Religion

20 03, 2016

Historian uses new technology to uncover the layers of religious history (EurekAlert)

By |2016-11-02T11:52:14-04:00March 20th, 2016|2016, Academia, Europe, Everything Else, News, Politics, Religion, Technology|0 Comments

A 1535 Latin Bible, owned by Henry VIII, contains annotations from the "great" English Bible written between 1539 and 1549, and were discovered recently by Dr. Eyal Poleg, a historian at the University of London through 3-D X-Ray imaging.   "The book is a unique witness to the course of Henry's Reformation. Printed in 1535 by [...]

7 12, 2015

Joseph Conrad’s Terrorist

By |2016-11-02T11:52:45-04:00December 7th, 2015|December, Europe, Everything Else, History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Religion|0 Comments

The stoicism of his thought could not be disturbed by this or any other failure. Next time, or the time after next, a telling stroke would be delivered – something really startling – a blow fit to open the first crack in the imposing front of the great edifice of legal conceptions sheltering the atrocious [...]

26 11, 2015

Thinking and Thanking

By |2015-11-28T16:21:23-05:00November 26th, 2015|2015, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, Language, Literature, November, Observations, Religion|0 Comments

Rabbit: What are you doing, Hare? Hare: Nothing much, it seems. Rabbit: Ah, the dolce far niente again. It must be your modus vivendi. Hare: There's nothing like a mixture of languages to get me going. So what are you doing? Rabbit: Well, it's harvest season. I'm busy preparing for winter. Every day there seems more to do. [...]

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