Friday, September 14th, 2007
PR Newswire - Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming
"We've had a Greenhouse Theory with no evidence to support it-except a moderate warming turned into a scare by computer models whose results have never been verified with real-world events,"
(tags: article politics science globalwarming)
Some Thoughts on the Reading of Books
I have ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
In Chronological Order
365 Daily Readings
(Commentary by F. LaGard Smith)
It's pretty neat to get the bible all shuffled together so that you see the chronological order of events (like Kings and Chronicles or the 4 Gospels or the Narrative of the OT with the prophesy interspersed in the correct times...)
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
by William Shakespeare
(the book is actually called "The Sonnets and Narrative poems" but the narrative poems aren't going to get read any time soon...)
This is part of my ongoing effort to begin appreciating poetry more. Some of the sonnets are alright. I think my poetry like-er is broken...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
by Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker with Mike Yorkey
This book makes a bunch of really good points. It has helped me with understanding how to respond when faced with things people (not just women) do that don't make sense :D...
Some of the examples (This book is a topic, example, topic, ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
by Douglas Adams
I actually finished this about 3 days ago... Good book.
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
by Lo Kuan-chung
I recommend getting this book from a different publisher than Tuttle... The second volume had a noticeable number of typos in my version... Especially in the middle of the second volume...
I'll change my bookshelf picture when I get back to NC...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
The God Delusion is full of bluster and bombast, but it really doesn't give even the slightest reason for thinking belief in God mistaken, let alone a "delusion."
The naturalism that Dawkins embraces, furthermore, in addition to its intrinsic unloveliness and its dispiriting conclusions about human beings and their place in ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
4th edition
ed. W.H. Gardner and N.H. MacKenzie
I didn't read any of the foreign language poems, but I gotta say that I liked a greater percentage of his translated poems than his originals.
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
by Martin Luther
collected by: who knows
Some pretty good stuff... Luther was rather, confident. They didn't leave out any (or at least all) of the "crazy" stuff he said...
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
by Plato
I think Dante was influenced by Socrates' description of Tartarus. When Socrates talks about the people who live on the surface of the atmosphere and are to us as we are to someone living at the bottom of the ocean, that sounds a bit like the popular idea of ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
It is really only the first half of the book, but since it has been so long since I finished a book, I posted it anyway...
They should really make a movie/movies out of this...
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
by Plato
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
by Plato
I would not be surprised to learn that Luther read the Apology. It seems to me that I can hear echoes of Socrates' defense in Luther's writing.
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
by Plato
I thought this was on the reading list back when I was a freshman, but it wasn't on the list that I got when I set out on this journey. Oh well, I'll still count it :D
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
by Aristophanes
(translated by Alan H. Sommerstein)
This was a rather liberal translation. The play is pretty crappy (pun intended). It was interesting to see that the introduction referred to 4 themes: atheism, scientific inquiry and speculation, rhetoric, and the new morality. Those 4 themes seem to be what each new generation ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
by Ravi Zacharias
Great book. Ravi is at least the C.S. Lewis of our generation.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
by Plato
I'm glad that I took lots of notes as a freshman. It was fun seeing them again.
One theme that Socrates introduces in the Republic that is a little frustrating is his elevation of ideas above gods. And this isn't even really what is frustrating. It is when people ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Done!
That was all the NKJV. It was nice to get it all in that quickly, helps to get the whole context, and you can remember cross-references easier. There is plenty to be said for "Close-Reading" but a quick rundown is good sometimes also.
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Almost done. I thought I could do it in 1 month, but it took 3. The last two were pretty sparse compared to the first one, so 2 months would probably not be a challenge.
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Christianity can really change if you read Paul as "a guy who wrote a bunch of stuff that we can take or leave" vs. "Inspired Word of God"
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