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Introduction: Alcohol Torch - Build Your Own
This is a very simple to build torch. It is fueled by denatured alcohol and only requires just a few materials.
The only materials I used are:
Plastic Bottle
Wood Glue applicator tip
Small piece of scrap aluminium
1/8" Brass Tube
Oil Lamp Wick
Most of these materials can be interchanged with something else. For example, you don't have to use a wood glue applicator tip. This can easily be interchanged with something else. It is just what I had laying on my desk at the time.
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Awesome! Now, sorry if I sound like an amateur here, but what practical use does this have? I mean, I can see where a torch is useful, but one that has an inconstant flame? Does denatured alcohol burn hotter than other flammable liquids? It's a really cool little torch though.
It is used to smooth the surface of wax models. The fact that the flame is dependent on the hand pressure prevents melting other parts of the model. If you have a fixed flame,like a pencil torch, getting in and out without melting everything is more difficult.
I completely understand what you're saying, TheGeek1984. A torch with an intermittent flame doesn't seem too practical. I do think that this torch though is good for a few things though. For me, it is a tool that I'll just leave on my desk for when I need to heat something simple up. Like when I need to get a paper clip red hot or warm up a piece of plastic for bending. I've heard that they are used in sculpting for warming the material you may be working with (wax for example). Also, the fuel is relatively cheap and easily accessible and the torch doesn't burn the alcohol very fast at all...............So there are a few examples where it can be handy, but if I have to heat something big or get something really hot, I'll be using a standard blow torch.
Wonder what it would take to add a small aquarium pump to create a steady supply of air pressure instead of squeezing and relaxing the bottle?
I love the idea! I'll have to try this sometime
Ohh...okay. That makes sense. Thanks!
I did actually entertain the idea of including a fan, but I figured with the constant rate of air going thru the bottle that the fume-to-air ratio would be pretty low and not yield a good result. This may be why your torch didn't work too well fozzy13.....
This is awesome! I attempted to build something that would achieve the same thing. I used a small fan in my version, but it was unsuccessful. Great job!
Nice job, I could see that being pretty handy.
Next version: funnel a mini fan into that tube, and a momentary push button switch up by the top, or a foot switch! (...and a battery, or wall wart, of course.)
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

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Home | Flourishing in Life | Human Growth | A Legacy of Success
A Legacy of Success
By: T. Franklin Murphy | October 2016 (edited October 2018)
We create change by working through the unpleasant givens of life. When life seemingly doesn't play fair, we address the obstacles with creativity and resolve.
I advocate taking personal responsibility. We empower change through constructive choices. The motivational energy behind conscious choice is only possible when we recognize the self-empowerment to effect change. While we remain free to choose action, not all experience is of our choosing. We create our lives from givens not of our makings. The universe is not our servant, abundantly giving according to our desires.
#success #wellness #flourishinglife
The world turns independent of our wishes. We suffer from difficulties we don't deserve. Some events crash into our lives and knock us flat—unpredictable and unplanned. Other people's choices impact our experience with force. We may be hurt by those we trust and betrayed by those we love. These are some of the unpleasurable givens of our mortal lives.
The world turns independent of our wishes. We suffer from difficulties we don't deserve. Some events crash into our lives and knock us flat—unpredictable and unplanned.
The disrupting factors from outside our realm of control easily demands our attention, screaming unfairness and persuading us to cower to the immensity of external force. We want to blame. But by focusing on personal responsibility, we redirect attention back to areas where we control; our domain of empowerment—the behaviors we can enact that impact our futures. The events that happen are important; but more important is our response. When unforeseen obstacles challenge our good intentions, we shouldn't quit, blaming the challenge for our failure. Our responses to difficulties are crucial junctures in our journey. Stop, assess, and adjust.
By focusing on perceived unfairness, we feel discouraged, giving energy to debilitating thoughts. We give these thoughts substance by validating them. By entertaining these disquieting delinquents, we lose strength and begin to compromise goals and give way to fears. Ill directed attention strangles motivation. We helplessly succumb to the unpredicted challenges of living. Justification may cool the stinging discomforts of failure but invites the deeper sorrows of unfulfilled dreams. Our outward focus invites dark shades of disappointment that extinguishes the previous brightness of hope.
Success requires we traverse the unplanned fields of difficult. We must fight the urge to blame, resisting pulling back into ego soothing helplessness. By proclaiming, "it ain't my fault," we feel less inclined to act; we protect a defeated ego, staining our futures with the scattered ashes of unfulfilled dreams.
When the moments arrive, instead of blame, energize your inner-creativeness, focusing on resolutions rather than fruitless excuses. We must believe in our capabilities to surpass the unplanned. We must constantly keep invigorated our minds with hope, energizing self-discipline to sacrifice present-moment enjoyments to achieve demanding future intentions.
Our paths to change will encounter both successes and failures. This is normal. As we continue, we build on the successes by learning from the failures. With positive movement, our confidence grows, and self-discipline strengthens. The journey will never be straight or smooth. We must continually learn from the knocks and bruises. We intuitively know, from the repeated success of taking personal responsibility, that we can handle the vicissitudes of life. We can take the unplanned and unpleasant gifts of life, stumble, but then regain our footing and move forward, building a legacy of success.
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Chen Xi knew his cultivation extremely well. Even though both his body refinement and qi refinement cultivations had already attained the advanced-stage of the Golden Core Realm, it was utterly impossible for him to advance a step further before the Allstar Meeting began.
The facts were indeed so.
When he entered Firecrow Town, his body refinement and qi refinement cultivations were only at the initial-stage of the Golden Core Realm, and up until now, only less than half a year had passed, yet both paths of his cultivation were able to successively advance two stages each in a short period of time. This sort of advancing at a tremendous pace was already sufficiently shocking, and it would absolutely shock everyone's jaws off if spread in the outside world.
All of this was attributed to the continuous battles he'd experienced during this period of time. Battle was the best master, and these numerous difficult life and death battles caused Chen Xi's strength to attain its current state. There was no luck in all of this, as this was an achievement that could only be attained from thoroughly tempering one's self.
But it wasn't such an easy thing to advance his cultivation from the advanced-stage of the Golden Core Realm to the perfection-stage of the Golden Core Realm, because when one's cultivation attained such a state, it didn't only rely on diligent cultivation, it also relied on accumulation, comprehension, and the tempering of one's mind.
