Playlist Update (April 9-15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on FacebookTo My Facebook Friends and Fans,
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PLAYLIST FOR APRIL 9-15, 2017:(Latest down to earlier postings)
2017 Lenten Season Special: A WIDE-RANGING SYMPOSIUM ON RELIGION (10 postings)1. “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (April 15)
2. “Looking deeply into religious belief as a problem in international affairs” (April 14)
3. “Book of Revelation’s fantastic imagery are true events in code, says book” (April 14)
4. “Minority faiths in Middle East face extinction due to religious intolerance” (April 14)
5. “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (April 14)
6. “Twixt mathematics, technology, and religious belief” (April 12)
7. “On evolving Gods, prehumans as food, and grammar’s impact on thought” (April 11)
8. “The Tree of Life” (April 10)
9. “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (April 9)
REGULAR FEATURES (9 postings):1. “Ateneo to host multi-awarded writer Luis H. Francia’s lecture-reading April 25 in Manila” (April 13)
2. “Seeking immortality through technology and primitive diet” (April 13)
3. “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 13)
4. “Incredible e-trip of the Exploration Rover Mission to the Planet Mars” (April 12)
5. “29 best-selling fiction writers share their secrets to success” (April 11)
6. “Great titles in the making” (April 11)
7. “Young writer and memory buff shows how to remember most everything”] (April 11)
8. “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (April 11)
9. “Oh, the sweet bird of happiness finally looks like it’s in the bag!” (April 10)
10. “The Middle Ages weren’t just a time of long religious delirium and hysteria” (April 8 )
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
8. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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