What are you reading?

[Stingray 9,441]

I hope not

If they did, feed them some habaneros !

[BluesChick 1,260]

I joined a book club

August's pick: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Really!!!

A self help book for a book club? Yuck

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[DJames 729]

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Exactly my thoughts!!!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Finally got my hands on Hawking's "The Grand Design" a couple of days ago and just finished it. It is ridiculously hard to find good books in Lebanon!

It was a decent read, but a bit if a let down for me to be honest. I expected it to be a lot better. It did not at all convince me of the validity of the M-theory.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Finally got my hands on Hawking's "The Grand Design" a couple of days ago and just finished it. It is ridiculously hard to find good books in Lebanon!

It was a decent read, but a bit if a let down for me to be honest. I expected it to be a lot better. It did not at all convince me of the validity of the M-theory.

Stephen Hawking is incredibly overrated, his theories are outdated and he has been confronted in many seminaries around the world for being wrong.

[BluesChick 1,260]

Finally got my hands on Hawking's "The Grand Design" a couple of days ago and just finished it. It is ridiculously hard to find good books in Lebanon!

It was a decent read, but a bit if a let down for me to be honest. I expected it to be a lot better. It did not at all convince me of the validity of the M-theory.

Stephen Hawking is incredibly overrated, his theories are outdated and he has been confronted in many seminaries around the world for being wrong.

I personally don't like the misongynistic, egotistical know it-all and there are so many other brilliant minds out there that do not get 1/2 the attention he does. I often wonder of he would have faced more criticism if he had not been disabled.

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[Yeboii 1,844]

I personally don't like the misongynistic, egotistical know it-all and there are so many other brilliant minds out there that do not get 1/2 the attention he does. I often wonder of he would have faced more criticism if he had not been disabled.

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Isnt misongynistic not being against women? Just confused since Stephen Hawking is, well, a man.

[BluesChick 1,260]

I personally don't like the misongynistic, egotistical know it-all and there are so many other brilliant minds out there that do not get 1/2 the attention he does. I often wonder of he would have faced more criticism if he had not been disabled.

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Isnt misongynistic not being against women? Just confused since Stephen Hawking is, well, a man.

Well, he has a very low opinion of women and does not treat them well in his personal/professional relationships from what I have heard/read which is where my comment comes from.

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[Fulham Broadway 17,348]

Stephen Hawking is incredibly overrated, his theories are outdated and he has been confronted in many seminaries around the world for being wrong.

Gets a lot of credibilty probably because he sounds like a robot. On the other hand he got a lot of shitty abuse about his disability from Israelis because he refused to speak there.

I personally don't like the misongynistic, egotistical know it-all and there are so many other brilliant minds out there that do not get 1/2 the attention he does. I often wonder of he would have faced more criticism if he had not been disabled.

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Thats true BC -but he was also getting abused, slapped around by his wife, allegedly. Probably becuase she was fed up with the 'know all' !

[BluesChick 1,260]

Stephen Hawking is incredibly overrated, his theories are outdated and he has been confronted in many seminaries around the world for being wrong.

Gets a lot of credibilty probably because he sounds like a robot. On the other hand he got a lot of shitty abuse about his disability from Israelis because he refused to speak there.

I personally don't like the misongynistic, egotistical know it-all and there are so many other brilliant minds out there that do not get 1/2 the attention he does. I often wonder of he would have faced more criticism if he had not been disabled.

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Thats true BC -but he was also getting abused, slapped around by his wife, allegedly. Probably becuase she was fed up with the 'know all' !

He definitely is a love him or hate him kind of guy, there seems to be no middle ground.

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[Fulham Broadway 17,348]

He definitely is a love him or hate him kind of guy, there seems to be no middle ground.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a__2zihsUM

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Stephen Hawking is incredibly overrated, his theories are outdated and he has been confronted in many seminaries around the world for being wrong.

Very overrated. In terms of contribution to the field, he's no where near the top 10-15 in the past century. I think even he'd admit that. I don't think the fact that his theories have been disproved says much; countless theories have been disproved in the past 50 years. Sometimes you feel the field is moving a bit too fast.

I was actually expecting more of the book not because of his theories, but rather his reputation of writing great popular science books.

Hawkings is overrated because of "A Brief History Of Time" and, I don't want to sound cynical but, his disability as well. But he has contributed to the field and he certainly has played a big role in making cosmology as popular as it is today.

He definitely is a love him or hate him kind of guy, there seems to be no middle ground.

