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  Ruined by the Ripped Nerd (Gay...

  Archer Vale

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  An heir to a fortune…a downward spiral… 
  Danny took me to his dorm to play a new video game. An enchanted village in the forest…a world populated with elven femboys. I didn’t like it, but I couldn’t look away. 
  Weird things started happening after that. We’re both changing. He’s becoming aggressive. I’m growing docile. 
  I’ve had to ask my dad for more money. I told him it’s for tutoring sessions…and that’s not a lie. Danny is teaching me so much. His lessons are precious. 
  He told me to do something terrible. Everyone’s watching. They’re shouting. They’re angry. 
  But it doesn’t matter. I’ll obey. I’ll do anything to please my tutor. 
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  Right and Reason: Ethics in...

  Austin Fagothey

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  What makes right right and wrong wrong? What is moral obligation, and where does it come from? Why is lying never right? Why is divorce always wrong? Why is abortion always wrong? What are the various moral systems acceptable within Catholicism, and what are their merits? When is it moral to kill another person—if ever? Do animals have rights? What is the origin of the State? Who has the right to educate? Is capital punishment ethical? Is there a right to work? What is a just wage? What is a just war? What is the principle of double effect? Are suicide and euthanasia against Natural Law or only Divine Law? Is there even a Natural Law?The above questions cover a smattering of ethical fields and subjects, which range literally throughout human experience. There is no action that does not have some ethical implication, and there is no person whatsoever who does not have some moral compass, whether poorly guided or well. Indeed, ethical and moral questions form the brunt of human experience, whether modern man realizes it or not, and we always have ethical and moral presuppositions. Given this reality, the study of ethics is far from some esoteric or abstract field; nor is it without objective and unchanging laws that govern all mankind. Rather, it is an eminently practical and thoroughly important field for every single person in the world. Fr. Austin Fagothey's classic Right and Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice covers the principles of Catholic ethics in common-sense Aristo-Thomistic terms. As valid today as ever, these principles guide anyone who attempts to grapple with today's new moral questions (medical ethics, family issues, international relations, etc.) with a solid grounding, rather than foundering in the swamp of guesswork, emotionality, and mere personal opinion that governs the modern world. Every Catholic must be familiar with the great ethical questions and their true, Catholic resolutions; Fr. Fagothey's 650-page, masterful tome is just the right thing for the job, a beacon of common sense written with authoritative competence.

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  When God Became White -...

  Grace Ji-Sun Kim, David P. Gushee

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  When Western Christians think about God, the default image that comes to mind is usually white and male. How did that happen? 
   
   
   
  Christianity is rooted in the ancient Near East among people of darker skin. But over time, European Christians cast Jesus in their own image, with art that imagined a fair-skinned Savior in the style of imperial rulers. Grace Ji-Sun Kim explores the historical origins and theological implications of how Jesus became white and God became a white male. The myth of the white male God has had a devastating effect as it enabled Christianity to have a profoundly colonialist posture across the globe. Kim examines the roots of the distortion, its harmful impact on the world, and shows what it looks like to recover the biblical reality of a nonwhite, nongendered God. Rediscovering God as Spirit leads us to a more just faith and a better church and world.

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  A Fragile Life - Accepting Our...

  Todd May

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  It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity—and teaching us how to do the same. After all, isn’t a life free from suffering the ideal? Absolutely not, argues Todd May in this provocative but compassionate book. In a moving examination of life and the trials that beset it, he shows that our fragility is actually one of the most important aspects of our humanity. 
   
  May starts with a simple but hard truth: suffering is inevitable. At the most basic level, we suffer physically—a sprained ankle or a bad back. But we also suffer insults and indifference. We suffer from overburdened schedules and unforeseen circumstances, from moral dilemmas and emotional heartaches. Even just thinking about our own mortality—the fact that we only live one life—can lead us to tremendous suffering. No wonder philosophies such as Buddhism, Taosim, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism—all of which counsel us to rise above these plights—have had appeal over the centuries. May highlights the tremendous value of these philosophies and the ways they can guide us toward better lives, but he also exposes a major drawback to their tenets: such invulnerability is too emotionally disengaged from the world, leading us to place too great a distance between ourselves and our experience. Rather than seeking absolute immunity, he argues most of us just want to hurt less and learn how to embrace and accept what suffering we do endure in a meaningful way. 
   
  Offering a guide on how to positively engage suffering, May ultimately lays out a new way of thinking about how we exist in the world, one that reassures us that our suffering, rather than a failure of physical or psychological resilience, is a powerful and essential part of life itself.

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  Fancies versus Fads

  G K Chesterton

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  The last volume of Chesterton's collected essays, Gathered from the London Mercury, the New Witness, and the Illustrated London News, it is the only volume from after WWI, and is most serious, philosophical, and socially direct collection. 
  "The problem is not so much Prohibition with a large P as prohibition with a small one. I mean, I am interested not so much in liquor as in liberty. I want to know on what principle the prohibitionists are proceeding in this case, and how they think it applies to any other case. And I cannot for the life of me make out. They…do not attack liquor; they do quite simply attack liberty. I mean that they are satisfied with saying about this liberty what can obviously be said about any liberty – that it can be, and is, abominably abused. If that had been a final objection to any form of freedom, there never would have been any form of freedom." 
  "So long as we combine ceaseless and often reckless scientific speculation with rapid and often random social reform, the result must inevitably be not anarchy but ever-increasing tyranny. There must be a ceaseless and almost mechanical multiplication of things forbidden. The resolution to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to, combined with the guesswork about all possible ills that flesh and nerve and brain-cell may be heir to – these two things conducted simultaneously must inevitably spread a sort of panic of prohibition. Scientific imagination and social reform between them will quite logically and almost legitimately have made us slaves."

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  How To Analyze People: Read...

  Eric Holt

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  If You Want to Unlock the Hidden Depths of Human Behavior and Gain Unparalleled Insight Into the Minds of Others, Then Keep Listening! 
  Have you always wanted to understand what makes people tick? 
  Do you want to become an active listener and decipher a message’s hidden meaning? 
  Do you want to know what your facial expressions say about you? 
  Prepare to revolutionize the way you perceive and interact with the world! 
  This groundbreaking guide combines the power of dark psychology, NLP techniques, body language analysis, and more to help you decode people's intentions, motives, and emotions like never before. 
  Discover:Dive into the minds of master manipulators: Uncover their hidden agendas, influence tactics, and psychological ploys to protect yourself from their grasp and even use their methods ethically.NLP Techniques that will change your life: Master language patterns, anchoring techniques, and subconscious triggers that will allow you to take control of any situation with finesse.Fluency in an unspoken language: Understand how to spot lies, interpret hidden emotions, and accurately assess someone's true intentions, giving you an edge.Heightened emotional intelligence: Gain the ability to understand and manage your own emotions while reading others' emotional cues accurately. Build stronger connections and improve your relationships. 
  Unlock the secrets of analyzing people and mastering the art of understanding and ethically influencing human behavior with this simple step-by-step guide that will teach you everything in no time.The Power to Decode and Shape Human Interactions Will Be Within Your Reach if You Get Your Copy Now!

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