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Coralfish
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I'm currently in the midst of reading Michael Schooyan's The Hidden Face of the United Nations and figured I might proffer a recommendation. If you are an individual who's interested in such things and don't mind the inconsistancies present in a text translated out of French, it is an interesting read.
For a bit lighter fare, I just finished Mission Compromised by Oliver North, preceeded by The Jericho Sanction last Christmas. However, as a word of advice, it may be wiser to read them in opposite order, rather than following my financially-driven order of novel purchasing.  |
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Jonathan
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| Coralfish wrote: | | I'm currently in the midst of reading Michael Schooyan's The Hidden Face of the United Nations and figured I might proffer a recommendation. If you are an individual who's interested in such things and don't mind the inconsistancies present in a text translated out of French, it is an interesting read. |
That sounds anti-UN, is it?
| Coralfish wrote: | | For a bit lighter fare, I just finished Mission Compromised by Oliver North, preceeded by The Jericho Sanction last Christmas. However, as a word of advice, it may be wiser to read them in opposite order, rather than following my financially-driven order of novel purchasing. |
I read Mission Compromised a year or two ago, it's a good book. The Jericho Sanction is sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.
-Jonathan |
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The Phantom
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I used to listen to that show, but the only Christian station that played it cancelled it b/c of some bogus reasons while they were switching to a more 'modern' format. I enjoyed it muchly.
-Jonathan |
Just wondering do you recall the first episode you heard? Mine was titled Pecking order. |
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Movie Fan Man
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I LOVE Cooper Kids and Veritas Project! IMO The Veritas Project is better than CK (no I don't mean Cross Kritters. ). I HIGHLY recommend The Veritas Project move; Frank Peretti's Hangman's Curse! I just recently bough This Present Darkness.
I just recently got Apt Pupil (about the time I got TPD) too. Haven't had time to watch it yet, though. I did read, and enjoy the novella. |
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Jonathan
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| The Phantom wrote: | | Jonathan wrote: |
I used to listen to that show, but the only Christian station that played it cancelled it b/c of some bogus reasons while they were switching to a more 'modern' format. I enjoyed it muchly.
-Jonathan |
Just wondering do you recall the first episode you heard? Mine was titled Pecking order. |
Nope, that was a long time ago, at least 6 years, probably more than that.
-Jonathan |
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The Phantom
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| Well then we probaley listened to it about the same time. because I know I started to listen to it before I started going to church which would have been my freshman year and that was a good six or so years back. |
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Coralfish
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| Jonathan wrote: | | Coralfish wrote: | | I'm currently in the midst of reading Michael Schooyans's The Hidden Face of the United Nations and figured I might proffer a recommendation. If you are an individual who's interested in such things and don't mind the inconsistancies present in a text translated out of French, it is an interesting read. |
That sounds anti-UN, is it? |
The best way to describe the book is to say that it takes a skeptical look at the current structures and ideologies that drive the United Nations in it's current form.
Schooyans has a distinctly sarcastic, toungue-in-cheek way of writing about what some consider to be an omnipotent international system, but can he really be blamed? |
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Jonathan
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Coralfish wrote: | The best way to describe the book is to say that it takes a skeptical look at the current structures and ideologies that drive the United Nations in it's current form.
Schooyans has a distinctly sarcastic, toungue-in-cheek way of writing about what some consider to be an omnipotent international system, but can he really be blamed? |
I think not. I'm skeptical of the ideologies of the UN as well.
-Jonathan |
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howdypardner
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Authors:
Jules Verne (sci-fi), C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, L. M. Montgomery...
Movies:
The Talk of the Town, I Was a Male War Bride, Finding Neverland, LOTR (if you want a good laugh, watch the animated ones!), Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon
Or you could take up a hobby! Knitting and crochet are fun and easy to learn with books from the library. |
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Laura Ingalls
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| Quote: | | Knitting and crochet are fun and easy to learn with books from the library. |
Yes! Someone who likes to knit! I'm just learning to crochet too - I'm actually making an afghan from a book I got at the library.  |
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