What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[walrus]

I have never been keen on Capote either. In fact I don't really see the point in fiction anymore. I am acutely aware of the limits of my time here on earth and I am desperately trying to read up on the lives of people that have always interested me, but didn't get around to reading about them properly. I'm looking for knowledge and connection. I am a very limited and disconnected person. I am looking for threads and all there are are broken strings.

I'm not big on reading fiction. In fact I'm not big on reading at all. I prefer to have someone sum up a book to me in a couple of sentences, that's good enough for me usually.

I understand its value and read a lot of fiction as a youth, but for instance having read the fiction of Satre as a young man I find that I want to know more about Satre the man as I get older. It's all well and good hearing fantasy stories in the Bible, but I want to know about the life of Jesus from a historical perspective. I want to understand the tortured lives of people like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. The reality is often far more intriguing than the stories, music or film that they were involved with. The life becomes the ultimate story. The people I read about are usually quite tragic people who didn't work out how to have a happy life. Jesus, bless him, was likely a bit of a terrorist who ended up on a cross, so he didn't have all the answers either.

Shut up miles

[Gandalf]

I know you are sensitive about Jesus, but he was not adverse to using violence to achieve his objectives. He was a bit of a Che Guevara type.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-for-extremism

[El Kabong]

I know you are sensitive about Jesus, but he was not adverse to using violence to achieve his objectives. He was a bit of a Che Guevara type.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-for-extremism

Tossing the money changers out of the temple =/= Che Guevara

as for your link: "But as Reza Aslan has made plain in his bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, "





Reza Aslan is a liar SIR!

[Gandalf]

Dude, the biggest lies are in the Bible and the strangest thing is that people fall for the hocus pocus fairy story in the manner in which they do. Jesus was not what the Bible says and the reality was most likely very different. I would say more but I would hurt the feelings of those who like to delude themselves.

[El Kabong]

Dude, the biggest lies are in the Bible and the strangest thing is that people fall for the hocus pocus fairy story in the manner in which they do. Jesus was not what the Bible says and the reality was most likely very different. I would say more but I would hurt the feelings of those who like to delude themselves.

Reza Aslan is an asshole

[Gandalf]

I couldn't care less about Resa Aslan. There are other sources of information out there all far more logical than a book of propaganda. Can you imagine if they had Castro performing magic tricks and returning from the dead? People would have a field day! Yet off to church they go lapping it all up while ignoring the genocides carried out in their names. Hypocrites.

[vidgil]

Dude, the biggest lies are in the Bible and the strangest thing is that people fall for the hocus pocus fairy story in the manner in which they do. Jesus was not what the Bible says and the reality was most likely very different. I would say more but I would hurt the feelings of those who like to delude themselves.

The Bible and the Quran are the biggest works of fiction in our history, all complete gobshite

[Gandalf]

I think there is some truth in there, but all written long after the events and spun into something akin to Lord of the Rings for various reasons.

[walrus]

Ya you guys are obviously right and the billions of Christians are wrong, how are you gonna break it to them there are a lot of churches to take down

[vidgil]

I think there is some truth in there, but all written long after the events and spun into something akin to Lord of the Rings for various reasons.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. It told me I was a fucking faggot.