[FRIAM] Cultural Evolution Redux

[Tom Johnson]

Steve:
Last time I checked it was a couple of years back, but there were something
like 40-50 "translations" of the Bible published annually in the U.S.
TOM

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Tom Johnson
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 4:21 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Jochen -
>
> I feel like an angel (or devil) dancing on the head of the FriAM pin!
>
> I wasn't able to get traction on the first post due to a blind spot I
> think I have about the details of the history of Christianity.  More and
> more of it gets *through* to me each time I read it, but because I have
> *broad* knowledge (with no depth anywhere) I was left with questions like
> "what about the Coptics?"  and an anecdote:
>
> A few years ago, driving across Aamon Bundy country in W. Washington A
> 4door dually diesel blew past me (70mph) at 90mph "rolling coal" and
> sporting a bumper sticker that said "if it ain't King James, it ain't
> Bible!".   I have no idea what that was all about (any of it really, but
> the bumper sticker in particular).  My best guess was that it was a
> dismissal of Catholicism in particular?   Or maybe the LDS church or maybe
> Protestant sects that were not close to his?  Doesn't LDS defer to King
> James and just layer on their own Latter Day stuff over it?
>
> I will dig deeper into the second post as I have developed a fondness for
> Oracles (primarily the I Ching) over the decades as a method for
> self-examination.
>
> I don't think I know of your published book?   Got lost in my COVID spam?
>
> - Steve
>
>
> On 6/11/22 10:36 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>
> Today was a productive day: 2 new blog posts, the first about epigenetic
> changes in cultural evolution and the difference of Protestant and Catholic
> church..
> https://blog.cas-group.net/2022/06/epigenetic-cultural-changes/
>
> ..the second about the secret of oracles and their religious dimension
> https://blog.cas-group.net/2022/06/the-secret-of-oracles/
>
> Both are related to my book from 2020, which nobody except Dave has read.
> The printed version sold exactly once and that was a friend here in Berlin
> :-)
>
> Thanks Steve for the comment on this post too!
> https://blog.cas-group.net/2022/06/the-strange-phenomenon-of-consciousness/
>
> -J.
>
>
>
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