For Star Trek TNG fans, the phrase “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra” is meaningful. To them, it rekindles their memory of a television episode that explored language and communication. In it, the Enterprise crew encountered an alien species- the Tamarians- for which their universal translator did not work. The problem was that the Tamarians’ languageContinue reading “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra: Vayishlach’s Biblical Literacy Moment”
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A 2003, Book That Tells Us “Almost” Everything
We all see the sausage. We are all quite aware that the sausage’s making and contents are daunting. Yet, we don’t understand why we got the sausage. Presently, people are keenly aware that schools, businesses, and government act bizarrely and irrationally. People are well aware that they are being manipulated. They cannot, however, penetrate theContinue reading “A 2003, Book That Tells Us “Almost” Everything”
