In der griechischen Mythologie war Eris die Göttin der Zwietracht und des Streites. Innerhalb der Philosophie der Antike verwendeten Platon und Aristoteles Eristik als Begriff für den wissenschaftlichen Meinungsstreit, insbesondere aber auch für das Streiten um des Rechthabens willen.
Eristische Dialektik
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In einer Welt, die der unseren sehr ähnlich ist, lebt das Mädchen Lyra, das in einem College aufwächst. Es besitzt, wie jeder Mensch, einen Dämon, der untrennbar mit ihr verbunden ist. Eines Tages belauscht sie die Professoren und erfährt eine schier unglaubliche Geschichte …
via Scarab Dreamer
You may damn yourself to Hell however you would like, but somewhere in your video you must say this phrase: “I deny the Holy Spirit.”
Why? Because, according to Mark 3:29 in the Holy Bible, “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” Jesus will forgive you for just about anything, but he won’t forgive you for denying the existence of the Holy Spirit. Ever. This is a one-way road you’re taking here.
via Alarmschrei
The BBC has received a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary broadcast this evening about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.
The hoax Panorama programme, narrated by distinguished broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, featured a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest.
It showed women carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry.
But some viewers failed to see the funny side of the broadcast and criticised the BBC for airing the item on what is supposed to be a serious factual programme.
Others, however, were so intrigued they wanted to find out where they could purchase their very own spaghetti bush.
This is a pretty amazing video of Ethan Winer playing 37 separate cello parts to create one song. He even plays the percussion parts on his cello. It was recorded on 23 tracks using 37 plug-in effects. He spent hundreds of hours on this project so its worth a listen.
