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
======================= Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 ======================= On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 4:21 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@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. > > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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