I almost gave up on this short squib half-way through: http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/02/01/faith_based/index.html Though sympathetic with Salon's...
Tim Virkkala
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Feb 2, 2001 1:33 am
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I wrote the message, below, for a nephew who has said pro-gun control things to me - as well as pro-Rosie things! I'm not for gun control, so I thought I ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 3, 2001 9:41 pm
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Rough version of an article on S.L. ====================================================================== SIDNEY LANIER ...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Feb 4, 2001 8:03 am
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Our "church" also relies heavily on a sacred chihuahua. Most 'huahuas possess divine inspiration. Though developing cataracts, he is not yet blind, so he is...
Thomas O. Merle
tom@...
Feb 5, 2001 1:00 am
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Some disagreement with an ISM BOOK (http://www.openthought.org/ismbook/) entry: Social Darwinism (Movement in ethics and politics) — Social Darwinism is a...
Tim Virkkala
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Feb 5, 2001 2:02 am
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/explorations/2001/012201music/ Exploring the Musical Brain Music may be even more ancient than the human race, over which it...
Jesse Walker
virkkala@...
Feb 6, 2001 6:28 am
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... PET scans! Uh oh! I'm bracing myself for Byron Marshall's retort. ;-) - E...
... Archaeologists also thought Troy was a legend, until Calvert and Schliemann discovered it. Archaeologists thought King Tut was a legend, until his tomb was...
scyudits@...
Feb 7, 2001 10:14 pm
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This article in Salon runs along lines I'd thought of before: http://www.salon.com/mwt/style/2001/02/05/teen_aesthetic/index.html The contrast in how sexuality...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 10, 2001 4:30 pm
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Soon we'll be able to read the classics we thought were lost: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2001-02/latin110201.shtml Timothy Virkkala...
Tim Virkkala
houyhnhnm@...
Feb 13, 2001 12:20 am
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Another boon for active thinkers: Ian Pitchford, of Ev-Psychology YahooGroups fame, has aped Arts & Letters Daily--started by David Dutton and now run by...
Thomas O. Merle
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Feb 13, 2001 7:30 am
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http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-02-05_100232.asp Variations on the Goldberg Variations By Erik Tarloff It's been said that Bach's Goldberg...
Eric D. Dixon
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Feb 14, 2001 10:12 pm
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Since this is really about the ideas, and the trendier if emptier ones, as well... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 15, 2001 7:20 pm
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Ha! Automatic censorship of ideas by "active thinker" group processes. (I had forwarded some comments to the other groups--about virtual reality et al.) "It's...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 15, 2001 7:21 pm
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I may be sympathetic to the argument made here: http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/02/15/estate_tax/index.html ...but I'm not sure - I haven't read the...
Tim Virkkala
houyhnhnm@...
Feb 15, 2001 9:09 pm
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I like the theme of this Christian theology site: http://www.gty.org/~phil/hall.htm The Anabaptist section gives a good idea of the curator's* perspective: ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 18, 2001 6:36 pm
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... -- Timothy Virkkala...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Feb 19, 2001 12:22 am
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Tim, when you say, ... what is the theme which you like? * THE SITE ======== This site seems to bring together a number of useful e-texts, and attempt an...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Feb 19, 2001 2:00 am
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thanks, byron, for your account of the early church. closely related it is the hypothesis of timothy freke and peter gandy, explained in their book 'the jesus...
stuckey
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Feb 21, 2001 2:37 am
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... Thanks. I'll have to find some reviews or summaries of their book. Do you know anything more about what they claim? I've missed the hullabaloo they say...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 21, 2001 6:12 am
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"Recent research suggests that songbirds practise singing in their sleep": http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,438887,00.html Interesting, though by...
Tim Virkkala
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Feb 22, 2001 9:15 pm
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dear byron, with your wide knowledge of the early christian world and sceptical , should i say ungullible mentality, i would like you to to get hold of a copy...
stuckey
stuckey@...
Feb 23, 2001 12:56 am
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... I can't resist an offer like that. I can't order it, though (no credit cards.) Can you order or obtain a copy and have it sent to me: byron marshall pobox...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 23, 2001 1:50 am
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I'd like to shift gears here, a little--and go way out on a limb, a speculative limb (whatever that is)--which probably I'll regret. Here, I'm not trying to...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 23, 2001 10:39 am
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Byron shifted gears, asking... ...a few questions such as "what is the noteworthy characteristic of our major religion." To which the jeering answers will no...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Feb 24, 2001 6:16 pm
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My new version of Outlook screws up my messages, leaving a very confusing post. Here's a reconstructed commentary on Byron's interesting essay in speculation ...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Feb 25, 2001 1:42 am
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There was recently a brief discussion in one of these groups of "The Egyptian." (Waltari.) I read this as a teenager, and at least once since then. I really...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Feb 25, 2001 5:57 am
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Oh well. ... Aten loves me, that I know 'Cause Akhenaten tells me so He is odd and he is fat But he knows just where it's at. Yes, Aten loves me, Yes, Aten...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 25, 2001 8:22 am
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I've never read Aldous Huxley's "Island," in part because I prefer his earlier, funny books. The cynical ones. When he found wisdom, and felt the need to argue...
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