<p class="p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b>Zoom</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">    </span></span><b>Our main FUUSM Zoom Link is the one we use for Sunday Services<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">(and other meetings & gatherings).</p><p class="p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09">https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09</a></p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323</p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The Sunday Service is also streamed live to Facebook, and you can find it there later as a video.</p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">First U.U. Society of Marietta</p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">MLK Sunday - January 17, 2021</p><p class="p2" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><i>Restoring Ruins of Generations</i></p><p class="p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">-Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker</p><p class="p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:23px"><i></i><br></p><p class="p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><i>Do the best you can. And when you know better, do better. </i><span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">-Maya Angelou </span></p><p class="p5" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 36px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:13px"><i></i><br></p><p class="p6" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 36px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:17px"><i></i><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Prelude<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span></b><i>Lift Every Voice and Sing - </i><span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">sung by Alicia Keys</span></p><p class="p8" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><i></i><br></p><p class="p9" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><b>Welcome<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-converted-space">      </span></b></span>Peg Clifford, Worship Associate</p><p class="p8" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Opening Music<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></b><i>More Love to Thee<span class="Apple-converted-space">    </span></i><span class="s3" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal">-William H. Doane <span class="Apple-converted-space">   <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>         </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">Randall Kidder, Pianist<b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p12" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47)"><span class="s5" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Chalice Lighting</b></span><span class="s6" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></span><i>An Introduction to St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></p><p class="p13" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47)"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>Luther’s German Bible of 1522 by Martin Luther, 1483-1546</p><p class="p13" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47)"><i>Saving faith is a living, creative, active and powerful thing</i></p><p class="p13" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47)"><i>Faith cannot help doing good works constantly…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></p><p class="p13" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47)"><b><i>It is just as impossible to separate faith and works<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b></p><p class="p13" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47)"><b><i>as it is to separate heat and light from fire!</i></b></p><p class="p14" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 36px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:16px"><i></i><br></p><p class="p15" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(35,35,30)"><span class="s7" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Readings<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span></b></span><span class="s8">excerpt from</span><span class="s9" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:24px;line-height:normal"> </span><span class="s10" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><i>The Cure at Troy</i></span><span class="s11" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><i>  </i></span><span class="s8"><i> </i>by Seamus Heaney</span></p><p class="p16" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(35,35,30)">[ Biden/Harris ]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span></p><p class="p17" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s12" style="color:rgb(35,35,30)"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><i>The Rhythm of Time</i></span><span class="s13" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></i></span>-by Bobby Sands (1954- May 5, 1981)</p><p class="p18" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:12px"><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Hymn #121</b><span class="s4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></i></span><i>We’ll Build a Land<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>-</i><span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">B. Zanotti & Carolyn McDade</span></p><p class="p19" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s14" style="text-decoration-line:underline">Singing the Living Tradition</span></p><p class="p20" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="p20" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Reflection</b><span class="s4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></span><i>Restoring Ruins of Generations<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span></i><span class="s4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space">              </span></i>Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker</span></p><p class="p20" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Hymn #169</b><span class="s4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span></i></span><i>We Shall Overcome <span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></i><span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">African American spiritual</span></p><p class="p21" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(35,35,30)"><span class="s14" style="text-decoration-line:underline">Singing the Living Tradition</span></p><p class="p22" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:19px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Joys & Sorrows</b></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Announcements</b></p><p class="p11" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Postlude</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><i>I Have a Dream</i><span class="Apple-converted-space">    </span><span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">by Common</span></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Breakout Rooms</b></p><p class="p11" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s15" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;text-decoration-line:underline"><b>QUIZ in the Chat  </b></span>(focus for Breakout Rooms or</p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">What insights have been meaningful in your efforts to be anti-racist?)</p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Was MLK a Trekkie? </b></p><p class="p23" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:11px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">What was his theme for the Ware Lecture<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">at the UUA General Assembly in 1966?</p><p class="p23" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:11px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Who killed Dr. King?</b></p><p class="p8" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">What might have happened if MLK had been shot in the leg,</p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">and ended up with a limp?