Post by Michael on Oct 16, 2023 17:55:12 GMT
Old Reading Material an addition to75 Greatest Book Ever
I have been working through this book list for the last couple of weeks (therefore I haven't got very far)
Over on mathisianhaven.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/current-events-discussion-thread/ @swathy's replacement for CTTF
Rajiv Sharma wrote:
f you search for “Leo Tolstoy”, second appearance in this paper ^. It has a Y next to it.
Later in the paper, Miles says: [The Xs and Ys were added 2017. X indicates a probable agent; Y indicates a possible agent. Or, X indicates someone I have since researched and found to be compromised; Y indicates someone I have not researched, but who has sent up red flags in the research of others.]
If you are aware, can someone point to any miles’ previous paper where we see any red flags about leo tolstoy?
i made this comment too soon. Miles mentions his reasons of being cautious of Tolstoy on page 3 and 4 here: mileswmathis.com/boo.pdf
(I decided not to post because I don't think another endless comments section format is worth contributing to; the need for a second post rather than an edit is another problem with the format).
What I typed ready to post was:
They are undeveloped reasons though. Basically he was rich and Jewish. and met with Gandhi / influenced Gandhi. If I were to develop the Gandhi line I would argue that the project was to promote pacifism against military force and a lack of organisation which will always be less powerful than a organised minority which is essentially what the Phoenicians have always relied on to control the flock. In my darker moments I do
wonder whether that is what Jesus was all about
I have read Anna Karenina and didn't really fancy the massive undertaking again, though it is the one book that convinced me about God, there is a particular quite somewhere in it that I will have to spend some serious time finding.
Instead I decided to re-read his "What I Believe" which is very short for Tolstoy and is very well argue, but now I am starting to doubt it.... this doubt has been exacerbated by my reading of Simone Weil who seems to be very much in the same ascetic vein mixed with a backstory that has been compared to Orwell, a clear red flag.
Further, I think this might be part of the new eco-mina list movements. Anyway they can get you to eat bugs and be happy. Though, I think there might be a profit motivate in the eating bugs and a expectation of happiness in a miserable box, the old buy stuff, take stuff theory.
Has any one read "What I Believe" or any of Simone Weil and has an informed opinion on this matter. Do you think I should drop my study of Weil or is she still worth studying?
On the other books I found The Gambler by Dostoevsky rather than The Idiot and thought it was an excellent warning about all manner of temptation. I have also finished The Fall the Camus, which I though started very wittily and was more absurdist than existentialist but all the better for that. Though like a lot of these writers they really have nothing to conclude there rambling with. Yeah, I know a bit like me, but I am not considered one of the greatest 20th century philosophers or worthy of a Nobel Prize.
What have you read and what do you think of the list and the authors on it?
I have been working through this book list for the last couple of weeks (therefore I haven't got very far)
Over on mathisianhaven.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/current-events-discussion-thread/ @swathy's replacement for CTTF
Rajiv Sharma wrote:
f you search for “Leo Tolstoy”, second appearance in this paper ^. It has a Y next to it.
Later in the paper, Miles says: [The Xs and Ys were added 2017. X indicates a probable agent; Y indicates a possible agent. Or, X indicates someone I have since researched and found to be compromised; Y indicates someone I have not researched, but who has sent up red flags in the research of others.]
If you are aware, can someone point to any miles’ previous paper where we see any red flags about leo tolstoy?
i made this comment too soon. Miles mentions his reasons of being cautious of Tolstoy on page 3 and 4 here: mileswmathis.com/boo.pdf
(I decided not to post because I don't think another endless comments section format is worth contributing to; the need for a second post rather than an edit is another problem with the format).
What I typed ready to post was:
They are undeveloped reasons though. Basically he was rich and Jewish. and met with Gandhi / influenced Gandhi. If I were to develop the Gandhi line I would argue that the project was to promote pacifism against military force and a lack of organisation which will always be less powerful than a organised minority which is essentially what the Phoenicians have always relied on to control the flock. In my darker moments I do
wonder whether that is what Jesus was all about
I have read Anna Karenina and didn't really fancy the massive undertaking again, though it is the one book that convinced me about God, there is a particular quite somewhere in it that I will have to spend some serious time finding.
Instead I decided to re-read his "What I Believe" which is very short for Tolstoy and is very well argue, but now I am starting to doubt it.... this doubt has been exacerbated by my reading of Simone Weil who seems to be very much in the same ascetic vein mixed with a backstory that has been compared to Orwell, a clear red flag.
Further, I think this might be part of the new eco-mina list movements. Anyway they can get you to eat bugs and be happy. Though, I think there might be a profit motivate in the eating bugs and a expectation of happiness in a miserable box, the old buy stuff, take stuff theory.
Has any one read "What I Believe" or any of Simone Weil and has an informed opinion on this matter. Do you think I should drop my study of Weil or is she still worth studying?
On the other books I found The Gambler by Dostoevsky rather than The Idiot and thought it was an excellent warning about all manner of temptation. I have also finished The Fall the Camus, which I though started very wittily and was more absurdist than existentialist but all the better for that. Though like a lot of these writers they really have nothing to conclude there rambling with. Yeah, I know a bit like me, but I am not considered one of the greatest 20th century philosophers or worthy of a Nobel Prize.
What have you read and what do you think of the list and the authors on it?