Are there words to live by? Is it possible that we place too much importance on words, and that language can be as dangerous as it is helpful? Some new ideas on words.
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Words To Live By?
October 29, 2008When the Morning Dawns
October 29, 2008When darkness turns to day, the sun moves over the horizon and touches everything in sight. This movement across the landscape brightens everything. Such an illumination awakens us all. We rise with energy moving in and through us allowing us to create a new day. A day unique from all the rest and creatively woven into our soul.
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Vampires: the Romantic Ideology behind Them
October 29, 2008The purpose of this article is to analyze the ideological components that sustain the notion of the vampire as fixed by the romantic poets, especially by Byron. In doing so, we will trace the socioeconomic changes in early nineteen century that influenced this vision. We will also examine how class and gender issues affect the portrayal of fatal males, such as the vampire, and femmes fatales in the poetry of several romantic poets.
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Unlocking the Bible Codes
October 29, 2008Did you read the DaVinci Code or maybe see the movie? Did it get you interested in history and secret codes? You do not have to travel to Europe to see the true secrets from history; technology now lets us unlock the oldest secret code in the world, the bible code.
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The Science of Superstitions
October 29, 2008The debate between realism and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world – or are its theories true only within a certain conceptual framework? Is science only instrumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that?
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The Idea of God is not Henceforth Relevant
October 29, 2008Determining Ring instead of God. It is trustier to search for the causes on land, instead of on heavens
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The Emerald Buddha
October 29, 2008The Emerald Buddha is a figurine of a sitting Budha, that is the is the palladium of the Kingdom of Thailand. The Buddha is made of green jade, suprisingly not of emerald, clothed in gold is approximately 45 cm tall. The Buddha is kept in the Chapel of the Emerald Buddha, which is located on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
Legend tells that that the Emerald Buddha was created in Pataliputra, India, which is now the city of Patna in 43 BCE by Nagasena.
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The Basics of Western Astrology Explained
October 29, 2008This article covers the basics of Astrology and how they are inter-related. Astrology is defined as ‘the art or practice of determining the supposed influences of the planets and their motions on human affairs and human disposition’.
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Religion and Science
October 29, 2008There are many kinds of narratives and organizing principles. Science is driven by evidence gathered in experiments, and by the falsification of extant theories and their replacement with newer, asymptotically truer, ones. Other systems – religion, nationalism, paranoid ideation, or art – are based on personal experiences (faith, inspiration, paranoia, etc.).
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Philosophy as a science
October 29, 2008This article is for those who got started in studying philosophy and got confused. Here is some information on how to clarify some points that you don’t seem to understand and be well prepared for a discussion that involves philosophical terms and matters.
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