Good morning. I’m sneaking this in during work, job site with some Internet access.
- For the Grecophile. Speaking of Greek, I’m curious if anybody has an estimate of how much time one should expect it to take to acquire a reasonable (reading) fluency in a language such as Greek.
- A Lie.
- Orthodoxy in Ethiopia.
- Arithmetic. Not just for the primary school age.
- Medieval origins of the rise of science.
- John of Damascus. One, Two, Three.
- Dawkins is a gnostic? Heh.
- The hole.
- And the compass.
- Two more on the Compass.
- Another one down.
- Coughing? Save your money.
- Joe can define his stance far better than I … certainly.
A Lie
There’s a lie alright, but it’s the one foisted upon us (unintentionally) by La Shawn and 12-step programs. Simulposted from her blog because this is so important:
Read the rest of my post to see what does work, empirically speaking.
The popularity — the near-ubiquity — of 12-step programs as the primary treatment for addictions in America is perhaps the best example of how religious thinking and a lack of empiricism can have deadly results.