Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: Religion

  • Germane

    Maybe its intrinsic to human nature to seek our relevance. To our family. To our friends. To the world. We label those who fail to care about the impact of the behaviors on others as sociopaths. That is a bad thing in case you didn’t know. 🙂 I’ve heard people are happiest in jobs where…

  • links for 2007-07-30

    Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker “If the wars of the twentieth century had killed the same proportion of the population that die in the wars of a typical tribal society, there would have been two billion deaths, not 100 million.” (tags: philosophy history science.psychology science culture politics statistics community) The Evolutionary Psychology…

  • links for 2007-07-05

    Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible – Yahoo! News “To see how far into history one might gaze, theoretical physicist Martin Bojowald at Pennsylvania State University ran calculations based on loop quantum gravity, one of a number of competing theories seeking to explain how the underlying structure of th (tags: cosmology science.astronomy universe science…

  • links for 2007-07-04

    CD Rack 600 – Modern Floor Standing CD Rack 600 – Boltz Online CD Rack Store (tags: furniture music storage) flickrSLiDR – My Flickr Slideshow Embedding Tool – PaulStamatiou.com (tags: flickr photography web2.0 widgets slideshow photos) DivineNotes.com: Digital, Downloadable Baha’i-Inspired Music (tags: Baha’i music religion music.store) Desire2Learn and Blackboard Technology Tutorials for the Patent Case…

  • Where is God?

    Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous, they are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved. The boys’ mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if…

  • Prayers

    My heartfelt prayers go out to the Baha’is in Iran who are undergoing the latest wave of persecutions. Iran’s Bahai Religious Minority Says It Faces Raids and Arrests – New York Times Members of the Bahai religious minority in Iran said this week that the government had recently intensified a campaign of arrests, raids and…