DB Toxic BLOG

We apologize.  Last week we had the blog post ready to go and forgot to make it visible.  We posted it on Monday when we were getting this post ready.  Join us on this ride we have named DB Toxic.  Thanks all. David's 2 Cents: Hello again, We are into the 2nd half of Mark’s book, “Everything is #@%!ed – A Book About Hope” by Mark Manson and as I have said before, this is a good book that we highly recommend.  Chapter six introduces us to Immanuel Kant.  I like the efficient, structured and practical life that Kant lived. ...

Noah's Take - Once again here in Ch 5 Mark doesn't hold back his punches. Continuing his ideals and opinions about religion and how it affects the humanities. Like usual he starts off the chapter with a story, this time about a fellow named "Nietzche" who is a very controversial man. Mark tells about how Morales could completely change a person's perspective on the world. Live a great easy life with next to nothing ever going wrong, sure, it would be easy to look up at the sky and believe someones up there. However, if you constantly get knocked on...

Hello again, Last week I mentioned the father / son camping trip that we have gone on each summer as a value of mine.  These trips almost didn’t have a long tradition in our lives.  The first trip we took was when he was six years old.  We slept in his kid pop-up tent, so when we woke up in the morning, I was sore from being cramped up sleeping in a ball to fit in the thing.  Another thing to be aware of dads, is your kid is going to copy things you do. I used a propane heater...

Getting into chapter 3, I found that some of my own struggles with self-worth or self-confidence were being explained.  Mark is using the story of Isaac Newton to help us relate to “values” the second necessity to maintain hope. This chapter gets rather deep in the explanation of “moral gaps” and how our values are shaped.  Mr. Manson, in telling the story of Newton, states that “victims of abuse are often the keenest observers of human nature. … But for the abused, it’s a survival skill.  For them, violence might erupt at any moment, therefor, they develop a keen Spidey...

The opening chapter paints a bleak picture.  Mark tells the story of Witold Pilecki, a man that in the worst of situations, kept hope to carry on.  Mr. Manson, not Charles, and his sense of sarcastic humor lightens the mood as he describes "The Uncomfortable Truth," which is the title of the first chapter.  This first chapter gets us to the point where we realize that hope is necessary in our lives.  He mentions that anxiety, mental illness, and depression is stemmed from hopelessness(12). As we read this chapter, Noah and I couldn't help but feel that Mark was not...