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Mousse is a funny word. When you hear it, what's the first thing you think of?
Well duh, probably Primal Salmon Mousse, because you just read the title. Well this version of mousse is best served cold with cucumber chips and makes for a good game day recipe, say you know…for the Super Bowl and all. :)
There's mousse, mousse, moose and mouse. Man am I glad English is my first language. It's the common language used around the world to communicate and I have friends who've learned English as a second language and some things are just pretty funny to explain. By no means am I anywhere close to an English teacher (math is my background) but sometimes I can carry on a conversation and have people understand what I'm talking about. ;) Just think about having to explain those words to someone just learning the language.
- Mousse, a foamy hair product.
- Mousse, a dessert (such as chocolate mousse) or a savory dish (like this one) stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold.
- Moose, you know, like the animal with antlers that you may find roaming about in Wyoming or Montana.
- Mouse, that little bugger that wiggles it's way around the TV screen or maybe your home (or on an iPad) that cats enjoy chasing.
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On January 1st my friend Michelle mentioned she was going to read The Happiness Project. Have you read it? What's funny is for some reason that same week I had just come across it and requested it from the library. Currently, I'm just a little beyond half way through. I'm typically not a big reader because I tend to not find books I enjoy and I tend to feel guilty about sitting down to read when there's so many other things I need to do but I'm really connecting with Gretchen and enjoying this book. Her project was to explore a new concept each month for a year, in the spirit of being happy and I love doing little experiments myself so you can see why I'm lovin it.
One of the passages I enjoyed most recently came from her Lighten Up goal during the month of April. One of the mini-focus-points was to Be A Treasure House of Happy Memories and she talked about creating new traditions with her family. She asked her readers on her blog for traditions others observe and this was one of them:
"My brother has a tradition with his family. Every once in a while, they have "Pirate Dinner." They cover the table entirely in newspaper and eat with no plates, napkins, or utensils – just hands! He says that his kids have to follow rules and proper table etiquette all the time, so why not give them a break every now and then?"
Sounds pretty fun and quite Primal to me, doesn't it? Now you see why I enjoyed that example most. :)
Well let's get onto today's appetizer. I wouldn't recommend serving this during a "Pirate Dinner" but heck, that might be even more fun! Of course if you need any more ideas of what to serve during the Super Bowl, Pigskin Paleo is…well you know the rest.
Primal Salmon Mousse
- 3 tablespoons cold water
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 4 ounces smoked salmon, chopped
- 1 cup greek yogurt
- 1 lemon, juice
- sea salt, to taste
- fresh dill, optional
- 1 english cucumber, sliced
- Place water in a small saucepan and sprinkle with gelatin. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Gently heat over low, constantly stirring, just until gelatin dissolves. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Combine salmon, greek yogurt and lemon juice in a food processor. Puree until smooth and season with salt.
- With the motor running add slightly cooled gelatin mixture and blend until combined.
- Pour mixture into the bowl you'll be serving it in.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and be sure not to touch the surface as you're doing this.
- Refrigerate until firm but spreadable, about 2 hours or even overnight.
- Garnish the top with fresh dill when ready to serve.
- Just before serving slice fresh cucumber crackers (or any other serving vegetable such as zucchini, carrot, celery, etc.).
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Kendra Tinsley, the collaborative's executive director, told committee members on Monday that the initiative was relatively unusual in that it is led by medical providers.
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So, a friend and I were having a conversation after I mentioned dealing with several clients in the past using css layers on their sites and I thought I'd open it up for opinions, since we couldn't seem to come to an agreement on the topic…
Here's the deal… the specific site we were looking at as an example is an e-commerce site and it uses css to make their site "pretty". They have a square box with tabs on the top and every time you click a tab, a different set of text comes up utilizing css layers (product information, shipping information, guarantee… the usual).
Now, the friend (who asked to remain an anonymous voice – chicken shit) had immediate concern that this use of layering might be seen as hidden text to the search engines – not under a hand review of course, but rather as part of an automated process to detect people doing evil things with css.
My instinct/opinion was (and is) that it isn't an issue at all – it's a design concept gaining more and more popularity and the thought of a site being banned or penalized for utilizing css layers without it exuding other "red flags" to the engines in addition to the layers just seemed, well, dumb.
Now, I'm not saying the engines don't do dumb things, I'm just saying that this seemed a little "extreme" on the dumb meter.
I went in search of official statements from the engines on the topic and saw this post on Captain Sprite's blog – who thankfully has thick enough skin to be the target of my humor for the day – where he mentioned evil css doings and saw several people ask questions about using css layers legitimately and what Google's stance was on it. The only comments Matt made on the entire post were:
Comment – Search Engines Web, you said that 'That site has a perfect right to use that "invisible" text and the h1 tags'. I agree. In turn, Google has the right to decide not to return that site in our search results, because we feel that hiding text that is not visible to users is deceptive.
