I choose not to believe
“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature and it remains premature today.” -Isaac Asimov
There are a lot of things which make me uncomfortable with the idea of religion. Unfortunately (for those involved) my societal exposure has largely been to Christianity, [...]
Wait, a truck load of WHAT?
On Thursday afternoon my open plan office erupted into a subdued panic caused by an e-mail that was doing the rounds. I could track its progress through my office just by watching who got up and went to join the steadily growing gaggle of people discussing the topic. I finally managed to snag a copy [...]
Blasphemy Day was FUN!
As many of you may know, the 30th of September was International Blasphemy Day. A brief description of Blashpemy day from that website;
The objective of International Blasphemy Day is to open up all religious beliefs to the same level of free inquiry, discussion and criticism to which all other areas of academic interest are subjected.
Why [...]
The Durban boredom festival
As some of my readers may know, Durban played host to an “international” psychic festival last month. I realise that I’m possibly a little slow in writing this report on the psychic fair, the reason for my delay is that it took a month for my brain to recover from the boredom of the festival.
After [...]
My hero smoked pot
Ok, so maybe this is old news to you, but I just found out that Carl Sagan smoked marijuana. Not only did he smoke the weed, he actually smoked enough of it to have developed quite a complicated philosophy about his experiences while high. He didn’t stop at scrawling unintelligible dawdles on an old history [...]
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