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In an attempt to get my reading fires burning again, I picked a fairly interesting-sounding fantasy novel called Arcanum from my library's My Libby electronic collection and started reading it. Author is Simon Morden, an award winning sff author so that's promising. Setting is an alternative Europe where Christianity (and Islam, but that's less relevant to the story) didn't happen and magic works. Rome still fell, the Germanic tribes still took over Europe, but they remain pagan and an order of wizards called hexmasters wields a fair bit of power. The Goths use of magic helped in the sack of Rome, for instance, but that's a millennium in the past at the time of the story (so it's c. 1410CE on our calendar, but with no Christianity, they don't use the BC/AD dating). There's monsters, too, with some nasty giants appearing right in the first chapter. Unicorn horns are playing a key role in one of the plot threads (probably going to be the main one, I think).

Well-written but has the same problem I found with A Game of Thrones: Each chapter has a viewpoint character and there are several viewpoint characters, so that things jump around quite a bit. There's crossover between character arcs, though, so that may smooth out with time.
 
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i'm reading books that have sat on a real-life bookshelf for years.
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I am actually going to see if the library has a dead tree copy. If it's a large book, though, I might stick with ebook. With my arthritic fingers, not sure I can handle a doorstopper as well as I can a tab or e-reader.
 
LAst week I finished Life After Doom by Brian McLAren. It is a book about responding to CLimate Change however I found in a number of places the discussion could feed into other areas (like the future of the church since that is sort of a topic of interest of mine).

Right now I am reading Theology in a Digital World by David Lochhead. This is an early book in the field (1988, with he first chapter originally a lecture given in 1984) but it is highly prescient IMO. Lochhead raises issues that we are still (albeit in different ways) trying to work through now. This is part of my SAbbatical this summer
 
Digital world ... a place so complex so as to keep simple desires repulsed ... a difficult pass? What if the supporting field is dismissed ... I read that yesterday 1000's lost their jobs in another facet of this field of vocation. If all people are eliminated what will support the great "I" ve the thingy?

Something will be hollowed out like the hulk of enterprise ... self consumed!

One rule I learned in ancient economics was that the loss of 1 vocation disrupted 6 alternate supplies ... 7 in total runes ... runes is something else ... a mind-bashing qualm ... the unknown bumping!
 
GordW said:
My SAbbatical reading has continued with "Tweet if you Love JEsus" and "iJesus" AS I explore how to be a Hybrid Church in a Hybrid world. Just started one called Both/And, written coming out of Covid where so many faith communities were pushed online
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Here's the thing ... If Jesus is the light (as secured within word, story, etc.) would knowledge and wisdom be entailed as Sophia (an elusive portion of God as the entire integral)? If one were to get into this matter that is questionable (according to tyrannical authority) how do we deal with it? Best in the silence as the physical portion will consume you ... with consequence! Thus if you are literate ... take heed ...

How does the real world feel about being enlightened and out of the cloud of emotions? Just take a turn and look about ... it is brutal ... as it requires pain to learn much about the God of Wisdom ... an ephemeral essence? It is hinted in the icons that going against the gods of conflict can give you relief (i.e. take you out of it). That may be Psyche's move ... and perhaps a UFO as it seems to be value out of reach of mortal authority, escapism as pro wrestling to a empowered observers. To be enlightened carry the Magi Aye of a camel ... a peculiar thing like gnomon in the desert ... watching silently and persistently from an arid position in the highlands? It is all symbolic, iconic ... as suggested by myth of wisdom in a brutal beast ... Revelation!

I happen to be reading an old theological text that uses the code name for enlightenment ... because powers would rather the common John and Jonah's to be unaware of monstrosity like literature. Thinking men are determined to be dangerous to will ... and yet we preach love and not philosophy as love of knowledge and wisdom is discarded (philosophy?). Is there anything to be inquired about in a turn about a vast field of illuminating essence?

How is this done in the state of heavens "becoming" out of past being? The alter clause ... something has to gather in the quantum flow ...

The discussion starts over fixed things like orthodox and and items drifting out of that containment as release of heresy ... for relief of stress over laws that are imperfect (human). Thus forms a cynic of 2-sided order as a doppelganger ... each whine of release having an echo or Ego as awareness of knowledge returning as a stinking thought to great dealers ... the shaft of the fleur di Lise! In this portion of the ricocheting info there is an opposing sense of power of something mysterious illumination from which we are eclipsed ... blacked out to force book worming? Pr IOns ... charged and dashing innately! The inside of myth as it expands ... like Wesleyan Theology when based on a single word ... there is a massive spectra available ...

If such psyche things are revealed there may be eruptions ... in the physical establishment ... rants and rackets? World physicians are like that when separated from the light, fiery element ... plasma ... a cutting gas! What is hidden in myth is mythical and physically unbelievable ... because it just isn't as appears ... incarnate ... becoming! The beautiful obscurity! Is that like occult ... dark and beautiful soul ... relief ... for persecuted thought!

Would shadowy beasts believe or such absorb without knowledge and consciousness ... remaining silent ... as conspicuously unaware or counter to WOKE (an attitude about discriminating) ...

I've heard that Christians of modern eras do not wish to hear of WOKE and its meaning ... it bothers that sector. Then bother has the metaphors; worry, trouble, concern and counter to Joy in dropping off at night ... except for the horse in midstream ... Black Beauty, etc. Imperfection may slip through for autonomous solution ... extracting them from your darkened heads-up ... like the Hebrew letter nun, that is doubled for end and mid-dell use! Abstract of what is coming ... as we become something else unbelievable ... wi*Seri? That voice out of the automated box (scattering thought)?
 
