prejudices

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12e2407	You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.	politics prejudices rhetoric propaganda	Robert A. Heinlein
aca7297	There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.	good-and-evil prejudice heaven idealism jesus religion god life-lessons good-and-bad prejudices criminals	Neil Gaiman
8fd61b2	The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.	freedom stupidity intelligence consequence closet cyberspace cyberspace-internet libel prejudices information social-networking online beliefs slander extrovert introvert propaganda media gossip internet technology	Criss Jami
cd35d5b	Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.	bundle feuds rosie gaiman prejudices worries mother	Neil Gaiman
0b054f6	Indeed Christianity passes. Passes--it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.	churches arianism cathedrals crucifixes intolerances sea-urchin shrines outdated litter harmful toxic prejudices theologians pollution plague egypt	H.G. Wells
926b645	"Despite the passage of close to a million years since first sailed to Flores, however, what archaeology does concede is that the human species could have developed and refined those early nautical skills to the extent of being able to cross a vast ocean like the Pacific or the Atlantic from one side to the other. In the case of the former, extensive transoceanic journeys are not believed to have been undertaken until about 3,500 years ago, during the so-called Polynesian expansion. And the mainstream historical view is that the Atlantic was not successfully navigated until 1492--the year in which, as the schoolyard mnemonic has it, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Indeed, the notion that long transoceanic voyages were a technological during the Stone Age remains one of the central structural elements of the dominant reference frame of archaeology--a reference frame that geneticists see no reason not to respect and deploy when interpreting their own data. Since that reference frame rules out, a priori, the option of a direct ocean crossing between Australasia and South America during the Paleolithic and instead is adamant that all settlement came via northeast Asia, geneticists tend to approach the data from that perspective."	geneticists oceans assumptions migrations ice-age deep-human-history prejudices	Graham Hancock
af19252	For more than half a century, [...] American archaeology was so riddled with pre-formed opinions about how the past look, and about the orderly, linear way in which civilizations evolve, that it repeatedly missed, sidelined, and downright ignored evidence for human presence at all prior to Clovis--until, at any rate, the mass of that evidence became so overwhelming that it took the existing paradigm by storm.	history smithsonian-institute deep-human-history prejudices civilizations ignorance	Graham Hancock

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Robert A. Heinlein

aca7297

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

good-and-evil prejudice heaven idealism jesus religion god life-lessons good-and-bad prejudices criminals

Neil Gaiman

8fd61b2

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

freedom stupidity intelligence consequence closet cyberspace cyberspace-internet libel prejudices information social-networking online beliefs slander extrovert introvert propaganda media gossip internet technology

Criss Jami

cd35d5b

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

bundle feuds rosie gaiman prejudices worries mother

Neil Gaiman

0b054f6

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes--it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

churches arianism cathedrals crucifixes intolerances sea-urchin shrines outdated litter harmful toxic prejudices theologians pollution plague egypt

H.G. Wells

926b645

"Despite the passage of close to a million years since first sailed to Flores, however, what archaeology does concede is that the human species could have developed and refined those early nautical skills to the extent of being able to cross a vast ocean like the Pacific or the Atlantic from one side to the other. In the case of the former, extensive transoceanic journeys are not believed to have been undertaken until about 3,500 years ago, during the so-called Polynesian expansion. And the mainstream historical view is that the Atlantic was not successfully navigated until 1492--the year in which, as the schoolyard mnemonic has it, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Indeed, the notion that long transoceanic voyages were a technological during the Stone Age remains one of the central structural elements of the dominant reference frame of archaeology--a reference frame that geneticists see no reason not to respect and deploy when interpreting their own data. Since that reference frame rules out, a priori, the option of a direct ocean crossing between Australasia and South America during the Paleolithic and instead is adamant that all settlement came via northeast Asia, geneticists tend to approach the data from that perspective."

geneticists oceans assumptions migrations ice-age deep-human-history prejudices

Graham Hancock

af19252

For more than half a century, [...] American archaeology was so riddled with pre-formed opinions about how the past look, and about the orderly, linear way in which civilizations evolve, that it repeatedly missed, sidelined, and downright ignored evidence for human presence at all prior to Clovis--until, at any rate, the mass of that evidence became so overwhelming that it took the existing paradigm by storm.

history smithsonian-institute deep-human-history prejudices civilizations ignorance

Graham Hancock