so-soIt has some interesting material on the society created in a part of Madagascar by European pirates and Malagasy natives. The local population had a lot of mixture of which the pirates were the latest. However, it suffers from a lack of sources and flaws within them. However it reads like an incomplete essay and relies on a great deal of surmise. The author sets out a proposition which he is ultimately unable to sustain.
Sent to me by a friend I am not sure the source
Box has a box set of Kant 🤣😂🤣
pickNot for everyone. It wasn't for me for the first 18 months after someone gifted me. Secular, new-age psychobabble has never been very entertaining. I eventually got around to it. Started it over several times to check its consistency.
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
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“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
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pickAlthough it helps to know at least a little of the historical & philosophical context of Voltaire's slim work, it still drives its point home pretty well. We will never have all the answers that we seek. So is the world we live in, with all its good & suffusive evil still the best of all possible worlds? Or is it the worst due to the free will of humanity succumbing to boredom, vice, & need?
Who cares? You have a garden to cultivate. Get to it.
"Let us work without theorizing...'tis the only way to make life endurable."
Is it misguided or wrongheaded to think that - to some degree - the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants could conceivably have been somewhat inspired by this book's protagonist, Candide?
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