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Sex, Sugar and the Circle of Life #25

Sex, Sugar and the Circle of Life #25

St Augustine on why the pleasurable isn't always good

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Nov 02, 2020
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The best explanation I’ve ever found of what’s wrong with our technological culture comes from a monk who lived 1500 years ago in the deserts of Algeria: St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, and a very mod…

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