The Magnitude of the Nuclear Arms Race
April 18, 2018[…] scale changes in our ability to do harm to each other. All of the explosives used in World War I amount to an estimated 1 million tons. Those explosives killed 8 million people with […]
[…] scale changes in our ability to do harm to each other. All of the explosives used in World War I amount to an estimated 1 million tons. Those explosives killed 8 million people with […]
[…] session Parley con fronted Sarah, accusing her of “influencing his wife against him, and of ruining and breaking up his family,” as well as “being an apostate, and of speaking against the heads of […]
[…] Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, and Kuwait) have “leavened” Canadian attitudes in general. Church members often react to war news with a kind of “millenialist anticipation,” an almost backhanded joy arising from the belief that we […]
[…] “The pages gave off drumbeats” (65). The Mormon boy is “pulled .. . away, off into a world of wide skies and hot mesas” as he scans “the designs, the drawings, even the scribblings” […]
[…] years, my exit from the ward doors to see what I could see in the big wide world? Why not talk about my en counters with other “isms”—Taoism, Buddhism, humanism, existential ism, fundamentalism, Sufism, […]
[…] decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the telescope and […]
[…] through the front door at any time and decimate those innocent lives (“Park Host,” “There’s Too Much News,” and “Late-Night TV”). The most interesting aspect of this periph eral violence is that the reader […]
[…] of sound and silence. My observations here deal with the outer, open dimension of the LDS sound world, including theories about de-Protestantisation and feminisation. Also examined herein will be the institutional process of “reduce […]
In his book Power and Innocence, Rollo May defines power as “the ability to cause or prevent change.” May identifies five kinds of power: exploitative, “the simplest and, humanly speaking, most destructive kind of […]
[…] and to believe that conflicts like the American Civil War resulted in a more just and free world. That is, war, as terrible a force as it always is, sometimes is worth the toll it […]