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‘Away with the Atheists’: Anti-Christian Rhetorica in Pre-Christendom

Posted on January 18, 2023January 20, 2023 by mdnispel

Not maintaining a regular study or writing habit for multiple years has led to rusty language skills of both input and output. Life as a software manager instead of an individual contributor who designs and implements logical solutions via c++ structure and syntax has led to a felt lack of mental acuity in problem definition…

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Reboot: Hello world!

Posted on January 16, 2023January 18, 2023 by mdnispel

Hello World! After a long hiatus the time has arrived to once again reboot a web presence for distribution of my published and unpublished work, both academic and mere items of personal interest. After a number of years of sequential geographic moves for professional reasons, I have finally settled long enough to reestablish my library…

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History of Words, Notions, and Commonplaces

Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English tools of the trade to examine the historical origin and evolution of ideas and their expressions.Theology and philosophy are fertile domains to explore.

Numbers as Rhetorica

The use and interpretation of numbers as tools of persuasion not simply as units of measurement or calculation. And some interesting science topics as well.

Ideological Structures / Creeds / Confessions

Structured Ideologies come in the form of philosophical schools, religious confessional or ideological systems, or consensus belief systems, are common human products involving intellect and structured language. Understanding and testing can reveal strengths and weaknesses of assertions and assumptions of such structures and even help evaluate which are capable of surviving the test of time. The primitive and conciliar Christian creeds as well as the Lutheran and other Reformation confessions are examples of interesting topics to be explored here.

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