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there are moments when i am positively sure i will still be listening to modest mouse when im 50
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Top 15 Books
1. Ismael- Daniel Quinn
2. Walden- Henry David Thoreau
3. The Social Construction of Reality- Berger and Luckman
4. Roots- Alex Haley
5. Green Grass, Running Water- Thomas King
6. Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Things They Carried- Tim O’Brien
8. Catcher In The Rye- J.D. Salinger
9. Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
10. The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism- Max...
“Women are the pivot round which the world turns”
– Oblonsky, Anna Karenina
“Well, naturaly,” Oblonsky put in, ” but that’s the whole aim...”
– From Tolstoy’s, Anna Karenina
My Top Eleven Books
This only took me about 40 minutes… I may be forgetting something completely- feel free to critisize, discuss.
1. Ismael- Daniel Quinn
2. Walden- Henry David Thoreau
3. The Social Construction of Reality- Berger and Luckman
4. Roots- Alex Haley
5. Green Grass, Running Water- Thomas King
6. Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Things They Carried- Tim O’Brien
8. Catcher...
Applying for jobs
with Hand in hand Ministries, and the UN today….
After Dachau
by Daniel Quinn is next…
Green Grass, Running Water
I just finished Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King. I have to say, it was a great read. The book itself takes you along the stories of several individuals; some real, some make believe, some you just don’t know, and some that are created right on the spot by that “I” or that crazy mischievous coyote.
It was a very different, very magical book. The writing style was...
I'm going to Pakistan
Ben Franklin
started the first “Fire Companies” in the US.
Ben taught himself French, then Italian, then...
Ben Franklin long put off and never accomplished one of his greatest goals: to create his own religion… well, religious.. group, for lack of better words. He was to base it off the 13 virtues I blogged earlier. He wanted to call it, no joke, The Society Of The Free And Easy.
“In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue...”
– Ben Franklin
“In conversation (knowledge) was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of...”
– Ben Franklin on the value of Silence as a virtue
The 13 essential virtues, in the order Ben...
1. Temperance- eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
2. Silence- speak not but what may benefit others and yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order- let all your things have thier places; let each part of your business have it’s time.
4. Resolution- resolve to preform what you ought; preform without fail what you resolve
5. Frugality- make no expense but to do good, to...
“About this time (around 21 years old) I concieved the bold and arduous project...”
– Ben Franklin
why not listen to sermons Ben?
Thier aim seemed to be to make us Presbyterians rather than good citizens
Ben on ReligBen (religion)
I esteemed the essentials of every religion; and being (some principals) to be found in all the religions we had in our country, I respected them all, though with different degrees of respect, as I found them more or less mixed with other articles which, without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, served principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
B-FrAnK
Humblen Franklin
Upon reading from the book of Solomon, Franklin quoted the verse:
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“Seeist thou a man dilligent in his callings, he shall stand before kings…” I thence considered industry as a means of obtaining wealth and distinction which encouraged me- though I did not think that I would ever literally stand before kings, which, however, has since happened; for I have stood before...
rejecting dogma
“I entertained an opinion that though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, and commanded because they were beneficial to us in thier own nature…”
-Big Ben
Bennir
He used to dine with an older Catholic woman in England. Their typical dinner consisted of: “half an anchovy on a very little slice of bread and butter,” and they split a pint of ale.
while working at a printing press in England
“(My co-workers) wondered to see, that the “Water-American”, as they called me was stronger than themselves, who drank “strong” beer”
Ben Franklin
He detailed that they typically drank 7 pints per day including 2 before the end of breakfast.
therese flood on listening to lady gaga: “ohhh, i like go go girl!”
On being a reasonable creature
Ben Franklin had until this point been a vegitarian. He is at this scene sitting on a bank with nothing to eat and men fishing, and eating said fish all around him.
“On this occassion I considered, according to my master Tryon, the taking of every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had done or could do us any injury that could justify this massacre. All this seemed...
On a drunk not doing his share of rowing
“I clapped my head under his thighs and, rising, pitched him headforemost into the river.”
-Ben Franklin
While aboard a boat (the only one that didn't...
Ben Franklin took a liking to a few “mischievious” ladies. Upon befriending a Quaker woman she gave him this advice:
” If thee art not upon thy guard they will draw thee into some danger; they are strangers to thee; and I advise thee, in a friendly concern for thy welfare, to have no aquaintence with them.”
Later, said women left the boat, along with some of the boat...
When he first arrived in Pennsylvania, Ben Franklin was homeless. In order to gain some shelter and sleep he attended a Quaker meeting. “This, therefore, was the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philidelphia.”
“Man is sometime more generous when he has little money than when he has plenty;...”
– Ben Franklin, on Nick giving a con artist $25
“…. I was too saucy and provoking”
– Ben Franklin, on arguing with his brother