Archive for February, 2009
Beheading is Not “Domestic Violence”
From the "elephant in the room" department comes this little item: As I'm sure you've all heard by now, a Muslim TV executive who had started a network to "counter ...
Debunking The Power of Now: The Greatest Obstacle
Chapter 1: You are not Your Mind
Subhead: The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment pp. 11-16
Tolle encourages "finding the gold inside yourself." It's ...
Debunking The Power of Now: Introduction
Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...
The Brain, Engine of Creativity
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
Sanctuary in the Skies
The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...
The Atheist Bus Sides
Religion has never needed much prodding to demonstrate its hypocrisy. It's almost a weekly perp-walk of the clergy across the world stage with their sexual indiscretions. Then there's the lying ...
So, How Thirsty Are You?
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
New-Age ‘Spiritual Living’ Confusion
Wow, I shouldn't be surprised any more, but I always am. It seems the new-agers take the same apologetics used by religion, then add on top their notions of universal ...
Conspiracies and Climate Change
I received an email taking me to task for comparing the 9/11 truthers with climate change deniers. The correspondent claimed that while climate science was solid, the 9/11 truthers might ...
Rape, then Martyrdom: Gifts of Islam
Iraqi woman had 80 women raped then recruited as suicide bombers
A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she ...
Only the Pyromaniacs Oppose Sustainability
Climate-induced drought. Deadly heat waves. Overfishing. 400,000 annual premature deaths from coal-soot in China (US ...