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    Mat, have you seen the colors of the sky when a tornado is brewing
    before the cloud turns black. It's beautiful when some clouds are a
    pale blue,pink, and a light green. It's really pretty with lightening
    streaming across the sky with the electricity in the air.
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    Well, Judy. Here in Poland's mild climate we thankfully do not have tornados. But I think I know what you are reffering to. I saw few programmes on the Discovery Channel about tornados, storms and lightnings. And I know that you can see a "rainbow of colors" up in the sky before a storm or tornado. By the way, in my gallery you can see one of my pictures of lightning. Maybe not the best one but I'm still working on my photographic skills
    "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
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    I hate to dance but I love music..

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    Some people have no talent at all when it comes to music.
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    I think Martha Argerich is the greatest pianist alive.

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    I love to play Mah Jong and Jewel Quest solitare. I'm interested in the
    story that is unfolding in jewel quest.
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    wow...it's nice to know a little about everyone at a time...

    let me see...

    - i've created more than a dozen blogs in one year

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    i want to read all the books in the world but never do
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    Another random fact abot me:

    I'm a great fan of Architectural History.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muza View Post
    i want to read all the books in the world but never do
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    Hi Muza,

    May I humbly suggest the following reading list:

    Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
    Plato: Ion, Republic, Symposium
    Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
    Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
    Herodotus: Histories
    Aristotle: Poetics, Rhetoric
    Plutarch: Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristides, Alexander)
    Euripides: Hippolytus
    Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
    Aristophanes: The Birds, The Clouds
    Aristotle: Parts of Animals
    Galen: On the Natural Faculties
    Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, On Animal Generation
    Mendel: Plant Hybridization
    Plato: Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
    Porphyry: On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
    Aristotle: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics
    Vergil: Aeneid
    Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
    Cicero: Offices
    Plutarch: Lives (Marcellus, Tiberius & Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Brutus
    Tacitus: Annals
    Epictetus: Manual
    Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
    Dante: Divine Comedy
    Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
    Spencer: Faerie Queen
    Plato: Timaeus
    Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption
    Aristotle: On the Soul
    Gaunilo: On Behalf of the Fool
    Cervantes: Don Quixote
    Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
    Bacon: The Great Instauration
    Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets
    Montaigne: Essays
    Descartes: Discourse on Method, Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Hobbes: Leviathan
    Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay on Civil Goverment
    Berkeley: Treatise Concerning Human Understanding
    Swift: Gulliver's Travels
    Milton: Paradise Lost
    Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    Corneille: Le Cid
    Racine: Phaedre
    Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
    Hamilton: Federalist Papers
    Smith: Wealth of Nations
    Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
    Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics
    Boethius: On Music
    Gustin: Tonality
    Descartes: Principles of Philosophy
    Galileo: Two New Sciences
    Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    Tolstoy: War and Peace
    Goethe: Faust
    Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of History
    Flaubert: Three Tales
    J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism
    Melville: Billy Budd
    Willa Cather: My Antonia
    Twain: Huckleberry Finn
    Austen: Emma
    Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
    Jung: Analytical Psychology
    Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
    Ibsen: A Doll's House
    Dostoyevsky: Brothers Karamazov
    Eliot: Ash Wednesday, Journey of the Magi, The Waste Land
    Plato: Phaedrus
    Vico: The New Science
    Tocqueville: Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the French Revolution
    Husserl: The Idea of Phenomenology
    Lincoln and Douglas: Debates
    Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill
    Jan Gullberg: Mathematics - From the Birth of Numbers
    U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence (get just the text without commentaries)

    Cheers,

    CD
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    *If a man wants God to hear his prayer quickly, then before he prays for anything else, even his own soul, when he stands and stretches out his hands towards God, he must pray with all his heart for his enemies. Through this action God will hear everything that he asks* -Abba Zeno-

    *Protagoras: "Truth is subjective. What is true for you, and what is true for me, is true for me. Your opinion is true by virtue of its being your opinion."

    *Socrates: "My opinion is: Truth is absolute, not opinion, and that you are in absolute error. Since this is my opinion, then according to your philosophy you must grant that it is true."

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    Wow brotha my jaw kinda dropped there for a second

    You have way too much confidence in me, Corno but that list will not go unnoticed

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    Hello Sister Muza,

    I got this list from a friend at Yale University - he called it the Great Books Curriculum - If you read these and mentally systematise them you'll be able to better analyse current events and fully take part in society as a concerned and informed citizen.

    Respectfully and Humbly yours,

    CD
    *If a man wants God to hear his prayer quickly, then before he prays for anything else, even his own soul, when he stands and stretches out his hands towards God, he must pray with all his heart for his enemies. Through this action God will hear everything that he asks* -Abba Zeno-

    *Protagoras: "Truth is subjective. What is true for you, and what is true for me, is true for me. Your opinion is true by virtue of its being your opinion."

    *Socrates: "My opinion is: Truth is absolute, not opinion, and that you are in absolute error. Since this is my opinion, then according to your philosophy you must grant that it is true."

    "Improvisational Art": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSxVO3EoCRM

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    yep, thats exactly what i thought well, im off to do the reading

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    CD

    Way to go!! ... and then you only suggested the books for beginners.

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    You guy can be so funny! I have a good laugh after reading some of
    your post. This time a list of books a mile long?
    judy tooley

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