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.

 

I made it nearly halfway through the third chapter.
Ms Jacobsen's book might appeal to some on this forum but there's just something off-putting about it to me, personally.

TIFWIW....

 

Freezing fog here and 32 degrees F. So, instead of cutting tile outside, I am inside getting ready to open a book about the U.S. and the Army's first major battle in Vietnam.

The war had such an effect on the nation in general and my family at the time -- I was born in 1958, so no, not draft age myself, but did have brothers and uncles. My dad did his service in WWII.

Battle of Ia Drang - Wikipedia

Anyway, caught the movie We Were Soldiers - Wikipedia

And figured the book might be worth the time. I will let you know. Not really a happy subject for me, but an important one, nonetheless.

Here's Wikipedia's blurb on the book:

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young - Wikipedia

 

I found this in our bookcase, a while back. Maybe Alzheimer's creeping in, but I've got no clue how or when we acquired it:



Did watch the series.

 

I just found a jig saw yesterday I had no idea I had ????

 

it's a happy surprise to find cash in your pockets when getting dressed, so i occasionally put some in mrs b's surreptitiously.
it just makes her day

 

Funny I just started a war book too, had to go back for a classic. Catch-22, Heller.

It's just as good this time around.

 

i've never read a non fiction war book that i can recall, unless you count the one thousand page 'history of the world', which is mostly war

 

Loved that one, haven’t reread in decades. So many parable-worthy bits.