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November 12
November 11
What are some good ideas (web resources, books, suggestions, etc) for introducing a 6 to 7 year old child to elements of philosophy, paradoxes, and critical thinking?
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posted by crapmatic at 11:20 AM -
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November 10
November 4
They shouldn't let people like me attend used book sales, but now that the damage is done: how and where to begin reading Sartre?
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posted by notquitemaryann at 8:20 PM -
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October 30
As an atheist, what sort of activities or practices (that don't involve New Age wankery) can I get into to increase my spiritual welfare?
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 9:51 AM -
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October 29
For a school project I chose to redesign a Catholic Missalettes. Only problem, can't find any to redesign!
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posted by Brainy at 2:33 AM -
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October 27
I'm looking for citable print and online references about Christian mysticism.
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posted by pahool at 11:43 PM -
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October 26
I know Eris, "Bob," and the Flying Spaghetti Monster... but what faux-religions came before?
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posted by lekvar at 9:18 AM -
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October 23
Cognitive Biases - better list than Wikipedia? I have encountered a few more than mentioned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Are there many more or these biases? Please point me in the right direction.
THX
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posted by bright77blue at 2:52 PM -
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October 21
My teenaged son want to dress up as Jesus. He has the hair, but he wants a robe like Jesus wore. However, he doesn't want a crappy polyester costume-shop robe. Also both of us refuse to sew anything.
So -- what would be a good Jesus-robe (or just any plausible Jesuswear. This would be daywear, not Jesus eveningwear) that we could buy, in a nice natural fabric? and we're in New York City so if you have specific suggestions for stores that would be even better.
posted by DMelanogaster at 10:47 AM -
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October 20
If the three vows of the Franciscans and Dominicans are "chastity, poverty and obedience," what might be the vows that the artist takes? (I mean artist, of course, to cover writers and so on.) I ask this question because for people in a religious order, it is useful to remember what they are sacrificing; to keep it in mind as a given.
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posted by PersonAndSalt at 11:14 AM -
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October 19
I'd like to read a book about the
Dreamtime of the Australians. I was kind of thinking about reading Chatwin, but
these comments have made a little wary; I don't particularly want to read about another outsider's spiritual journey, and I don't want a New Agey attempt-at-universal-religion haphazardly mixed in with basic anthropological records. Can you recommend a solid book about Dreamtime?
posted by Greg Nog at 2:39 PM -
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October 18
Trying to find a Catholic night time prayer,
very similar to the Prayer For Daily Neglect, that was included in a small booklet of Catholic prayers recently distributed via pew pockets, July or August in the Lubbock dioceses. It was also a three-part prayer, and was also for neglects, but worded differently than the "official" prayer. Basically, it contained to the effect of a "provide the good I saw but did not do", a "complete the good that I did incompletely", and another part. Any clues? Google came up empty for me.
posted by CodeBaloo at 11:20 AM -
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