CogDiss Book Club Chapter 1
Added 2021-07-14 15:45:39 +0000 UTCDiscuss
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See my hyperbolic rhetorical question and raise with an argumentum ad absurdum. Well done.
Brian [I'll add something witty when the amount of caffine in my system reaches critical mass]
2021-12-18 09:43:24 +0000 UTCIt's a strange belief that there are too many books in the house. This is solved by more bookshelves. When they overflow and there isn't enough room to walk around, this is solved by a bigger house. The ultimate solution is to just buy a library.
Asymetra
2021-12-16 10:42:24 +0000 UTCI don't understand... what is "too many books"?
Brian [I'll add something witty when the amount of caffine in my system reaches critical mass]
2021-12-16 10:24:00 +0000 UTCi could listen to this over and over, and i do
F boy President is my Rage against the Machine Cover Band
2021-11-10 19:58:12 +0000 UTCWhen I decided I had too many books, I started to check out books from the library on my Amazon wish list. This was the second book. Being a long time fan of Carl Sagan since his show Cosmos, I read the book and immediately had to buy it. I will be reading as I listen to this.
Asymetra
2021-08-01 14:25:22 +0000 UTCThird - after hearing the first chapter I moved this to the top of my “to buy” list. I still want more of Tom reading it though!
KaraMarie
2021-07-23 23:12:35 +0000 UTCI signed up for patreon just to hear your dulcet voice read DHW. I went to college to study biology because of Carl. I miss him dearly in strange ways - when people quote me terrible facts I try to think "How would Carl respond to this?" The response is always that he would respond in a measured way, getting angry isn't helpful, as much as I enjoy listening to other atheists being angry because internally my hands are waving around in rage every time someone gets stuff wrong in order to make truth political for their gain.
notaterriblekaren
2021-07-19 15:17:08 +0000 UTCI am SO happy that you guys are doing Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World". It's a book I've had on my shelf for a while, and you provided the perfect ass-kick I needed to start reading. I'm enjoying it greatly, and I also enjoy the bonus of Tom reading chapters! (That's a lot of work.) I know it will be a while before you reach the end, but I have a book suggestion for a future read -- David Abram's "The Spell of the Sensuous". It's *almost* wooey -- in fact, I think it rides the line between factual and wooical -- but it also brings up very interesting ideas about how the introduction of phonetic-based written language has changed everything about how we think. I mean, our actual thinking mechanics, as opposed to oral cultures. Parts of it are very beautifully written. It also leans into how our written language based thinking affects how we view the environment and related climate crises. I found it fairly challenging and would really appreciate a dig into it from an atheist point of view (maybe you could arm-twist Noah into reading it, too?). It has links to other books I have read or am reading (The Goddess and the Alphabet, Sand Talk) that venture into similar territory.
The Beautiful Thumb
2021-07-18 20:12:19 +0000 UTCSeconded! I, too, bought this book! For the same reasons, and I’m loving Tom’s reading and so will continue listening and reading along each week!
Cheryl
2021-07-18 11:51:18 +0000 UTCConstructive criticism is always welcome! Also, I 100% agree with you.
Lord Shaxx's inside voice
2021-07-17 18:23:39 +0000 UTCSmall complaint, can episode/show titles be spelled out as much as possible? Saw this show up in the podcast feed and dismissed it as an ad post or something like that. DHW CPT tells me nothing about the content. Just my two cents. Thanks for the extra content to look forward to and I’ll agree with everyone else that we need more Tom narrations
Good thing I don't have any other shoutout shows Kevin....Hey Benedict, you got weasles on your fa...oh wait you read it at the
2021-07-16 11:51:10 +0000 UTCSo here is the thing. You made me buy the book. I enjoyed your reading of chapter 1 and wanted to get to chapter two. But I will still listen to Tom's readings because he has a certain dramatic style that I enjoy. But wanted to say just in case someone gives you difficulty about creating a public performance of the material. That the performance inspired at least one purchase that would not have happened otherwise.
John of the bankruptcy pirates
2021-07-16 09:54:07 +0000 UTCI honestly thought it was about today's world. After 5 seconds on google I figured out its almost 20 years old and, yeah remarkable true still
Tj Bullis
2021-07-16 01:15:33 +0000 UTCYou should do this more often!
Shannon Klakowicz
2021-07-16 00:47:29 +0000 UTCNicely read, Tom. Really diggin' this. Thanks.
Donald E. Vincent Jr.
2021-07-15 18:42:08 +0000 UTCI’ve never read this book. Excited Tom is narrating. He has a good voice for it! Totally following along.
Mary
2021-07-15 16:28:05 +0000 UTCI wouldn't mind Tom and Cecil starting a side hustle as audiobook narrators. I love Tom's voice, and I could listen to Cecil's accent all day 😂
Xenia Isadora Flowers
2021-07-15 12:35:09 +0000 UTCRead well, Tom. That chapter (and this book) could’ve been published yesterday, though that would make it no less relevant than it was, back when it first entered the public conciseness.
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2021-07-15 04:51:39 +0000 UTCThank you!
Kathryn Koldehoff
2021-07-15 04:28:57 +0000 UTCThis is wonderful. If the bottom falls out of the housing market, again, then you have a job making audiobooks. You must do Flim Flam by Randi next
I'm not a tall man, but I am a disaster
2021-07-14 22:19:39 +0000 UTCDamn, didn't know I needed this. How sad that in the time between him writing this and now how little has really changed. Hell I'd argue in many ways it's become worse.
Cory Schoelzel
2021-07-14 20:35:51 +0000 UTCDisc world!
Diego Guzmán
2021-07-14 19:23:43 +0000 UTCI can’t think of a couple that Cecil would be great for as well.
Beatduck
2021-07-14 18:57:38 +0000 UTCGoddammit now I want all my audio books in Tom’s voice.
Beatduck
2021-07-14 18:56:17 +0000 UTCI read this book so long ago, that this audio version is helping me remember its content while I play or do mechanical things. Thanks! (Everytime Tom made a mistake, I almost start believing in reiki, magic crystals, and giraffes.)
Diego Guzmán
2021-07-14 18:52:16 +0000 UTCWell done good sir! Thank you!
Eric Williams
2021-07-14 17:48:59 +0000 UTCThank you soo much do adding this, it's resources like you guys that help keep us all afloat and sane.
Muzzy and Footsy
2021-07-14 16:57:54 +0000 UTCa serious and heartfelt thanks. this book showed me a way out from my fundamentalist upbringing and probably saved my life. hearing you read it brings tears to my eyes as i think about me as that frightened person, timidly stepping out into a world that seemed incomprehensible and chaotic, desperately looking for something solid to hold onto, and instead finding skepticism, where i could finally learn to let go.
jon f mcdropout
2021-07-14 16:03:44 +0000 UTC
