Belief Questionairs

Sam Harris is after volunteers to take part in his current research. Go to his blog and find the four surveys provided. I filled out all four. It doesn't take long at all.

Reaserch Volunteers Needed

Still having problems with the computer - despite being repeatedly told that the thing hangs on the POST screen (as in, before it's even detected the hardrive) the bloke on the phone kept insisting we try putting WinXP on it, in place of WinVista. Which is a load of bollocks and implies that the idiot shouldn't be working in a computer related job in any way shape or form.

Arseholes.

Court action? Off-line update

Yupp - this may well end up as court action. Though at the moment, it's simply the THREAT of court action.

Basically, my new computer has now finally given up the ghost.

My NEW COMPUTER has decided there is no hardrive. It freezes on the POST page for fucks sake.

This has been causing nothing but grief for me as the business owner and Matt as my computer go-to.

I cannot work with a computer that freezes every 5 to 20 mins, and Matt is getting fed up going back and forth to the guys who built it, and getting fobbed off with what amounts to bullshit.

Finally, today, it started freezing with little more than thirty-second's worth of the computer actually working. And it kept doing this, right up until it decided there is no hardrive.

So Matt took the side off and tested evrything he could and it appears to be a motherboard problem.

He's going to go back to these guys on Tuesday and he has my leave to threaten court action over the loss of revenue to my business - as I've had serious problems actually working on my commissions due to these faults, and I am currently unable to work on the commission I am half-way through.

So. Unfortunately, my CG commissions will have to be put on hold until this is sorted out.

My traditional commissions are still ongoing.

Ugh. Updates when I get them.


*Written using Matt's computer.

H

Deserves a mention:

Apparently, the 'Face Of Jesus' appeared in this mans cider bottle. Personally, it looks more like a Grey to me - but that may just be my upbringing.

Which is the point really. If this had been the cider bottle of an Athiest, they probably wouldn't have noticed it and if they had, wouldn't have cared beyond sharing the amusement with their fellow drinkers.

If it had been the bottle of a Muslim (as unlikely as that sounds, being staunch anti-alchohol sorta people) they'd have said it looked like Muhammad. If this was seen by a Viking, they'd think it was Thor.

So - it's all a bit subjective really. Though beyond that, it's certainly a waste of news-space, even if it is the Daily Mail.

The threat of Creationism

Just about sums it up really. I'm thoroughly enjoying this guy's video collection.

The clip of the three Male Scientologists telling the videographer that he is a criminal, can be seen in full here: Crazy Scientology Followers

Comment on Scientology Reincarnation

Kirsty Alley was interviewd in Playboy - quote found and copy-pasted from The Frame Problem

PLAYBOY: Sounds like you have all the answers. Where do we go when we die?

Kirstie Alley: We just pick another body. We go to the nearest hospital where women are giving birth, find some good-looking parents and jump in. I don’t think there’s a rest period, though there might be a confusion period if you were killed in an accident and knocked out of your body. It would all depend on the shape you’re in as a spiritual being, which is our natural state. The better the shape you’re in, the less confusion. At least that would be my hope. This is just a prison planet–and here’s what it takes to get out: a Get Out of Jail Free card or a Get Off of Planet Earth Free card. You should have one in your wallet or purse at all times, just in case. You know how we’re all looking for the big secret in life? That’s it.


My comment:

The ‘re-incarnation’ thing always gives me pause, with whichever religion is spouting it.

For re-incarnation to work in the way described, you’d have to have a finite number of ’souls’ and a finite number of ‘bodies’. It’s patently obvious that this isn’t the case, because the world-wide population is growing every year, and the population isn’t full of apparently ’soul-less’ bodies. So where are the ‘new souls’ coming from?

In Scientology’s case, there can’t be a big-bad out there constantly dropping more paralised-aliens into volcanoes and blowing them up - otherwise we’d notice. (It would be hard not to notice A-Bomb exploding volcanoes - wouldn’t you think?)

And then - when the soul moves into a new-born body - what happens to the thetan’s attached to the soul in the last body? Does this new body ‘carry-over’ the thetan’s from the last one? Or does it have less and less thetans with every body-jump? And if this is so, doesn’t that mean that eventually, if you’re a Scientologist in every ‘new-body’ at least, you’d simply die one day and never jump to a new body?

It’s all very confusing.

Do we love Henry Rollins?

Oh, yes we do.



I'm working on teh Homeopathy essay at the moment XD It's nearly done - honest!

Tom Cruise on Psychiatry

Right. Anyone else notice how he stumbles around and avoids the direct, easily answerable questions?

Yeah. I think he's full of it as well.

Random thoughts....

Legal Age to Marry: 16 - with parents/guardians consent - 18 otherwise

Legal Age to Become Parents: 16 (though it is becomming more and more accepted for girls younger than that to be allowed to keep their pregnancies)

Legal Age to Drive: 17

Legal Age to Join the Forces: 16 - with parents/guardians consent - 18 otherwise




Legal Age to Drink: 18

Legal Age to Vote: 18



So, basically, you can join the army, get married and have children at 16. But you can't vote on who makes the laws/runs the government, until you're 18.

I'm amused by the things you can do by law, without being old enough to vote for the people that pout that law in place.

Make sense to any one else? Because it certainly doesn't to me.

(Just a random thought, really - becasue I just noticed that the elgal voting age used to be 21 - and really, that's even more laughable - considered adult enough to marry and have children, join the forces and die for your country, but not vote for who tells you these things? Laughable.)

Project Chanology Update

The next protest is now confirmed as April 12th.

Find your nearest Protest Location on this forum.

Please remember to stay with your group and stay safe. Wear a mask if possible, if not, hide your face in some other fashion (scarves are suggested) and try to look unobtrusive.

Remember that the protest is PEACEFULL. Follow the rules of your particular protest and STAY LEGAL.

Have a good protest!

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Because 'Intelligent Design' is just another term for Creationism, which is Theology, NOT SCIENCE.