reading https://www.shawnconn.com/tags/reading en Economic Progress https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/economic-progress <article role="article" class="quote teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/economic-progress" rel="bookmark"><span>Economic Progress</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/quotes/economic-progress" rel="tag" title="Economic Progress" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Economic Progress</span></a></li></ul><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>"That's pretty strong. I will say you've shown up what thin stuff clergymen were peddling, most of them. When I had a congregation before the war, I used to tell them that the life of their spirit in relation to God was the biggest thing in their lives, and that their part in the economy was nothing by comparison. Now, you people have engineered them out of their part in the economy, in the market place, and they're finding out - most of them - that what's left is just about zero. A good bit short of enough, anyway. My glass is empty."</p></div> </div> </article> Tue, 24 May 2016 18:37:18 +0000 Shawn Conn 113 at https://www.shawnconn.com Reading https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/reading <article role="article" class="blog is-promoted teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/reading" rel="bookmark"><span>Reading</span> </a> </h2> <footer><div class="author"> Submitted by <span><span>Shawn Conn</span></span> on <span>Sun, 06/20/2010 - 00:07</span> </div> </footer><div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> I love reading. Being so ubiquitous, we take it for granted how useful it is. For English, all we need is less than 40 distinct written symbols for us to convey practically every thought imaginable. We can express our thoughts and feelings, communicate events, describe how our world works just with abstract symbols. Even with all stuff mankind has created, the written language is still one of its top inventions; without it most other great inventions aren't possible.All this shit should be obvious to anyone reading it, but it's worth repeating.</p></div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/reading" rel="tag" title="Reading" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Reading</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul></div> </article> Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:07:27 +0000 Shawn Conn 85 at https://www.shawnconn.com