Neil Wilkes

  • Neil Wilkes posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago


    I would tend to agree with this observation.
    It seems to me one of the principal aims of these lockdowns is to restrict & fundamentally eliminate free movement even in our own countries, as well as to shut down the dissemination of ideas contrary to the current orthodoxies. What better way to stop new ideas than to prevent people…
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  • Neil Wilkes posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago


    I’m with Wu Wu on this one – I also annotate some books with a light soft pencil, but for more detailed notes I tend to use a post-it tab (not the big square jobbies, but the thin strips) to mark the page and cross-referenced with my notebooks – each subject I have a serious interest in has it’s own notebook.
    Other people’s reading later on…
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  • Neil Wilkes posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago


    Interesting site – was not aware of this.
    It’s US based again though, which is usually a problem as far as monstrous postage costs go. I recently bought a Ben Davidson book, thin softcover for $30. Postage cost me double that by the time all the various import taxes etc had been added. UPS really suck.
    I have been getting into the habit of…
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  • Neil Wilkes posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago


    EDIT (I tried to edit the post but there was too much HTML code for my poor luddite mind)
    Are all the books only available through the Evil Empire of Jeff Brazos? Amazon US costs me twice the book price in postage once my pocket gets picked by UPS and then HMRC and finaly the UK Post Office, plus I am simply not happy about spending on any…
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  • Neil Wilkes posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago


    I like reading – give me a good book (preferably hardcover) over digital guff any day of the week – none of which will work once the Electricity is all gone anyway!

    • Just literally stumbled across this site via a strange & rather circuitous route this morning.
      I look forward to many happy (or maybe not so ‘happy’ per se) hours in this little community & hopeful that I can in my own small way make a contribution.
      But first I need to find my feet here.

      • Have a look at some of the recent and older News and Views on YT.

        • Also, try reading a book! https://legacy.gizadeathstar.com/purchase/
          Shameless plug for reading 😐

            • I like reading – give me a good book (preferably hardcover) over digital guff any day of the week – none of which will work once the Electricity is all gone anyway!

              • Nothing wrong with plugging books Peter, hear hear hear, plug on…in fact I’ll go further, I think it wise for more people to start dusting them off (or purchase some while you can) and using them and put the ā€œdevicesā€ down…completely different understanding and experience with information, i.e., a person may actually become knowledge…

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                • Plus you can underscore, overscore and scribble in the margins…

                    • AAAAUUUGGGGHHHH. I put sticky notes in my books as tabs but I consider my books to be too important for me to be defacing them. I hate buying used books, often the only available, with someone’s version of ā€œideasā€ written in them.

                        • I’m with Wu Wu on this one – I also annotate some books with a light soft pencil, but for more detailed notes I tend to use a post-it tab (not the big square jobbies, but the thin strips) to mark the page and cross-referenced with my notebooks – each subject I have a serious interest in has it’s own notebook.
                          Other people’s reading later on…

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                • Seems like the increasing shipping-costs for books is the new addition to the censorship toolbox

                    • My experience. In addition to elevated shipping costs, the books never arrive.

                      • Yeah, I just paid something like 70 dollars in shipping for two weaving books – I mean I got the books discounted but the shipping was outrageous and again out of the control of the author. I am starting to suspect that shipping isn’t just censorship it is also an attempt to prevent people from sending things back and forth at all – even…

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                      • I would tend to agree with this observation.
                        It seems to me one of the principal aims of these lockdowns is to restrict & fundamentally eliminate free movement even in our own countries, as well as to shut down the dissemination of ideas contrary to the current orthodoxies. What better way to stop new ideas than to prevent people…

                        [Read more]

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