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The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

by Robert A. Heinlein

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Dark Reading Matter (Thursday Next, #8)

by Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)

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Tolkien For Beginners

by Louis A. Markos

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Cult Cinema: A Personal Exploration of Sects, Brainwashing and Bad Religion in Film and Television by Howard Ingham

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““In fact, they have idiosyncratic criteria for what makes a Christian, so historically for example they’ve had more time for Seventh Day Adventists than they have Catholics or Anglicans and Episcopalians.” Hogwash they do! You’ve never dropped in to the “cults” section of your local “Christian” bookstore? Headed by Hoekema’s “The Four Major Cults”? Or are you afraid that if you actually looked they would “get” you again? Not only does Ingham keep diagnosing Christians from his own case, but his anti-Americanism is on constant display.

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“THE INCIDENT
A good riot needs something upon which it can hang its righteous hat, some specific outrage at some specific time and place to serve as the first definitive marker on the road to no return”
― Joe Sacco, The Once and Future Riot

tags: civil-unrest, communal-unrest, hate, prejudice, rioting, riots

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“The last bed was occupied by a Black man covered in bandages. He writhed, babbled unintelligibly. Then he screamed as if in pain. “He’s not comatose but not fully conscious, either. He has a chance at some kind of recovery. Most don’t, honestly. We’ve developed the skills to save their bodies, but not their lives,” Captain Smith said.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

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“As Ellena Mayer talked about how everyone had mistreated her and discriminated against her for being a woman and a talented genetic designer, I classed her as the type of woman who doesn’t understand everyone who is unusually brilliant is “discriminated against” for the simple fact of being different from the common herd, and therefore both resented, and suspicious.”
― Sarah A. Hoyt, No Man's Land: Volume 3

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“In front of them, on the ground, was a massive bell, with a Wayne standing either side of it, looking as if breathing in and out in the right order was taking up a huge amount of mental effort. Claremont was no campanologist–in fact, his knowledge of bells extended only to knowing the word ‘campanologist’–but the thing looked pretty damn big to him.”
― C.K. McDonnell, Ring the Bells

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“If you have ever seen people engaging in mutual worship of one another, you know it is a beautiful sight. Only self-worship is more enjoyable to watch.”
― T.G. Brown, The Wormwood Archive

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