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Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?

https://christian-thinktank.com/qburnbx.html

based on those languages was at risk. : "The period after St. Augustine is marked not only by the almost universal disappearance of a knowledge of Greek, and a steady change in th

The Happiness Hypothesis - by Jonathan Haidt | Derek Sivers

https://sive.rs/book/HappinessHypothesis

to invent a personal language - a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak. Would you prefer that there be a wide variety of opinions and no domina

Everything's Hot Down in New Orleans

http://www2.tulane.edu/%7Ebfleury/neworleans/NewOrleans.html

New Orleans has a language all its own, sounding more like Brooklyn than the deep south. The native working class peppers its speech with 'dis, 'dat, and 'dose. Most colorful are

The Peoples Voice

https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/index.php

and the control of language are the goals of a tiny handful of unseen ruling elites, who hide behind the persona- Big Brother. Whinston questions Big Brother and the cold empty re
The Peoples Voice

Pantheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2010 Edition)

https://plato.sydney.edu.au/archives/spr2010/entries/pantheism/

is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word ‘world’." The charge that pantheism is atheistic is as old as pantheism itself. Christopher Rowe

The difference between liberalism and leftism

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/001054.html

roles, religion, and language. Today’s liberals do not see their demands for equality as “hubristic” or excessive (as Curtis suggests they might be ready to see), but as essential
There is continuing confusion, especially in the minds of conservatives, between the terms “liberal” and “left.” I will argue here,...

Ivan Illich, On Deschooling (1971)

http://panarchy.org/illich/deschooling.html

Authors   List by Languages     Contacts   Ivan Illich On Deschooling (selected passages) (1971)     Note These are selected passages from Chapter 1

The Green Global Spring Revolution - Report no 1 - with the GGS - Actions

http://www.anarchy.no/ggs1.html

that the change of language represents a failure It was reached at the summit in Glasgow after nearly two weeks of negotiations But it is receiving a mixed reaction - Greenpeace s

Male Circumcision: A Gender Perspective

http://www.noharmm.org/zoske.htm

This different language both broadens and confronts many prevailing cultural ideas regarding the surgery. Cultural Denial Through his linguistic studies, Mario Pei (1965) demonstr
This article examines the history and continuing debate surrounding this surgery, and places it within the context of gender identity. The rise of the activist anti-circumcision mo

Jeff Duntemann's ContraPositive Diary

http://www.duntemann.com/july2008.htm

speaking a Slavic language (Russian? I can't tell) and Carol's mom heard more than one group speaking Polish. A pair of guys were speaking French on the elevator with us, and I kn

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt

scripts. Many important language-based and script-based mappings are not covered in IDNA and need to be handled outside the protocol. For example, names that are entered in a mix

Between Naturalistic and Positivistic Concepts of Human Rights

http://legalhistorysources.com/NaturalLawUnenumeratedRights.htm

“right” in our language.   Unlike the words in English, the word for law and right in Latin and in most European languages is equivocal.   Depending on the context, “ius


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