Of course, with Chen Xi's current state, it was entirely not a problem to advance to the perfection-stage of the Golden Core Realm, but for the sake of more steadily advancing into the Rebirth Realm in the future, he chose resolutely to stay temporarily at his current stage of cultivation, and he intended to properly consolidate his strength once more.
It was common knowledge that once a cultivator advanced to the Violet Palace Realm, it was equivalent to establishing the Dao Foundation, and the more solid one's Dao Foundation was, the greater certainty one would have in advancing to the Golden Core Realm in the future.
On the other hand, once a cultivator advanced to the Golden Core Realm, it was equivalent to possessing the root of the heavens and the earth in one's body, and once one took root in the heavens and the earth, one wasn't a duckweed that swayed indeterminately on the path of the Dao.
At this time, the more solid one consolidated one's foundation to, the greater the accomplishments one would be able to attain in the future.
For example, the emaciated old man that fought Chen Xi earlier had only comprehended four Minor Daos, yet had already advanced to the Rebirth Realm, and the foundation he laid during the time he was at the Golden Core Realm was surely extremely weak, so it was naturally impossible for him to be a match for Chen Xi.
This was the difference of foundation and resources.
Practically all cultivators understood this principle, yet very few were able to bitterly endure without advancing while working hard to consolidate their foundation. The reason was extremely simple. On one hand, their natural talents were too mediocre, and on the other hand, their lifespans weren't enough. If they didn't think of a way to quickly advance in their cultivation, then they would have transformed into a pile of bones and perished long ago.
The was the helplessness of most cultivators. On one hand, they knew clearly in their hearts that if they wanted to go far in their paths of cultivation, then they had to lay their foundations properly; but on the other hand, because of the problem of their short lifespans, they had no choice but to find some shortcuts and disregard the solidness of their foundations before hastily advancing. In this way, their lifespans would be extended for another few hundred years.
There were extremely few cultivators that were capable of balancing both at the same time, and only the genius figures from renowned and large sects possessed such ability. They were young and possessed extraordinary natural talent, outstanding comprehension ability, the attentive guidance of their sects and seniors, and an enormous amount of resources to support them, so it was impossible for their foundation to not be solid.
Even though Chen Xi was from an impoverished family in a remote little city, he didn't lack natural talent and comprehension ability, and he had a great deal of resources that could be utilized for cultivating, so he naturally wouldn't make the mistake of advancing hastily and swiftly at the cost of his future achievements.
It was precisely because of this that Chen Xi had moved to other aspects in order to increase his strength. For example, what he intended to do now, he intended to bring out the strength he possessed by a step further via increasing the quality of the Talisman Armament.
A large pile of rare and valuable materials were withdrawn from the Buddha's Pagoda by Chen Xi, there was the blood of a primordial variant beasts, Silvereye Vermillion Python, the claws of a Violetheart Crane, a 5,000 year old Jadeveined Fireheart Wood, Multicolored Essence Fluid from an Icy Baleful Pit, and another 20 plus types of various materials.
These materials were obtained by Chen Xi from the Gloom Forest, Evilstone, Icedemon Den, and the other dangerous places on his way here. All of them were priceless materials that could absolutely not be bought with just money if placed in the markets of the outside world.
It was even to the extent that the value of every single material was sufficient to be exchanged for a top-grade earth-rank Magic Treasure.
Yet now, Chen Xi had decided to melt these 20 plus materials and use them to improve the quality of the Talisman Armament. If other cultivators were to find out about this, they would surely pour a torrent of abuse at him.
The reason was extremely simple, as soon as the quality of the Talisman Armament was increased, its might would merely be equivalent to a heaven-rank Magic Treasure, whereas, the value of these materials was sufficient to purchase numerous heaven-rank Magic Treasures.
But Chen Xi didn't care. Other Magic Treasures practically had no space to grow. Moreover, he was unable to utilize a heaven-rank Magic Treasure with his current cultivation.
On the other hand, the Talisman Armament was different. Not only did it possess an infinite amount of space to grow, its quality wasn't restrained by the cultivation of a cultivator in the slightest. After its quality increased, it would be equivalent to a heaven-rank Magic Treasure, yet it could be utilized by him. Merely this was sufficient to allow it to crush all other Magic Treasures, and this was also the main reason why Chen Xi was willing to pay such a price.
Actually, there was an even faster and more convenient method to increase the quality of the Talisman Armament. It was to use the Azure Divine Wood, Sunforce Metal, Flaming Divine Crystal, Unity Darkwater, and Chaotic Lifesoil to refine the Talisman Armament, and its effect would be countless times greater than these materials.
But Chen Xi didn't intend to do so. According to what Ji Yu had said, these five divine treasures were developed from the source of the five elements of nature, and they were capable of developing invaluable essence of the five elements. Moreover, if these five divine treasures were utilized when the Talisman Armament advanced into the ranks of an Immortal Artifact, it would be able to develop a large world within the Talisman Armament, and the Artifact Spirit born from this would be extremely formidable, causing it to be able to be ranked in the top ranks amongst Immortal Artifacts.
Merely increasing the quality of the Talisman Armament required it to be refined with these divine treasures, and it was obviously a reckless waste of god's given gifts that another person would probably not do.
The Talisman Armament lay across the air as a crimson red furnace abruptly flew out from its surface. The furnace was coiled with flames that surged with talisman markings, and it carried a monstrous aura that seemed capable of melting everything in the world.
This furnace was called Voidblaze Furnace. Its entire body was formed from a few thousand fire element talisman markings, and it came from within the Crimsonfire Divine Talisman. It wasn't a real furnace, yet its effects were even better than a real furnace, it was used specially for the sake of melting materials to improve the Talisman Armament.
Chen Xi had once carefully studied the five Divine Talismans within the Talisman Armament, and he noticed that every single Divine Talisman was like an inexhaustible treasure vault and possessed numerous uses. For example, they could be utilized to craft a variety of treasured talismans, condense the Voidblaze Furnace before him, and so on and so forth. They could be said to possess infinite profound uses that covered a great deal of things.
The furnace soared into the sky while coiled with the glow of flames, and the talisman markings were like rays that were suffused with brilliance.
Chen Xi flicked his finger to draw the Whitespark Spirit Flame before him and pour it into the Voidblaze Furnace, causing the entire furnace to drone abruptly without end, and then numerous talisman markings emitted glows that shot into the sky and the entire furnace seemed to intend to flutter lightly in the air.
