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SAT scores are not the whole picture. In my high school (over 25 years ago) only those in college prep or advanced placement classes took the SAT. Today every burn-out, doofus, pot head, and criminal is encouraged to take the SAT. This broad spectrum of people taking a test, originally...

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and are tyrants over...

I've listened to about a dozen Eerie Radio's and at least half the podcast is inane chit chat or sub par humor about the female hosts "box". I like the range of topics that they cover, I just wish they would give the topics a bit more respect and be a bit more serious with some of the...

Dude, the Georgia guide stones were paid for by a private institution (R.C. Christian...Rosecruscian?) and had nothing to do with the government. In fact it is thought that R.C. Christian actually had been coming to town for years and knew a couple of people there...Likely other lodge brothers...

__________________________ Sorry to go all the way back to the beginning of this thread, but there is a problem. The Report from Iron Mountain WAS A DELIBERATE HOAX! Its author (Leonard Lewin) , the writer of the forward, has long been suspected as its writer...

Agreed, Lovecraft was no master of the written word...however, he did lead the genre into entirely new ground. If I had to give a modern equivalent to what Lovecraft invented I would have to point to Stephen Kings, The Dark Tower series. Everything that King has written in the past 20 years...

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20010618/lovecraft.shtml Here is a summary by Mack Knopf on H.P. Lovecraft, his writing and a very basic overview of his point of view of the universe. If all you want in the future is a piece of research, we have this thing called Google...maybe you've...

If you want a vision of just how weird our supposedly infinite universe may be, go listen to the newest "Radio Lab" pod cast...It will blow your mind with the kind of weirdness comes with the concept of infinity. Throw away your concept of what you imagine the universe to be and set your face...

If Lovecraft had stayed with his wife (whatever his sexual leanings) it is likely he would have become a famous author in his own time...especially if he had learned how to write in a more modern manner instead of being stuck in his overly wordy victorian style. (mood be damned, make some action...

Every time in Earth history, when a technologically superior group of humans meets a technologically inferior group of humans, the inferior group finds its culture, its religion, and its very existence subsumed and/or actively destroyed by the "invader". Perhaps the "space brothers";) have...

Clovis spear points in the US date as far back as 14,000 years ago, thats 12,000bce. If you've ever seen a clovis point, they are impressive and show no small amount of skill to produce. Clearly people had been making them for a long long time before they set foot on the north–american...

As a proud, reasonably happy and well adjusted American...It pains me to say you are corrects...sigh....:( We have signed away our right to shake our self righteous, preemptive war making, duplicitous, demogogin' fingers at anyone. The best we can say to Russia is..."don't make the same mistake...

Lovecraft was a voracious reader but rarely did anything, or went anywhere (and I do mean anything or anywhere). He lived his life in reading books, writing his letters, and in between his own ears. Most of his close personal friendships were amateur/semi professional writers like himself, who...

The Soviets were watching the moon shots with great scrutiny. If they had any evidence, no matter how minute, that we had not made it to the moon in '69...They would have plastered the evidence all over the world. Don't you think that the Soviets could tell that there were radio transmissions...

As a Christian it disturbs me to no end when people take the bible, a book of philosophy and religion and turn it into a major treatise on particle physics, earth science, and deep space astrophysics. Anyone who takes the book of Genesis as absolute history is delusional. Genesis, like several...

So you want to trade an illogical system for another illogical system? Is that progress?

Ethics is fine...except in my last class in ethics (a long time ago) there was not ONE single ethical theory presented that didn't have its own internal LOGICAL PROBLEMS, alternate ethical theory detractors, or people who would try to exploit others ethics for their own gain...not one. This was...

Wow...I thought I was the square peg in the round hole who needed flame retardant underwear. C'mon Richard, you can eat lunch with me over at the Pariah table.

If we are only a mere cosmic dance of naturally occurring atoms, how could we possibly discover a universal morality out of the meaningless random background noise of the universe? As I stated earlier, just look at the societies constructed by Stalin and Mao. They deposed God, recognized no...

Wow...go away for a couple of days and people eat your lunch. Fine, guns can be weapons...but doesn't the definition of tool still encompass that. I have guns that are little more than high powered paper punchers (feed sack rifles, gallery guns, parlor guns (built for indoor use no less),)...