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More on Germany, the Holocaust and the Far Right

February 6, 2009

Two sides of Germany have been on my mind lately, exemplified by the reaction to the recent crisis in the Catholic church, and the continued existence of neo-Nazism and the far right. The Seriousness of Holocaust Denial I recently wrote about how German individuals react to what their countrymen did in WWII, and now recent [...]

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Freaky!

June 30, 2007

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU? You scored as Mathematics/Statistics, You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in Mathematics, Statistics, or related majors (e.g., Accounting, Actuarial Science, Astronomy, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Management Information Systems (MIS), Operations Management, Physics, Risk Management). It is possible that the best major [...]

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Vacation, Teil 2

May 11, 2007

After part 1 of our vacation, we headed into the Czech Republic. The first thing you notice upon crossing the border, is that the Czech Republic must be where Germans go for cheap gasoline, prostitutes and Gartenzwerge (a.k.a. garden gnomes, which apparently originate from Gräfenroda in Thuringia, Germany). I expected the gas stations, brothels and [...]

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The Farmer on my Doorstep

January 30, 2007

I just had the most unusual visitor. First, there was frantic ringing of my doorbell. I thought, who could that be, since the postman always rings once. Upon answering, there was a shrunken little old man who started cutting up apples and speaking to me much too quickly in deepest Bayerisch. I said (in German, [...]

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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Thoughts from the past

September 9, 2006

In going through old posts, I found this amusing one from two years ago today: Mission: Religious Conversion So, I just got visited by some Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were explaining to me how they want world peace and that when that happens, there will only be one religion and that is the one founded by [...]

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Safe and sound

July 20, 2006

Well, I made it just fine and am now writing this blog entry from my mom’s sofa in Virginia on my brand new laptop using WiFi. Oh, rapture! Speaking of rapture, there was a church group going to Malawi for a three week mission on my flight from Newark to DC that just confirmed once [...]

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