Below are listed the titles and descriptions of all the Footnote Articles in this chapter. Click on a title to access the Footnote Article of the same title. [Chapter Text]
| 001 | 7-day Week: Its Origin in Moon Phases & Dark Moon Days [Mondays] |
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| It is evident from lunar observation and history that originally the lunar month comprised four 7-day weeks plus 1 or 2 dark moon days to maintain synchronism. | |
| 002 | Ancient Texts: Semantic Shift Between Ancient Writer & Modern Reader |
| There are many mechanisms that shift the meaning of an ancient text. So what the modern reader understands will be different what the ancient writer intended. | |
| 003 | Bible: Some of its Logical, Philosophical and Doctrinal Anomalies |
| Ideas that do not make sense: a life taken and returned, notions of sin and guilt, act of Judas, man in the image of god, an all-seeing god, heaven: what then? | |
| 004 | Biblical Message: A Strictly Personal View of What The Bible Says |
| The Bible is one of many texts whose contents are, without substantiation, believed by its followers to be the words of beings from beyond our physical domain. | |
| 005 | Biblical Tithing: Fundamentally Different From 10% Of One's Salary |
| Tithing is fundamentally different from income tax. Tithing is 10% of a gain set by natural fecundity: not ~35% of an arbitrary market value for human labour. | |
| 006 | Bíblia: Algumas de suas Anomalias Lógicas, Filosóficas e Doutrinárias |
| Ideias que não fazem sentido: uma vida tirada e devolvida, noções de pecado e culpa, ato de Judas, o homem à imagem de Deus, um deus que tudo vê, o céu: e então? | |
| 007 | Declaração Religiosa: Minha Posição Atual em Relação à Religião |
| Em certa fase da minha vida, eu era muito religioso. Estudei a Bíblia com afinco. Agora, vou relatar minha história e esclarecer minha posição atual sobre a crença religiosa. | |
| 008 | Holy Spirit: Many Non-Christians Have a Stronger Moral Conscience |
| Is there a hyper-universe, beyond what we can physically perceive, in which live omnipotent self-existent beings who wish us to communicate with them? | |
| 009 | Interpreting Messages: A Fuzzy Overview is Safer Than Isolated Detail |
| Many religious groups hang a pivotal doctrine upon a single sentence. Truth is more accurately perceived through a fuzzy overview of an entire scripture. | |
| 010 | Language Barrier: Ultimate Guarantor of Mutual Misunderstanding |
| Different languages are not only different ways of coding meaning into sounds & signs. They are also different ways of seeing the world, with different ideals. | |
| 011 | Life After Death: What Seems To Me To Be The Biblical 7-Stage Plan |
| The Bible seems to say something different and mutually inconsistent to everybody. This is what it says to me concerning what one might call 'life after death'. | |
| 012 | Master Plan for Humanity: My Understanding of the Biblical Message. |
| To transform an earth-bound colony of physical life-forms into a community of super-beings with the run of the physical universe and the higher reality beyond. | |
| 013 | Religious Disclaimer: My Own Present Position as Regards Religion |
| In one phase of my life I was very religious. I studied the Bible fanatically. I will now state my history and clarify my present position on religious belief. | |
| 014 | Salvation: An Alternative View: Transformation Would be More Accurate |
| The Bible seems to assert that I need to be saved from something and that the only way I can be saved from it is to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ's life. | |
| 015 | Tick-Box Forms: The Dysfunctional Sub-Language of Bureaucracy |
| The constrictive sublanguage of a modern official tick-box form is a woefully ineffective means of communicating the needs and circumstances of the individual. | |
| 016 | Vida Após da Morte: O Que Parece Ser o Plano Bíblico de 7 Estágios |
| A Bíblia parece dizer algo diferente e mutuamente inconsistente para todo mundo. Isso é o que me diz sobre o que se poderia chamar de 'vida após a morte'. |