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To: savagesusie

Whether tv or books challenge your mind is a separate issue from what I was commenting on. Both are, or rather can be, a means to escape from reality.


127 posted on 03/13/2012 3:19:08 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman; savagesusie; Norm Lenhart; Tax-chick
"Whether tv or books challenge your mind is a separate issue from what I was commenting on. Both are, or rather can be, a means to escape from reality."

For those who find TV a challenge to the mind, you have my profound symphonies.

In regard to books, especially relating to video and computer games, here's what I had to say back on February 16th:

The stack of books to read is growing faster than anyone's ability to keep up. If you read three books a day, you're still falling behind.

Don't worry about it. Not reading is worse.

Reading is a way of making up for having a short 80-ish life-span. Each book is a distillation of the life experiences of the author, and of the wisdom he or she has gleaned in surviving them.

Reading books is the opposite of playing computer games; with every book you read, another life essence is added to your own.

132 posted on 03/13/2012 4:22:29 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
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