📖 Lent is better together.
Join Montgomery UMC’s Lenten Book Study, based on Pastor Jess’s sermon series.
🗓 Begins Feb 22/25
⏰ Sundays 8:45 AM (in person)
💻 Wednesdays 7 PM (Zoom)
$10 for materials
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"...A city's inhabitants are dependents: they have neither the space, the skills, the time nor the inclination to fend for themselves.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
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"...75 percent of worldwide energy use is in cities, and energy energy demand is outstripping population growth as those cities expand.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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"...The sheer scale of the modern urban conglomeration is mind-boggling and entirely irreversible.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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“A Machine civilization is an urban civilization, and its worldview and direction is that of the urban dwellers who build, justify and benefit from it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 82
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"...can be seen as a kind of turning-in on ourselves: a radical parochialism.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 80-81
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"...and to listen instead for the old song which, however much we might think otherwise, has never stopped being sung in the woods and the waters and the around the edges of the human heart.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77-78
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"...It's hard work to change a story, especially when the society around you affirms it at every turn.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...To throw it off. If it is ‘the pursuit of the ideals and methods of modern science that has brought us into this catastrophic situation, clearly they can be no issue from it without the renunciation of those ideals and methods.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...And one of the fruits of modern science, clear for all to see, and implicit in the philosophy on which it is based, is the dehumanisation both of man and of the society that he has built in its name.’”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...But ‘now that we begin to see the consequences of our capitulation to it—and we are only now beginning to see these consequences—we are not so sure.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 75
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“There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artificial and mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 73
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"...at the heart of the matter was a mystery that the human mind is simply incapable of fathoming. It could even be said that God did not actually exist, if ‘existence’ meant inhabiting the same plane as created matter.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #Against The Machine, p. 71-72
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“An ideology built on remaking nature for human needs will inevitably include human nature in that project. Humanity can no more survive the mechanistic or scientific revolutions intact than can the forests or the oceans.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 70
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"...The philosopher Mary Midgley, in her book The Myths We Live By, asserts that post-Enlightenment science’s desire to rationalize nature, and thereby understand it, is underpinned by a deep desire for control.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 69
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"...human and natural realities in all their organic messiness, or attempting to supersede them with abstractions which can never hope to contain them.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 63
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"...Awkwardly, this takes in not only Bezos’s Star Trek future, but most of the modern world as well, including pretty much the entirety of the modern West.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 63
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“The eighteenth century's two revolutions—the revolution of Reason and the revolution of Technology—were supposed to walk us towards a universal paradise. Instead, we live in a time of mass extinction and cultural disintegration.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 62
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"...and that this understanding will allow us to control it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 61
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"...were to be swept away and replaced by a new world designed along rational lines to promote Virtue through the rigorous application of that most vital of Enlightenment values: Reason.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 56
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"...that thousand Mozarts is a good target to aim for. Jeff doesn't say what we would do with all these extra Mozarts. Do we need that much classical music?”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 54
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"...with the factory system gone global and the Earth heating up from its exhaust, they might be permitted a grim smile.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 52
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I had a request to share my upcoming FREE professional learning. Here are the first ones which are Asynchronous Book Studies
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Join our year-long virtual study club on Ambitious Science Teaching! Explore strategies to engage students with real-world science while building community. Book included with registration.
Begins Sept. 17.
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We've had two school districts sign their teachers up so far! Who else wants to join our virtual book study? ❤️📚
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I know that some of you were looking for my FREE PD over the summer. Just Read It by Jarred Amato is on there among 7 others.
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