Ok, well, that's what Matt thinks of a users "right" to hide text…
Comment – If you're straight-out using CSS to hide text, don't be surprised if that is called spam. I'm not saying that mouseovers or DHTML text or have-a-logo-but-also-have-text is spam; I answered that last one at a conference when I said "imagine how it would look to a visitor, a competitor, or someone checking out a spam report. If you show your company's name and it's Expo Markers instead of an Expo Markers logo, you should be fine. If the text you decide to show is 'Expo Markers cheap online discount buy online Expo Markers sale …' then I would be more cautious, because that can look bad."
Common sense 101 – treat css under a graphic the same as you are *supposed* to treat an alt tag.
I'm starting to lose interest, and then I see Jennifer Sullivan state:
Comment – What Matt said earlier guys, is that hidden CSS layers are not penalized, UNLESS they are intent to deceive.
Now I'm thinking in my
boredom due diligence I missed an actual definitive statement on using css layers to hide larger blocks of text (as opposed to in place of an alt tag)… go back, check… nope. So, looking to the official voice of Google didn't reveal anything (I know, I'm shocked too).
So, without an "official" statement on using css layers in the manner I specified in the example site above… I go to those who know the engines best… what's your theory? Perfectly acceptable design implementation or risk of being penalized? And for added fun, do you think Google is capable of determining the difference between "Expo Markers logo" and "Expo Markers cheap online discount buy online Expo Markers sale" algorithmically?


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Chicken Pesto Potato with Red Pepper
4 skinless, boneless chicken half breasts
1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
1 teaspoon Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper seasoning (or Garlic & Herb
4-5 cups lightly cooked potato pieces (about 3 long potatoes,
with skin, cut into 1-inch pieces and micro waved until just tender)
1/2 cup low-sodium chicken broth
4 tablespoons prepared pesto (I like a brand found in the frozen
pasta section)
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
Start heating a large, nonstick frying pan over medium-high
heat. Coat the outside of the chicken breasts with olive oil and add
to the hot frying pan. Sprinkle Mrs. Dash seasoning over the chicken.
When the bottom is nicely brown (about 2 minutes), flip chicken
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Add lightly cooked potato pieces to bottom of slow cooker. Pour
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4 servings
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Teachers {and others in similar positions--pastors come to mind here also} have dropped the language ball:
What has happened to the one world of meaning? It has been lost for want of definers.How many teachers and pastors do you know who are careful of the definition of words, of the protection of language?
The breakdown of language necessarily results in the breakdown of community.
This is a good reason to read aloud together as a family. I have found nothing to be quite so powerful at building our family culture as this habit {which includes the reading of Scripture, of course}. Reading aloud--and its great companion, memorization--have given us a common vocabulary and a common base of analogies to which we can refer. {And all you thought you were doing was reading a story!}
[W]e witness today a breakdown of communication not only between nations and groups within nations but also between successive generations...Drift and circumstance have been permitted to change language so that the father has difficulty in speaking to the son; he endeavors to speak, but he cannot make the realness of his experience evident to the child. This circumstance, as much as any other, lies behind the defeat of tradition. Progress makes father and child live in different worlds, and speech fails to provide a means to bridge them.
Ideas Have Consequences
by Richard Weaver
Rehabilitation of the Word
- Great Poetry. Weaver warns against sentimentality on the one hand and brutality on the other. The antidote, he says, is good poetry, rightly interpreted. This poetry will offer the students
a pure or noble metaphysical dream, which our studets will have all their lives as a protecting arch over their system of valuesI find a certain irony in this because we all seem to know that graduating students with a strong worldview is imperative if they are survive in the "big, bad world out there," but we do it through analysis, which is about as opposite of poetry as we can get. I'm not saying there isn't a place for analysis, or a place for a "worldview curriculum" {hey, my own husband wrote a book used here in private schools and churches for an introductory worldview curriculum!}, but Weaver says that first and foremost, the worldview is formed by good poetry. Perhaps this is because a worldview is formed in the affections first, and no amount of analysis can make up for lack of heart. I think that in addition to poetry, great books in general will work, though I'm sympathetic to Weaver's preference for poetry here. Still, I can't get out of my mind that Kirk thought that Pilgrim's Progress was an inoculation against Hobbes' Leviathan.
- Latin and Greek. Ah, the dead languages, for which my fondness is continually growing. I only wish I had time to actually study them well. The question here would be why languages? and thankfully Weaver answers the question.
