What have you read lately?

[Mister D]

In the past Russians have actually been described as “oriental,” though not to a major degree. However minor, I found it interesting that anyone would think to call them oriental.

Small anecdote that goes with what you mentioned.

When I say Oriental I mean it in the traditional sense of Eastern. For example, the crusaders thought of the Islamic world as the Orient. It was only much later that the term became a reference to the far east. Russia is really pulled between to worlds in cultural terms. Of course you also simply say that Russia is it's own civilization.

[Mister D]

Haven't read fiction in ages. Thinking of some more Dostoyevsky now. Lol

[Orion Rules]

The Book of Nehemiah, for Jerusalem will find it.

[Orion Rules]

Stars & stripes for "The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ", by Levi.

Borrowed from the back cover of the book: From the Akashic Records: The story of Jesus, the man from Galilee, and how he attained the Christ's consciousness open to all men. A complete record of the "lost" eighteen years so strangely silent in the New Testament; a period spent traveling and learning from masters, seers, and wisemen in the temples and schools of Tibet, Egypt, India, Persia and Greece.


The story told of the Tibetan monasteries and the peaceful life of Buddha, and Egypt was where Jesus lived and learned of, for out of Egypt God had called His Son who was Himself. India is where the Indo-Aryans lived before there was a flood that changed course, that sent the Minoan civilization Greece and Patmos Island, where The Book of Revelation was revealed to John the Revelator by Christ.

The story of how it looked is found in the Cave of the Apocalypse, Greece. Per the giving of the Book of Revelation that Christ conveyed as it was written down, with a warning to never touch a word of it.

The Temple of Amen, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the myriads of the Book of Jude, John to the seven churches in Asia, the seven spirits that are before the throne of God's Spirit...

Genesis 1, the evening to the morning is of the book of days of the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Amos, Matthew 24, that the judgments that are beginning in the creation of a new Earth that will not have it.

In Egypt, chapter 48, Jesus receives from the hierophant his mystic name and number, passes the first brotherhood test, and receives his first degree, SINCERITY. To that, He went further, as to Chapter 49, JUSTICE, chapter 50, FAITH, chapter 51, PHILANTHROPY, chapter 52, HEROISM, chapter 53, LOVE DIVINE. The world system bound to collide with itself for making reasons easy enough for the antichrist.

[DGUtley]

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[jigglepete]

A Deadly Distance - by - L.T. Ryan

[Lummy]

The body language of Heidi Klum. By Heidi Klum.

Pretty good.

[Sergeant Gleed]

When I say Oriental I mean it in the traditional sense of Eastern. For example, the crusaders thought of the Islamic world as the Orient. It was only much later that the term became a reference to the far east. Russia is really pulled between to worlds in cultural terms. Of course you also simply say that Russia is it's own civilization.

The old cartographers would draw their maps, and read their maps, with the East at the top.

This is how they oriented their maps and how they oriented their thinking, so the top of the map, the East, was the Orient.

From a Europeon perspective, Russians are Orientals.

[MisterVeritis]

I started two books today. The first is the collected works of Julius Caesar. The second is the autobiography of Cellini.

Both are excellent for their own reasons.

[Sergeant Gleed]

Today I am reading "The Robots of Gotham", by Todd somebody or other. It's entertaining and twisty.