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I tend to associate modern Gnosticism with the New Age, Scientology, Madame Blavatski, Shirley MacLaine and a host of other charlatans. Then there's the Mormon Church. Given our revered moderator's disposition and location, extreme caution with my heresiology must be the order of the day. Believe/s...

:lol: Yeah, but you're one of the exceptions in that you did pick a career in sciences. As a verbal gen popper(!), I would have been ruined by calculus, like I almost was by physics. My problem was I didn't want to hear about the theories until I knew the history of how the ideas embodied in physic...

kairos wrote: I love Ivan Moravec's recording of Chopin's nocturnes.

Lance put me onto that set and now it's one of my favs. I also like Tipo, the first compete set I became aquainted with the Nocturnes as a discrete body of Chopin's works.

I'm stickin' with Gnosticism From Wikipedia: "The gnōsis referred to in the term [gnosticism] is a form of mystic, revealed, esoteric knowledge...." This would tend to explain a great deal. :wink: :) :D Funny thing is, I didn't know the significance of the "religion" until 2000. If you google "mode...

Peer-Reviewed Study finds no evidence of increased mudslides due to GW. The projections were wrong again! Climate Change and Debris-Flow Events in Southern Norway -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference Matthews, J.A., Dahl, S.O., Dresser, P.Q., Be...

I wish I believed the reverse were true.

The idea that the UN would appoint an independent review board to perform anything but a white wash was ridiculous. The UN is so totally corrupt that it got rid of its office that investigated corruption because it was finding too much. In keeping with its finest traditions, the UN has appointed a ...

^^^ And now that the most recent FOIA releases demonstrate that NASA's GISS data was so corrupt the managers abandoned it for the compromised CRU data, which is now destroyed, I don't know how these people can maintain their positions with a straight face. I have no doubt, however, that the $79 Bill...

According to USA Today, here's some of the big picture in the warming wars: • Citing doubts raised by the "climategate" e-mails, state governments in Texas, Virginia and Alabama filed legal challenges last month to stop the federal government from regulating carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The cha...

I heard something on the radio this morning that made me feel ashamed to have posted the outburst by Patrick Kennedy. The radio talk show host was saying that Kennedy has drug and alcohol abuse issues and emotional problems, especially since the death of his father. I did not know that and am very ...

Now we know: NASA GISS data does not constitute an independent data set confirming the CRU data sets! Now we know that 1) not only did NOAA drop the cold-weather reporting stations that would have produced at least additional data if not contradictory data; 2) but also that the CRU data set was in ...

Unions are archaic and obsolete in western societies where the majority of concerns that once motivated unions are now the subject of government agencies designed by and for unions. The fact that so many government employee unions are able to control candidates for public office to such a degree tha...

For example, I seem to remember studying the Book of Genesis as a conscious attempt to flesh out later doctrine by providing a creation account and legitimying geneology for later generations. I can't imagine studying Gensis as anything but poetic metaphor: the bid gestures might be right metaphori...

So Corlyss' sentiments about most kids not needing to know the basics of evolutionary biology may be true in general, but I submit, not for these kids who may have missed out on an important subject. Like I said the last time we went around about whether evolutionary biology is necessary for a comp...

For instance, the Earth was much warmer throughout the Mesozoic Era than it is today, where your chart also indicates several times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as today. We don't have to go back that far to find significant pre-industrial warming - the medieval warming period. The current warming...

Nor are they apologetic for their country of origin, or any the less in love with it. Yeah, but do they still live there? If they consider Chavez an anomaly, how do they account for the history of military dictators and leftist or populist dictators? You sound like Obama. Mere love of country is no...

Wanna bet? :lol: I'm ready to put $100 that Agnes' pledge wont be able to last 2 weeks. Unless she doesnt visit the site for that time or adds me as a foe , there is no way in the world that she could sit it quietly for this time-period. That's not what the bet is. The bet is that the board will no...

Who said anything about the Constitution? And I didn't "get" anywhere. The need for sensible gun control is obvious to a lot of people from the get-go. You're the one with the weird opinion who is lucky enough to live in a country where it hasn't been laughed off the political scene. Okay. Let's re...

As always when this subject comes up, reason is unavailing against emotion grasping at straws. Not straws, even, as they at least have substance. I agree. You continued reliance on the myth that gun control = elimination of gun & increased safety s is emotional and not rational, because there's cer...

That's what I mean. :) Liberals always want their policies to be judged on the basis of their intentions rather than the execrable results. I can't emphasize that too often or too loudly. If that's going to be the standard, then Communist Russia and China and Nazi Germany were wildly successful. No...

Something in Lance's thread on the CD market got me wondering: Let's say I own a CD. By law, you are allowed to make backup copies of things you own, you just can't distribute them in any way. Well, what happens if you make backup copies, and then sell the disc down the road? Does the backup copy y...

Moronic. I've actually represented students in similar situations. It's like butting my head against a stone wall. The school satraps feel that if they show any discretion, make that common sense, they open themselves up to liability which is really not true. We see this kind of response so frequen...

Corlyss wrote: "My contribution was solely because I remembered the thread and didn't think there was a difference between their foul-smelling subjects." WHAT????!!!! Oh, you're talking about the fish!! Strictly. I've no interest in fish other than as a public policy issue. I don't have to smell or...

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Iran is supplying the Taliban with the same sort of weaponry they supplied to Iraqi Shiites. The IEDs in both are not the primitive fertilizer bombs; they are extremely sophisticated "shape charges" with Iranian fingerprints all over them.

It appears that many conservatives can dish it out but they can't take it. No, we take it all the time. It's the libs who can't take it. That one reason they don't hang around here for long - they can't stand disagreement with their sincerely held attitudes. From what I've seen, they can't take it ...

