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Tag Archives: Tolstoy
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RENT AND RICHES by Perry Mann
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RENT AND RICHES Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., a billionaire who lives in New York City where creature comforts have been refined to exceed the tastes of preferred angels, owns a substantial interest in land with a coal … Continue reading
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Tagged coal, Henry George, rent, Single-tax, Tallmansville, Tolstoy, West Virginia
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“WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A HUMAN BEING?” by Perry Mann
“WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A HUMAN BEING?” In reading an article on Thoreau, I discovered the question that is the title of this article. It intrigued me. Just what does it mean to be a human being? The … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Christian nation, Emerson, environment, Id, labor, Mexican War, Nike shoes, Thoreau, Tolstoy, tribalism, Wal-Mart, Whitman
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HOW LONG THE WAR IN IRAQ AND AGAINST TERRORISM? by Perry Mann Considering ISIS, this is a timely observation that was made back when Bush II was in charge of our killing machine.
HOW LONG THE WAR IN IRAQ AND AGAINST TERRORISM? When asked how long the war, President Bush answered: As long as it takes. If he meant as long as it takes to pacify the contending parties in Iraq and to … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan Muslims, Bush II, Chechens, Chechnya, Hadji Murad, hate, Iraq, Kossovo, Ottoman Turks, Russia, Shamyl, Stalin, Tolstoy, Tsar Nicholas I
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THE GROWTH OF GOOD AND THE EVOLUTION OF GOD by Perry Mann
THE GROWTH OF GOOD AND THE EVOLUTION OF GOD One of the great joys in life — one without a costly concomitant consequence — is a sudden intellectual insight that broadens fundamentally one’s comprehension of the nature of man and … Continue reading
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Tagged Born again christians, David Thoreau, Edward O. Wilson, human nature, intellectual insight, Jesus, Lawrence W. Kohlberg, Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, moral development, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, Plato, Saint Francis, Socrates, Spinoza, Tolstoy
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LETTER FROM A SKEPTIC TO A BELIEVER by Perry Mann “We lean to nature like a flower to the sun”
LETTER FROM A SKEPTIC TO A BELIEVER I have received your letter with the lyricisms about your gardening activities and the progress of your garden to date. I could with the same lyrical enthusiasm relate pretty much what you have … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, creation, evolution, Giordano Bruno, god, Jefferson, Jesus, Nature, pantheism, Peter, Tolstoy
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HOMOSEXUALITY: CHANCE OR CHOICE by Perry Mann
HOMOSEXUALITY: CHANCE OR CHOICE Teresa J. McCormick of Cross Lanes declares that the media and gay activists perpetrate the popular myth that “homosexuality isn’t a choice due to genetic disposition”—that is, homosexuality is not genetic—and that the myth “has permeated … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, creationists, Einstein, evolution, free will, genetics, heterosexual, Homosexual, Love, Mark Twain, pseudo-science, Spinoza, St. Paul, T. H. Huxley, Tolstoy, Voltaire, William James
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