What are you reading?

I think it’s interesting all societies even isolated ones have creation stories. All societies have also been shown by DNA to originate from the same ancestors.
Turn the other cheek is one of the most difficult to understand and follow.

 

What about "the golden rule", is that even from the Bible? Good one.

 

There are plenty of free text-to-speech services out there, and some are even good. Copy text, paste it in, download the resulting mp3.

Meanwhile I've been distracting myself with Strip Tease by Carl Hiassen. Somehow hadn't got to that one yet; really love this guy's sense of humor.

 

I think every major religion and philosophy has a version.
They can be broken down into two types:
Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
and
Do not do onto others as you would have them not do to you.

 

i think it is easy to understand (although that may be a matter of interpretation) but yes, very difficult to always follow.

 

Finished this:


Recommend Highly!

Re-reading this:


A short book, while I look for another diversion.

 

only needs one sentence: love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself.
i don't think i could read a whole book, even a short one

 

Proverbs 3:5-6

My pastor gives Stott's book to all who ask with the request that they pass it on when finished.
MY faith is more humble than most, so I need the refresher - hence the library audiobook version that I just read.

 

this has really been enjoyable and informative. 600 pages in, i'm very impressed with the authors knowledge and ability to synthesize and consolidate the information, and present it in a way (mostly) understandable to the layman.
the big takeaway is that humanity has done nothing but war with each other for the known history of man.
and i thought accounting was the second oldest profession

 

Reading rubbish...."Old Black Magic," a "Spenser" novel by Ace Atkins. Pretty good, actually.

 

Don't know the novel, but like the song.

 

Atkins punches up.

I've been working my way through Toland's shelf-bender, so I'm laying off fiction for a bit:


Think: Bill Shirer's "Rise and Fall" tomb, only for the otha side of the planet.
It was written in the 70's but it did garner a Pulitzer.

Crazy times, those.