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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Wilson Rejects Constitution
Overview:
Woodrow Wilson argued that the separation of powers established by the Constitution prevented truly democratic government. In order to render government more accountable to public opinion, Wilson held that the business of politics—namely, elections—should be separated from the administration of government, which would be overseen by nonpartisan, and therefore neutral, experts. The president, as the only nationally elected public official, best embodies the will of the people, resulting in a legislative mandate.
Friday, April 28, 2017
1970s Economy
Ford, Carter, Economic Malaise
Price Ceilings: The US Economy Flounders in the 1970s, 3:50
U.S. Economy of 1973-76, 3:30
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-MRBB0ZM1M0
Los Angeles 1979 with KMET Aircheck, 9:30
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyqkH2LOwK4
Thursday, April 27, 2017
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Leadership Quiz
Quiz
Diplomats prize interpersonal harmony. They are the social glue and affiliative force that keeps groups together. They’re typically kind, social, and giving, and often have deep personal bonds with their employees. And they’re often known for being able to resolve conflicts peacefully (and avoid them in the first place). Working for Diplomats is often more fun and social than working for other leaders (especially the Pragmatists). Diplomats put less emphasis on challenging their employees than they do putting their people in positions to succeed and leverage their strengths. Diplomats work to avoid having people feel uncomfortable or anxious. Traditional measures of employee satisfaction are often very high for Diplomats. For the appropriate people, it’s a great situation. Famous Diplomats include Mohandas Gandhi and Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook).
Monday, April 24, 2017
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Plato, The Republic
And so, Glaukon, myth [mūthos] was saved [e-sō-thē, from sōzein], and it could save [sōzein] us in turn, if we trust it.
Plato Republic 10.621b–c
In Hour 23, the key word is theōriā. Prof. Nagy says "My abbreviated translation of the noun theōriā is ‘sacred journey’." The key word for Hour 24 is "the verb sōzein, meaning ‘save (someone). Derived from this verb is the noun sōtēr, which means ‘savior’ in the sense of ‘one who brings (someone) back to safety’ or, mystically, ‘one who brings (someone) back to life’."
Monday, April 17, 2017
Wilson: Rejection of the Founders
Overview:
Progressives believe that America needs to move beyond the principles of the Founding. Woodrow Wilson—who served as president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, and as America’s 28th president—was one of the earliest Progressive thinkers. His critique of the Founding—namely, his rejection of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution’s system of the separation of powers—is one of the most articulate expressions of the Progressive movement’s core beliefs.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Did Robert Spencer Exist?
Proposal Submission (Deadline: January 1, 2016, 11:59 pm EST
Submissions, unless otherwise stated in a modified Section’s Call for Papers below, should include the following information:
- Name
Dr. G. Mick Smith
- Institutional Affiliation
Strayer University
- E-mail Address
gmicksmith@gmail.com
- 150-word Abstract
- 500-word Proposal
Please review the various sections accepting proposal guidelines below. Submit by e-mail attachment to the chair and cochairs identified in the section to which you are submitting. Members may only submit one proposal to a section, for a total of two proposals. The submission deadline is December 18, 2015. You will receive notification regarding the status of your proposal by mid-January. If you have questions about which section to submit to or need additional information about submitting a proposal, please contact the MAR-AAR Vice President, Sabrina Misirhiralall, EdD, at Misirhiralall.S@gmail.com.
Gerald S. Vigna (Chair)Alvernia University
Jerry.vigna@alvernia.edu
- 150-word Abstract
My question is an extension of Robert Spencer's question which is: did Mohammed exist? I mean by this a comparison between the criticisms and evaluations in the gospels of the person of Jesus as compared to the integrity of the Koran and accounts of Mohammed. Criticisms and negative evaluations of the gospels and skepticism about the person of Jesus and the integrity of the New Testament are common. The study of the historical Jesus, and the critical questions and scrutiny that resulted, are a Western achievement of the Enlightenment. On the other hand, and this is the substance of my paper, serious scholarly appraisals of Mohammed and the sources about Islam are nowhere near as critical as those examining the New Testament. Why should this be so?
- 500-word Proposal
Did Robert Spencer Exist?
My question is: did Robert Spencer exist? The question is really a take off on Spencer's question which is: did Mohammed exist? I mean by this a comparison between the criticisms and evaluations in the gospels of the person of Jesus as compared to the integrity of the Koran and accounts of Mohammed. Criticisms and negative evaluations of the gospels and skepticism about the person of Jesus and the integrity of the New Testament are common. The study of the historical Jesus, and the critical questions and scrutiny that resulted, are a Western achievement of the Enlightenment. On the other hand, and this is the substance of my paper, serious scholarly appraisals of Mohammed and the sources about Islam are nowhere near as critical as those examining the New Testament. Why should this be so?
If, in history of religions scholarship you have two somewhat similar founders of religions surely the methodology of inquiry should be comparable. And although it is common to compare Jesus and Mohammed in schools and in college teaching the methods of inquiry are not the same. As a result, reported results do a disservice to both Islam and Christianity. Both founders and religions are historically based entities and claims of historicity are equally open to scholarly inquiry. Nonetheless, the two traditions are handled in a widely disparate manner.
