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	Types of amber
		Beckerite is also found with Baltic amber, though nicknamed "brown resin".
		Stantienite resembles beckerite in color but due to complete opacity it is termed "fl resin".
		These two types of amber are named for Becker and Stantien, two developers of amber dredging and mining operations in the Samland region in the 1800s.
	www.emporia.edu /earthsci/amber/types.htm (784 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Amber Forever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It goes slowly, he says, because amber is a rather delicate substance that must be handled gently, particularly gedanite and schranfite, the reddish resin which occurs in the cretaceous rocks of Lebanon; it tends to crack under even fairly light pressure.
		Other kinds - the brownish fl amber called stantienite, the earthy brown "rare" amber, known as beckerite, the almost opaque glessite, and the fossil resin allingite - all tend to be harder.
		Lebanese amber varies from pale yellow to dark red in color, and in some samples there is evidence of the amber flowing after insects have been trapped in it.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198106/amber.forever.htm (2160 words)

	Briefly about amber
		Their origin is associated with particular tree species (also deciduous), or geochemical conditions.
		These resins are: yellow transparent gedanite, brown beckerite, fl stantienite, variously coloured forms of glessite and gedano-succinite, very similar to amber; white, opaque goitschite, dirty white siegburgite and the so called fl amber.
		Besides, search for amber on Baltic beaches or fishing for it in the sea provide collectors with lumps of subfossil resins such as colophony, and recent resins.
	www.hermuz.hu /engweb/nws/amber2.htm (2769 words)

	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Philosophy
		Let it not be said that Georges is an ideal diplomat to the theistic community.
		Whereas understanding the tormented Christian, the questing agnostic, the atheist who takes a gamble on God and the Catholic who commits suicide — the stock-in-trade of Greene’s great novels, in other words — requires an imaginative leap into religious experience that an atheistic critic is often ill-equipped to make.
		The Orwell’s astonishing bit of obtuseness (”obtusity”?) is the core of Georges’ point (6) and my little Beckerite addendum.
	www.willwilkinson.net /flybottle/category/philosophy/page/2 (1720 words)

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		What Leifer offers, though, is perhaps the most insightful account yet of a psychologized Buddhism purged of the supernatural and distilled into a wisdom that speaks very directly to the fundamental problems of our times.
		I have restricted myself to summarizing the lecture because, as another Buddhist Beckerite, I want to underscore its message.
		I've already made several copies of the tape for Buddhist friends of mine.
	faculty.washington.edu /nelgee/newsltr/2000/1100/d_loy.htm (751 words)

	Types of amber, copal and resin.
		This variety of amber is also extremely friable when compared to other varieties.
		A resin originating within the coal mines of Saxony it is excessively soft and unworkable.
		In many ways similar to Beckerite and similarly found within the major Baltic deposits.
	www.gplatt.demon.co.uk /typesof.htm (3090 words)

	Baltic Amber Jewelry Gemstone Fossil Resin Amber Precious Stone ExcelsiorPlanet.org
		Amber jewelry was even found in tombs form Mycenaean Greece.
		Succinite is the most common type of amber, but there are a lot of other varieties: gedanite, stantienite, beckerite, glessite, krantzite, allignite, roumanite, simetite, burmite.
		All of these types have common features, but they are indeed different through composition, color and texture.
	www.excelsiorplanet.org /index-13.html (841 words)

	Ben Kepple: De asini umbra disceptare
		The first entry in this whole debate comes from Will Wilkinson, who writes in part:
		In a fit of Beckerite rational choice reasoning, I decided that theists ought to have higher rates of death by accident.
		If I believe that heaven is infinite bliss, then I should be quite eager to join my maker...
	www.benkepple.com /archives/000555.html (651 words)

	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle: Meta-atheism, Death by Accident, and the Mysteries of Religious Experience
		Whereas understanding the tormented Christian, the questing agnostic, the atheist who takes a gamble on God and the Catholic who commits suicide -- the stock-in-trade of Greene's great novels, in other words -- requires an imaginative leap into religious experience that an atheistic critic is often ill-equipped to make.
		Am I? Well, let's concede the possibility of weakness of will.
		Will Wilkinson has some interesting thoughts on how the behaviour of soi-disant theists implies an (unacknowledged) atheism: In a fit of Beckerite rational choice reasoning, I decided that theists ought to have higher rates of death by accident.
	www.willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2005/02/metaatheism_dea.html (4526 words)

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