On NPR, magician and B.S. debunker Penn Jillette submits his essay on the featurette “This I Believe” entitlted “There Is No God”: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557 I love Penn & Teller. If I were given a free ticket to any Vegas show I want, there’d be no question at all, it’s theirs I would see. I’ve been a [...]
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Absurdity of Revealed Religions pt. 2
Wow, haven’t posted in a while. Been pretty busy! Lately with Thanksgiving (all I have to say, is brine the bird, people!) but also with a server migration at my day job. Got hacked a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve been moving our production server software from that to two new servers. Still working [...]
READ MORE »Pennsylvania voters take a stand against ignorance and enforced ideology
CNN.com – Pennsylvania voters oust school board – Nov 9, 2005 And there was much rejoicing! Score one big one for education and reasoned rationalism. Take THAT, evangelical pseuoscience! Glee!
READ MORE »Absurdity of Releaved Religions
This last weekend I attended my in-law’s First Baptist church for a three-day special program for an International Missions Board. They had a dozen or so missionaries from all over the world visiting, with one of them the guest of honor at the dinner my in-laws hosted at their house for their Sunday school class. [...]
READ MORE »We’re Good, God and I
OK, so here’s the link I said a couple of posts ago I wouldn’t provide: The Bible is “Full†of Contradictions Seriously, if you reply, be kinder than I am. (I’m “Mechphisto” on there.) I’m annoyingly arrogant and eletist and confrontational and even downright insulting. Not proud of it, but when I write stream-of-conciousness like [...]
READ MORE »Lament for Intentional Ignorance
Read something yesterday that really, deeply bothers me. It was a reply to my reply on another blog responding to a, in my opinion, very lame attempt to defend contradictions and factual errors in the Bible. My response pointed out the absurdity of using a. circular logic, b. spurious logic, and c. hypocritical method of [...]
READ MORE »Artist Keith Parkinson Passed Away
Just learned that one of my favorite fantasy artists died recently of cancer. At a young age, 47. The announcement and a letter from a friend of his: http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=19122 His site: http://www.keithparkinson.com/main.php About: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Parkinson Three years ago I met him, briefly, at GenCon in Indianapolis. He signed a print of “Druid Stone” for me, one [...]
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