Title: The Subtle Knife [amazon]
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Scholastic (2005)
Pages: 368
Book Number: 19
I finished up The Subtle Knife today, the second book in the His Dark Materials series. After having read and enjoyed The Golden Compass, I was looking forward to see where the plot was taken [...]
Last quarter, in the American history course that I took, the class watched a documentary film from the 80s, called The Atomic Cafe (available on DVD from amazon). The film was made up entirely of videos produced during the post-WW2 era, many of them for propaganda use by the American government. No narration was given [...]
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What do you find useful in Buddhism which you do not find or not as useful in Christianity?
No, I am not taking up the defense of Christianity, but just curious why Buddhism has found favor with supposedly intellectuals of the [...]
I consider myself a skeptical person. In the past, I’ve had severe reservations when it came to believing in angels, spirits, ghosts, and other such things. I’ve expected that, when things are thrown up into the air, they come back down. I’ve expected that when living things die, they don’t come back to life. And [...]
Title: Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World [amazon]
Author: Lama Surya Das
Publisher: Broadway; Reprint edition (June 15, 1998)
Pages: 389
Book Number: 6
What’s this 52 Books in 52 Weeks thing about?
This is actually the second time I’ve read this book, but the first time I’ve written a full entry for it. When I read [...]
