2009 in Photos

...of the United States as his wife Michelle Obama holds the Bible and their daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama look on, ... of thousands of exhausted Philippine flood survivors endured squalor in schools, gymnasiums and other makeshift shelters on September 29 as the ...northern Norway early December 9, 2009. Russia's new submarine-based intercontinental missile suffered the latest in a series of test ...

Pico, Magic, Cabala -- tons of old notes from Copenhaver, Idel, CW, etc.

... is a book spells   P's angelization is based on PD divinization   Copenhaver notes The Secret of...magic and emphasized that its religious dimension was based on Pico's synthesis of Dionysian Theology and...better understanding of the celestial world and the Bible? Or are those understandings instrumental for an additional... to it by and in the various schools differ from one another. 153 the role ...

I'm in a talking mood

...children. Partially, I think my decision is based on my being too selfish. The moment ... it up. I was born in the bible belt south. I don't remember my first...more churches than they have anything else, including schools, it's hard to not feel the noose... small age, I remember going to Vacation bible School in my hometown of Eight Mile, ... I joined a church, I bought a bible and started to read it, I got...

Top 5 Simpsons Episodes

... Feare - This first one of course being the episode wherein Homer, based on the powerful advice of a billboard put up on the exciting "...his car, then Ned getting shot twice and being saved by The Bible and then the piece of the true cross he keeps close to ... (to Bart, menacingly): "Say your prayers, Simpson... (happily) because the schools can't force ya' like they should!" - Sideshow Bob fainting ...

As vaguely promised

... how the Catholic Church and other book-based religious entities can veer so far away ... a religion that I was taught was based on love and respect for all humanity ..., in the Gospels on which is based all else that is distinct in Christianity?... that make up the bulk of the Bible also plays into the hands of those...divinity as technology stands to science, as schools stand to the imparting of knowledge, ...

Heisenberg's Bastard, part I, or, The whole flock of ships*--

...gave away my cute little car to a poor man who worked at our Bible school (not telling him that I *had* to, of course) and then...and inconsistent rules of the Church; but as part of entering the reality-based world I came to embrace it, in all its ambiguity and logical ...' decisions for me, I did not protest when they made me switch schools, to one where I knew nobody and had no friends (and was a...

... only afford to educate boys. -Dame Schools: education equivalent to kindergarten. Both learned ...were too far apart to have schools. Private tutors brought in to teach.... Some slaves taught to read bible or to take records. Very rare instances there were plantation schools. -After revolutionary war, nation required highly...youth began choosing their own spouses based on romance and compnionship. Some ...

Trinity of One (a tale of love, loss and redemption) 2/9

... front of pavilions whose architecture was based on innovative building concepts for the ... And Rodney distanced himself by choosing schools farther and farther away from home...where it belonged. Rodney had always based his life on rational units of...s interest in continuing their relationship based on trust and friendship. And so...ll write them a goddamn new bible of psychiatric disorders." Her hands ...

Quotes, I Sleep Better With Nero In His Usual Spot Edition

...is really easy to find in the Bible; it's in book one; chapter ...or how kids should be taught at schools. It's utter nonsense to demand that...I was sent to one of those crazy evangelical grade schools in the Bible Belt that teach 6-day...any claim can be supported. -- JerryM, Science-Based Medicine, comments Let's just correct ...of good out of it--not better schools, or shored-up infrastructure, not even ...

Big thinkin'~

... Greg Mortenson's idea for building schools for girls in the Arab Muslim ....-led war on drugs. "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization of .... Having co-authored the new bible of counterinsurgency -- the FM 3-24 ...job opportunities for 80 million, and schools for 30 million, among other ambitious...in a "new era of engagement based on common interests, shared values, ...