‘Social’ pain hurts physically, even when we see it in others We would like to do without pain and yet without it we wouldn’t be able to survive. Pain signals dangerous stimuli (internal or external) and guides our behaviour. Its ultimate goal is to prioritize escape, recovery and healing. That’s why we feel it and […]
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To any and all Jehovah’s Witnesses; You are part of a cult, get out now.
Men, scientists, professors and the British are less likely to believe in God than women, children and Americans. Many children attribute magical properties to physical objects. In one unkind experiment, infants were persuaded that a scientist had invented an apparatus that made an exact duplicate of any article placed inside it. Their favourite stuffed animal […]
Science always gets a raw deal – I’d like to share the following BBC programme with all of the readers of this blog. To me it does many things; it re-affirms to me that Scientists are totally disrespected by creationists, no matter how much unequivocal evidence is presented to them. It also highlights the completely […]
Fact of the matter is there are many religions, and similar stories, which predate Christianity that hold remarkable similarities to the JC doctrine. A bit like many other folk stories.
Granted, it was probably wrong on some levels, but it was also undeniably fun. Trolling Fox (cough) News online message boards back when they actually permitted comments filled in micro work-gaps and left me at times literally spitting my coffee over the computer screen as I choked in fits of laughter. The political forums were…
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“Our prayers are with the victims of this tragedy.” As an atheist, this makes me choke on my own afterbirth. Sympathy and compassion is one thing, but proclaiming that you’re going to talk to god for the victims is outright disrespectful. Of course the rest of the population…
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