What I seek to establish in this paper is several important points. I will examine the lack of academic interaction with Spencer's basic premise, i.e., that Mohammed did not exist. Secondly, I will compare a standard religion textbook and its approach to both the New Testament, in particular the gospels, and sources about Mohammed. The textbook is indicative of a standard approach to Islam in college classes. College-level introductory accounts of Islam are by and large flawed because they over emphasize harmonious similarities between religions and downplay distinctions between peaceful religionists and Islamism.
In conclusion, Spencer is correct, both in scholarly and in standard textbook formats, the formation of Islam and its founder remains a largely unexamined and uncriticized religious tradition in American academe. Not only in higher education, but from elementary school on, students are presented with a white-washed and sanitized version of Islam. Numerous recent examples violating the separation of church and state exist. Middle school students were asked to promote Islamic cultural achievements over other religions. In a high school geography class students were enjoined to recite the tenets of the Islamic faith. Is the science of geography an appropriate place to promote one religion over others? Don't these lessons violate the Establishment clause of the Constitution? If so, religious scholars should argue for the separation of mosque and state. Islam is Islam, and even in America the three academic studies conducted in U.S. mosques confirm that the overwhelming majority of mosques promote violence against non-Muslims.
Islam is Islam
http://pamelageller.com/2015/12/watch-pamela-geller-on-lou-dobbs-islam-is-islam-not-radical-close-jihad-mosques-loudobbsnews.html/
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/6-shocking-new-discoveries-about-jesus-of-nazareth/
http://pamelageller.com/2015/12/left-wingers-rage-at-middle-school-for-allowing-students-to-opt-out-of-lesson-on-islamic-achievements.html/
In a geography class students were asked to recite the tenents of the Islamic faith.
Is the science of geography an appropriate place to promote religious ideas? Is this a violation of the establishment clause?
http://pamelageller.com/2015/12/virginia-students-practice-calligraphy-by-writing-there-is-no-god-but-allah.html/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=linkedin
Round up 2015
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, has publicly admitted that a significant minority of Muslims support terrorism to establish an Islamic caliphate. Sanchez, sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Armed Services Committee. After the San Bernardino attacks she said that “there is a small group–and we don’t know how big that is, it can be anywhere between five and 20 percent, from the people that I speak to–that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible, and in particular go after what they consider Western norms, our way of life. They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world. They want to put their way on everybody in the world. And, again, I don’t know how big that is, and depending on who you talk to, but they’re certainly, they are willing to go to extremes. They are willing to use, and they do use, terrorism. And it is in the name of a very wrong way of looking at Islam.”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/fbi-sued-for-civil-rights-violations-for-surveilling-muslims-near-san-bernardino/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Judicial%20Watch%20Tipsheet%20-%20Template%202%20(2)&utm_content=
White Wash
Ad hominem
Local meeting
Friday, April 14, 2017
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Plato, Apology
Let us think about it this way: there is plenty of reason to hope that death is something good [agathon]. I say this because death is one of two things: either it is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness for the person who has died, or, according to the sayings [legomena], there is some kind of a change [meta–bolē] that happens—a relocation [met–oikēsis] for the soul [psūkhē] from this place [topos] to another place [topos].
Plato Apology of Socrates 40c
We are pleased to announce the release of, “The living word I: Socrates in Plato's Apology of Socrates”.
Professor Nagy introduces the key word, "The key word for this hour is daimonion, which is a neuter adjective derived from the noun daimōn. We saw that this word daimōn (plural daimones) is used to refer to an unspecified god or hero intervening in human life. By contrast, theos, ‘god’, is used to refer to a specified god. Accordingly, I have been translating the noun daimōn as ‘superhuman force’. And now I will apply this translation to the derivative form daimonion."
Monday, April 10, 2017
Twin Falls Idaho Update Muslim Migrant
Twin Falls Idaho Update Muslim Migrant
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Rollins College Islamist Loses Case Against Christian Student
Rollins College Islamist Loses Case Against Christian Student
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
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Euripides Hippolytus 24–28
|24 When he [= Hippolytus] went, once upon a time, from the palace of Pittheus [in Trozen] |25 [to the territory of Athens] for the vision and rituals [telos plural] of the revered Mysteries [mustērion plural], |26 to the land of Pandion [= to the territory of Athens], then it was that the noble wife of the father [of Hippolytus] |27 saw him, yes, Phaedra saw him, and she was possessed in her heart |28 by a passionate love [erōs] that was terrifying—all because of the plans I planned.
Euripides Hippolytus 24–28
We are pleased to announce the release, “The hero as mirror of men's and women's experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides” and, "The hero's agony in the Bacchae of Euripides."
The key word is telos. In H24H, Prof Nagy defines telos as "end, ending, final moment; goal, completion, fulfillment; coming full circle, rounding out; successfully passing through an ordeal; initiation; ritual, rite."
The key word is agōn. In the Core Vocabulary, Prof. Nagy gives three basic definitions: "(1) ‘coming together’, (2) ‘competition’ or antagonism, and (3) ‘ordeal’ or agony."
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