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<blockquote data-quote="Germanicus" data-source="post: 920002" data-attributes="member: 6175"><p>I tried to read it before my first deployment to Afghanistan to get a try to gain insight into their culture. I tried a couple of different translations. All were awful and I gave up with disgust. I have zero clue how Islam can be so spiritually inspiring to anyone. I can see where and why people would be inspired and devoted to many of the other world's religions, but Islam is drawing a complete zero on that front. The Koran read like bragging and posturing and was short of a sense of spirituality or intellectuality. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nope, you're on the right track. Dianetics is made up bullshit by sociopath L. Ron Hubbard who was trying to take advantage of a craze for psychology in the years directly after WW2. This was before he decided that religion was the better con for money and influence and went to pull the even more retarded Scientology out of his ass. What's wrong with it? It's a book that rips off psychological theories and cliches that were popular in the mid 20th century and adds in a bunch of scientific sounding jargon. If anyone recommends it, I recommend you scoffing in contempt. Unless your bad ass motherfucker is seeking a way to rip off the gullible and the ignorant. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think it was quite that bad, but it still wasn't a good book. Cormac McCarthy is a literary attention whore and notorious for overwriting, being smug, and angling to be a "wordsmith," i.e. what literary critics jerk off to.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, that the Fat Bitch with the 95 IQ --Oprah-- thought it special definitely makes sense. Birds of a shit feather... </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>I did read Dune as a 14 year old. I liked it then and I like it now. Some people just can't get into science fiction, which is fine. Frank Herbert's writing style also comes off as pretentious so that can make it hard for some people to warm up to it as well. For all that Herbert had a good amount of red pill truths in his Dune books -- genetics as a determinate in human outcomes, human inequality as a fact and not something to be upset about, and the inherent inefficiency and tendency to tyranny in large-scale government being three off the top of my head. He also displayed a ridiculous beyond blue pill worship of women in the Dune books. He was raised by his aunts and they were devout Catholics and very learned and intellectual so his dealings and ideas of women were colored by this. Because he grew up with positive, quality women he just could not understand that most of the rest of femaledom wasn't anywhere near that standard. The follow-up sequels and prequels written by his son are utter garbage. He had another son who became a gay rights activist, and then died of AIDS (go figure).</p><p></p><p>Spengler is dense, there's gems in there, all right. But you're going wadding that's for damn sure. Same thing with any large literary or historical surveys like Toynbee.</p><p></p><p>1984? We had this tussle already <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh:" title="Old Laugh :laugh:" data-shortname=":laugh:" /> It's all good, brother.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Germanicus, post: 920002, member: 6175"] I tried to read it before my first deployment to Afghanistan to get a try to gain insight into their culture. I tried a couple of different translations. All were awful and I gave up with disgust. I have zero clue how Islam can be so spiritually inspiring to anyone. I can see where and why people would be inspired and devoted to many of the other world's religions, but Islam is drawing a complete zero on that front. The Koran read like bragging and posturing and was short of a sense of spirituality or intellectuality. Nope, you're on the right track. Dianetics is made up bullshit by sociopath L. Ron Hubbard who was trying to take advantage of a craze for psychology in the years directly after WW2. This was before he decided that religion was the better con for money and influence and went to pull the even more retarded Scientology out of his ass. What's wrong with it? It's a book that rips off psychological theories and cliches that were popular in the mid 20th century and adds in a bunch of scientific sounding jargon. If anyone recommends it, I recommend you scoffing in contempt. Unless your bad ass motherfucker is seeking a way to rip off the gullible and the ignorant. I don't think it was quite that bad, but it still wasn't a good book. Cormac McCarthy is a literary attention whore and notorious for overwriting, being smug, and angling to be a "wordsmith," i.e. what literary critics jerk off to. Yeah, that the Fat Bitch with the 95 IQ --Oprah-- thought it special definitely makes sense. Birds of a shit feather... I did read Dune as a 14 year old. I liked it then and I like it now. Some people just can't get into science fiction, which is fine. Frank Herbert's writing style also comes off as pretentious so that can make it hard for some people to warm up to it as well. For all that Herbert had a good amount of red pill truths in his Dune books -- genetics as a determinate in human outcomes, human inequality as a fact and not something to be upset about, and the inherent inefficiency and tendency to tyranny in large-scale government being three off the top of my head. He also displayed a ridiculous beyond blue pill worship of women in the Dune books. He was raised by his aunts and they were devout Catholics and very learned and intellectual so his dealings and ideas of women were colored by this. Because he grew up with positive, quality women he just could not understand that most of the rest of femaledom wasn't anywhere near that standard. The follow-up sequels and prequels written by his son are utter garbage. He had another son who became a gay rights activist, and then died of AIDS (go figure). Spengler is dense, there's gems in there, all right. But you're going wadding that's for damn sure. Same thing with any large literary or historical surveys like Toynbee. 1984? We had this tussle already :laugh: It's all good, brother. [/QUOTE]
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