GREAT opening analogy man! And I love the title. Could be a good book title. I started Confessions a few months ago, and I have felt the same way about it. Timeless insights. God bless my brother, looking forward to the unnamed future project!
Re the NAM symposium address: the portion on gender is reasonable. The speaker doesn’t ever back off of the fact that there are two sexes. The one paragraph on gender, after the sentence you quoted, states “including the impact of hormonal therapy started at different stages in the life cycle.” To my knowledge, we don’t necessarily know the impacts of cross-sex hormones on long term male or female human health, let alone whether it matters whether those treatments start in childhood or not. This speaker is tacitly saying, let’s not avoid finding out the truth, even inconvenient ones.
Wanted to thank you for something worth reading and the way in way in which you write. I always believed, but never understood or experienced so many of these classics filled with Truth. My father taught Shakespeare for years and I learned (through osmosis somehow - he never taught me) and felt his enthusiasm for works such as these. I may give Confessions a try with the guides you suggested. What a gift! Cheers!
Appreciate the Confessions recommendation and the study resources. I haven't made it through Confessions yet. I tried to listen to it on audiobook, which didn't work for me with this book.
On the topic of classic books, if you or others want to instantly build a solid library of classic public domain works, including those of Augustine, look at Project Gutenberg.
The only problem is that some longer works (like Augustine's City of God) show up in multiple parts. I used software to push them back together.
Consider buying an e-reader, which is much easier on the eyes than an ordinary screen. I was a late adopter to the technology, but at zero cost, I've put an enormous library of books on mine that I should have already read, and I'm now working my way through them. I'm also someone who likes to bounce between books or pick up something different based on my mood, so the e-reader is great for that.
I can't recall if you've stated your theology but monergism.com also has a very good library of classic, mostly Reformed Christian e-books:
If anyone else knows of any good resources on classic books like these, I'd like to hear of them. I know that archive.org has some but it hasn't worked as well for me.
This recalls a Dave Rubin chat with Dennis Prager and his time at Columbia U. Prager said that he has had one epiphany in life, which is that “fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,” and he realized there was no wisdom at Columbia University during his grad school days all the way back in the 1970s.
Also speaking of medicine gone bad, I am at seven weeks post triple bypass and I have just finished reading a book called The Clot Thickens by GP and medical detective and statin skeptic, Scotsman Malcolm Kendrick, MD — talk about suppressed knowledge ( in this case about Cardiovascular Disease) from days of old.
Kendrick (re-) asserts the thrombotic hypothesis of heart disease, and it is brilliant and full of wry commentary like AG’s. Of course, the cholesterol hypothesis — partly because it was so money making for Pharma and partly because little was known about the endothelium — shoved all that theorizing aside. I highly commend this book, esp if you have atherosclerosis like me.
Excellent Sir! Absolutely excellent!!
Your writing confirms things my poor mind could never fully grasp and convey. Thank you Sir. So very clearly and we’ll written!
What a splendid article - thank you.
I try to avoid any books written in the past decade or so. Stick with the classics.
GREAT opening analogy man! And I love the title. Could be a good book title. I started Confessions a few months ago, and I have felt the same way about it. Timeless insights. God bless my brother, looking forward to the unnamed future project!
Sounds like something I need to read.
Also, thank-you for linking the stack about the eclipse! That was a wonderful article!
Re the NAM symposium address: the portion on gender is reasonable. The speaker doesn’t ever back off of the fact that there are two sexes. The one paragraph on gender, after the sentence you quoted, states “including the impact of hormonal therapy started at different stages in the life cycle.” To my knowledge, we don’t necessarily know the impacts of cross-sex hormones on long term male or female human health, let alone whether it matters whether those treatments start in childhood or not. This speaker is tacitly saying, let’s not avoid finding out the truth, even inconvenient ones.
Wanted to thank you for something worth reading and the way in way in which you write. I always believed, but never understood or experienced so many of these classics filled with Truth. My father taught Shakespeare for years and I learned (through osmosis somehow - he never taught me) and felt his enthusiasm for works such as these. I may give Confessions a try with the guides you suggested. What a gift! Cheers!
Have missed your writings Adrien.
Thank you for a great post…now, to start with Augustine or Aquinas? Choices, choices, what wonderful choices!
Appreciate the Confessions recommendation and the study resources. I haven't made it through Confessions yet. I tried to listen to it on audiobook, which didn't work for me with this book.
On the topic of classic books, if you or others want to instantly build a solid library of classic public domain works, including those of Augustine, look at Project Gutenberg.
https://www.gutenberg.org/
The only problem is that some longer works (like Augustine's City of God) show up in multiple parts. I used software to push them back together.
Consider buying an e-reader, which is much easier on the eyes than an ordinary screen. I was a late adopter to the technology, but at zero cost, I've put an enormous library of books on mine that I should have already read, and I'm now working my way through them. I'm also someone who likes to bounce between books or pick up something different based on my mood, so the e-reader is great for that.
I can't recall if you've stated your theology but monergism.com also has a very good library of classic, mostly Reformed Christian e-books:
https://www.monergism.com/1000-free-ebooks-listed-alphabetically-author
If anyone else knows of any good resources on classic books like these, I'd like to hear of them. I know that archive.org has some but it hasn't worked as well for me.
This recalls a Dave Rubin chat with Dennis Prager and his time at Columbia U. Prager said that he has had one epiphany in life, which is that “fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,” and he realized there was no wisdom at Columbia University during his grad school days all the way back in the 1970s.
Also speaking of medicine gone bad, I am at seven weeks post triple bypass and I have just finished reading a book called The Clot Thickens by GP and medical detective and statin skeptic, Scotsman Malcolm Kendrick, MD — talk about suppressed knowledge ( in this case about Cardiovascular Disease) from days of old.
Kendrick (re-) asserts the thrombotic hypothesis of heart disease, and it is brilliant and full of wry commentary like AG’s. Of course, the cholesterol hypothesis — partly because it was so money making for Pharma and partly because little was known about the endothelium — shoved all that theorizing aside. I highly commend this book, esp if you have atherosclerosis like me.