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Those in the intelligent design movement argue for two theses: that organisms give evidence of design and that this indicates the operations of a causal agent capable of producing intelligently designed creatures. They mean the latter also to suggest that human beings have a special place in the scheme of life. Darwin also argued in favor of the design thesis, and likewise thought human beings had a special place in the hierarchy of organisms. In short, he too argued for a biology of intelligent design. A close examination of the considerations that went into the construction of Darwin's theory of evolution leads, perhaps, to a surprising and heterodox conclusion concerning the roles of God and morality in this theory--but then, the work of great scientists can sustain such conclusions. Yet, what does Darwin's accomplishment mean for our contemporary attitudes about morality and the role of God in a neo-Darwinian world? These and other topics will be covered in this course based on selected readings from Darwin's On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.
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"We are honored that so many Full Sail University graduates have been involved with the creation of GRAMMY®-nominated projects this year and congratulations go out to Brad for his personal GRAMMY® Award win," said Jay Noble, Director of Alumni, Full Sail
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Full Sail University is proud to announce that Recording Arts graduate Brad Blackwood received a GRAMMY® Award for Best Engineered Album in the Non Classical category for Alison Krauss & Union Station's album Paper Airplane at the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards, which aired live on CBS Sunday, February 12, 2012.
During the ceremony, 71 graduates were credited on 52 GRAMMY®-nominated projects across 38 categories. Highlights include:
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- 4 Recording Arts graduates were featured on Kirk Franklin's Hello Fear, which won for Best Gospel Album.
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- 3 Recording Arts graduates contributed to Chris Brown's F.A.M.E., winner of Best R&B Album.
- Graduate Graham Marsh worked as engineer on Cee Lo Green's single Fool For You, which won for Best R&B Song and Best Traditional R&B Performance, while Full Sail Hall of Fame graduate Phil Tan was a mixer on Corinne Bailey Rae's Is This Love, Best R&B Performance winner.
Full Sail University graduates that were personally nominated at this year's GRAMMY® Awards included:
- Brad Blackwood, Mastering, Best Engineered Album-Non Classical, Paper Airplane, Alison Krauss & Union Station
- Dustin William Brower, Composer, Best Rap Song, The Show Goes On: Track From Lasers, Lupe Fiasco
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Full Sail graduates have mixed, recorded, or assisted on 17 GRAMMY®-winning Album of the Year releases over the past 21 years.
"We are honored that so many Full Sail University graduates have been involved with the creation of GRAMMY®-nominated projects this year and congratulations go out to Brad for his personal GRAMMY® Award win," said Jay Noble, Director of Alumni, Full Sail University.
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There could be an obvious reason why your purchase was so cheap.
If you buy junk, you own junk.
To be fair, Kitsch can be wonderful if used judiciously. It's fun, silly and often that "blast from the past" feel adds another dimension to a well lived in home.
Snobs need not apply. Developing a flair for mixing High and Low end furnishings successfully is best accomplished by forgetting where the designated item comes from and how much it cost.
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Post subject: what do u mean when u talk about "becoming" "
what do you really mean when you say you're trying to, or want to eventually "become" "breatharian" or "ascend" or "awaken" ??
i don't really know what it means anymore, but it just sounds really mundane and short-reaching to me anymore. please don?t get me wrong, I don?t mean to say that against anybody. that?s just how I personally feel about it for me.
to me its like saying that you want to be free of food and
: the urges, thoughts, boredom, eagerness, stresses, problems, low/bad energies, feelings, emotions, cituations, cravings, drives, impulses & whatnot,
that eventually lead you to eat the food??
----->> but then you're still in this limited human fleshandbone body???
Because if that?s the case, then whats left to life there, in your flesh body? What are you gonna do where?s the fun? cause when i stop eating & start cleansing/flushing/fasting, my body completely loses the will to do absolutely anything, even lying down/back on bed and trying to get comfortable is tiring as heck.. but i donno if it's always gonna be that way for me or what... who knows..? :/
i mean if you think your still gonna be or wanna be in this body, you might as well let yourself enjoy beautiful food and playing the rest of the humble human game and that simple beautiful, pleasant, sensation-filled life.
> but?chYou know?, there?s more to existence, and Experience, and this game of ghost-in-the-shell right?
