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Paperback, 156 pages
Published
February 1st 1998
by Kessinger Publishing
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Hubbard was a hippy before hippies existed. He paints a portrait of a life lived in harmony with one's fellow man, doing work worth doing.
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“Every religion is made up of two elements that never mix any more than oil and water mix. A religion is a mechanical mixture, not a chemical combination, of morality and dogma. Dogma is the science of the unseen: the doctrine of the unknown and unknowable. And in order to give this science plausibility, its promulgators have always fastened upon it morality. Morality can and does exist entirely separate and apart from dogma, but dogma is ever a parasite on morality, and the business of the prie
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The extended title of this book is self explanatory. “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-natured, Concerning how to Attain the Highest Happiness for One’s Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”. It has stories that view things from a perspective that we are aware of but are not in our focus.
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For a young man as myself i found a lot of the ideas included in this book to be very convincing and thoughtful..
Yet still there were disagreements between me and the writer “as anything in this world” and there were some essays to be kind of dreamy or utopian.
In general I guess that i found a lot of ideas that fits exactly in the complicated-type of mind like mine..
Yet still there were disagreements between me and the writer “as anything in this world” and there were some essays to be kind of dreamy or utopian.
In general I guess that i found a lot of ideas that fits exactly in the complicated-type of mind like mine..
A light read. I usually read this whenever i'm on my way heading to somewhere. The life lesson's are easily absorbed and most of them are relevant to be hold onto in this modern day.
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I expected a lot
But not a lot was received or given
But not a lot was received or given
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