TV show called The Library. As she says, "You've never seen The Library on TV, but I bet you wish you had." I do!
"Nobody deserves anything. You get what you get." - House
"Hope is for sissies." - House
“Qokedy qokedy dal qokedy qokedy." - The Voynich Manuscript
"We're not ordinary people - we're morons!" - Jerome Horwitz
"A book, any book, is a sacred object." - Jorge Luis Borges
"I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me." - Madonna
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:41 pm

Re-reading The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, by Emilie Autumn. Need some grounding. xD
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Argentinstan
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Postby Argentinstan » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:24 pm

Working on Great Expectations
A United Nations of Earthlings member state. Former Prime Minister.
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Elwher
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Postby Elwher » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:34 pm

Bosnae-Herceg wrote:Think and Grow Rich
Also, I have my little pocketbook: Sun Tzu The Art of War, on me most of the time!

Can someone suggest me good books on public speaking, how to learn to be a politician, where to start and stuff like that?

Thank you


The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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Aeyariss
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Postby Aeyariss » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:52 pm

Argentinstan wrote:Working on Great Expectations


One of the best book ever written imo.
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-Jochistan-
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Postby -Jochistan- » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:29 pm

Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism by Algis Užydavinys
It's a study of religion in Antiquity, from what seems like an occult standpoint. Pretty interesting.
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The Grene Knyght
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:07 pm

Argentinstan wrote:Working on Great Expectations

Was pleasantly surprised when I read that at 17. The humour still holds up today.
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2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
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Drescauld
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Postby Drescauld » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:09 pm

“The 48 Laws of Power” by Robert Greene
Political Compass:
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The Persian Socialist Federation
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Postby The Persian Socialist Federation » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:14 pm

Journey to the center of the earth. Jules Verne
L'internationale sera le genre humain!
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Serrus
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Postby Serrus » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:10 pm

I'm on the last book of Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series: In at The Death.
FEATHERSTON YOU SUCK!

Good thing it was a 1+4+3+4...umm...dodecalogy...because of how fast I read (~book a day if it's a testing day or I have a few subs in classes).
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Ethel mermania wrote:maybe japan wanted the zombie attack.

Possible. Zombies are cool now.

Eastern Raarothorgren wrote:News websites are good and reasonable soruces of information or they would not be on the internet if they were saying things that were incorrect.

This is why rules exist, kids!
Keshiland wrote:I am yes arguing that the 1st 4 are not binding to the states and yes I know that in most Republican states they would ban the freedom of religion and the freedom of essembally but I don't live there and I hate guns!

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You glorifted ducking wanabe sea pheasant

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Keldros
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Postby Keldros » Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:12 pm

Kull of Atlantis & Other Stories, by Robert E. Howard
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NeoPolist
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Postby NeoPolist » Thu Nov 09, 2017 4:15 am

Harry Potter :rofl: Again :)
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Empire of Lapita
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Postby Empire of Lapita » Fri Nov 10, 2017 2:50 am

Beyond Good and Evil and the Will to Power. Im reading on about Nietzsche
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Constitutional Technocracy of Minecraft
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Postby Constitutional Technocracy of Minecraft » Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:32 am

Ready Player One (by Ernest Cline)
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Fenhamstan
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Postby Fenhamstan » Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:38 am

The Most Dangerous Superstition - Larken Rose

(only for the most insightful of folk who have realised that the idea of Government is utterly insane :p )
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Liriena
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Postby Liriena » Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:05 pm

A Slip of the Keyboard, by Terry Pratchett

It's beautiful, touching and surprisingly uplifting. :3
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Northest of Korea
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Postby Northest of Korea » Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:26 pm

I'm trying to get some progress into Stephen King's "IT" but there are a few books that i'm interested in checking out afterwards so i'll list them off.

"Project: Nemesis" by Jeremy Robinson

"Metro 2033" by Dmitry Glukhovsky

"World War Z" by Max Brooks

"Third Reich Victorious" by Peter G. Tsouras
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Postby Anollasia » Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:00 pm

I read Rose by Jeff Smith, prequel to the Bone series. It was ok, but I didn't like as much as the other books. Currently I'm reading Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. It's pretty good.
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Jolthig
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Postby Jolthig » Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:27 am

Revelation Rationality by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra).
Ahmadi Muslim • Absolute Justice • Star Wars fan • Love For All, Hatred For None • trucker

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Elwher
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Capitalizt

Postby Elwher » Fri Nov 17, 2017 6:33 am

Fletcher Knebel - The Bottom Line
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Ambrose Bierce
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