Don?tchyou really mean that you eventually
-----after completely cleaning n clearing out your body and youre so many days/weeks into a fast-----
want to have this sudden utmost beautiful episode where you finally magically transcend your current body
, your hot spiritsoul bursts-explodes out of your chest eyes and mouth in a brightsuper intense hotburning beamingvibrating light,
and you can then become whatever form/body you want, do what you want with your newly realized limitless creative powers and elemental manipulation, go where you want
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and have any experience you want..
in other words, feel like returning to our original godly state before we started this earthly game of amnesia/forget and rediscovery/remembering who we are??
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Talkie of the Week: Seminole
USA 1953, 87 minutes, color, Universal Pictures. Director: Budd Boetticher, Written by Charles K. Peck Jr., Cast: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson, Hugh O'Brian, Russell Johnson, Lee Marvin, Ralph Moody, Fay Roope, James Best, John Dahaim.
Plot summary: When Lt. Caldwell returns to his Florida home to serve at Fort King, he is faced with a strict commander who endangers the peaceful co-existence with the Seminole Indians.
Review: Set in 1835, Seminole tells the story of Lt. Caldwell who is accused of murder of a sentry at Fort King near the Everglades where the Seminole Indians lived in peace with the white settlers until Major Degan took command. Played by Rock Hudson, Caldwell is an honest soldier who grew up in the area and thus knows the Everglades as more than just hostile land. Familiar with the territory, he is a helpful asset to Fort King, but it is his love for Revere Muldoon (Barbara Hale) that actually made him return to his childhood home. Originally a peaceful tribe in the region, the Seminole Indians are now fighting the soldiers at Fort King, first and foremost by their leader Osceola (Anthony Quinn). Seeking a way to negotiate with Osceola, Lt. Caldwell finds his plans thwarted by Major Degan (Richard Carlson) whose misguided ambition poses a threat not only to the settlers and Seminoles, but also to his own men. With the help of Revere, Caldwell tries to avoid a conflict before it gets out of hand, only to find himself charged with murder at the end of a gory battle in the midst of the swampy Everglades.
Blessed with a convincing cast, Seminole was primarily shot in the Everglades National Park in Florida, a place that added to the sweltry atmosphere of this unusual Western. Led by Rock Hudson as handsome and righteous Lt. Caldwell, the actors did a wonderful job breathing life into characters whose destiny is connected and tied to the swamps, especially Osceola's. Anthony Quinn, always strong as a "noble savage", shined particularly in the presence of Barbara Hale whose Revere Muldoon is a heroine on her own merit, alluring and strong.
Available on DVD, the film is the perfect treat for anyone who enjoys an ensemble of good actors whose leading stars created a sizzling chemistry on screen. The story itself is suspenseful and dramatic, turning this classic into a perfect gem, especially for those of us who prefer some romance over a blanket to keep ourselves warm in this cold October season.


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Just look at this bowl... Isn't it gorgeous?
It is a housewarming gift from a good friend in my long-time hometown. I love the simple wrapping, the fresh green bow highlighting the clean white. She surprised me with this beautiful serving piece and a few words about why she felt it was right for me.
As I admire it I am struck by its harmonious asymmetry. It is plain, wholesome and functional; a fresh palette for colorful crisp salads, the perfect foil to bright, freshly pan-roasted vegetables or a generous frame for a brothy braised entrée. At the same time it holds its own, hinting at the unexpected in its delightful departure from conventional form; the slightest bow of one corner offering to pour out and share what it cradles. I love its sly yet generous expression!
My friend also suggested she hopes to see it filled it with something delicious and featured on my blog. I realize it has been too long. This season of transition has lingered past necessity. It is time to get back to a routine and celebrate the things I carry forward.
This bowl acknowledges a new beginning. I have swept out the home I am leaving in Washington and unpacked most of its contents in Tennessee. It is time to start again, to write a new chapter, to untie that tidy bow and get back to that sometimes messy business of creating, filling and sharing the gifts I've been given.
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Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
The author addresses the philosophical aspects of popular films and pop culture in thought-provoking essays at the intersection of the popular and the profound. He ranges across the philosophy of Halloween to psychoanalysis and the horror film, from Vertigo and the pathologies of romantic love to Andy Kaufman and the philosophies of interpretation, with wit, insight, and serious engagement. Noel Carroll is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center.
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The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen by Jeffrey L. Broughton.
- In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Chan (Zen) literature of the Tang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology. Of the numerous texts attributed to Bodhidharma, this anthology is the only one generally believed to contain authentic Bodhidharma material.
Jeffrey L. Broughton provides a reliable annotated translation of the Bodhidharma Anthology along with a detailed study of its nature, content, and background. His work is especially important for its rendering of the three Records, which contain some of the earliest Zen dialogues and constitute the real beginnings of Zen literature.
