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Really? What multi-chapter breakthroughs have taken place in thinking about business?

That's wonderful, as long as the styles that prefer lavish illustration and marginalia on fat glossy paper all have affluent parents who can fork out $50-100 per, and drive them to school. These books are lovely to look at, but they'd be difficult for a poor family to buy and the student to carry back and forth to school on foot and the bus. Once you get to college or university, the prices and heft become truly crippling. https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/General+%26+Introductory+Chemical+Engineering-c-CG00

Fine. I'm interested in art; you're interested in formulating hypotheses. No two exactly alike.

I will be interested to see your results!

No, that wasn't the reason. They are perfect in all respects: this 'imperfection' is solely in the eye of the beholder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdbPWoMsdIs (and I wish you'd let up on that painting school joke)

LOL. I linked to hundreds of them - both kinds. They're not exactly hard to find! Michelangelo could paint anything he wanted to and chose not to put wings on his angels. By then, the addition of wings had become an artistic convention and it was unusual not to put them in. It had not always been so. The Development of Winged Angels in Early Christian Art by Therese Martin

Which time periods for comparison?

In 1920, you could put most college textbooks in a jacket pocket. No, but they need more pages. And they're big pictures, not little line diagrams. You can measure the recent ones, but I doubt you have any from the 1920's through '50's. It's in the late 50's that they really started to grow glossy and flashy and pricey. I can probably still find a few, though we've discarded most of them.

They could; they didn't have to. Odd. They could manage Leda's swan, Pegasus and Cupid, but not a humble heavenly messenger?

Oh, I see: D.C. United FC Cincinnati FC Dallas Houston Dynamo Inter Miami CF LA Galaxy Los Angeles FC Minnesota United FC Montreal Impact Nashville SC New England Revolution New York City FC New York Red Bulls Orlando City SC Philadelphia Union Portland Timbers Real Salt Lake San Jose Earthquakes Seattle Sounders FC Sporting Kansas City Toronto FC Vancouver Whitecaps FC See? That proves there is professional soccer in Heaven. (The bad news is, you're designated goalie for the Timbers next Saturday.)

yes no The underlying problem is international sport competition. It's a business - big stakes, big rewards, big risk; all very expensive and high pressure. If you like playing a game, play it according to the rules, for the fun, friendship, exercise, status among your cohort, showing off to potential sexual partners.... If you can't play it as a game, don't.

Lots of people, over a long period of time, have made lists. What's the point of reproducing some of those lists here?

To make them user-friendly, - and very expensive. If you look at most of those giant textbooks, you'll see wide right margins, as much as one third of the page, where they can put cartoons, fun facts, quotes, summaries or whatever. There are far more illustrations and diagrams than in the old books, lots of full-page, four-colour pictures, large font size with extra-large headers and titles,on fat, glossy, acid-free paper. These monsters could last 500 years without half trying - and will, in the landfills - because they go out of print in about five years, when a new edition is released and all the professors require that one. It was completely insane by about 2010. Fortunately (for students with early-onset spinal compression; unfortunately for booksellers) a lot of those college and highschool textbooks are now available in electronic editions, so they can carry the whole load in a pocket.

Not necessarily. Both Jesus and Mary got up there without any wings. Sometimes angels are depicted with wings, sometimes without: they're optional.

Thanks! I enjoyed that (and bookmarked the venue so that I can return for more videos.) Here is a book on the same topic: https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/bias-is-all-around-you

No, it doesn't. That's renaissance and Rococo art. Angels in Catholic churches and graveyards are mostly adult androgyns; some later ones, particularly of the guardian class look more distinctly female, while the juveniles merely cluster about the edges of clouds for decoration. Of course they're human-looking: that's what it says, over and over again, in both testaments of the bible. Are you sure? Leviticus says which is roughly he same as your Exodus quote: it says no idols for worship. Pictures are fine; idols are forbidden. If you couldn't make pictures of anything from heaven or earth or the ocean, you couldn't have any art. Several places. But most places angels are mentioned, wings are not. That doesn't mean they don't have any: feet and hands are not specifically mentioned, either, yet nobody who met one says an angel is a disembodied face with no limbs. They're simply not described in detail. It's the message they bring that's considered important, not the messengers' appearance. But sometimes, as in Sodom, they're deliberately passing for ordinary men. That wasn't the Catholic church, that was some artists, practicing artistic license. It came to be a comforting notion for people of the Middle Ages, when infant and child mortality was very high, that their children become angels in Heaven. Why would you begrudge those grieving parents? What's your problem with wings, anyway? Why should a heavenly messenger not have wings? And the critical difference would be.... ?

