Archief - Welk boek heb je net uitgelezen en wat vond je ervan?

Skyscraper zei:

Maw, 't boek geschreven door haar lijkt mij niet écht de moeite als ge diep geinteresseerd zijt in Ian. Want toegegeven, z'n laatste jaren/maanden zijn net 't interessants.

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bestendigheid zei:

buy buy buy !

Boek >>> film

Het boek leest enorm vlot, kent enorme uitwerking van de personages, en is voor mij in alle opzichten voller en kleurrijker dan de film. (die sowieso door Jack Nicholson gedragen wordt)

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Huxley zei:

Ivm het boekenfestijn. Moet ge iets afprinten om binnen te mogen?

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tim dezot zei:

mannen die vrouwen haten, heb het waarschijnlijk als laatste van de planeet gelezen

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Saphira zei:

Nee ik moet t ook nog lezen... staat thuis wel op mijn boekenrek

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tim dezot zei:

mannen die vrouwen haten, heb het waarschijnlijk als laatste van de planeet gelezen

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Mephisto zei:

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Misschien binnenkort aan beginnen, moet nog zo'n 20 pagina's lezen in De stad der blinden.
Ofwel wordt het volgende boek Tirza van Grunberg.

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THE BATTLE OF FEAR AND RATIONALITY

The compulsion to conform is a powerful side-effect of civilized life. We are all taught to respect the views of our elders, and later when we realize that they are just dogmatic opinions, we are taught not to make a commotion by asking difficult questions.
Many just go along with the prevailing notions and never express their own views, which is analogous to a premature death of the individual.
Our species is unique in the ability to recognize and express the self, and not exercising this biological function goes against the natural selection gradient that created it in the first place. This complacency combats a fear of failure.
It is easy to assume that if everyone else is doing something, then there is no way to fail if you just go along with it. Cattle and flocks of geese can probably recognize this advantage. But the entire human race could fail because of this mentality. Thinking and acting in a direction against the current of popular opinion is critical to human advancement, and a potent manifestation of Punk.
If an issue or phenomenon is found to be true only because other people say it is so, then it is a Punk's job to look for a better solution, or at least find an independent variable that confirms the held view (sometimes the popular view is just a reflection of human nature, Punks don't live in denial of this).

This ability to go against the grain was a major part of the greatest advances in human thinking throughout history. The entire Enlightenment period was characterized by ideas that shunned the dogma of the time, only to reveal truths in nature and human existence that all people can observe, and that are still with us today.

Galileo fought the church, the church won the battle, by putting him in jail for life, but ultimately lost the war; few people today believe that the sun orbits around the earth, and thus God didn't create the earth as the center of the universe.
Francis Bacon insisted that human destiny is equal to understanding. If we deny this fundamental principle of what it means to be human, he reasoned, then we descend into the depths of mere barbarism.

Charles Darwin, wrote after the heyday of the Enlightenment, he nonetheless was directly influenced by its tradition, was trained as a theologian and yet still was driven to understand the underlying order that connected biological species he observed in his travels.
His views threw into question many of the Bible's tenets, yet his reasoning was sound, and through a process of self-improvement (the struggle in his own mind to understand) he improved mankind by establishing a new benchmark of human knowledge.

The dogma of the church was further marginalized. The fear of repercussion from the church was overshadowed by the wave of understanding that his views created in people, and by the truth to his observations.

The modern-day Punk thought process, driven by this desire to understand, is a carbon-copy of the Enlightenment tradition. The fact that so many historical examples exist that reveal a will to destroy dogma leads to a powerful tenet: It is a natural trait of civilized humans to be original. The fact that uniqueness is so rare reveals that our nature is stifled by an equally potent opposing force: fear.

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Anoebis zei:

Hoe is 'De stad der blinden'? Ik heb de eerste 60 pagina's van De stad der zienden gelezen, maar Saramago's schrijfstijl stak mij heel erg tegen ad:

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Bart Religion zei:

Binnenkort beginnen aan Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God van Greg Graffin.

Verwachtingen zijn hoog

Een van de gaafste dingen aan Greg Graffin is dat hij zelfkritiek niet schuwt. Hij mag dan bijzonder kritisch zijn op religie en politiek. Hij is wel zo consequent om ook kritisch te zijn tov het zogenamde 'progressive, left-wing, atheist America' waar hij zichzelf toe rekent.
Zijn persoonlijke filosofie van alles in vraag te stellen, inclusief jezelf, en niks zomaar blindelings aan te nemen spreekt me zeer aan.


Stukje uit 'n oude essay.

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Saphira zei:

Komt de film ook overeen met het boek?

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