- The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch'an, Son, and Zen). Contained in its twelve chapters are definitive explanations of the meaning of innate and actualized enlightenment, sudden and gradual enlightenment, the true nature of ignorance and suffering, along with numerous examples of methods of contemplation that accord with and reflect the basic Ch'an views on enlightenment and practice. Although the Sutra was popular throughout the East Asian region, it attained its highest canonical status within the Korean Chogye school, where it is still a key text in the core curriculum of modern-day monks and nuns. The Sutra is translated here in full, along with the eloquent and revelatory commentary of the Choson monk Kihwa (1376-1433).
- Under the leadership of Mazu Daoyi (709-788) and his numerous disciples, the Hongzhou School emerged as the dominant tradition of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China during the middle part of the Tang dynasty (618-907). Mario Poceski offers a systematic examination of the Hongzhou School's momentous growth and rise to preeminence as the bearer of Chan orthodoxy, and analyzes its doctrines against the backdrop of the intellectual and religious milieus of Tang China. Poceski demonstrates that the Hongzhou School represented the first emergence of an empire-wide Chan tradition that had strongholds throughout China and replaced the various fragmented Schools of early Chan with an inclusive orthodoxy.
Poceski's study is based on the earliest strata of permanent sources, rather than on the later apocryphal "encounter dialogue" stories regularly used to construe widely-accepted but historically unwarranted interpretations about the nature of Chan in the Tang dynasty. He challenges the traditional and popularly-accepted view of the Hongzhou School as a revolutionary movement that rejected mainstream mores and teachings, charting a new path for Chan's independent growth as a unique Buddhist tradition. This view, he argues, rests on a misreading of key elements of the Hongzhou School's history. Rather than acting as an unorthodox movement, the Hongzhou School's success was actually based largely on its ability to mediate tensions between traditionalist and iconoclastic tendencies. Going beyond conventional romanticized interpretations that highlight the radical character of the Hongzhou School, Poceski shows that there was much greater continuity between early and classical Chan -- and between the Hongzhou School and the rest of Tang Buddhism -- than previously thought.
- Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning (gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience (taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English, Jeffrey Broughton presents an annotated translation of Zongmi's magnum opus, the Chan Prolegomenon, along with translations of his Chan Letter and Chan Notes.
The Chan Prolegomenon persuasively argues that Chan "axiom realizations" are identical to the teachings embedded in canonical word and that one who transmits Chan must use the sutras and treatises as a standard. Japanese Rinzai Zen has, since the Edo period, marginalized the sutra-based Chan of the Chan Prolegomenon and its successor text, the Mind Mirror (Zongjinglu) of Yongming Yanshou (904-976). This book contains the first in-depth treatment in English of the neglected Mind Mirror, positioning it as a restatement of Zongmi's work for a Song dynasty audience.
The ideas and models of the Chan Prolegomenon, often disseminated in East Asia through the conduit of the Mind Mirror, were highly influential in the Chan traditions of Song and Ming China, Korea from the late Koryo onward, and Kamakura-Muromachi Japan. In addition, Tangut-language translations of Zongmi's Chan Prolegomenon and Chan Letter constitute the very basis of the Chan tradition of the state of Xixia. As Broughton shows, the sutra-based Chan of Zongmi and Yanshou was much more normative in the East Asian world than previously believed, and readers who seek a deeper, more complete understanding of the Chan tradition will experience a surprising reorientation in this book.
- Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing their critical role in the contested Buddhist and intellectual territories of the Five Dynasties and early Song dynasty China.
Welter gives a comprehensive study of Yanshou's life, showing how Yanshou's Buddhist identity has been and continues to be disputed. He also provides an in-depth examination of the Zongjing lu, connecting it to Chan debates ongoing at the time of its writing. This analysis includes a discussion of the seminal meaning of the term zong as the implicit truth of Chan and Buddhist teaching, and a defining notion of Chan identity. Particularly significant is an analysis of the long underappreciated significance of the Chan fragments in the Zongjing lu, which constitute some of the earliest information about the teachings of Chan's early masters.
In light of Yanshou's advocacy of a morally based Chan Buddhist practice, Welter also challenges the way Buddhism, particularly Chan, has frequently been criticized in Neo-Confucianism as amoral and unprincipled. Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu concludes with an annotated translation of fascicle one of the Zongjing lu, the first translation of the work into a Western language.
