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Stephen Newton commented on Woodrow Wilson's blog post 'Witches Are't Cute'
It was mostly heretics that copped this kind of crap.A few witches were caught up in all the excitement but the majority of those crimes were committed against christians with a slightly different interpretation of their own holy book...You see the…
Oct 27, 2010
Glen Rosenberg commented on Woodrow Wilson's blog post 'Witches Are't Cute'
I have read so many different estimates of how many witches were executed-what is your understanding and what source?
Oct 25, 2010

Witches Are't Cute

Witches aren’t cute. They’re a reminder of everything that is wrong with ignorance and superstition. Primitive people demand scapegoats—someone to blame, someone to punish—for whatever goes wrong. It’s never their own fault. Witches are still persecuted in backward areas of the world today. It’s only a few hundred years since European and American society outgrew witch hunts. Our forbearers tortured and executed witches on a scale comparable to the holocaust.The treatment of witches is an…See More
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NoSacredCow commented on Woodrow Wilson's blog post 'Would ET Believe?'
No our gleeknorb is greater!!!
Sep 1, 2010
Peter Gamache commented on Woodrow Wilson's blog post 'Would ET Believe?'
What if the extraterrestrials were here on their own religious crusade and it ended up being rather like, err, the Crusades?
Sep 1, 2010
NoSacredCow commented on Woodrow Wilson's blog post 'Would ET Believe?'
What if ET is no further advanced than we are? What if they accidently stumbled on a wormhole or something? Would that be a disappointment?
Aug 31, 2010

Would ET Believe?

When ET finally arrives, he'll carry the fruits of an advanced civilization with him. What will he think of our primitive superstitions? How should we approach first contact with him? I've wrestled with this question in writing Dead Astronauts. Faced with first contact, the protagonists disagree. Air Force Colonel and true believer Rex Stone debates the issue with NASA scientist and nonbeliever Dawn Thomas. Here's how they start.“We’re there,” [Rex] cheered, “it’s time to go aboard.” “And do…See More
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Woodrow Wilson is a Caltech PhD with more than thirty years experience in research and development for the military and intelligence communities. He has explored space and other exotic environments in the laboratory and in the computer. He contributed to the design and testing of space-based and ground-based anti-ballistic missile defenses. He has studied chemistry at 10,000°F, 30,000 mph collisions, plus fires and explosions in zero gravity, the aurora borealis, and more. Wilson's work in military applications of space puts the science in this hard science fiction work Dead Astronauts.

His interests are eclectic. He published The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook offering restaurant quality meals without quality restaurant prices. He is a Distinguished Toastmaster, and a Toastmaster District executive. He has addressed scientific meetings in Russia and Germany, and throughout North America. He addresses general audiences on technical and historical topics.
Wilson lives in northern San Diego County with his wife and their two yellow labs. His two sons and four grandsons live nearby. He is working on his next novel, The Utah Flu, a medical fiction piece.
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Witches Are't Cute

Posted on October 25, 2010 at 3:30pm 2 Comments

Witches aren’t cute. They’re a reminder of everything that is wrong with ignorance and superstition. Primitive people demand scapegoats—someone to blame, someone to punish—for whatever goes wrong. It’s never their own fault. Witches are still persecuted in backward areas of the world today. It’s only a few hundred years since European and American society outgrew witch hunts. Our forbearers tortured and executed witches on a scale comparable to the holocaust.



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Would ET Believe?

Posted on August 31, 2010 at 4:06pm 1 Comment

When ET finally arrives, he'll carry the fruits of an advanced civilization with him. What will he think of our primitive superstitions? How should we approach first contact with him? I've wrestled with this question in writing Dead Astronauts. Faced with first contact, the protagonists disagree. Air Force Colonel and true believer Rex Stone debates the issue with NASA scientist and nonbeliever Dawn Thomas. Here's how they… Continue

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At 5:27pm on August 21, 2010, Dr. Terence MeadenDr. Terence Meaden said…
Hello Woodrow Wilson
What an excellent CV.
Welcome to this friendly meeting place with freethinkers who recognise that fictional gods and pervasive religions have always been used to deceive and control vulnerable superstitious people including defenceless children;
----and how tragic and inexcusable it is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and longer.

Terry Meaden (physicist; Oxford and AERE Harwell; academic; 60+; retired)
founder of the busy group "ORIGINS: Universe, Life, Earth, Humans, Religion, Evolution, Darwin..." with its 300 discussion topics.
We invite you to join us and 1780 others.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/originsuniverselifehumankindanddarwin
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