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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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01-02-2009 09:14 PM
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Discuss a new Great Book each month!
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01-04-2009 05:19 PM
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Dr. Elliot McGucken sounds off with regular updates.
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12-23-2008 10:12 AM
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Applying common sense and classical wisdom to current events: news, politics, and more.
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Yesterday 09:30 PM
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Talk about contemporary books and literature.
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12-23-2008 10:14 AM
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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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12-23-2008 10:15 AM
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12-23-2008 10:16 AM
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From Citizen Kane to the Oulaw Jose Wales to Braveheart to the Dukes of Hazzard, discuss!
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01-04-2009 05:23 PM
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The state of the contemporary publishing industry, literature, books, and technology.
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12-23-2008 10:19 AM
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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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01-04-2009 05:10 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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12-16-2008 06:00 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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12-11-2008 03:08 AM
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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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12-10-2008 10:54 PM
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The Bible
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12-20-2008 08:58 AM
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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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12-11-2008 03:10 AM
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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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01-02-2009 04:45 AM
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Books, Books, and More Books
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12-11-2008 03:11 AM
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Science & Religion
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12-31-2008 03:59 PM
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Classical Art
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01-04-2009 05:37 PM
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Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, C.S. Lewis
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11-15-2008 09:02 AM
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Camping, Hiking, The Great Outdoors
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12-15-2008 07:56 AM
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Literary Generation X and Generation Y
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12-23-2008 10:08 AM
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Astronomy
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11-25-2008 05:45 AM
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Treasure Island Children's Literature
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12-11-2008 03:12 AM
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The Great Books & Classics
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12-10-2008 10:58 PM
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Physics & Astronomy, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics
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01-04-2009 05:12 PM
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King James Bible, KJV, NKJV
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12-10-2008 10:59 PM
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The Great Books, Great Books & Classics
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12-11-2008 03:14 AM
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American History
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12-10-2008 11:00 PM
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American Revolution, Revolutionary War
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09-01-2008 07:19 PM
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World War II, WWII
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01-04-2009 03:19 PM
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Greek Mythology, The Iliad, The Odyssey
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Yesterday 05:04 AM
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Religion, The Judeo Christian Heritage
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11-23-2008 03:30 AM
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Mountain Biking: Mountain Biking
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05-06-2008 03:56 AM
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Constitutional Law, The United States Constitution, The Federalist Papers
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12-27-2008 08:33 AM
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The Beat Poets, Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
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01-04-2009 05:37 PM
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Alternative Music
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11-18-2008 02:08 PM
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Dog Lovers
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12-27-2008 02:42 PM
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Used, Antique, and Rare Books
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12-28-2008 10:41 PM
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The World's Religions: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam
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01-03-2009 10:39 PM
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Postmodernism Campfire
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12-24-2008 08:55 AM
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Advanced Philosophy
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10-29-2008 04:44 PM
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Art History & Art Gallery
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10-08-2008 04:03 AM
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Used Books: Buy, sell, & trade used and rare books.
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12-22-2008 01:07 AM
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Christianity
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12-19-2008 08:40 AM
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Civil War: Gettysburg, Lincoln, Grant, Lee
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06-12-2008 02:25 AM
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Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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10-14-2006 04:39 PM
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Windsurfing: Ahoy to the TBC!
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11-08-2008 04:29 PM
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World War II, WWII
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Yesterday 05:10 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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07-03-2007 06:55 AM
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Aristotle, Ethics, Poetics
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11-16-2008 04:36 AM
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St Augustine: The Confessions of St. Augustine, The City of God
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10-05-2008 12:33 PM
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Austen, Jane: Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Emma
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11-15-2008 03:55 AM
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Blake, William: Tiger, Tiger, Buring Bright
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10-09-2008 01:32 PM
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Ray Bradbury, Farenheiht 451, The Martian Chronicles
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07-25-2006 10:26 AM
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rhime of The Ancient Mariner
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10-06-2008 05:15 PM
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, The Heart of Darkness
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10-05-2008 06:16 AM
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Dante's Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Paradisio
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01-26-2007 11:09 AM
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Dickens, Charles: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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10-06-2008 10:17 AM
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Charles Darwin: The Theory of Evolution, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man
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12-29-2008 05:44 PM
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karazmov, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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10-12-2008 06:51 AM
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Albert Einstein, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity
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12-29-2008 06:19 PM
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Eliot, T.S.: The Wasteland, Essays, Christian Literary Criticism
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11-17-2008 02:19 AM
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William Faulkner: The Sound and th Fury, Absolom
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12-29-2008 05:32 PM
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise
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06-24-2008 09:28 PM
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Frost, Robert: Two Roads, Mending Wall
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11-22-2008 12:58 AM
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Goethe & Faust
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04-21-2008 05:25 PM
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Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
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06-24-2008 09:22 AM
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, House of The Seven Gables
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10-19-2008 02:48 PM
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Joseph Heller, Catch 22, Something Happened
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11-16-2008 11:56 AM
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Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
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11-15-2008 06:23 AM
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Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
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12-03-2008 05:51 PM
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Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
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11-15-2008 11:20 PM
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James Joyce, Dubliners, Ulysses, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
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11-22-2008 06:01 PM
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King, Martin Luther: Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream
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05-07-2006 10:24 AM
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Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
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02-25-2008 11:47 AM
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Limbaugh, Rush: Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought t | | |