- One of [Yung-ming Yen-shou's] best known works, the Wan-shan t'ung-kuei chi, has long been cherished by the tradition for its advocacy of harmony between Ch'an meditation and Pure Land practice. The dissertation questions the association of Yen-shou and his Treatise on the Common End of Myriad Good Deeds with the motives of the Pure land school from two points of view. In the history of the numerous biographies of Yen-shou, the association of his image with the Pure Land movement is relatively late. An investigation of the Wanshan t'ung-kuei chi demonstrates that the synthesis of Ch'an meditation and Pure Land practice is a topic of discussion, but is by no means the central concern of the text from either a theoretical or pracical standpoint. The dissertation contends that Yen-shou's Ch'an-Pure Land synthesis should be understood within the context of the Wan-shan t'ung-kuei chi as a whole. A translation of elect passages of the Wan-shan t'ung-kuei chi are included by way of confirming the reassessment put forward in the dissertation.
- Jinul (1158-1210) was the founder of the Korean tradition of Zen. He provides one of the most lucid and accessible accounts of Zen practice and meditation to be found anywhere in East Asian literature. Tracing Back the Radiance, an abridgment of Buswell's Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul, combines an extensive introduction to Jinul's life and thought with translations of three of his most representative works.
- Hongzhi -- the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master who was predecessor of the famous philosopher Dogen -- is celebrated in Zen literature as one of its most artistically graceful stylists. He was the first to articulate silent illumination, the nondual objectless meditation commonly known to modern Zen students as "just sitting." Previously available in English only in scattered fragments, Hongzhi's influential teaching is here presented comprehensively, not as a historical artifact, but as a timeless and inspiring guide to spiritual awareness in the contemporary world. Taigen Daniel Leighton provides an informative introduction that traces Hongzhi's life, important facets of his teaching, and his place in the Zen tradition.
- Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious character of the practice as it is described in Dogen's own meditation texts, introducing new materials and original perspectives on one of the most influential spiritual traditions of East Asian civilization.


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World's oldest share
In 2010 Ruben Schalk, a history student from Utrecht University, found the world's oldest known 'share' during his thesis research in the Westfries Archief in Hoorn. It dates from 1606 and was issued by the VOC chamber of Enkhuizen.
The document is made out to the Enkhuizen inhabitant 'Pieter Hermanszoon boode'. His name was really Pieter Harmensz and he served as a personal assistant to the Enkhuizen mayors. After his death in 1638 he left the 'share' to his widow and their daughter Ada. The document ultimately ended up in the Enkhuizen city archives which are kept in the Westfries Archief in Hoorn, the Regional Historic Centre for eastern West-Friesland.
VOC EnkhuizenThe Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC was the country's biggest trading company during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was the world's first joint-stock limited liability company with freely transferable shares. The public share subscription ended on September 1st 1602, giving everybody the chance to participate in the new venture. Amongst the 538 Enkhuizen subscribers were remarkably numerous craftsmen, small entrepreneurs and citizens like Pieter Harmensz. With 540,000 guilders subscribed the VOC chamber Enkhuizen supplied, after Amsterdam and Middelburg, the third most capital to the company.
'Share'The Enkhuizen 'share' is dated 9 September 1606, the day on which Pieter Harmensz paid the last installment of his 150 guilders investment in the VOC. This amount was entered in the Enkhuizen chamber's ledger. In return Pieter Harmensz received this document, which therefore is really a quittance. An interesting feature is the long series of notes on the inside of dividend payments up to 1650. The three other known 'shares' have rather fewer such notes. Trade in VOC shares started almost immediately after the closure of the offer. This provided a stimulus for the rise of the Amsterdam stock exchange, the world's oldest such exchange. The Enkhuizen 'share' is almost three weeks older than the previous record holder, dated 27 september 1606. This is in the possession of a group of German investors, who are offering it for sale for an astronomous amount. It remains a mystery how the document ended up in Germany. We do know for certain that around 1980 it was still in the collection of the Amsterdam City Archives.
Changing conceptionsThe discovery of this document, tied to research at Utrecht University, demonstrates that the VOC had far more financial teething problems than we knew until now. The company's governance structure also left much to be desired. To finance its operations the VOC had to boost its equity by borrowing from private investors, and its cash shortage meant that initially its shareholders received no dividend at all. Strong shareholder pressure led the company finally to pay a dividend in 1610, partly in money and partly in spices. Shareholders retained a right to subsequent dividends, but were never given a say in the running of the company. This does not tally with current conceptions of the VOC as the first modern and transparent company.
