Recommended reading section?

[Jesin]

Should we have a "recommended reading" section/thread? I ask because, in case you haven't noticed, I have a lot of links to interesting/insightful pages (Look! There goes another one now!), and also some book recommendations. Sometimes they fit with the topic of the thread, or with a question someone has asked or something, but sometimes I really want to post a link on this forum but can't find a relevant topic. Rather than resort to threadjacking, I'd like a section or thread in which I can dump all this stuff. What to do?

 

[Dissident]

Somewhere in the literature section maybe?
Anyway, thanks for that link. Im such a big procrastinator, that tecnique (if it can be called that) could help to get something done

 

[Jesin]

I have now started a thread on that topic, so as soon as it gets past the moderators we can stop bothering this thread.

However, I think I may just post links where there's a relevant topic, and create a relevant topic if there isn't one. I partially withdraw my initial suggestion, while leaving it up for consideration.

 

[loveofreason]

Yes, I think it best to start a thread in the relevant forum if you have an interesting link to share - give each topic it's own 'space'.

(Not to say we might not end up with a special section just for links at some time in the future if things evolve that way. Do you have a link for constructive open-ended-ness? )

 

[Wisp]

yep.

 

[Jesin]

Do you have a link for constructive open-ended-ness?

Not until I know what you mean by that.

 

[Dissident]

It was a joke, She/He (sorry, in dont know) left the matter of making a thread only for links as a posibility in the future, therefore the openended-ness.

->loveofreason: About your signature, we use that proverb here in Argentina, it comes from a poem (Caminante) by Antonio Machado:

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar,
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en el mar.

--

Wanderer*, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing more;
wanderer, there is no road,
the road is made by walking.
By walking one makes the road,
and upon glancing behind
one sees the path
that never will be trod again.
Wanderer, there is no road,
Only wakes upon the sea.

*I guess traveller, walker, wayfarer, any of those is OK.

 

[Jesin]

Yes, I recognized it as a joke, I just wasn't sure whether she/he (don't know either) was serious or not.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

 

[loveofreason]

yep.

Smarty



Yep, it was a half-joke Jesin. I was making fun of my own lack of commitment to a closed decision, while also leaving the door open for a truly constructive response from you. Either way... *shrug* puts on coat, then sandals, to leave for a secret meeting of Indecisives Anonymous.*


Thanks Dissident! I hadn't seen the quote in it's context before. It's beautiful. Just about brings a tear to the eye.

I've spent time in Peru, and heard Argentina described as the Europe of South America. If I had another life I would chose to live in South America. It brings my imagination alive like no other place on Earth.



* truly, preferring an open decision over a closed one does not equate to no decision at all.

 

[Dissident]

My pleasure

Although im not so sure South America is so great, it may be the "grass is always greener on the other side" complex.

 

[Jesin]

Australia!

Just throwing that out there.

What do I mean by Australia? I dunno, you figure it out.

No, I have never been to Australia.