OK, so perfumery wasn't chemistry, maybe it wasn't even alchemy. But still, a 42,300-square-foot lab which would already have been ancient by the time of...
Jim Bechtel
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Apr 1, 2007 7:05 pm
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I almost never agree with our local Curmudgeon-in-Chief Harold Anderson (semi-retired WH publisher) but I think he's got this right. ... Recent Africa news...
Jim Bechtel
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Apr 1, 2007 7:15 pm
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Agreed Anderson rarely adopts intellectual postures I can sympathize with. But anybody with the balls to publicly suggest population control as a desirable...
Hello Jim and all, Jim sez: I almost never agree with our local Curmudgeon-in-Chief Harold Anderson (semi-retired WH publisher) but I think he's got this...
O'Reilly, Dan
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Apr 2, 2007 2:26 pm
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"Contractors have provided the Bush Administration with political cover, allowing the government to deploy private forces in a war zone free of public...
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/04/02/elaine_pagels/ Gospel according to Judas The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas "contradicts everything we know ...
a) "Is he suggesting we withhold humanitarian aid until a country adopts satisfactory population control measures?" We're already doing that, but in the...
Jim Bechtel
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Apr 2, 2007 4:39 pm
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If you click on the link to Salon.com, you'll see a composite picture with Pagels's photo. She looks kind of like Dana Carvey as The Church Lady with a new...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2047459,00.html Court to rule if chimp has human rights Kate Connolly in Berlin Sunday April 1, 2007 The Observer...
" If one scrub jay notices another one watching it hide food, it tends to dig up the cache later and hide it somewhere else." From NYT: April 3, 2007 Time in...
19 March 2007 Religion and Good Behaviour By Gwynne Dyer They published an opinion poll in Britain recently in which 82 percent of the people polled said that...
All Reason Omaha list members are invited to come hear Cahterine Thomasson, MD, address issues of war, climate change, and public health. Her visit schedule...
Andrew Jameton
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Apr 3, 2007 7:15 pm
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Hello Jim and all, Jim sez: a) "Is he suggesting we withhold humanitarian aid until a country adopts satisfactory population control measures?" We're already...
O'Reilly, Dan
daniel@...
Apr 3, 2007 8:35 pm
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PSR Physicians for Social Responsibility Greater Omaha Area Chapter & Creighton Student PSR (See attached file: Creighton Poster.pdf)(See...
Andrew Jameton
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Apr 3, 2007 8:42 pm
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Hello All, Tim Hanson sez: It's a Gnostic "gospel" For those of you who are interested in the topic at large and not your basic atheist vs. the religious...
O'Reilly, Dan
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Apr 3, 2007 9:22 pm
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The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic Gospel and therefore "bogus"? How's that work? It's not like there was something called "Christianity" that sprang into...
Jim Bechtel
jimbechtel2@...
Apr 4, 2007 2:41 am
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This was last sent out four years ago, but since we've got a lot of new members, maybe it's time to (mischievously) circulate it again. ... From: Jim Bechtel ...
Jim Bechtel
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Apr 4, 2007 2:49 am
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Thanks for researching Nigeria, Dan. It's such a tough problem I'm not optimistic. One thing we do know is that birth rates decline when the status of women...
Jim Bechtel
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Apr 4, 2007 2:57 am
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If you are having trouble viewing this email with images, click here...
good analysis Jim - exactly my understanding of early christianity - amazing that so many are unable to see how religion is a social construction, but I guess...
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Apr 4, 2007 1:42 pm
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Jim hit the nail on the head. I fail to see what makes the gnostic gospels any more bogus than the canonical gospels. It simply part of a different religious...
Hello Edgar and all, Edgar posts: 19 March 2007 Religion and Good Behaviour By Gwynne Dyer They published an opinion poll in Britain recently in which 82 ...
O'Reilly, Dan
daniel@...
Apr 4, 2007 2:30 pm
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/i-couldnt-have-said-it- b_b_44905.html Jane Smiley 04.03.2007 I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself (40 comments )...
The Christian Bible wasn't written by "the victors", it was written by King Constantine in the 4th century. More accuratly, it was written by clerics and...
Human nature puzzles me. This thread bears on one detail of my incomprehension. Ask anyone how much he believes of all the literature he reads today and he'll...
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Apr 4, 2007 6:01 pm
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Since the stuff the Council of Nicaea was dealing with predated them, I don't think it would be accurate to say it was "written" by them. They decided which of...
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