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Ding Ding

a: Jargon ~
b: bell at the start of a round of boxing

What: "To me, the use of jargon is like the bell at the start of a round of boxing. Prepare for some fancy footwork. In advertising copy, it appears as the seven highly over-exposed habitual cliches of the hack writer."

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Writer: Nigel
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Date: Oct 14 2013 8:12 PM


The Supernatural Brain Part?

a: Medulla ~
b: a inlet portal for spiritual energy

What:

"Intuition could be associated with the lower chakras also, but the third eye is a connection with the spiritual realm. It is the forward pole of the sixth chakra. The medulla oblongata is the other pole that is located at the rear base of the skull. The medulla is like a inlet portal for spiritual energy."


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Writer: Jahi ~ Steve ~
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Date: Dec 29 2013 6:33 PM



a: heat ~
b: the amount of water in a towel

What:

"A useful physical analogy is Feynman's - heat is like the amount of water in a towel, while temperature is the "wetness." Given two towels of the same "wetness" the bigger one contains more water. A small towel can be much "wetter" but contain less water than a big towe "


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Writer: Feynman
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Date: Jan 17 2014 5:50 PM



a: Synod ~
b: MRI into the global church

What: "In that sense, as the Rev. Tom Rosica puts it, the synod is like an into the global church. (Rosica has handled English-language media for several synods.) From personal experience, I've long noted a difference between bishops who have been to a synod and those who haven't, because the former tend to think more globally."

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Writer: Rev. Tom Rosica
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Date: Oct 8 2014 1:46 PM



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