Nothing so successfully discourages slovenliness in the use of language as the practice of translation. Focusing upon what a word means and then finding its just equivalent in another language compels one to look and to think before he commits himself to any expression. It is a discipline of exactness which...is growing as rare as considerate manners.This is, by the way, why I am wary of pastors who are not familiar with their Greek. Weaver connects our carelessness with words to our materialism, saying that when we exalt things, we depress words. As many educated early Americans {men, at least} used to study their Greek and Latin, and were able to read their personal Bible in Greek, do you think that our materialism has anything to do with our abandonment of this tradition?
- Socratic Dialectic. This is where we learn to reason, and remember that Weaver already established that we reason using words. So this is still a restoration of language. Weaver says that our sloppy speaking has led us straight into the land of the excluded middle, which is to say, confusion.
From this failure to insist upon no compromise in definition and elimination come most of our confusions.By learning to carefully define, we gain clarity! This extends all the way to our laws.
Actually stable laws require a stable vocabulary, for a principal part of every judicial process is definition, or decision about the correct name of an action.The dialectic student, as he is trained in definition, will be trained in how to think.
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The full fight between Naruto and Sasuke which concludes the original series. Enjoy. Credit goes to Ganesh N for letting me upload these fights to my channel.
The full fight between Naruto and Sasuke which concludes the original series. Enjoy. Credit goes to Ganesh N for letting me upload these fights to my channel.
Naruto is sronger
this is nothing but talk DBZ IS INFINITY TIMES BETTER
Actually the majority of the video is of them fighting. And his grammar had nothing wrong with it. It's the same as yours and mine. So by insulting him for it, you only look like an idiot.
its a little racist but sasuke turns from white to black
naruto is awesom
But you made every last bit count. That's why we love you Naruto!
Because he held back. And you KNOW it. And that frightens you.
I don't remember the dubbed voices being this tiny…
Well now my world has just fallen apart..
I don't get it…
I <3 Naruto
Fun fact: Your grammar sucks!
0:15:16 wow that forehead could give Rihanna a run for her money
i hate sasuke so bad that i want to kill him with my own hands
Why do they insist on fighting all the time
0: We need an idea for a new Naruto episode
1: A different rasengan
2: More fillers and flashbacks
3: Something different with amazing animation
0: >.>
3: -.-
*Thrown out of the window
Fun Fact: It's more then 2 minutes without flashbacks!
That made me cry ;( cause im sasuke and my best friend is naruto
Sasuke. Kills. Itachi. In. Shippuden and finds out the truth of why itachi. Killed their clan
but u fuckin beat saskues ASS bro
Because at this point he had trouble controlling his chakra and messed up when trying to summon toads. Remember the battle of the 3 sannin.
But aren't you still trying to chase sasuke..?
Am I the only one wondering why Naruto didn't summon a toad in this fight?
After watching shippuden they seem like they are 5 here lol.
you are still annoying
god dang i miss the original series…
saskue is the best
itachi beat him bad
even with that power he still couldnt beat Itachi
whats tath episode
above all this is my fave fight out of the orignal naruto
no…. naruto was trying to win the fight.
and umm he used his shadowclones a lot.
I think its just that sasuke 1 up Naruto every time
1:06:52 chidori rasengsengan clash
for everyone who says saskue won the fight your wrong naruto wanted to talk saskue out of it if he did want to fight saskue he would have easily took him i he didnt use shdowclons at all the only reson naruto went 1 tailed was to put some sense into saskue that who he was messing with anyway the 9 tail took over because he lost his temper naruto can win he just wanted to bring him home but saskue wanted to hurt him
sasuke's face is in naruto's but at 52:20-52:25
My idiot little son XD
if i was i writer id be like ok guys i like sasukes new look but really lipstick?
and without talking
God I was soo annoying!
THAT IS WAY WAY WRONG, BELIEVE IT! IT'S ONLY 30 SECONDS, YEAH! YA HEAR ME?! Lol.
Anyone notice how gay Sasuke sounds with -1 pitch? ._. (No offence, I am a huge fan of Sasuke…)
It a narutornado
sasuke got lucky if the third tail came out that would have ended the fight and he barely handled no tails but he completed the sharingan wheel-but naruto is alot stronger with kurama -lol sasuke thought his power was the shit
i definetly agree on this, but i cant blame 100% on sasuke because thats just the curse of the uchiha when they love something dearly and then has an outcome of misfortune….. out comes the sharingan (which could be consider a big huge aneurysm if anything lol) which brings out hatred. just like tobi says "when a man learns to love he bears the risk of hatred".


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My parents are both from Africa and although I have done the holiday thing, I haven't actually gone there and really experienced where they are from. I am really planning to in the next couple of weeks if I can get a move on with my visa etc. but I need to get out there.