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What a night: Packed house roars for Rufus
Rufus Wainwright
at Old Cabell Hall
September 26
"I'm a gay-making machine!" said Rufus Wainwright Friday night at his concert in Old Cabell Hall. The comment was in reference to his blatant love-song, "Harvester of Hearts," from his latest album, Want One, which Wainwright wrote for a particular gentleman "who said he was straight." Wainwright continued, "After he heard this song, he was gay."
Witty stage banter was but one of the artist's charms on display as Wainwright, alone on the stage with just a grand piano and an acoustic guitar, had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand.
The show at Old Cabell had, as expected, sold out, with the line to get in stretching to an unbelievable length- it was plain Wainwright's fame, built on his two previous releases, his 1998 self titled debut, and 2001s Poses, had preceded him.
The show began with a short set by singer/songwriter Andy Waldeck, whose flat-top acoustic guitar and simple songs (sometimes verging on Jeff Buckley simplicity) made many in the audience consider getting out more to see Charlottesville's local musicians. But before long, Waldeck was off the stage, and Wainwright entered, stage right, to a tumultuously cheering house.
He quickly went into his hit "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," a song that begins simply but takes off in unexpected directions– the performer's piano skills shone over and over again during the course of the show, and this first tune set the piano virtuoso tone for the evening. Combining classically informed playing with pop melodies (though often of a more complex way than normally found on Top 40 radio) has been Wainwright's ticket away from standard rock radio, and the evening's set, which drew songs from the performer's three albums, put this salient feature of his sound on prominent display.
"Pretty Things," from Want One, was next the track is one of the few on the new album on which Wainwright demonstrates how "less is more." It consists solely of the musician's voice and his piano– and his performance was almost indistinguishable from the recording.
Wainwright switched from the piano to the acoustic guitar for his next few tunes, trading off between the two instruments for the rest of the set at three-to-four song intervals. "11:11," a sweet and simple song Wainwright described as having been written "half before 9-11, and half after" was one of his early guitar forays, and though his playing was free of errors, it was slightly sloppy, and it was hard not to feel that compared to his amazing ability at the keys, his guitar songs suffered more from the absence of a band than did his piano excursions.
A track from the upcoming Want Two, "The Gay Messiah," was probably the highlight of the show– although for lyrical content rather than song-smithing. Good melody, great idea, and includes the lines: "They will demand my head / And the lord will kneel down and give it to him."
What else really needs to be said?
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The following random thoughts are just that - my thoughts, not facts. However, I have provided some selected cites for most of them. If you think I have been a little selective, I agree - I'm human and will spin things my way. So I've also given links to some medical search engines at the foot if you would like to do some further reading. Just one rule: papers funded by pharmaceutical companies, especially statin manufacturers, or written by authors with links to those companies have little credibility with me.
The cites are only representative of a lot of general reading. There are many more supporting papers out there. I am happy to hear from anyone with more specific papers on particular aspects - pro or con.
These thoughts are based on my own reading from many various sources over time. Lately I have found them reinforced in Taubes' book "Good Calories, Bad Calories", but most I had read before that from other sources.
1. Eating excessive carbohydrates leads to high triglycerides. The definition of "excessive" may depend on whether or not the diner has diabetes. Triglycerides are one of the three major reported components of the usual lipids panel, the other two being HDL and LDL. One that we should get but often don't is VLDL, the dangerous one; usually that is estimated by dividing the triglycerides by 5 (in mg/dl). But that estimate is very approximate.
2. LDL is considered by the mainstream medical establishment to be the bad cholesterol and most anti-cholesterol meds target that. But high triglycerides, high VLDL and low HDL are actually the ones we should be most concerned about.
3. The absolute number of our LDL is less important than the specific number of certain components of LDL; the dangerous ones are the small, dense particles. High triglycerides usually indicate high proportions of those small dense particles. Better indicators of our lipids health are VLDL and the apolipoproteins A1 and B.
4. ALL of the foods we eat affect our cholesterol levels. EXCESS of carbohydrates OR fats may lead to dyslipidemia.
5. The past research on the relationship between cholesterol and heart disease is misleading at best. There appears to be shaky support for the hypothesis that lowering cholesterol, particularly LDL, improves overall mortality and even less support for the use of statins to do that.
6. Inadequate dietary fat will lead to low HDL.
7. Exercise usually, but not always, helps increase HDL.
8. A low HDL is a better indicator of future cardiac problems than high LDL and apolipoprotein levels are a better predictor than either.
9. Diabetics should aim for a triglycerides to HDL ratio of less than 3.0 in mg/dl or 1.3 in mmol/l.
10. Cholesterol in the foods we eat such as eggs and seafood has an insignificant effect on the cholesterol in our blood stream.
