You don’t know God. If you knew God you would submit to God. You submit to your government. You submit to Law. You submit to nature. You submit to your boss. But you refuse to submit to God. You’re a fool. I was a fool as well then I began to seek God and I began to fear God. Now I submit to God.
Who is this “you” character you project onto me. Or do you project it onto everyone? Is it perhaps a still pool of water, with such a fascinating visage shimmering there?
Bro you’re talking nonsense everything is a reflection of the self. Everyone’s perception of reality is limited because you cannot escape the self to perceive reality.
Just because you can explain the problem doesn’t mean you can solve it. Only an entity that exists beyond the mind can solve the problems of the mind. Give your life to Jesus or remain loving the world.
“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction”
“The wise fear the Lord and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure”
“The fear of the Lord leads to life, bringing security and protection”
Just because you can explain the problem doesn’t mean you can solve it. Only an entity that exists beyond the mind can solve the problems of the mind. Give your life to Jesus or remain loving the world.
I don't know how you could follow what's going while taking breaks.
I had to read it continuously to help keep track of when the Year of the Adult Depends Undergarment was relative to the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. That was whenI was in college in the 90s, when I had the attention span.
“As it lurched around the corner, in my peak moment of gobsmackedness, the thing that did it was the tabs. A hundred? more?—anyway, too many to count—each the size of a sedan, faithful to the level of opacity-transparency of the originals, in half a dozen temperate colors. Whose job had that been?”
Oh God. That was our book club book in October. My kindle said 36 hours to read. I finished it, and bits still stick in my mind, but oh my! Parts of it so clever and funny, but so confusing! Little narrative flow and then just stops. That is 36 hours I will never get back!
Well, they usually choose non-fiction, because the rest of the group are in their early 30s. I generally choose fiction, mostly historical about strong women. We are very International: Australian, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Albanian.
Two bookmarks! One for the footnotes. I didn’t find it challenging to read at all, it’s just long. Nowhere near as hard as Gravity’s Rainbow for example…
legit writing this on a postit when i was in high school unlocked the whole book for me, turning me instantly into the most annoying person for the rest of my life.
I always give the same advice: you have to give it 100 pages, and some stuff will seem random, but nothing is in there by accident. He might not refer to something again for 400 pages, but he will. And if you quit before the Eschaton chapter, you subconsciously regret for life. :)
lol I’ve been saving that one for print. e-endnotes are perfect except some especially long ones might cause you to lose the “jump back to previous spot” option
I’d be lost without it. I read quite a bit faster simply by being able to control the font size. Plus, my shelves have limited space for real books, as my wife frequently reminds me.
There’s so much in that book that was oddly prescient about the times we’re currently living in, someone should unironically try to lobby to make this happen
The footnotes used to have their own audiobook, but they remastered and rereleased it with the footnotes incorporated. I believe there is a "ding" to let you know you're moving between them.
Yeah, honestly—as a guy who really dug that book and re-read it several times (i am a white guy of a certain age, this is probably not surprising), all you really need is like, three bookmarks? (main text, footnotes, the footnote with Himself's filmography?)
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
“The wise fear the Lord and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure”
“The fear of the Lord leads to life, bringing security and protection”
I am > 50, so I guess that's shameful.
I keep putting it down to read other things.
I need to go through a few more years of the Depend Adult Undergarment.
I had to read it continuously to help keep track of when the Year of the Adult Depends Undergarment was relative to the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. That was whenI was in college in the 90s, when I had the attention span.
I mean, I hope you don’t want to know, because you won’t
As brilliant as I find parts of the book, the fact that it just sort of stops annoyed me.
Oh, and second read was on Kindle and it worked GREAT - endnotes and all.
all the way through
Including footnotes.
I deserve a medal. A big one, made of chocolate.
…I just didn’t find it that funny