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And you'd never guess whose fault it is (no, it's not BushitlerCheneyHalliburton): Maybe Captain Ahab wasn't as crazy as Melville said he was. Where's that bumper sticker I once saw? "Nuke the whales, so we can hunt them at night, too."

Scientific method - being itself, ironically, a system of beliefs grounded in faith in positivism.

This site, by a patholigist with varied interests, including role playing games, contains a long essay prefacing his section on violent injuries which is a really interesting piece to read, even if you don't agree with everything he says. www.pathguy.com It included one phrase which jumped out...

I read a story about a sex offender who attempted to kidnap an 8-year-old girl while she and her family were shopping at Wal-Mart in Waterville, Maine. This happens every day but it's not such a common occurrence in rural Maine. It serves as a reminder that our children should never be out of...

http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=3662&st=0#entry4171460

Recently, someone at skeptic magasine and me have been emailing and she said something I never realised untill now, made perfect sense. - Around 5th or 6th grade I decided it all made no sense--why would God send millions of people to Hell forever when they never had a chance, (in both other...

For some reason, I allowed myself to be talked out of going to TAM4. The wife and I have had several discussions about this. Much violence ensued. I am reliably informed that both of my legs will heal, and that the bullets missed the heart - and anyway, you can do great things with artifical...

Hi folks, tis my first post on this particular forum; I usually haunt religion and politics. I've a story from my childhood (some 34 years ago, this was) and while I realize memory is a tricky and often faulty thing, I sincerely feel I remember this event accurately. Maybe not. At any rate...

How the frick do I get the dag burn msmsgs.exe to stop running? I've done everything short of removing the root key in regedit. Everytime I check my task manager, there it is... taunting me... laughing. I want it dead.

---- And only one female vice presidential candidate. Any particular reason?

So says Sven Birkerts, writing for the New York Times. Check out his biog here. I wish I could fathom why remarks like this still bother me so much. For one thing, it displays a rather shocking level of ignorance - what about 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Time Machine, War Of The Worlds...

So true Helen, so true.

I have done several internet searches and found several pieces of evidence for my conclusion. Jesus was gay. Jesus was a Buddhist. Jesus was black. Jesus was a Democrat Jesus was a woman Jesus never existed. I can't dispute the facts. I believe all of them. Discuss.

First of all, the esteemed Mr. Geller has decided that he's going to remove a curse from an English town. I do hope he succeeds. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/08/urigeller.curse.reut/index.html Then, he's appearing before the famous debating society Oxford Union. He's offered...

The film was made a few years ago...57 years ago, to be precise. "The Amazing Mr. X", starring Turhan Bey in the title role. My oh my oh my, if this one isn't in The Psychic's Home Video Library, it sure should be. Every trick in the book is detailed here, on how to snooker 'em out of their...

Well, the definition of "open-minded" came up. It's psychobabble. Let me explain. If we disagree with one another, this is because I have a nicer personality than yours. This is shown by the way in which you, hurtfully, attack my beliefs, which is a form of oppression, while I, sweetly, show...

I never thought of it this way before- but in this weeks commentary someone said that if Randi could prove to the world that they had supernatural powers, they would pay him a million dollars.

A veritable smorgasbord of misconceptions, word misappropriations, fuzzy definitions and downright idiocy. Firstly there is Chios Energy Healing . What is it and what makes it special? "Chios Energy Healing is a relatively new yet very comprehensive energy healing system which employs powerful...

What can I say.... Indian Astrology strikes again The power of astrology at it's finest. The emperor has no clothes, perhaps? Hmm ... author of books on the science of predictions. Obviously worth reading. But Dubya needs to tread carefully .... Actually, I think that last line is a...

Absolutely nothing! Yep, indeed, what we've got ourselves here folks is truly and uber horse race! :clap:

A co-worker was telling me about how he was trying to find the text of the rosetta stone for his daughter. A quick look online, and I found it. Funny, I've known about the rosetta stone for a long time, but I've never read it. It appears to be a decree by Ptolemy. Funny, but sounds a awful...

I asked this question in another thread, and I am still waiting for an answer.

Nice read in The Observer today...

From the Sun again:

from: Apr. 22, 2004 20:02 - Kaddoumi: PLO charter was never changed Palestinian National Charter _ Palestinian Authority Website Israel-PLO Recognition, September 9-10, 1993 Israel-Palestinian Declaration of Principles, (Oslo 1) September 13, 1993 Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the...

I was just going over in my mind some of the larger collections of giant works that everybody talks about like they're the cat's meow, where I've given up after the first phase or slept through major parts. Quite a list. After propping my eyes open for Rheingold, I've slept through Wagner's...

I'm constantly hearing the argument from those who believe in an afterlife that since the body contains energy, when the body dies energy is released. Since this energy doesn't die, what becomes of it. To them, this is possible evidence that a "soul" or "spirit" survives the death of the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3246330.stm A testament to the tolerance of the Israelis. You could only imagine what would happen if a Jew or an Israeli won a similar honor in a muslim country.

Rather than to continue to derail another thread, I thought I'd start a new one. In that thread, I stated: Jan responded: To which I responded So, where do we draw the line about which experiences/stimuli/senses we believe are definitely "real" and potentially "illusion"? If we reject only...

As Canada's prime minister Chretien has done some good things, and also some very stupid things, but he certainly has a flare for saying stuff that irks certain groups. I found this one very amusing. http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-10-05-0012.html And by the way, his English may not...