23 Matching Annotations
  1. Dec 2023
    1. soporific

      tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

    2. So

      section

    3. everywhere

      section 1

    4. Candle in the Dark

      reference

    5. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of HumanReason in Everyday Life, by Thomas Gilovich

      reference

    6. ecumenical

      of, relating to, or representing the whole of a body of churches

    7. theology

      the study of the nature of God and religious belief.

    8. Anatoly Kashpirovsky
    9. Vladimir Zhirinovks
    10. quackmedicines

      the promotion of unproven or fraudulent medical practices.

    11. Russia

      use this passage as a ref?

    12. Leon Trotsky
    13. sacerdotal

      relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly

    14. geomancy

      the art of placing or arranging buildings or other sites auspiciously. 2. divination from configurations seen in a handful of earth thrown on the ground, or by interpreting lines or textures on the ground.

    15. Elf-Aquitaine scanda
    16. Uri Geller
    17. Zatara
    18. skepticism

      the theory that certain knowledge is impossible.

    19. pseudoscience

      a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

    20. superstition

      a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation. b. : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition

    21. breath of divinity

      pseudoscience is religious?

    22. hereditary

      determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants.

    23. propensities

      an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.