It's interesting literature, but not everyone's taste. Have you seen the series Good Omens? (BBC/amazon prime) It's nowhere close to as good as the book, and quite unnecessarily over the top in the graphic depiction of devils. Oh dear! I very much fear that's a trash heap out-take.

There are some more, but they're apocryphal; Enoch didn't make it into the bible. He also tells about the war in Heaven - so much material for European theologians, novelists, poets and painters. Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, Saraqael, Raguel, and Remiel are the good ones; Moloch, Chemosh, Dagon, Belial, Beelzebub and Satan himself are the fallen angels, who rebelled against God's law.

Not exactly. An angel introduces himself to Zacharias after telling him that his prayers are answered; he and Elisabeth are going to have a baby: John the Baptist. He doesn't say he's an archangel, but he's high ranking: and then tells Mary she's about to get pregnant by The Highest And the Mary goes to visit Elisabeth - a sort of prepartum play-date for their babies - and Elisabeth says The 'arch' may have been added by Paul 100 years later, then the early Catholic scholars elaborated out all the other ranks, possibly after their own hierarchical organization under the pope.

wrong wrong Understanding is not the problem here. In any case, you're way off topic.

I'm with mistermack : There can be all kinds of intrusive thoughts, like "She's lying. She doesn't really love me." and "Could I kill my father? Could I kill anybody?" It may be on any subject. All these thoughts have in common is that they tend to come out of the blue and be distressing and repetitive. The specific category "call of the void" is a very common one, particularly in the late teens, early 20's, that comes in a small array of notions regarding of self-cancellation. Images of jumping off a balcony or bridge, walking into the ocean or fire; perhaps just staring up at the night sky and feeling as if you might be sucked up into it. I think that what Nietzsche was referring to The lure of high places is probably the form that lasts longest; it stays with some people throughout their life. And, of course, suicides often choose the method that resembles their long-standing intrusive thought.

https://catholicexchange.com/what-are-the-nine-choirs-of-angels This is the only reference I know of to any member of the highest sphere performing an earth-related service for God: They don't normally get anywhere near the ground. Archangels are not mentioned in the biblical stories; the first references are in Paul's letters. Later they're reported to make some announcements and issue warnings, but the courier chores - frequent throughout both OT and NT - fall to mere low-ranking angels, just as you say. It was during the 4th century that the main body of Christian (now Catholic) canon was developed. Also: Christianity had moved to Rome, where its art and literature, going forward, would be heavily influenced by Roman aesthetics and expectations. That's very likely where the wings came from: depictions of Cupid, Mercury and the putti, the ubiquitous winged baby boys on valentine cards and overdecorated ceilings, who were later incorrectly dubbed "cherubs".

That's how it's usually stated. The correct term is "revive": Grass, like other perennial plants, goes dormant in unfavourable conditions; the top foliage dies off, but the roots are still alive, though inactive. When conditions improve, the roots revive and new foliage grows. In the case of grass, since the foliage is so simple and grows directly out of the roots, this new growth is - the transition from dead brown to vivid green - is startlingly rapid. Thus it is said to "green up"

Okay, wise guy! How does he steer?

Apparently not: What they can't have is 'graven images' - that is to say, objects of worship, or icons that are prayed-to. Illustrations are okay. Not for want of trying! But it it wouldn't be easy. https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/760052874590157281/?d=t&mt=login Only the pictures inside the churches - of which there are plenty. But long before, after and since, there have been pictures in art galleries, murals on outside walls, miniatures in pendants, mosaics in public baths, illustrations in books and on trading cards, sculptures in parks and graveyards and opera houses. Angels all over the place! It doesn't have to be an illusion: it's an idea that people have just always liked.