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The alarming truth about the lie is there may be a significant strata of powerful people trained in prestigous schools and gaining prominent positions in society who are more interested in sensual pleasure, manipulating others and living their lie than in making the world a better place. It's a Daisy Buchanan/ Great Gatsby kind of a world. Knowing such, perhaps we should all be thankful there are enough decent and clever folks around to keep the world turning. You sure won't find there ilk here. Every character in this book is a pathological tragedy. I read the book in three days.
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Who would Mr Dawkins be without a God to mock? The title of his new book reveals much, alluding as it does to a motley band of believers journeying to worship at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Great book. The characters ring true. Mr Alexander's experience shows. My only problem with the book is it may not be fiction!!! Heaven help us, please.
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The saddest part of it is how blatantly 'handled' the mouthpieces of the machine are. Where are the great statesmen of Old? Ted Magnuson, author, Those Self Evident Truths, from Runnymede to Gettysburg.
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The Lie by Chad Kultgen
t.magnuson, June 8, 2009
The alarming truth about the lie is there may be a significant strata of powerful people trained in prestigous schools and gaining prominent positions in society who are more interested in sensual pleasure, manipulating others and living their lie than in making the world a better place. It's a Daisy Buchanan/ Great Gatsby kind of a world. Knowing such, perhaps we should all be thankful there are enough decent and clever folks around to keep the world turning. You sure won't find there ilk here. Every character in this book is a pathological tragedy. I read the book in three days.(1 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
Boy Electrician by Morgan Alfred P.
t.magnuson, April 11, 2009
I'm glad to see this 'classic' reissued. More emphasis needs to be placed on the 'fun' of science fundamentals for young people today.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
t.magnuson, December 7, 2008
Who would Mr Dawkins be without a God to mock? The title of his new book reveals much, alluding as it does to a motley band of believers journeying to worship at Canterbury Cathedral.(4 of 13 readers found this comment helpful)
Rubicon by Lawrence Alexander
t.magnuson, October 28, 2008
Great book. The characters ring true. Mr Alexander's experience shows. My only problem with the book is it may not be fiction!!! Heaven help us, please.Ted Magnuson, author, The Moses Probe
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The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril by Al Gore
t.magnuson, October 28, 2008
The saddest part of it is how blatantly 'handled' the mouthpieces of the machine are. Where are the great statesmen of Old? Ted Magnuson, author, Those Self Evident Truths, from Runnymede to Gettysburg.(3 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)
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