5 pro-freedom technologies, and other links

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• 5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet -- “We have already lost a lot of control over who and what has access to our data, and there are further threats to our freedom on the horizon.”
• 11 Disney Stars Left With Devastating Disorders, Drug Addiction, And Permanent Damage -- “Dubbed the ‘Disney Curse’ are the many documented cases of former Disney child stars left troubled by drugs, disorders, and other long term mental and physical damage.”
• A Little Help for Your Charitableness from Kevin Deyoung -- “...the person you think is “playing politics” may actually be trying to show respect to friendships he’s had for forty years. At least consider this option before you blast away.”
• Augustine and Fulgentius of Ruspe Contradict the Immaculate Conception -- “Accordingly, the body of Christ was truly assumed from the women’s flesh, which [is] from her flesh [of] sin propagated [from] her conception. Nevertheless, because [His body] does not follow her conception in this [same] way, [He] is not her flesh [of] sin, but [the] likeness [of the] flesh [of] sin.”
• Changes To The KJV Since 1611 -- “An update was made between 1762-69 to correct any lingering printing errors and to update the spelling, enlarge and standardize the italics, and increase the number of cross references and marginal notes.”
• Edification Does Not Require Intelligibility (Part 2) -- “Ward has either got to run with the idea that Paul is contradicting his own command in inspired Scripture or he is going to need to nuance his position a bit more...All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear to all.”
• How Ancestry.com’s Find A Grave Encourages Bad Actors and Bad Data -- “The vast majority of contributors on Find A Grave are likely motivated by the best of intentions — to help others.”
• How to Help Kids Love Travel: Finding Balance -- “I took these two related themes to heart; children need time to explore and play.”
• Is That Lie ‘Bald-faced’ or ‘Bold-faced’? -- “If you wanted a descriptor for such a lie in the 19th century, chances are you would have opted for barefaced (or in its slightly less common variant form, bare-faced).”
• King James Bible: The lost art of translation -- “The modern world had lost the thing that informs every act and gesture of King James’s sumptuously decorated Hatfield House, of the King James Bible, and of that incomparable age: a sense of encompassing richness that stretches unbroken from the divine to the sculptural, from theology to cushions, from a sense of the beauty of the created world to the extraordinary capabilities of language to embody it.”
• John Gill & the 7th Trumpet -- “The 7th trumpet, for Gill, signals a new era of prophetic history that will make every postmillennialist salivate.”
• Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist - org. 1790, Lamar County, Georgia -- “The Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church was organized when George Washington was president.”
• New Harmony Methodist - organization date unknown, Hart County, Georgia -- “New Harmony Methodist is located in a remote part of Hart County that is not far from the shores of Lake Hartwell.”
• Pope Francis’s Warm Welcome to Nancy Pelosi: A (not so) Subtle Message of Support for Abortionists -- “Pope Francis showed no sign of contentment with the pro-life movement’s great victory with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which drastically restricts the crime (and sin) of abortion. On the contrary, he welcomed a politician who publicly criticized that ruling and who is an outspoken supporter of abortion.”
• Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English -- “The Santa Barbara Corpus includes transcriptions, audio, and timestamps which correlate transcription and audio at the level of individual intonation units.”
• The Curse Of Canaan -- “Racism is a Darwinist idea. The last thing Bible-believing Christians should do is embrace a theology that has more in common with evolutionary theory than with the Bible.”
• The Dictionary of Old English -- “The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150) of the English language, using twenty-first century technology.”
• The Problem Is Enmity, Not Ethnicity -- “What Christians who are demanding justice must understand—and accept—is that the gospel doesn’t promise relief from the injustices and inequities of this world. In fact, the reality is just the opposite.”
• The Justices Didn’t Lie About Roe v. Wade—And Democrats Know It -- “No Supreme Court nominee has ever come close to saying any such thing about any precedent...Transcripts of those hearings, which are available here, here, and here, show exactly what the Justices said and expose how accusations of ‘lying’ are pure fiction.”
• Time English Corpora -- “The TIME corpus is based on 100 million words of text in about 275,000 articles from TIME magazine from 1923-2006.”