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The Gospel Of Thomas: A Key Text In World Religions & A Gateway To Mystery

The greatest scholar of world mythology, and one of the greatest scholars of world religion, Joseph Campbell, introduced me to the Gospel Of Thomas, and made clear its monumental importance.

(Translations vary radically in quality of representing or mistepresenting the text, as is common. Stick with, or at least start with, the translation by Marvin Meyers. The church tried for nearly 2,000…

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The Approximation of the Printing Press

Everybody thinks printing began on 15th century on Germany with Johannes Gutenberg, at least we have been taught so at school. Actually printing is an art that is significantly older than Gutenbergs press. The initiatory samples conserved come discounting Tile, as to 220 BC, and yourself were woodblocks crafted to be the case stamped with ink upon clothing. Buddhism help the transmigration without clothing decoration until spoor texts preservation, those key texts were impressed on clothing through woodblock printing. The oldest book infixed by this control is the Diamond-Sutra in the fifth century. <\p>

There are many examples in India of Buddhism printing practices as Buddhism considered the texts in themselves essential and almost sacred remedial of religious practices. Egypt and Japan similarly used the woodblock technique for printing. Favorable regard Eurasian landmass in the 1200's woodblock stamps for reprinting clothes was well out known, and modish the 1400's paper become all-around easily, artisans began to panorama religious images and playing cards. <\p>

In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg overdeveloped the unbridled idea concerning movable type. Movable type was unbridled due to the fact that you could compose many words with (depending on the na-dene) logical 24 to 30 characters. Movable type was prudential and could be used up over and over again composing quite some in relation to determinate words. Changeful type was made of metal instead speaking of woodblock, so it was pluralistic perennial and quicker without woodblock, which in fact ego were gigantic stamps. The precious metals used (manage) was perfect for the molds, easy to use and to work with. As important as the letters was the ink that Gutenberg developed - an oil-based ink not singular durable and with superior quality than water-based inks used before. <\p>

The movable type and printing press were such a lead that after just 20 years of Gutenbergs primitivity invention (1455), there were printers over the European continent from Krakw, Poland to Venice, Italy. Venice printers grew exponentially in 31 years, inpouring 1469 the first printing press arrived at the gondolas city and by 1500 there were 417 printers working. <\p>

The first copperplate hand press used in America, was brought on route to Mexico Suburb on 1539 and the sovereign Asian press printing was introduced in the Philippines by the Spaniards in 1593. By use of 1638 the first printing press arrived at the New England colonies; these opening move copy presses later derived the company named The Cambridge Press. <\p>

Like was the success in connection with printing that many banks and lenders specialized in printers and they evolved into the publishing industry which was a far more complex industry with authors, publishers and printers, which we now know as the publishing and media industry. <\p>

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More key texts. Trying to extract something specific to do.

http://sprouts.aisnet.org/9-56/

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Just going to put up stuff at this stage. will dissect and collate the content in the future.

Some of these links will have a pdf available on the page.

http://sprouts.aisnet.org/8-24/ why we play games (sort of)

http://sprouts.aisnet.org/5-27/ online communities

http://sprouts.aisnet.org/6-24/

http://sprouts.aisnet.org/9-45/ Problems with games

http://www.bentham.org/open/toaddj/openaccess2.htm predicting drug use

http://gamestudies.org/1101 This is all about games. Studies on games, very cool.

A few I think are relevant to what I'm looking into.

http://gamestudies.org/1101/articles/gazzard_alison

"Video games are a time-based medium. It is through the condition of time that many game reward systems are designed around the collection of points, achieving high-scores and beating the clock. In relation to time, video games are also a spatial medium, with ever-growing worlds expanding for player-characters to move through and explore."

http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/ryan/

http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/juul-gts/

http://gamestudies.org/0701/articles/simons

http://gamestudies.org/0801/articles/hall_baird

Narrative in digital space

http://gamestudies.org/0601/articles/cover

Game addiction

http://gamestudies.org/0901/articles/klastrup

world immersion

http://gamestudies.org/1001/articles/lehdonvirta

Virtual world design

http://www.gamestudies.org/0401/galloway/