An ex-Muslim who refers to himself as The Apostate Prophet offers interesting insights into Islam. He notes in his description: Alif Lam Meem, no one knows what these letters mean. The Quran has numerous “openers”, letter combination that interpreters of the Quran argued about for over 1000 years. But why is there such an inconclusive …
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“Well, time has a kind of strange role in modern physics. It’s not a completely resolved question. The nature of time still has real ambiguities about it. Scientifically we don’t understand why time has one direction, and one direction only. Yes, I can never go backwards, but in space I can go both directions. Always. …
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From the Introduction of Lin’s book Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained… In the West, the Tao has veered away from its generic roots and taken on an aura of exotic mystique. Those of us who cling to this misconception may be surprised to encounter Asians who casually speak of the Tao of Jesus or …
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The Wolf Street Report: The Giant Sucking Sound of Financial Repression 9:48 – Wolf Richter – The Wolf Street Report: 2019-07-28 Wolf Street | The stories behind business, finance, and money https://wolfstreet.com
I was having a conversation with someone a couple years ago and I mentioned the “Clinton Body Count.” They had never heard of such a thing and thought I was out of my mind. I said not to take my word for it, to look it up themselves. My friend called back the next day, …
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January 2019… Seizing the moment, Governor Cuomo of the State of New York signed into law the new Child Sacrifice Act. Speaking on behalf of their old patriarch Lord Moloch, Planned Parenthood lauded this bold and Progressive measure. “You may not want these children,” said Moloch, “but I will happily take them all. I appreciate …
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Headline: Salon Forced to Close After Refusing to Wax Transgender Woman’s Male Genitalia No, I am not making this up. Author Tom Clancy once said that the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction had to make sense. And here we are. From “bake my cake” to “wax my balls” — that didn’t take …
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Bette Midler recently tweeted out a picture of a Trump rally, saying: “Look, there are African American men in this shot! How much did he pay them to be “blackground”?” Cute wordplay, but apparently Bette Midler believes that black people are unable to think for themselves. “Sambo, get back over here!” More than that, she …
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It is my intention to do a post or series of posts on this topic after doing more research, but I wanted to open this up for discussion. I want us to have a copy here of the Talmud for reference and research, and have been looking for a good resource for that. I believe …
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If you ever wondered what was so extraordinary about jazz musician John Coltrane you will want to watch this. The most feared song in jazz, explained 10:49
In this article published by James Perloff he interviews an American immigrant from Syria. She also happens to be Christian. The War in Syria is – as usual – not what it appears to be. The Middle East is a much more complex place than most Americans have any idea, with many moving parts, and …
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In his book The Art of Unix Programming that was first published in 2003, Eric S. Raymond, an American programmer and open source advocate, summarizes the Unix philosophy as the KISS Principle of “Keep it Simple, Stupid.” He provides a series of design rules: Rule of Modularity Developers should build a program out of simple parts …
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“If you speak out in any way, shape or form against migration in this country you are immediately called a Racist, and a Fascist, a Neo-Nazi. It’s disgusting. We have one tiny little island to call home. That’s all we have. We never went and colonized anywhere. We just have that.” — Gemma O’Doherty Irish …
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Exceptional insights here, dealing with Conflict Theory and the Frankfurt School… Epstein and Other Monsters at Dalton Elite School 33:50 – Polly
Am presently setting up and experimenting with a new Comments plug-in. Comments may be whacked out for a little while…
I finally figured out how/where to set the Home page to show only excerpts of Posts instead of the whole thing. This should now make the site much easier to browse. Gee whiz, why did that take so long… laugh. John
A number of years ago I listened to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five as an audiobook. This was an additional track that followed at the end. It takes a small part of the book where Billy Pilgrim is experiencing time backwards, and reads it into a background of music. Some may find it moving. I did. …
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“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
Has anyone else noticed that lots of things you used to find easily on a Google search are now nowhere to be found? I saw the beginnings of this many years ago, but it was just one thing here, or another one there… pretty rare, and just subtle enough to make you question the details …
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Envy I wonder if the poppy shows The slightest envy of the rose? Or if the pansy wastes its time Regretting that it cannot climb? Do blossoms of a yellow hue Complain because they are not blue? Do birds which God designed to sing Envy the wild ducks’ fleeter wing? And does the sparrow sadly …
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After many weeks of thinking about it I finally got Nextcloud installed on both my Linux systems last evening. It is working flawlessly so far. Nextcloud is backup and file syncing software, but it is more than that. I finally moved all my systems to Linux two years ago after many years of experimenting with …
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A thoughtful look at “reparations” from the perspective of a black man… 10:37 – Larry Elder – 16 May 2019 “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do …
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I am pleased to say that The Code of Hammurabi page is now substantially complete. Everything here is a work in progress, but this was something I thought was foundational for the site and I am glad to have it done. It seems to be the affliction of every age that those who inhabit it …
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