January 2011
4 posts
That awkward moment when you realize moose are way...
gabriel-:
re-hymenated:
WELCOME TO CANADA, DRIVE SAFEL—
BAM
SUDDENLY YOUR CAR IS SCRAP METAL
And by car, you mean pickup truck. Your car becomes a fine powder scattered accross the road.
“The truth is, a moral compass can only point you in the right direction, it...”
– Gil Grissom (CSI)
Happy New Years Everyone!
Thanks to all my followers (those of you who put up with me til now and those of you who keep forgetting to unfollow), and hope you have a wonderful 2011.
December 2010
33 posts
xzacharyhenryx:
Yes, I’m an Atheist. No, that doesn’t make me a horrible person.
Reblog if you really don't fucking care who...
Amending my christmas list slightly:
Exchanged The Grand Design for Small Gods and Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. Read a bunch of Small Gods already, very good book.
“It must be a strange world not being a scientist, going through life not...”
– Dr. Michio Kaku (via ageofreason)
So, quick tally of christmas gifts:
The latest Wheel of Time book, which means I should probably go read the ones I haven’t yet.
A “write on- wipe off IQ challenge.” 101 puzzles that are supposed to test your IQ. (I’m doing pretty good so far, though I’m really bad at the “here’s a bunch of letters, make 2 words out of them” ones.)
lots of chocolate.
A deck of trick cards.
A Zits...
Still waiting for everyone else to get up.
It’s 8:30 now, presents should already be open.
Merry Christmas everyone!
LOVE VS. SEX: A teenage girl about 17 had gone to...
neonghost:
Fuck this fucking bullshit. This would never ever fucking happened. And god does not make two tall ass men appear next to you unless the dude was actually insane and on drugs.
Just because the other girl didn’t believe she was raped? Fuck your fucking beliefs. It can happen to anyone and god won’t fucking protect you from crazy fucked up men.
This fills me with so much fury I have...
shatteredsymphony:
A Compressed History Of Life On Earth
wikipedia-brown:
fuckyeahexistentialism:
If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening,...
In news that could change our understanding of...
NASA has discovered a species of micro-bacteria that is unlike anything else on Earth in a big way.
These bacteria, dubbed GFAJ-1, were discovered as part of a two year experiment lead by NASA Astrobiology Researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon. Samples of bacteria were taken from a lake in California that is known for its inhospitable living conditions. High levels of salt and, most important to this...
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)
November 2010
26 posts
Have you read more than 6 of these books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here*. (*I have not been able to find the source for this, so no idea as to the validity of this statistic)
Instructions: Copy this. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of...
Pro Tip
nickman300:
4chan doesn’t fucking care. 4chan is like some sort of titan. It lumbers along, spawning the best and worst of the internet and rule 34ing when applicable. It is massive, capable of squashing boxxys with a stray footstep. But the thing is, it’s so big that it just doesn’t really give a flying fuck. You just can’t coordinate that many people over a site that most people access from...
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn't answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn't.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light... But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it's called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
That student was Albert Einstein.
From Shaddy_24: Just a note: this isn't true. http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
1 Einstein
Did you know there are billions of Einsteins all over the world at this moment? Yep, they’re all over the place.
I don’t mean a scientist from the early 1900’s who developed the theory of reletivity, though they are related. I’m talking about the unit, the Einstein. One Einstein is equal to one mole of photons, or 6.022x 10^23 photons, the smallest possible measurement of...
In Flander's Fields
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below… We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields… Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands, we throw ...
thelachster asked: Deary me.
I’ve gotta say. You really haven’t answered my question.
1st. To finish of the law debate. Yes, the OT is more political and has moral and state laws intertwined. But the NT does not behave like this. If you’re going to look at the Bible you’ve got to take it as a whole. And, basically, the NT overrides the OT. It’s the new covenant,...
I’ve gotta say. You really haven’t answered my question.
1st. To finish of the law debate. Yes, the OT is more political and has moral and state laws intertwined. But the NT does not behave like this. If you’re going to look at the Bible you’ve got to take it as a whole. And, basically, the NT overrides the OT. It’s the new covenant,...