The Art of Thinking

By Anthony Taranto

Anthony Taranto moved to Colorado in 2002 and became an author. He wrote a series of books and is now ready to have them published. The first book he wrote is ‘The Art of Thinking', followed by ‘The United Satanic Pinball Machine', ‘Christianity vs. Psychiatry, Mental Health or Mental Illness?' and ‘Bible Discourses'. He is a scribe of God's and wrote many more books there. The last he wrote was ‘God's Word on Alcohol'.

Afterward he moved back to Philadelphia and continued to scribe. The book he is writing there is named ‘Becoming an Angel'. Anthony is the Angel of the church in Philadelphia in the Holy Bible's Book of Revelation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638445005

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The Art of Thinking

Anthony Taranto

Copyright © 2021 by Anthony Taranto

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Table of Contents

Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding

Jesus Christ—Man, God, Religion

United States of America—Founding Fathers

My Personal Life and Thinking History

Mental Health System—Assembly of Satan

Love

Dear Reader

The book you are holding in your hands was written by my friend and fellow brother in Christ, Anthony. I first came to know Anthony at the worship service we hold on the streets of Longmont, Colorado each Friday night, and we have been journeying together since. Anthony’s book is written in the tradition of Paul’s Prison Epistles and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Indeed, this work was also written from the perspective of one in the depths of incarceration.

This work is to be taken as a whole. Though it is divided into parts, those parts serve merely to give form and definition to the organic whole of the work itself. The genre is such that one must hear beyond the words. In this regard, it shares common ground with other works such as For the Time Being by Annie Dillard and Screaming Hawk by Patton Boyle. Like those works, this work’s meaning transcends the words on the page. It is not what the words speak, but rather, what the words speak of that gives this work its depth and power.

Perhaps the best introduction to Anthony’s book can be heard in the lyrics of one of Keith Richards’s songs:

It’s runnin’ too deep

It’s runnin’ too deep for me

The sirens and the curfews

Through the night

Everybody’s locked up tight

What’s going on

It’s been dark for much too long

It’s runnin’ too deep

Runnin’ too deep

Runnin’ too deep for me

If heaven loses face

What will take its place

We’ve torn the treasure from the land

Watched it turn to aches in our hands

May this book touch you as deeply as it has to me.

The Reverend Deacon Marc Genty

Pastor, Common Cathedral

Longmont, Colorado

Feast of St. Mary Magdalene—July 22, 2010

Introduction

Every person’s philosophy is extremely important. Not only is it important to the person themselves, it is also important to all of the people that they influence. Since all people can potentially influence other people, each person’s philosophy can become important to the entire world. A person’s philosophy includes the way that they think, what they believe, and how they view the world. Philosophy helps form personality; it determines values and guides behavior. These, in turn, make a person who they are and what they will become.

As an artist and a philosopher, I decided to name my book The Art of Thinking. I am a simple man; and I believe in simplicity in all areas of my life, including my thinking. This book was written by me, and the opinions expressed in it are my own and came from my point of view only. I consider God to be my Father, and my beliefs stem from the Word of God, the Holy Bible. Politics and religion are often considered taboo subjects to discuss, but I have included them in my book because our beliefs in these areas are important to our philosophy of life, or our art of thinking.

A great philosopher once said, I think, therefore I am. This is a simple statement to begin with. It is basic and easy to understand. It makes sense; and there does not seem to be any room for error, confusion, or untruth to be in it. It would seem that we could believe it to be true. If this statement was actually true, then I would think that if it were stated in reverse, it should remain true. However, people who meditate know that they still are, but they can stop thinking; so, this is not always true. In retrospect, who’s to say that just because there is a thought, I think, that there must be an entity, or an I am that it is attached to? It is possible that our original statement, I think, therefore I am may not necessarily be true all of the time.

This may seem like a strange way for me to introduce my book. I did it to prove an important point: nothing is more naïve and innocent, or as easily tricked, deceived, or lied to than our thinking. A slightly more accurate way to begin might have been with the statement, I think, therefore I believe. I am not going to go into whether this can be proven to be true or not, but I wanted to get to the bottom of what it is that makes us believe what we do. What we think to be true is usually what we come to believe to be true. It seems that our thoughts and beliefs are very closely related to each other. They may be similar to each other, but they are not necessarily the same.

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