book reviews
Reviews of books by relationship gurus, dating experts, and cautionary tale-tellers.
The Truth Reflected Through Another Lens
For more than a century, photographs have stood as the gold standard for what is real, serving as the world’s collective proof of authenticity. A camera was the vessel through which truth was captured, a silent witness to time. Yet the rise of artificial intelligence has disrupted that assumption, not by erasing reality, but by reframing it. When we see an AI-generated image, our instinct is often to dismiss it as fake. We assume that because a camera was not involved, the image cannot be trusted. But that confuses process with meaning. The truth of an image does not depend on the tool that created it. It depends on who or what it represents.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
Tobacco is projected to kill 1 billion people in the next century.. AI-Generated.
The Staggering Projection: Why Tobacco is Poised to Kill One Billion People This Century Imagine a single habit wiping out one billion lives over the next hundred years. That's the grim forecast for tobacco use. Each year, smoking claims about eight million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. If nothing changes, those numbers stack up fast into a century-long nightmare.
By Story silver book 3 months ago in Humans
Incentivized Abandonment
Marriage was once a covenant that joined two lives in responsibility and perseverance. It required sacrifice from both, patience from both, and accountability from both. Today, marriage has been redefined by culture and rewritten by law. The covenant has been reduced to a contract, and the contract now rewards abandonment more than endurance. People no longer ask what it takes to stay. They ask what they can gain by leaving.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
Taught to Expect, Not to Honor
Modern society has trained women to expect everything and to honor nothing. They are raised to know what they want but not to know what they owe. They are told to list their standards but never to build the strength required to meet someone else’s. The result is a generation fluent in demands but illiterate in duty. Love cannot survive when one side learns only to expect while the other learns only to give.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
The One-Way Street of Modern Love
Modern relationships were supposed to be built on equality, but what we call equality has become one-sided. Men are taught to give, to serve, to protect, and to love unconditionally. Women are taught to expect those things and to measure a man’s worth by how perfectly he provides them. Men are conditioned to earn love. Women are conditioned to receive it. The result is not partnership but imbalance—a one-way street where the traffic of sacrifice flows in only one direction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Humans
Fiction as Fast Fashion
Once upon a time, self-publishing was a wonderland. It was the promise that anyone who had a story could bring it to light. The dream was to wrench open the gates that were slammed shut by publishers. It was meant to give voice to those who were deemed “not enough” by the literary elites, not because of the quality of their voice and their writing, but because of their circumstances.
By Autumn Stew4 months ago in Humans
The Half-Finished Race
People often say that women mature faster than men. In one sense they do, but that advantage is temporary. If maturity were a marathon, women would sprint the first half and cross the midpoint far ahead. They would celebrate as if the race were over. Men would lag behind, slower at first, but they would keep running. They would finish the second half while many of the early sprinters stood still. That second half of the race, the one built on endurance, sacrifice, and humility, is where real adulthood begins.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
The Goat Life A Journey of Survival, Faith, and the Human Spirit
I recently watched the movie “The Goat Life”, and I felt deeply moved by its story, emotions, and message. This is not just a film — it is a reflection of real human suffering, faith, and the strength of survival. After watching it, I decided to write this story in my own words, from my heart.
By Izhar Ullah4 months ago in Humans
(Part 2) The Nature of Faithfulness: Why Men and Women Fail Differently and Love the Same
If the first truth of love is difference, the second is duty. What reason can describe, revelation can redeem. Part I examined the divided mind of desire through the lens of logic and biology. Part II turns to the deeper reality beneath them: pride. Every failure of love, whether male or female, begins in pride. Pride blinds the mind, corrupts the will, and destroys the capacity to sacrifice. It is the single force that can turn God’s design of complementarity into conflict.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
