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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

by Napoleon A. Chagnon

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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

by John Gray

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The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren (American Philosophy)

by Crispin Sartwell

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Sex with Monsters by E. Michael Jones

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Were the foraging peoples who preceded the agricultural revolution and the creation of cities “savages”? Or were they “noble savages”? The editors of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter Gatherers are Rousseauvians to a man, who feel that ...more

The Philokalia

by Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

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Jacob’s Quotes

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: freedom-of-religion, religion

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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: art, morality

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“...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him....”
― Karl Barth

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“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
― Martin Luther

tags: faith, intelligence, reason, religion

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