Low-level anxiety, procrastination, jittery energy useless for humdrum work, bad overall energy levels if you consume alot of strong coffee, painful wakeup in the morning, adrenalised brain geared to snap decisions…
Marsha Hunt, actress now aged 102, on her family: "I lucked into the most fortuitous, warm, constructive kind of family context imaginable. My father was a top scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa. My mother was a voice coach and…
The Middle-East was actually pretty Ok until the secular West decided to interfere and upset the balance of powers. As for harm more generally, historically religious wars are at 7% of the total. But it's also arguable…
I live among Christians and we're pretty happy. The only atheist is also the one screw-up and his life is a mess. Statistically, Christians live longer than non-believers.
Depends what version of Christianity you're thinking of. After all, the inventor of the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest (top physicist first), and the father of modern genetics was a Catholic monk (biologist…
"The power of this disquieting portrait of divinity—a persona unseeing, all-knowing, eternal, pitiless." I agree. Completely the opposite of the 'suffering god' of pure self-giving love, dying by torture at the hands of…
That painting is a mockery of who it purports to represent. It's very well done.
MySql is the PHP of databases. Easy to get in to, but soon becomes a mire of pitfalls, exceptions, ambiguities etc. PHP introduced me to the mindblow of having to use a lookup table to work out what the equality…
Why is there no Christian god? Where does the 'absolute not' come from? I ask that for two reasons: scientist Christians clergyman invented the Big Bang theory AND are at the root of evolutionary theory. That is a most…
How was what I wrote a 'flamewar'? And especially in the context of the anti-religious views that elsewhere were not flagged nor called flamewars. What's your agenda, Dang? Politics, religion, philosophy, these are…
Yet I spelled out that much of Christianity (at least; if not other religions) have no issue with the fundamental scientific claims that are said to disprove religious claims. That the Big Bang, 14 billion years, and…
You mean you suppose it to be imaginary. The example isn't the same as religious claims. Firstly because all religious people claim that the 'invisible' friend will talk back if you make the effort to make contact (with…
cannoneshamster: "Your post is full of strawmen and logical fallacies." You've made a lot of assertions about my 'logical fallacies' without any reasoned demonstration. How am I meant to argue with that? Meanwhile,…
"Nope. A-theist simply means someone who lacks theism." Actually it was coined by theists without a strict reference to the greek and was defined as "To Deny the gods/God". Lately, the OED modified the definition to "To…
A great deal of speculation in that article. Sounds more like psycotherapy ideas than real psychology/neuroscience. Meanwhile, let's look at the (paraphrased) claims: "Science is not compatible with religion." Yet the…
Veganism unavoidably implies a moral superiority where vegetarianism doesn't. That's pretty irritating. It also just doesn't mesh with most people's understanding of simple animals as simple and food-driven, not in any…
This is only an issue because Donald Trump is misrepresented as being racist and anti-immigration when he has only talked of illegal immigration and the problem of Islamic migrants (ie, the Islamic version of democracy…
The gender gap is an IQ spread difference. Search "iq sexes" and look at the graphs. The average is the same (in most studies), but there are far more extremely dumb males and far more extremely intelligent males than…
Before anyone goes vegan, check-out the numerous ex-vegan videos on youtube. Even with supplementation veganism isn't sustainable for most people past 3 years, 10 if you're lucky, very few get to 15. Just keep in mind…
The wonderfully mad thing about UK politics is that the socialists are very much against the EU and for leaving, but their nominally socialist party, the Labour Party, is Remainer while their leader is a capitulating…
"As long as everyone gets the same voucher, same amount for voucher, and has guaranteed public transportation to the same schools as others, with no regard for race, ethnicity, background, then sure go for vouchers....…
A healthy capitalism is expressed by G K Chesterton, and is an argument against liberal capitalism,which even Thatcher did not support: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”…
...or trust the government with the education of your children. As much as the Left sneer at it, a voucher system would give people the liberty to choose the schools they want and not what they are forced to accept.…
It's quite incredible how progressives defend Islam. The self-deceiving needed is pathological. They are teetering on the edge of insanity. As a religious person I would prefer an Islamic take-over to an atheistic State…
I heard Fred Hoyle when he came to lecture at my school in the 80s (a prestigious, rich boys school). It was one of the few places willing to give him the time as his views were vaguely in line with Christian…
Low-level anxiety, procrastination, jittery energy useless for humdrum work, bad overall energy levels if you consume alot of strong coffee, painful wakeup in the morning, adrenalised brain geared to snap decisions…
Marsha Hunt, actress now aged 102, on her family: "I lucked into the most fortuitous, warm, constructive kind of family context imaginable. My father was a top scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa. My mother was a voice coach and…
The Middle-East was actually pretty Ok until the secular West decided to interfere and upset the balance of powers. As for harm more generally, historically religious wars are at 7% of the total. But it's also arguable…
I live among Christians and we're pretty happy. The only atheist is also the one screw-up and his life is a mess. Statistically, Christians live longer than non-believers.
