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« Reply #1399 on: July 14, 2010, 01:05:57 PM » |
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« Reply #1400 on: July 14, 2010, 02:58:58 PM » |
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« Reply #1403 on: July 23, 2010, 08:00:54 AM » |
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Right now I'm reading "A Long Way Gone Memoirs of A Boy Solider" for school I'malso making my way through "Augustine of Hippo" by Peter Brown.
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Right now I'm reading "A Long Way Gone Memoirs of A Boy Solider" for school I'malso making my way through "Augustine of Hippo" by Peter Brown.
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« Reply #1406 on: July 27, 2010, 01:11:24 PM » |
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« Reply #1407 on: July 27, 2010, 03:48:03 PM » |
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Roots by Alex Haley.
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« Reply #1408 on: July 28, 2010, 06:27:34 PM » |
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St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy : Its History, Theology, and Texts Author: John Anthony McGuckin Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Press (April 1, 2004)  Can't recommend this enough...almost understandable to even a moron like me |
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« Reply #1409 on: July 28, 2010, 09:39:47 PM » |
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Rereading a favorite children's book, found while cleaning out the garage: "Never Go Anywhere With Digby," by Ethelyn M. Parkinson, 1971. Basically 4 boys go on a road trip by bicycle. Very funny - holds up quite well!
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« Reply #1410 on: July 29, 2010, 12:08:48 PM » |
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Rereading a favorite children's book, found while cleaning out the garage: "Never Go Anywhere With Digby," by Ethelyn M. Parkinson, 1971. Basically 4 boys go on a road trip by bicycle. Very funny - holds up quite well!
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« Reply #1411 on: July 29, 2010, 12:14:23 PM » |
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Rereading a favorite children's book, found while cleaning out the garage: "Never Go Anywhere With Digby," by Ethelyn M. Parkinson, 1971. Basically 4 boys go on a road trip by bicycle. Very funny - holds up quite well!
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« Reply #1412 on: July 29, 2010, 04:54:21 PM » |
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Fr. John is Romanian Orthodox Priest who was born and raised Roman Catholic. So, no he's not a "non-Chalcedonian". But he is a first rate scholar and a great admirer of St. Cyril and his writings. Although I don't necessarily agree with everything he said regarding Chalcedon (which he only touched on in one chapter), I greatly appreciated his eirenic writing style and learned a lot.... A LOT! I also think its a perfect companion to Fr. Samuels book and a foundational book for anyone interested in the Christological controversies of the time. I'd be lying if I said it was an easy read and do plan on re-reading it several more times but its only because the material itself is so above my meager intellect. Fr. John's writing style is that of a teacher and he breaks things down very well. But it does need real study as opposed to the normal way I read books i.e. holding the book in one hand and my daughter in the other while trying to keep her from tearing the pages  I hope all is well with you and your family, brother. In Christ. |
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Tell me more if you don't mind. Is it written by a non-Chalcedonian?
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Fr. John is Romanian Orthodox Priest who was born and raised Roman Catholic. So, no he's not a "non-Chalcedonian". But he is a first rate scholar and a great admirer of St. Cyril and his writings. Although I don't necessarily agree with everything he said regarding Chalcedon (which he only touched on in one chapter), I greatly appreciated his eirenic writing style and learned a lot.... A LOT! I also think its a perfect companion to Fr. Samuels book and a foundational book for anyone interested in the Christological controversies of the time. I'd be lying if I said it was an easy read and do plan on re-reading it several more times but its only because the material itself is so above my meager intellect. Fr. John's writing style is that of a teacher and he breaks things down very well. But it does need real study as opposed to the normal way I read books i.e. holding the book in one hand and my daughter in the other while trying to keep her from tearing the pages I hope all is well with you and your family, brother. In Christ. Thanks! Sounds like I'll need to read it eventually. Selam |
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« Reply #1416 on: August 05, 2010, 08:43:28 PM » |
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The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean. It's a fascinating look at humanity from the point of view of the various elements, from the time the first protons hurtled out of the Big Bang through the naming of Copernicium. Brilliant storytelling and historical and scientific accuracy rarely can be found in the same work, which makes Kean's achievement all the more impressive. Highly recommended for lovers of history and science, and anyone who ever "accidentally" dropped a mercury thermometer just to watch what happened.
