[DOWNLOAD] "Minimalism" by A. Daniel Bodine # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Minimalism
- Author : A. Daniel Bodine
- Release Date : January 18, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 511 KB
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MINIMALISM: Does God Need More Assistants? is one common mans attempt to examine the depth and savagery of the U.S.s current social and economic morality crisis from the perspective of some of the New Rights passive predestination tenets, about a perfect God who needs no help. It suggests at least we begin thinking about reining in some of the economic freedoms we have now and add more social concerns and environmental restrictions to the engines of our capitalism system as one of the cures. I wrote the short book (religious but folksy and humorous in places) prior to the economic crash of 2008, and dont relish the fact that much of the descriptions in the book are now realities for millions more of uprooted and misplaced people around the world. The small book is an expanded chapter of a much larger work Im seeking to publish concerning minimalism and immigration along the Rio Grande. In the chapter I started out simply examining how the birth parents of our adopted daughter could have abandoned her at age 4 on the potentially dangerous streets of Chihuahua, MX. And social minimalism, the breaking of our personal or communal bondage for the sake of greed, selfishness and self-seeking,is the culprit, I found--i.e., putting your focus on yourself rather than life around you cheapens both. Currently Im a retired JP as well as the former longtime municipal judge for the City of Presidio, along the Rio Grande in the vast Big Bend country of the Chihuahuan Desert mountains in Far West Texas. Also I spent 20 years writing and editing (and some publishing) in the Sunbelt trenches of Texas daily and weekly newspapers, and gathered quite a number of writing awards for it. We relocated to El Paso in 2010 to be closer to health professionals. Presidio, considered by many a Chihuahuan Desert "hellhole," was actually a godsend. Divorced and in bankruptcy in the D-FW region with a failed newspaper chain, sick of social minimalism and jeered at even by friends because of strong editorials and opinion writings, I went into self-exile to the mountainous, hot, desolate ruggedness of this Far West Texas community in 1989. And never looked back on the decision.