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what polizeiwissenshaft is

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0035, 4th January, 2011
See the Wikipedia article.  Hoppe appears to use the term to mean “an ideological approval of the police state.” Related Posts:Hans Hermann Hoppe’s “Democracy: The God That Failed” — A ReviewTime Preference, A PrimerLife in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on Logical FallaciesTime Preference, Government, and the Process of [...]
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whence the philistines?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1727, 15th September, 2010
It’s an interesting question.  At least I see it so.  To what place in the genealogies of the Bible are the Philistines assigned?  Recently I’ve been trying to memorize details from the Table of Nations, so the first place to go for understanding the biblical derivation of ethnic groups is Genesis 10:13-14: And Mizraim (Egypt) [...]
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job 3:2 — shortest verse of the bible?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1701, 3rd August, 2010
Nope.  The NIV reads “He said” in Job 3:2, which is shorter than the traditionally shortest “Jesus wept” of John 11:35.  However, “He said” is shortened by translators from the literal, “And Job answered and said,” so I’d say Job 3:2 is disqualified on the basis of paraphrase.  “Jesus wept,” on the other hand, is [...]
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a curious coincidence

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0211, 5th January, 2010
Today was my first day of Portuguese classes (I love languages, and I’ve previously had formal training in French, Latin, and Spanish, and I’ve taught myself a fair bit of Hebrew and Greek). Anyhow, Portuguese. Another one of my fascinations is textual variants of the New Testament, and I’m always out looking for new fonts [...]
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o little town of nazareth . . .

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1945, 21st December, 2009
Guess what? Remember that skeptical position that Nazareth didn’t even exist in Jesus time? Famous atheist Frank Zindler, of atheist magazine, pointed out the following facts (quoted from Wikipedia): No “ancient historians or geographers mention [Nazareth] before the beginning of the fourth century.” Nazareth is not mentioned in the Old Testament, the Talmud, nor in [...]
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