Branch Coordinator: yes ......... (but doesn't state that the whole branch of 70 will be arriving shortly.....he thought they should hear the bullsheet that the corps is being fed week after week. Then they can decide for themselves if they want to STILL be involved with this cult.)
Skyrider, I love joking around like this but it makes me think of just how fearful and submissive I was when I was in TWI – that I would never have thought of – let alone follow through on any idea to circumvent the way’s rules and regs.
Skyrider, I love joking around like this but it makes me think of just how fearful and submissive I was when I was in TWI – that I would never have thought of – let alone follow through on any idea to circumvent the way’s rules and regs.
This 99 cent "book" is the transcript of a speech Bertrand Russell gave nearly a hundred years ago. Russell had no use for religion, but his insight on Free Thought and Official Propaganda is illuminating in light of our experience with a fundamentalist cult... if you dare read it.
This 99 cent "book" is the transcript of a speech Bertrand Russell gave nearly a hundred years ago. Russell had no use for religion, but his insight on Free Thought and Official Propaganda is illuminating in light of our experience with a fundamentalist cult... if you dare read it.
looks interesting Rocky - I'll have to check out the 99 cent Kindle version - thanks !
looks interesting Rocky - I'll have to check out the 99 cent Kindle version - thanks !
btw, T-Bone I'm confident you know this but maybe not everyone does... one doesn't have to own a Kindle to read Kindle e-books. I use the free Kindle app on both my computer and phone. :)
Yeah Rocky, that’s a good thing to know (that you don’t need a Kindle to read a Kindle book). Although I do have a Kindle (I love my old Kindle Keyboard paper-white display) I too use the app on my computer, iPad and iPhone – especially if there are diagrams, pictures and maps with the text.
I’ve already got B Russell’s book and skimmed through it this morning – very insightful, the part along the lines of institutions disseminating knowledge but not teaching how to intelligently sift through that knowledge – and that education should have an aim of expanding the mind and not narrowing it. Very applicable to all things TWI and that goes for the way corps community too - Russell’s mention of the state being over education can apply to any organization (i.e. cult) that is intent on stacking the deck information-wise and through the subtlety of propaganda “reinforces” a certain opinion.
Thanks for that link, WordWolf – pretty neat site, I had to bookmark it. By the way, I noticed they have epub versions of eBooks on that site - I bought ePubSoft awhile back – I think I paid $40 and it allows me to remove the DRM (digital rights management from digital media) –
- hey, before anyone gets all up in arms about that I just wanted to say that the purpose of DRM is to prevent the unauthorized redistribution of digital media;
I don’t resell or give away any eBook that I convert to epub; what I use it for is to convert to a PDF format some small technical references like Ugly's Electrical References that I’ve purchased in eBook format; I email them as a PDF to myself – for the times where I don’t have my smart phone/Kindle app but I do have a computer to get to my email. There’s more than one way to MacGyver a situation, don’t you know.
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Too bad that never happened.
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Skyrider, I love joking around like this but it makes me think of just how fearful and submissive I was when I was in TWI – that I would never have thought of – let alone follow through on any idea to circumvent the way’s rules and regs.
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This 99 cent "book" is the transcript of a speech Bertrand Russell gave nearly a hundred years ago. Russell had no use for religion, but his insight on Free Thought and Official Propaganda is illuminating in light of our experience with a fundamentalist cult... if you dare read it.
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looks interesting Rocky - I'll have to check out the 99 cent Kindle version - thanks !
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btw, T-Bone I'm confident you know this but maybe not everyone does... one doesn't have to own a Kindle to read Kindle e-books. I use the free Kindle app on both my computer and phone. :)
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Yeah Rocky, that’s a good thing to know (that you don’t need a Kindle to read a Kindle book). Although I do have a Kindle (I love my old Kindle Keyboard paper-white display) I too use the app on my computer, iPad and iPhone – especially if there are diagrams, pictures and maps with the text.
I’ve already got B Russell’s book and skimmed through it this morning – very insightful, the part along the lines of institutions disseminating knowledge but not teaching how to intelligently sift through that knowledge – and that education should have an aim of expanding the mind and not narrowing it. Very applicable to all things TWI and that goes for the way corps community too - Russell’s mention of the state being over education can apply to any organization (i.e. cult) that is intent on stacking the deck information-wise and through the subtlety of propaganda “reinforces” a certain opinion.
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That book is on Project Gutenberg. You can get a copy in e-pub, Kindle or plaintext.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44932
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Thanks for that link, WordWolf – pretty neat site, I had to bookmark it. By the way, I noticed they have epub versions of eBooks on that site - I bought ePubSoft awhile back – I think I paid $40 and it allows me to remove the DRM (digital rights management from digital media) –
- hey, before anyone gets all up in arms about that I just wanted to say that the purpose of DRM is to prevent the unauthorized redistribution of digital media;
I don’t resell or give away any eBook that I convert to epub; what I use it for is to convert to a PDF format some small technical references like Ugly's Electrical References that I’ve purchased in eBook format; I email them as a PDF to myself – for the times where I don’t have my smart phone/Kindle app but I do have a computer to get to my email. There’s more than one way to MacGyver a situation, don’t you know.
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... which, in 2017, was published as Undertow. :-)
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And yet, his granddaughter is/was a Wayfer. Corps, no less. Hahahaha.
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