GENIUS FORUMS

I am looking for some good books to read to gain insight and expand my mind. Not spiritualy. I want to read it and look back and say I am glad I read that and apply it to the world.

Hands down, "What has government done to our money", by Murray Rothbard. It's a short book about applying free market principles to the lifeblood of the economy, money! Definitely the greatest book I read in 2007. A tour de force.
You can find it online for free - right here: http://www.mises.org/money.asp

Well, if you want to understand the Founding Farmers, read what they read. Thucydides went around to talk with the veterans of the Peloponnesian wars, and produced the world's first reliable history.

Plutarch took scholarship to a new level comparing and contrasting pairs of famous military and political leaders. Nobody will admit to reading Machiavelli, at least without composing a refutation if they want a political career, but in any case, politics hasnt changed that much.

Gibbon was a huge hit in 1776 when he came out with vol I of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" which begins with the fall of the republic into tyranny. The encyclopedic scope of Gibbon's mind still blows mine. I was so impresed I compiled http://daybrown.org/gibbon/gibbon.html ; its not something you can deal with in a single setting. He didnt finish his last volume for another 5 years, but all thru it you find ideas and phrases picked up by the Founding Farmers trying to write the Constitution.

I suggest you read about Kucha, the famous whore-town at the terminus of the Dung Road, in China. From there stemmed the alpha and beta males, females, and tractor tape decks, which began with gibbons on the Serengeti and ended with Bo Derek running down a beach tossing her cornrows in the movie "10." This is not to overlook, of course, the Ralpha male, essentially a couch potato with a college degree.

I also suggest you read some practical history of farming, Ozark style, and learn, for instance, the differences between those raised on corn, the pig-poop gruel of the flatlanders, and those raised on the sturdy grains of the hill country, notably oats and wheat. This type of homesteading includes the cultivation of poisonous mushrooms for tripping, the burial of truck trailers for secret underground rituals, and many other intelligence-boosting activities useful for when the shit hits the fan.

I also suggest you read some practical history of farming, Ozark style, and learn, for instance, the differences between those raised on corn, the pig-poop gruel of the flatlanders, and those raised on the sturdy grains of the hill country, notably oats and wheat.

Ozark? What are you incinerating?

Ozark Mountains, southeastern U.S., principally Arkansas and Missouri. Home to a fine tradition of homesteading and child rearing. A bastion to this day of good old fashioned self-sufficiency. And storied as a repository for legendary Confederate gold. In fact rumored to be being considered for the next in the series of lucrative National Treasure films, with Nickolas Cage portraying the famous hillbilly shaman daybrown, who, as fate would have it, actually sometimes posts here.

Actually, outside of a little sweet corn, nobody grows any for human consumption in my neck of Ozark woods any more. The social impact of the Hippies, who brought in a preference for brown rice, whole wheat, and rolled oats. The sourdough bakery in Leslie (A hippie brought some sourdough from San Francisco over 30 years ago as the starter) has lots of different baked goods, pastries, breads, pizzas, Pita, etc, but none of it uses cornmeal.

The demographics have changed a lot here. The sons of the moonshiners went into meth, but then moved to the city where there were more customers, hominid prey, and better welfare benefits for their bastards. They have been replaced by retired military and civil service wanting hobby farms and small businesses. Sometimes their divorced daughters move in with them, so the average intelligence of the kids has risen.

Somebody awta write a book about it. Or make a movie. "The Beverly Hillbillies" turns out to be more acurrate than people think with the Fayetteville gas field opening up.

gumpas4 wrote:I am looking for some good books to read to gain insight and expand my mind. Not spiritualy. I want to read it and look back and say I am glad I read that and apply it to the world.

Reading THIS may give you some insight that you can apply to the world.

Cybersmiles wrote:

gumpas4 wrote:I am looking for some good books to read to gain insight and expand my mind. Not spiritualy. I want to read it and look back and say I am glad I read that and apply it to the world.

Reading THIS may give you some insight that you can apply to the world.

Gumpas4 specifically said, "Not spirtualy." Why do you then suggest spiritual reading?

Cybersmiles wrote:

gumpas4 wrote:I am looking for some good books to read to gain insight and expand my mind. Not spiritualy. I want to read it and look back and say I am glad I read that and apply it to the world.

Reading THIS may give you some insight that you can apply to the world.

Thanks, Cy.

There's a few good ideas there that I can (and will) use for a more-rounded development of my inner self. I can see a bit clearer in one area already that I hadn't thought about fixing. It'll come in handy at those times when I have "doubt" rear its ugly head.


Tomas (the tank)
Prince of Jerusalem
16 Degree
Scottish Rite Free Mason

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Gumpas4 specifically said, "Not spirtualy." Why do you then suggest spiritual reading?

Because its like a beggar asking for money, but nothing over a dime, when even a cup of coffee is a buck.

How so?