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Jonathan-David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan-David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jonathan-David Jackson
Goodreads Author
Born
in Gastonia, NC, The United States
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Genre
Influences
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October 2010
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The Quest for Juice
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2013
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The Quest for Truth (Paranoia #2)
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2014
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The Quest for Nothing in Particular (Paranoia #3)
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2015
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Faith of the Forsaken
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Not Quite the End of the World: A Gentle Post-Apocalyptic Dark Comedy
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The American Dream: A Short Story
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Murdergirl in the Valley of the Bones
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The Quest for Juice - 2014 ABNA Entry
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Review and Rebuttal of ’10 Answers for Atheists’
Introduction
This is an expansion of a shorter review on Goodreads, since Goodreads allows only about half the words I had used.
I am an atheist. I have given this book a one-star rating because of my disappointment at not finding anything of substance. Given that the author received a masters degree in Christian Thought and Apologetics and was director of the Center for Christian Worldview and Apol
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| You get sick? Your fault. Someone else gets sick? Your fault. Someone else dies? Also your fault. Your newborn infant dies? Still your fault! Lost your job? Broke a glass? Somebody was rude to you? You can probably guess that all those things are yoo ...more | |
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“I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied, "Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the oyster. What's the matter with you?" She answered, "Oh, about nineteen people." She had quarrelled with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster.”
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| First Review, May 2015: It's possible that I somehow missed everything good about this book; the multitude of five star reviews tell me that other people got something out of it that I didn't. Then again, since the afterword written by the editor adm ...more | |
“A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly.”
― The Quest for Juice
― The Quest for Juice
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“Compare two people, one of whom has been crippled by an accident, the other by an early environmental history which makes him lazy and, when criticized, mean. Both cause great inconvenience to others, but one dies a martyr, the other a scoundrel.”
― About Behaviorism
― About Behaviorism
“But I've actually lived long enough now to have figured out what the word "morality" really refers to. I do know what it means, although it's pretty outrageous. It refers to a very simple thought: we shouldn't accept this principle that strong inevitably triumphs over weak. Luck has distributed strength in an arbitrary way: this lion is stronger, this elk is stronger, this group of people lives closer to the river, this group of people lives farther away. Luck has given the person with the penis, the people with the guns, a bit more strength, and so they've trampled over everyone else. Morality says we shouldn't accept that. For the bigger kid to take the smaller kid's candy bar is not right; it's wrong. And if the bigger kid gives that candy bar to me, the process by which I received it was wrong, and it's wrong for me to have it, and it's wrong for me to eat it.”
― Night Thoughts
― Night Thoughts
“It was surprising enough when strangely dressed religious leaders took over the government of such a large country as Iran. But now, these bin Ladenists? The tactics they've used are bloodthirsty, sadistic. They shamelessly show their pleasure when their enemies are killed. They touch their victims, they look at their faces. They film the killings! These are all things that we would never do--well, except on very rare occasions, like the time we killed bin Laden himself.”
― Night Thoughts
― Night Thoughts
“It seems undeniable that once it beings, violence leads us into some sort of madness, some terrifying maze inside the mind in which we become lost, and we don't know what's happening or what we ourselves are doing.”
― Night Thoughts
― Night Thoughts
“Revenge and punishment both imply, “Even if I’d been you, and I’d had your life, I would never have done what you did.” And that in turn implies, “I wouldn’t have done it, because I’m better than you.” But the person who says, “I’m better than you” is taking a serious step in a very dangerous direction. And the person who says, “Even if I’d had your life, I would never have done what you did” is very probably wrong.”
― Night Thoughts
― Night Thoughts
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