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Is that enough to initiate something? Black, silent eruption ... nobody knows, nobody cares and thus those long black robes ... similar to men in Black Suits ... carrying God knows what ... Jack Nicholson said they didn't know either ... but accusatory ...

Did you ever wonder what made the imperfect corrupt? Is it self-destruction ... collectively maybe we could get it together ... not a chance in hell as dedicated to conflict and aggressiveness ... the alternate flees ... takes flight (surely)!

Can you tell people from away? Strangers ...
 
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The title is Chris Tyan Thought (Tony Lane on philosophy of past development) where if Cris is light it connects some illuminants ... a crispy topic to those contained by one book ... human bondage?
 
I'm reading "in winter I get up at night" by Jane Urquhart

Her descriptions and insights are excellent

I am listening to it on audible and struggled identifying the time period which shifts with each chapter.

I am now conscious i have to look at the app to see if chapter changed

That wouldn't be an issue for someone reading a book
 
I am reading a very depressing, but extremely well written book, called "There is No Place for Us", about employed homeless people in America. Very eye opening. Of the identified homeless in the U.S., over 90% are people of colour.
 
And the very lucrative industry of extended stay motels in the housing of the almost-homeless. A cash cow to match retirement homes. Let's prey on the most vulnerable, shall we? Free market capitalism is the anti-Christ in our midst. It deliberately targets the contemporary widow and orphan.
 
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And the very lucrative industry of extended stay motels in the housing of the almost-homeless. A cash cow to match retirement homes. Let's prey on the most vulnerable, shall we? Free market capitalism is the anti-Christ in our midst. It deliberately targets the contemporary widow and orphan.
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Thus the concept of dash the future for the lesser folk so the wealthy can rise in pride ... and we ask, proud of what?

Thus the separation of up from down as life takes a turn. What else can one say but the point of the lesson rests unseen ... out of existence!

Some of us thus accept that non existent must be of essence ... and in many they simply do not accept anything other than existentialism. It is a deep and complex comprehension ... in which the portal of vision is like the eye of a camel ... always on the horizon as a place to pass out of the heat of the sans where within is confused with without ... and a dream of escape of the pain and pathee?

Some natural products of the limbic system can cause this blackout. These can be negated or reinforced by what you consume ... so be cautious. It is difficult when you see what the onus of industry has panned off ... response of balanced nature and character ... where the monster disposes of it? Yes it is a statement staked on the basis of a question few will pose ... it is distasteful! Some care and Karen is required in the rejuvenation of the child part in what's matured ...

It is like trade issues with a monster that irresponsibly wants everything ... thus agreement to dispose of the thing causes disagreement because of consumption is not in equilibrium. Balance is not a physical thing ... so it is metaphysical ... the field of knowledge the winners dash out of sight and the lessor feel beaten and whipped as knowledge is despised by emotions when flaming. It turns the concept of hell upside down as strong head-M'N flare ... as a view from beyond existence. This justified by belief in a larger soul that is beyond physical power ... like down a spatial hole ... black and resembling a blind agreement of Ai ... aye? Some say it is metaphor of displaced comprehension ... biblical allegory.

Bloodlines are wasted to get to that place de void ... totally extracted ... but innate from a position out there ... a good reason to step into the abstract to prepare for future residency where folk believe your not. That defines a negative thought aye, does it not? Dark mirror simulation ...

Explains my state of mind when I escape into a dead state for a bit ... a condition that one can absorb from reading literature of past, present and future projections ... as reality peters out as the sky hooker jerks you out of here ... leaving a sensation that things are not the way it appeared when submerged in whatever consumed you other than a greater mind that you were connecting with in the great unseen ... that's beyond mortal belief.

It is not fixed or orthodox and thus has some really alien qualities of personality ... there but not and thus reality is indeterminate as some believers accept that there is nothing beyond a dark barrier ... perhaps a green stretch where one can look up at power reconstituted in a domain we can never understand when observing from the destructive element of disagreement over everything that we feel as ideal (when it is a wronged virtue in reality).

Does the real you fail to understand form the dark abstract? The ultimate set-up for escaping eternity for a bit to learn the pain and pathology of love of life ... a twinned existence while paired with someone across a bloodied line ... blood-brain barrier? One must cater to the limbic system or emotional-intellectual balance is chaos ... like a stormy night in the soul with a beam projected into the sky ... of levity about righting evil? Extracting the good is a mental process ... some will not work that way as the feel the vocation is bad ... they like relief in high chambers ... no matter the cost that is complex stress!

Why disturbed states of peace are cyclic o generate some good rising from the ruined ... Christian (light) Thought? It is a book where a lot of classic ideas are laid out for a time of laboring over them ... if you can read into the literature of depth ... between the lines that might a fist appear black and white as that old experiment to expose ether (Moore-Michaelson)! There's something to thin space ... hinted by some to appear like the entrance to a dark tunnel of emotional quality ... where something is lost ... and we ask where does it go from physical position ... temporal or terminal? Some say there is not end to knowledge and intelligence and thus the need for cognizant breaks ...
 
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Mental science as a means of healing evil measures? No pills just experience will impose that side of what you have to go through ... I see something of a storm coming. Thus the search for a space fore in which to hide with a thread of the great network ... connections presently out of sight?

Might it be like a dash through the star chamber ... star conflict? Novel wars ... so many notes to put together ... diabolical vocation is advocated ... probing ... until petered out ...

Some observe ... alters do not ... always an inert side ... the physical part of the virtue aL deal ... is distant from great wisdom and needs connection communication in spirit and soul (mind-body break, etc.). Thus shimmer and chimera ... difficult to define and determine as it is like quantum winds ... moves ... random access?

That's the way I see it ... here and there and done gone ... dashed?
 
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