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Review: The Unfinished Tower of Babel by Dr. Robert L. Bonn

The Unfinished Tower of BabelToday, the never-completed Tower of Babel remains a symbol of how a divine, otherworldly power can enter into and change the course of human history.

Dr. Robert L. Bonn, a sociologist, delves into how the biblical story of the Tower of Babel has influenced history in his fascinating book The Unfinished Tower of Babel. His work offers a non-conventional view of the biblical tale. He purports that the biblical account is actually a myth and symbolizes the Babylonian Empire. Using this theory he analyzes other empires and argues that history proves that empire building can only have one result: […]

2019-01-22T15:56:00+02:00August 22nd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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Review: Organize This! By Vali G. Heist

Comedian George Carlin pointed out that “A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” In recent years it seems that the average American single-family house (a house that has grown from under a thousand square feet in 1950 to over 2000 square feet in recent decades) is no longer big enough keep all that stuff while we are out buying more. According to the Self Storage Association, there are currently over 50,000 self-storage facilities in the United States. Most of these rental units are used to store the overflow from […]

2019-01-22T17:17:34+02:00September 23rd, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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Review: Tilogos: A Treatise on the Origins and Evolution of Language by Sherman P. Bastarache

This book is written by a Canadian mechanic with an interest in the origin of language. He has obviously spent a great amount of his life reading and thinking about this question, not just as a technical quandary but rather a personal one.

As a Christian with no other language knowledge past that of high school, and only English at that, he makes a grand statement with this work but sometimes he doesn’t seem to quite grasp the principle he tries to illustrate, maybe because he has not dedicated time and energy to formally studying the discipline in which he […]

2020-02-21T07:51:46+02:00October 23rd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |
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Review: Random Rationality: A Rational Guide to an Irrational World by Fourat Janabi

Fourat Janabi’s book is something you want to like to begin with – the biography of the author stating, “I am writer, a co-founder, an entrepreneur, a photographer, an explorer, and an idiot,” a sign that indicates a person on the right side of crazy, and therefore I looked forward to diving into this short and well laid-out work.

Janabi thankfully, given the subject matter, does not talk at the reader. It is written simply in the tone of a man at a dinner party, making profound use of his imaginary orange box. And the subjects are vast, uncomfortable, mutable […]

2019-01-22T17:54:57+02:00October 2nd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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Review: Freedom and Circumstance by Oswald Sobrino

For me, poets and philosophers are like cake and ice cream: they go together. Both wed disparate elements of reality, sometimes explosively, always in startling ways. Both go beyond the words to a place bone deep. When I read or listen to them, my eyes pop. My mouth goes all WOWy. My spirit is cleansed, refreshed, and I’m able to write on. You might say that, like cake and ice cream, poets and philosophers are important human resources.

Take Ortega y Gasset, an influential twentieth-century Spanish philosopher. That’s all I remembered about him from a course I took on existentialist […]

2019-01-22T18:27:35+02:00January 23rd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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