“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
I know John Le Carre's "The Honorable Schoolboy" kind of splits fans as it is a bit of a sprawling mass of a book. But I'm finding all the chapters on the bureaucracy of Whitehall and the Circus are super soothing for drifting off to sleep to.
Pope Leo in Dilexi te: Christians who “dismiss or ridicule charitable works, as if they were an obsession on the part of a few and not the burning heart of the Church’s mission, convinces me of the need to go back and re-read the Gospel, lest we risk replacing it with the wisdom of this world.”
(I found a video guide to playing it here...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLpHApoZfo)
I am on the road so can't fully tell key signature - possibly C, possibly Am As to why its so compelling - they do a tonne of messing around of inversions in the bass line, so alternative root notes
es kommt wahrscheinlich darauf an, wo man hinschaut - ausgeprägter bei zB evangelikalen Freikirchlern als bei pfingstlichen Freikirchlern. Aber in meinem Umfeld beobachte ich den Trend seit gut 10 Jahren (und auch für die Forschung nicht neu - z.B. Faix/Künkler et al Generation Lobpreis)
"Junge Menschen entdeckten im Glauben zudem "etwas, das sie emotional sehr berührt", während sie von kognitiver Auseinandersetzung eher verunsichert würden."
Das erlebe ich auch in der österreichischen freikirchlichen Szene. Wäre spannend, das irgendwann ökumenisch zu reflektieren.
Danke, voll lieb. Kommt leider öfter bei uns vor, also wir sind eingeübt - dieses Mal aber für 10 Tage. Hat aber den Vorteil, dass ich gerade ein Buch pro Tag lesen kann 😅
It's been terrible for years - especially at Freilassing station. Nearly always causes me to miss a connection at Munich. Though they are now controlling the Salzburg-Freilassing road bridge as well.
OK I have pulled up the thesis and it is quite different to the book - the thesis covers more ground, but assumes a lot more background knowledge (and has less helpful examples to real life)