I guess the reason why I don't consider this done is because I need to make sure that when I get out there I really experience Africa and don't just lounge on the beach. I want to travel and work and I am so determined to do both – I just hope I come back with renewed sense of who I am and where I came from. You know what inspired me to do this? Obama. His first book. Strange, I know, but I'm so excited to be going.


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In the Washington Post this week, I report on the whispering campaign to derail the political ascent of Senator Marco Rubio. In an effort to fight back and reclaim control of his own narrative, I note, Rubio recently moved up the publication date of his memoir, American Son, from a fall release to June 19th. This was designed to ensure his take on his own life arrives in bookstores ahead of a biography by Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia. (Roig-Frania, you will recall, published a front page attack on Rubio earlier this year that accused him of deliberately "embellishing" his family history when he said that his parents arrived in the United States after Castro took power when they in fact arrived during the Batista years—but offered zero evidence that Rubio intentionally misled anyone).
Well, as Mike Allen reports in the Politico Playbook:
Last week, we told you that Sen. Marco Rubio had moved up publication of his autobiography, "An American Son: A Memoir," to June 19—well ahead of the Republican convention, and of a more critical take by the WashPost's Manuel Roig-Franzia, "The Rise of Marco Rubio," which was scheduled for July 3. You saw this coming: Now Simon & Schuster has also jumped Manuel's book up to June 19, per the book's Amazon page.
In other words, we're going to be spending a lot of time reading—and debating—about Marco Rubio this summer.


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ETSU Researchers Discover Giant Bear and Other Ice Age Fossils in Saltville
JOHNSON CITY—East Tennessee State University paleontologists recently returned from conducting excavations at an Ice Age fossil site in Saltville, Va., where they rediscovered the location of a giant short-faced bear that researchers had been trying to relocate, leading to the discovery of more of the creature's remains.
The university-led excavations have focused in two areas, one of which held a mammoth skeleton that was heavily scavenged and chewed on by large carnivores. The second area contained a wide variety of fossils, ranging from giant short-faced bears to tiny salamanders and from musk-oxen to huge mammoths. This wide variety of fossils give researchers a more detailed picture of what the southern Appalachians were like at the very end of the last Ice Age, which is a time when climates were changing dramatically, people were just becoming established on the continent, and the megafauna, or large animals, were on the verge of extinction.
One of the most significant finds for the ETSU team was a simple rock, because in 2000 a giant short-faced bear jaw was recovered by another excavation team, and the location information for the dig, and the jaw, was lost. However, a picture existed of the jaw sitting next to a specific rock and the general area was known. After much searching for the past five years, the exact rock was rediscovered this year and the research team was able to put a cast of the jaw back in place and map it. As a result, paleontologists were able to continue the excavations in that area and recover more of the short-faced bear skeleton, including teeth. Scientists expect future digs to uncover much more.
The ETSU research team consists of Dr. Blaine Schubert, Dr. Jim Mead and Brian Compton. Schubert is the director of the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology, director of the ETSU and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum, and an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences. Mead is professor and chair of the Department of Geosciences and a curator at the museum. Compton is a surveyor and preparator at the museum.
The researchers were accompanied by ETSU's Sandra Swift, museum research technician, who oversaw the screenwashing activities, ETSU graduate students, other museum staff, students from other universities, and volunteers from as far as New York state. In addition, the ETSU Governor's School visited the site for one day to participate in the excavations, and there was a one day paleo camp for kids, which was overseen by Sarah Mullersman, museum education and exhibit coordinator.
Schubert has led excavations at Saltville since 2008, after a curation agreement was developed between the town and ETSU. ETSU maintains two major excavations, Saltville (which ranges in age from 11,000 to >40,000 years old), and the Gray Fossil Site (which dates to 4.5 to 7 million years old).
Fossils have been known from the Saltville Valley since the late 1700s, when Thomas Jefferson first wrote about the large animals recovered from there. At that time he thought that mammoths and other large critters may still be alive in western North America. Though a number of paleontologists have conducted work in the valley over the years, very little has been published to this point and much remains to be learned.
Gray Fossil Site Excavations - 2013 Field Season
Alligators, red pandas, camels, and beavers have highlighted the 2013 field season at the East Tennessee State University and General Shale Natural History Museum and Visitors Center at the Gray Fossil Site. Throughout 2013, paleontologist found new species and added a variety of specimens to the collections of fossils that have been found during previous dig seasons.
"This has been a good year for us," said Dr. Steven Wallace, museum curator and Gray Fossil Site director "We had a busy field season and were able to find a new beaver, horse material, more panda, camel, and more than one 3D tapir skull. Several of these finds were from our spoil piles, which are piles of dirt that were moved during construction of the museum in 2005."
