Today I was going to write about creating religions. But for some reason I fell into a mental funk of some sort, a kind of
gray-out and nothing emerged. So I suppose it will have to wait until a better time.
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WORD FOR TODAY
gullible
Adjective
Easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.
Synonyms
credulous - naive - trustful
Wikipedia says -- Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence. Classes of people especially vulnerable to exploitation due to gullibility include children, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled.
A popular test of gullibility is to tell a friend that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary; a gullible person might respond "Really?" and go to look it up.
Born Dec. 23, 1805
Died June 27, 1844
Joseph Smith, Jr. was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, the predominant branch of which is Mormonism. At age twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon, and in the next fourteen years he attracted thousands of followers, established cities and temples, and created a lasting religious culture.
Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, and by 1817 had moved with his family to the burned-over district of western New York, an area repeatedly swept by religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening. The Smiths believed in visions and prophecies, and participated in folk religious practices typical of the era. According to Smith, beginning in the early 1820s he had visions, in one of which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of ancient American civilizations. In 1830, he published what he said was an English translation of these plates as the Book of Mormon and organized the Church of Christ as a restoration of the early Christian church. Church members were later called Latter Day Saints, Saints, or Mormons.
Tarring and Feathering of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith and the Mormon Church.
Born Dec 23, 1952
Age: 59 years old
William Kristol is an American neoconservative political analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine
The Weekly Standard and a regular commentator on the
Fox News Channel.
Kristol is associated with a number of prominent conservative think tanks. He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, he co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan. He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List.
Born Dec 23, 1946
Age: 65 years old
Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress, television host, author and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama
All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. As early as 1991, her salary had been reported as over $1 million a year.
In 1996, TV Guide ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. In 2005, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2006. She was named one of VH1’s 200 Top Icons of All-Time and one of Barbara Walters’s Ten Most Fascinating People. She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies, hosted many shows and guest starred on television comedy series, including
Saturday Night Live and
Hot in Cleveland. She also has her own line of hair care products, perfumes, lingerie and skin care, called The Susan Lucci Collection. Lucci was cast as Genevieve Delacourt in the upcoming Lifetime television series
Devious Maids, set to air in 2013.
Born Dec. 23, 1918
Died: Dec 31, 2000
Jose Greco was a flamenco dancer and choreographer. He was born in Italy of Italian parents bot was raised in New York City from the time he was 10 years old. He began dancing in Brooklyn with his sister Norina at a young age.
Greco appeared in a number of films, including
Sombrero (1953),
Around the World in 80 Days (1956),
Holiday for Lovers (1959),
Ship of Fools (1965), and
The Proud and the Damned (1972).
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“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
--G.K. Chesterton
