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Ship of Fools was founded and is edited by Simon Jenkins (editor) and Stephen Goddard (co-editor). Jenkins is an author, designer and cartoonist from London (not to be confused with Sir Simon Jenkins, former Editor of The Times and author of England's Thousand Best Churches).
Occasional hearing is the practice of attending worship services or preaching by ministers of denominations other than one's own. Historically, the practice has been resisted and is even a matter of church discipline among churches that study confessional integrity.
The text describes a fictitious sea voyage of 112 fools, each representing a certain type of human misconduct, to the promised land of “Narragonia.” The succession of fools is led by the foolish reader: convinced of his learning, he is engaged in chasing away the flies buzzing around his desk piled with books, but he does not open the books ...
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The ship of fools, 1549 German woodcut illustration for Brant's book. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: . Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better.
To rid themselves of the aliens, Nikos and a few other trusted crewmen will remain aboard the ship and conduct a random jump out of the galaxy, possibly out of the universe, thereby taking the alien vessel with them. The plan is put into action and while the alien vessel struggles to free itself from the Argonos, the two star-ships are soon gone.
Thus, in his book Ship of Fools he evaluates critically the scientific merit – or the lack of it – of theories presented by Emma Byrne about swearing, Yuval Harari about human history, Rene Girard about mimetic causation of violence, William Arens about his denial of human cannibalism, and Noam Chomsky about universal grammar in language ...
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