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(Vanity) Bookworms -- need yopur suggestion(s) on a book.
Dec 03, 2008 | Yankeedame

Posted on 12/03/2008 12:54:24 PM PST by yankeedame

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To: thefactor; MotleyGirl70; Mr. Brightside; Larry Lucido; Rebelbase; earlJam
"The Mahatma?"

I heard he used to polish off a box of Triscuits.

21 posted on 12/03/2008 3:45:59 PM PST by Cagey
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To: wideminded

I have read a lot of Ved Meta’s work over the years. He is well worth reading. Interestingly, he is also blind.


22 posted on 12/03/2008 6:31:41 PM PST by Chickensoup (we owe HUSSEIN & Democrats the exact kind respect & loyalty that they showed us, Bush & Reagan)
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To: Chickensoup
Interestingly, he is also blind.

According to Wikipedia he became blind at age four. I had no clue about this in reading his Gandhi book. I recall one place in the where he described a woman (a follower of Gandhi) whom he met as having "large weak eyes". I wonder how he knew.

23 posted on 12/03/2008 7:28:23 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Tanniker Smith

This year I have found The Book Thief to be my favorite read. I also enjoyed A Thousand Splendid Suns much more than its brother, The Kite Runner.


24 posted on 12/03/2008 11:11:31 PM PST by MHT
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To: Tanniker Smith

I’m kind of in a holding pattern until Christmas. I usually get four or five books from my continuing list. Right now I’m reading an old British book on “Operation Sea Lion.” It mostly discusses the “mood” in Britain and the domestic security measures taken by the authorities during the invasion scare of 1940.

It’s a good lesson that once people accept a level of government intrusion into their private lives in the name of national security, it is very difficult to get the government to keep it’s nose out when the emergency has passed.


25 posted on 12/04/2008 5:12:11 AM PST by henkster (It's time for a conservative "long march through the institutions.")
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To: martin_fierro

Are the spellers the “dummies” or the teacher? or both?


26 posted on 12/04/2008 7:28:22 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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To: Cagey; thefactor; MotleyGirl70; Mr. Brightside; Larry Lucido; Rebelbase; earlJam
Please take me off your PING list. No more.

Thanks.

27 posted on 12/04/2008 10:00:56 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70

I miss you.


28 posted on 12/04/2008 10:28:14 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: annalex
For Gandhi, truth was the sovereign principle; inclusive of many other spiritual principles and schools of thought.

I don't know why people insist on believing this garbage. Gandhi was not a saint, not even spiritual but just a small, cruel man.... about as "spiritual" as Jimmy Carter.

29 posted on 12/04/2008 12:07:01 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Don' need no steenkin' bipartisan..... Oops, have I failed to be "gracious" AGAIN?!!)
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To: La Enchiladita

Because he was able to achieve independence for India without war.


30 posted on 12/04/2008 12:08:47 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
Okay. You're saying that because you choose to accept the propaganda that Gandhi achieved independence for India, you also accept without questioning that he was "spiritual."

Some Indians feel that after the 1930s, Gandhi although by now world-famous, was in fact in sharp decline. Did he at least "get the British out of India?" Some say no. India in the last days of the British Raj, was already largely governed by Indians. ... and it is a common view that without this irrational, wildly erratic holy man the transition to full independence might have gone both more smoothly and more swiftly." The Gandhi Nobody Knows, p. 12.

I recommend reading the entire document as linked above in post 16.

31 posted on 12/04/2008 12:40:02 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Don' need no steenkin' bipartisan..... Oops, have I failed to be "gracious" AGAIN?!!)
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To: La Enchiladita

I can be as skeptical as you are — I did not study the issue and you apparently have, and I defer to your knowledge. I simply say that the mythology of Gandhi stems not from his person but from the fact that India by and large avoided violence on her way to independence.


32 posted on 12/04/2008 1:01:45 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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LOL!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2142324/posts?page=10#10


33 posted on 12/04/2008 7:19:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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