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Tamsyn is 62% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
Oh good, “Nothing I say in this section should be interpreted as implying that there is no place in our lives for the help we can receive from the medical profession.”

Like this book does have some really extreme ideas, but it’s got its own internal logic and reasoning, and that seems fairly consistent.
Apr 17, 2025 01:01PM Add a comment
They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 55% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“I realized that I had been delivered that night from a demon of yoga.”

Would Forceps of Deliverance or Demon of Yoga be good names for acid rock groups?
Apr 17, 2025 12:46PM Add a comment
They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 45% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“Some contemporary forms of music, such as acid rock, fall into the same category and are used as channels of supernatural satanic power.”

That’s… oddly specific.
Apr 17, 2025 06:38AM Add a comment
They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 39% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“Without the probe of discernment, we cannot effectively use the forceps of deliverance.”

No notes.
Apr 17, 2025 06:13AM Add a comment
They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

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Tamsyn is 32% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“I realized that humanism has its roots in Greek philosophy. It is one of the major satanic forces at work in the world today, I believe, and will ultimately open the way for the rise of the Antichrist.”

Whoa, calm down. Humanism can co-exist with religion just fine. As a humanist, I believe everyone has the right to practice their religion (or lack thereof) if it isn’t hurting anyone.
Apr 17, 2025 06:03AM Add a comment
They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 32% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“It would be absurd to suggest that all sicknesses are caused by demons.”

I agree entirely.

“Some are, some are not.”

Sigh.
Apr 17, 2025 05:58AM Add a comment
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Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 30% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
OK, throwing out Plato seems a bit extreme, you’re starting to lose me here.
Apr 17, 2025 05:55AM Add a comment
They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 13% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“My old enemy did not give up on me; I still had to struggle against depression. But the great difference now was that its attacks came from without, not from within….. “

Dude dealt with his depression using a cognitive behavioural therapy technique (via his spiritual beliefs). That’s impressive. I guess there are many paths to the same destination. Good for him.
Apr 17, 2025 05:54AM Add a comment
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Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 10% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
“I kept asking myself, ‘How could it be that so many Christians are possessed by demons?’”

Isn’t there some adage about when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail….
Apr 17, 2025 05:49AM Add a comment
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Tamsyn
Tamsyn is 20% done with They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies
This book is wild. I opened it out of curiosity and I can’t stop reading it.
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They Shall Expel Demons: What You Need to Know about Demons—Your Invisible Enemies

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is on page 96 of 214 of The Piltdown Forgery
They should have named this book Skullduggery. I hope someone has written a Dawson biography or a Piltdown book and used that title. It’s too good.
May 08, 2024 04:55AM Add a comment
The Piltdown Forgery

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Tamsyn is on page 54 of 214 of The Piltdown Forgery
Kinda fun reading this knowing that a 2003 study concluded that Dawson faked nearly his entire collection. Hmm I wonder who could have done it.
May 06, 2024 04:51AM Add a comment
The Piltdown Forgery

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Tamsyn is on page 104 of 402 of Trust
I’ve finished the first part, the Bonds novel. I dislike every single character so far and I have a feeling it’s only going to get worse.
Mar 07, 2024 03:04PM Add a comment
Trust

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is on page 20 of 303 of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
I have not stopped laughing at the drawing of the pre: Pangea with Valinor speeding off to the west. Unexpected Tolkien!
Jan 23, 2024 03:58PM Add a comment
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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Tamsyn is on page 300 of 560 of Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
“We will never know anything more specific [about the end of the Armana period] and it is a delusion to believe otherwise.”

Calm down buddy, it’s just archaeology.
Dec 15, 2023 01:38PM Add a comment
Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

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Tamsyn is on page 220 of 560 of Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
‘a twice life-size stone sphinx’


what?? How do we know how big a sphinx is supposed to be?
Nov 02, 2023 03:17AM Add a comment
Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

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Tamsyn is on page 130 of 544 of Babel
This is so so good.
Oct 07, 2023 04:15AM Add a comment
Babel

Tamsyn
Tamsyn is on page 99 of 464 of Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy
It’s interesting and fact-dense, which I like, but needs editing badly in places. Going to go for a few more chapters and see how it goes.
Sep 10, 2023 03:54AM Add a comment
Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

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Tamsyn is 65% done with Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
This book, in a nutshell - ‘it’s the end of the world!’ ‘Oh wait, it’s not actually, never mind’ repeat ad nauseam. It’s not a bad book and I love the hard sci-fi elements but dude. Chill.
Aug 18, 2023 07:31AM Add a comment
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

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Tamsyn is 31% done with Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
The epic poem on syphilis was rather amusing
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Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

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Tamsyn is 10% done with Termination Shock
I have to admit to a shudder when COVID 27 got mentioned. I like how realistic the setting is - things have gone bad, but it’s not a complete hellscape. Saskia seems like an interesting character.
Jan 10, 2023 02:51AM Add a comment
Termination Shock

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Tamsyn is 39% done with Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
So well written, detail rich with clear points made.. definitely read it if this subject interests you
Jan 10, 2023 02:49AM Add a comment
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)

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Tamsyn is 72% done with War and Peace
Thought I was having a bad year, but at least I didn’t abandon Moscow to Napoleon’s army I guess?
Sep 10, 2022 03:30AM Add a comment
War and Peace

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Tamsyn is 15% done with War and Peace
Round 2, here we go. Book 1 was easier to keep the characters straight. Now tackling the first war section in book 2. May need a good map to follow this.
Jul 22, 2022 08:01AM Add a comment
War and Peace

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Tamsyn is starting Auē
This is the only book in a long time that has made me cry. It’s almost too real.
May 11, 2022 05:10AM Add a comment
Auē

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Tamsyn is 33% done with Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide: How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us
This was published in 2018, so it’s kinda cute to see the explanations of coronaviruses in the MERS chapter, and SARS-CoV without a 1 on the end.
May 08, 2022 03:55AM Add a comment
Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide: How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us

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