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A Good Man is Hard to Find
by John Bilodeau
a 20 minutes conversation between two robots about John Bilodeau's 2010 doctoral dissertation on secrecy and heresy in medieval southern France. from the intro to the diss: "This work is about the dangerous power of secrecy and suspicion. The idea of hidden truths appeals to those dissatisfied with appearances and superficial resemblances. Critical minds, trained to examine topics according to rigorous standards can not only find failures, but can hypothesize about the reasons for those failures. The truly secret can only survive behind a flawless facade of normalcy. In the area of religious information, the power of secrecy is even greater, if only because the religious sphere, in the historical context we will examine in this work, expresses some of the more important and sensitive concerns of people's lives, and provides a meaningful story about their community, its relation to other communities, and its larger significance in the cosmos. In the lands of Languedoc i
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a 20 minutes conversation between two robots about John Bilodeau's 2010 doctoral dissertation on secrecy and heresy in medieval southern France. from the intro to the diss: "This work is about the dangerous power of secrecy and suspicion. The idea of hidden truths appeals to those dissatisfied with appearances and superficial resemblances. Critical minds, trained to examine topics according to rigorous standards can not only find failures, but can hypothesize about the reasons for those failures. The truly secret can only survive behind a flawless facade of normalcy. In the area of religious information, the power of secrecy is even greater, if only because the religious sphere, in the historical context we will examine in this work, expresses some of the more important and sensitive concerns of people's lives, and provides a meaningful story about their community, its relation to other communities, and its larger significance in the cosmos. In the lands of Languedoc i
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