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The “persecution” of the Christians had vastly more to do with the intolerance of the Christians for the pantheon of local gods than the reverse. What we read is history written by the Christian side, not the Greco-Roman one.
That is an interesting fact. Roman cruelty and persecution has been made much of in both history and culture.
“Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. “Creeping determinism,” he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: “He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing.”
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
Gaurav’s 2024 Year in Books
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