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Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)
Five points of calvinism (tulip)
Most objections to and attacks on Calvinism focus on the "five points of Calvinism," also called the doctrines of grace, and remembered by the mnemonic "TULIP." [...] The central assertion of these points is that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy, and that his…
Quotes About Introspection (133 Quotes)
Self-improvement
“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.” ― Confucius
Rdf Primer
Similar URIrefs may name unrelated things
Another difference is in the way URIrefs with fragment identifiers are handled. [..] RDF uses URI references purely to identify resources, not to retrieve them, and RDF assumes no particular relationship between these two URIrefs. As far as RDF is concerned, they are…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Real travel requires unscheduled wandering
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. As already suggested, fast intercommunication between points is making all points the…
You are the universe looking at itself
Once you have seen this you can return to the world of practical affairs with a new spirit. You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate “you” to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed…
Enantiodromia: extremes turn into their opposites
Historically, this is probably the extreme point of that swing of the intellectual pendulum which brought into fashion the Fully Automatic Model of the universe, of the age of analysis and specialization when we lost our vision of the universe in the overwhelming complexity of…
Celebrating the great awakening of death
This is no more saying that we ought not to fear death than I was saying that we ought to be unselfish. Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that “I” and all other “things” now present will vanish, until…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Topics and occurrences as two layers
An important point to note here is the separation into two layers of the topics and their occurrences. This separation is one of the clues to the power of topic maps and we shall return to it later. Occurrences, as we have already seen, may be of any number of different types…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Chronological reasoning in archaeology
Systems for chronological reasoning in archaeology typically concentrate on statistical approaches to date archeological strata. These approaches normally regard the studied phenomena as simple, well- defined and associated with precise points in time. The Perseus Digital…
Points in time are not observable
Intuitively, many systems regard points in time as a means to recognize events and the temporal end-points of periods, confusing definition with conclusion, and identity with non-unique properties (actually, the absolutely precise point in time when an event happens is not…