Content tagged belief

Blog Entries

Dave Bayer was the math advisor to, and Russell Crowe's hand double in A Beautiful Mind! I saw this with Brad on Friday night; it's rather good. … gulfstream/687

Splendidly dogmatic essay on punctuation: “Periods and commas are lovely because they are simple. They force the writer to express his ideas … gulfstream/819

The parallels between environmentalists (particularly radical environmentalists) and the religious (particularly early Christians). (Pole sitting, … gulfstream/1313

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The Christians, retaining the Judaic belief in a special revelation, added to it the Roman desire for world-wide dominaion and the Greek taste for metaphysical … quotes/104

Late at the office; and then home and there find Mr. Batelier and his sister Mary ... he told me of ... making a bargain with another man at a taverne … pepys/222