Chen Xi didn't dare dally, and he grabbed up the numerous materials on the ground before tossing them into the furnace in succession.
Hiss! Hiss!
At the instant the materials entered the furnace, they were wrapped up by boundless flames and slowly melted at a speed that was visible to the eye before transforming into drops of liquid essence that surged ceaselessly within the furnace.
After he finished doing all this, all Chen Xi's fingers flicked about swiftly like shadows as numerous profound seals flew out like layer upon layer of tidal waves.
A wave of rumbling that was like thunder resounded out from within the Voidblaze Furnace, and a piercingly cold and overbearing flame fluttered in the air as it emitted crackling sounds.
This was the process of fusing the materials, and the strength of the flames, duration of heating, and the excellence of the equipment refinement technique would affect the quality of the materials. Chen Xi's fingers didn't dally in the slightest as they changed and fluttered about with unparalleled speed, and thousands of seals surged into the furnace in unison.
Waves of fire surged and the sound of thunder rumbled as the drops of essence the various materials had melted into started to fuse with each other, and the sharp and ear piercing sounds emitted from this could absolutely not be said to be pleasing.
Chen Xi turned a deaf ear to all this, his eyes stared without blinking as he put his heart and soul into observing the changes within the furnace, and he didn't dare relax in the slightest.
He knew that even if the slightest mistake were to appear, then all of the materials would be completely destroyed, and in this way, he wouldn't know when he would be able to increase the quality of the Talisman Armament again.
This process continued for a few days.
On this day, a batch of cultivators with grim expressions arrive at the hall of Fort Desolate. They were the merchant group of the Thunder City's Treasure Heaven Pavilion, and they'd come to Fort Desolate this time for the sake of purchasing various materials.
At this moment, the cultivators that made a living nearby Fort Desolate had formed an extremely long line as they intended to sell off all the materials they'd obtained in these past few days.
The person in the lead of this merchant group from the Thunder City's Treasure Heaven Pavilion was a handsome and dignified middle aged man in embroidered clothes, and his name was Yan Cheng. His cultivation was at the advanced-stage of the Golden Core Realm, and his strength couldn't be considered to be high. But, he had another identity, he was Grand Appraiser. Coupled with him being sociable and skilled in the art of trade, he naturally became the leader of this group of 60 people.
At this moment, Yan Cheng was sitting upright at the side as he observed the progress of the trades. With his identity as a Grand Appraiser, he didn't have to personally attend to everything, and he would only personally come forward when they encountered a rare treasure.
At his side stood a young woman with an icy cold and peerlessly beautiful appearance, a tall and well-proportioned figure, and skin that was whiter than snow, and she was like a snow lotus that had bloomed at the peak of an icy mountain, chilly, lonely, proud, and inviolable. This was his daughter, Yan Yan, yet her cultivation was even higher than him, and she'd followed him from Thunder City due to being worried about his safety.
"There's no need for you to say any more, our merchant group doesn't bring outsiders along."
"I can pay a certain amount of fees. Moreover, you don't have to worry. We'll absolutely not cause trouble along the way, let alone disturb the order of this merchant group."
"I've already told you, no!"
Yan Cheng raised his head when he heard the sound of dispute, then he looked at his daughter before looking at the young woman by his daughter's side that possessed wine red hair that was coiled up, and he couldn't help but shake his head and stop them. "Nevermind. There's a distance of 500,000km from here to Thunder City, and it's dangerous all along the way. We'll just bring her along with us."
Yan Yan frowned. "Father, what if she…"
Yan Cheng waved his hand to interrupt her. "Just do as I said."
Yan Yan's frown grew tighter as she went silent for a long time before raising her hand to look straight at the young woman before her, and then she warned with an icy cold voice. "You better not have any other intentions, otherwise, I might kill you at any moment!"Previous Chapter Next Chapter


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For all OM Series access points that conveniently hides the access point and power supply inside.
Securely attaches to the center or bottom screw of a North American standard and decora-style wall outlet.
This tiny, tool-free wallplug enclosure has been designed exclusively for the complete line of OM Series access points and is ideal for securing access points in repeater mode exactly where they need to go. The access point, antenna and power supply are completely hidden inside with no lights visible.
The wallplug enclosure supports all types and sizes of North-American outlets, including standard center-screw and Decora-style, without putting any holes into the wall. The backplate simply screws onto the outlet cover plate, then the top snaps over the backplate. This has the advantage of covering the mounting screw making it non-obvious how the unit is attached. Shipped in light UV-stabilized and UL-approved paintable plastic to blend into most wall colors.
This enclosure must be installed on the bottom outlet. Replace the middle screw (standard) or bottom screw (decora) during install. It is not designed to cover both outlets. See the video below for detailed installation instructions.
While you can modify the enclosure to plug in an Ethernet cable, it is best used for access points in repeater mode where only power is required.


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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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I have no idea what season 5 of the NEXO Knights TV show is going to be like, but the sets sure are shaping up nicely.
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Chaos Theory
It's spring and trees are showing new leaves. Wild irises are popping up; and Scotch broom, a non-native, invasive plant with yellow flowers that are quite beautiful, is everywhere. The scene is essentially chaotic. There are trees pointing every which way — some live, some dead. The remains of dead trees are found all over the new green grass, and yellow flowers sometimes as high as me are growing in and out of everywhere. Standing there and reveling in it is very blissful. I love wandering these hills in spring.
But, oh if I could only capture it into a photograph… I make a cropping frame with both hands over one eye close the other eye to visualize the scene as a photograph. All of a sudden this melodic symphony of life and death and life again becomes this flat chaotic atonal noise. On top of that, every scene includes so much sky. In photographs, that will turn out mostly white and will be very distracting. I drop my hands and open both eyes and the symphony still surrounds me. What to do?
All the pros and art teachers say to simplify. Instead of 10 trees and lots of flowers, it's best to shoot one tree and a few flowers. That's doable, but I want to capture and present to you a symphony, not a string quartet.
I took the image presented here a couple of springs ago. So far, this is the best I could get of this beautiful chaos. Hopefully I'll be more successful this year.
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I'm hearing the symphony loud and clear and it is beautiful.
One of my favorites of yours Dan. Enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this particular composition predicament.


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I like it from end of April on. Some sooner, a few (mostly natives) now. Most think it will be a good season.
Ron, when do the Tarpon start coming in down your way? Are they predicting it will be any later given the weather this year?
