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I am a science nerd extraordinare, and am somewhat of a compulsive teacher, so for anyone who has any curiosities whatsoever - how does something work, what does a scientific concept really mean, what the hell is a dimension, that kind of stuff, or anything really. I study everything, and I enjoy flexing the curiosity muscle as much as possible, so consider me your Q&A guru forever more. No question too big, no question too small.

On NBC Meet the Press Senator Linsey Grahm was using the title "Entitlement Plan" in place of saying "Social Security".  What are your thoughts of this?

This afternoon I was contacted by Andrea from Lakewood Church. The Houston Megachurch that Olsteen leads. When I asked her about the cost of the ticket. She explained that it covered the cost of paying

for the Scottrade Center employees and various things such as that. I tried to express my view that if this is a message that is good for everyone to hear that provision should be made for making the event

free. Andrea explained that they used to have free attendance at these events…

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Today a new type of cancer detection was annouced by several news sources - one that is sensetive enough to detect one cancer cell, out of bilions. The device is the size of a credit card and is a fairly simple design which could be easily and cheaply mass-produced, but will assuredly be an expensive test for quite some time. The reason is greed and egotism: evolutionary 'tailbones' which should be eliminated from our species.

 

Humans have entered an era of information…

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It seems that the precious establishment of religion has pulled another trick on the rest of us tax payers. Back on 2007 a law was passed to let employees of churches have a special category of retirement plans.
Because their work is so much more important than everyone else work.

 

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I have no one right now to talk to. No one at all. So for now, I suppose a cruddy blog will have to do. But I can't hold back any more because I feel like my emotional state is just spiraling out of control over something that happened to me a few weeks before Thanksgiving that drudged up a lot of very deep old wounds. It wasn't even something bad, rather, it had the potential to be something good. But because I have a lot of issues with forming bonds with people due to my past experiences with… Continue

Joel Olsteen and his Flight Attendant beating wife Victoria bring their brand of religion to the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. They will be here Jan 7^th for the “A

Night of Hope” concert or whatever they call it. But you better be

prepared for a day or two of work because the tickets are available,

as of now, on TicketMaster for $22.70. However if you have the promo

code you can save the $7.50 fee and pay just $15.00 to get in to…

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I'm a fiction writer and I attack god and religion in my novels. That's not the main thrust of my sci-fi and horror novels, but it's a constant in all my books (3 1/2 so far). I'm still unpublished but hope that will change this year. So, here is my question.

I wrote a sci-fi novel that takes place about 50 years in the future. One of the characters in the book is the pope of that era. What name should I use for him? Ideally, it would be a name that religious folks see as possible for…

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Hmm well that long weekend of personal injury and strange contrasts, which ended well.



Things got off to an inauspicious start when in a bid to rid myself of the

green gunge, I nipped down to Tescos for some emergency decongestants,

putt my hand in my pocket and removed a chunk of skin from my index

finger which persisted in bleeding everywhere and hurting like a demon.



Matters hardly improved as I hurried up to get into the car, inattentively

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There seem to be a contingent of thinkers out there who think that "the answers to life, the universe and everything" are the philosophies of Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged."  It somehow seems fitting that this may be the case since, when asked to cut some of her novel she replied, "Would you cut the Bible?" 

 

Calling a philosophy "Objectivism" confuses me.  No one is perfectly objective and the first hurdle to being objective is realizing that no one is truly…

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this is a copy/paste of something I sent to one of the folks here who were kind enough to welcome me here.

 

Kind of curious so if you have some info please enlighten me. I have no problem accepting the reality of atheism and frankly getting into the fine points of biblical fallacy has no attraction for me at all. I have

no desire to debate Christians but am very interested in what do we as a

group do to enlighten younger people to think about it? Is there…

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If you enjoy imaginative writing with rhythm, allegories, prose poems, and assorted fictional fusions, you might enjoy my fully illustrated collection, available at amazon.  Aside from the 5 star customer reviews, writers have said:

 

Carol Novack proves once again that she is the all-time…

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Not really anything atheist per se about this other than people will say things like, "Thank God no one died."  But I though you all would like to see some local pictures.

 

New Year's Eve Tornado Damage:

To start the New Year off right, I had to start it with fstdt.com . Fundies say the Darndest Things. This episode is all about Teh Gays, because DADT was FINALLY repealed, and the fundies are all OVER that shit. This has implications. Fundies have traditionally been pro-military: My Country: Love it or Leave It. So, maybe they'll leave, or maybe they'll stop supporting the military, or maybe, JUST MAYBE,… Continue

So my sister and our boyfriends decided to get together to play Munchkin

tonight, and we started to discuss how unfair my parents are to her.

She's almost 20 and I'm 21, and I've been allowed to stay at boy's

houses since I was 18 but my sister still isn't allowed to have her

boyfriend over during the day when nobody is home and they freaked out

when she said she was going to be going on a road trip with him and said

they'd be staying in a hotel. We both know that… Continue