11. Low LDL is also dangerous and can be related to other problems such as Parkinson's Disease, cancer and other causes of early death.
12. There is growing concern that the over-prescription of statins and limited but alarming research into their side effects needs a lot more investigation.
Putting that all together, I no longer worry about the level of fats in my diet for their affect on cholesterol. I am selective in my choices of oils, but for other reasons such as Omega 3 content or eliminating trans-fats. I also found that reducing carbohydrates reduced my triglycerides as well as my blood glucose levels. I also dropped my statin, lipitor, four years ago.
When you look back through that list, some things stand out to me. If I am going to worry about cholesterol at all, the two things that will improve it most are moderating carbohydrates for better triglycerides and increasing exercise for better HDL. It seems a happy coincidence that those are the same two things that improve my blood glucose levels most. Additionally, inclusion of some additional fats in my menu to replace those carbohydrates may also help increase HDL.
For those interested in further reading to support - or refute - my thoughts here are a few useful search engines: Google Advanced Scholar, Medline and Highwire.
Cheers, Alan
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.
Here are some additional references for you in no particular order. Most of these papers and articles apply to more than one of the points above, which is why I found it awkward to include them in the body. The titles tend to give the context.
Effects of a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet on VLDL-triglyceride assembly, production, and clearance
Effect of Dietary Carbohydrate on Triglyceride Metabolism in Humans
Effects of a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet on VLDL-triglyceride assembly, production, and clearance
Increased consumption of refined carbohydrates and the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States: an ecologic assessmentEffect of the Magnitude of Lipid Lowering on Risk of Elevated Liver Enzymes, Rhabdomyolysis, and Cancer
Exercise Prevents the Accumulation of Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins and Their Remnants Seen When Changing to a High-Carbohydrate Diet
Effects of Protein, Monounsaturated Fat, and Carbohydrate Intake on Blood Pressure and Serum Lipids
Carbohydrate-Induced Hypertriglyceridemia: An Insight into the Link between Plasma Insulin and Triglyceride Concentrations
A Low-Carbohydrate, Ketogenic Diet versus a Low-Fat Diet To Treat Obesity and Hyperlipidemia
Plasma high density lipoproteins HDL2, HDL3 and postheparin plasma lipases in relation to parameters of physical fitness.


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When Mercci Gonzalez climbs the podium to speak at Passaic County Community College's 38th commencement on May 20, her family will learn for the first time that she is valedictorian of the Class of 2010. "I haven't told them," she said. "I want it to be a surprise." Gonzalez, who graduates with a 4.0 average at the top of a class of nearly 600 graduates from PCCC's four campuses, will receive her Associate in Science (A.S.) degree in Business Administration/Accounting. She said she feels "honored and humbled," to be valedictorian and will give much thought to her speech. "I don't want it to be routine."
A member of Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society for two-year colleges, Gonzalez was also inducted into the New Jersey Collegiate Business Administration Honor Society, is a member of the New Jersey All-State Academic Team, was a nominee for the U.S. All-State Academic Team, and will receive this year's Business Department Award.
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--F Antawn Jamison missed the Boston game after spraining an ankle in the next-to-last game of the season versus Toronto. He underwent surgery on his right ankle after the season.
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Cosmological argument
The cosmological argument is an argument for God based on the principle that everything has a cause. The argument is also known as the first cause argument, uncaused cause argument, argument from existence and the causal argument. One of the most influential statements of the argument was by Thomas Aquinas:
There are some popular variants of the cosmological argument, including:
- Kalam, which argues that things that do not come into existence do not require a cause.
- Why is there something rather than nothing?, which argues the chain of events or state of the universe requires an extra explanation.
- Leibniz cosmological argument, uses a chain of explanations rather than a chain of causes. It depends on the premise that "everything that exists requires an explanation"; this concept is known as the principle of sufficient reason.
- The preservation argument argues that something causes things to remain in existence.
- 1 Typical statement of the first cause argument
- 2 Formal Argument
- 3 Counter-arguments
- 3.1 Infinite regress
- 3.2 Why assume the first cause is god-like?