The 2013 finds include a second type of beaver, which was found in the spoil piles. The first one, found several years ago, is the size of a muskrat. This new find is the same size as beavers today. Having two types of beavers at the same locality suggests that they had very different lifestyles; otherwise they would be competing for the same resources.
Alligators have been a highlight from the dig season as well. A nearly complete skeleton with skull and jaws was recovered late in the field season. Several isolated bones found near the primary alligator skeleton, suggest that a second individual is present. Paleontologists hope to recover more of this second individual next summer.
A tibia, or shinbone, similar in size to that of a Fisher, a medium-sized member of the weasel family, was found in several pieces. One section was recovered in place, whereas the other was within a jacket containing alligator material.
"We haven't found any carnivorans of this size," said Wallace, "so the tibia represents a new species for Gray!"
A summer-camper found a peccary tusk in one of the spoil piles. Peccaries are America's version of a pig. Today's peccaries are much smaller than the fossil forms found at Gray. Most live in Central and South America, but the collared peccary spills into southwestern U.S. deserts.
"Even though we have at least three kinds of peccaries at Gray, they are rare at the site, so every specimen is important," said Wallace.
Several other rare finds were discovered during the field season, such as a camel hoof core, which is significant because camels are rare at Gray. Excavators also uncovered a few 3D tapir skulls, which are unusual because sediment in Gray is clay as opposed to rock, so fossils have been compressed over time, which leads to most skulls found at Gray being crushed. Museum preparators generally spend several weeks piecing together each skull found.
Paleontologists also found more red panda material, which is becoming one of the common animals at the site. Red panda fossils have been recovered in all the test pits at Gray. Some of the panda fossils found represent individuals that are at least three times the size of a living red panda.
This year more focus has been placed on recovering microfossils, which has led to the discover of several associated rabbit teeth, a squirrel jaw with teeth , which is likely a small chipmunk, bird material, snakes, and lizards. In fact, enough salamander material was recovered that a graduate student (Hannah Darcy) will be studying the finds for her thesis. In addition, Sandy Swift, ETSU Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory Collections Manager, Jim Mead, ETSU Geosciences Chair and Professor, and Blaine Schubert, Director of the Center of Excellence in Paleontology and its Natural History Museum, are currently working on a small bone that belongs to an extinct form of venomous snake. To identify the bone requires that the same bone from all forms of pit vipers from North America, Central America, and eastern Asia be photographed and analyzed. The big project on the small bone is nearing completion.


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Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined life but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. Descartes too was mistaken, "Cogito ergo sum – I think therefore I am?" Nonsense, Amo, ergo sum sum – I love therefore I am. Or, with the unconscious eloquence St Paul wrote. "Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love." I believe that. I believe that it is better not to live than not to love.
Posts Tagged 'Religion'
William Sloane Coffin on Socrates' mistakeDecember 8, 2013
What do we owe the world?September 9, 2013
The following passages are from DEBT: the First 5,000 Years by David Graeber.
We owe our existence above all:
- To the universe, cosmic forces, as we would put it now, to Nature. The ground of our existence. To be repaid through ritual: ritual becoming an act of respect and recognition to all that beside we are small.
- To those who have created the knowledge and cultural accomplishments that we value most; that give our existence its form, its meaning, but also its shape. Here we would include not only the philosophers and scientists who created our intellectual tradition but everyone from William Shakespeare to that long-since-forgotten woman, somewhere in the Middle East, who created leavened bread. We repay them by becoming learned ourselves and contributing to human knowledge and human culture.
- To our parents, and their parents—our ancestors. We repay them by becoming ancestors.
- To humanity as a whole. We repay them by generosity to strangers, by maintaining that basic communistic ground of sociality that makes human relations, and hence human life, possible.
… … These are nothing like commercial debts. After all, one might repay one's parents by having children, but one is not generally thought to have repaid one's creditors if one lends the cash to someone else.
Myself, I wonder: Couldn't that really be the point? Perhaps what the authors of the Brahamanas were really demonstrating was that, in the final analysis, our relation with the cosmos is ultimately nothing like a commercial transaction, nor could it be. That is because commercial transactions imply both equality and separation. These examples are all about overcoming separation: you are free from your debt to your ancestors when you become an ancestor; you are free from your debt to the sages when you become a sage; you are free from your debt to humanity when you act with humanity.
All the more so if one is speaking of the universe. If you cannot bargain with the gods because the gods already have everything, then you certainly cannot bargain with the universe because the universe already is everything—and that everything necessarily includes yourself.
One could interpret this list as a subtle way of saying that the only way of "freeing oneself" from the debt was not literally repaying debts, but rather showing that these debts do not exist because one is not in fact separate to begin with, and hence the very notion of canceling the debt, and achieving a separate, autonomous existence, was ridiculous from the start.
Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds. There is a certain communism of the senses at the root of most things we consider fun.
… the Church had been … uncompromising in its attitude toward usury. It was not just a philosophical question; it was a matter of moral rivalry.
Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand, and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison. For the debtor, the world is reduced to a collection of potential dangers, potential tools, and potential merchandise. Even human relations become a matter of cost-benefit calculation.
Exactly so!
Goodness cannot come from fearAugust 25, 2013
Hat tip to The Superstitious Naked Ape.
A rationalist martyr in IndiaAugust 23, 2013
Reason has its martyrs, just as faith does.
Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, a brave rationalist who devoted his life to exposing fake faith healers and miracle workers in India, was murdered Tuesday.
His organization, the Maharashtra Blind Faith Eradication Association, offered a prize of 500,000 rupees to any diviner who could prove he or she could summon spirits.
At the time of his death, he was pushing for a law in Maharashtra state outlawing the practice of black magic. My own belief is that rationalists should restrict themselves to the rational method, and not try to enforce their beliefs through government power. There is a subtle but important difference between outlawing fraud and outlawing beliefs and practices which can be a mask for fraud.
Dabholkar didn't see it that way. He said his proposed law never mentioned God or religion, and did not touch the doctrines of Hinduism or any other religion. Whatever the merits of that argument, it can be said that he never went outside the law or threatened his opponents with death.
And it also is true that religious believers in India have used the law to suppress rationalist criticism. Sanal Edamaruku, the president of the Indian Rationalist Association, fled India to escape arrest for blasphemy because he investigated a weeping statue of Jesus in a Catholic church in Mumbai and concluded it was the result of a plumbing problem.
Dabholkar's proposed anti-magic law, which was opposed by conservative Hindus, was in fact enacted a few days after his death, but needs approval of Parliament before it can become law.
A hard saying of JesusAugust 18, 2013
Source: Ha! Tea 'n' Danger.
Hat tip to red oak road.
Religion and IQ: country comparisonsAugust 13, 2013
Some psychologists at the University of Rochester did a review of surveys of religion and intelligence, mainly involving North American individuals, and concluded that religious people are less intelligent on average than non-religious people. As these maps show, there is some evidence that the same variation exists among the world's nations.
To assess the significance of these maps, you have to have an idea of just what it is that is measured on IQ tests (besides the ability to take IQ tests).
The great sociologist Peter Berger wrote that IQ is a measure of "modern consciousness," which consists of the intellectual skills needed to function in a modern technological society. That would explain why immigrants (including Jewish immigrants) to the 19th century United States on average had lower IQs than the natives, but the U.S.-born children of the immigrants were equal to or better than the natives. It would explain why, during World War Two, Southern rural white men on average did worse on Army intelligence tests than Northern urban black men. It would explain the Flynn Effect of rising IQ in each generation.
If Berger was right, it is non-modern forms of religion, not religion as such, that are correlated with lower IQ. If he was right, IQ is not a measure of innate ability, but rather a measure of generational progress toward modernity.
Are religious people less intelligent than atheists?August 13, 2013
A recent study by a team of psychologists at the University of Rochester concludes that atheists are more intelligent than religious people.
This is based on a review of 63 studies conducted between 1928 and 2012. In 53 of the studies, religious people were found to be less intelligent than atheists and, in 35 of the studies, significantly less intelligent. In 10 of the studies, religious people were found to be more intelligent, and, in only two, significantly more intelligent.
The three psychologists carrying out the review defined intelligence as the "ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience".
Religiosity is defined by the psychologists as involvement in some (or all) facets of religion.
According to the review, other factors – such as gender or education – did not make any difference to the correlation between intelligence and religious belief.
The level of belief, or otherwise, did however vary dependent upon age with the correlation found to be weakest among the pre-college population.
The paper concludes that: "Most extant explanations (of a negative relation) share one central theme —the premise that religious beliefs are irrational, not anchored in science, not testable and, therefore, unappealing to intelligent people who 'know better'."
via The Independent.
I have the same kinds of misgivings about this kind of study as I do about studies purporting to show IQ differences among whites, blacks and Asians or between rich and poor people. My first misgiving is the uncertainty about what intelligent tests measure, given that they change across the generations. My second misgiving is that, whatever they measure, the results are distributed along a Bell curve, with most of the populations overlapping. You really can't tell anything for sure about the intelligence of an individual based on race or religion.
The UR study is behind a pay wall, but I did a little Internet research, and the range of differences seems relatively small. That is what I take away from the results of the study summarized in the chart above.
I have a good friend who is both much more intelligent and much more religious than I am. She has an understanding of thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, which is far deeper than anything of which I am capable. At the same time she is a much more spiritual person than I am. She engages in meditation and other spiritual practices and gets a lot out of it. I don't do any of these things on a systematic basis.
