The second in a series of brief commentaries on bible verses. it covers John 13: 34: "Love one another." When Whitley begins talking about what the imposition of doctrine did at the Council of Nicea, this quickly becomes one of the most profound and powerful discussions on any biblical passage you are going to hear. Fifteen minutes that have the potential to free us from thousands of years of unacknowledged bondage to doctrine, and bring vivid new life to the experience of Jesus.

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Haktan Akdogan is Turkey’s leading UFO researcher, and he has what turns out to be a startling conversation with Whitley Strieber. As Whitley watches some of the very striking video on Haktan’s website, he suddenly says that he has seen one of the objects with his own eyes, when he was a child. To hear the surprise in his voice is, frankly, riveting. He obviously was not expecting this, and it is unforgettable to listen to this discovery literally as it unfolds in his mind. Haktan Akdogan’s website is SiriusUFO.org. Link hits the English version. Watch the video as Whitley and Akdogan discuss it! (1st video listed.)
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Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head while he was dozing under a tree. When Italian researcher Galileo dropped a heavy object and a light object from a tower in the 17th century, they both hit the ground at the same time, proving that the pull of gravity does not depend on weight. But if he had done this experiment during different seasons of the year and compared the results, he would have discovered that, while both objects took the same time to reach the ground, they got there at different speeds during different seasons of the year!

In New Scientist, Marcus Chown quotes physicist Alan Kosteleck

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Watch out guys: women have more sensitive noses (they can TELL when you wear the same shirt twice!) According to new research, it is more difficult to mask underarm odor when women are doing the smelling.

Researcher Charles J. Wysocki says, “It is quite difficult to block a woman’s awareness of body odor. In contrast, it seems rather easy to do so in men.” He thinks that females may even use the way a man smells as a guide to choosing a mate.

According to Wysocki, “?Our studies indicate that human sweat conveys information that is of particular importance to females. This may explain why it is so difficult to block women?s perception of sweat odors.”
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