What are you reading right now?

**Frownland** · 04-20-2019, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Damn I'd never tell that guy a secret if I knew him.

Mindfulness · 04-20-2019, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Damn I'd never tell that guy a secret if I knew him.

i thought that same thought reading 'the secret teachings of all ages" by Manly P Hall

Chula Vista · 04-23-2019, 10:59 AM

Just finished Station Eleven - a semi-fresh take on the post-apocalypse genre. Some passages really knocked me for a loop in the way they detailed the collapse from a few key players' perspectives.

(Super fast and fatal flu epidemic gets the call in this one)

A little slow at times with pre-collapse flashbacks but they add up to the point of the book - at least I think the point. "If it all goes to ****, which memories will you choose to keep, and which will you avoid in order to mentally survive."

Highly recommended if you're into this stuff.

Mindfulness · 04-29-2019, 10:47 AM

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1: Do not criticize. “Criticism is futile because it puts a man on the defensive, and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a man’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses his resentment.” – Dale Carnegies. Related quotes: Criticism
2: Give honest, sincere appreciation. “Dr. Dewey says the deepest urge in human nature is ‘the desire to be important.’”. Related quotes: Compliments
3: Get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle. The thing here is to give to your interlocutor what he wants, and not what you, you want. Related quotes: Desire and Others’ view point
4: Become genuinely interested in other people. Related quotes: Interest
5: Smile.
6: Remember names. “Remember that a man’s name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.
7: Be a good listener. “Encourage others to talk about themselves”. Related quotes: listen
8: Make the other person feel important. “And do it sincerely”

Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking

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1: The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it
2: Show respect for the other man’s opinions
3: If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically
4: Begin in a friendly way
5: Get the other person sating “yes, yes” immediately
6: Let the other man do a great deal of the talking
7: Let the other man feed that the idea is his
8: Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view
9: Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires
10: Appeal to the nobler motives
11: Dramatize you ideas
12: Throw down a challenge

Nine ways to change people without giving offense or arousing resentment

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1: Begin with praise and honest appreciation
2: Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly
3: Ask questions instead of giving direct orders
4: Let the other man save his face
5: Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in 6: you approbation and lavish in your praise.”
7: Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to
8: Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct
9: Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMZi1gc0Nc

Zhanteimi · 04-29-2019, 06:13 PM

Re-reading Jane Eyre like a fat bearded ****** with AIDS.

Mondo Bungle · 04-29-2019, 06:28 PM

so mesmerizing

WWWP · 04-29-2019, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

Re-reading Jane Eyre like a fat bearded ****** with AIDS.

Charming

Mondo Bungle · 05-01-2019, 03:22 PM

WWWP · 05-01-2019, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Omg I loved this book

Mondo Bungle · 05-01-2019, 04:21 PM

it's nice and enormously pretentious to almost to the point of parody so far, just what I am about

04-23-2019, 10:59 AM	#6533 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Just finished Station Eleven - a semi-fresh take on the post-apocalypse genre. Some passages really knocked me for a loop in the way they detailed the collapse from a few key players' perspectives. (Super fast and fatal flu epidemic gets the call in this one) A little slow at times with pre-collapse flashbacks but they add up to the point of the book - at least I think the point. "If it all goes to ****, which memories will you choose to keep, and which will you avoid in order to mentally survive." Highly recommended if you're into this stuff. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

04-29-2019, 06:13 PM	#6535 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	Re-reading Jane Eyre like a fat bearded ****** with AIDS. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic Last edited by WWWP; 04-29-2019 at 06:35 PM.