I'm not sure which of us the UR researchers would consider the more religious person, because she is not a member of any religious group while I am a faithful attender of First Universalist Church of Rochester.
An agnostic teaches his daughter about religionJuly 28, 2013
John Scalzi is a science fiction writer who has a web log. Some time back he posted these wise reflections about what he teaches his daughter about religion.
The reason I encourage her to learn about religion, and Christian faiths in particular, is because the large majority of people on this planet follow a religion of some sort, and here in the United States, the large majority of those who are religious are Christians of one sort or another.
I'm an agnostic of the non-wishy-washy sort (i.e., I don't believe in a god nor believe one is required to explain the universe, but I acknowledge I can't prove one doesn't or never did exist) and always have been for as long as I can remember thinking about these things.
I don't see being an agnostic meaning one has to be willfully ignorant about religion, nor do I see my role as an agnostic parent being one where I shield my daughter from the reality that she lives in a religious society.
Where my daughter is on her own journey of discovery regarding faith is not for me to discuss publicly, but I can say that I believe more information is almost always better.
So when she wants to know about a particular religion or explore some aspect of faith, I encourage her to do so; when she comes to me with questions about religion, I either answer her questions (being that I know a fair amount about most major religions) or help her find answers.
Athena is well aware that I am an agnostic, and what that means, and we've explored that aspect of faith (or lack thereof) as well. I won't tell you what questions she asks about religion, faith, agnosticism and all of that, but I will tell you that she asks good questions, and for my part I answer them as truthfully and as fairly as I can.
There are a number of people who have come to agnosticism or atheism because of conflicts with or disillusionment about religion, and in particular a religion they were born into and grew up in, and others who are agnostic or atheist who feel that religion and the religious impulse must be challenged wherever they find it.
For these reasons among others I think people assume those people who aren't religious are naturally antagonistic, to a greater or lesser degree, to those who are.
But speaking personally, I don't feel that sort of antagonism; I don't look at those who believe as defective or damaged or somehow lacking. Faith can be a comfort and a place of strength and an impetus for justice in this world, and I'm not sure why in those cases I, as a person without faith, would need to piss all over that.
The Syrian conflict and gas pipeline routesJuly 26, 2013
Is the revolt in Syria part of an age-old conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims? Iran and Iraq have Shiite majorities, Hezbollah represents the Shiites in Lebanon and Syria's government has long cultivated the Shiites. The rebels in Syria are Salafi Sunni Muslims supported by the Sunni Muslims of Saudia Arabia, the Gulf oil sheikdoms and the Muslim Brotherhood.
But if it is part of an age-old conflict, why does this conflict lie dormant for generations and then suddenly flare up? Pepe Escobar of Asia Times has an explanation. He wrote that the religious conflict is being instigated to block plans by the governments Iran, Iraq and Syria to build a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the rich Persian Gulf natural gas field lying between Iran and Qatar.
The Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline is an economic threat to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf oil sheikdoms, who are the main financiers of the Syrian revolt. It would enable Iran to export oil even if the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf were closed.
The proposed pipeline also is contrary to the economic interests of Turkey, whose government supports the Syrian revolt. Turkey has access to the natural gas of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. The Turkish government's goal is to extend a pipeline to the heart of Europe and offer an alternative to Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas. The Nabucco pipeline could serve Iran, but the Turkish government for now has decided to deny access for now.
What is the national interest of the United States in this? An Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline would not necessarily compete with U.S. companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The gas would only be available to customers that could be reached by the pipeline. But there would be no detriment that I could see to U.S. consumers.
The U.S. objection is that it would hamper the U.S. not-so-cold war against Iran, which is being waged largely in support of Israel and Saudi Arabia and partly in revenge for the U.S. national humiliation in the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. I don't think economic warfare against Iran is in the interest of the American people. I think the policy of the United States should be to wind down that war rather than extend it.
The maldistribution of guiltJuly 21, 2013
One of the things I decided at a young age was that although I would take moral responsibility for my actions, I would never let anybody make me feel guilty about what I am.
This was partly a reaction against my early religious upbringing. I learned many good values in my church, such as respect for the dignity and worth of all persons and the duty to stand up for what is right when everybody else disagreed. But I also took away a belief that guilt holds positive value.
At age 13 and 14, I believed, because I failed to love other people as myself and failed to love God with all by heart, soul and mind, I was a sinner and that it was because of sinners such as me that Jesus had to suffer and die on the cross. I noticed that in the Gospels Jesus was forgiving of repentant sinners, but condemned people who took satisfaction in following religious rules. I concluded that the best thing I could hope to be is a repentant sinner, but repentance was of no value if I took satisfaction in being repentant.
