fellow interesting people -- Well, it's March, and that means my life is a bit less hectic again, and I'm able to reflect a bit on the events of the past year....
barry brake
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Mar 7, 1999 7:19 am
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something I'd been reminding myself to include in the list of things I did in 98, but plum forgot about...... **got recognized as a believer by random people ...
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Mar 8, 1999 6:35 am
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you might recognize the name Danny Hillis -- he's the visionary neato computer guy who invented massive parallelism and the Tinkertoy computer. And he's also...
barry brake
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Mar 8, 1999 6:39 am
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hey -- I stumbled across a fascinating group of articles written back in 95 about the religious right and christians who don't fit into it but still desire a ...
barry brake
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Mar 9, 1999 9:38 am
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hey, shona -- sorry I'm just getting around to writing this! <<Because of these lyrics in my sixteen year old mind, I grew up a socialist in Ireland and hated...
barry brake
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Mar 9, 1999 11:50 pm
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It's really hard to think about interesting things I did in an entire year. But here it is: ~~~~~I also have deepened the greatest human relationship of my...
SavageGrrl
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Mar 10, 1999 4:02 am
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I also forgot to include... ~~~~~That I got to smoke the cuban, too! Also, after one of the operas, at a restaurant, I almost smoked an entire cigar without...
SavageGrrl
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Mar 10, 1999 4:06 am
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Something seemed to have gone wrong in my first attempt to join "inpeople." So I'm giving it another whirl. I know many of you. Some of you I have not spoken...
sfloyd@...
Mar 16, 1999 1:45 am
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hey- anybody aware of when the secular/sacred distinction in art gave way to the secular/christian distinction?? that's a difference in terminology that, I...
barry brake
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Mar 16, 1999 6:07 am
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Whatever the answer is, it cannot simply be that the *content* of religious art was manifestly "Christian" while secular art was not. In both Catholic and...
sfloyd@...
Mar 16, 1999 2:26 pm
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Os Guinness' latest, The Call, mentions in one chapter how the dichotomizing began early--even as fasr back as...Eusebius, I believe. He ranked vocations...
Patrick Lafferty
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Mar 16, 1999 6:33 pm
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Why is Shawn's post displayed in one, infintely-long sentence without pagination? Patrick ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/inpeople Free Web-based...
Patrick Lafferty
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Mar 16, 1999 6:35 pm
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... Barry, I see my posts only as they appear on the web. Is there some way to avoid the problem Patrick mentions? ... eGroup home:...
sfloyd@...
Mar 16, 1999 8:25 pm
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... actually, a lot of email from people turns out that way -- it's simply a matter of whether you have an automatic line-break or not in your program. If you...
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Mar 16, 1999 11:07 pm
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... nevertheless, though, there was a distinction between art that was to serve a religious purpose and art that wasn't, right? It's hardly likely that a ...
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Mar 16, 1999 11:08 pm
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... but doesn't schaeffer describe more of a paradigm *choice* than a shift? He claims that in the renaissance we faced a fork in the road, at which the ...
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Mar 16, 1999 11:08 pm
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hey -- i'm interested to hear what people thought about 'life is beautiful.' it's been loved so rapturously, and complained about so vigorously......and...
barry brake
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Mar 24, 1999 4:32 am
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hey -- here's a speech given by Charleton Heston, recently famous for being Mr NRA, at the Harvard Law School Forum. ...
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Mar 24, 1999 5:34 pm
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Barry Kazan, like our President, should be judged by his performance, not his character. He was a great director. I suppose the Academy, impressed by our ...
Wtcweaver@...
Mar 24, 1999 8:05 pm
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tim writes: << Kazan, like our President, should be judged by his performance, not his character. He was a great director. >> I tend to agree, but otoh tons...
barry brake
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Mar 25, 1999 10:26 am
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Barry I wrote that tongue firmly in cheek. What really got my attention was Gwyneth Paltrow's acting, that is, when she accepted the award. Sob,sob, sob and...
Wtcweaver@...
Mar 25, 1999 3:32 pm
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... well in that case the worst job acting was by James Coburn -- gee whiz. You'd think he'd have been practicing that speech all his life. But the two by...
barry brake
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Mar 25, 1999 11:31 pm
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I don't know beans about Kazan as a director. I'll take the word of others that he was great. But I don't have to overlook what he did, and just look to his...
Shonacole@...
Mar 27, 1999 12:43 am
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... Well, it *is* arguable whether informing on them was doing the right thing, mainly because it didn't provide his questioners with any real information:...
barry brake
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Mar 29, 1999 3:28 pm
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sean mcmains sent me this link in Feed (thanks, sean!) about the newest criticisms of Darwinism -- of course, Darwin is as 'discredited' as Freud, and as much...
barry brake
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Mar 29, 1999 4:49 pm
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Michael Behe was at SMU just three days ago--so I learned too late. If you haven't purchased his work, Darwin's Black Box, I highly recommend you do. It is...
Patrick Lafferty
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Mar 29, 1999 5:15 pm
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and it's come to my attention that the next installment of Communique: www.toolbox.net/communique will feature an interview (some of which occurred in a van...
Patrick Lafferty
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Mar 29, 1999 7:39 pm
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For those of you interested in this topic, Here is a nice article by Phil Johnson. He discusses the view of a scientific materialist who recognizes that the...
sfloyd@...
Mar 31, 1999 9:10 pm
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Shawn--You are mixing my membership in the Marxist Society with my covert membership in the Contras? What did you do with YOUR summers during college? Mark ...
Shonacole@...
Apr 2, 1999 7:08 pm
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Re: Philip Johnson, I heard him also while I was at Notre Dame Law School, since he is a law prof. by day, an heir of William Jennings Bryan at night....At any...