xCathedra

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by xCathedra 7y ago
I have similar tendencies. What changed for me was using journaling to understand and cope with my emotions during a very difficult time in life. By writing out my thoughts they were more complete and I could better asses them so it helped
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by xCathedra 11y ago
Could someone explain what possible applications this might produce?
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Anticipation builds over expected confirmation of gravitational waves(theglobeandmail.com)
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by xCathedra 11y ago
A lot of these points sound similar to the famous resolutions of the young Jonathan Edwards. I try to make a habit of reading them at least once a year for many of the points Paul mentions in this article. http://edwards.yale.edu
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Automation should be like Iron Man, not Ultron(queue.acm.org)
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Ubuntu 16.04 to Replace Software Center with Gnome Software(pcworld.com)
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by xCathedra 11y ago
I think your basically right, but the paradox actually makes more sense when you understand a few nuances of Protestantism: 0) Reformed (i.e. Calvinist) theologians made significant efforts to argue their understanding of predestination was
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by xCathedra 11y ago
> As a result, all language in the accord relating to the reduction of carbon emissions is essentially voluntary. The language assigns no concrete targets to any country for emissions reductions. Instead, each government has crafted a pl
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by xCathedra 11y ago
Older workers with one skill is more related to the drastic change of incrased longevity in only a generation or two. And with the global population aging and a diminishing 18-65 work force, the surplus of workers we've had in th 20th
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by xCathedra 11y ago
Most of my family and a significant number of my friends are in trades and I've always found their educations models enviable. Here in Canada, hours are accumlated on the job prior to classes and the time spent in a classroom is small
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by xCathedra 11y ago
I'm only arguing that the term personhood has extensive use in definining rights for humans and non-humans, providing a prominent ethicist as an example. I'm not trying to open up an abortion debate in a comment thread, because th
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by xCathedra 11y ago
Expanding the definition to include animals necessarily involves redefining personhood, and that's the risk. Expanding personhood doesn't necessitate removing classes of people from personhood, but allowing for its redifitinion ma
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by xCathedra 11y ago
I think the real caution behind giving the status of person to a non-human has nothing to do with animals, but with removing the status of person from certain classes of humans. The atrocities of the last century should probably suffice to
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by xCathedra 11y ago
The term person has established precedent, both for humans and non-humans. For humans, the legality of abortion is often thought of in terms of the humanity of the embyro. However, the actual legal issue is whether the law extends to the em
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by xCathedra 11y ago
The real issue is that just over a century ago we lost a 2nd person plural pronoun and haven't really found a good subsitute since. When "you" took over for "thou" as the 2nd person singular pronoun we never replace