</p><p class="p23" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:11px"><br></p><p class="p10" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s16" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">Engraved on the south wall of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memorial in Washington D.C. is his quote: </span><span class="s8"><i>I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.</i></span></p><p class="p8" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p24" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s14" style="text-decoration-line:underline"><b>READINGS & RESOURCES</b></span></p><p class="p25" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Definition of Faith</b><span class="s4" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> - Martin Luther</span></p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><b>Antinomians</b> </span>- (Greek) rejects laws or legalism. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Obedience to the law from internal belief, NOT external compulsion.</p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Considered a heresy - Antinomianism Controversy Mass. Bay Colony. (1636 -1638)</p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Anne Hutchinson</p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal">Anabaptists of the Radical Reformation</span> -<span class="Apple-converted-space">  <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Forebearers of Transcendentalists?</p><p class="p20" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(26,37,47);min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>How do we know what we know? </b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="s2" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal">Epistemology</span><span class="s17" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal">-<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></span>the theory of knowledge, with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.<span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></p><p class="p26" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.</p><p class="p28" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,27);min-height:15px"><br></p><p class="p29" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(24,25,27);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Black Swan Event</b></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The term is based on an ancient saying that presumed black swans did not exist-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">which became reinterpreted to teach a different lesson<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">after the first European encounter with them in Australia.</p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>An event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact.</b></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The psychological biases that blind people, both individually and collectively,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">to uncertainty and to a rare event’s massive role in historical affairs.</p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The importance of the metaphor lies in its analogy to the <b>fragility of any system of thought.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> Conclusions are potentially undone once any postulate is disproved.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">excerpt from<span class="s18" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:24px;line-height:normal"><b> </b></span><span class="s19" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;text-decoration-line:underline"><b><i>The Cure at Troy</i></b></span><span class="s20" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal"><b><i>   </i></b></span>by Seamus Heaney</p><p class="p31" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:18px"><b></b><br></p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Human beings suffer,</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">They torture one another,</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">They get hurt and get hard.</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">No poem or play or song</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Can fully right a wrong</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Inflicted and endured</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">…</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">History says, don<span class="s21" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"">’</span>t hope</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">On this side of the grave.</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">But then, once in a lifetime</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">The longed-for tidal wave</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Of justice can rise up,</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">And hope and history rhyme.</p><p class="p32" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:14px"><br></p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">So hope for a great sea-change</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">On the far side of revenge.</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Believe that further shore</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Is reachable from here.</p><p class="p33" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Believe in miracle</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">And cures and healing wells.</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Call miracle self-healing:</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">The utter, self-revealing</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Double-take of feeling.</p><p class="p33" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">If there<span class="s21" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"">’</span>s fire on the mountain</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">Or lightning and storm</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">And a god speaks from the sky</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">That means someone is hearing</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">The outcry and the birth-cry</p><p class="p30" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30)">of new life at its term.</p><p class="p33" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p33" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p33" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p33" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,30);min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p8" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p8" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:16px"><br></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">excerpt from <span class="s22" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;text-decoration-line:underline"><i>The Rhythm of Time</i></span><span class="s13" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></i></span>-by Bobby Sands <span class="s1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal">(March 9, 1954- May 5, 1981)</span></p><p class="p7" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Irish hunger striker and election winner,<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">* * *</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It is found in every light of hope,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It knows no bounds nor space</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It has risen in red and black and white,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It is there in every race.</p><p class="p34" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:18px"><br></p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It screams in tyrants’ eyes,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It has reached the peak of mountains high,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It comes searing ‘cross the skies.</p><p class="p34" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";min-height:18px"><br></p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It lights the dark of this prison cell,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It thunders forth its might,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,</p><p class="p27" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">That thought that says ‘I’m right!’</p>