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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed a new law mandating that public schools in the Sunshine State have a daily moment of silence.

The great Encyclopaedia Brittanica
is offered online and contains countless articles and important educational material. There are multiple links to open and read further. A very nice tool for people of all races, genres, nationality. Education is free and offered generously, we just got to get it
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A sample of the Encyclopaedia for "Jansenism":

www.britannica.com/topic/Janseni...
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Nevada has become the latest flashpoint in a national debate over how to teach students about racism and its role in U.S. history, with parents clashing over curriculum proposals.

Oxford University students have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II from a common room due to concerns about Britain's colonial history, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.

It's a marvelous book, written by professionalists with experience and the need to teach and propagate Philosophy. The books uses cartoon pics and images, like they intented for kids but I personally think they make the learning process much easier and perhaps adds on people's ability of learning.
It describes and analyses, in the simplest way - this is because of the experience of the writters as teachers and lecturers - almost every modern concept concerning Philosophy and I hope it's apetite stimulator for getting more in touch with Philosophy. As Almost everything we do and think is already explained - analysed and "philosophised", perhaps Philosophy can make ideas work better for the people and their world (having a better knowledge of them).
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Sample of the content:




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The picture coming into view is enormously promising: rural students, too often left to pursue higher education without role models to inspire them or information to help them map their way, could have both in abundance in the virtual world that is emerging.

A Mystic, a poet and deeply rooted in Quran's ideas, will trascript into humanne teachings the bases of his religion. A must for Islamic Studies

Biography from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-a...

A Sample of his Work:






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The talented Mr Alter has an extensive portfolio of works over the American literature and has done a lot of translations. He has analysed the Hebrew Bible in a way that became a standart for the related studies.
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Biography:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alt...

A Sample of his Work:

"1. And King David had grown old. Although an editor, several centuries after
the composition of the story, placed this episode and the next one at the
beginning of the Book of Kings, and after the coda of 2 Samuel 21—24, because
of the centrality in them of Solomon's succession, they are clearly the conclu-
sion to the David story and bear all the hallmarks of its author's distinctive lit-
erary genius. There are strong stylistic links with the previous David narrative;
the artful deployment of dialogue and of spatial shifts is very similar; and
there are significant connections of phrasing, motif, and theme.
they covered him with bedclothes, but he was not warm. This extraordinary
portrait of a human life working itself out in the gradual passage of time,
which began with an agile, daring, and charismatic young David, now shows
him in the extreme infirmity of old age, shivering in bed beneath his covers....."

It's from the Book "The David Story"
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After a talk I had with Don and Druid I got inspired to post about an important European philosopher-theologist-mystic and more.
Which is the most important in his theories is the solutions he offers when the church becomes strict and punishes the internal need for exploration of God's will within rituals foreign to people that need to connect the simple and real with their spiritual hunger. This philosopher indeed influenced the Germanic theology but it became also a tool of education of thinking over spiritualism.
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There is a lot of reading for people that never had contact with philosophy but the paths of exploration inside the spiritual and the simplicity of this need as human attribute is really fascinating.

Biography:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Ec...


Bibliography:

The books i managed to gather from his work, in my library are :

Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets
Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart
Meister Eckhart Speaks (Philosophical Library, 1957)
Selected Writings
Sermons and Treatises, Vol. 1 (Element, 1991)


There are more from his work and many reviews and analyses on his work.


Bellow a sample of his writtings:

From the "German Sermonies"

"Sermon 1 :
lntravit Jesus in templum et coepit eicere vendentes
et ementes (Mt. 2 1 : 1 2 ).
We read in the holy gospel that our Lord went into the temple and was
throwing out those who were buying and selling, and he said to others who
had doves and the like for sale: "Get rid of this, put it away! " (Jn. 2: 16) Why
was Jesus throwing out those who were buying and selling and why did he
tell those who had doves to get rid of them? His intention was none other
than to have the temple empty, 1 just as though he were to say: "I have a right
to this temple and want to be in it and to rule in it alone." What docs this
mean? This temple in which God wants to rule mightily according to his
will is the human soul which he formed and created exactly like himself, as
we read that our Lord said: "Let us make man according to our image and
likeness" (Gn. l :26). And he did this, too. So like himself did he make the
human soul that neither in heaven nor on earth, of all the wonderful crea­
tures that God made so attractive, are there any as like him as the human
soul. This is why God wants to have this temple empty-so that no one is
in it but him alone. And this is why this temple pleases him so much: because
it is so exactly like him and he is so very comfortable in this temple when he
is in it alone.
Now note carefully! Who were the people who were buying and selling
there, and who arc they still? Now understand me correctly! I am not
preaching now about anyone but good people. Still, I want to show who the
sellers there were and still are-people who thus bought and sold and still........."
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The backlash against what Robert L. Woodson calls the "race-grievance industry" is surging, and leading the revolt are right-tilting Black intellectuals like himself.

Parents ‘finally had enough’ after ‘vile’ selection of books for school children