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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
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Key word: "Greco-Roman". Rome actually domineered Greece.

♲ earthling - 2024-12-19 03:40:12 GMT

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick, 2009Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general.

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Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)

17.9K Posts, 59 Following, 1.19K Followers · ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
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Also from the BBC: "In the end, we're all stories--so make it a good one."
--River Song (Doctor Who)

♲ Raindrops and Roses - 2024-07-11 19:22:44 GMT

On death and dying - beautifully inspirational."All our lives are little books - but they're not someone else's complete book. You're a chapter or a page or a footnote in someone else's life and they are going to keep writing beautiful chapters when you are gone."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clmykzrdnljo

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Raindrops and Roses (@raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social)

591 Posts, 395 Following, 121 Followers · Raindrops and Roses and Whiskers and Kittens is an account of a few favourite things from Coltrane to Julie Andrews and everything in between. Boosting and posting pretty interesting, pretty and...

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

In short, it's a JIT show.

{"Just In Time" method of production, a Japanese invention that got wide support in the US since the 1990s)

♲ earthling - 2024-06-13 00:57:41 GMT

How the World Ran Out of Everything by Peter S. Goodman, 2024How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula? How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making cars that no one can drive for a lack of chips?

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By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities.<br>"A tale that will change how you look at the world." —Mark Leibovich

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)

9.08K Posts, 45 Following, 717 Followers · ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

Just don't make the mistake of calling it "predestination".

♲ earthling - 2024-05-09 01:30:01 GMT

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom Chivers, 2024A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes's theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy.

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At its simplest, Bayes's theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. A cornerstone of rational thought, many argue that Bayes's theorem is a description of almost everything.</p><p>But who was the man who lent his name to this theorem? How did an 18th-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician uncover a theorem that would affect fields as diverse as medicine, law, and artificial intelligence?

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)

8.15K Posts, 41 Following, 650 Followers · ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Just started this…man did it grab me…a couple of reviews below

“This Exquisite Loneliness is a transformative book for understanding this moment of collective isolation. Through his sharp-edged personal reflections, Deming interrogates powerfully and openly his own sense of aloneness as he weaves his discoveries with fellow writers, artists, and thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Zora Neale Hurston….Deming’s brave and searing prose…builds an eloquent case for staying with the discomfort as darkness becomes the passageway toward illumination.”
–Terry Tempest Williams

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/this-is-america/202310/loneliness-creativity-and-empathy

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https://www.amazon.com/This-Exquisite-Loneliness-Misunderstood-Creativity-ebook/dp/B0BRMK928X

Loneliness, Creativity, and Empathy

What’s the fundamental ambivalence in loneliness?

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

“Double perspective” is a term from Phillip Lopate, that I’ve found to be crucial in thinking about nonfiction. It’s about how every narrative has a double perspective because the now-narrator is always looking back at a prior self, whether that self was yesterday or twenty years ago. Or in other words, the now-narrator is always looking from an angle that is informed and shifted by time itself, and thus the narration — the perspective — of an event or memory changes as distance increases between our past selves and our current selves.

Beth Nguyen on navigating a double perspective.
September 20, 2023

https://link.lithub.com/view/602ea77d180f243d6532f731jihdu.g24/76588e76

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Haiku

Just finished reading two haiku 'instructional' books over the weekend and can't say I recommend either one...a few brief minor gleanings in each but otherwise unremarkable. Better to just read and study haiku them selves IMO

Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey: 25th Anniversary Edition: Revised & Expanded by Clark Strand

Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg

Both are more self-absorbed memoirs than helpful instructional books....but if your into that and the somewhat connection between zen and haiku then be my guest!

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Only because it's a new year and a new decade for me :)

I'm not much for marketing and tooting (pun!) my own horn, I write and do art mostly for my own pleasure and sharing it these days but I do self-publish (been a while since the last one) my Poetry, Prose Poetry, and other ebooks through Amazon.

My author page is at:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B007S3SMY8

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