No Fake News but Plenty of Hogwash
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Christian Life
| Author: | Tom Harley | ISBN: | 9781370907250 |
| Publisher: | Tom Harley | Publication: | February 6, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Tom Harley |
| ISBN: | 9781370907250 |
| Publisher: | Tom Harley |
| Publication: | February 6, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Like the weather of most towns – ‘don’t like the narrative just now? Stick around; it will change.
Also containing an unanticipated tribute to dear old Dad, who dominates at end-of-book. It is as the apocryphal quote of Mark Twain realized: ‘When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.’
Sure to delight the preacher of the good news and the non-preacher alike. Sure to delight the scientist that can pull off the self-deprecatory humor of the author. Scientist-philosopher-atheist-cheerleaders may not like it, though. Critiques within of today’s evangelistic atheists, who are not the ones of yesteryear. Sigh - if they believe it, they believe it. But it is hardly something to celebrate. Is it not a little like the fellow who loses millions in the stock market? Undeterred, he celebrates the thousand dollars he still has left and says ‘Well, they were only paper gains anyway.’
The book was originally written hastily – too hastily - as an on-ramp leading into my first book, Tom Irregardless and Me. Keep the original if you happen to have it - it will be worth hundreds someday - but it was a bit sloppy in places. Revised, the book now stands on its own. In some ways it is the better of the two, as it breaks bolder ground and it is more personal. Released at the halftime show of the 2017 Super Bowl, by Lady Gaga, while you were up getting pretzels. We worked on it for months – her people and mine. She put everything on the line, catching the football at concert’s end. Had she dropped it, her career would have been toast.
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Tales of the Holiday
Chapter 2 – Tales of the Supermarket
Chapter 3 – Tales of Music
Chapter 4 – Tales of Technology
Chapter 5 – Tales of Media
Chapter 6 – Tales of Medicine
Chapter 7 – Tales of Authors
Chapter 8 – Tales of Lowlifes
Chapter 9 – Tales of Science
Chapter 10 – More Tales of Science
Chapter 11 – Tales of Family
Chapter 12 – Tales from the Group Home
Chapter 13 – Tales of Loyalty
Chapter 14 – Tales of Love
Chapter 15 – Tales from the Funeral Home
Chapter 16 – Final Tales
Like the weather of most towns – ‘don’t like the narrative just now? Stick around; it will change.
Also containing an unanticipated tribute to dear old Dad, who dominates at end-of-book. It is as the apocryphal quote of Mark Twain realized: ‘When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.’
Sure to delight the preacher of the good news and the non-preacher alike. Sure to delight the scientist that can pull off the self-deprecatory humor of the author. Scientist-philosopher-atheist-cheerleaders may not like it, though. Critiques within of today’s evangelistic atheists, who are not the ones of yesteryear. Sigh - if they believe it, they believe it. But it is hardly something to celebrate. Is it not a little like the fellow who loses millions in the stock market? Undeterred, he celebrates the thousand dollars he still has left and says ‘Well, they were only paper gains anyway.’
The book was originally written hastily – too hastily - as an on-ramp leading into my first book, Tom Irregardless and Me. Keep the original if you happen to have it - it will be worth hundreds someday - but it was a bit sloppy in places. Revised, the book now stands on its own. In some ways it is the better of the two, as it breaks bolder ground and it is more personal. Released at the halftime show of the 2017 Super Bowl, by Lady Gaga, while you were up getting pretzels. We worked on it for months – her people and mine. She put everything on the line, catching the football at concert’s end. Had she dropped it, her career would have been toast.
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Tales of the Holiday
Chapter 2 – Tales of the Supermarket
Chapter 3 – Tales of Music
Chapter 4 – Tales of Technology
Chapter 5 – Tales of Media
Chapter 6 – Tales of Medicine
Chapter 7 – Tales of Authors
Chapter 8 – Tales of Lowlifes
Chapter 9 – Tales of Science
Chapter 10 – More Tales of Science
Chapter 11 – Tales of Family
Chapter 12 – Tales from the Group Home
Chapter 13 – Tales of Loyalty
Chapter 14 – Tales of Love
Chapter 15 – Tales from the Funeral Home
Chapter 16 – Final Tales
