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Technical Difficulties With Automated Blog Posts

[20100131] The blog is still refusing mail from gmail. I've stopped the forwarders. When the mail server stops trying to deliver mail (probably by the 5th). I'll try another strategy.
I'm trying to find the equilibrium between Google News Alerts, Gmail and Blogger to permit automated posting of Google News Alerts to the blog so I can have them for reference and work on other things. My goal is not to focus on one news topic, but to have the varied topics in the news feeds automatically posted in the blog daily or weekly because I can capture more unique data that way.

Suicide Bomb News Feed

The Jihad News Feed

Witch News Feed

Ritual Abuse and Killing News Feed

Faith Heal News Feed

Female Genital Mutilation News

Exorcism News Feed

Child Bride or Marriage News Feed

Church Abuse News Feed

Animal Sacrifice News Feed

Religious Exemption News Feed

Friday, December 16, 2005

Rules for Critical Discussion

Rules for Critical Discussion
by Frans Van Eemeren & Rob Grootendorst,
taken from "Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation" by Douglas Walton,
Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Common Religious Reasoning Schemes

[Draft Copy] Reasoning Schemes are only fallacious when they are unwarranted.
For example an appeal to popularity is not always fallacious, even though the superficial treatment of it in the average university logic book will lead you to believe it is.
Below are some examples
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Notes

Categories
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Topic Heirarchy

Cognitive Science,
  |_Comparative Psychology, Animal Cognition
  |_Epistemology
  |_Decision Making
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  |_Dualism
    |_Free Will
    |_Morality
    |_Soul
    |_Spirit
    |_Consciousness



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Friday, December 9, 2005

Feedback Please!

Leave me some feedback in the comment section. Thanks in advance!
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Suggestions, Requests, Questions? Click Here.

Click on the comments link to add them. I get comments sent to me in real time via email.
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Sunday, December 4, 2005

Why All the News Posts?

I track and post news articles to sample and display in real time the effect that religious and faith based decision making has on the world.
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Why Link to ScienceDaily.com?

I link to ScienceDaily.com because it demonstrates in real time the superiority of the scientific method in acquiring Quality Information and Knowledge.  Science isn't about debunking religions, its about improving our quality of life using the resources at hand. If religions can't keep up, then they need a better strategy.
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Saturday, November 12, 2005

Scope Of The Blog

The blog treats sacred text as data in a database. It cross-checks sacred text against principles and data from the following fields of study listed below.
+ Anthropology
   - Cultural
   - Linguistics
+ Cognitive Science
   - Bias
   - Biological Bases Of Behavior
+ Communication
   - Relationships
* Complexity Theory
* Decision Theory
* Epistemology
* Game Theory
* Information and Data Quality
* Informal Logic
* Information Theory
+ Philosophy
   - Epistemology
   - of Free Will
   - of Mind
* Probability
* Persuasion
* Statistics
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Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Why Link To Wikipedia?

I link to Wikipedia liberally not because it's authoritative, but because it's a good place to start research and its mostly accurate. I occasionally edit Wikipedia.
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Some Articles Look Familiar?

This blog has been constructed from material that I've contributed to other blogs over the years.
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Why the Pseudonym?

I use a pseudonym, which I change from time to time, to try to avoid the stalker problem that seems to result from reasoned criticism of Religion. My new pseudonym better represents my personality; Knowledgeable and light hearted. The last pseudonym was a hybrid modeled after Howard Beale from the movie "Network" and someones profile that popped up in google one day so it didn't reflect the "real me". "Can you see the real me?" (Quadrophenia by The Who)
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