Has anyone read this book?
I ordered it as an early Birthday gift
I'm excited
Like really excited, even more excited than my actual birthday which consist of alcohol poisoing. So passe
Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
Has anyone read this book?
I ordered it as an early Birthday gift
I'm excited
Like really excited, even more excited than my actual birthday which consist of alcohol poisoing. So passe
Last edited by Strike For The South; 07-07-2011 at 00:44.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
i read a bit of it but was sort of bored. I didn't really click with his thesis to be honest. That we will destroy ourselves unless we reinvent or demonstrate that human nature is anything but violent and greedy is not really my cup of tea.
He writes well decently enough that you will not fall asleep halfway though fortunately but nothing stellar.
Last edited by Centurion1; 07-07-2011 at 02:12.
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
Christ on a bike I cannot STAND Rifkin's work. I'm an absolutely fervent/zealous Europhile, and The European Dream was the worst piece of dross I've ever read trying to argue in favour of the EU. I shall flesh out this opinion a bit more when its not 2AM here
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
Never heard of him. Was he that falsetto gymnast on 'Americas' got talent'? If so he was robbed.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
*Insert Cheeky English Colluiqalism here*Originally Posted by InsaneApache
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
Really? 2 pity replies and one off tangent rant
You know what I think?
I think half of you don't read and the other half don't read anything with publication date after May 1995
May God Have Mercy on your rube souls
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
yeah right. so how about i dont think you read and whenever you actually do read something you defend it excessively despite the fact that it may be utter drivel and devoid of any serious literary value. The book was boring i believed his thesis was poor and i thought he was pandering.
I didn't like it. Don't resort to personal attacks you plebian.
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Ha, If you know anything about us psuedo intellectuals you would know we just look up what other people say are the best books and then claim to have read them.
The act of reading would require me to simultaneously get off my high horse and stop preaching. Imagine the horror
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
where did i say you were a psuedo intellectual you do not have to be a vociferous reader to be an intellectual. Claiming to have read a book without having done so is a terrible terrible mistake that most often backfires.
His concepts fall short of reality and his doom and gloom predictions are unfounded and unlikely. I have said this multiple times. I am entitled to my opinion of the book. My opinion is negative. Just because i did not like the book or agree with the point that the author made does not mean that im in an archaic state of mind i which i cannot enjoy anything beyond 1995 (which is quite a bizarre date)
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You didn't, I self label
His concepts fall short of reality and his doom and gloom predictions are unfounded and unlikely. I have said this multiple times. I am entitled to my opinion of the book. My opinion is negative. Just because i did not like the book or agree with the point that the author made does not mean that im in an archaic state of mind i which i cannot enjoy anything beyond 1995 (which is quite a bizarre date)
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
Nuttin worse than a Texan with book larnin. they uppity enough as it is
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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Few replies, more bad feeling.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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