#Beliefs

Now I can't sleep—I just feel ill. I can't unsee what I saw. For some reason there are armed civilians with AR-15-like weapons patrolling a Wisconsin city alongside or instead
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I love @JeffSharlet's work - he's an incisive journalist of religion in the US. Because I'm a historian of early Christians, tho, let's talk about the trope of Gnosticism he
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Read 2 more tamiZ books-suguNasundari carittiram சுகுணசுந்தரி சரித்திரம்-vEdanAyagam piLLai’s 2nd novel(1887)&maunap piLLaiyAr மௌனப் பிள்ளையார்-collection of humorous stories by sAvi-very funny. But let’s focus on suguNasundariFor piLLai’s 1st no
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Day #146e (#WalkingBedWeek, Pt. 5): Masonic & Anticlerical Readings of the Walking Bed“Little Nemo in Slumberland” dated July 26, 1908: https://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/489  I've always thought it strange how the f
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Had a great time talking about strategies and challenges of teaching Islamic law on the wonderful panel "Teaching Legal History in the 21st Century" at #ASLH2019. Some points I brought
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Thread: a few thoughts on the infamous Harper's letter that broke Twitter.TLDR: The letter was poorly written & vague enough to undermine its own cause. At the same time, if
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1 of 31: “My Place is Here: The Ballad of Delbert Kuehl” This is the unforgettable story of a Chaplain under fire.#SundayMorning 2 of 31:We’ve observed some ugly leadership trends
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Book Recommendations for books that have shaped my life, outlook, thinking, and investment process (though these are not necessarily investment books). I'm going to potentially keep this as a permanently
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Both/and. The issues of manipulation of our reality is true. That said, I have seen some of the most educated and supposedly intelligent so-called skeptics engage in high school types
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Ten years ago today an oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killed 11 men, and initiated the largest environmental disaster in US history. The story I wanted to
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1/n It's thanksgiving, and this is going to be a rather complicated post. It's also objectively not a good idea for me to write it given
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The myth of the mentally ill witch in textbooks of abnormal psychology: a thread on history, ideology, the status of the occult within clinical psychology, and why I am skeptical
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From photographs, to voice recordings, to televised ghost hunts, people have been using media technology to document paranormal encounters for hundreds of years, but is anyone really there? A spooky
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sighs a critical discussion on the (often racist and awfully stereotypical) depiction of brown character(s) in east asian media, including mobile games, is really long overdue a lot of people
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Our @NIESRorg @ESCoEorg report, published today, also summarises the existing literature on “Public Understanding of Economics and Economic Statistics”. It’s a fairly small but fascinating literature. Here are some key
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ThreadI'm a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Let's break it down, shall we? Because quite frankly, I'm getting a little tired
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