That’s the one that jumped out at me almost religiously. I feel like I lost out on something deeply fulfilling and tailored to my very soul.
Edit: It doesn’t mention living in a toadstool or a hermit hut covered in them as I had imagined, but I’m sure it’s perfectly legal to do that while still upholding your oaths and croaks.
If I had a time machine I would go and be a toad doctor and live in a little cottage in the woods and have a ton of wacky ingredients and stuff everywhere.
It breaks immersion if the guy you hire as “weird hobo that dwells in your garden” to show off to your upper class friends is seen outside that context.
My dad worked on an assembly line making vacuum tubes. After that he was a calculator repairman for most of his life.
Calculator Repairman.
An entire life that is obsolete now. Because we no longer do much of the drudgery of assembly lines; we have machines that do it. Calculators (and other things) that used to require an entire infrastructure to keep running are now cheap and disposable.
Why can’t a high school graduate raise a family of four and buy a house? Because this isn’t that world. We’ve eliminated a lot of the jobs the middle class used to do.
Babbage had some interesting ideas and produced one machine that was not especially useful. He didn’t even really understand the idea of software. That was Ada Lovelace.
NASA’s “computers” got us to the moon. They literally calculated Apollo 11’s trajectory. They saved the men on Apollo 13 by plotting their directory back home. All with paper and their superior knowledge of mathematics.
They were women and they were black, which is why they were mostly forgotten for many years and why you probably don’t know about them yourself.
The whole purpose of the chapter is about personal responsibility to protect your body like a temple, protect yourself against adultery because it will harm your relationships not just with God. Nothing about it said to tell people how to live their lives and it’s depressing that’s what the mainstream right thinks is okay.
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