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[Sunday 9 January 2011 - Saturday 15 January 2011]

[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]

Sunday 9 January 2011

Monday 10 January 2011

Tuesday 11 January 2011

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Wednesday 12 January 2011

Poor bloody America hamstrung by the fundamentalism of its founding fathers. The same has happened to Australia to a lesser degree, perhaps because our founding father came hundred of years later after Europe had liberalized somewhat. Fundamentalism - Wikipedia

Thursday 13 January 2011

Friday 14 January 2011

Saturday 15 January 2011

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Further reading

Books

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Armstrong, Karen, Holy War: The Crusades and their impact on today's world, Anchor Books (Random House) 2001 Jacket: 'In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem from Islam. It was to be the first of the Crusades, a holy war that would focus the power of the European kingdoms against a common enemy. The Crusades became the stuff of romantic legend, but in reality were a series of rabidly savage battles carried out in the name of Christian piety to advance the power of the Western Church. Their legacy of religious violence is felt today as the age old conflict of Christians, Muslims and Jews persists.'  Amazon   back

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, W W Norton and Company 2004 Preface: '... Ten Commissoners - five Republicans and five Democrats ... present this report withour dissent. ... Our mandate was sweeping. The law deirected us to investigate "facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, " including those relating to intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, diplomacy, immigration issues and border control, the flow of assets to terrorist organisations, commercial aviateion, the role of cogressional oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. ...'  Amazon   back

Reynolds, Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, The Social Ecology of Religion, Oxford University Press 1995 Jacket: 'No society exists in which religion does not play a significant part in the lives of ordinary people. Yet the functions of the world's diverse religions have never been fully described and analyzed, nor has the impact of adherence to those religions on the health and survival of the populations that practice them. . . . this extraordinary text reveals how religions in all parts of the world meet the needs of ordinary people and frequently play an important part in helping them to manage their affairs.'  Amazon   back

Wohlstetter, Roberta, Pearl Harbour: Warning and Decision, Stanford University Press 1962 Amazon Customer Review: 'This work is the definitive analysis of the intelligence failures leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It is not an historical account of the attack, but is rather a concise analysis of the mistakes made by naval intelligence authorities in Hawaii and the U.S. during the months leading up to the attack. The book offers a unique analysis of the attack, and doesn't pull any punches. Human failures are analyzed, as well as bureaucratic failures, which were many. The reader comes away with a better understanding of the attitudes prevelant among intelligence authorities of the time, as well as an insight into their workings. This is not a book for those just beginning their studies of the attack. It is more appropriate for someone who already has a good understanding of the historical timelines of the attack, the Japanese perspective of U.S. military policy at the time, and the military and civilian authorities involved in the attack and their roles. The only negative comment regarding the book is that it offers rather tedious reading at times. But to serious researchers this is more than offset by the volumes of information gleaned from it. This is a "must-have" book for serious Pearl Harbor researchers. Gary W. Roberson (Arlington, VA United States)   Amazon   back

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Aquinas 30 Is goodness divided into the virtuous [honestum] the useful [utile] and the pleasant [delectabile]? 'I answer that, This division properly concerns human goodness. But if we consider the nature of goodness from a higher and more universal point of view, we shall find that this division properly concerns goodness as such. For everything is good so far as it is desirable, and is a term of the movement of the appetite; the term of whose movement can be seen from a consideration of the movement of a natural body. Now the movement of a natural body is terminated by the end absolutely; and relatively by the means through which it comes to the end, where the movement ceases; so a thing is called a term of movement, so far as it terminates any part of that movement. Now the ultimate term of movement can be taken in two ways, either as the thing itself towards which it tends, e.g. a place or form; or a state of rest in that thing. Thus, in the movement of the appetite, the thing desired that terminates the movement of the appetite relatively, as a means by which something tends towards another, is called the useful; but that sought after as the last thing absolutely terminating the movement of the appetite, as a thing towards which for its own sake the appetite tends, is called the virtuous; for the virtuous is that which is desired for its own sake; but that which terminates the movement of the appetite in the form of rest in the thing desired, is called the pleasant.' back

Fundamentalism - Wikipedia Fundamentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Fundamentalism as a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian academics and theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. It soon spread to conservatives among the Baptists and other denominations during and immediately following the First World War. The movement's purpose was to reaffirm orthodox Protestant Christianity and zealously defend it against the challenges of liberal theology, German higher criticism, Darwinism, and other "-isms" which it regarded as harmful to Christianity.' back