Archive for October, 2006
October 31st, 2006 / Critical Thought, Religion /
It seems kind of trite, but this was the first 'challenge' to my faith when I was a child. An older kid asked me if I thought god could do ...
October 30th, 2006 / Admin /
I just found out I've been getting a lot of traffic from the 52nd weekly "Carnival of the Godless" over at SkepticRant. This is the Halloween issue. I heard ...
October 27th, 2006 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Music /
So I had a little time while I was packing. I guiltily grabbed my headphones to listen to the prohibited music, all in the name of research, of course ;-) ...
October 26th, 2006 / Religion /
Two disturbing stories from the last 24 hours. Both the result of religious extremism. The first, a new law outlawing all abortions in Nicaragua, even when the mother's life is ...
October 25th, 2006 / Religion /
The one 'ace in the hole' religions have is their continued success at keeping the discussion off the table. The notion of "respect" for beliefs, no matter how absurd, is ...
October 24th, 2006 / Film /
Announcer: You have a very special purpose in life. You've been chosen. The Island awaits you.
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Clone: "Who's God?"
Steve Buscemi: "When you close your eyes, and you wish really, really hard ...
October 22nd, 2006 / Psychology /
In the weeks before her death, Wilkins had become obsessed with the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. She had also stopped grooming herself, and had begun taking ...
October 21st, 2006 / Religion Inspired Murders /
Jeffrey Lundgren used the bible to justify slaughtering a family of five in a pit in 1989. Now he is trying to ...
October 20th, 2006 / Religion /
Thanks to Goose for this one!
October 18th, 2006 / Current Affairs, Religion /
October 18th, 2006 / Current Affairs, Religion /
This image here of followers of communist thug Kim Jong Il demonstrates what I have said all along: The personality cults of dictators are state religions. Case closed. These people ...
October 16th, 2006 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Music /
A friend sent me this song, by a band called OSI, a Dream Theater side project. The group sampled a recording made by my mom Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in which ...
October 11th, 2006 / Critical Thought /
It's an exciting time. What's key to the success of these endeavors is the feedback mechanism. Humans are finally waking up to the fact that while popularity is no ...
October 10th, 2006 / Critical Thought, Religion /
A brilliant post by Alan Perlman at American Chronicle.
October 7th, 2006 / Religion /
Aaron Kinney of Kill the Afterlife started a very worthy discussion on his blog, with a link to this article, in which Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar ...
October 5th, 2006 / Religion /
Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has been taking online questions about Ramadan on his website. Let's put aside for a minute the absurdity and health risks of fasting (without ...
October 4th, 2006 / Newswire, Religion /
MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir sees erotic shows on TV as "more dangerous than the Bali bombs". Ba'asyir, who was released from ...
October 3rd, 2006 / Religion /
"We think it was God's plan and we're going to have to pick up the pieces and keep going,"
"A funeral to us is a much more important thing than ...
October 2nd, 2006 / Science /
To those who say matter and physical life has no meaning and does not inspire awe: Watch this video of human cellular processes in action. The wonder of life is ...
October 2nd, 2006 / Current Affairs /
Arnold signed a bill making it illegal in California to hold your cell-phone while talking. (But you can still play with your ipod, tune the radio, eat, look at ...
October 1st, 2006 / Books /
I've been tagged by olly over at 10,000 Reasons to Doubt the Fish. So here is my book list:
1. A book that changed your lifeThere were two, ...