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Atlas Shrugged
#41
Re: Atlas Shrugged
Just because he did that doesn't mean anyone listens to him.
The purpose behind reading Kant is it teaches you how to read difficult ----. If you think you can read through it one time, take notes and understand it, even with Aristotle, you're slightly mistaken. When you mention reading Kant to any of my professors you usually get a "Good luck".
The purpose behind reading Kant is it teaches you how to read difficult ----. If you think you can read through it one time, take notes and understand it, even with Aristotle, you're slightly mistaken. When you mention reading Kant to any of my professors you usually get a "Good luck".
#42
Re: Atlas Shrugged
Originally Posted by signorelli21
lol, no most of the time when i read fiction I feel like I am wasting time I could be spending doing something else,
Chill dude, I didn't say you were a tard I just said you weren't a right brain entity.
Originally Posted by signorelli21
the people I know that spend vast amounts of time reading science fiction and romance novels are not very grounded in reality
#44
Re: Atlas Shrugged
Originally Posted by Joseph Davis
That makes sense if you associate Koontz with fiction worth reading. :1
Chill dude, I didn't say you were a tard I just said you weren't a right brain entity.
Chill dude, I didn't say you were a tard I just said you weren't a right brain entity.
Also what the hell does science fiction authors being successfull scientists have to do with anything? First your implying that all the "good" writers are leader in their respective industries but once again thats your opinion and is subjective, and everyone of the authors I listed as my favorite "non-fiction" authors fall into the same catagory as being successfull, hell Noam Chomsky alone has written something like 100 books and has been a professor at MIT for a very long time.
And also I never said I haven't read any science fiction but just that I prefer non fiction, I would rather read on the history of World War 2 than the lord of the rings or the hobbit, or all the books in the dark tower series or the twilight series, etc. I like Dean Koontz because I can read one of his books in an evening and be done, but hell like with atlas shrugged or the davinci code or dreamcatcher I am compelled to finish the story and have trouble doing anything else, with boring ---- its not so hard to read a chapter and put it down to go read a chapter in something else and so on, especially since I like to fact check their references.
So thats what I meant by I feel like I'm wasting time when I could be doing something else, I blew two entire days from the time I woke up in the morning until I went to sleep reading the Davinci code, the next day I had to be back at work and had not accomplished anything the whole weekend, :1
Originally Posted by rawr
Just because he did that doesn't mean anyone listens to him.
The purpose behind reading Kant is it teaches you how to read difficult ----. If you think you can read through it one time, take notes and understand it, even with Aristotle, you're slightly mistaken. When you mention reading Kant to any of my professors you usually get a "Good luck".
As far as reading Kant and Aristotle, well that just sounds like a good challenge, but I think its pretty absurd when people go out of their way to make a complicated peice of literature or hell even in a casual conversation. Think about it, if your a really smart person wouldn't you conclude that if you want your ideas to be shared with the maximum number of people then you should write it at the level the maximum number of people will understand? What good does it do for anyone to read a book 15 times and still not entirely understand it, other than to tell other people that you have read it and have them stand in awe of your awesomeness, lol.
Anyway I will read it and tell you what i think and you can tell me if I understood it, either that or I'll enroll in philosophy instead of welding/math class this semester to see if its worth pursuing.
#48
Re: Atlas Shrugged
Originally Posted by CivicOCD
Walden by henry david Theorou should be translated into Dr. Suess terms for the masses to understand.
That book was terrible, Thoreau is a short sighted hypocrite who has his mother wash his clothes.
Fail.
#50
Re: Atlas Shrugged
Originally Posted by CivicOCD
Walden by henry david Theorou should be translated into Dr. Suess terms for the masses to understand.