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First, scholarly views of the nature of the figure of Wisdom--as a hypostasis of Yahweh, as based on an ancient near eastern myth or goddess, as simply a poetical personification or as an antithetical counterpart of the `strange' or foolish woman of these chapters--are set out. Die Weish...
We live in a new era and China is increasingly playing an important and influential global role. This should be unsurprising for those familiar with history. For most of the past five millennia, China was either a major power or what some ...
Yeah, I bought the condo I’ve been living in (but the bank screwed up so mightily that it didn’t close until this year). I have been rootless for nearly 20 years, starting with a 2003 eviction, and never really establishing myself anywhere. I was couch surfing, which is where you ...
More than one third of marriages are ending in divorce and the figure rises to sixty per cent for second marriages. After the divorce, floods of individuals head back over to online dating sites to begin again the search for ‘someone special’. And flowing through all of this is an era ...
Cheikh Anta Diop: The Great Historical Figure 2020-09-22 On:September 22, 2020 In:"THE WAY OF A HUMAN",OBSERVATIONS CHEIKH ANTA DIOP (1923-1986) POSTED ONJUNE 14, 2008BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ANNA MICKLIN Cheikh Anta Diop, IFAN laboratory, Dakar, 1976 Photo by Jake Scott, Fair use image Di...
How has Della managed to save 1.87 cents and why was she still depressed in O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi"? In "The Gift of the Magi," why does Della flop down on the couch and howl? Why does O. Henry use the Number 3 as a signifi...
So I’m trying to figure out whether the profession of ‘designer’ or the label of ‘creative’ draws people of a certain temperament or the job itself draws out innate tendencies and amplifies them. Perhaps it has nothing to do with temperament or tendencies and is an evolving survival res...
(TL;DR: software is a social endeavour, and if you can’t figure out some way to engage with that fact, then that fact will engage with you nonetheless – and things are unlikely to go well for you from that point) The ideas in this post will be obvious when I set them out. But...
Last night after I’d gone to bed, Hubs started cleaning the kitchen (LOVE that man). A few minutes and some clattering later, he stuck his head in the bedroom door and announced that it seemed like the water was getting warm again. All we can figure is he must have pressed a reset...