Bøker av W Lawrence Lipton

Does God exist?The short answer is yes, and we have the evidence to show it. In passing, this book will ask you silly implied "how old were you" questions -- like: "How old were you when you realized the classic 'moron' line/joke in the movie 'Blazing Saddles' was taken straight from the Book of Genesis?""How old were you when you realized atheists were morons dealing in confused semantics and unable to address scientific reality?"The scientific premise of this book is that there is a GOD -- who, by the commonly accepted definition, must exist -- and organized religions are based on lies designed to generate control, power, and wealth for their leaders.This book asks and answers the questions: Is there a God?Doesn't there have to be -- if we are to explain a universe that came from absolute nothing?Doesn't there have to be -- if we claim an eternal existence and do not define "God" as eternal?Why do we need Religion?Is it an attempt by a minority to control the majority?Was it once a way to explain events, nature, or that which is now the province of Science?Are we trying to explain and justify our place or purpose in this realm of existence?We can look back upon the past and see many things -- which we can then dismiss as superstition or meaningless nonsense.However, there are many things in religions that are derived from science or astronomy and presented as "divine mandates" because it was easier than exposing the factual basis for the "Law". Looking to the Hebrew or Old Testament scriptures exposed a great deal of knowledge to those who set aside the many created gods. As you join the journey, you will see it begins with the premise that God Exists because the Universe Exists and needs God to explain the initial " Creation". Thereafter, we have the deities created by a man who reaches out to and needs human ignorance for their survival. But their death will not alter the science and the ultimate reality of life.But does that answer the questions we have about ourselves?And what effect does the past, God, Religion, or whatever, have on where we are today -- how does it help us move forward in a time of Climate Change, and all the other fun realities of modern life?

About four hundred years ago Jews had to adopt surnames. Based on his life experience, one man took the name TRAUERSPEIL, which means Tragedy. Though your name is tragedy, that need not be your life. Though history might not exempt your family. It all depends on where we are and when...and the fact the there might not be the tragic where. This is a story about a Galicia immigrant who was there. Where? Well, that's the outline of several stories. And there is a second story...about someone who was also there -- or a catalyst for change in the lives of those who were and are there. How do we tell a story about stories? How do we encourage strangers to read the story? Do we want to? This book began with Grandpa smoking his cigars and telling tall tales about things that happened at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. It began with a teenager and a tape recorder sitting and listening in 1960... Tall tales. Just grandpa's stories. Sixty years later, the internet and access to the Harvard library allowed the stories to be verified... Strange coincidences -- of all the children who were his siblings, only he had a birth record that could be found. A tall tale about meeting a historic figure over dinner, and it was reported in a minor newspaper article. A family story that said a grandma died approaching 100 and in perfect health -- the details were never mentioned but appeared in a newspaper article during Prohibition. Pathes crossed, time spent, history touched upon -- a story and another story, with stories still emerging as history unfolds.