The Time Machine. Not the remake, the original, black and white
version. I was actually one who read the book first, but the movie is
one of my all time favorites. In the end the time traverler goes to the
future, having just freed the humans from the Morlocks. His housekeeper
discovers that there are three books missing from this scientist
library, books he took with him to the new beginnings of the human race.

What three books would you take if you were going to the future to live
with, teach and guide a newly forming population how to live in a
functioning society?

Only three books, and why whould you choose those three?

The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

Permaculture ...David Holmgren



and J.D. Salinger ...Catcher in the Rye


morning beauty

oops forgot to say why......


but it is pretty self explanatory doncha think? lol

Pinochio
Alice In Wonderland
Isle Of Woman

Pinochio to show that one doesn't have to have strings to be a real
person.
Alice In Wonderland to show that not everyone sees the world the same
way.
Isle Of Woman to show that a person's view may change over time.

I think the time traveller was good when he played beside Mr. Ed, too. I
just think it would have been nice if Mr. Ed could have made the trip
with him. I can understand why he didn't take the horse with him though
since the time machine had limited space.

The part about always running because of the air raid horn I thought was
interesting. The Eli would have all been eaten up if it wasn't for the
time traveller. I thought the part of the Eli forgetting so easy was a
good philosophical point. George Orwell's voice on the spinning disks I
thought was a good twist because it matched the point of the movie like
George Orwell's voice matched the ending of Planet of the Apes.
Interesting to me is that I think George Orwell's version of War of the
Worlds which played on radio and scared so many people was taken better
with The Time Machine and Planet of the Apes.

Well I was hoping to get a pretty good list of new books to read.
Bl8ant, I knew if you responded I would get some good one's. I have two
new ones to read now. Catcher in the Rye - as I shake my head and
smile, I can only think, of course why didn't I think of that one.

Rainbow, I actually like your take on the situation. I especially like
"no one should have strings attached". I wonder, however, if there
might not be something more influential as a 'teaching' guide. Remember
these poeple didn't know how to make clothes, build anything, or even
see to their own nutritional needs.

I hope I get some more responces. I've heard so many others looking for
some new book adventures, maybe we can all use some back to basic or
foundation type books.

Thanks again bl8ant, I have a gift certificate to half price books, I've
been dying to use.

They also would have been unable to read his books.

He would have had to read them himself and tell those people what to do
until he taught some of them to read.

Then of course after he was gone those that could read being human would
translate his books as they felt they needed to subjegate the rest of
the population and insure that they, the 'educated' ones, would have a
rich and abundant future at the expense of the majority of the
population.



Once you arrive at the destination in the future you will still see the
future stretched out before you.

700 Science Experiments for Everyone
anarchists cookbook
The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance

*****willow, interesting choices.

How about a dictionary, but oh my, which one?

age of reason..thomas paine...to plant seeds of philosophy

mythic reflections..joseph campbell...to understand myths & beliefs

12th Planet..zacharia sitchen...in case the Nephilim have returned
in the future..

I think perhaps a book of humor would show them that looking at the very
serious, sometimes takes a bit of humor.

davinci - interesting propects, I see a future of full of Woody Allen
types.

you want books?!!!

these are not for the island...but they are important!

The Great Cosmic Mother, by Sjoo/Mor, Harper Colins pub.

The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker,
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/pinker.html

RUMI wil knock your socks off..make sure it's by Coleman :o)

alex do ya think i should eat doughnutts before i get some rumi in mi
tummy you like rumi dontcha im always when some one can
pass on a good read .i do suffer a bit with unenlightenment so thanks
folks for your reading suggestions.

I think a similiar movie would be, "The Gods Must Be Crazy".

The bushmen of Xi's group are living well off the land. They are happy
because the "gods" have provided plenty of everything, so no one in the
tribe has unfilled wants. One day, the pilot of a passing airplane drops
a glass Coke bottle. Initially, this strange artifact seems to be a boon
from the gods — Xi's people find many uses for it. But unlike anything
that they have had before, there is only one bottle to share among all
members of the group. They soon find themselves experiencing things they
never had before: envy, hatred, even violence. It is decided that the
bottle, renamed "the evil thing", must be thrown off of the edge of the
world. Xi volunteers for the task. As he travels on his quest, he
encounters western civilization for the first time. The film presents an
interesting interpretation of civilization as viewed through Xi's
perceptions.

There are also plot lines about biologist Andrew Steyn (Marius Weyers)
who is studying the local animals, and the newly-hired village school
teacher Kate Thompson (Sandra Prinsloo), and some guerrillas who are
being pursued by government troops after unsuccessfully attempting a
coup. Xi encounters both groups.

Xi prepares to throw the Coke bottle — the "evil thing" as his family
calls it — off the end of the earth, in the first film. Xi eventually
finds himself at the top of a cliff with a solid layer of low-lying
clouds obscuring the landscape below. This gives Xi the convincing
illusion that it is indeed the edge of the world, and he throws the
bottle from there. This was filmed at a place called God's Window in
what was then called the Eastern Transvaal, South Africa (now a separate
province called Mpumalanga). This is at the edge of the escarpment
between the high and low-velds of South Africa.

The biologist's mode of transportation is an early Series I Land Rover
with no brakes and tight piston rings, making it difficult to start.
Dubbed "The Anti-Christ" by his mechanic, Mpudi, the biologist's
misadventures with the cantankerous Land Rover make up some of the most
hilarious scenes in the film.

my last name is funk...so funk and wagnals on the dictionary

i love that movie the gods must be crazy.funny as anything youll see

great end of the world book from the 40's...

Earth Abides...

Great book about the Jesus Myth:

Behold the Man

Alternate theory / earth history:

Gods of Eden .....

I am reading some of Rumi's poetry and I like it. Just got back from
ordering a double cheeseburger, butterscotch shake and large fries from
the drive-in. I am starting to live at the place I work now, lol. One of
my female's friend daughter is pregnant and I told her to quit
procrastinating and just have the baby. She just keeps getting bigger
and bigger, lol.

OH ROY!!! i am really happy you found it...


many many times you will pick it up and a familiar verse will give you
each time a new treasure...enjoy