By Dint:
TORTURE
Petr Ginz, Heightened Awareness of Torture
Value of reading a WWII Prague child's diary prior to his transport to Terezin (Theresienstadt) and then Auschwitz-Birkenau
Roles: Punisher, Enforcer, Harpy Could we have wars if there were not people willing to take on the role of forcer, enforcer. What is the draw. Are we they.
ALTERNATIVES TO PAIN INFLICTION
Narcoanalysis as truth serum: MDMA or traditional hospitable sassafras?
Sassafras - direct use or derivatives; use as truth serum? See also MDMA, Safrole as Nature's Truth Serum
FACILITATORS
Testosterone Marching. Steroids. Brain death with excess testosterone (study), other sources. Addictive?
ENTITLEMENTS
Ethics in Pain Infliction, Animals. Who is entitled to inflict pain and death on others for other than getting needed food? On what ground?
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Jewish History - Index
By Dint:
DISRAELI - Benjamin Disraeli, 19th Century Twice Prime Minister, Britain; and Dark Horse Family migrated probably from Spain, Jewish heritage, Mr. Disraeli became Episcopalian. Diaspora roots.
Petr Ginz, Prague, Jewish Quarter
Petr Ginz, When Your Roots are Mischling
DISRAELI - Benjamin Disraeli, 19th Century Twice Prime Minister, Britain; and Dark Horse Family migrated probably from Spain, Jewish heritage, Mr. Disraeli became Episcopalian. Diaspora roots.
Petr Ginz, Prague, Jewish Quarter
Petr Ginz, When Your Roots are Mischling
World War II, Concentration Camps, Diarists
By Dint:
Auschwitz, Poland
Poland Road Ways, Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Buchenwald, Germany
Germany Road Ways, Buchenwald
Jasenovac, Croatia
Croatia Road Ways, Jasenovac Concentration Camp
Mauthausen, Austria
Austria Road Ways, Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Theresienstadt, Terezin, CZ
Places of Petr Ginz, Theresienstadt, or Terezin, CZ
Places of Petr Ginz, Terezin, Stage Play, "Way to Heaven"
Places of Petr Ginz, Auschwitz - Birkenau (Osweicim) Poland
DIARISTS Diarists, WWII
Petr Ginz, Finding Others Who Wrote
Petr Ginz and Anne Frank, Emoting in Diaries
BOOKS - The Seventh Well, by Fred Wander
Auschwitz, Poland
Poland Road Ways, Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Buchenwald, Germany
Germany Road Ways, Buchenwald
Jasenovac, Croatia
Croatia Road Ways, Jasenovac Concentration Camp
Mauthausen, Austria
Austria Road Ways, Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Theresienstadt, Terezin, CZ
Places of Petr Ginz, Theresienstadt, or Terezin, CZ
Places of Petr Ginz, Terezin, Stage Play, "Way to Heaven"
Places of Petr Ginz, Auschwitz - Birkenau (Osweicim) Poland
DIARISTS Diarists, WWII
Petr Ginz, Finding Others Who Wrote
Petr Ginz and Anne Frank, Emoting in Diaries
BOOKS - The Seventh Well, by Fred Wander
Religious - Multi - Index
By Dint:
Religious marriage and Civil marriage defined
Civil and Religious Marriage Defined; with Civil Marriage Controlling as to all Laws
THEORY
Foundationalism: A Backup. Test Belief. Searching For Some Reality At the Inception
FAQ. Who Took Christ Out Of Christian. Original inspired Idea, vs; later System.
BASIC WESTERN CHRISTIANITY-TYPE OR SPINS
Proposed Legislation for Primacy of Law over Revelation
Definitions: Civil Marriage, Religious Marriage
TEXT CRITICISM TOOLS
WESTERN CREATION ISSUES
Sassafras and Choctaw Indian Legend, the Flood. Sassafras raft saves the day.
Seven-Day Edenism Frees Lilith. Genesis I idea of a chronology underlying Creation supersedes Genesis II idea of cultural narrative incorporated in Creation.
MULTI-DEITY RELIGIONS AND WHAT THEY OFFER US
Mithraism: Religion of Rome and Paul's Early Years Exposure
Religious marriage and Civil marriage defined
Civil and Religious Marriage Defined; with Civil Marriage Controlling as to all Laws
THEORY
Foundationalism: A Backup. Test Belief. Searching For Some Reality At the Inception
FAQ. Who Took Christ Out Of Christian. Original inspired Idea, vs; later System.
BASIC WESTERN CHRISTIANITY-TYPE OR SPINS
Proposed Legislation for Primacy of Law over Revelation
Definitions: Civil Marriage, Religious Marriage
TEXT CRITICISM TOOLS
WESTERN CREATION ISSUES
Sassafras and Choctaw Indian Legend, the Flood. Sassafras raft saves the day.