Finally had a small window of calm before the storm. Got out Friday around 230PM & until dark had a nice stake out & drift along the edge of a Gulf flat. Several gorgeous sea trout on a swamp bunny. Friend had some on jig & plastic & I had a roll on a surface plug. Great to be out after all the lousy wind & weather we have had. Water temp 63.8. Today Sat. back to rain & wind.
Got down last weekend to see the folks and get some fishing in. Water around Naples/Rookery was 63 degrees so had to work for the snook. Good action on ladyfish and trout thoughout the weekend. Picked this one up at night. Was encouraged by the number of snook I saw. It will be interesting to see when the water warms how many come back in from the gulf and the deep holes. Should have booked a one way ticket....can't believe we are getting another ten inches here tonight and tomorrow.
Rob, good to meet you last night at the SJCFA meeting and put a face with the name.
Shouldn't do as much damage to the lines, practicing in the snoww. :-) (sorry, couldn't resist that.)
Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow at the SJCFA meeting. Just got word that the parking lot was plowed. Not as much room to park as usual but it looks good enough so all systems are a go.
Ray, I plan on making it tomorrow night... barring some family disaster, which thankfully has been happening less and less
Ron, finally a report .... 58 sounds real nice to me about now
Thought I'd give a report. 2 days ago the chinese wind abated enough for us to sneak out a bit. Backcountry was VERY slow @ 58 degrees. On the reef some had 71 degrees & good fish.
Rob it is at the Bay Center in Ocean City. Come into Ocean City over the 9th street bridge and make a left on to Bay Ave. and go down maybe 5 blocks and it is on the left hand side. It is right across from a big ball field. It is a big building that looks like a house. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm but most of us get there around 6:30 pm. www.southjerseycoastalflyanglers.com they have picture and instructions on how to get there.
Stop buy and check us out.
where is the meeting this Thursday night?
Like they say tough fishing in warm weather is better than no fishing up north. Not that much fun when you have to wear winter clothes when in Fla. Should of stayed another month and maybe the snow would be gone, but the way we are going, it may still be around.
Don't forget we have a fly club meeting this Thursday night. I hope they plowed the parking lot.
Just got back to Jersey from coupla weeks down there. Fished out of Islamorada one day and had (amongst 3 guys) a sail, 5 king macks, coupla mutton snappers and several small grouper throwbacks. Plenty of bait. Nobody fishing back bays. Caught a little barracuda from oceanfront dock. Went over to Ft Myers beach/Sanibel and fishing inshore dead, and heard reports you had to go 30+ miles into gulf to score - and that was impossible with high winds. Wore a lot of winter clothes down there. Great to be back - had to get guy to plough out so could get car up to garage to unload, and spent solid days digging to get walks. Tomorrow - chain saw on downed trees, branches etc. Fortunately nothing fell on boat parked, covered, on driveway. Was Florida worth it? Definitely.
Thanks! ...sorry to hear that...maybe snow is doing me a favor.
Nothing except Chinese wind. How Ling. :-)
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In the Beginning…
When Mariner Sands Country Club (MSCC) was being developed in the early 1980s, a group of members joined together to form a congregation. They gathered for worship and fellowship in the Clubhouse and even around the pool.
They began to serve in Stuart and Mariner County ‑ helping start or expand, by volunteer work and/or financially giving, organizations such as Martin Memorial Medical System hospitals, House of Hope, Treasure Coast Hospice, Samaritan Center for Boys, Hibiscus, etc. This congregation began planning and raising money for a Chapel ‑ which was built in 1983 from individual donations.
Over these 30 years, the congregation has been led by superb Pastors: Dr. Bern Burnstein, Dr. Jack McCombe, Dr. Bob Bedingfield, and Dr. Bill Weimer.
With Jesus Christ as Head of this congregation in His Church, Christians have come and gone, but the work of the Lord continues because of the commitment, generosity, and hard work by all members. We ask for God s guidance and blessing for our next 30 years!
Mariner Sands Chapel Building History explained by Pastor Dr. Gary Carr. This video explains the meaning of the building architecture and structure. The Chapel was built in the early 1980's Stuart, FL.


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Well, I'm kind of bummed tonight. Tomorrow morning ma chere Ibitessem is leaving to go to New York City for a week and then heading home to Paris. She's been my roommate since I got here and I'm really sad to see her leave. It's hard not to dwell on it. Before living here I had never shared a bedroom with someone before and it was easily one of the things I was most ansy about. However, she is a fantastic roommate and, even better, a fantastic person. So now it's just Canada and Norway. Well, not quite yet, but in about eight hours it will.
Tonight Marita, my norwegian roommate, cooked us all a fabulous supper and we had kind of a "last supper". Kind of ironic, as it was also our first supper. We've randomly eaten together in mix 'n match fashion, but never the three of us. That happens though, we all had such different work schedules and ate Commons-style dinners. You know, the random food you stuff down your face in the ten minutes you spend eating between getting home from work and getting ready to go out. She fixed me when I looked like a retard or didn't have a clue what looked nice together. That's when we saw each other the most: the hours between 10:30pm and 12:00am. Anyway, I don't want to dwell on it but it's hard. Having an older brother for 23 years, it was kind of neat to have an older sister for seven months. This is my first BIG good-bye... I've seen a lot of people leave, but very few of them I knew very well. I notice they are gone, but it hasn't effected me personally too much. This one is going to be rough. Boo...
Oh, and icing on the cake: we were trying to get it arranged so my frien Katelyn could move in and, despite assurance that it would not be a problem, suddenly it IS a problem and she isn't allowed to move in. Bloody retarded. Sometimes living at the Commons is like having Big Brother watching over you.
Umm, on a more positive note work is going well and the cruise was fan-bloody-tastic!!! Next trip is Puerto Rico at the end of May.
Anyway, I'm too bummed to write about happy things.
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With all these free-flow leaks, we wonder if Apple would bring a 256GB iPhone, ultimately. Rumours also suggest that Apple might also bring out a smaller version of the iPhone 7 (like the iPhone SE) with lesser storage. The reports also tipped a dual-camera setup on the rear of the iPhone 7. Also, we won't get any "Pro" device from Apple; there will just be two iPhones – the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
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British mathematician John Conway developed the Game of Life in 1970. It isn't really a game at all, but an example of a cellular automaton, a grid of cells that evolve in time according to an algorithm, or ordered sequence of well-defined steps. Studied in computability theory, cellular automata are often used to model complex living systems such as populations. This display presents Conway's Game of Life as a computer program using a deterministic algorithm to govern the system's evolution. With a deterministic algorithm, the future state of the system is entirely predictable based on the previous state. There is no role for chance. In the Game of Life the cellular automaton consists of square cells, each of which can exist in one of two states: alive or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbors, the cells horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent, and each cell evolves according to the following algorithm, in which each step occurs simultaneously.
