Comments on: Reading Lists http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2008/05/27/reading-lists/ Part Mop. Part Puppet. All Crazy. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:10:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: E http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2008/05/27/reading-lists/#comment-525642 E Wed, 28 May 2008 16:07:05 +0000 http://www.mostlymuppet.com/?p=2036#comment-525642 If you're looking for something about change & self-discovery, and you want to get "out there" a bit, I highly recommend Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger (vol. 1). It changed my life when I read it, but I was also like, 19. If you’re looking for something about change & self-discovery, and you want to get “out there” a bit, I highly recommend Robert Anton Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger (vol. 1). It changed my life when I read it, but I was also like, 19.

]]> By: maigh.com » The Words Are Too Many http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2008/05/27/reading-lists/#comment-525564 maigh.com » The Words Are Too Many Wed, 28 May 2008 14:09:07 +0000 http://www.mostlymuppet.com/?p=2036#comment-525564 [...] Like Seth, I’m also trying to get some reading done both on the way/back and under the sun with the waves lapping at my toes. The bits I’m currently reading aren’t doing anything for me, with the exception of The Last Lecture which The Mc just brought home and will surely just make me cry. Because I’m a crier. It’s what I do. [...] [...] Like Seth, I’m also trying to get some reading done both on the way/back and under the sun with the waves lapping at my toes. The bits I’m currently reading aren’t doing anything for me, with the exception of The Last Lecture which The Mc just brought home and will surely just make me cry. Because I’m a crier. It’s what I do. [...]

]]> By: Maigh http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2008/05/27/reading-lists/#comment-525546 Maigh Wed, 28 May 2008 13:14:56 +0000 http://www.mostlymuppet.com/?p=2036#comment-525546 If you like On the Road half as much as I did/do, it'll rock your world. If you like On the Road half as much as I did/do, it’ll rock your world.

]]> By: Will http://www.mostlymuppet.com/2008/05/27/reading-lists/#comment-525259 Will Wed, 28 May 2008 01:10:07 +0000 http://www.mostlymuppet.com/?p=2036#comment-525259 In the cases of both Satanism and Libertarianism (but more specifically, capitalist anarchy), what I find so often appeals to so many of their would-be followers, when I ask them about it, seems to be the subtraction of pretense and bullshit. That's admirable, but human beings invented pretense and bullshit to facilitate some other stuff we like, so a degree of it may yet be necessary. Babies and bath water, as it were. And, yes, this shit has come up in conversation. As a gamer and (generously, to myself) fantasist, I've spent a fair amount of time with Wiccans and Satanists and the Norse. Those three overlap with "gamer" with some frequency. :) In the cases of both Satanism and Libertarianism (but more specifically, capitalist anarchy), what I find so often appeals to so many of their would-be followers, when I ask them about it, seems to be the subtraction of pretense and bullshit. That’s admirable, but human beings invented pretense and bullshit to facilitate some other stuff we like, so a degree of it may yet be necessary. Babies and bath water, as it were.

And, yes, this shit has come up in conversation. As a gamer and (generously, to myself) fantasist, I’ve spent a fair amount of time with Wiccans and Satanists and the Norse. Those three overlap with “gamer” with some frequency. :)

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