Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
"In The Legacy Journey, New York Times bestselling author Dave Ramsey takes you deep into …
The apostle Paul wrote, "I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I hane learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want" (Philippines 4:11-12 NIV). I love the last part: "whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." By the way, Paul wrote that while he was sitting in prison! Even in prison, Paul's contentment wasn't based on his circumstances.
@rainer@bookwyrm.social thanks for the response. I'll add this one to my queue. I read A Theology of Liberation by Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez a few years ago and it, like most of the theology books I have read, was just over my head.
@rainer@bookwyrm.social thanks for the response. I'll add this one to my queue. I read A Theology of Liberation by Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez a few years ago and it, like most of the theology books I have read, was just over my head.
"In The Legacy Journey, New York Times bestselling author Dave Ramsey takes you deep into …
People don't understand contentment today. In our materialistic, stuff-driven society, were bigger is better and faster is master, it can seem impossible to actually find contentment—to slow down and say, "I'm content with the car I have, the house I own, and the job I love."
Common Prayer helps today's diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear …
Christmas is short for "Christ's Mass," referring to the worship service that marks the birth of Christ. Celebrations during this [twelve day] season includes the Feast of the Holy Innocents (December 28), when we remember that the joy of Christ's coming was marked by genocide as Herod fearfully massacred other children in Bethlehem.
The complete text of the Catholic Living Bible, in a special edition designed to appeal …
A great daily reader
4 stars
The only thing that could have made this better is if they put the Deuterocanonical Books in Septuagint order within the Old Testament like a proper Catholic Bible rather than putting them in their own spot, as if apocryphal, like a Protestant Bible.
The complete text of the Catholic Living Bible, in a special edition designed to appeal …
Alienation: of students from parents, of blacks from whites, of Arab from Jew . . . all around us and throughout the world we see the need to reach out in love toward our fellow humans . . . to love people as they are.
In a little Jewish town years ago, God did just this. He reached out in love to every human through his Son, Jesus Christ.
“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one …
A self-righteous man writes about a complicated subject
3 stars
What is Property is a difficult book to rate. From a production standpoint this may well be the best non-fiction audiobook I've listened to. Certainly the best with footnotes. I don't know how to describe it, but it wasn't annoying. James Gilles was amazing.
As far as the work itself it was a mixed bag. P-J.P. I felt made many good points. I personally was surprised by how much a self-described anarchist quoted scripture and Church history in his argument that property is an artificial establishment of the State used to control the working class.
However he seemed to have a few complete misses in his arguments. He acted as though property is like matter, not being able to be created or destroyed. While we know the attagem"buy land they aren't making any more of it," even private property is more than land. He also acts as though …
What is Property is a difficult book to rate. From a production standpoint this may well be the best non-fiction audiobook I've listened to. Certainly the best with footnotes. I don't know how to describe it, but it wasn't annoying. James Gilles was amazing.
As far as the work itself it was a mixed bag. P-J.P. I felt made many good points. I personally was surprised by how much a self-described anarchist quoted scripture and Church history in his argument that property is an artificial establishment of the State used to control the working class.
However he seemed to have a few complete misses in his arguments. He acted as though property is like matter, not being able to be created or destroyed. While we know the attagem"buy land they aren't making any more of it," even private property is more than land. He also acts as though all value is a a zero-sum game, completely ignoring the subjective value of goods and services that results from not everyone thinking the same things are important to them. I don't think these points necessarily disprove his theory but their absence is apparent. Maybe they weren't known in the mid-19th century?
Prodouhn is also pretty full of himself acting as though his thought experiments are truly scientific and anyone who disagree is an idiot. This issue gets worse in the second memoir were he tries to conteract his ditractors. On top of that he starts in the second going on about how the monarch needs to be the leader of the French radical Party against the bourgeoisie. I always thought anarcho-monarchisn was a joke, I'm still not convinced it's not.
I had hoped he'd get more into the history of WHY the idea that mixing one's labor with land, or occupying land, had come to be how property was determined, but not much there, lots of went that idea is bull, whith which I agree.