1. A cell that is alive dies in the next time step if 0 or 1 of its neighbors is alive or if 4 or more of its neighbors are alive. (Death)
2. A cell that is alive stays alive in the next time step if exactly 2 or 3 of its neighbors are alive. (Survival)
3. A cell that is dead comes to life in the next time step if exactly 3 of its neighbors are alive. (Birth)
The initial pattern of living and dead cells constitutes the seed or initial condition of the system. The algorithm, defined above, is then iterated for each discrete time step, thus creating future generations of cells and resulting in various patterns of population. Possible population outcomes that can emerge include extinction, stability, and overpopulation.
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The Time to Kill - Mason Cross
The Time to Kill (Winterlong) - Mason Cross ****
As far as Carter Blake's work at finding people goes, his latest assignment in The Time to Kill seems to be relatively straightforward and doesn't necessarily have to lead to someone dying in the process. For the former secret ops CIA agent operating 'freelance', that's not always something you could count on in Mason Cross's two previous Carter Blake novels, but what harm can there be tracking down a regular person, a mere amateur who thinks it's easy to steal computer secrets and then go into hiding without leaving any trace?
Obviously things don't turn out to be all that simple and it doesn't take too long to find out why things might become a bit more complicated. It doesn't actually take long for a man of Carter Blake's experience to track down Scott Bryant, a software developer who has absconded with a flash drive containing the next big thing since Facebook. Bryant plans to sell MeTime to a competitor and 'disappear' with a nice payoff, but Blake has been assigned by the company's owner to stop the handover, and sure enough, it isn't too long before Blake has a solid lead to follow.
Blake's history and his former employment, some of which we know about from Mason Cross's two previous Blake novels (The Killing Season and The Samaritan), is however about to come back to haunt him. The CIA, believe it or not, haven't always been good boys in the past, and Blake knows a bit too much about the kind of activities they've been involved in. One such project is Winterlong. The warning comes when Blake hears of the execution of a former colleague hiding out in Siberia, and if they can get to someone hiding there, it surely won't be long before they find Blake as well.
It comes at an inconvenient time, although it's hard to say that there's any good time for an elite CIA hit squad to show up on your doorstep. You'd be surprised though, and evidently, Blake has suspected that the day might come, and he has kept some information on a drive that he hopes can guarantee his safety. As long as the Winterlong squad don't get to the drive first.
Essentially then The Time to Kill isn't much more than than one long chase sequence, the difference here being that there is a reversal of the usual roles. This time it's the hunter being hunted, Blake ironically going from chasing down a man with a stolen data drive to being the man being chased down on account of a data drive in his possession. As someone who is an expert at finding people who want to disappear, Blake however has rather more experience in the field. The activities of the secret ops missions, and in particular one job in Kandahar in Afghanistan, open up the scope of the novel further and provide some interesting background on the main character.
There's no need then to have read the previous Carter Blake novels to get full value out of this one (although I have read The Killing Season and can highly recommend that). The Time to Kill operates at much the same pace and Mason Cross's clean, precise and efficient writing will keep you on the right track. It's perfect no-nonsense writing, measured for impact and suspense, constantly generating tension in a story that, despite initial expectations, becomes a little more complicated than originally expected. And yes, a few people die in the process, but then you've probably guessed that by now...
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ISSN In the context of welfare state change and European Union and national debates on activation, this article engages in a systematic analysis of the reconciliation of work and family policies in Poland, and their implications regarding the gendered division of labour. Examination of three areas of reconciliation, that is, childcare services, maternity and parental leaves, and parent-friendly organization of work, reveals strong tensions between the unpaid labour of care and paid market labour.
Reconciliation of work and family appears challenging for mothers and fathers alike, but the nature of the problem differs - women face greater obstacles to paid employment and men to involvement in family and care. It is possible to put a monetary value on unpaid work by asking what it would cost to hire someone to do the work instead. For the U. Differences reflect differences between countries in the amount of unpaid work done, and in the wages used to value this. If wages for paid domestic and care workers are particularly low, as they are in the U. The monetary value is, of course, not the same as the social value of the work, but calculating it highlights what the monetary costs would be if the work were not done for free.
The UK Office of National Statistics released data in November showing on average UK men do 16 hours unpaid work a week, while women do 26 hours weekly 60 percent more than men. People who have lower incomes do more unpaid work than those with higher incomes.
Recognize, Reduce, Redistribute Unpaid Care Work: The Gender Gap
Valuing the work at replacement cost i. Some feminists have argued that women should actually be paid a wage for the domestic and care work they do for their families and friends. Committees calling for Wages for Housework were founded in several cities in U. S, including New York. Also, the proposal would be impossible to implement, as there would be no way to verify hours of work performed, and so in effect would amount to a kind of welfare benefit for housewives rather than a wage.
In addition, it does not focus on the questions of how to reduce and redistribute unpaid care and domestic work, and so lacks transformative potential. However, even when statistics on the extent and monetary value of unpaid care and domestic work are produced, they are not used in the design of economic policies. For instance, despite the availability of time use data in the majority of European countries, the design of austerity policies these countries have adopted since have paid no attention to their impact on unpaid work.
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For instance, in most high-income countries, women employees are entitled to paid maternity leave funded from tax revenue—the U. However, leave benefits vary greatly across countries. The average duration of paid parental leave in developed economies is 26 weeks. Some feminists have expressed concern that long-term paid maternity leave, such as the three years available to mothers in Finland, encourages women to leave paid employment for too long, making it difficult for them to return to jobs comparable in terms of pay and conditions to the ones they have left.
A more transformative option is paid parental leave, equally shared between both parents, which is discussed here as one of the strategies to redistribute unpaid work. Women who take time out of paid employment to care for children and other family members also lose out in pension entitlements.
In many countries that have a state- organized public pension based on payroll taxes paid by employers and employees, women have successfully campaigned for the government to reduce their loss by paying some contributions on their behalf when they are out of the labor market taking care of family members. Such payments, known as pension credits, are widely used in developed countries and have recently been introduced in some developing countries, primarily in Latin America, such as in Uruguay and Bolivia.
