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Daily Archives: March 18, 2009
“There must be an easier way”: Kevin Roose Spent a Semester at Jerry Falwell’s Orwellian Named “Liberty University” and Wrote a Book About It
Kevin Roose pretended to be a fundamentalist Christian, and got himself admitted into Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. He spent a semester there taking classes in young earth creationism and evangelism and wrote a book about his experience (which included a week … Continue reading
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Anne Frank and Margo Frank in a Purim Holiday Photo with Other Jewish Children, February, 1934, and an Image from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Where Anne and Margo Died
Anne Frank is the little girl to the left (in a dress in the front row). Margo Frank, Anne’s older sister, is with the taller kids in the back row, and is wearing a dress similar to her sister’s. Margo … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, 1940s, anne frank, bergen-belsen, Christianity, europe, genocide, Holocaust, Judaism, margo frank, purim, the Holocaust
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: A Color Photo, Made by an American Soldier in 1945, of Prisoner Clothing Hung Before the Crematoria Doors at Dachau
The photograph was taken by American Colonel Alexander Zabin in May, 1945. According to the U.S Holocaust Museum archive description of the photo, Col. Zabin “had landed in Normandy on the day after D-day and moved with the Third Army … Continue reading
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Tagged adolf hitler, Bavaria, crimes against humanity, dachau, genocide, Hitler, Holocaust, nazi genocide, the Holocaust, World War II
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Nearly One Third of Americans Say to the Clergy: Don’t Marry Me. Don’t Bury Me.
In the Guardian of London (and reposted at AlterNet), Michelle Goldberg has an essay on secularism in America. Money quote: [N]o religious group in the United States is growing as fast as those who profess no religion at all. The … Continue reading
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Tagged America, faith, funerals, gay marriage, life, marriage, philosophy, reason, religion, same-sex marriage, secularism
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The New York Times on the PSA: Maybe Prostate Cancer Screening Doesn’t Matter Too Much
If you’re a male, and a Woody Allen-like hypochondriac (like me), perhaps you feel anxiety each year when you go to get your PSA blood test. Today the NY Times reports on a big study that suggests that all that … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, death, diet, exercise, health, life, prostate, prostate cancer, reason, science, woody allen
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Emerging from the Conformist Psychological Pain of the 1950s: See Here People Trying to Get Themselves Free by Shaking Their Bodies and Screaming at the Beatles
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Tagged Apollo, beatles, dance, Dionysus, group psychology, psychology, social psychology, the Beatles, therapy
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Peak Oil: Has It Already Happened, or Are We Still a Couple of Years Away from It Happening?
We’ve long unveiled our Earth Mother, and easily stolen her oily milk and fruits. Maybe that’s over. Most of the professional energy watchers at TheOilDrum.com think we passed the “peak oil” threshold in 2008, and that oil supplies are now … Continue reading
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Tagged earth, economy, Freud, gasoline prices, mother earth, oil, Peak Oil, Politics, psychology, religion, social psychology
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Most Professional Contributors to TheOilDrum.com Think the World Reached PEAK OIL in 2008
The very smart collection of professional energy watchers at TheOilDrum.com have arrived at something pretty close to a consensus: Oil “peaked” in 2008. Here’s the chart they present: And here’s what they say: As everyone knows, there is never a post on … Continue reading
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Tagged America, ecology, economy, environment, environmentalism, gasoline, gasoline prices, global warming, oil, Peak Oil, science
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Tagged beatles, friendship, help, life, love, philosophy, social animals, social psychology, utilitarianism
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Don’t Question or Mock Authority? Jeff Zucker Responds to Jon Stewart by Sounding Like the Pope
Speak truth to power. NBC’s Chief Executive, Jeff Zucker, is pissed at Jon Stewart for mocking CNBC “authority” on matters of business. So reports Reuters: “Just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn’t make it so,” Zucker said, describing the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, business, economics, economy, Great Depression 2.0, jim cramer, Jon Stewart, recession, rich, wall street
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Who Made the First Agnostic Statement in Recorded History?
Probably the 5th century BCE pre-socratic Greek philosopher, Protagorus, who said (at the beginning of his treatise on the gods): Regarding the gods, I am not capable of knowing whether they exist or whether they do not exist, or what … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheist, Chris Hedges, Christianity, Jesus, philosophy, protagorus, relativism, religion, Richard Dawkins
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Prometheus Unbound 