My cynical political antennae tell me this is the opening salvo in a bid for something. It can't be campaign contributions, because Dems control NYC as tightly as they control unions. I just haven't figured out what. The pretzel vendors having to serve only plain? :shock: You mean people actually ea...

My old friend (now deceased) Derek Jarman, made a very beautiful (but controversial) movie about Caravaggio back in 1986 starring Tilda Swinton and Sean Bean, it was one of Sean's first films and he was wonderful in it... http://www.amazon.com/Caravaggio-Special-Tilda-Swinton/dp/B0016QNSFG/ref=sr_1...

As always when this subject comes up, reason is unavailing against emotion grasping at straws. Not straws, even, as they at least have substance. I agree. You continued reliance on the myth that gun control = elimination of gun & increased safety s is emotional and not rational, because there's cer...

Unlike an actual room where unruly people can disrupt the conversations with shouting and bullying, this is like a bulletin board where people can read what interests them and ignore what doesn't. One can freely ignore posters whose output annoys, esp. when said posters are not breaking the rules. ...

As always when this subject comes up, reason is unavailing against emotion grasping at straws. Not straws, even, as they at least have substance. I agree. You continued reliance on the myth that gun control = elimination of gun & increased safety s is emotional and not rational, because there's cer...

Something in Lance's thread on the CD market got me wondering: Let's say I own a CD. By law, you are allowed to make backup copies of things you own, you just can't distribute them in any way. Well, what happens if you make backup copies, and then sell the disc down the road? Does the backup copy y...

Nope. It's been touted in the news since it was first discussed. NY and California are our two leading nanny state experiments. Our View: New York anti-salt laws go too far Publication: San Gabriel Valley Tribune (California) Date: Friday, January 22 2010 IN yet another example of how California is ...

Great post, John. Thanks. There's a movie out about Caravaggio. I haven't seen it but I hear it's very good. Simon Schama devoted one of 6 hours on art history to Caravaggio and it was one of the best segments of the series.

While I'm not as extreme in my views and am not an atheist, Dawkins is absolutely right in pointing out how religious obscurantism and intolerance has caused so much evil in the world. I don't think any historically knowledgeable person would deny that. BFD Even asserting it is something of a sophm...

Sorry if any one here was offended by my post; I didn't mean it as a criticism of the more conservative members of CMG nor did i mean to say that this list represents their views. And actually, I'm not a doctrinaire left-winger at all. You know, the multicultural, politically correct, America-hatin...

I agree it's an important distinction, Matt. And I don't know many people who fail to make that distinction. A favored ploy of CAIR, ACLU, and liberal commentators is to attack conservatives for their strong stance on national security and support for increased surveillance measures. They like to s...

My thanks to Seán, David, and Lenny for catching the spirit of the place, esp Seán who doesn't appear here very often. As Len suggests, an internet site is only somewhat like a salon. Unlike an actual room where unruly people can disrupt the conversations with shouting and bullying, this is like a b...

Agnes Selby wrote:The truth is, David, I am now terrified to post anything on science.

I hope you are speaking tongue in cheek. That's allowing Saul to dominate the site.

The study itself is here:http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf Pajamas Media BREAKING: Released Emails Show Wind Lobby, Soros Group Helped with White House PR (PJM Exclusive — Read the Emails Here) Posted By Charlie Martin On March 8, 2010 @ 2:13 pm In Column 1,...

Pajamas Media BREAKING: ‘Anti-Lobbyist’ Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus ‘Green Jobs’ Posted By Christopher Horner On March 3, 2010 @ 11:57 am In Uncategorized | 52 Comments After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s...

Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study By Gianluca Baratti March 27, 2009 (Bloomberg) -- Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain’s experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide. For every new position that depends ...

I love this one: Bart Simpson is to blame . . . from 3 years ago! We're back in the land of farce. Jackson says EPA is losing a public relations war over climate regulations March 9, 2010 Posted by: David Lungren David_Lungren@epw.senate.gov In Case You Missed it . . . E&E News LOBBYING: Jackson sa...

Outside science academies to review warming panel By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press Tuesday, March 9, 2010; 7:02 PM WASHINGTON -- The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports. An international group, the InterAcademy Council, will be given...

^^^ Melting on one side does not mean melting all over Antarctica. Report from NSIDC 3/3/10: ]A brief look at Antarctic sea ice While our analysis focuses on Arctic sea ice, we note that Antarctic sea ice has reached its summer minimum extent for the year, at 2.87 million square kilometers (1.11 mil...

What was the "play?" Only the team was on the ice.

Animal welfare in China Off the menu Feb 25th 2010 | BEIJING From The Economist print edition The right to eat cats and dogs is under threat AT THE National People’s Congress (see main story), the Communist Party decides what laws to draft and when they get passed. But public pressure is beginning t...

Those who readily denounce eating X animal tend to be largely hypocritical. They are usually thinking about their family pet. I'm told around here where kids do 4-H projects all the time, the trick is not to allow the kids to name the animals, resulting in the "petification" of an animal destined f...

There's no magic number I'm looking for. A well designed sample survey would convince me that whatever results were obtained could legitimately be compared to the public school record (where 100% of the children are tested). Very likely no one has been able to do such a survey, so the numbers I'd l...

I've always been under the impression that bigotry expressed as if it were humor, such as racist or sexist "jokes," is just as vicious and even more insidious than other expressions of ignorant prejudice. I dunno I'd go so far as to call it bigotry. Satire and the ability to satirize is crucial to ...

I've never seen any of the conservatives express anything remotely as nasty regarding Obama as several self-professed "liberals" habitually posted regarding Bush, Republicans, and anyone they perceived as even slightly to the right of the Gang of Four. Ann Coulter gets off some good ones - she real...

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