They can be provided in relation to care of children, frail elderly people, and people who are ill or disabled, but in practice they are mainly awarded for care of children. Again there is an issue of whether pension credits are paid only for mothers as is the case in Latin America or to whomever is the main caregiver, independent of their sex as is more the case in Europe.
Pension credits for the main care-giver does more to promote the redistribution of unpaid care. Of course, if there is a universal, non-contributory pension, funded from general tax revenue and available to all, pension credits may not be necessary. Such universal social pensions are available in a growing number of countries, including Bolivia, Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, Thailand, and rural Brazil.
While these have obvious advantages over work-related contributory pension schemes, which are found in OECD countries, the benefit levels are almost always considerably lower than those in contributory pension schemes. Provision of such services is part of the social protection system advocated by the ILO. In many developing countries, access to clean water and sanitation and clean energy cannot be taken for granted, especially in rural areas; and women and girls spend a lot of time collecting water and fuel. For instance, estimates for 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa indicate that women spend a combined total of 16 million hours per day collecting water.
This unpaid work could be eliminated by investment in water and sanitation infrastructure, provided access is affordable. In South Africa each household is entitled to liters of free, safe water per month.
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Similarly, women and girls in rural areas spend a lot of time collecting wood and other fuels and grinding and pounding food grains by hand. Rural electrification in South Africa reduced the time women spent on such tasks, boosting their participation in paid work by 9 percent. In high-income countries, clean water and electricity is widely available, but women spend many hours of unpaid time caring for their children and frail elderly relatives. This can be reduced by transferring production of care to paid workers. In OECD countries on average , only 33 percent of year olds are enrolled in early childhood education and care services.
This increases to more than 70 percent of year olds , but in some countries , such as UK, this is because compulsory enrolment in school begins at age five. Society-centered social capital flourishes in societies with good family, community, and civic engagement values. Institution-centered social capital was thought to be formed through strong political support and public administration. All of the regimes seemed in favor of social capital. The conservative regime was more positive with the society-centered theory because they believe in bonding social capital through family and community ties.
Voluntary civic engagement was seen to be most prevalent within liberal and social democratic state regimes.
Universal trust was stronger in northern Europe who are considered social democratic, followed by the liberal and conservative regimes. These liberal and social democratic regime characteristics are said to be related to bridging social capital. This means that these societies value equal opportunity and social inclusion. With that being said, how people are handled and what society values differs. That is why it is important to note that social capital has its strengths and weaknesses in all regimes.
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One of the central topics which relates to gender and welfare state countries is the access which every individual has to good employment. In saying good employment, it is implied that a person has equal opportunity for quality part time or full time employment, with the same chance of advancing to desired positions. Each regime liberal, conservative, and social democratic has different views on the amount of social capital a person should possess.
The liberal welfare state believes in laissez-faire attitude towards the market economy. As contemporary economist Adam Smith believed, the liberal welfare state ideologies would eliminate inequalities and privileges in regards to employment by having minimal government interference. The conservative welfare state views on job opportunity wanted government interference in order to create hierarchal powers and class differentiation.
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To conservatives, it was natural to have people with lower employment status than the select people who were developed to be leaders. This ideology to the conservatives improved efficiency. Lastly, social democratic welfare states go out of their way to make all citizens employed. The belief of having everyone employed is that equality would mobilize power and diminish the social issues which trouble a lot of governmental systems. The results yielded that there were generally more women who had part time employment than males, and more males with full time employment than females across most regimes.
In general, part time employment was seen to be associated with poorer working conditions than people with full time employment.
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Among the three welfare state regimes, the conservative welfare state countries did seem to be an outlier from the results. What was found in these associated countries was that there was a higher psychological demand for men, there were lower salaries and chance for promotion for both men and women liberal and social democratic states had lower salaries and lower chance for promotion for women than men , women were more likely to have permanent contracts, men were more likely to be dissatisfied with their job, and the only differences with job satisfaction with the regimes were noticed with the conservative welfare state men more satisfied than women.
Although working conditions, job satisfaction, health status, and psychological issues vary with genders in each regime, the general trend is that females face a disadvantage when finding good employment. This phenomenon of having a disproportionate number of females in the lower-income bracket of the job market is called the feminization of poverty.
The rates of females in poverty has become higher due to the fact that they are disadvantaged when it comes to good employment compared to men. Women also struggle with economic difficulties resulting from the high rates of abandonment, divorce, and widowhood which has been increasing in recent decades. As was highlighted by Hadas Mandel and Michael Shalev in their theoretical analysis looking at how the welfare states shape the gender pay gap, the theories of decommodfication and defamilialization underline the key differences.


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The classics are poetic charms from long ago that we cherish in a modern paced life. Old world novels, poetry and music have inspired countless generations. In present day we are accustomed to the blaring beats of rock, pop and hip hop to motivate us through our schedule. We are in an endless state of busy amidst work, home and daily activities to tend to. Meditation and self-given time outs are often necessary to ease our minds into a much needed deep breath. Artistic endeavors persuade these moments depending on your personal interests.
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Moving beyond our timeline and entering into an intrinsic past leads us to the intriguing sounds of our favorite composers. Listening to music in its classical form has a timeless vibration. The epic and dramatic effects of the classics have strengthened the foundation of the music era we see today. Listening to the untold tales through notes of music are transparently healing. Composers took the musical trends of their time and established their own tradition in the industry. Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky are among hundreds that have changed the spectrum of how we measure music.
Films, documentaries and movies have offered us a glimpse of the lifestyle and muses of different composers. The inner inspiration and powerful impacts of their music was evident in their own lives. "Amadeus" is a movie that explores the music of Mozart and the individuals that surrounded his obstacles and triumphant echoes throughout his years. Another flick dedicated to famous composers that has received high ratings on the charts is "Immortal Beloved". From start to finish, we are able to see a portrayal of Beethoven as he rises above with resonance and intent. His music is in terms immortal making it a favorited film for fans of is work.
Reading the Classics
Listening to our playlist of classical tunes while reading a book of choice is a perfect way to spend the weekend. Authors such as Jane Austen or Bronte have captivated our minds with profound literary pieces. There is also great pieces written that will continue our travel in the classical realm.
