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I don't know, but she could be a sandpaper Sally:
You'd hate to invest $1,000 in her for an hour, only to find out she was illiquid.
I wonder if she is in the 5%:
lateral position netting may reduce liquidity risks
I don't know, but she could be a sandpaper Sally:
You'd hate to invest $1,000 in her for an hour, only to find out she was illiquid.
... the words of Dr Joseph Mercola, whom many of you would be familiar with. ...
1. Embarrassingly Stupid Americans -- One in Five Believes Sun Revolves Around Earth
2. The title of this article, that an embarrassingly high number of Americans believe that the sun revolves around the Earth, is only one point argued by the Washington Post’s Susan Jacoby, in her attempt to prove that Americans are in serious intellectual trouble, facing a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
3. ...a good portion of the population is saying, “We know we’re ignorant, but we don’t care!”
4. ... nearly half of young Americans did not think it was necessary to know the location of other countries in which important news was being made. And another one-third felt it was “not at all important” to know a foreign language.
5. Why is this so concerning? Because … Fear and Ignorance Go Hand in Hand
.... the easier you are to manipulate.
... Well, it is my goal to help create a fundamental paradigm shift in people’s consciousness about health, and also about empowerment.
1. I'm guessing that 12 out of 12 of the Disciples thought that as well - and so too did JC, and so too did the Pope as recently as the early 1600's.
Santob - howdy.I suspect that the Pope (should it be Popeses') had an inkling against the world being flat even back in 1494 when the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed. If not then, then certainly by 1529 when this was what was agreed upon:
Western Christian biblical references Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, and 1 Chronicles 16:30 include text stating that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." In the same tradition, Psalm 104:5 says, "the LORD set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Further, Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place, etc."[63]
Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. The sentence of the Inquisition was in three essential parts:
a) Galileo was required to abjure the opinion that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, and that the Earth is not at its centre and moves; the idea that the Sun is stationary was condemned as "formally heretical." However, while there is no doubt that Pope Urban VIII and the vast majority of Church officials did not believe in heliocentrism, heliocentrism was never formally or officially condemned by the Catholic Church, except insofar as it held (for instance, in the formal condemnation of Galileo) that "The proposition that the sun is in the center of the world and immovable from its place is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical; because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scriptures", and the converse as to the Sun's not revolving around the Earth.[65]
b) He was ordered imprisoned; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest.
c) His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future
On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture
Of the 240 crew members who set out with Magellan to circumnavigate the earth, only 18 completed the circumnavigation of the globe and managed to return to Spain in 1522.[1][2
I suspect that the Pope (should it be Popeses') had an inkling against the world being flat even back in 1494 when the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed. If not then, then certainly by 1529 when this was what was agreed upon:
And apologies for raising the bar of the Average American with this post.
There's reason to believe that most authorities did indeed believe in a spherical earth from the appropriately named helenistic times, and that the flat earth belief was more a function of story telling and map making.
After all, what did Atlas carry on his shoulders?
Cheers.
The TItan Atlas bears the ball of heaven, inscribed with the heavenly constellations
Atlas, along with his brother Menoetius, sided with the Titans in their war against the Olympians, the Titanomachy. His brothers Prometheus and Epimetheus weighed the odds and betrayed the other Titans by forming an alliance with the Olympians. When the Titans were defeated , many of them (including Menoetius) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of the Gaia, the Earth and hold up Ouranos, the Sky on his shoulders, to prevent the two from resuming their primordial embrace. Thus he was Atlas Telamon, "enduring Atlas".
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A common misconception is that Atlas was forced to hold the earth on his shoulders, but this is incorrect. Classical art shows Atlas holding a Celestial Sphere, not a Globe.
tackling binge drinking by getting kids to identify with drinking Light ? - maybe they're onto somethingThought I'd better post one to "balance things up a bit" - show that a stack have a great sense of humour - try to get teachers in Aus to help make an ad like this lol (then again - who knows)
PS Chops
That's the Ball of the Heavens he has on his shoulders - you'll see the constellations there - but no biggie.
You've got me thinking - does anyone know when the first sculpture of a round earth was made?
PS In fact it reads that the Greeks believed the earth was flat....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)
But you're right - this is one old sculpture (2nd century sheesh)
PS Great title that Ayn Rand chose for one of her books ... "Atlas Shrugged"
The Myth of the Flat Earth or Flat Earth mythology refers to the modern belief that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical. Today it is widely recognized among professional medievalists and historians of science that the "medieval flat Earth" is a misconception, and that the few verifiable "flat Earthers" of the period were the exception.
As is expressed by Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of “flat earth darkness” among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the earth’s roundness as an established fact of cosmology."[1] David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers also write: "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference."[2]
In 1945 the Historical Association listed "Columbus and the Flat Earth Conception" second of 20 in its first-published pamphlet on common errors in history.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_mythology
but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of the Gaia, the Earth and hold up Ouranos, the Sky on his shoulders,
Bud Light Swear Jar (Mohawk Version)
Take out "Americans" and insert "Generation Y" and the article (almost) reads true as well.
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