LibraryLady2 wrote:trumpbook.jpg
You're accusing the man of being illiterate?
LibraryLady2 wrote:trumpbook.jpg
Mark wrote:LibraryLady2 wrote:trumpbook.jpg
You're accusing the man of being illiterate?
rusty wrote:The reason liberals are buying the book is because they can actually read. Republicans could only use it to help prop up the short leg of their card table.
planosteve wrote:The only thing worse than being illiterate because you can't read is being illiterate because you don't read.
LibraryLady2 wrote:planosteve wrote:The only thing worse than being illiterate because you can't read is being illiterate because you don't read.
IMO, being illiterate because you won't read is worse--but that is just my opinion.
Sangersteve wrote:and the author says.Mr. Wolff himself admitted to as much in the introduction to “Fire and Fury.”
“Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue,” he wrote. “Those conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book. Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true.”
In other words "I made most of it up"
Sangersteve wrote:LibraryLady2 wrote:planosteve wrote:The only thing worse than being illiterate because you can't read is being illiterate because you don't read.
IMO, being illiterate because you won't read is worse--but that is just my opinion.
So can I extrapolate from that, that if someone chooses to read a book that the author himself admits it may not be true, and accepts the book on it's contents, is more literate than the person that chooses not to read the book based on the authors statement that it may be fiction, or worse just a vehicle to dupe the readers?
LibraryLady2 wrote:Sangersteve wrote:LibraryLady2 wrote:
IMO, being illiterate because you won't read is worse--but that is just my opinion.
So can I extrapolate from that, that if someone chooses to read a book that the author himself admits it may not be true, and accepts the book on it's contents, is more literate than the person that chooses not to read the book based on the authors statement that it may be fiction, or worse just a vehicle to dupe the readers?
You took a turn there to mean something 100% different from what I meant.
I don't care if anyone reads this book or not.
I am speaking of someone/anyone who knows how to read, but refuses to read any information that would increase that person's understanding of the world he/she lives in.
If a person does not have the ability to read, that person is limited in the knowledge/understanding about the world (social/science/geographical/political). If a person does have that ability, but refuses to read and therefore expand one's knowledge/understanding--then that person is less than the one who lacks the ability.
LibraryLady2 wrote:Sangersteve wrote:LibraryLady2 wrote:
IMO, being illiterate because you won't read is worse--but that is just my opinion.
So can I extrapolate from that, that if someone chooses to read a book that the author himself admits it may not be true, and accepts the book on it's contents, is more literate than the person that chooses not to read the book based on the authors statement that it may be fiction, or worse just a vehicle to dupe the readers?
You took a turn there to mean something 100% different from what I meant.
I don't care if anyone reads this book or not.
I am speaking of someone/anyone who knows how to read, but refuses to read any information that would increase that person's understanding of the world he/she lives in.
If a person does not have the ability to read, that person is limited in the knowledge/understanding about the world (social/science/geographical/political). If a person does have that ability, but refuses to read and therefore expand one's knowledge/understanding--then that person is less than the one who lacks the ability.
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