What Are You Reading?

Anime Dad wrote:EHHHH??? :headscratch:

Some people should NOT have internet access. :shakehead:

inamoto_yoi wrote:What are Crazy Penguin say is right.Maybe Crazy Penguin always read book about history like me.Just about 40 years Japan people take to grow up after the war.This time is nat long but their can make their country so interesting.My idol is Fukado Meiji,Adolf hitler and Mahatdir Mohammad.

Why is Hitler your idol?

Hitler was a maniac, just like the Iranian president. He didn't just go after who disagreed, but after everyone who didn't fit into his crazy "fantasies" of Aryan... stuff (no matter how idiotic, people still bought into it.)

'Sides, cleansing the world of everyone who disagrees with you is a) extremely undemocratic and b) horribly uncivilized. Cleansing the world of someone who's a threat, yes, that's fine, but just a mere disagreement? Uhmm, no. And trust me, the Jews, Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, etc, didn't end up in the camps for disagreeing with the little wannabe painter from Upper Austria.

Though, it fits into what I once told a friend of mine. Most Hitler or even Rommel worshipping comes from people from overseas, who usually lack authentic sources (they usually have to rely on translations, and those often lack the punch of the original are toned down or outright false.)

And yes, I do read a lot of history books. I even have "Mein Kampf" lurking around. Quite interesting read, and after reading it twice I must say that all the "excuses" used after the war were really just lame BS. It's all there written down, everything he wanted to do. No one can tell me that they didn't know or didn't expect this to happen when it's all written down in the Nazis' "bible" which everyone was supposed to own and to read.

Why would someone have Hitler as idol, I don't know. But let me just say this. If, under Hitler, you were not part of the odd group called "Volksgemeinschaft" (more or less the community of the people, but the translation's lacking there already, the Volksgemeinschaft is more specifically the community and unity of the Aryan German people) and not "Aryan" (no matter how idiotic the definition), you were usually a "Volksschädling" -vermin, quite literally, "Schädling" means vermin, in this case a vermin to the people. And that got you locked up in "lovely" places like Dachau or Auschwitz within a second. So... you probably might want to reconsider your idols.

Then again... I rather take Hitler over Stalin or Mao... if we go just by the number of people they killed.


Hmm, anyway...

I just read "Shogun" and Clavell somewhere there. Been a while since I read it and I could still beat Clavell for turning Hosokawa Gracia into Blackthorne's bed bunny Mariko. YIKES! That's just so wrong in so many ways. Funny though, I can live with the other errors (like some names, Kasigi Yabu, or that he mentions judo, or even the use of -san), but that one... argh... It just doesn't fit.

If you're interested in the true story of William Adams (who Clavell based Blackthorne upon) I suggest "Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan" by Giles Milton.

ah.. the brainwashing of religion continues.

inamoto_yoi wrote:My number one enemy is Jews people.

My number one enemies are racist bigots. :shakehead:

inamoto_yoi wrote:My number one enemy is Jews people.Don't say Iran president like that.He is very kind and you don't know averything about him.History learn to we for not do the same mistake.I think Jews people must go out from Palestine.I learn all about Islam and i thing they is so kind.From history we know Islam is very strong and so kind to all people.That why Islam so fast and grow around the world.

Yes, Islam IS a peaceful religion. What I don't understand is that if you TRULY understand Islam... why do you hate the Jewish? Aren't you then going against the Islamic values you're listing? If you truly "know" about Islam, you would never "hate" other religious groups.

You really need to consider what you're saying because right now you're coming off as quite an ignorant individual.

This is why you stay in school children. You don't want to sound like this guy.

I think it's time to put an end to this discussion, particularly in this thread.

>>must... quench... desire... to... educate...<< :banghead: :banghead:

—ƒ‚̐܂ꂽ“VŽg‚½‚¿. I'm only on page 8 and I already want to get the other books too.

I rarely visit this thread, because I don't read much anymore...Guess what I'm doing instead, just guess...
But I see we have a Malaysian Jihadist...what fun!!...I'm gonna check back more often!

inamoto_yoi wrote:My number two enemy is bmwracer. hahahahaaaaaaa :hehe:

Say goodbye to your posts, fool.

Laugh that off, dumbass.

I've been reading a couple of books on random Japanese topics. Interesting facts that probably have absolutely no use (for me) in everyday life. Very entertaining nevertheless.

thtl wrote:I've been reading a couple of books on random Japanese topics. Interesting facts that probably have absolutely no use (for me) in everyday life. Very entertaining nevertheless.

Forgot to mention there was a (short) chapter on the Nodame effect. :woot:

Finished reading Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows the other week.

Am starting to review a nihongo textbook, need to brush up for the upcoming vacation.

Picked up a copy of the late James Herriot's "Every Living Thing."



Cheers, :drink:
PCM

But I see we have a Malaysian Jihadist

LOL.

bmwracer wrote:
Say goodbye to your posts, fool.

Laugh that off, dumbass.

i had to really bite my tongue at some of the ricockulous posts in this thread.

Tu_triky wrote:i had to really bite my tongue at some of the ricockulous posts in this thread.

That's 'cause this forum has no safeguards to keep knuckleheads from being members.

bmwracer wrote:
That's 'cause this forum has no safeguards to keep knuckleheads from being members.

hitler lovers...com'on....they are the salt of the earth.

:rofl:

If you don't let people talk,

If you're unwilling to listen to what they have to say,

You won't know what they think.

Until it's too late.

Tu_triky wrote:hitler lovers...com'on....they are the salt of the earth.

In their own deluded minds.