WOTW and Ads

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

I'm accomplishing 2 things with this. I am doing the Word of the week and advertising 2 blogs.

Starting with the advertisements, there is College the Blog here, a blog by a college student at BYU who I knew from Church and debate. Then, there is my brother's new blog, the Green Knight of What.

Now onto the word. Today's word (or phrase) is sans peur et sans reproche. It is French in origin and means "without fear and without reproach." -Webster's New World College Dictionary

Basically, someone who is sans peur et sans reproche lacks fear and reproach. I'm not completely sure on this, but it would suggest that it applies to situations where the Rule of Law is not applied and someone can get away with anything.

YouTube Channel

You know all of my videos, right? If you don't, click on the video button under Continuous Keywords.

Well, I have created a YouTube account and compiled them all there. In the future, I will probably post them there because Blogger is inefficient when it comes to videos.

Here is my channel.

Poll Closed

I am finally removing the poll that's been up for a long time. For anyone interested, here are the results. I voted on it, plus you could vote for as many as applicable, so, obviously, not many people voted. I think 3 did.

To kibitz is to offer unwanted opinions. It's Yiddish.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the belief opposing the belief that church and state should be separated. It comes from the Anglican Church being merged with England's government.

Pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a condition resulting from inhaling fine silica dust, resulting in inflammation. Silicosis can mean this.

A contortionist is someone who is very flexible.

A Random Word

You've been draggling for the past five miles. Pick yourself up.

drag·gle [drag-uhl]

verb, -gled, -gling.

–verb (used with object)

1. to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud

–verb (used without object)

1. to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.
2. to follow slowly; straggle.

Origin:

1490–1500; drag + -le

(dictionary.com)

I like random words.

Knowledge

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."

-Walter Lippman

This is a random quote I found. I think I am going to start heading posts with a random quote that I like.

My thoughts right now are about knowledge.

I will phrase it in little quotable items because that is how I have been thinking it.

• Unused knowledge is worthless.
• Used knowledge becomes wisdom.
• Learning history is pointless unless you learn what they learned.
• One of the best uses of knowledge is helping and teaching.
• The learned can be dumb if they don't apply their knowledge.
• We can learn from every experience.
• Learning things you don't care about can help by teaching you to learn in general.

These are just some thoughts I had. I rather like them and I am pretty sure they have some degree of truth in them.