10-02-2008, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Davidius  Or do you think that the information gleaned from reading the "endless number of books" (bad attempt to quote Ecclesiastes) is actually worth the opportunity cost? | Most of the new books, IMO, are little more than a rewrite of older material repackaged for our modern generation. It's usually drastically 'scaled' down for the modern reader and put into 30 second 'soundbites'. Such has been my experience. This is why I rarely buy any books written in the 20th century.
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Chris Thomas | SBC-Founders | Fairbanks, AK "Whatever the cause, the Calvinists were the only fighting Protestants. It was they whose faith gave them courage to stand up for the Reformation. In England, Scotland, France, Holland, they,... did the work, and but for them the Reformation would have been crushed... If it had not been for Calvinists,... and whatever you like to call them, the Pope and Philip would have won, and we should either be Papists or Socialists." ~ Sir John Skelton |