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MUSIC AND THE TRANSCENDENT DIMENSION
This season, with the magnificence of the Christmas music, reminded me once again of the power of music to take us into the Transcendent...
Jan 5, 2021
SOCRATES OF ATHENS -- A MAN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Socrates, (469-399 B.C.), unlike Alexander the Great, (356-323 B.C.), who conquered and changed the world with his military might,...
Dec 8, 2020
ATHENS -- DEMOCRACY -- PERICLES, 430 B.C. AND SOLON, 690 B.C.
Here is a little more of what Pericles and Solon were saying centuries ago about democracy, wealth and laws. Their ideas have been...
Nov 24, 2020
PERICLES ON DOMOCRACY--430 B.C.
I have been reading lately again in the Greek classics and history. Here are some excerpts from Pericles' famous funeral oration given...
Nov 19, 2020
ON GUN CONTROL
A recent report says that between 2005 - 2014 just oer 310,575 Americans died from guns. (source: Gun Policy.org) 1. 190,792 or 59.5%...
Feb 24, 2017
ON AUTOMOBILE CONTROL
On average fore the last eleven years n America, about 36,209 died each year in auto related accidents. That's over 398,308 in the last...
Feb 15, 2017
ISLAM IN NEED OF REFORMATION
In her Wall Street Journal essay (3/21/15) well known author and former Muslim, Ayyan Hirsi Ali, says Islam is in serious need of...
May 16, 2016
VIOLENT TEXTS IMPLICIT WITHIN ISLAM
Ayyan Hirsi Ali, well-known author of the bestselling book, Infidel, wrote that violence is implicit within the sacred texts of Islam, in...
May 9, 2016
ISLAM COULD BE DOMINANT IN U.K. IN 10 YEARS.
The Muslim population in the United Kingdom has increased form 3.0% to 4.8% from 2001 to 2011. Over 600,000 Muslims arrived in that time...
Mar 16, 2016
SOURCES OF ISLAMIST EXTREMISM – Part II
WAHHAB, MUHAMMAD ibn Abd al (1703-1792) One of the principal sources of Islamist extremis is the 17th century Islamic reformer, Muhammad...
Mar 4, 2016