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I am firmly in the middle ground when it comes to Hawkings.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Very overrated. In terms of contribution to the field, he's no where near the top 10-15 in the past century. I think even he'd admit that. I don't think the fact that his theories have been disproved says much; countless theories have been disproved in the past 50 years. Sometimes you feel the field is moving a bit too fast.

I was actually expecting more of the book not because of his theories, but rather his reputation of writing great popular science books.

Hawkings is overrated because of "A Brief History Of Time" and, I don't want to sound cynical but, his disability as well. But he has contributed to the field and he certainly has played a big role in making cosmology as popular as it is today.

Well, I am definitely in no position to deeply discuss about Hawking because I havent read his books...

However, I did watch a couple of seminaries and interviews and he didnt seem much conclusive in his theories nor he accepts when other people make observations and/or criticism. He basically talks, talks, talks and doesnt get nowhere!!!

I got very happy when he bowed down to the possibility of a seven-dimension space after heavily going against it in the begining.

[NishC300 1,865]

Reading "Inverting The Pyramid"

Brilliant football book.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Well, I am definitely in no position to deeply discuss about Hawking because I havent read his books...

However, I did watch a couple of seminaries and interviews and he didnt seem much conclusive in his theories nor he accepts when other people make observations and/or criticism. He basically talks, talks, talks and doesnt get nowhere!!!

I got very happy when he bowed down to the possibility of a seven-dimension space after heavily going against it in the begining.

I've only read "A Brief History Of Time" before this. And even if it is outdated, it is brilliantly written and explained. A book doesn't become the most sold popular science book in history by accident. I've also watched his documentaries on Discovery and they were very good as well. In "The Grand Design", he's not talking about a theory of his but rather one of the latest theories in cosmology: The M-Theory; and he speaks about the 7 "hidden" dimensions as they are an integral part of it. But, tbh, if I did not already have a very good idea what M-Theory is, the book would probably have left A LOT of logical gaps for me. For a book about M-Theory, it talked a lot about other theories and very little about this one. To be honest, I'm still not very convinced with the implications of the "Relative Realism" which is at the heart of the theory. It just sounds to me like an over-sophisticated way to say "I don't know"

[Weckerz 3,781]

I'm about 1/3rd into Inferno (Dan Brown), pretty dull so far.

[DJames 729]

Just finished reading Games of throne I am so glad that I brought the next book in the series already because my word I want more!!!

Sansa - I dislike her greatly! oh I know she is a little girl but does she have to be so urgggh
Eddard - Whyyyyy! did he have to die! I loved this character

The Starks are my favourite family in this book so far!! Those direwolves!!
I'm still on fence with Tyrion. I do like him as much as one can like a Lannister
And to end my crazy rambling.....DRAGONNNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!

"Winter is coming"

[Mr_President 404]

Just finished reading Games of throne I am so glad that I brought the next book in the series already because my word I want more!!!

Sansa - I dislike her greatly! oh I know she is a little girl but does she have to be so urgggh

Eddard - Whyyyyy! did he have to die! I loved this character

The Starks are my favourite family in this book so far!! Those direwolves!!

I'm still on fence with Tyrion. I do like him as much as one can like a Lannister

And to end my crazy rambling.....DRAGONNNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!

"Winter is coming"

I watched the show before starting the books (and really enjoyed it), but I'm glad I started reading the books because they're even better than the TV in my opinion.. the next 2 books in the series (ACoK and ASoS) are extremely good and I'd recommend reading them.

[DJames 729]

I watched the show before starting the books (and really enjoyed it), but I'm glad I started reading the books because they're even better than the TV in my opinion.. the next 2 books in the series (ACoK and ASoS) are extremely good and I'd recommend reading them.

I plan to read all the books in the series. I'll watch the tv show after that

[Term-X 7,891]

Steve Job's autobiography (I'm half way through atm)..



Love the way this has been written, when Job's commissioned this guy he explicitly gave him permission to open Pandora’s box in regards to past working relationships. Until reading I never really appreciated how much of an innovator he was, he was literally the first person to make computers a life style product. A must read for entrepreneurs especially.

Extract from the book..

Steve Jobs on his trip to India:

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

Western national thought is not an innate characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of western civilisation. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways it is not. That's the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.

Coming back after seven months in needle drop villages, I saw the craziness of the western world as well as it's capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things--that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practise it.

Zen has been a deep influence in my life ever since. At one point I was thinking about going to Japan and trying to get into the Eihei-Ji monastery, buy my spiritual advisor urged me to stay here. He said there is nothing over there that isn't here, and he was correct. I learned the truth of the Zen saying that if you are willing to travel around the world to meet a teacher, one will appear next door.