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Religion and the Evolution of Society
Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:52 PM EDT
Religion is a product of society and religious beliefs are only as enlightened as the societies that foster them. The most primitive belief systems are those that seek to circumvent catastrophic natural occurrences by appeasing the supernal powers that control them.
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A Request To The Vine, From One Viner In Need Of Humanity!
Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:33 PM EST
Hello to my friends and acquaintances of the Vine, you may have noticed that I have not been around much over the last few weeks, due personal issues.
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CHRISTAN RIGHT: THE WAR ON SECULAR SOCIETY
Sun Nov 7, 2010 10:31 AM EST
This is the second part of my study on the political aims of the Christian Right in the USA, and not only. If history teaches us something, then all reasonable men and women shouldn’t underestimate the degree of conviction that such people have.
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Origin's - A non-christian slant on the American Revolution
Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:09 PM EDT
.This article is an attempt to use actual facts and history to battle the current war on sanity in this land.
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A Fatal Illusion
Seeded on Fri May 7, 2010 11:20 PM EDT (archaeology.org)
I was really intrigued this week by a news story out of Israel that attracted very little attention in the media. The story had nothing to do with biblical archaeology, was completely unrelated to Dead Sea Scrolls, and had no bearing at all on the increasingly bitter debate …
Walking An Ancient Path by Karen Tate
Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:21 AM EDT
Imagine yourself within the sacred chambers of Sekhmet in Egypt or beside the temple of Isis in Pompey. This is the journey Karen Tate shares with her reader as she travels amid the ruins that once glorified the goddesses in a lifelong quest to meld with the sacred feminine.
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Light Bends Matter, Surprising Scientists | LiveScience
Seeded on Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:07 AM EDT (Live Science)
"Light can twist matter, according to a new study that observed ribbons of nanoparticles twisting in response to light."
The Near Death Experience: Dr Bruce Greyson
Seeded on Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:13 PM EST (TDG)
A nice little summary on why the Near Death Experience (NDE) is worthy of scientific research, by Dr Bruce Greyson - probably the world's foremost expert on the phenomenon.
Reincarnation and the Bible
Seeded on Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:57 PM EST ()
Christians are usually very surprised to learn that reincarnation was a doctrine once held by many early Christians. Not only that, as you will soon see there is overwhelming evidence in the Bible of Jesus himself teaching it.
Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World :: Cool Image Gallery
Seeded on Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:19 PM EST (Wired News)
The 3-D renderings were generated by applying an iterative algorithm to a sphere. The same calculation is applied over and over to the sphere's points in three dimensions. More Articles
Stranger Fiction - 10 Reasons Not to Believe the Bible
Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:59 PM EST (yong.dk)
1) The Bible is a fable. If you look to the very beginning of the collection of books that make out the Holy Canonic Bible, you get a fairy tale: Two people, one man and one woman, made out of dirt. Then they come alive, because God breathes into them.
A pair of German physicists: 'We have broken speed of light'
Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:47 AM EDT (Telegraph)
According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.
Edge of Solar System Is Not What We Expected
Seeded on Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:27 PM EDT (Wired News)
A very interesting article regarding discoveries from the NASA IBEX probe, that is recording the passage of neutral atoms from outside of the solar system.
Dark Flow Revealed
Seeded on Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:01 AM EDT (Popular Science - )
As if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.
Invisible Hand Ruling Dark Matter
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 10:45 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.
Paranoids are Always With Us
Seeded on Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:13 PM EDT (Common Dreams)
In 1964, historian Richard Hofstadter published an influential essay in Harper's Magazine titled "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." It came to mind recently in the context of the hysteria and hyperbole of the health care debate. Parts could have been written today.
A trillion triangles: New computer methods reveal secrets of ancient math problem
Seeded on Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever technique for multiplying large numbers.
What Do Animals Do When We're Not Around?
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:31 AM EDT (discovermagazine.com)
We know filming in the wild can be deadly: Just ask the Grizzly Man or the Crocodile Hunter. But what do these animals actually do when we aren't around to observe them?
What Are They So Mad About?
Seeded on Sat Aug 8, 2009 5:16 PM EDT (Political Animal)
Reader B.A. asks a question about the health care debate via email: "I don't understand why the wingnuts are so angry. Conservatives will be better off if reform becomes law, just like liberals and independents. Please explain the rationale for the fury."
Her Name Was Neda...
Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:52 PM EDT
I am crying as I write this.
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Live-Blogging The Uprising: Iran. UPDATED WITH LIVE VIDEO.
Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:22 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
This began as a seed of Nico Pitney's great coverage of the events in Iran on Huffington Post. It evolved into something else entirely. Nico has been posting summaries of the most important events, but what we have here is the most complete coverage anywhere.
The end of the Iranian regime
Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:31 AM EDT
Iran's revolutionary regime has ended Friday night. Or at least it has taken the irreversible first step to self-destruction. The interior ministry declared an implausible vote percentage for the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Einstein's 'Spooky Physics' Gets More Entangled
Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 11:00 PM EDT (Live Science)
Previous experiments have entangled the internal properties of particles, such as spin states, but this is the first time scientists have entangled the particles' pattern of motion. More Articles
Levels of Spiritual Development
Mon May 4, 2009 5:22 PM EDT
This past Saturday May 2, 2009), Richard Rohr gave a couple of lectures at Trinity University in San Antonio on the above topic. He is the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M.
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CPAC: John Zielger Missed the Point - Palin Was the Result of a GOP Anti-intellectualism Fetish
Mon Mar 2, 2009 11:22 PM EST
John Ziegler's speech at CPAC illustrates perfectly the end result of the unrestrained anti-intellectualism that has infected and severely damaged the Republican party.
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