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Cigarettes are sublime.Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
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bought this fashion magazine called BMM the other day (due to my teacher making us buy magazines) and I have been relatively impressed with most of it and the fact that it is written in 3 or so languages.
The cover even says zeitgeist and has the same definition as the first page here.
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Originally posted by shahadat-al-halalthe koran
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Besides of the chapter on the origins of the Koran, would you recommend this book? I don't want to be biased but I've read the review of the Washington Post featured on the Amazon site and it reinforced my presumption based on the lurid title that this is yet another oversimplifying critisicm of religion, that fails at providing a well-balanced analysis of the social role and purpose of religion and instead is even more dogmatic than the institutions it criticizes.
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That depends on you, not on the book. If you are clear about whether you are an atheist or a believer, books on religion are pointless, except for giving you more weapons to use in an argument (and Hitchens clearly has done his homework there). I don't care about arguing about religion anymore, really.
As for this book, yes, I think it is a largely successful attack on religion that raises valid questions that religion has not been able, and never will be able to answer in order to defend not only its origins, but its crimes. More to your point, yes, the book successfully attacks the "social role and purpose" of religion, not only arguing pretty well that we don't need it in this day and age, but also offering an alternative set of values to live by, an enlightened and humanistic one.
I think where Hitchens fails is the tone of the book - it is rather impatient and irritable. I can understand totally understand that, but it's not a good tone to take when you are writing a book on such a sensitive subject for a broad audience. No wonder it only antagonizes the devout. Still, it doesn't matter - even though Hitchens's ostensible purpose is to address the religious, I doubt that this book, or any other book for that matter, will cause anyone to stop believing in god.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Aeschylus, Agamemnon
thus he went down, and the life struggled out of him;
and as he died he spattered me with the dark red
and violent driven rain of bitter savored blood
to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers
of god in glory at the birthtime of the buds.
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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Originally posted by laika View PostAeschylus, Agamemnon
thus he went down, and the life struggled out of him;
and as he died he spattered me with the dark red
and violent driven rain of bitter savored blood
to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers
of god in glory at the birthtime of the buds.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View PostThat depends on you, not on the book. If you are clear about whether you are an atheist or a believer, books on religion are pointless, except for giving you more weapons to use in an argument (and Hitchens clearly has done his homework there). I don't care about arguing about religion anymore, really.
As for this book, yes, I think it is a largely successful attack on religion that raises valid questions that religion has not been able, and never will be able to answer in order to defend not only its origins, but its crimes. More to your point, yes, the book successfully attacks the "social role and purpose" of religion, not only arguing pretty well that we don't need it in this day and age, but also offering an alternative set of values to live by, an enlightened and humanistic one.
I think where Hitchens fails is the tone of the book - it is rather impatient and irritable. I can understand totally understand that, but it's not a good tone to take when you are writing a book on such a sensitive subject for a broad audience. No wonder it only antagonizes the devout. Still, it doesn't matter - even though Hitchens's ostensible purpose is to address the religious, I doubt that this book, or any other book for that matter, will cause anyone to stop believing in god.
There are also many who claim to be of a particular religion, for whom religion is only a tool to gain an advantage for other goals, and thus the misuse of religion.
I have only read excerps of the book and should really get myself a copy of it, if only to better understand his arguments................
While I disagree with him strongly, I like him though, if for no other reason than the fact that he keeps us Christians alert and thinking.................“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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Zam Barrett Spring 2017 Now in stock
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Originally posted by laika View Post
pray tell more....Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Htichens is fantastic. Really witty while still well-researched. It's a shame some of his political views are so distasteful.
I'm excited for the forthcoming book by one of Hitchen's lesser known contemporaries: PZ Myers, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Minnesota. He has this great blog about rational thought, skepticism and evolutionary biology.
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Originally posted by Magician View PostHtichens is fantastic. Really witty while still well-researched. It's a shame some of his political views are so distasteful.
I'm excited for the forthcoming book by one of Hitchen's lesser known contemporaries: PZ Myers, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Minnesota. He has this great blog about rational thought, skepticism and evolutionary biology.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
I usually would not put a non-fashion article on SZ, but since a few people seem to be interested, here you go.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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