I do not claim this is an accurate account of Christian teachings. But it is what I believed at age 13 and 14, and I do not think I was unique in these beliefs.
Guilt has a positive function. If you feel bad about doing bad things, and good about doing good things, you are motivated to do fewer bad things and more good things. But if your sense of guilt is so highly developed that you feel bad about feeling good, you are trapped in a Catch-22 vicious circle.
Guilt, like many other things, is badly distributed. Some people have much more than is good for them, but those who need it the most have none at all.
I knew a woman, a person of no explicit religious beliefs, who came as close as anybody I know to being a saint. She spent decades of her life as a volunteer teacher in New York state prisons, ministering to society's outcasts just as Jesus did. From time to time she would talk about how rewarding she found her work and the relationships with the inmates. Then she would bring herself up short. She thought that if she found pleasure and satisfaction in her volunteer work, her reason volunteering was selfish and had no moral merit. Neither she nor anybody else benefited from this kind of reasoning.
I am highly suspicious of anybody to tries to persuade me to do or believe something based on the guilt I supposedly should feel for being white or middle-class or American. This approach leads me to believe that the persuader has no valid argument.
I think that white guilt—the feeling of guilt for being a member of the white race—is a subconscious version of Christian original sin. It is based not on what you do, but what you are.
I have listened to liberal white people in workshops confessing that they are all a bunch of racists. I think such conversations reflect the subconscious notion that feeling guilty has moral value in and of itself, regardless of whether the feeling leads to constructive action. If you are concerned about civil rights, it should be because you want everyone's basic rights respected, not because you are trying to get rid of negative feelings about yourself.


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Gloria Estefan's Into the Light continues the Latina diva's pop transformation from Cuban hot mama to respectable songwriter and showwoman. She began as the sultry singer of Miami Sound Machine, but when the band's second album went double platinum in 1985, people began to take notice especially of her. Now Miami Sound Machine has all but disappeared, and Estefan bills herself under her own name; Into the Light is her second solo album, lushly produced, effectively de-ethnicized, and full of those big, broad ballads that everyone from Bette Midler to Mariah Carey is proffering these days. It will probably produce more hit singles assisted, of course, by Estefan's bounce back from personal tragedy. Having survived a serious tour-bus crash almost a year ago, she has now recovered to the point of planning a tour, set to begin next month, and is definitely back in action.
But the action isn't necessarily anything special. Estefan's repositioning from Latin dance machine to white-bread songstress has included a concurrent trend toward pop froth, with her onetime up-tempo workouts given short shrift. Estefan brags that she's careful to include a song or two in Spanish on each album, but in practice her ethnic roots are now almost undiscernible.
Why this should be so is an interesting question. Certainly the demands of the mass pop market have something to do with it. But there might be two more reasons. One is that Miami Sound Machine was ethnic, but in an urban, modernized way; it was a pop group that happened to spring from Latin roots.
And then there's Estefan's own background. Her life could make a great TV movie: She's born in Cuba, but her parents flee to Miami with the ascent of Castro. Her father participates in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Later, he serves in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and is poisoned by Agent Orange for his trouble. But the daughter who cared for him for 12 years grows up and sells 17 million records as the world's premiere Latin crossover act. Like her father, she might be torn between the age-old pressures of yesterday and today, between loyalty to the culture that produced her and a desire for acceptance and assimilation in her adoptive land.
But that doesn't excuse her move toward blandness, though not everything on the album is bland. ''Coming Out of the Dark'' is a pretty song about Estefan's recovery. It starts out slow, then brings its point home with a gospel-like chorus reminiscent of Michael Jackson's ''Man in the Mirror.'' It's hard not to be sympathetic the song is an anthem to hope and indomitability, and someone who's endured Estefan's pain certainly deserves room to talk about it. Her pain is the source, too, of ''Nayib's Song (I Am Here for You),'' about her young son, who suffered a broken collarbone in the accident. ''Remember Me With Love'' is also distinctive; dedicated to her husband, it's simple, plaintive, and unpretentious.
These tracks have a personal stamp that makes up for their undistinguished pop sound. But the album's other offerings make you long for even a trace of ethnicity anything to add a little spice to the mix. Estefan projects an okay personality basically that of a strong modern woman with a healthy emotional life but she has a colorless voice and doesn't make up for that with any particular power. When there's no compelling personal reason for the listener to care, the songs just drift away, victims of their own weightlessness.
You end up wanting to cut her some slack; she does have strength of character, and, unlike a lot of pretty faces in the Top 40, she writes most of her own material. Still, there's far too much filler on Into the Light, and in the nonfiller Estefan doesn't have all that much to say. The record sounds interesting in theory but, like all too many pop records these days, in practice it's rather dull. C+


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