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Ken’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ken Elmgren
Goodreads Author
Born
The United States
Genre
Influences
Member Since
December 2021
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“Unverifiable concepts are those that are beyond the world of physical matter, untestable by any currently available empirical analysis of tangible or measurable substance. Unknowable Fundamental Questions are not only beyond empirical analysis, the concepts developed to address them are incapable of being falsified (proven incorrect). The inability to refute someone’s claim as to the existence of unicorns or angels doesn’t make them true. Unknowable Concepts fall into the realm of consciousness, fantasy, or the divine.”
― Imagine: An Inquiry into Spirituality, Political Economics, and Personal Autonomy in a Modern World
― Imagine: An Inquiry into Spirituality, Political Economics, and Personal Autonomy in a Modern World
“Unspecified angst is a silent killer that targets the overly thoughtful and the inherently ungrounded. Drew was ungrounded because his self-perception was dependent on the opinions of people over which he had no control.”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
“A disregard for consequences is legitimized by religious doctrines which grant forgiveness for harmful actions, even when such actions are taken knowingly and with bad intent. Christianity holds that, because humans are inherently !awed, transgressions are to be expected. God’s true gift, in sacri"cing his son, was not merely forgiveness, it was the gift of a consequent free life. When forgiveness is a given, and unaccountability the norm, however, an aspiration to moral excellence is merely an option to be weighed against other less ethical choices”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
“It turns out that your life really does flash before your eyes during those final few moments. I thought that was just a myth designed to make dying seem more entertaining.”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
“Time disconnects from physical reality during periods of great joy, immense pain, and, as I was discovering, impending death.”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
“While conscious thoughts are self-forgiving, life-flashes, as I was also discovering, are raw and unfiltered. I envisioned instances when had been selfish, kind, petulant, generous, and emotionally careless, but mostly I saw myself as having been inattentive, not absent-minded, more in the sense of being oblivious.”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
“My mind was flashing, non-chronologically, through prior experiences in rapid fire succession. Good, bad and indifference were all jumbled into a sudden awareness that so many of my actions had been based on vanity, pride, or selfishness. I had lived a life of gratification without consequences. Such actions take on a different level of importance when you realize that they may define you for eternity.”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
“Confidence that your misdeeds and mistakes will be forgiven or forgotten is empowering and enabling. My mind flashed on times when an off-hand remark caused a hurt of which I was not even aware or at least pretended to not be aware.”
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
― Our Name is Joe: Let the Disinfo Battles Begin
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