Tag: civilization
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April 07, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
A front page headline in today's New York Times, above an article about foreign corporations buying American factories, read:
When Foreigners by the Factory
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July 15, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
There have been a great many articles on the subject of religion published on Gather over the years. And rightly so; religion is a very popular topic, and very contentious. Everyone seems to . . . more
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May 15, 2008 06:05 PM EDT --
What are some of man's great achievements prior to the age of television? I have listed below just a few great inventions from three thousand years B.C. up to the modern era:
3200 B.C. . . . more
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August 12, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
When a religion becomes outworn, obsolete, irrelevant and finally dies the state has no other option than to move ahead without it. When a religion is fresh and new, invigorated with spirit, providing . . . more
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September 10, 2007 07:30 PM EDT --
Just something I wrote today. I thought it was well-written if a little frightening so I decided to post it. And then I realized tomorrow is 9/11, and I thought "how strangely appropriate"... . . . more
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March 30, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
Whispers of nature
All strewn in a cup
Civilisation hears.
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August 17, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
There are two kinds of mummies. There are the individual mummies, and there are the institutional mummies. We've all seen pictures of individual mummies, lying in museums around the . . . more
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December 15, 2006 12:02 PM EST --
DOES GOD OR NATURE "PLAY DICE"
What could the great Albert Einstein have been thinking about, and with what concepts, when he said "God doesn't play dice?" No uncertainties . . . more
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September 29, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
Reports just out of Scandinavia indicate that Martians are leading the second invasion of this Planet in the last decade.
Early Swedish surveillance photo's show the saucers landing.
Early reports . . . more
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February 03, 2008 10:37 AM EST --
Last year, I actually believed (hoped?) that Americans would be offered a real choice in November - a choice between a move further to the left - the big government approach, or further to the . . . more
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September 18, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
Not satisfied with simply displaying images of the moon, internet search giant Google Inc. is furnishing as much as $30 million US for a competition to pull off an unmanned lunar landing, the company . . . more
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September 18, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
» California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
» California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."
» The world's shortest river . . . more
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September 18, 2007 05:47 PM EDT --
Kill my Husband
*A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, right up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, “I would like to buy some cyanide. ”
The pharmacist . . . more
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May 18, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
I just read another article with this subject and started to leave a comment, but it became rather lengthy. Sumer was the first civilization with a written language as opposed to a . . . more
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September 10, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
This truth has been stated in various forms from Plato to Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people remain silent and do nothing.
I submit that many good . . . more
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April 09, 2007 02:37 AM EDT --
Words mean things.
This is the first thing you learn as a writer and/or an editor. It is the reason why I email the columnists with whom I work at the newspaper QSaltLake if some aspect of a column isn't . . . more
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February 09, 2008 07:48 PM EST --
Michael Pollan has scored a number one nonfiction bestseller with his latest book, "In Defense of Food". You might recall his previous effort, "The Omnivore's Dilemma", in which . . . more
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May 13, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
The Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition by scientist Jared Diamond attempts to answer the question “Why did history unfold differently on . . . more
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April 11, 2006 06:42 AM EDT --
For Edward Nudelman, whose bedrock faith is a living choice
I have often asked myself, 'What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it? Jared Diamond, in his . . . more
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January 13, 2007 11:46 PM EST --
Joining what we refer to in the modern sense of civilized society may come at a greater price than we now realize. It requires a belief in science and reason and places great emphasis upon the objective . . . more
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