David sent me this article:
Scientific American - A Wealth of Smarts Does Not Guarantee Actual Wealth The smarter you are, the more income you have," explains economist Jay Zagorsky of Ohio State University, who analyzed the data. "For wealth, there is no relationship."... "Why don't smart people do financially better is the next question to answer ( Read more... )

I feel rather strongly about this, so I thought I would post. I was forwarded an email recently which said:

God won't ask what kind of car you drove. He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation ( Read more... )

"A strict agnostic says you cannot pronounce as knowledge anything you cannot demonstrate. In other words, if you're gonna call it knowledge you have to be able to run an experiment on it that's repeatable. You can't run an experiment on whether God exists or not, therefore you can't say anything about it is knowledge. You can have a belief [in God ( Read more... )

The topic of previous post, reading about God, came about due to a couple things ( Read more... )

How coincidental. Yesterday David and I went to B&N and I started reading:
"A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam"
In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from ( Read more... )

What happened to my faith?

06/14/2004 - My reaction to "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins"

07/06/2004 - Review of Grant H Palmer's "Insider's View of Mormon Origins"

10/08/2004 - Thoughts on marriage, death & purpose

Heya!
Anyone that wants to read up on the religious adventures of Crista, please proceed to the following link.
This especially applies to Laura, Nadia, Jenna, and Alan, but I would appreciate anyone's input on it.

The Conclusion to "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" and my own conclusions

Ohhh it is so annoying when Illustrator suddenly closes. It's quit on me twice now. After the first time I started saving every couple minutes, but I still can't prevent losing any steps when it happens. And WHY is it happening? I restarted the comp and got a pretty "Windows has made an error. Please send report" boxy. Hopefully the error was what ( Read more... )

I like these:
-No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry
-Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.

I'd like to see Luther at Madstone Laguna Village. I actually found out about it from someone in the catholic lj community who wants to see it. I won't read The Da Vinci Code tho because ( Read more... )

Check out Alicia's post ( Read more... )