Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
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.Originally Posted by Strike For The South
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)
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
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*
Re: Jeremy Rifkin "The Empathic Civilzation"
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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