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Ach but if ye have enough techken, ye can thwart them! I make sure everything on my Kindle has a copy on my pc. Requires space on the laptop but a book file is generally tiny. Even huge multi-series books wont be more than a couple MB max. So even if they kill it on the Kindle you've got it...

How can they disappear? Once we have the file, we have the file. I don't like the way so much content is sold by corps nowadays without much actual cost on their side. It is effortless to copy a book as a file. Very different from using a printing press. So the only effort is on the writer's...

hah! I have the fulll Dune series and all its literary spinoffs. While the story was supposedly scifi, it really reads like a fantasy world with its giant worms and people riding them instead of blasting them with lasers. One of my favorites though I feel Herbert became more religious as he...

Well, it's been a while since I bought paper. I used to have a strong collection of paperbacks and hardcovers of satire, fantasy and scifi but that changed when I moved to India. Now it's ebooks all the way. The blurb on back is what really attracts me. If it makes me uncertain, I'll go with...

Right is always such a subjective word. Relative word too. What one sees as right, another might see as wrong. Belief is stronger than truth. We may learn facts with truth but belief can overcome truth because any truth needs to be believed first. So that belief can exist opposite to truth even...

We are free to try to be anything we think we can be. Conflict comes when we think others have to as well. We all share relative perspectives and meanings of a shared reality. The perceptions I have are different from another's and that is true for all of us. When I start thinking that the other...

That is noble certainly but i love of the self is the highest and most important love, imo. If we cannot love the self, we cannot believe in loving others also. Religious and ascetic paths often proclaim devotion to others but practice mostly on getting themselves closer to their God via...

So then, how about instead of setting plans to act now to achieve a future ideal, we do what we want in the now genuinely? Not because we think we should but really don't want and do what we want now without letting fear of future repercussions of loss/gain decide out action. Just realize in the...

That is wonderful that you achieved that. Truly beautiful. Congratulations to both of you. Light shining in the darkness is the brightest and most eyecatching.

I never had the multitude of beings so many with the real issue have. Just 2. Original labels were Devil and God and the Godself was silent 99% of the time, but when it spoke, it changed my life and psyche. It was the one that suggested meditation while the Devil talked. Now I just use darkself...

Despite being a book lover, I did NOT know this so thanks! Hell, I'm late to knowhow but every day is book lovin' for me! Are you reading anything you like? I'm thoroughly enjoying Oathbringer by Sanderson and What The Hell Did I Just Read by Wong these days....

Thanks for sharing @powessy . The cause in my case was a shift in my stress related epileptic behavior. Instead of physical seizures, it escalated to manic psychosis episodes. Screwed up a ton of stuff leading to inability to finish my Bsc in Computer Science, leaving Canada permanently and...

Spot on @iBrian . It's still done apparently but only as a last ditch, last resort option now. When all else has failed. I suppose when the epilepsy is really bad and you don't mind some functional loss(brain is adaptive) so that you are not spazzing out or going into near fatal status...

Oh, sorry. My post may be confusing. Even though I had epilepsy since age 5, the meds control it so I didn't need to chop my brain in half(corpus callosectomy). My learning of chopped brains is purely due to my interest in psychology and neuroscience books. No, my personal experience is of...