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Jolly Roger West Forum
From Charleston to Los Angeles, from poetry to physics, all will be covered.
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Introduce yerself! An anything-goes hangout. Grab a Guinness and talk philosophy, politics, literature, and rock. Based on the NY Piano & Poetry Pub. |
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05-22-2009 11:03 AM
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Discuss a new Great Book each month!
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Today 10:09 PM
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Dr. Elliot McGucken sounds off with regular updates.
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Today 03:47 PM
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Applying common sense and classical wisdom to current events: news, politics, and more.
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Yesterday 07:54 PM
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Talk about contemporary books and literature.
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Today 03:48 PM
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What're your favorite video games? Are video games as profound as books and movies? Will they ever be? What constitutes storytelling in games?
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Yesterday 07:22 PM
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Today 03:49 PM
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From Citizen Kane to the Oulaw Jose Wales to Braveheart to the Dukes of Hazzard, discuss!
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The state of the contemporary publishing industry, literature, books, and technology.
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Today 03:50 PM
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Forum for discussing the life and works of Derrida, Foucault, and the venerable Dr. Marlow. Deconstruction only. No plot, no character, no faith in God.
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Yesterday 04:37 PM
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From the world's greatest rock band ever, Guns & Roses, to Kid Rock, to the Stones, to Beethoven and 50 Cent, discuss!
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Today 03:52 PM
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Some of Dr. E's poetry, and a bit of photography now and then too. Post your own! Just make sure it rhymes and approximates iambic pentameter, or something.
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Today 02:38 PM
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The Classics of All Classics: SHAKESPEARE & THE BIBLE Forum
Lincoln, Churchill, Melville, Jefferson, and Thoreau all drew upon these.
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Shakespeare, William: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, King Richard
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The Bible
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Today 03:53 PM
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Great Books Forums Forum
Great Books Forums
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What're the fads and fashions, and what's fading? Why the Great Books are coming back.
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From Plato to Artistotle to Nietzsche, all philosophies and philosophers are fair game! Long live killdevilhill.com!
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Books, Books, and More Books
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Science & Religion
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Yesterday 04:42 PM
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Classical Art
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Today 03:56 PM
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Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, C.S. Lewis
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06-26-2009 01:37 AM
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Camping, Hiking, The Great Outdoors
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06-26-2009 02:41 AM
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Literary Generation X and Generation Y
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Today 01:42 PM
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Astronomy
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06-26-2009 03:04 AM
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Treasure Island Children's Literature
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Today 03:57 PM
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The Great Books & Classics
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Physics & Astronomy, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics
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Today 03:58 PM
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King James Bible, KJV, NKJV
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The Great Books, Great Books & Classics
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American History
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American Revolution, Revolutionary War
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World War II, WWII
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06-26-2009 02:14 AM
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Greek Mythology, The Iliad, The Odyssey
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06-26-2009 01:33 AM
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Religion, The Judeo Christian Heritage
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06-29-2009 03:47 PM
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Mountain Biking: Mountain Biking
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06-26-2009 01:12 AM
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Constitutional Law, The United States Constitution, The Federalist Papers
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06-25-2009 11:56 PM
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The Beat Poets, Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
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06-26-2009 02:00 AM
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Alternative Music
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06-29-2009 11:45 AM
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Dog Lovers
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06-26-2009 12:55 AM
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Used, Antique, and Rare Books
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06-26-2009 01:38 AM
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The World's Religions: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam
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Postmodernism Campfire
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06-26-2009 02:54 AM
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Advanced Philosophy
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06-26-2009 02:24 AM
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Art History & Art Gallery
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06-26-2009 03:03 AM
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Used Books: Buy, sell, & trade used and rare books.
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06-30-2009 04:37 PM
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Christianity
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06-26-2009 12:38 AM
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Civil War: Gettysburg, Lincoln, Grant, Lee
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06-26-2009 02:25 AM
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Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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06-26-2009 02:20 AM
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Windsurfing: Ahoy to the TBC!
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06-26-2009 01:43 AM
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World War II, WWII
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06-26-2009 02:43 AM
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GREAT INDIVIDUALS, AUTHORS, SCIENTISTS, POETS, ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS & THOUGHTS Forum
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St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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06-26-2009 12:40 AM
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Aristotle, Ethics, Poetics
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Yesterday 02:39 AM
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St Augustine: The Confessions of St. Augustine, The City of God
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06-26-2009 01:13 AM
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Austen, Jane: Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Emma
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06-26-2009 02:21 AM
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Blake, William: Tiger, Tiger, Buring Bright
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06-26-2009 02:40 AM
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Ray Bradbury, Farenheiht 451, The Martian Chronicles
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06-26-2009 02:21 AM
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rhime of The Ancient Mariner
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06-26-2009 03:01 AM
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, The Heart of Darkness
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06-26-2009 02:48 AM
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Dante's Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Paradisio
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Dickens, Charles: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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06-25-2009 11:07 PM
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Charles Darwin: The Theory of Evolution, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karazmov, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Albert Einstein, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity
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Eliot, T.S.: The Wasteland, Essays, Christian Literary Criticism
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William Faulkner: The Sound and th Fury, Absolom
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06-26-2009 02:51 AM
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise
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06-26-2009 12:53 AM
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Frost, Robert: Two Roads, Mending Wall
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06-23-2009 02:25 AM
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Goethe & Faust
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06-26-2009 03:07 AM
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Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
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06-26-2009 02:29 AM
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, House of The Seven Gables
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Joseph Heller, Catch 22, Something Happened
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Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
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Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
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Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
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James Joyce, Dubliners, Ulysses, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
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King, Martin Luther: Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream
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Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
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Limbaugh, Rush: Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be
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C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia
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Jack London, The Call of The Wild, White Fang
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John Locke, Natural Rights, Enlightenment
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Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice
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Melville, Herman: Herman Melville & Moby Dick
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Machiavelli, The Prince
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St. Thomas More
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Nietzsche, Frederich: Frederich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, The Anti-Christ
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George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984
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Poetry Lovers Favorite Poetry, Poems, & Poets
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Plato: The Republic, The Apology, The Dialogues, The Laws
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Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, The Pit & The Pendulum
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Environmental Physics, Solar Power, Wind Power
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Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Objectivism, The Romantic's Manifesto, Capitalism, Anthem
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Forum devoted to discussing J.K. Rowling & Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order o
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J.D. Salinger Catcher in The Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings
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Mark Twain & Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
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Whitman, Walt: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
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Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
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Wordsworth, William
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