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• Down To Earth

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 164
  1. In the dark aftermath of returning to ground, our eyes gouged out and our mouths parched, nothing made sense but blindness and thirst. Stumbling, raw-tongued, we followed read more
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• Lost Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend (Hardcover)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 143
  Lost Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend (Hardcover)…
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• Monster’s Den The Book of Dread: an addictive dungeon crawling time-waster

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 158
  Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-WastersMonster’s Den The Book of Dread is a lo-fi, highly addictive, dungeon-crawling, RPG. Choose one of three campaigns (dungeons), create a party of four characters from seven possible character classes (warrior, cleric, mage, ranger, rogue, barbarian, and conjuror, the classics), ...
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• Allegories Gone Wild – Of Papists, Popes, And Puerile Prophecies

  
  biblioblography — Authority: 116
  Cross posted @ God Is 4 Suckers! In the wild weird and wooly world of woo, the Catholic Church has had some truly bizarre ideas. From stigmata to the cilice , from the flagrum to exorcism, these people seem to have all sorts of crazy ideas. One of the major fantasies of the monotheists is the ...
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• The Higher Self and the Lower Self: Theseus and the Minotaur

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  An 1843 sculpture , by Antoine-Louis Barye , of Theseus slaying the Minotaur: Theseus’s entering the center of the Labyrinth at Knossos and slaying the Minotaur has sometimes been associated with Apollonian order and culture overcoming the bestial elements of body and psyche. And in the way that ...
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• Lunar Blemishes

  
  Authspot — Authority: 540
  The moon with its silver sheen spreads tranquil aura On the face of the drowsy earth exhausted by a day of toil Its face is beautiful but covered with blemishes These shadows on its face have floated there for aeons They are the lunar maria seas hurling with elixir on silve soil Or impact craters formed by lava ...
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• God of War Chains of Olympus

  
  GConsole.info — Authority: 136
  God of War Chains of Olympus In God of War, Kratos, after being deceived into killing his wife and daughter, denounced his service to Ares. In order to seek absolution from his past sins, the Ghost of Sparta pledged himself as a champion to the Gods for the years to follow. These brutal crusades, [...]
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• Maya 2012 Documentary film (part 1 of 7)

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 149
  
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• Do you have ‘paraskavedekatriaphobia’ (just like Henry Ford, Napoleon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt)?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 604
  Henry Ford, the father of the modern automobile industry, ‘refused to do business on Friday the 13th.’ Ford shared the same fear and caution with other stalwarts as Napoleon and President Franklin Roosevelt. FDR was such a day 13th phobic that he altered his ‘own travel plans on any day of the week that landed ...
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• Six Things Jesus Doesn’t Do

  
  Proud Atheists — Authority: 125
  Many people claim that Jesus can do anything. There are many things that Jesus doesn’t do that we humans perform on a regular basis. For example, if we waited for Jesus to heal the sick, we would have never been able to control certain diseases. We’ve learned that immunization controls the spread of smallpox, ...
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• Your Weekend Justice #44: In Your Face

  
  Needcoffee.com — Authority: 481
  And were back. Please note: this podcast, if you havent figured it out, is profane and not safe for consumption by children or animals. Or sentient creatures of any sort. You cant say we didnt warn you. Download audio file (wjustice111309.mp3) Agenda: Kids and cocktails Rox, your Agony Aunt for the evening ...
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• Obama Perpetually Honored for His Potential

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 646
  In my studies of mythology, I learned that while each of the Greek heroes is born with great potential, none of them realizes it without the guidance of an Olympian or other immortal, most often the owl-eyed goddess Athena.  Perseus could not have killed Medusa without the shield she gave him.   Achilles would not ...
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• Daily Links for November 11th through November 13th

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 125
  All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). Home | Report Card for Americas Infrastructure - Americas Infrastructure GPA: DEstimated 5 Year Investment Need: $2.2 Trillion NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Wont End? - Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed and the science of the end of ...
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• Junior youth spiritual empowerment: Baha’i social action

  
  anonymous cowgirl — Authority: 403
  Copyright © 2008 The Ruhi Foundation . All rights reserved. Last Saturday, the junior youth group in Lowell got together. We said a prayer, and then took a walk down by the canal, which had recently been emptied. M. talked about wanting to make the neighborhood better for her younger siblings and for the other ...
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• Thank You for Paraskevidekatriaphobics and Superstitions

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 422
  Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the irrational fear of Friday the 13th. It has nothing to do with that terrifying movie. Though, I do have an irrational dislike for horror movies—I just don’t have a word for it. It is said that our associative superstition about Friday the 13th started back in the 1300’s in ...
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• Magic Sirens Prevent Ambulance Drivers From Hitting Things

  
  Rogue Medic — Authority: 121
  FireGeezer writes [1] about a news article claiming that sirens prevent accidents. [2] Since I just wrote about Friday the 13 th and 2012 , why not give this non sequitur some abuse, too. Sirens probably are important in getting the attention of other drivers. As cars become better at keeping out sound ...
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• Heracles, Alcestis, and the Determined Human Heart’s Heroic Relentless Path Through This World

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Below is a fourth century Roman catacomb image of two courageous people who followed their hearts right into the very jaws of death: Heracles and Alcestis . The basic story from Greek mythology (and which Euripides made into a play) goes like this: Through Apollo’s manipulations, the Fates granted Admetus ...
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• Pundit Contest Marred by Cluelessness about Psychology

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Has anyone ever made fun of you for your interest in psychology? The field is such an easy target. Personally, Ive always been proud to be a research psychologist. There are so many ways that a familiarity with the science of psychology can be good for you. Here Ill focus on one of my favorites - it can make you a ...
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• T G I Friday the 13th

  
  Rogue Medic — Authority: 121
  This is the third Friday the 13 th of this year. [1] Numerologists and other superstitious people probably will attach some meaning to that. There is none. For many people, Friday is the end of the work week. For that reason it may be different from other days - more drinking and other celebratory behaviors that ...
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• Friday 13th!

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 149
  The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia , a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). The term triskaidekaphobia ...
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