Phat's Bookshelf

Allow me to clarify. I am against financial equality since it allows the government to tax the middle class in order to pay the bills that the poor can't pay and the rich wont pay. While I understand your basic mantra that a rising tide lifts all boats, (which in principle is superior to trickle-down economics) I lament the fact that the bills seem to be increasing (lately almost exponentially) and that inflation itself is a hidden tax. I believe that in America a small businessman should be unencumbered from earning more than his less ambitious (or financially strapped) neighbors without having his hard work taxed to lift up the masses out of poverty. They need to work too. And of course you have no evidence apart from your own conclusions...nor do any of you. In fact, I think that you all are against the belief based on the evolution and impact of right wing politics. Were Jesus to whisper to your conscience some night, perhaps not long from now, you would be a fool to dismiss your experience as madness. The world can't fix itself without draconian authoritarian meddling from what you will initially see as necessary government intervention.And I'm not being negative. I'm being realistic.
​

At least she knows enough to go to church. She sits in the third pew right between Mother Nature and Father Time.

This book stirred up yet more questions (and concerns) regarding the future of the human race. Im listening to it on Audible. I worry about the whole universal basic income thing. It sounds biased aganst private property rights and portends a demise of the good old boys network that so many of you want to see fall. The impact of AI on the global future will increase the gap between the haves and the have nots. As usual, the victims will be the once flourishing middle class.To be continued...

No. *You* claim that I am wrong about almost everything. Wait until the jury comes back with their verdict. You and the peanut gallery may be left holding the bag.Of course I dont expect to be right about everything, but I can almost guarantee that you guys will be wrong about a few things that you are certain you will be (and currently think you are) right about. Time will tell.

I've had this book a while now, and listen to it over and over in the audio cassette player in the car. Theodoric, wag that he is, will likely go to internet infidels to copypaste someone else's counterclaims to the book's efficacy and apologetic value in general, though I find the book encouraging.Favorable Reviews:
GoodreadsCritical Reviews: (This is one of the best critical reviews...I respect this author.
The Case Against Faith: A Critical Look at Lee Strobel's The Case for Faith I have yet to find the critic's name, though his website is amazing! Sitemap

Time itself will allow my demonstration to unfold. Nobody knows everything. I can at least admit as much. You guys need to be humbled once in awhile. ALL? That sounds like a bit of a hyperbole. Thankfully your humor keeps us interested in this thread. I dont expect to be a devoted "Trumpite" anytime soon, though one of my conservative friends is trying to convert me! He insisted that I read two books which are in my reading pile. I'll bring them up for dog-piling later, after I read them,
They are:
Ship Of FoolsThe Case For TrumpI might not get to them for awhile...I have older books which come first.

Wanna know what will save the world? Art and Music. The Left Brain. The right brain has been hijacked by rationality and data, which will soon marry artificial intelligence and morph into something nonhuman or inhuman.Art, Music, Creativity and belief will outgun logic, reason, and data most every time. Your right brain came from the tree of knowledge. Your left brain comes from the tree of life.

Nonsense. Humans have not been around all of the time nor will they be here at some point in time. "Time itself" is synonymous with infinity and/or infinite wisdom. Though I dont claim to have infinite wisdom, I feel that I can be in communion with infinite wisdom. This belief in no way means that I know when I will be right...since im a finite being.

Not in my courtroom.
​

ringo:

---

Are you blind? How can you not see them?

---

​ And as for the jury?
They are still out.

The Grinch has spoken. Now on to the next book on the shelf. The War On The West. I cant say enough about this book. I recommend reading the diverse comments from others on this book,(IN the link) but will quote from the book itself under this subtitle.

Chapter One: Race

Chapter One:

---

There is an obvious, observable truth about people in the West. Historically the citizens of Europe and their offspring societies in the Americas and Australasia have been white. (...)In the war on the West, white people are one of the first subjects of attack. A fact that has been steadily normalized and made into the only acceptable form of racism in the societies in which it happens. To demonize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West.

---

Chapter One goes on to discuss the evolution of CRT(Critical Race Theory) and of its effects on society-at-large. Many progressives have been bamboozled through CRT.

Chapter One writes:

​

...one of the distinguishing marks of CRT was that its assertions were based not on evidence, as it might previously been understood, but essentially on interpretations and attitudes. (...)the rules of CRT had no need for normal standards of evidence. If a person's "lived experience" could be attested to, then the question of "evidence" or "data" had to find a place further back in the queue, if at all.

​

In other words, it became "sufficient to fall back simply on the evidence of one's own perceptions". Theodoric has yet to explain why one cannot be racist against white people. I await his scintillating logic!

​

AddByEdit:

​

Here are the Chapters:

​

quote:

---

Chapter 1: Race
01:14:07
Chapter 1: Race, Continued
01:10:48
Interlude: China
47:45
Chapter 2: History
01:16:06
Chapter 2: History, Continued
01:16:02
Interlude: Reparations

​

Chapter 3: Religion
01:03:22
Chapter 3: Religion, Continued
01:15:14
Interlude: Gratitude
31:37
Chapter 4: Culture
49:48
Chapter 4: Culture, Continued
01:02:49
Conclusion
52:48

---

​

Edited by Phat, .

​

Edited by Phat, : edit

---

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” - Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).

​

When both religious and non-religious people reach the same conclusions then you know religion isn't the reason.--Percy

​

Democrats should not be the only party. Respect the two-party system. -Phat, in December 2022

​

We see Monsters where Science shows us Windmills.~Phat, remixed

That's all rather interesting but where do you get the idea that the author of the book was racist? So you dismiss his observations and conclusions?

Who do you think profits from it in China itself? Capitalism may well be the global villain, but it seems to me to be a product of human nature. Take slavery. The African opportunists who gathered, betrayed and sold out their own people were more despicable than the Western buyers. And why is the West always vilified for slavery when every bit as much trade went East? They dont talk about Eastern Slaves as much due to the fact that they were often castrated and later killed.

That's my source. We now need to find the authors source.

I read the article. To sum it up, I got a quote from it: Thus I have your argument summarized. It will be interesting to compare with some of Murray's arguments. He is, after all, a Conservative, which is anathema to you!