To me Protestantism resembles Islam in its obsessive focus on monotheistic purity and its distate for pomp, symbols, and ornaments. Catholics are more like brothers enemies.
Asides
E.O. Wilson calls Dawkins a journalist, particularly after the reaction to the @DrMANowak paper: Dawkins & Pinker ignored the math. Shermer is a BS vendor; he doesn’t know science is based on rigor & statistical significance not multiplication of anecdotal descriptive graphs.
I don’t think you want to know what I think of Sam Harris.
The TIMES has a real review, first one in which the journalist doesn’t try to take revenge against author for dissing his profession. I see the reason Matthew Syed @matthewsyed did not feel hostile towards Skin in the Game and yours truly: He was a doer become writing about things. Also, he may have some understanding of Shiism and minorities.
Actually I get errors cleaned up by posting chapters on social media
If you are observing (Greek) Orthodox Lent, (vegan except for, strangely, crustaceous), something easy in Med/an olive oil country, & you find yourself traveling in a butter country where everything has dairy products
London authentic squid ink
So, in other words, if you see, say a B-School academic with the attitude that “he is smart & had he wanted he would be richer than practitioners” explain to him that he is not an academic BY CHOICE but out of incompetence. NonProfiteers & academics who think they made a “sacrifice” underestimate how hard (& rare) it is to make money in the Real World w/o rentseeking. Authors who think they “sacrifice” by not dumbing down underestimate how hard (& rare) it is to sell a book to very wide audiences.
I am saying we DON”T speak Arabic
The main difference between Mediterraneans and nonMeds: Farniente (doing nothing) is active for a Med. Here you are getting it wrrrong, young NonMed. It is not relaxation.
