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Sunday, March 13, 2005 

The Nerd

This summer I plan on doing an extensive reading 'program', if you want to call it that. After taking all of these philosophy classes, it has forced me to realize the little that I know, and I now have just a thirst for knowledge. So I've been telling everyone around me my plans for this summer. Not only do I want to read a wide range of topics, but I bought a bunch of folders for filing, and my plans are to write about the books I read (presented problems, questions that arise for me, etc..) and put them into files for later use.

These are the book topic ideas so far:
-Epistemology
-Learning how to Learn
-Psychology
-Christian theology (Johnathan Edwards, John Piper, C.S. Lewis..)
-Newspapers (current events)
-Pop-culture / Fashion (T.V, internet, movies, cellphones..)
-About: Literature, science, math, art
-Poets: Shakespeare, Thoreau, Milton
-Free-will - Sartre, Neitschze, Kierkagaard
-History

But I think central to this all is The Bible, for this I believe is the lens through which other books should be examined.

This is my plan. Other than working, and trying to stay healthy, I really want to dive into a lot of books. I'm inspired by my dads retelling of Bob Dylans autobiography where when he was about my age, he stayed at a guys house who had a large library. And he would just read anything and everything. And when the time came as a songwriter, he has so many sources to draw from that it just flowed out of him. Not to say I am going to write songs, I just want to fill my head with literature rather than T.V. I want to know what is out there (the world), so that I can make the most of my experience here. I want to know what kind of problems the world is facing. I don't want to revert to ignorance.

If anyone has any ideas about book ideas, ways to help me structure some kind of reading plans, comments about why you think this is a dumb/good idea - let me know...

you should read

Psychology:

The Design of Everyday things
The Evolution of Desire

Biology:

Climbing Mt. Improbable

Great, I really will look into them. Thanks.. any descriptions or why you recommend those books?

man do i ever need to get a shirt that says, "I'm a nerd!" b/c i see all these girls wearing the shirts that say "i love nerds"... then i can say, "HEY, I'M A NERD!@!@!@!@" and the rest.. well the rest will be history

Dude that is a great idea.

I expected to have some new stuff to read here when I got back...but nope. That's alright though. But you're a busy person, a complex and busy person.

Bring on the good stuff.

- Jordan

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