Seven-Day Edenism Frees Lilith. Genesis I idea of a chronology underlying Creation supersedes Genesis II idea of cultural narrative incorporated in Creation.
MULTI-DEITY RELIGIONS AND WHAT THEY OFFER US
Mithraism: Religion of Rome and Paul's Early Years Exposure
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Individuals - Index, History (Pre-20th Century)
By Dint:
Domestic
Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.
Politics
Chester A. Arthur, a President Who Changed in Office: From Patronage, to Reformer
Benjamin Disraeli, More to be Known For The dark horse.
Born out of wedlock
Shadow Children - The "Illegitimate"
Health
William Horation Bates, Ophthalmologist, bane of the vision industry
Compassion
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
Pre-Christian, Sagas
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation. Pre-Christian morality
Beowulf: Hwaet! Power of the Written Word
Beowulf, figure in a culture without writing: how much is lost until someone records; how much is lost, changed, when someone does record. Beowulf, Scandinavian, recorded centuries later by proto-Saxon.
BURNT NJALL - Otkell, Son of Skarf, Skarphedinn, Burnt NjalI - Icelandic saga on greed, leadership, human relations before Christianity
Education, Philosophy
COMENIUS - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"
Religion
Sara la Kali, Sara the Black, Roma Saint
GUGGENBUHL - Dr. Louis Guggenbuhl, Befriender of Cretins, Switzerland
KOMENSKY - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"
PANTERA - Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera. Pantera, Speculative Pater of the Son - Traditions that do not go away
PHIPPS - Wintley Phipps, Conjuror of Black Slave Experience through Song, Story behind "Amazing Grace"
SALOME - Beowulf, Alaskans, Salome: Power of the Later Written Word, to Augment, or Distort
SARAH - Sara la Kali, Sarah the Black, Gypsy Patron. And Mithra?
SEYMOUR - Mary H. Seymour, Protester, Victorian Marriage
TILLION - Germaine Tillion, French Sage, Nazi Resistor, Anthropologist, Intellectual
Hermann Dah, Artist, Delaware. Attention deserved
Religion, including speculation
Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted complex; and need not affect other matters.
Education
Jan Amos Komensky, The Teacher of Nations Czech philosopher, educator, 18th Century. Roots for Montessori - teach so children have fun. Make it natural. A/k/a Comenius. Check different Czech spellings for any name.
Domestic
Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.
Politics
Chester A. Arthur, a President Who Changed in Office: From Patronage, to Reformer
Benjamin Disraeli, More to be Known For The dark horse.
Born out of wedlock
Shadow Children - The "Illegitimate"
Health
William Horation Bates, Ophthalmologist, bane of the vision industry
Compassion
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
Pre-Christian, Sagas
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation. Pre-Christian morality
Beowulf: Hwaet! Power of the Written Word
Beowulf, figure in a culture without writing: how much is lost until someone records; how much is lost, changed, when someone does record. Beowulf, Scandinavian, recorded centuries later by proto-Saxon.
BURNT NJALL - Otkell, Son of Skarf, Skarphedinn, Burnt NjalI - Icelandic saga on greed, leadership, human relations before Christianity
Education, Philosophy
COMENIUS - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"
Religion
Sara la Kali, Sara the Black, Roma Saint
GUGGENBUHL - Dr. Louis Guggenbuhl, Befriender of Cretins, Switzerland
KOMENSKY - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"
PANTERA - Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera. Pantera, Speculative Pater of the Son - Traditions that do not go away
PHIPPS - Wintley Phipps, Conjuror of Black Slave Experience through Song, Story behind "Amazing Grace"
SALOME - Beowulf, Alaskans, Salome: Power of the Later Written Word, to Augment, or Distort
SARAH - Sara la Kali, Sarah the Black, Gypsy Patron. And Mithra?
SEYMOUR - Mary H. Seymour, Protester, Victorian Marriage
TILLION - Germaine Tillion, French Sage, Nazi Resistor, Anthropologist, Intellectual
Hermann Dah, Artist, Delaware. Attention deserved
Religion, including speculation
Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted complex; and need not affect other matters.
Education
Jan Amos Komensky, The Teacher of Nations Czech philosopher, educator, 18th Century. Roots for Montessori - teach so children have fun. Make it natural. A/k/a Comenius. Check different Czech spellings for any name.
Political Issues - Index; Political Process
By Dint:
The Executive
An Act Moderating Midnight Regulations by Outgoing President. No midnight regulation by an outgoing president signed on or after November 1 of his final year, shall be final until 90 days shall have passed from the time of the successor's inauguration.
PARTIES
Political Parties: Who Needs Them, or These A brief history of R's and D's.
PATRONAGE
Chester A. Arthur, a president who improved in office From patronage to reformer. He set aside his prior history of nepotism and did the right thing.
