Forty Days of Being Human
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We have built a world of machines that are worth exactly what they can do, and the moment they can do less we replace them. Then, quietly, we start to wonder whether that is the rule for us too. If a system can write the memo, close the deal and read the scan, what am I worth?
Forty days is an old shape. Israel walked forty years, Jesus fasted forty, the rain fell forty. The number means long enough to be changed. Each day gives you a short reading, a verse, one question, one small practice for your hands and your hours, and a prayer.
This is not a book against the machines. Alan Safahi has spent four decades building them and uses them daily. It is a book against the lie that rides along with them: that a person is a kind of very good machine. A machine can carry your task. It cannot carry your name.
Includes forty daily readings in five movements, a five-session guide for groups, and honest answers to the questions this raises.
Paperback · 156 pages · 5.5 × 8.5 in · ISBN 979-8-9967999-9-2
Forty Days of Being Human
$19.99
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$19.99
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