The greatest book ever written...

Everyone should read it and live it!

Ok...you have got me interested...

Why do you believe that this is the greatest book ever written? Is it because you feel it expounds a vision of society that resonates with your own world view? Perhaps you feel it is a masterpiece for its use of language, imagery and other literary devices? Maybe you feel it made a positive impact on mankind and has influenced the world with a set of fresh, radical and progressive ideas?

OR...heaven forbid....is this some immature attention seeking device saying 'Look at me, I am willing to say things that others do not' ??? Because if that is the case...there are reasons why others do not : ) Any one of us can identify a host of sensitive issues and open them to a public forum with no regard for other people's feelings. The reason why we don't do it is quite simple. It doesn't make us appear clever, it doesn't suggest that we are in any way promoting any kind of intelligent debate and most of all we don't think it's funny.

BUT...if you truly believe that this is a book that everyone should read and live by, then I am willing to discuss it. For the record, yes I have read it.

I am sitting here looking at Simon like I do with my students when they feel the urge to provoke me with a stupid, non-conformist, revolting statement (not original though). I know he doesn't believe what he said; I even doubt he deserves an answer, because his intention is not to have a debate (what debate can create a book that is written by a self-educated man, a book full of absurd incoherent ideas, a book that wasn't even written by the author but dictated - and see? I don't mention the content of the book nor the intentions, because if I do that I would ask the administrator of this site to take off the picture that illustrates Simon's choice of book as being insulting for my almost 40 years of reading and respect of culture and writers).
So, what to do? To tell him he is wrong? He knows that. To tell him its insulting? He wants to insult. Therefor, I try to understand WHY an intelligent man, bright in so many aspects, decided to do such a common, teenagers like, act of "rebellion". Bored? Maybe. But more than that its his fear that he isn't interesting enough if he shows less provocation; this post is about a young man yelling in his way: "I hate to be a well-raised person, I feel like I live in a prison, I need to show you all that I have the courage of saying whatever is considered "wrong" because its the only way I can go on of being in my real life the person the society wants me to be." But this young man I try to understand can be so immature that he forgot he can step with dirty shoes on the friendship on line people (also real people) showed him.

well ,,even if it was a big joke ,,,,,or if it was a total brainless comment ...then all i can say to it : i has take this forum seriuos and thought we will use it as adverstisment to get more player to WGC hearts and as a instrument to know more of each the other and at last for fun..
As german i cant laugh not a little bit about it !! To glorifies Hitler, his work or his books in any ways force me to use or to read in this forum never again .

Sylvia

Ok simon ……
I has sleep over that a night and will say you that :

My first impulse has let me think = syl …………….stay far , far away of such morons,,,,if you not more go there you cant read things like this there!
But that is the wrong way! And many of the people who post here things are friends of me !

We has to show the world that people like you, who glorifies Hitler are means nothing! That you are brainless, irresponsibly and selfish has act.
To close the eyes and to think what I not see cant bother me is zackly that what the people has do as Hitler could get the power over all.
If you with your young age of 25 need such a comment to get a attention of us all…….then I must say Simon we can only be pitty with you …. Also doesn’t count that some maybe thing …he is young he doesn’t means what he say ,,,or that you hasn’t thought of the consequent.

NO NO NO

There is no excuses for you to post that and if you are men enough ,,then should you written a official sorry to Nathan as owner of this site, to me as german , to all who like to use this forum and to all jews in this world who you has kick in the ass with your post.

Sylvia

merry christmas