Title: Quotes from “Concrete” of Thomas Bernhard Author: Thomas Bernhard Date: 2017-05-14 12:59:13 Dp: 13817 Status: published Image: /img/header-17.jpg These are my highlights from the book. I read this in March-April 2016. In general I like the book and feel connection with the protagonist. I updated my index page with one of these as of May 2017. – E. We must be alone and free from all human contact if we wish to embark upon an intellectual task!

Dine Karşı Din – Ali Şeriati (Alıntılar) :date: 2015-11-17 20:53:06 +0200 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Sun Nov 15 23:12:25 EET 2015 .. :dp: 13272 Kitap İngilizce’de True Scotsman Fallacy diye geçen bir safsataya çok güzel örnek olmuş. Önce kafasından bir İslam tanımlayıp, sonra İslam’ın kafasındaki İslama uymayan taraflarını zaten o İslam değil, bilakis onun muhalifi diye dışarıda bırakınca, Dine Karşı Din elde etmiş oluyorsun. Öz Hakiki İslam benim dediğimdir, bunun dışındakiler sonradan eklenmiş küfür dininin sokuşturmalarıdır.

Find Your Focus Zone - Lucy Jo Palladino (Quotations) :date: 2015-02-05 11:43:38 +0200 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Wed Jan 21 21:41:04 EET 2015 .. :dp: 12974 This book has some advice for increasing focus. I didn’t apply all of them and I doubt if they can really make such a difference in the long term but certainly they should be in one’s arsenal of mental/psychological tools. At least to recommend them to others.

First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad – Lesley Hazleton (Quotations) :date: 2015-07-08 04:34:03 +0300 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Sat May 16 14:39:35 EEST 2015 .. :dp: 13088 [H]e must have had a stiff neck, because people would remember that when he turned to look at you, he turned his whole body instead of just his head. (p. 5) One thing is certain: by Muhammad’s own account, he was completely unprepared for the enormity of what he would experience on this particular night in the year 610.

Cennet Gerçekmiş :date: 2015-01-19 22:49:38 +0200 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Thu Jan 15 11:42:33 EET 2015 .. :dp: 12967 Birkaç gündür bir kitap okuyorum. Heaven is for real isminde, üçbuçuk yaşında bir çocuğun ameliyat esnasında cennete gidip gelmesini mevzu edinen bir kitap. Hristiyan cenneti tabii. İsa beni kucağına aldı ve şunları dedi diye anlatıyor çocuk, İsa babasının yanında oturuyordu, diğer yanında da Cebrail vardı diyen. (Bu kitabın filmi de varmış.

Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products (Nir Eyal) :date: 2016-02-22 00:51:12 +0200 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Fri Feb 27 21:36:46 EET 2015 .. :dp: 13011 Theoretically (means that I didn’t apply but) this book tells how to build products that make people hooked into using it. Like social media software which makes people to addict in some ways. There are a few good ideas, though, as I said, I don’t know if I can ever find ways to apply them.

============================= Notes on Irrationality Course :date: 2014-11-23 02:18:14 +0200 Topics in the course irrationality psychology of money dishonesty labor and motivation self control emotion we are going to try to understand what causes irrational behavior we don’t really know what to do we really don’t know what we want the extent we don’t know ourselves

Jesus and Muhammad – F. E. Peters (Quotes) :date: 2015-09-15 18:01:19 +0300 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Sat May 16 14:38:37 EEST 2015 .. :dp: 13088 [T]he historian approaches the Quran document without Muslim consent, which is not crucial, but also without valuable Muslim assistance. (p. xvi) Other saints earn their authority by their personal holiness, that famous “odor of sanctity” that exudes from their persons. Jesus and Muhammad doubtless possessed that, but their authority derived from elsewhere, as they claimed and as their followers believed: they were the chosen of God.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell :date: 2015-02-04 11:43:59 +0200 .. :author: Emin Reşah .. :date: Wed Jan 21 21:41:46 EET 2015 .. :dp: 12974 When reading 19th and 20th century classics, it feels like similar kind of books won’t be written again. Clarke’s Strange & Norrell was a prejudice-shatterer for this feeling. It made me to respect the literature of current century. Instead of repeating all kind of techniques that learned put in their books for a possible film-rights-sale, this book reminded that there are joys in books that we cannot fully grasp with visuals.

================================================================ Kur’an İncil ve Tevrat’ın Sümer’deki Kökeni (Muazzez İlmiye Çığ) :date: 2014-11-23 02:18:14 +0200 .. :Author: Emin Reşah .. :Date: 12852 Böyle kitapları severim. İnsanın ufkunu açacakmış gibi yapmaları hoşuma gider. Kendilerini dev aynasında görmelerindeki komedi harikadır. Bu falanca hikaye Sümerlerde de geçiyor, o halde bunların hepsi yalan kafasını anlamaya çalışmaksa daha rafine bir eğlence sunuyor. Şimdi, tarih felsefemiz, her millete peygamber gönderildiğini ancak çoğuna ittiba edilmediğini, kendilerine ittiba edilenlerin söylediklerinin tahrife uğradığını ve hepimizin Adem’in çocukları olduğunu söylüyor.

========================================= Notes on Lustig’s Second Lecture on Sugar :date: 2014-11-23 02:18:14 +0200 .. :Author: Emin Reşah .. :Date: 12751 This is the second lecture <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DceFyF9px20Y>__ on sugar given by Robert Lustig. I watched the first one <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DdBnniua6-oM>__ a few years ago. Stomach is 900cc. Exercise doesn’t cause weight loss. It increases bone, muscle and inner fat. Childhood obesity on the rise on all high GDP. Poor are affected too, because they don’t have healthy choices.

Title: Quotes from the “March Violets” Author: Philip Kerr Date: 2017-05-11 21:23:52 Dp: 13815 Status: published Image: /img/header-15.jpg Although it’s a work of fiction, telling a private detective during pre-war Nazi era, some of the sentences deserved attention. You always eliminate the obvious. That’s fundamental to detection. (p. 133) ‘It’s just typical of the bloody Nazis,’ said Inge, ‘to build the People’s roads before the People’s car.’ (p. 160)