If you have not read jean-paul sartre's play NO EXIT you should pick up a copy and check it out.  It is his existential thought vented through a ficticious selection of well thought out characters.  The plot line is solid and being sartre, full of real world meaning and philosophy.  The setting is 3 seemingly normal…

These mummy finds are offering clues to ancient disease, some of which were ancient alone, others surprisingly modern.

A famous study purported to show that eroding a belief free-will made people more likely to cheat. Now, a new study has…

think of the state of boredom

in which 45% of americans exist,

wherein they believe their lives are

exciting enough

to have “ghosts” visit them from

“beyond”…

understand that the demonologist

has read all the works of fiction &

uses them to “combat” the “specters”

that are conjured up in the heads of these

bored

bored

bored

americans.

just like in the MOVIE

created…

hollow is the story of “jesus”---

hollow

like the stamp with which it was printed,

hollow as these other mythical hero

archetypes,

which all bear a supernatural birth,

which all bear the hunting of said hero

as an infant, with an exciting & dramatic

subsequent getaway,

which all bear the entertaining magic tricks during

the hero’s youth,

which all bear the blind adoration, devotion &

worship that…

Zerubbabel and the Temple

Haggai 1:1 to 2:23



1:1 The word of the Lord as imagined by the prophet Haggai, chief bottle washer and overpaid yes-man to The Mighty Zerubbabel, Prince of Persia, in the province of Judah (rural delivery).



2:3 Some people are saying that it is…

I grew up in a very traditional catholic family, and saying that still feels like an understatement as to how traditional catholic my family was. My parents have not changed from when I was young, although I have and for a long time they had no idea. This isn't strange, because I'm not close with my parents, and I always got the feeling they didn't really know me. I was the twelfth child, after all, and I wasn't even the youngest. By the time my parents had few enough children living at home…

I have always been a humanist, really. But it’s only recently that I've made the effort to ‘get involved’ with humanism more actively.

At my secondary school I now run an ‘Asking Questions Club’ – “a space to discuss, with rationality, empiricism, and all-round critical thinking in mind”, reads the poster, “absolutely everyone welcome” – which has been going well.

More and more, I am also making the effort to attend lectures, talks,…

forget the fact that the

“prophecies”

written in the “old testament”

just happen to be

“fulfilled”

in the “new testament,”

because the writers of the

“second book”

read the first one &

just created a character that

would follow suit,

like a badly written sequel

to a b-movie.

but for those who believe that

the fiction is true,

this week brings…

have you ever talked to someone who not only thinks theyre smart, but talks condescendingly to people as well?  So not only are they false in what theyre saying, they take the stance of an dik and talk down to you as if YOURE the idiot!  Ive seen this phenomenon more and more lately here in Toledo, Ohio and im quite at a loss as to the cause of it.  Im reasonably well educated and articulate, can hold my own in a debate and pour a mean drink behind the bar.  But more and more i feel…

http://brainhulklogicsmash.blogspot.com/2013/03/forgiveness-more-like-blackmail.html

Well, well, well... Billy Graham delivers yet more entertainment yet again. Lets take a look at his flawless delivery of yet more terrible advice...

With God's help, we can forgive

-Billy…

    I live in Indiana, and have all my life, in a town no bigger than a postage stamp, but somehow has four churches. I have never attended church, and I have not read the Bible as a whole, despite efforts over the years. I was raised by a pair of people that didn't fit in with other people in the community, let alone belong together.

     My mother is a self-proclaimed…

A new study has it that the deepest point of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, is teeming with microbes.

Phil Plait responds to a stupid piece at The Mail on Sunday alleging that climate change has stopped. Has it? Nope. A source for The…

Day of the Lord

Zephaniah 1:1 to 3:20



1:1 The word of the Lord which dawned on Zephaniah, who was the son of somebody, who was the son of somebody, who was the son of somebody.



God says he will come and utterly eat everything. A day is coming, a bad day, a real bad day. The Lord's…

long haired white guys,

from

Koresh to

Vissarion,

to

AJ Miller---

these cult leaders all

“look like “jesus,”

according to many.

in fact,

all one has to do is

look like the pictures of

this fictional character,

in order to start his own

cult.

the desperate & empty will flock

to the fluffy haired scruffy faced,

and these are the idiots

driving…

So I'm not really sure why I suddenly want to write this, but I do, so... here it goes...

First, some background.

I was fortunate enough to be raised by two of the most tolerant and considerate parents I've ever met. My mom was raised Catholic in French Canada, and my dad became Jewish during college, when he met his first wife. When he met my mom, he already had two kids, 7 and 3, who had been raised so…

The other day, I got a question from a friend...

"Did you really say that you 'respect people too much to respect their beliefs', or something?"

So here's how that went (more or less):

"I did, yes. Kind of." I replied, grinning. "It's a quote from a guy called Johann Hari actually; 'I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs' is what he said, I…