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Tag Archives: 2012
Darwin, Lucretius, and End Times Hysteria
Regarding doomsday today, December 21, 2012, the calamity has already arrived: the comet hit in 1859 when Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. I’m referring, of course, to the death of God. Since the Italian Renaissance and Anglo-French Enlightenment, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, atheism, December 2012, End Times, lucretius, Nietzsche, prophecy, stephen greenblatt, the Bible
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Before You Do Something Stupid
It’s December 20, 2012, and regarding the Mayan calendar Doomsday date tomorrow, the Los Angeles Times reports the following: NASA says, “the world will not end in 2012.” “Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, armageddon, critical thinking, End Times, failed prophecy, life, mark of the beast, Mayan calendar, prophecy
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Khamenei Strategist Alireza Forghani: “In the name of Allah, Iran must attack Israel by 2014”
You can’t say we weren’t warned. This was in the Jerusalem Post yesterday: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s strategist provided the legal and religious justification for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people, in a document published on conservative Farsi website Alef. Reports … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Holocaust, Iran, Israel, nuclear terrorism, nuclear war, terrorism, war
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2012 On the Brink: Our Networked Human Future
We live in interesting times: the end of the “dumb society.” A great short documentary on our collective (and hopeful) future:
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Tagged 2012, documentary, future, globalism, hope, life, networking, optimism, reason, technology, urbanism
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Could Rick Santorum Really Win the Republican Nomination for President?
William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, and a contributing editor to the New Republic, thinks so: [A] group of movement conservatives has called an emergency meeting for next weekend in an attempt to find a “consensus” candidate. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, America, authoritarianism, Catholicism, Israel, Jesus, mitt romney, mussolini, Palestine, rick santorum
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A Poem for the New Year: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ring out, wild bells”
From In Memoriam (106), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Alfred Lord Tennyson, new year resolutions, new years, poems, poetry
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Islamic Herderianism is Coming to Egypt
As a result of recent Egyptian elections, the (so-called moderate) Islamic Brotherhood and (all agree fanatic) Salafists will represent two-thirds of the seats in the new parliament. Erik Trager of the New Republic interviewed seven of these election winners, all … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 21st century, coptic christians, Egypt, fundamentalism, Islam, islamic brotherhood, muhammad, salafists, theocracy
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H5N1: A Threat to Human Civilization in 2012?
It’s hard to imagine a nervier end-of-the-year story. H5N1 is a highly virulent strain of bird flu. If it ever went aerosol, transmitting itself between humans through coughing or sneezing, it would probably kill a billion people before a vaccine got … Continue reading
Cassandra 2012
___ I’m feeling increasingly bleak about the human future going into 2012. I say this without the least pleasure because I have two small children (one is five, the other is eight). I don’t want anything I point to here … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse now, Cassandra, H1N5, Iran, Israel, pessimism, predictions, The Book of Revelation, the end, The Plague
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Paul Krugman’s Advice to Italy and Spain: Inflate and Stimulate
Paul Krugman continues to think that what’s going on in Greece, Italy, and Spain says nothing—nothing!—about the political culture surrounding welfare statism in Europe and everything about the way the euro ties the hands of those making monetary policy: Japan is much more deeply … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, economics, economy, europe, Great Depression 2.0, Greece, Italy, Paul Krugman, predictions, spain
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Right Ring: Perry-Bachmann 2012?
The Herderian religious conservative governor of Texas, Rick Perry, at the recent Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, appears to have wowed the Christian fundamentalist dominated crowd. This is from NBC News: Of all the speakers of the three-day confab, Perry was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, America, feminism, fundamentalism, gay rights, michelle bachmann, Republicans, rick perry, right wing, rush limbaugh
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