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The Coming Christian Unity
Stream: The Coming Christian Unity There is disunity in Christendom, and has been since at least the gnostic Cerinthus around 100 anno Domini gained a small following by teaching that…
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How To Resolve All Probability Paradoxes: Apples In Sack Example
Via Alexander Bogomolny?: At 1 minute to midnight 10 apples fall into a sack. The same happens at half a minute to midnight, then at a quarter minute to midnight,…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Born Knowing
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Before you…
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Insanity & Doom Update IX
Item University looks to add diversity rating to faculty evals Ball State University's Faculty Council plans to allow students to rate the inclusiveness of classroom environments on end-of-semester evaluations... While…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part II
Read Part I first. On the subject of Islamic violence (see the picture leading the article), Pew says: While overall public views have shifted only modestly, the partisan gap on…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part I
Pew has a survey out which measures, sort of, our increasing political and cultural apartness (a.k.a. apartheid). The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger…
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More On SJWs & STEM
Had to leave quite a bit out of last week's article SJWs Coming for Mathematics. The impetus for that column was an ad for math education professors who were first…
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The Most Depressing (Government) Graph
Stream: The Most Depressing (Government) Graph There is no one picture that can capture the inexorable rise and reach of Leviathan, but if you had to pick just one, the…