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Memes: They Keep Going and Going and Going…

by Rose Schwartz on June 28, 2007 in Memes

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Memes: They Keep Going and Going and Going…

Bob Kowalski has tagged me. In case you weren’t aware: – Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. – People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. – At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged [...]

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God or G-d. Nah, just god.

by Rose Schwartz on June 26, 2007 in Images, Rants

Why do atheists refer to any god as “God”? Is it the brainwashing early on that makes us continuing to do such things? Raised Jewish, I was always told to use “G-d”; you can’t write down such a holy name that you possibly may eventually throw out. Silly, I know. I stopped the bad habit [...]

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More On Stem Cells

by Rose Schwartz on June 26, 2007 in Images, News, Rants

Perhaps Cheney would be interested in this: The first U.S. study to transplant a potent form of purified adult stem cells into the heart muscle of patients with severe angina provided evidence that the procedure is safe and produced a reduction in angina pain as well as improved functioning in patients’ daily lives, reports the [...]

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Tag-erific Memery

by Rose Schwartz on June 26, 2007 in Memes

I’ve been tagged by No More Hornets. The following rules should explain the new blog meme. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At [...]

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“Is Religion Man-Made?”

by Rose Schwartz on June 26, 2007 in Images, News, Rants

Surely, no woman thought it up! I began reading this article over at SamHarris.org and wanted to share. “[R]eligions, like languages, evolve with sufficient randomness, from beginnings that are sufficiently arbitrary, to generate the bewildering – and sometimes dangerous – richness of diversity.” Harris finds a historical origin for religion and religious traditions, and it [...]

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