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Removing the Mask of Religious Identity: A Psychological Assessment

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:52:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excellent analysis, read at the source, this is what we need! I'm sure CM's atheist friends here will also appreciate this dialog.

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In this age of globalization on an ever shrinking planet, can humanity expect to survive as a species by holding on to our notions of religious identity? Will it come down to your God versus my God, your sacred scripture versus my sacred scripture, your sacred places and worship practices versus mine? Can these conflicts and tensions really be resolved by interfaith and ecumenical dialogue and collaboration resulting in a plausible appreciation, if not a celebration, of our diversity as a species or do our hopes for a common humanity require a complete deconstruction of our religio-cultural myths and a removal of our masks of religious identity, while our civil and human rights continue to be guaranteed by a more “just” secular order?

Tags: psychology, religion

Cluttering tips

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:17:50 GMT

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Myths of Cluttering:
1. "I need to get organized." No! Don't get organized is your first step.

7. "I might learn how to use that gizmo." Again, face it. If you’ve had a gizmo on the shelf for a year, and you’ve never used it to make gelato or label a sugar jar, it’s clutter.

11. "If I have any available space, I should fill it up with something." No! One of my Secrets of Adulthood is Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

Tags: clutter, household

NASA tries to dispel 2012 film myths

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:28:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I guess that the believers have not had an education of any use. Sad that people are so gullible that they can think this true.

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The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, US space agency NASA insists.

The latest big screen offering from Sony Pictures, 2012, arrives in theatres today.

The $US200 million production about the end of the world is based on internet rumours and myths backed by the Mayan calendar.

The film claims that the end of time will come when an obscure planet - Nibiru - heads toward and collides with Earth.

The planet was supposedly discovered by the Sumerians, according to claims by pseudo-scientists, paranormal activity enthusiasts and internet theorists.

Some websites accuse NASA of concealing the truth on the wayward planet's existence, but the US space agency has denounced such stories as an "internet hoax."

"There is no factual basis for these claims," NASA said in a question-and-answer post on its website.

If such a collision were real "astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye," it added.

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Residential Solar Power Systems – An Easier and Cheaper Way to Solar Powered Homes | Top Solar Panel

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:39:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Residential solar power systems are getting more common nowadays. And an even cheaper way is to build your own solar panels for homes. Read on for more.

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Small Business Marketing Strategies and Business Goal Setting Strategies Facts And Myths Part 1 | Sm

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:15:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No business goal setting strategies can be achieved effectively without your small business marketing strategies and they must be worked out in tandem with each other. Find out more here.

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Small Business Marketing Strategies

Small Business Marketing Strategies and Business Goal Setting Strategies Facts And Myths Part 1

If you are running your own business, you should know exactly where your business stands, and be able to met out small business marketing strategies in tandem with your goal setting strategies.

No business goal setting strategies can be achieved effectively without your small business marketing strategies and they must be worked out in tandem with each other.

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cystic acne piqniq

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:02:57 GMT

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also - generic benzoyl peroxide is just as good as the name brands. BP is
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by the way, there are lots of annoying cystic acne myths. It is NOT caused

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ONE FAMILY'S ROOTS, A NATION'S HISTORY.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:54:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: MICHELLE OBAMA'S ANCESTRY

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One Family’s Roots, a Nation’s History

Michelle Obama with her mother, Marian Robinson.

In an article published on Wednesday, The Times reported on Michelle Obama’s ancestry, tracing her maternal line back to her great-great-great-grandparents, a slave girl and a white man, and their son, Dolphus T. Shields, who was born in the 1850s.

While these findings tell of Michelle Obama’s roots, for many Americans her family’s story will also bring into focus a common narrative, which runs through the history of this nation. We asked some historians and writers, why has it taken so long for Americans to appreciate these deep multiethnic connections?

As we have shown in the “African American Lives” series on PBS, fully 58 percent of African Americans have at least 12.5 percent European ancestry. Only 5 percent, in spite of widespread myths to the contrary, have as much Native American ancestry.

And between 30 and 35 percent of all African

American males can

trace their paternal lineage

their y-DNA

Tags: roots, family, history, native, american

Animals' eating habits

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:56:17 GMT

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Nature’s Food Critics: The Bonobos

Apparently if bonobos could talk, they would tell you that their top 5 favorite foods are as follows: figs, raisins, grapes, bananas and popcorn.

Nature’s Junk Food Lovers: The Rats

Nature’s Man-Eaters: The Tsavo Lions

Nature’s Vitamin-D Lovers: Lizards

According to new research, it turns out that lizards also bask in the sun to get them some vitamin D, a vital nutrient found in orange juice.

Nature’s Food Testers: Apes

Nature’s Spoilers: Firefly Flashes

A recent study found that bats use firefly lights as a signal not to eat this prey, a good decision when considering that fireflies can be toxic for bats.

