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Approachable and well done. For me, a layman struggling to find time (and sometimes even desire) to ready this book is so approachable and well done. The author is lifting up Christ on each page and making a love for Him, and a desire to see His name reverenced the center of our duty to evangelize.

This book has a lot of valuable information but the way it is written makes it the opposite of a page turner. Reads much more like an academic paper than any kind of attempt at popularizing a difficult topic. It’s not that it’s too hard to follow but it lacks any kind of narrative flow, and largely lacks cohesion. She explains a lot of data but doesn’t do much in terms of conclusions or “takeaways”

My kids are really enjoying this. Not the best writing ever but very good hard nosed, common sense, make your bed & eat your broccoli type stuff going on. Good read.

Enjoying the content but the writing seems some what disjointed at this point. Maybe it’s just me.

I love the insights in this book. I have no idea id Rushkoff is correct. I suspect he is in places and not in others. He is proposing systems and solutions to replaces fiat currencies and indeed any kind of central currency that encourages hoarding and what he calls “extractive” behavior. (Using your money to extract value without adding to the economy in any other way than injecting currency for a few)

I am woefully uneducated in extraterrestrial future philosophy. And there's a lot of it here :)

This just made the 5 stars list. Unless he does some real back tracking jn the last 2/3 of the book this is absolutely indespensible reading for married couples and maybe courting ones too. This chapter he speaks of the roles of men/women. The need for Gods grace to forgive and be forgiven. Husbands we must cultivate love that begins everywhere and ends up in the bedroom and flows back out into everything. Great read

Wilson says up to this point that Solomon has tried drink , tried cultivating his aesthetic sensibilities, tried food an luxurious living. To all of these he says they are vanity and vexation of spirit. So he rejects as vexing the repetitive and meaningless nature of all "good" things (which he could try in abundance being a king). And yet he remains steadfast saying wisdom outshines foolishness.

Wilson points out that "vanity" in Ecclesiastes is more like "really repetitive" than absolutely meaningless. Joy as Solomon finds out is something God gives His people through wisdom and relationship with Himself. Christians are not frustrated that the sea is never full, and that the house they are meticulously working on will someday be reduced to a pile of 2x4s and gypsum. Or they shouldn't be. Live faithfully.