tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post2189350787439716028..comments2023-05-11T05:27:14.661-04:00Comments on Owl Reads: Go Tell It on the MountainOwlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15129478506301722194noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-85354989001603027222011-04-06T00:34:28.824-04:002011-04-06T00:34:28.824-04:00Still here, promise. Just struggling to squeeze wo...Still here, promise. Just struggling to squeeze words out. Reading is so much easier...Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129478506301722194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-21086314211296933132011-04-05T23:55:33.937-04:002011-04-05T23:55:33.937-04:00owl has flown awayowl has flown awayBrandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17167184308391991897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-9784901854901687452011-03-22T00:49:13.142-04:002011-03-22T00:49:13.142-04:00owl needs to write moreowl needs to write moreBrandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17167184308391991897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-49079262790468230152011-03-22T00:48:46.607-04:002011-03-22T00:48:46.607-04:00all caught up on my owl!all caught up on my owl!Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17167184308391991897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-54617388875095712272011-03-18T01:33:00.555-04:002011-03-18T01:33:00.555-04:00Hello, Owl. I came across your blog on BookBlogs a...Hello, Owl. I came across your blog on BookBlogs and thought I would stop by and visit. I love what you have going, so now I'm following!<br /><br />Please feel free to stop by mine as well. www.gabriellenesiba.blogspot.com<br /><br />Thanks!Gabby Nesibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04402890383631471909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-39210325240643108682011-03-07T22:30:52.641-05:002011-03-07T22:30:52.641-05:00@blindinsight
Will do! I keep meaning to and then...@blindinsight<br /><br />Will do! I keep meaning to and then arghleblarghle. But yes, it's long overdue for a reread. What was the translation you recommended again? <br /><br />Do recommend the Dostoevsky--which volumes in particular? Are we talking the Bros K? And yes, yes, we should have some good old fashioned rippin' apart books time. I need a good read. I'm struggling through Emerson right now and he's not doing it for me.Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129478506301722194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-45010063889944844932011-03-06T21:08:17.961-05:002011-03-06T21:08:17.961-05:00Please re-read Anna Karenina. Levin's struggle...Please re-read Anna Karenina. Levin's struggle is mesmerizing. Although I know you have read it before, I find that each time I re-read it, I find something new in it, some new complexity--perhaps you will find the experience the same? Anyway, if you want high-quality writing coupled with questions of spirituality, you can't beat Tolstoy's Levin. <br /><br />If you want a different spin on the same spiritual questions, then I can recommend some Dostoevsky. But, based on your past experiences with him, I think you'll enjoy re-reading Anna Karenina more. And, we can talk about it (More exciting for me than you, perhaps, as I've lost my Russian Lit. outlet).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-37733382496689765212011-03-06T20:11:55.070-05:002011-03-06T20:11:55.070-05:00@Gilrandir
I like the sensibility of that post.
...@Gilrandir<br />I like the sensibility of that post. <br /><br />It's strange because people do avoid talking about religion, but it's also such a big part of their lives that you can become friends with someone and yet never really know them at all because religion isn't talked about/can't be talked about.<br /><br />God/religious-ecstasy center in the brain? There's a part of our brain that needs to believe in God?Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129478506301722194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-55944891049609692342011-03-06T19:17:25.941-05:002011-03-06T19:17:25.941-05:00Re: taking a while to Get It> Reminds me of thi...Re: taking a while to Get It> Reminds me of this - http://zoethe.livejournal.com/705792.html<br /><br />Even now, I'm surprised by occasional revelations of my classmates being religious (Christian, obviously). Polite people refrain from speaking about such things - in fact, polite acquaintance-strangers generally try not to touch upon religion, politics, or sex, the three big landmines of conversational topics.<br /><br />Re: same concept> Same concept of "must have religion", you mean? Well, I subscribe to the "God/religious-ecstasy center in the brain" theory, with a modulating dose of "basic need to construct narratives/explanations and personify/anthropomorphize".Gilrandirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-37824463591678056932011-03-06T18:12:03.954-05:002011-03-06T18:12:03.954-05:00@Gilrandir
It took me forever to figure out that A...@Gilrandir<br />It took me forever to figure out that America is actually quite religious. By forever, I mean like...I read an Economist article about how A'm'ca is the most religious developed country. <br /><br />Something that continues to fascinate me is that the majority of people in the world are religious. 16% are non-religious. How is it that so many people hit upon the same concept but got at it in such different ways?Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129478506301722194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-74430532551361960462011-03-04T15:10:11.929-05:002011-03-04T15:10:11.929-05:00"What is the point of a book on a culture, if..."What is the point of a book on a culture, if it is utterly un-understandable to people who were not brought up in the self-same culture?"<br /><br />What, you mean to say there are NON-CHRISTIAN HEATHENS IN AMURRICA?<br />SAY IT AIN'T SO.<br /><br />At one point (I mighta mentioned this before), John from the MDSPCA and I were talking about how we reached our atheist ways, and he - having achieved it by hard work and much anguish - was absolutely hornswoggled at the idea that my parents simply *raised* me areligious.Gilrandirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-14191408892254470712011-03-04T06:53:49.768-05:002011-03-04T06:53:49.768-05:00The owl thing is cute. ^^
Now following! comacalm...The owl thing is cute. ^^<br /><br />Now following! comacalm.blogspot.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08996595797067004954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287848437808779650.post-22511866991272749122011-03-04T03:35:24.482-05:002011-03-04T03:35:24.482-05:00Your experience with Go Tell It on the Mountain re...Your experience with <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i> reminds me of my experience with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk_Speaks" rel="nofollow"><i>Black Elk Speaks</i></a>. I wanted to read about what it was like to have an intense belief (in the Ghost Dance) and then to have your experience prove it wrong--what happens then? How do you regroup and go on? (I mean, I know it's different for different people, but I wanted to hear what it was like for Black Elk.)<br /><br />But the beginning of the book was all about his visions, which were full of native symbolism, but which--well, it's like other people's dreams. They're hard to get into. And symbolism that isn't personally resonant... isn't personally resonant. And I realized, I didn't want hagiography, I wanted insight into dealing with the destruction of your belief system and what you create in its place--if anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com