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Joshua Glasgow
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So much of this book is about getting cancelled online. Grandma isn’t online. If you wanted to write a book about internet mobs, just say that. Very little of this is relevant to how to cope with somebody who is actively toxic. I don’t know what the author is suggesting you do exactly. Just… allow somebody to engage in toxic behavior, in the name of compassion? It feels very theoretical, not practical.
— Aug 07, 2026 11:28PM
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Joshua Glasgow
is 44% done
Yeah—I dunno. I have a kind of knee-jerk reaction against people who complain about the Internet ruining society. The chapter on “progressive amnesia” made some good points, I thought, but not in a way that really hit me deeply. And I can’t get over the fact that the author was a megachurch pastor?? Now I can’t think of her as anything else.
— Aug 06, 2026 10:45PM
Joshua Glasgow
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Wow, I’m 14% in? I’ve only read an intro and a couple pages of the first chapter. Not sure how I’m gonna feel about this one, but hopefully it hits more than FAILURES OF FORGIVENESS did. Side note: in the first chapter, the author talks about having a falling out with evangelical Christianity… which is what my current audiobook is about. I had no idea this book was going to touch on that. Mere coincidence!
— Aug 05, 2026 11:00PM
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Aug 08, 2026 09:41AM
I had a migraine yesterday (and I'm dealing with the after-effects today) but one of the sections I listened to yesterday was about forgiveness, and I need to revisit it because it struck me the wrong way and I don't know if that's the brain's or the book's fault.
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Huh. I don’t think I’ve gotten there yet but I would not be surprised if it’s the book. I sort of feel like she’s writing a lot about how people should forgive *her* specifically.