Depends what version of Christianity you're thinking of. After all, the inventor of the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest (top physicist first), and the father of modern genetics was a Catholic monk (biologist…
"The power of this disquieting portrait of divinity—a persona unseeing, all-knowing, eternal, pitiless." I agree. Completely the opposite of the 'suffering god' of pure self-giving love, dying by torture at the hands of…
That painting is a mockery of who it purports to represent. It's very well done.
MySql is the PHP of databases. Easy to get in to, but soon becomes a mire of pitfalls, exceptions, ambiguities etc. PHP introduced me to the mindblow of having to use a lookup table to work out what the equality…
Why is there no Christian god? Where does the 'absolute not' come from? I ask that for two reasons: scientist Christians clergyman invented the Big Bang theory AND are at the root of evolutionary theory. That is a most…
How was what I wrote a 'flamewar'? And especially in the context of the anti-religious views that elsewhere were not flagged nor called flamewars. What's your agenda, Dang? Politics, religion, philosophy, these are…
Yet I spelled out that much of Christianity (at least; if not other religions) have no issue with the fundamental scientific claims that are said to disprove religious claims. That the Big Bang, 14 billion years, and…
You mean you suppose it to be imaginary. The example isn't the same as religious claims. Firstly because all religious people claim that the 'invisible' friend will talk back if you make the effort to make contact (with…
cannoneshamster: "Your post is full of strawmen and logical fallacies." You've made a lot of assertions about my 'logical fallacies' without any reasoned demonstration. How am I meant to argue with that? Meanwhile,…
"Nope. A-theist simply means someone who lacks theism." Actually it was coined by theists without a strict reference to the greek and was defined as "To Deny the gods/God". Lately, the OED modified the definition to "To…
A great deal of speculation in that article. Sounds more like psycotherapy ideas than real psychology/neuroscience. Meanwhile, let's look at the (paraphrased) claims: "Science is not compatible with religion." Yet the…
Veganism unavoidably implies a moral superiority where vegetarianism doesn't. That's pretty irritating. It also just doesn't mesh with most people's understanding of simple animals as simple and food-driven, not in any…
This is only an issue because Donald Trump is misrepresented as being racist and anti-immigration when he has only talked of illegal immigration and the problem of Islamic migrants (ie, the Islamic version of democracy…
The gender gap is an IQ spread difference. Search "iq sexes" and look at the graphs. The average is the same (in most studies), but there are far more extremely dumb males and far more extremely intelligent males than…
Before anyone goes vegan, check-out the numerous ex-vegan videos on youtube. Even with supplementation veganism isn't sustainable for most people past 3 years, 10 if you're lucky, very few get to 15. Just keep in mind…
The wonderfully mad thing about UK politics is that the socialists are very much against the EU and for leaving, but their nominally socialist party, the Labour Party, is Remainer while their leader is a capitulating…
"As long as everyone gets the same voucher, same amount for voucher, and has guaranteed public transportation to the same schools as others, with no regard for race, ethnicity, background, then sure go for vouchers....…
A healthy capitalism is expressed by G K Chesterton, and is an argument against liberal capitalism,which even Thatcher did not support: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”…
...or trust the government with the education of your children. As much as the Left sneer at it, a voucher system would give people the liberty to choose the schools they want and not what they are forced to accept.…
It's quite incredible how progressives defend Islam. The self-deceiving needed is pathological. They are teetering on the edge of insanity. As a religious person I would prefer an Islamic take-over to an atheistic State…
I heard Fred Hoyle when he came to lecture at my school in the 80s (a prestigious, rich boys school). It was one of the few places willing to give him the time as his views were vaguely in line with Christian…