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Trey is Currently Reading

Trey is currently reading

The Constitution of the United States of America, and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers

by Founding Fathers

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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression by Héctor A. García

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The answer is that God is an alpha male, a dominant ape. In other words, depictions of the Abrahamic god, and of male gods from religions around the world, reflect the essential concerns of our primate evolutionary past—namely securing and ...more

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Trey’s Quotes

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

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“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”
― Carl Schmitt

tags: political-philosophy, political-theory, politics

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“Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.”
― Carl Schmitt

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“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...”
― Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints

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