Interesting calendar

http://www.secularseasons.org/

Gonna try and pay attention to a few of those dates, it's fun to be a tradition starter instead of a dumb sheep ;-)

(via god.voor.dommen)

God bestaat niet

'k ben de DVD aan het downloaden, van de clipjes die 'k al gezien heb gaat het goed lache worden.
En zeker met wanneer Ayaan Hirsi Ali het ook vind!

Interview with creator

Here's the lowdown on a video I linked to before.

Mocking the mockers: The ambiguity of a YouTube video

Who needs baby proofing

Some pious men and a white sheet is protection enough!



Sanal Edamaruku is a man I think I could have a good conversation with.

Magicians

I got a little video of Chris Angel walking through a glass window.
The sender wrote a bit baffled "how on earth is this done?" and on the internet there are entire sites setup to try and figure it out with forums where true believers in the paranormal abilities of the performer outnumber skeptics 50 to 1.
Now regardless of how exactly it's done (I quickly found some non supernatural explanations which seem quite plausible to me) there is one proposition I'd like to put forward to the believers.
If you believe it's really true that a paranormal magician can actually do those things, that they are not tricks then why does he only use those skills for entertainment value?
Why would the paranormal magician not use the skills to save people in burning buildings, from drowning or other such cause, why is it only for entertainment? (and if the response is that (s)he's not in it for charity or the goodness of mankind (though they usually do claim to be good) then why is the paranormal magician not a super villain, walking through glass should provide a lot of opportunity to steal very valuable stuff undetected, why still the need to show off?

When I start seeing magicians use their skills successfully in that kind of way then I'll probably also become a believer but I'm quite sure that'll never happen ...


(And for the moment there's also still taking the JREF challenge, even to just give the money away to charity)

I've heard about this church already

A fight at the Holy Sepulchre, oh yeah that's right, like it says in the last paragraph just before christmas the cleaning crews from both sides got into a fight

I didn't know she was Catholic either

Malignant Narcissism - Oficial

Even if one accepts the concept of religion, if that person would apply Occam's razor then he'd have to worship the trunc of the simplest tree

That is freaking cool

Knap artikel over de slang met pootjes

Met fototjes en zelfs how-to filmpjes:
http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/39470610/

I hope this message will actually be read by the pope

What an atheist would say to pope Benedict XVI

I wholeheartedly agree!

Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed (Expelled parody)

I need to think about this, yes we should teach the controversy and this alternative theory needs to researched.

Important

The issues in these links have to be seen and read by everyone:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/04/13/VI2008041300952.html

http://www.slate.com/id/2188971/
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4656143&page=1
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2474,n,n

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/04/jesuit-rape-athon.html

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Oh yeah, and the catholic church admitted nazi collaboration:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7337748.stm
Now why do I get the feeling that they're not telling the whole story, 2 million seems like a pitiful amount compared to the above links.  And why all the secrecy, we know nothing of the church finances (and probably will never know) I cannot understand that people still think that it is a good organization, private businesses were much quicker, much more forthcoming and much opener about their involvement with nazism.
And what's with the attitude that "the conditions were not as bad" that's like a wifebeater saying that at least he only uses his bare hands.

Found this on Richard Dawkins site:

How about Stepinac? How about the Franciscans who worked as overseers in death camps?
How about the Rat Line?
How about the beatification of Stepinac?
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/267.html

must obey, must obey

I comply ...

Seriously, I've seen the Expelled exposed site, it is great, especially the debunking of the the science and scientists that were supposedly expelled, it is a clear list of the claims and the actual facts concerning that science or scientist.

Now obey the call



Friday fun

http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/06.html

Now what is that reflection in Mr. Cheney's glasses ??? ;-)

De definitie van atheïsme

Atheïst worden: Een pijnlijke verlossing

Geleidelijk aan raakte IKON- directeur Wim Koole (78) zijn God kwijt. "Ik ben verlost van God, maar het was een pijnlijke verlossing. Atheïsme betekent: zonder God. Het is dus ook een verlies."

Ik ben nooit door geloof geïnfecteerd geweest dus ik weet niet of het eerder als een grieperige ziekte is waar je je constant niet goed van voelt en als het voorbij is ben je blij ervanaf te zijn of is het meer als als een verslaving zoals roken, tijdens de verslaving is het goed, euforisch zelfs op sommige momenten en als je stopt ervaar je een verlies en je zal altijd wat aangetrokken blijven tot het roken.

Wat het ook is, deze man lijkt mij (nog) geen atheïst te zijn:

Formeel ben ik atheïst, in die zin dat ik niet meer in een persoonlijke God geloof, die mij ziet en naar mij luistert. Maar ik maak van het atheïsme geen nieuw geloof, zoals, met alle respect, Klaas Hendrikse doet.

Als je nog steeds gelooft in een niet persoonlijke god dan ben je een deist, geen atheist.
Voor alle duidelijkheid een atheïst heeft geen geloof in god, atheïsme betekent: zonder geloof in god (niet zonder god)

Xiaxue's Guide To Life: EP16 - The iPhone

At least she comes clean about her mistake.

BBC to make six-part Bible series

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7330006.stm

The BBC has confirmed it plans to make a six-part series dramatising iconic and important stories from the Bible.

hmm something tells me that it's not gonna be a funny series ...

Kardinaal Danneels &Co advocaten voor het lijden

Voor mij is er geen discussie, euthanasie is een nodige waardige manier om een lijdend leven te beëindigen, ik hoop zelf ook de vrijheid te mogen hebben om indien nodig zelf te kunnen beslissen.

Ik ga volledig akkoord met de boodschap in deze video.