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firestar: It's like water.

Marsh, lake, reservoir, well, iceberg, oasis, river, swamp, lava, fountain, geyser, waterfall, stream, rain, whirlpool, vapor, dew, frost, sea, tears, snow, blood...

Limit self to none, tap from all..._{if you can}.


[size=2pt](Ties a diadem round texanomaly's forehead.)[/size]

TheWisest: @Firestar, Refering to Texanomaly's quote you mentioned, why read at all if you re afraid to change your principles? Reading one book or many that suits your current beliefs won't help. Infact, I've learned it's best to pursue knowledge outside your comfort zone. So firestar, you might want to remove that diadem you put on her head :-) ...For now...

Akalia: None of the above speculation is a fact, reason been that today's science and technology is yet to advance to a stage where space exploration and findings will base on facts but not speculations and theories.

Oahray: technology is APPLICATION of scientific knowledge. They are related, but not the same. I thought everyone knew that.

Science - knowledge
Technology - application.
My point is, technology or application of such knowledge from past decades/centuries is advancing faster than we are truly learning new things. It could be because we have learnt alot already about our earth, and the universe isn't the easiest thing to study.

All we get now are speculative theories as against well-tested scientific fact or laws.

kcool2: hehe.....the black hole is an interesting phenomenom since you have to be travelling faster than light to escape it.....i got a question though if i was travelling in a vessel moving at the speed of light,then walked forward still inside the vessel,i would be travelling faster than the speed of light right atleast based on classical physics

jhidey08: @ ur Signature: Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Is dat y u're dancing insyd rain on d road? Cars kill o

InesQor: I keep hearing this from some people but I think the exact opposite is the case; especially with fantasy or science-fiction. That genre (soft sci-fi/hard sci-fi/fantasy) is one that immensely increases one's imaginative power. Same goes for mythology (if you classify it as fiction).

Another genre that boosts imagination is crime & detection. A third one is mystery.

However, romantic fiction (puke face) and most other variants of fiction may even dull your imagination with the surfeit of their quotidian events.

EDIT: My bad. Just realized you said "only" fiction.

ihedinobi2: I think that to be a reader in the first place requires you to be a certain kind of person. Not everyone is naturally driven to exploration and curiousity. True, they are qualities that can be developed later in life. At least, I think that they are. But some people are just born hungry. So they read.

Do readers make better romantic partners? Perhaps. But if I am a typical reader, it means that I anticipate my significant other and they might not always like it. I have seen so many scenarios that once I see something in the relationship or, er, wooing maybe, I can guess where it is headed and that can be a problem.

Tenison96: How does that promote tourism?

Reminds me of Total Recall!

Why not get a chemicallly induced memory also?

AlfaSeltzer: quantum information cannot be destroyed. ok.
if we extrapolate, I can then say that my laptop has a soul.
But even flies and goats have souls as their brain quantum information also dissipates after their death.
yeye xtians, always clutching at straws.

ChokolateBoss: Well said. It seems to me that our ancestors got most things right when it comes to metaphysics. Science is just catching up. There are beliefs that seem nonsensical or irrational but recent scientific breakthroughs are confirming (or sth close to that) such beliefs or ideas. For example, the ancient Hindus (far far back before Aristotle) always believed in the concept of the universe as the cosmic brain or super brain and that the human brain is exactly a miniature version of the universal brain: The structure of the universe is exactly like the structure of ur brain. Science is now pointing evidence in favour of this. Would open a thread on this.

What about the deluge and Noah's saving ark as recorded by the bible and other ancient books? Some might be quick to dismiss them as fairy tales but scientific discoveries are actually in favour of these 'fairy tales'.

What about the 'scientific Eve'? Recent researches has shown that the human race descended from a single woman (prints from mitochondrial DNA which can only be passed through the mother and not the father). Though it does not conclusively prove that this scientific matriach is the same as the Bibilical Eve, perhaps the Bible account could be right after all. Perhaps. Pls read more on that.

Perhaps we need to start learning the wisdom of our ancestors and not dismiss them as crude ignorant men who only believed in fairy tales.

Secondly, pls don't cast aspersions on anyone's religion. The christians/muslims have always maintained in 'creatio ex nihilo' (creation out of nothing). Recent advances in quantum physics is leaning in support of 'creatio ex nihilo', even though christians/muslims have been ridiculed as being ignorant for believing such.

Perhaps almost all cultures/institutions/belief systems have sth right about them. So pls don't be too quick to label anyone's belief system as nonsensical

xynerise: .

I read Marvel comics

InesQor: Yes, his brand of philosophy is totally intriguing. He and Kierkegaard fascinate me with their views on existentialism.

Reading Nietzsche for me sometimes sounds like he probably second-guesses his own ideas. A healthy inquiring mind.

I find it conceivable that he may have studied himself under various circumstances and projected it to the general human experience. Thinking fluently in the third person is a talent, and Nietzsche seems to have nailed it in his day.

xynerise: Are you sure?

thelastmediator: There is enormous power in being a reader. You surely know when to strike and when to play the victim, so much weapon in your arsenal to turn any situation around but there is a very high tendency of being manipulative because you can predict the next possible set of events almost accurately.

xynerise:

xynerise: Seriously, I don't like reading

LarrySun: Which came first: The chicken or the egg?

This is one of life's greatest mysteries.

If readers are the best people to fall in love with, what about writers? I know many people would argue about writers being readers. But, not all readers are writers. Yet, most writers are influenced by what they've read somewhere.

Now, who wrote the first scroll? The writer or the reader? (Reference to my first question above)

LarrySun: Which came first: The chicken or the egg?

This is one of life's greatest mysteries.

If readers are the best people to fall in love with, what about writers? I know many people would argue about writers being readers. But, not all readers are writers. Yet, most writers are influenced by what they've read somewhere.

Now, who wrote the first scroll? The writer or the reader? (Reference to my first question above)

Manweysabi: Your life don bend o... You dey form P.I.M.P

CFCfan: As a reader, this article gives me hope

joywendy: Mmm...nice article. This is a lesson to those people always asking for summary.

Though I believe it works for those who apply what the read, cause there are some people that read and still don't have those characteritics you mentioned.
Well, op I have a question.
What kind of books? Motivational books?
Religous books? Biographies? Cause I don't think reading just fiction will generate all this