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25-08-2013, 07:08 PM
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I'll have to check that book out Robert - I do love a comedy .....
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25-08-2013, 07:24 PM
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I'll have to check that book out Robert - I do love a comedy .....
Pats cg dear lady you've lost me.
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Pats cg dear lady you've lost me.
Are you saying 'Diogenes' is not a book !!
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25-08-2013, 07:51 PM
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I have read quite a few books I suppose but can't say that any really changed my life as I learn, and have learnt, from each and every one of them.

Thinking back to when I was younger and very troubled it was either Carl Young or Freud that helped me get out of a particularly difficult time. Not sure which book it was but one did more or less answer a terrible nagging doubt I had about religion. It provided the final piece of the puzzle that enabled me to lay aside such considerations and become an atheist. A big weight lifted off my shoulders and I have never questioned my findings since. The book might have been about anthropology or something. Well maybe that one book did indeed change my life - one aspect of my life anyways.
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25-08-2013, 10:56 PM
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Diogenes was born in the Greek colony of Sinope on the south coast of the Black Sea, either in 412 BC or 404 BC.
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26-08-2013, 06:01 AM
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The one standout book that did change me was Walt Whitmans "Leaves of Grass"
He only wrote one book of poetry and this was it,he added to it all his life,the first edition was first published in America (his home) in 1855,it consisted of 12 poems,the main poem being "Song Of Myself"
He added to it his whole life,it was really his lifes work,the final edition was published in the year of his death 1892,and it was called "The Deathbed Edition"
He was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau,he was a great man,he kept good company,Thoreau's "Walden" or "Walden Pond" is itself a classic!

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26-08-2013, 08:41 AM
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Diogenes was born in the Greek colony of Sinope on the south coast of the Black Sea, either in 412 BC or 404 BC.
Well did he not deserve a book written about him ...
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26-08-2013, 08:49 AM
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It was an old family hymn book with notes from previous generations in the margins, started reading the hymns and then singing them. Lot of truths in hymns I found and was how I found my Faith.
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26-08-2013, 06:34 PM
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Well did he not deserve a book written about him ...
Steady on PatsCG, Who said there was a book about Diogenes?
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Steady on PatsCG, Who said there was a book about Diogenes?
Just presumed there was RJ - afterall he was famous ....
 
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