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- Faith and rationality
Faith and rationality are two modes of
beliefthat exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility. Faithis belief in inspiration, revelation, or authority. Rationalityis belief based on reasonor evidence.
Broadly speaking, there are three categories of views regarding the relationship between faith and rationality.
Rationalismholds that truthshould be determined by reasonand factual analysis, rather than faith, dogma, or religious teaching. Fideismholds that faith is necessary, and that beliefs must be held without evidence or reason, or even in conflict with evidence and reason. Natural theologyholds one can infer, through induction, that God exists by closely observing nature.
The relationship between faith and reason
From at least the days of the Greek Philosophers, the relationship between faith and reason has been hotly debated.
Platoargued that knowledge is simply memory of the eternal. Aristotleset down rules by which knowledge could be discovered by reason.
Rationalists point out that many people hold irrational beliefs, for many reasons. There may be evolutionary causes for irrational beliefs — irrational beliefs may increase our ability to survive and reproduce. Or, according to
Pascal's Wager, it may be to our advantage to have faith, because faith may promise infinite rewards, while the rewards of reason are necessarily finite.
Believers in faith — for example those who believe salvation is possible through faith alone — point out that everyone holds beliefs arrived at by faith, not reason. The belief that the universe is a sensible place and that our minds allow us to arrive at correct conclusions about it, is a belief we hold through faith.
Beliefs held "by faith" may be seen existing in a number of relationships to rationality:
* Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others. Accordingly, faith is seen as essential to and inseparable from rationality.
* Faith as addressing issues beyond the scope of rationality: In this view, faith is seen as covering issues that science and rationality are inherently incapable of addressing, but that are nevertheless entirely real. Accordingly, faith is seen as complementing rationality, by providing answers to questions that would otherwise be unanswerable.
* Faith as contradicting rationality: In this view, faith is seen as those views that one holds despite evidence and reason to the contrary. Accordingly, faith is seen as pernicious with respect to rationality, as it interferes with our ability to think, and rationality is seen as the enemy of faith, since it interferes with our ability to believe.
Martin Luthertaught that faith and reason were antithetical, in the sense that questions of faith could not be illuminated by reason. He wrote, "All the articles of our Christian faith, which God has revealed to us in His Word, are in presence of reason sheerly impossible, absurd, and false." [Martin Luther, "Werke, VIII"] and " [That] Reason in no way contributes to faith. [...] For reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things." [Martin Luther, "Table Talk".]
The apologist point of view: Reformed epistemology
Faith as underlying rationality
The view that faith underlies all rationality holds that rationality is dependent on faith for its coherence. Under this view, there is no way to comprehensively "prove" that we are actually seeing what we appear to be seeing, that what we remember actually happened, or that the laws of logic and mathematics are actually real. Instead, all beliefs depend for their coherence on "faith" in our senses, memory, and reason, because the foundations of rationalism cannot be proven by evidence or reason.
René Descartes, for example, argued along these lines in Meditations on First Philosophy, in which he argued that all human perceptions could be an illusion manufactured by an evil demon. Illustrations of this view are also found in contemporary in popular culture, with movies such as The Matrixand Total Recallillustrating the impotence of reason in the face of illusion. Similarly, Theravaada Buddhismholds that all perceived reality is illusion. Thus, it is argued, there is no way to prove beyond doubt that what we perceive is real, so that all our beliefs depend on "faith" in our senses and memories. Reformed epistemologyasserts that certain beliefs cannot be proven by reason but must be accepted by faith, and Christian philosophers and apologists such as Alvin Plantingahave proposed that beliefs of this type are " properly basic" — that is, that it is right and even necessary to hold such beliefs without evidence. In this view, we believe because we are inclined by nature to believe. Plantinga goes on to argue that belief in God is properly basic in the same way — that belief in God need not come through evidence and argument but may be a "properly basic" belief grounded in natural and intuitive experience. Presuppositional apologeticsclaims that faith is a transcendentally necessary precondition to reason. In other words, without faith one could make no sense of reasoning, in terms of the processes or the laws that govern it. It makes the claim that the very concept of "proof" presupposes faith, and thus faith in God is the most rational thing there is. Solipsismapplies reasoning similar to the above to arrive at the conclusion that only the self exists, and all reality is simply a function of one's mind, on the basis that only one's existence can be proven. This view was first recorded with the presocratic sophist Gorgias. Contemporary rationalism has little in common with the historical, continental rationalism expounded by René Descartes and others, which arguably relied on solipsistic reasoning. Plantinga asserts that his argument does not incorporate solipsisms since, while it acknowledges that many things cannot be proven by evidence and reason, it also affirms that things exist outside the mind. Thus, it concludes that faith allows us to "know" things that cannot be strictly proved.
Faith as addressing issues beyond the scope of rationality
The position that faith addresses issues beyond the scope of rationality holds that faith supplements rationality, because the scope of rational human knowledge is limited. In essence, under this view, faith corresponds to beliefs that, although quite possibly true, cannot yet be fully grasped by our reason.
Proponentswho interpret the following passages of the
Bibleas teaching this view of faith and reason:
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1st Corinthians 13:12
Some have argued that strict rationalism to the exclusion of this type of faith erroneously concludes that because rational thought is successful at explaining some things, knowledge that comes from beyond the realm of rational thought is illegitimate. According to this line of reasoning,
Our science-dominated culture has ruled out religious experience as a clue to reality; but on what grounds? Science in the 1600's was so successful in understanding the physical dimension of reality that people in the 1700's began to think that the physical may be the only dimension of reality. But success in one area of inquiry does not invalidate other areas. The burden of proof is on those who would exclude a particular kind of experience from being a source of knowledge. [http://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/monsma.html]
Under this view, faith is not static belief divorced from reason and experience, and is not illegitimate as a source of knowledge. On the contrary, belief by faith starts with the things known by reason, and extends to things that are true, although they cannot be understood, and is therefore legitimate insofar as it answers questions that rational thought is incapable of addressing. As such, beliefs held by this form of faith are seen dynamic and changing as one grows in experience and knowledge; until one's "faith" becomes "sight." This sort of belief is commonly found in
The rationalist point of view
Faith that contradicts rationality
In this view, there are many beliefs that are held by faith alone, that rational thought would force the mind to reject. As an example, many people believe in the Biblical story of Noah's flood: that the entire Earth was covered by water for forty days. But most plants cannot survive being covered by water for that length of time, so one must choose between accepting the story on faith and rejecting reason, or rejecting the story by reason and thus rejecting faith (in the instance).
