More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
August 14 - October 14, 2020
We would win if we could just keep out of the fighting.
His sleepsack and his things were still there, but he was gone.
Would diesel fuel explode? I didn’t know.
him crouching behind a tree holding his own Beretta nine millimeter. If the latter was true, I could scare him into shooting me.
Question
Still,
Still,
little boy, perhaps three years old,
if they did care, would they want to help the kid or just shut its mouth?
We didn’t need the burden of such a big child—one who had reached the “run around and grab everything” stage.
Haha
Justin Rohr.
Sandra Rohr.
Riverside, Ca...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Richard Walter Rohr,
Haha
other people’s fathers could be monsters.
“Glendale.”
You’ll help too. Haha
taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares
Hollister
Haha
Shape Self.
That’s the ethical conundrum. To what end does one shape oneself? Why is altruism any better than selfishness for a Earthseed?
Hahayes
small, ragged gardens—
harvest:
Vegetarians get enough proteins.
disaster-induced feeding frenzies
Haha
We wanted privacy, not too many rocks to sleep on, and a way of reaching the water that didn’t put us too much on display.
we rested in enormous comfort and laziness,
The nice thing about sitting and working alongside someone you don’t know very well, someone you’d like to know much better,
“Stumbling across the truth isn’t the same as making things up.”
the impermanence of everything is a basic Buddhist principle.”
what do people have to do to be good members of an Earthseed Community?”
What is the ethical imperative? See Joanne’s question, p. 69: “What then?” she demanded. “What can we do?”
“The essentials,” I answered, “are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.”
Why others? Does not follow Question
“A unifying, purposeful life here on Earth, and the hope of heaven for themselves and their children.
“Human beings are good at creating hells for themselves even out of richness.”
Haha
All religions change. Think about the big ones.
“My wife died five years ago,”
The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind
yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.
S...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
I didn’t decide to leave. I escaped.”
Meanwhile, best to enjoy him without quite trusting him.
It isn’t often that I can enjoy the good side of my hyperempathy.
“Eighteen?”
18 on July 20, 2027.
It seems such a luxury not to have to get up, pack, and walk all day.
Question
it will never work without a sprinkling of mystical confusion.”
Haha
Haha