- 3.3 Special pleading regarding God existing outside of time
- 3.4 Not all events necessarily have causes
- 3.5 Unparsimonious explanation
- 3.6 By the same reasoning, God created evil
- 3.7 A-priori arguments cannot establish matters of fact
- 3.8 Cause and effect do not necessarily apply to the entire universe
- 3.9 Premise rules out God
- 3.10 The universe is causeless
- 3.11 God does not create from ex nihilo nothing
- 4 Further arguments
- 5 References
- 6 See also
Typical statement of the first cause argument[edit]
- "We can know that if that our universe had a beginning it must have also had a Beginner. Creation always implies a Creator. Effects always have causes. We should know that nothing cannot produce something.[1]"
- "Would you agree that nothing cannot produce something? If so, then if the universe did not exist but then came to exist, wouldn't this be evidence of a cause beyond the universe?[2]"
- "Do we agree that this is a creation? Or do we accept that nothing came out of nothing to form this entire universe? This is a very clear message from Allah, in the Quran. Something does not come out of nothing. So, there must be something in existence already which created all that we know to exist.[3]"
Formal Argument[edit]
The first cause argument runs like this:
- Everything that exists must have a cause.
- If you follow the chain of events backwards through time, it cannot go back infinitely, so eventually you arrive at the first cause.
- This cause must, itself, be uncaused.
- But nothing can exist without a cause, except for God.
- Therefore, God exists.
A close variant is the argument from the Big Bang:[4]
- The universe began to exist at the Big Bang.
- Something apart from the universe caused this.
- Therefore, a creator exists.
Many of the criticisms of the Unmoved mover argument apply here.
Infinite regress[edit]
- Main Article: Infinite regress does not occur
The most concise answer to this argument is: "Who created God?", which in turn raises the question "Who created God's creator?", and so on ad infinitum. This is known as an infinite regress or "It's turtles all the way down".
It is not necessarily impossible for there to be an infinite chain of causes and effects. Among scientists, it is widely agreed that our universe began with the Big Bang. But we don't know what occurred in the first split second after the Big Bang, nor can we comment on anything that came before it, as no experiments have yet been devised that could test any hypotheses about these early moments.
Some have claimed that with an infinite past, we could never get to now. Flip the infinity: does an infinity of seconds not stretch forward into the future, eternally? Starting from an infinite future, can you go a second before that, and a second before that, ad infinitum, and get to now?
Possible response: Second law of thermodynamics implies the universe is of finite age
Why assume the first cause is god-like?[edit]
- Main Article: The first cause implies God exists
Natural processes and multiple creators are not ruled out. This makes it an argument from ignorance.
Even if we grant that a first cause exists, it makes no sense to assume that it is any kind of god, let alone Yahweh. The idea of an intelligent, universe-creating god "just existing" is far more difficult to explain than the universe itself "just existing". Intelligence is one of the most complex things we are aware of in the universe. To assume the existence of a being who is so intelligent that it can design an entire universe, as well as micromanage the personal lives of billions of people on earth through prayer, would require an enormous amount of explanation.
- MW: The false dilemma you are making is because you can't have an infinite regress, and you can't have something coming from nothing, therefore the only other possible option is, not just an uncreated creator, but the uncreated creator that specifically happens to be the biblical God. How do you know that?
- Caller: The reason you know it is the biblical God is that you personally cannot find a natural explanation for the origin of the universe.[5]
This is also a false dilemma and shifting the burden of proof.
Special pleading regarding God existing outside of time[edit]
There is a contradiction between the first statement and the second statement. If "everything that exists has a cause" then there cannot exist anything that does not have a cause, which means that there is no first cause. Either some things can exist without causes, or nothing can. It can't be both ways. God is considered to be exempt from infinite regress by special pleading.
Changing "Everything that exists has a cause" to "Everything that begins to exist has a cause" produces a variant known as the Kalam cosmological argument.
Christians try to avoid regress of God by saying "God does not need a cause because He is outside of time." This is a glib non-answer. If all that is required to get around the first cause argument is an entity that exists outside of time, then all we need to do is postulate a single particle that exists outside of time and triggered the Big Bang. It need not have any additional powers. Besides, this particle might even exist, depending on how you define "outside of time." Photons (light particles) do not experience time, since they move at the speed of light. Therefore, according to this argument, light can pop into existence without cause.
Theists will object that this particle should have a cause. But they have already refuted this argument by granting that there exists an uncaused cause in the first place. If God can exist without a cause, why not a particle? Why not the universe? It may be the universe is the necessarily existent being and it is impossible for it to be in any other state.
Not all events necessarily have causes[edit]
- Main Article: Not all events necessarily have causes
The argument asserts that "everything that exists has a cause". However, this is arguably a false statement and a hasty generalization. It is possible that some events, particular on the quantum scale, do not have causes (or at least we do not fully understand the cause at this time).
Some versions of the cosmological argument rely on chains of explanations starting from observed phenomena. However, no such explanation may exist and the phenomena might be a "brute fact". This is known as the Glendower problem.