Rationalists argue that beliefs held by faith, without evidence, contradict one another. Thus most "faiths," in the sense of "religions," hold that their view is correct and that other religions are false religions. The Bible, for examples, says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me." Therefore, of the exclusive religions held through faith, either one is correct and all others are wrong, or they are all wrong. Rationalists argue that if, in all cases but one, faith leads to incorrect belief, then it is wrong in that one case to expect faith to lead to correct belief.
The Anglican
C. S. Lewisheld that the tenets of Christianity were likely precisely because resurrection from the dead, the miracles and the story of Lazarusseemed to defy rationality. However, he described his experience of faith in his book " Mere Christianity" by distinguishing between two usages of the word. He describes the first as follows:
:"Faith seems to be used by Christians in two senses or on two levels ... In the first sense it means simply Belief."
Several paragraphs later he continues with:
:"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."cite book |author=Lewis, C. S. |title=Mere Christianity: a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality |publisher=HarperSanFrancisco |location= [San Francisco] |year=2001 |pages= |isbn=0-06-065292-6 |oclc= |doi=]
In Jewish philosophy
14th CenturyJewish philosopher Levi ben Gersontried to reconcile faith and reason. He wrote, "The Torah cannot prevent us from considering to be true that which our reason urges us to believe." [Jewish Encyclopedia, volume VIII, page 29] His contemporary Hasdai ben Abraham Crescasargued the contrary view, that reason is weak and faith strong, and that only through faith can we discover the fundamental truth that God is love, that through faith alone can we endure the suffering that is the common lot of God's chosen people.
Various justifications and criticisms
The justifications for faith as rational are based on semantic and epistemological strategies:
1. Less semantically precise definitions of rationalism that allow for faith to be accommodated as rational: :1.a Broadening of the definition of faith to include faith as a belief that rests on logical proof or material evidence.:1.b Weakening of the definitions of proof, evidence, logic, rational, etc., to allow for a lower standard of proof.2. Attacking the epistemological underpinnings of rationality by asserting that certain beliefs not supported by reason or evidence are still
properly basicbecause they are intuitive or that we are "naturally inclined" to believe them.
The semantic strategy (number 1) is common to those who hold that faith addresses issues beyond the scope of rationality, whereas the epistemological strategy (number 2) is employed by those who hold that faith underlies rationality.
Critics of faith as rational assert that the semantic arguments constitute a
special pleading, a formal fallacy. A common refutation of the epistemological attack on the basis of rationality is that if when fully applied it makes it possible to regard any arbitrary belief as rational; one could argue belief in the Invisible Pink Unicornto be properly basicusing the same reasoning. Advocates of Reformed epistemologyassert that they have a criterion of proper basic belief; one arrived at inductively. They distinguish between the beliefs and the conditions under which one is believing and correlate the beliefs and the conditions into recognizable groups of those that are properly basic and those that are not properly basic. They argue that as beings we are "naturally inclined" toward belief in God and that because of this condition faith is properly basic and rational, but belief in the Invisible Pink Unicorn or other logical absurdities lack such a condition, are not properly basic and hence not rational. Critics respond to this line of reasoning with though we may indeed be "naturally inclined" toward faith (belief), it does not follow that faith is properly basic and hence rational.
Other people of faith have adopted the position that faith is implicitly irrational and have embraced the putative irrationality of faith as a demonstration of devotion to one's beliefs and deity. For example,
Fideismspecifically recommends that one not be rational. W. W. Bartleygeneralized faith as irrationalism, rationality in this sense as panrationalism, subsumed both under justificationismand criticized and rejected both as authoritarian. [William W. Bartley: "The Retreat to Commitment" (1984)] He proposed as a new position pancritical rationalism, in which he held that beliefs cannot be based on or justified by anything at all and that rationality only ever concerns the rejection or elimination of views by criticism. He defined a rationalist as someone who keeps all his positions, without exception, and even this rationalist position itself, open to criticism. In this way, Bartley attempted to solve the problem of the "tu quoque" attack used by fideists on rationalists. This attack argues that if a belief is to be based on reason or evidence, it must at one point also make use of faith, for otherwise it would face infinite regress. The attack not only undermined the integrity of the rationalist, because it exposed him as ultimately relying on faith and hence being actually irrational, but it at the same time gave the fideist a justification for his faith and so held his view to be as rational as the rationalist's view, according to the rationalist's own standards.
ee also
William Alston
Alvin Plantinga
Reformed epistemology
Presuppositional apologetics
Theory of justification
Methods of obtaining knowledge
Relationship between religion and science
*Theory of everything
Atheists in foxholes
External links
Apologetics and philosophical justifications of faith as rational
* [http://www.faithandphilosophy.com Faithandphilosophy.com] founded by
William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Richard Mouw
* [http://www.siu.edu/~scp/ Society of Christian Philosophers] founded again by
William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Richard Mouw
* [http://www.credenda.org/issues/8-4disputatio.php Faith, Reason, and Rationality] a debate between Douglas Jones and Michael Shermer from Credenda Agenda, a publication of the Presbyterian Church
* [http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/faithandreason.html Faith and reason] the philosophy of religion website
* [http://www.vantil.info/ vantil.info] works by and relating to Cornelius Van Til
* [http://www.faithandreason.org/ FaithandReason.org] advocates natural theology and that faith and reason can work together; maintained by the D.L. Dykes, Jr. Foundation
* [http://www.rationalchristianity.net/index.html RationalChristianity.org] propounds the view that Christianity is rational, and attempts to answer alleged contradictions
Neutral critiques and analysis
* [http://www.leaderu.com/offices/koons/docs/chrphlec17.html Lecture on The Rationality of Religious Belief] Contemporary Christian Philosophy, University of Texas
* [http://pantheon.yale.edu/~kd47/basic.htm Are Christian Beliefs Properly Basic?] A critical examination of Alvin Plantinga's claim that Christian beliefs can be justified even without any evidence for them by Keith DeRose, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Criticisms of the belief that faith is rational
* [http://importanceofphilosophy.com/Irrational_Faith.html Irrational Faith] importanceofphilosophy.com
* [http://importanceofphilosophy.com/Irrational_Main.html Irrational Epistemology] importanceofphilosophy.com
Historical overview of the relationship between faith and reason
* [http://www.iep.utm.edu/f/faith-re.htm Faith and Reason] Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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