Page 11 What shall I read for information? The ample page of knowledge, as Grey tells us, is "rich with the spoils of time," and these are ours for the price of a theatre ticket. You may command Socrates and Marcus Aurelius to sit beside you and discourse of their choicest, hear Lincoln at...
Page 12 CHAPTER XXI INFLUENCING BY NARRATION The art of narration is the art of writing in hooks and eyes. The principle consists in making the appropriate thought follow the appropriate thought, the proper fact the proper fact; in first preparing the mind for what is to come, and then letting it...
I am interested in the treatment of the work of Sergei Sakharov by his Great Nephew, Nikolai Sakharov, in his book, I love, therefore I am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony', because if You read the book closely - You begin to realise that what Archimandrite Sophrony is really saying...
(Note: see Wikisource my wiki for a more complete version with more links.) ANDROID MEME'S XENOCHRONY Bob Dobbs (1922-) Diary (1935-1998) (chronological order; original version) ____ 1935 April 22/35 (Paris) "Crowds are all that's left," James Joyce muttered to Eugene Jolas. As Bob Dobbs walked into...
Page 8 Practise But preparation must also be of another sort than the gathering, organizing, and shaping of materials—it must include practise, which, like mental preparation, must be both general and special. Do not feel surprised or discouraged if practise on the principles of delivery herein...
In 1995, I decided that I would do some stuff on Pneumatic Cognition [Spiritual Cognition] at an Evangelical-Charismatic Church of England Conference - I only had two books on the stuff - The Bible and 'New Horizons in Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading' by...
Back in the days when I was still talking out of my arse about yaoi, claiming that there is nothing gay in the west that can appeal to a girl and still thinking the sun shone only from the back side of the Land of the Rising Sun someone gave me a Chris Hunt novel... "But wait Lamasu," I hear you...
My only sadness comes when thinking that I would have preferred he choke to death on a chicken bone at a tent-revival. Sigh... Just in case you are inclined to feel sympathy, here are some gems from Jerry Fallwell's Greatest Hits (from the Carpetbagger) : March 1980: Falwell tells an Anchorage rally...
About George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States of America, inaugurated on January 20, 2001 (against candidate Al Gore, vice-president of the United States). Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Bush was the first child of George H. W....
We dissidents are having a really hard time these days. There was a time when simply leaving our own country going to reside in another was the ideal way to escape the attention of the various ‘secret police’ forces, that inevitably were attracted to our dissenting views. However, during the...
The following is fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. N0 I don need no stinkin liar. Fictitious just like StarGate, and the Mars Project. I was run out of that Fullerton EZ Free of G-d 'church' due to my being injured, and I later identified it as a criminal...
I have mentioned in previous posts that our current President (George W. Bush) and other leaders of our nation are not following the Lord. If they are not following God, there is only one other spiritual being who is influencing them and he is our enemy. I realize this is very difficult to believe...
News Coverage of U.S. War in Iraq: A Comparison of The New York Times, The Arab News, and The Middle East Times Changho Lee Doctoral Student School of Journalism University of Texas at Austin Present Address: 2501 Wickersham Lane #131 Austin, TX 78741 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: 1-512-916-8709...
On this page are some recent reviews of the Writers Cafe from Ian. Older reviews by Sarah and June and dominic and Carmen from when the Writers Cafe was based at the Arc arts Centre in Stockton can be found onour main site - link in My Links in the side bar. Note there will be some pics and audio...
I heard a fantastic interview on Melbourne ABC radio last year. The interview was with the author of “Dying to Win – The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, written by political scientist Robert Pape. Unfortunately the interview doesn’t appear to be available for download, but I have...
A counterculture is a culture that has ideas and ways of behaving that are consciously and deliberately very different from the cultural values of the larger society that it is part of. Before we can understand a culture we must look at what influences it. Each generation has its own culture, sub...
Both candidates are tan, both seem healthy and rested, both are able to express themselves somewhat clearly, though Sarko invented a word and called a question an answer. It is different from the States in a major way. More direct arguing and ça alors (I don't believe this, in this context) et vous...
While I have a lot of quibbles with individual parts of the recent Mark Halperin and John Harris book The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 (not the least of which is their awkward and mistaken attempt to exonerate their respective news organizations from the accusation of Freak Show...
Al Qaedism, Again Another straw on the back of the proverbial American camel. By Victor Davis Hanson Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers? After all, the United States — not bin Laden’s rag-tag jihadists — saved and Kosovo? And we did...
The Issue Immigration is an issue that has been on the forefront of national debate for some time now. There seems to be a clear line between those who oppose further immigration to the United States, and those who are demanding it. For those in favor of continued immigration to the United States,...
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