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Despite all the mental gymnastics that are employed to justify our already held beliefs, it all boils down to whatever makes you feel good. There are different ways to bring back that warm fuzzy feeling when facts inconveniently challenge our preconceptions, some of which are better than others. In ...

Sheltered environments happen all the time. In politics it is called "living in a bubble." In the bubble someone can say all manner of crazy stuff, such as the US President is a Muslim or a Dictator, and nary a one will question the accuracy of said statements, and many will respond "...

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Solo, You may very well be correct. Another perspective, from my personal experience, comes from when I was experiencing blood sugar problems several years ago. One phenomenon I remember experiencing was inability to see clearly. It seemed as though there would be areas in my visual field that would...

Oops! That link is deader than a doorknob. DCH This paper does a lot to support Pearse's contention that instability was more valuable than stability for growth in numbers: http://gmir.ru/ecclesia/word/Christian%20Number%20and%20Its%20Implications.doc To judge by the literary output of the second ce...

I suppose we could distinguish between tables that would be instructive to the curious amateur and those that would be helpful to someone with an anal predisposition to nit pick and look deeply into things (like me). In the coming blessed age when I get off my painkiller impaired ass and create some...

He is alluding to Anaxagoras, a pre-Socrataic philosopher, as described by Diogenes Laërtius in Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Anaxagoras 6. Anaxagoras,[8] the son of Hegesibulus or Eubulus, was a native of Clazomenae. He was a pupil of Anaximenes, and was the first who set mind above matter, fo...

Ask any Christian fundamentalist here in the US of A whether Christianity developed out of Judaism and they will respond "Of course not! The Jewish scriptures were written in the expectation of the appearing of the Christ of the Christians, meaning that Abraham, Moses, Joshua, and the prophets ...

perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Irenaeus is the most tedious writer in history You'll get no argument from me on that! Yet, all the more reason to be able to easily refer to the Latin (translation) of Irenaeus. Like you and many here, I have Latin Grammars and Lexicons to work out...

DCHindley, I minored in Latin at university, and I would be happy to help with your project. Are you essentially looking for typos in the scan? For example, the scan reads "alitudinibue" in the first line, when it should be "alitudinibus." Is that the task? Hi Vendredi3, Yes, th...