Archive for February, 2008

Meme

Because my friends Rebecca and Nate asked nicely, I am helping to spread a ‘truthiness meme’.
Thank you Firefox spell check, but meme is a word…
Anyway, said meme is “fbnl” – funny but not laughing. The reason for this being that it’s dishonest to say “lol” – laughing out loud – if you’re not really laughing, [...]

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I Accidentally Went to a Bible Study Group

Yes, I know. How do you accidentally go to a Bible study group?
Well, I suppose I was kind of unintentionally forced… er… that sounds even more oxymoronic, but bear with me. Last night, my mum forced me to go see a movie they were showing on campus. What she didn’t know was that it was [...]

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I Ask Jesus to Come to Me

“Please Prove Me Wrong” says “Dawkinswatch“.
So far, Dawkinswatch has been demonstrating ignorance of evolution, and claiming that Richard Dawkins is a communist (I don’t know if he ever backed up this claim) and a closeted New Ager.
I reckon that most of these claims don’t really need refutation, but the invitation to ask God to come [...]

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Happy Darwin Day!

Just wishing a splendid Darwin Day to my two regular viewers, and anybody who happens to come across this blog.
Enjoy the celebration of one of our greatest intellectual liberators!

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Radical Atheism (An Open Letter to My Chemistry Teacher)

This is sort of an open letter to Mr. Rast. I had a conversation with him during 7th period last Thursday which I did not feel I was able to completely have my say in.
Douglas Adams used to call himself a ‘radical atheist’ just to distinguish himself from the agnostics or Atheists without testicals (scientific [...]

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Celebrity News Isn’t

When I wake up in the morning, my brain is like Spirit or Opportunity landing on Mars. Once the airbags of sleep deflate, my brain has to slowly, and mechanically unpack itself. Gears grind and motors run as panels open, things unfold, communications are attempted with the control center…
And so a few days ago, as [...]

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Mitt Romney: Secularist… Kind of.

Er… not really. But I think he has realised that there are Atheists in this country since he gave that ever so popular faith speech in which he called secularism a religion.
See, I ditched two periods of school and I went to see him speak today. Not that I really support him, I just wanted [...]

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