PHILOSOPHIES
Pragmatism: If It Works, Keep It Up A natural, evolution-based concept: sound policies can be properly fluid over time.
TACTICS
Earmarks, Replevin and Trover. Special interest inroads under the fence? Try Trover. Below the radar? Bonus excesses? Clawback time. Old equity theories: Replevin (for wrongful takings, get it back); or trover (for rightful taking, but wrongfrul conversion to one's own use),
INFORMED LEGISLATURES
Legislation Literacy Requirement for Legislators
FINANCING
Standing to Vote Required for Standing to Contribute. No Contribution Shall Be Made by any entity not qualified to vote, to Any Candidate, Political Party, or Candidate or Party Promotional Group.
Campaign Contributions By Candidate to His or Her Campaign Shall be Deemed "Irrevocable Gifts" and not Loans; and
Candidate Gifts to Own Campaign to be Taxed As Such
Candidates Receiving Public Funds And Who Are Subjected to Swiftboat Tactics [as defined] May Use Private Funds For Countering Such Tactics.
ACCESSIBILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, DISCLOSURE
Candidate Financial Disclosure To Occur Simultaneous With Declaration of Candidacy
Candidate Accountability, Accessibility Requirements Candidates must be accessible to voters and news media by means of unscripted news conferences and similar means
Pre-emptive Laundry Disclosure Week. Candidates to disclose all personal linen issues in timely and complete manner.
POLITICAL PROCESS
Super-Delegates Shall Be Financially and Beneficially Independent of Any Candidate
GOVERNING
Lobbying Activities Shall Be Conducted Publicly
ACCOUNTABILITY AND FAIR DEALING; ACCOUNTING PRACTICES
Economic Fraud Prevention
Uniform Accountability, Fair Standards Act. Shipwreck Prevention. Too late for this one.
"Welfare" concept to expand to include whatever someone receives free from the government, in any form
Failure to Vet Credentials, Political Felony
Need for Factfinders in Committee
Government as Fiduciary for Taxpayer
Moderation of Presidential Rules-Making Power, "Midnight Regulations" Before Leaving Office
"Welfare" Redefined; Perspectives on American Ubiquitous Giveaways
The Executive
An Act Moderating Midnight Regulations by Outgoing President. No midnight regulation by an outgoing president signed on or after November 1 of his final year, shall be final until 90 days shall have passed from the time of the successor's inauguration.
PARTIES
Political Parties: Who Needs Them, or These A brief history of R's and D's.
PATRONAGE
Chester A. Arthur, a president who improved in office From patronage to reformer. He set aside his prior history of nepotism and did the right thing.
PHILOSOPHIES
Pragmatism: If It Works, Keep It Up A natural, evolution-based concept: sound policies can be properly fluid over time.
TACTICS
Earmarks, Replevin and Trover. Special interest inroads under the fence? Try Trover. Below the radar? Bonus excesses? Clawback time. Old equity theories: Replevin (for wrongful takings, get it back); or trover (for rightful taking, but wrongfrul conversion to one's own use),
INFORMED LEGISLATURES
Legislation Literacy Requirement for Legislators
FINANCING
Standing to Vote Required for Standing to Contribute. No Contribution Shall Be Made by any entity not qualified to vote, to Any Candidate, Political Party, or Candidate or Party Promotional Group.
Campaign Contributions By Candidate to His or Her Campaign Shall be Deemed "Irrevocable Gifts" and not Loans; and
Candidate Gifts to Own Campaign to be Taxed As Such
Candidates Receiving Public Funds And Who Are Subjected to Swiftboat Tactics [as defined] May Use Private Funds For Countering Such Tactics.
ACCESSIBILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, DISCLOSURE
Candidate Financial Disclosure To Occur Simultaneous With Declaration of Candidacy
Candidate Accountability, Accessibility Requirements Candidates must be accessible to voters and news media by means of unscripted news conferences and similar means
Pre-emptive Laundry Disclosure Week. Candidates to disclose all personal linen issues in timely and complete manner.
POLITICAL PROCESS
Super-Delegates Shall Be Financially and Beneficially Independent of Any Candidate
GOVERNING
Lobbying Activities Shall Be Conducted Publicly
ACCOUNTABILITY AND FAIR DEALING; ACCOUNTING PRACTICES
Economic Fraud Prevention
Uniform Accountability, Fair Standards Act. Shipwreck Prevention. Too late for this one.
"Welfare" concept to expand to include whatever someone receives free from the government, in any form
Failure to Vet Credentials, Political Felony
Need for Factfinders in Committee
Government as Fiduciary for Taxpayer
Moderation of Presidential Rules-Making Power, "Midnight Regulations" Before Leaving Office
"Welfare" Redefined; Perspectives on American Ubiquitous Giveaways
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