November 2011
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August 2010
4 posts
What you believe? Or the way you believe it? →
Fundamentalism has less to do with the contents of belief than the way the believer holds those beliefs.
For example, fundamentalism is strongly associated with dogmatism — beliefs considered unassailable and held with fervent, unjustified certainty[…].
[F]undamentalism has a strong “us versus them” dynamic, […] authoritarianism and ethnocentrism (e.g. Positive correlations have...
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and Militaries
Amplify’d from michellemalkin.com
All the good armies of the world speak English. I’m serious. Think about it. It doesn’t surprise me that the taliban can’t maneuver worth crap, few armies can.
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Untitled
Amplify’d from michellemalkin.com
All the good armies of the world speak English. I’m serious. Think about it. It doesn’t surprise me that the taliban can’t maneuver worth crap, few armies can.
Read more at michellemalkin.com See this Amp at http://bit.ly/dhK6jY
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” —Carl Sagan http://bit.ly/dysjOa
May 2010
1 post
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can you hear me now?
Anton: so why does it hurt?
You: I’m trying to stop saying “I don’t know;” it leaves me feeling like there’s something wrong with me for not knowing all there is to know. Some people —perhaps due to fear of being labeled deaf, blind, mute, or the simpleton— avoid saying “I don’t know” by… acting like they’re deaf, blind, mute, or simpletons. I...
March 2010
4 posts
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cartoon: dead is dead? | nakedpastor →
There’s something about the writings of David Hayward (the naked pastor) that seem to just sing to something within me. Ignoring the specifics of the details —the dwelling place of the devil, remember?— allows me to sense that the resonating “stuff” can be heard in his painfully open, blues-style authenticity.
“Love me, if you please. Leave me if you don’t. Either...
DzignSpace :: Goodnight Forest Moon →
For that special storm trooper in your life.
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams (via and-i-quote)
February 2010
7 posts
An Atheist Defends Religion
How do Christians react when they find you are actually defending religion? Why are you defending religion anyway?
[…]
Why do I defend religion? Remember, I am defending religion not God. That is something plausible just as it is possible to defend the scientific method or the capitalist system. I am defending the belief in God, but not the existence of God. And since I believe that religion is...
“Good poets wrap truth with story and metaphor. Bad theologians warp story and...”
– Michael James Pruitt
January 2010
1 post
WARNING to my Tea Party friends!!!
Someone’s trying to pull a fast one! Can you spot the difference?
CURRENTLY USED: http://bit.ly/oath-keepers SAVED ORIGINAL: http://bit.ly/oath-sworn
“Freedom is not free, it is bought with the blood of patriots I so appreciate what you are doing and what you stand for. God bless you all.”
December 2009
4 posts
bmckinney:
nerdgasms:
caraobrien:
unedited-peace:
Amount spent each year in Europe and the United States on pet food: $17 billion Cost per year to achieve basic health and nutrition for the entire world: $13 billion Amount spent on perfumes each year: $12 billion Clean water for all the world: $9 billion Amount spent on cosmetics in the US: $8 billion Basic education for the world’s...
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of...”
– Enzo Marcello, my cousin of awesomeness
November 2009
21 posts
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(from bryan tann)
"I'm so happy for the two of you" is like a death...
(via bmckinney)
Not when I say it. :(
rrrrred:
ACTUAL THINGS that were said to me, upon my (biological) father’s side of the family finding out about my secret boyfriend of six months:
“Yea! Erica’s not a lesbian!”
“I was starting to wonder about you!”
“He’s not black, is he?”
And my FAVORITE ONE, since it immediately followed those:
“Why didn’t you bring him?!”
Pieces of Me
Hate being pessimistic? Ok, I invite you to be optimistic with me. :)
SO many moments from my life were moments I once regarded as discarded fragments, or, at best, broken bits I couldn’t quite manage to superglue together.
Take a step to the left.
My tour guide on my visit to the Washington National Cathedral told so many wonderful stories. She told a bit about the history of stained...
Götterdämmerung and Ragnarök
Nikki: I will google götterdämmerung :)
Michael: Here’s something I learned today from the wiki article on Ragnarök, the Norse take on the end of the world.
The penultimate step - THE battle between good and evil. Immortal beings *DIE*. This is the stuff of which legends are made. The battle ends with a wave of mutilation that covers the entire face of the planet. The ultimate step -...
“Opinion is holding as true something you do not know to be false.”
– Bernard of Clairvaux
“Paradoxically, connected spaces and situations exclude participation, whereas...”
– Marshall McLuhan, prophetically foreshadowing the downfall of ”teh social” a.k.a. FaceBook, in his 1968 work, Through the Vanishing Point
Quizzes I've seen taken by "Christian" friends on...
Hi! I’m calling you out on improper use of quotation marks. I suggest that you post is a-ok if you change the title to read: …Christian “friends”
If you truly believe that one dispels the dark by cursing at the dark, I suggest you practice that which you proclaim as truth.
Have you tried addressing these alleged friends directly? Have you tried simply asking them,...
316 Networks | Leading People Verses Controlling... →
Characteristics of leading people:
* Encourages creativity * Develops people rather than programs * Builds healthy relationships with followers * Models a healthy way * More focused on needs of followers * People follow by choice * Empowers people
Characteristics of controlling people:
* Stifles personal growth * Discourages creativity * Keeps followers at a distance * Insists on a set way *...
The Internet is forever
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Temporary.cc is a very interesting art project by Zach Gage. Basically it is a self deleting website titled “the internet is forever”. It shows that while everything you say and do online might feel permanent some things still fade away.
(from TheNextWeb.com Temporary.cc: the website that slowly deletes...
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Make Your Own Academic Sentence
Let’s be honest. Now that you’re getting older, you’re starting to feel intellectually insecure. You want to feel superior again, they way you did before your nephew Billy started beating you in chess.
With this Web 2.0 Club of Confusion™, you’ll be able to ignore that unpleasant feeling of self-examination and start to feel better while you take Billy down a notch or...
“Like war, the public sphere is messy, agonistic, and uncertain. Better a war of...”
– Matthew Battles | the great war & the enchanted public sphere
The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone (via The Big...
(37 more photos of Tearing Down the Wall)
The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the “Anti-Fascist Protection Wall” (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by the communist GDR authorities….
October 2009
9 posts
“There is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love,...”
– Lloyd Alexander (via nihilnoetia) (via gottfried) (via bmckinney)
But all I hear is 'BRAINS!!!'"
“It isn’t Jesus I have a beef with. It’s church.” I hear this over and over.
And over again. When I (gently) probe more deeply—after they accept that I really agree with them and that I also just want things to be better (even though I “go to church”)—what I’m told is a story that sounds a little like this:
“Well, it’s not the...
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why so many people are...”
– Dom Helder Câmara, late archbishop of the Brazilian diocese of Olinda and Recife. Wednesday, Oct. 13 was the 10th anniversary of his death. (Source: Guardian via OffTheMap
“1) How can we build a bridge between science and faith, especially through the...”
– More on the exciting news… « The Thomas Society
The Neverending Story
G’mork: Foolish boy. Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.
There’s a crash and more rocks fall.
Atreyu: But why is Fantasia dying then ?
G’mork: Because people have begun to loose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the...
Seeing for the first time
bmckinney:
It’s interesting to me to find out that one can be both heartbroken and ridiculously happy at the same time. It’s strange. Life is full of surprises lately.
Bridget, are you trying to avoid hurting me by leaving out the sucky parts? If you leave out the painful parts, what you’ll be telling is a story that sucks.
Yep. I’m responsible for many, if not all, of those painful...