The cosmological argument has had little impact on Islamic apologetics because causality was already in doubt and it was unwise to base an argument on this uncertain foundation.
- "The main reason why the cosmological argument was thus rejected out of hand by both the [Islamic] philosophers and the theologians was the fact that the concept of causality upon which it rested had been exposed to doubt since the beginning of Kalam [Islamic apologetics]. [...] the alleged necessity of this principle is a mere illusion; because it is unwarranted inference, based on observation from the correlation of events. Observation, however shows simply that the alleged effect happens alongside the cause rather through it [...] and accordingly, such a correlation is not logically necessary but is rather the outcome of a correlation is not logically necessary but is rather the outcome of mere psychological disposition or habit.[6]"
Unparsimonious explanation[edit]
- Main Article: Ultimate 747 gambit
The God hypothesis is not only unnecessary, it is not parsimonious. In order to explain something apparently designed and which cannot create itself, a being is conjured into existence which would require even more unlikely explanation.
By the same reasoning, God created evil[edit]
"[While evil exists at all], it will very much puzzle you Anthropomorphites, how to account for it. You must assign a cause for it, without having recourse to the first cause [God]. But as every effect must have a cause, and that cause another, you must either carry on the progression in infinitum, or rest on that original principle, who is the ultimate cause of all things... [i.e. God]"
A-priori arguments cannot establish matters of fact[edit]
- Main Article: Proof by logic
Overall, this argument is an example of a proof by logic, where philosophers attempt to "demonstrate" god with a logical syllogism alone, devoid of any confirming evidence. This is arguably inappropriate for establishing matters of fact.
Cause and effect do not necessarily apply to the entire universe[edit]
We have experience of cause and effect in recent times, at low energies and on small scales. It is inappropriate to apply this concept to the universe as a whole because we have no experience of cause and effect in that circumstance and cannot be sure it still applies.[4]
- "causality is extendible beyond the universe, and we do have a clear idea how to use it.[7]"
Having a clear definition does not make the concept automatically applicable to a universe that is in a very different state or age. The definition for causality often relies on other human invented concepts such as "entities", "existence" and "non-existence" which also may not apply to the early universe. The only way for apologists to know if causality applies to the origin of the universe is to have direct experience of the origin of the universe. Frequently, cosmology does not conform to notions that humans find intuitive. Without direct observation, causality of the universe is mere speculation.
Premise rules out God[edit]
"If nothing comes from nothing, then God cannot exist, because God is not nothing. If that premise is true, that 'nothing comes from nothing' and God is something, then you've just shot yourself in the foot."
The universe is causeless[edit]
If God just exists without a cause, then so can the universe.
- "To say, that the different ideas which compose the reason of the Supreme Being, fall into order of themselves, and by their own nature, is really to talk without any precise meaning. If it has a meaning, I would fain know, why it is not as good sense to say, that the parts of the material world fall into order of themselves and by their own nature. Can the one opinion be intelligible, while the other is not so?[8]"
Claiming that this possibility is only allowed for God is special pleading.
- "Yes, it is logically possible that the universe is eternal and therefore didn't have a cause. In fact, it is one of only two possibilities: either the universe, or something outside the universe, is eternal. [...] When you get right down to it, there are only two possibilities for anything that exists: either 1) it has always existed and is therefore uncaused, or 2) it had a beginning and was caused by something else (it can't be self-caused, because it would have had to exist already in order to cause anything). According to the overwhelming evidence, the universe had a beginning, so it must be caused by something else—by something outside itself.[9]"
How do you know that is true? What evidence have you that something can "always exist" including at time "before" the Big Bang? How does this address the evidence that not all events necessarily have causes?
God does not create from ex nihilo nothing[edit]
According to Genesis 1:1-10 , God started with pre-existing materials and "created" by separating materials into various groups: "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep". Therefore, God did not create ex nihilo. God does not explain the existence of the universe, only the organization of it.[10]
Further arguments[edit]
No one really uses the premise that "everything has a cause"[edit]
"The problem with this refutation is that no version of the cosmological argument found in the works of its chief proponents affirms [everything that exists must have a cause.]"
Actually, this premise is widely used as a basis for the first cause argument, particularly among popular apologetics (and less so among experts).
- "Everything that exists has a cause.[11]"
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, 2011
- ↑ Something cannot come from nothing, The Atheist Experience #675, 19th Sept 2010
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 [5]
- ↑ Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- ↑ I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
- ↑ Richard Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus, 2014
- ↑ [6]
See also[edit]