psychalchemy

John Grinder speaks about his "new code" for NLP. He puts more emphasis on the unconscious.

Herman Dooyeweerd's magnum opus "De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee" (1935-36) is now available online in the original Dutch, and can be downloaded from the website of The Association for Reformational Philosophy. The scanning was done as a project of the Dutch Academy of Sciences, which has recognized this work as one of the most important Dutch texts. This scanning is of very high quality, and is highly recommended as a source for studying the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd.
The work was translated and revised in English as "A New Critique of Theoretical Thought." But that translation is very uneven and often inaccurate; furthermore, some parts of the original Dutch were never translated. A rough concordance of the original Dutch and the English version can be found at
members.shaw.ca/hermandooyeweerd/Concordance.pdf [members.shaw.ca/hermandooyeweerd/Concordance.pdf]
My own translation of extensive portions of "De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee" can be found at
members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Mainheadings/Prolegomena1.html [members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Mainheadings/Prolegomena1.html]
There is an online version of "A New Critique of Theoretical Thought," but the scanning is very unreliable. Nevertheless, if used with caution, this can be a useful source for a book that is hard to obtain
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Kerry Hollingsworth of the Reformational Publishing Project has digitally scanned Herman Dooyeweerd's "A New Critique of Theoretical Thought." Unfortunately, there are serious problems with the scanning. This online version of the New Critique can only be used with great caution. It is not accurate enough to be cited. Any quotations from this version must be checked with the original version. I note that the online .pdf version of The New Critique has Volume II before Volume I. Has anyone else complained about that? It is confusing. I hope that this will be corrected. Is there a .doc version? an .html version?
Some of the scanning is inaccurate. I have not of course had time to do a page by page comparison. But here are some examples of problems. NC II, 455-456 has only been partially scanned in, and what there is of page 456 is crooked. Other quirks: The font is not consistent. See for example, the strange formatting of some numbers in the Table of Contents for Vol. III.
I also note that some of the scanning appears to have resulted in many wrong transcriptions of words, particularly foreign words, but also some English words. That is a more serious problem. Some examples of these errors that leaped out at me are the Greek `ousia,' which is mis-spelled as `ofwia' on NC III, 4. On the same page, the paragraph beginning with the words "In the final hypostasis of its deification.." is incomprehensible because the Greek word `arché' has not been reproduced. It appears as `der;'--there is an obvious font problem here. On NC III, 5, the whole Greek quotation in the first paragraph is illegible. On III, 6, `ousia' is shown as `oinia' which is of course incorrect. Line 4 of NC II, 6 mis-spells the English word `changes' as `c anges'--the `h' is missing. And so on and so on.
I am grateful that this work has been placed online, but more work needs to be done to make it reliable.

Closing sequence for Terence Davies' movie "The Long Day Closes." This movie has been re-released in PAL format. When will it be available in NTSC?

This is a wonderful collection of traditional Mennonite recipes, along with some historical background information. More than a dozen different recipes for peppernuts (I like the Original Spicy Peppernuts on p. 384). There is also a Volume II.

Some traditional Mennonite recipes. I grew up with this kind of cooking, and I am glad that Bob Strong is preserving this part of my heritage. From the page: "I am trying to recall the traditional foods we were served in our childhood and youth, so I can search for and compile the recipes as a legacy for our children, grandchildren and beyond. I am also interested in family reminiscences relating to food, or events in which food played a major role."

Video of Herman van Veen,singing Ramses Shaffy's hit "Laat me."

1967 Video of Dutch cabaret singer Ramses Shaffy. Accompanied by pianist Louis van Dijk.