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A Chronology of Sugar Substitutes
Having to watch out for diabetes now, and limit my sugar (sucrose, fructose) intake, I’ve been looking more into sugar substitutes. Let’s run down the ones I’ve had, in order (and packet color, which I...
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A Quantum Explanation of the “Soul”
When having an online discussion of coping with pain, someone posts a link to a guy who believes in something called “non-dualism”, which is common in Eastern thought, and says that consciousness comes...
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“US” as “United States” or ‘first person plural’; versus “Them”: Election...
If all the attacks against Obama weren’t enough when he first got in, it seems conservatives have really stepped it up now that he has been reelected. I have seen many online proclaim that the nation...
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The Shadow Surfaces: it’s in “the Gifts”
After their stunning loss, Republicans struggled to explain why. If Obama is so bad, “the worst” in history, in fact, then HOW in the world, could he win re-election? How bad must it make them look? Of...
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Twinkie the Kid’s Last Roundup
Who would imagine the leading snack cake brand, which is almost a century old, going completely under! Especially a sweets-lover like me. But it seems to be corporate politics as usual, and the...
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MBTI Certification!
My wife and I got our MBTI Certification, at the Dec. NYC class on the week of the 3rd-6th. I had taken the week off for vacation, when we planned this last spring. IT was a bit difficult, as it was...
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The Roxanne War: Complete Chronology of Hip Hop’s Greatest Saga
Right as I entered college in the fall of ’84, you commonly heard the refrain of two electronic sounds followed by “ROXANNE, ROXANNE” on the radio. Seemed like just another record, though it was...
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Why I’m Critical of “Christian Self-Help” teaching
I felt I should do a more level-headed discussion of why I’ve gone off on certain Christian teachings, especially what I call the “abundant life gospel”, for several years. You can see this on my old...
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Why I’m Critical of “Christian Self-Help” teaching part 2
Continued from http://erictb.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/why-im-critical-of-christian-self-help-teaching Being “made like Christ” The final answer for suffering is God “making us like Him” (based on...
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Latest political goings on
Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/study-confirms-tea-party-_b_2663125.html...
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More hard to find information on FIRO-B
Been trying to learn as much as I can about the source of the personality theory I’m so interested in: the FIRO-B, which the Arno Profile System is based on. Especially now that the MBTI certification...
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The Next Step: Carbs and Triglycerides!
The alternate sweeteners of erythritol (sweetened with a bit of stevia) and xylitol in my primary daily drinks have helped me keep my blood sugar down. Int he latest report from last month, the...
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Do Cosby’s Messages Prove Blacks are Just Being Lazier than Everyone Else?
An old internet forum debate I had saved in my files, based on the latest critique of the Black community by Bill Cosby. Here is a a typical case of a conservative trying to single out blacks as...
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Racial Rhetoric Becoming Worse, it Seems
Since the second election of Obama, the volume has really been turned up on race rhetoric, and those doing this emphatically claim it’s the other side doing it while in the process of starting another...
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Glossary of Life’s Power Struggle
I’ve been pondering this stuff in recent years, and trying to frame it in a new concept I call “inertia“. Trying to create a vocabulary with which to be able to discuss the issue of power in the world....
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Renamed Fifth Temperament Becomes TV Trope
In a type forum discussion, someone had read up on temperament on the Fig Hunter site http://www.fighunter.com/index.php?page=temperaments (which is a good, colorful site discussing the four...
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Defining the Race Issue: What Should We Want?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darron-t-smith-phd/defining-race_b_2976431.html This gives the different perspectives on what racism really is, as perceived by the two main groups. This is important,...
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“Solar” vs “Lunar” in Gender Dynamics, Integrity and Individuation
Recently read Beebe’s Integrity in Depth (Texas A & M University Press, 1992) (Yes, he had a print book out, from 21 years ago, but it’s not about the thing most of us are interested in getting in...
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Classic PacMan Arcade patterns
Made this today when I saw ones made by others on strategywiki; was originally just going to post it here here, but also joined strategywiki, and posted it there too in their walkthrough section. This...
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Right Focuses on Benghazi, Left Addresses Economics
A lot of focus in the conservative media news feeds these days (after their victory on the gun issue) is a strong focus on Benghazi. I haven’t commented on this, but it always struck me as typical...
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