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3976 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance: Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance >ravi gadfly at exitleft.org >Wed Jun 15 13:46:04 PDT 2005 <snip> >>According to the American Religious Identification Survey (2001), >>"while nearly half of blacks say their outlook is religious (49 >>percent), only 37 percent of whites, 30 percent of Hispanics and 28 ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jun 15 22:08:04 PDT 2005

3977 [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain -- rank: 149

... courts should order that someone be made dead (as Ralph Nader put it) because judges are not satisfied with her brain ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Jun 15 21:25:29 PDT 2005

3978 [lbo-talk] Can Liberal Faiths Compete with Conservative Faiths? -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] Can Liberal Faiths Compete with Conservative Faiths? (An >Appeal to Ignorance) >joanna 123hop at comcast.net >Tue Jun 14 23:53:02 PDT 2005 <snip> >So basically, looking at the chart you present, we're talking >polarization right? Non-religious on one end and born again on the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jun 15 06:38:08 PDT 2005

3979 [lbo-talk] Can Liberal Faiths Compete with Conservative Faiths? (An Appeal to Ignorance) -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance >Marvin Gandall marvgandall at rogers.com >Tue Jun 14 16:52:42 PDT 2005 <snip> >My apologies if this has already been canvassed on this long thread >- I've dipped in and out of it - but isn't the more important >distinction for ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 14 22:58:47 PDT 2005

3980 [lbo-talk] The Myth of the Madrassa -- rank: 149

>Freddy's Buffet Religion Re: [lbo-talk] sheilaism >ravi gadfly at exitleft.org >Tue Jun 14 11:33:43 PDT 2005 <snip> >On 06/14/05 14:01, Doug Henwood wrote: >>snitsnat wrote: >>>if that's the case, then I don't think I would find so many >>>religious adherents ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 14 21:28:20 PDT 2005

3981 [lbo-talk] fewer signing up for military academies -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] fewer signing up for military academies >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com >Mon Jun 13 11:03:15 PDT 2005 <snip> >Boston Globe - June 13, 2005 > >Fewer applying to US military academies >Observers cite Iraq conflict, decline from post-9/11 surge > >By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff > >WEST ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 14 21:09:13 PDT 2005

3982 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance >ravi gadfly at exitleft.org >Tue Jun 14 09:45:10 PDT 2005 <snip> >On 06/14/05 09:23, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> > is (the United States, where only scientists, Jewish Americans, and > > Asian Americans are largely irreligious, being among few exceptions). > >what/who exactly ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 14 13:42:02 PDT 2005

3983 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

uncle On 6/14/05, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: > >[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance > >Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com > >Mon Jun 13 08:51:04 PDT 2005 > <snip> > >*those* scientists' rejection of mainly american/western > >conceptions/practice of religion. > > There is no evidence that scientists ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Tue Jun 14 08:50:22 PDT 2005

3984 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance >Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com >Mon Jun 13 08:51:04 PDT 2005 <snip> >*those* scientists' rejection of mainly american/western >conceptions/practice of religion. There is no evidence that scientists in or from China, India, Japan, and other non-Western countries are ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 14 07:50:51 PDT 2005

3985 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance >joanna 123hop at comcast.net >Mon Jun 13 20:46:35 PDT 2005 <snip> >snitsnat wrote: > >>IOW, i hardly think one should chalk up legitimate disagreements to >>childhood trauma. yoshie not only doesn't seem hostile to religion, >>she hardly seems to have ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 14 06:23:45 PDT 2005

3986 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

and i'm back on the same side with kelley, again, somehow . . . and how do we both find ourselves agreeing with yoshie at all? [i kid! i kid!] and yet, i am way more with yoshie here than with joanna, i'm afraid. and i fear i have completely failed to ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Mon Jun 13 16:00:30 PDT 2005

3987 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

bellah et al., not at all adverse to religion and the religious, mind you, criticized this stuff as "sheilaism" (it's been around for about 60 years now) and show how it can be traced to the tradition of expressive individualism in the u.s. (Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman (connected to romaniticism ...

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Author:	snitsnat
Date:	Mon Jun 13 13:42:46 PDT 2005

3988 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance >joanna 123hop at comcast.net >Mon Jun 13 11:35:21 PDT 2005 <snip> >>How is religion a form of inquiry? Religions are communities of >>faith. Or communities of practice, but how do they encourage people >>to ask questions about anything? > >Why is ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jun 13 13:13:35 PDT 2005

3989 [lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance >joanna 123hop at comcast.net >Sun Jun 12 22:32:45 PDT 2005 <snip> >Yoshie wrote >"It is not necessary to share Newton's religious belief in order to >study the calculus, three laws of motion, theory of gravity, and so >on." > >I ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jun 13 04:05:01 PDT 2005

3990 [lbo-talk] "Custer Had It Coming" (we came to end Sodom's corruption) -- rank: 149

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com, Sun Jun 12 13:52:48 PDT 2005: >>Former executives of Custer Battles - an American firm accused of >>stealing millions from Iraq reconstruction projects and banned from >>further government contracts > >what kind of name is "Custer Battles"? George Armstrong Custer? he >was a Loser, with ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Jun 12 14:32:49 PDT 2005