Nature’s Secret Food Stashes: Penguins and Sperm Whales

the sperm whale was able to unhook the fish without getting caught in the fishing lines. For a mammal that big, stealing fish seems like an uneven playing field, but hey, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do sometimes.

Nature’s Food Myths: Beavers

How many lightbulbs?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:44:30 GMT

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How many lightbulbs?

Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, presents a fascinating, personal and passionate analysis of energy consumption in the UK. Debunking many of the existing myths surrounding energy consumption and showing us what we should be doing at home, Mackay draws interesting and surprising conclusions about the way forward.

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Tags: global warming, climate change, electricy, carbon fuels, eco, green power, wind turbines

The Savage Detective (CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:28:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He was talking about the genocide (not to mention ecocide) unleashed on the rest of the world by Western civilisation and imperialism.

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CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, anthropologist, writer and adventurer, died just over a week ago at age 100.

His edifice, structuralism — the theory of a structural unity in all cultures —

In his book “La Pensée Sauvage,” published in 1962, he showed these “primitive” people as the equals of those in the most elevated cultures of the civilized world.

his humanity and his melancholy kindness, which made him reluctant to go into the field for fear of intruding on the people he studied or finding himself disappointed by what had been lost to the evolution of modern times.

He expressed in his books the beauty and intelligibility of myths. And he kept in his heart the warmth and the modesty of the young man he once was, a man who was struck by a pessimistic sympathy for dying civilizations, dying people.

He was never sure that what he had put to light would even survive the present,

elucidated in “Tristes Tropiques,”

“The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it.”

Tags: 1-genocide, 2-increase, 3-research, 4-intl3 reported

PICTURES: 2012 Doomsday Myths Debunked

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:45:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: People actually believe this nonsense? Whatever.....

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MYTH: Space Phenomena Will Send Continents Spinning

November 6, 2009--The end of the world is near--December 21, 2012, to be exact--according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie.

In some 2012 doomsday prophecies, the Earth becomes a deathtrap as it undergoes a "pole shift," courtesy of an asteroid impact (illustrated above), a rare alignment with the center of the Milky Way, and/or massive solar radiation destabilizing the inner Earth by heating it.

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MYTH: Planet X Is on a Collision Course With Earth

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MYTH: Galactic Alignment Spells Doom

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MYTH: Maya Predicted End of the World in 2012

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MYTH: Solar Storms to Savage Earth

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MYTH: Maya Had Clear Predictions for 2012

The Maya did pass down a graphic--though undated--end-of-the-world scenario, described on the final page of a circa-1100 text known as the Dresden Codex (detail above).

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5 Pregnancy Myths You Never Knew

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:47:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: xpectant mothers are magnets for unsolicited advice. Some of the advice is rude , some is helpful and the rest is based on old wives tales. Our guest bloggers today, Drs. Shawn A. Tassone and Kathryn M. Landherr, are going to help us separate fact from fiction.

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Five Pregnancy Myths You Need to Know

1) I heard that if I eat more breakfast cereal I will have a boy.

2) There are more babies born during a full moon.

3) I will automatically receive an episiotomy during delivery.

4) Clean teeth mean lower chances of preterm birth.

5) If the fetal heart rate is below 140 beats per minute, it’s a boy; if it’s above 140, it’s a girl.

This is probably the most common of the fetal gender prediction myths we discuss in the book. Studies, however, show no significant difference between a male and female heart rate. Fetal heart rates are normal anywhere between 120-160 beats per minute and if the baby is excited or relaxed, it will have a direct effect on his/her heart rate.

Tags: pregnancy, baby, pregnancy advice, pregnancy tips

Culture and Heritage Tourism Schools in UK

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:58:38 GMT

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Culture and Heritage Tourism Schools in UK

The program offered by the faculty intends to enfold the way how tourism products are embodied into culture and heritage. Students also get opportunities to scrutinize tourism products that involve cultural and heritage sites, historically important building and myths surrounding them and roles played by world heritage sites.

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Credit Myths, credit score, improve my credit score & fix credit score

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:54:49 GMT

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Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist Who Saw Human Doom, Dies at 100

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:59:20 GMT

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Claude Levi-Strauss, the French social anthropologist who influenced generations of intellectuals with his ideas on culture and said the human species would become extinct, has died. He was 100.

Levi-Strauss’s method, known as structuralism, reduced mythology and rituals to their basic components to find an underlying pattern. His theories on primitive societies held that the characteristics of the native mind are equal to those in Western civilization and that all communities function using folklore based on opposites.

“I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact,” he said.

The Marxist social scientist who dedicated more than three decades examining the behavior of Amazonian and American Indian tribes applied the structural approach employed in linguistics to discover a common form in myth.

Tags: science, human, anthropology, culture, myths