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Science is a Sacred Cow.

Post by Ninerism » 01-02-2002 11:35 PM

And ever-moooving! Get it.

Eeww, what's that I just stepped in?

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Post by Snorrithor » 01-03-2002 04:42 AM

The last scientist who worked in the Library (at Alexandria) was a
mathematician, astronomer, Physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school
of philosophy--an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual
in any age. Her name was Hypatia. She was born in Alexandria in 370. At a
time when women had few options and were treated as property, Hypatia moved
freely and unselfconsciously through traditional male domains. By all
accounts she was a great beauty. She had many suitors but rejected all offers
of marriage. The Alexandria of Hypatia's time--by then long under Roman rule-
-was a city under grave strain. Slavery had sapped classical civilization of
its vitality. ...
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

-- Walt Whitman (in 'Song of Myself' from 'Leaves of Grass')

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Post by Snorrithor » 01-03-2002 04:43 AM

The growing Christian Church was consolidating its power and
attempting to eradicate pagan influence and culture. Hypatia stood at the
epicenter of these mighty social forces. Cyril, the Archbishop of Alexandria,
despised her because of her close friendship with the Roman governor, and
because she was a symbol of learning and science, which were largely
identified by the early Church with paganism. In great personal danger, she
continued to teach and publish, until, in the year 415, on her way to work
she was set upon by a fanatical mob of Cyril's parishioners. They dragged
her from her chariot, tore off her clothes, and, armed with abalone shells,
flayed her flesh from her bones. Here remains were burned, her works
obliterated, her name forgotten. Cyril was made a saint."


--- Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980. The murder of Hypatia and the destruction of
the Alexandria Library marked the onset of the "Dark Ages.
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

-- Walt Whitman (in 'Song of Myself' from 'Leaves of Grass')

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Post by Snorrithor » 01-03-2002 04:49 AM

Hmmm.....

Sacred Cow IS Religious.

So.....

Religion is full of ...
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

-- Walt Whitman (in 'Song of Myself' from 'Leaves of Grass')

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Post by Snorrithor » 01-03-2002 05:02 AM

"We found a great number of books...and since they contained nothing
but superstitions and falsehoods of the Devil we burned them all."

--- Catholic Bishop Diego De Landa, after burning priceless
books of Mayan history and science, July 1562.


I was at this very site in central Yucatan.
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

-- Walt Whitman (in 'Song of Myself' from 'Leaves of Grass')

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Post by Snorrithor » 01-16-2002 02:24 AM

And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

-- Walt Whitman (in 'Song of Myself' from 'Leaves of Grass')

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Post by Snorrithor » 01-16-2002 02:31 AM

Oh yes, maryals,

Linnea JUST added religion to the philosophy section.

And the truth shall set you free.

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----- Fantastc Phelps
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

-- Walt Whitman (in 'Song of Myself' from 'Leaves of Grass')

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