Archive for February, 2009
February 24th, 2009 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
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 ...
February 22nd, 2009 / Books, Critical Thought, Power of Now, Psychology /
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 ...
February 16th, 2009 / Books, Critical Thought, Power of Now, Psychology /
Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...
February 15th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Science /
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
February 11th, 2009 / Psychology, Society, Stupid Things /
The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...
February 8th, 2009 / Atheism, Marketing, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
February 7th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Psychology, Science /
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
February 6th, 2009 / Atheism, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
February 5th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Energy Transition, Newswire /
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 ...
February 4th, 2009 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
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 ...
February 1st, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
Climate-induced drought. Deadly heat waves. Overfishing. 400,000 annual premature deaths from coal-soot in China (US ...