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« Reply #1417 on: August 07, 2010, 08:25:05 PM » |
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« Reply #1418 on: August 07, 2010, 09:27:11 PM » |
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I'm REreading a wonderful novel by the late Rumer Godden (you may be familiar with her "In This House of Brede", about an older woman who enters a convent) - this one is called "China Court", and it's a lovely, slow-moving but not at all dull, story chronicling the days followng the death of an elderly woman. Her granddaughter, who hasn't seen her since she herself was a child, comes to the funeral and is dismayed by how her aunts and uncles are all too eager to sell off all the bits and pieces that made the house (called China Court) so special to her. Yet none of the characters is a caricature - we see why each of them came to be what they are today, and we understand that they're just ordinary sinners like you and me. I'm still not getting at the heart of the story but that's because it's just one of those books that's really hard to describe! Just read it - you'll see what I mean! |
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« Reply #1419 on: August 07, 2010, 09:43:28 PM » |
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Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens and Orthodox Spirituality by A Monk of the Eastern Church.
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« Reply #1420 on: August 07, 2010, 10:30:43 PM » |
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The Brothers Karamazov. I can't believe I made it to thirty without reading an entire novel by Dostoyevsky.
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« Reply #1423 on: August 08, 2010, 05:15:52 PM » |
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What a great book! I read it long before I was Orthodox, and I loved it. I really need to read it again now, because I'm sure there was a lot I missed the first time I read it through the lens of Protestantism. Selam Having now finished the book, I can say I greatly enjoyed it, and am disappointed that Dostoyevsky died before informing us of the later actions of Alyosha. |
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« Reply #1425 on: August 08, 2010, 09:27:53 PM » |
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« Reply #1426 on: August 09, 2010, 03:48:12 PM » |
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this sounds like a really great book, but I didn't find it listed on Amazon. Do you have the ISBN? It is actually just a short paper he wrote in the late 80s. Not sure if it has been published, but it can be found in the Dijkstra Archive: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF |
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« Reply #1434 on: August 13, 2010, 07:29:53 AM » |
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Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life by Stephen LaBerge
One of the benefits of sleep I find is the loss of consciousness. I always find myself incredibly disappointed upon waking if I remember having dreamt. |
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We cannot legislate morality by passing laws controlling firearms. The only evil we can combat lies within our hearts. We need stronger laws to protect the moral foundation of society against the evil of gay marriage. |
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« Reply #1435 on: August 13, 2010, 09:07:48 AM » |
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The Brothers Karamazov. I can't believe I made it to thirty without reading an entire novel by Dostoyevsky.
Same here, exactly! I'm about 200 pages from the end and loving it as I've not loved any other work of fiction. Also reading Alaskan Missionary Spirituality (for a class this Fall), Meyendorff's book on Palamas and Palamas' sermons (ditto), and Peaceful Journey: A Hospice Chaplain's Guide to End of Life. |
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« Reply #1436 on: August 13, 2010, 09:09:15 AM » |
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Commentary on Galatians by Fr. Paul Nadim Tarazi My prof from last year! What'd you think of that? |
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« Reply #1437 on: August 13, 2010, 10:52:52 AM » |
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 From Publishers Weekly
In the first half of the 19th century, some three million Irish emigrated to America, trading a ruling elite of Anglo-Irish Anglicans for one of WASPs. The Irish immigrants were (self-evidently) not Anglo-Saxon; most were not Protestant; and, as far as many of the nativists were concerned, they weren't white, either. Just how, in the years surrounding the Civil War, the Irish evolved from an oppressed, unwelcome social class to become part of a white racial class is the focus of Harvard lecturer Ignatiev's well-researched, intriguing although haphazardly structured book.Very interesting little book. Provides some insight into why this fella was so ticked off all the time...  |
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Father and Bishop Nicholas,
intercede with Christ our God
that our souls may be saved.
From the Apolytikion to St. Nicholas
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« Reply #1438 on: August 13, 2010, 02:34:44 PM » |
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"On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
this sounds like a really great book, but I didn't find it listed on Amazon. Do you have the ISBN? It is actually just a short paper he wrote in the late 80s. Not sure if it has been published, but it can be found in the Dijkstra Archive: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDFThanks for this link. |
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Entscheidungsproblem
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« Reply #1439 on: August 13, 2010, 03:46:48 PM » |
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What text do you use nowadays for intro students? I was privileged to work through an older edition of: Intro courses are really fragmented these days I find, but you will still find the 2nd edition of the Wizard book used now and then. How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, & Shriram Krishnamurthi Mathematical Logic by George J. Tourlakis Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser Those were a few of the first year books I had. I was lucky enough to have rather theoretical professors, rather than the more applied "software engineering" (shudders) professors. |
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As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.
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