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P214 wondered what kopjes were. They are big isolated outcrops of rock. I thought the y were birds as I read-wrong!

P177 words of wisdom about lying

P113 it’s best

P89 Uncle Ott’s verse

P87 the king and the fool

Too intense for bedtime reading.

p 147-148 book states that at the beginning “all
men were born equal and were therefore free” but they chose to submit to a feudal lord who would protect them. This reminds me of Rousseau’s Social Contract where he stated basically the same.

P51 Examine Rom 6:6,11

P50 Romans 7:17-23

P48 ego=I

P48 terms. Self-concept, self-image =basic set of attitudes that make up our total personhood.
Self=ego=concept of the total personhood=not evil

P42 Moab’s pride

P39 desire for growth

P 38 “We can either look first at our sinfulness and erect a basically negative self image, or we can look first to our divine origin and destiny and then build an essentially positive self- concept.”

P38 Sin is not an inherent part of a person’s personality.

P13-14 worm?

P11 “If we think little of ourselves, we either accomplish little or drive ourselves unmercifully to disprove our negative self-evaluation. If we think positively about ourselves, we are free to achieve our true potential.”

P 239 Ove and Rune’s similarities.

P214 love this one “Low at my problem bending”
The thought of eternity puts everything into perspective,

P 168 age of enlightenment became the age of Revolution and war.

p147 Kant’s philosophical version of the Golden rule- man held an “intuitive standard which prompted him to act as he thought other men should act”

P 144 Lessing’s view of King David

P 141 Goethe German writer

p122 Bach wrote religious music while Handel focused on secular works.
Haydn, Mozart, Gluck.

P 101 Science of Man by David Hume.
Specialized studies of the sciences emerged.

p87 Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. He was anti-Christian and put the collapse on the barbarism of Germanic invaders and Christianity.

Tom Jones about the reality of human nature, good and bad.