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Brett’s 2024 Year in Books
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Brett Alan Williams
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The Father: America Leaves the American Century (The Father Trilogy, #1)
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The Worst of Things: America in the 21st Century (The Father Trilogy, #2)
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November 7, 2024: After 248 years, we did it! Hallelujah, say GeeSUS!
The votes are finally in, and we did it! For 248 years, America has been looking for someone with just the right qualifications to take this nation to the next level. And no wonder it took so long. The requirements were that he had to be a serial adulterer, serial draft dodger, serial money launderer (with greater than or equal to six bankruptcies), would fleece American taxpayers, peddle influenc
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| Professor Balmer’s book is a short but sufficient response to one of the many branches growing from America’s Nut Tree—the not-so-Christian nationalists who seek to make these unUnited States a Christian theocracy. They claim it was founded as a Chri ...more | |
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| With Yuval Noah Harari’s claim that the world is reentering a Medieval mindset, politics, and warfare, I’ve taken a keen interest in “swords and sandals.” Exacerbated by planetary collapse, the fall of democracies to asocial media, and 90 times more ...more | |
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| Marsden does a splendid job of chronicling the advance and retreat and advance of Christian fundamentalism in America. His book struck me as a tale of the confounding nature of human nature: our fondness for mysteries, pat answers, promises to consol ...more | |
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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety:
"4.5 Woww this really packed a punch to start. Pain and Time blew my damn mind. Slowed down as it approached religion and a solution, and in my mind didn't really make the leap into a Very Clear way out, except to somehow disentangle from time, memory"
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| I read this book years ago when I was a kid, but all I could remember was that it thrilled me. Now, all these years later, I suspect one attraction was my relating to the protagonist, Alvin, as a rebellious child who never takes no for an answer, que ...more | |
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| This lecture series gives a really good overview of Augustine (354-430) and digs into some of his philosophical arguments. We find a brilliant rhetorician and a rebel youth with a razor-sharp mind, not prone to accepting what he was told. Augustine h ...more | |
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| In this lecture series, Johns Hopkins organic chemist and historian of science and religion, Lawrence M. Principe, sets out to elaborate similarities and differences between science and religion. Had I stopped after the first few lectures, I would ha ...more | |
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| This course does a particularly fine job of making grand summary overviews of the dramatic change to human experience that was the Renaissance, and is my favorite aspect of these lectures. That is, it really was as advertised: a sea change in human o ...more | |
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| This book does a good job of clarifying the impacts of the Agricultural Revolution through its enabling the rise of states. For tens of thousands of years, humans foraged with expansive survival knowledge in multiple environments. With the adoption o ...more | |
“It’s more than money now, Candice. It’s a memory maker…Hold this penny tight, close your eyes, and no matter where you are or when, you’ll find yourself back here with me in this very spot.”
― The Father
― The Father
“I asked him, ‘If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?’ And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, ‘The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.”
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― The Father
“Joseph said, ‘Beware of luxury and too much comfort, John. Avoid crowds and their approval. These things corrupt character. Doing makes a man, not display.”
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― The Father
“I asked him, ‘If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?’ And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, ‘The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.”
― The Father
― The Father
“If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?”
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“Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.”
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“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another man's alienation. Readiness to become over-involved is a form of tyranny practiced by children, prima donnas and lords, placing feelings above moral rules that should have made society safe for interaction.”
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