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Comment on How’s it going? by Ophelia Benson is Documenting “Harassment” | West Coast Atheist

Ophelia Benson is Documenting “Harassment” | West Coast Atheist — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:48 +0000

[...] of Rebecca Watson. I’m misrepresenting Ophelia or something because I wasn’t aware of this comment from July [...]

Comment on What is neuroquantology? by Collin

Collin — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:03:24 +0000

Sastra, Einstein didn’t “prove” (or in the modern vernacular “verify”) anything. He discovered relativity. It was the experimental physicists after him who verified it.

Columbus discovered America, and he also took slaves. Now we know slavery is wrong, and it’s been outlawed (at least in the USA). But the continent Columbus discovered still exists.

Einstein discovered relativity, and he stated many opinions about it. But he isn’t famous for his opinions. He’s famous because his math, as refined by later physicists, turned out to be facts.

Comment on What is neuroquantology? by Collin

Collin — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:15:13 +0000

A brain necessarily contains randomness, simply because it has no devices for preventing it. Random thoughts, combined with the ability to change them into something useful, inevitably provide an advantage to solving difficult problems; so nothing suppressing them can ever evolve. The ability to think and act randomly has always been scary to authorities, and the traditional answer is that something will punish us for using this freedom. Now that this is no longer widely believed, authorities have started a new approach of denying that the freedom of randomness even exists. There is no such thing as "nonlocal consciousness". However, each of us has an individual, local freedom of thought. Not because of anything weird that allows it, but because there isn't anything weird that forbids it. The laws of physics are approximate, and everything is random at a small scale.

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Comment on Belief in Witchcraft in Africa by VIVI JOE

VIVI JOE — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:32:06 +0000

If you are a first son in polygamous home in Africa you are likely going to encounter witchcraft problems.Nobody is going to tell you whether witchcraft exist or not.Your experience is going to let you know the reality.if you are not lucky as a first son they can use witchcraft to make you mad or half mad.If you want the veracity of this go to Benin city most polygamous homes and take a look at most of the first sons. Most of them are complex of persecution because of the culture which give them priority in inheritance.

Comment on How to do dialogue by wikibello.cl

wikibello.cl — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:15:52 +0000

Incredible points. Solid arguments. Keep up

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Comment on Other minds by raspberry ketone

raspberry ketone — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:17:33 +0000

My family always say that I am wasting my time here

at net, but I know I am getting familiarity all

the time by reading such good articles or reviews.

Comment on Other minds by www.youtube.com

www.youtube.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:36:00 +0000

I was wondering if you ever considered changing the layout of your site?

Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little

more in the way of content so people could connect with

it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having 1 or two images.

Maybe you could space it out better?

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lose weight with coffee — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:34:39 +0000

Really no matter if someone doesn’t understand then its up to other people that they will help, so here it occurs.

Comment on The Ryan Report by Catherine McAuley foundress of the Sisters of Mercy | Goldenbridge industrial "school" survivor

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:39:33 +0000

[...] Mercy… it wouldn”t bear thinking about at all. I wonder what she would make of the 2009 Ryan Report if she were alive today? What would her ‘far reaching eyes have observed of the nuns – [...]

Comment on Only Be Sure Always to Call it Please ‘Research’ by Sylvia Browne on angels » Butterflies and Wheels

Sylvia Browne on angels » Butterflies and Wheels — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:41:43 +0000

[...] I searched ur-B&W for her name and found quite a lot. That Jon Ronson article I pointed out yesterday is there, in 2007 when it was first published. Below that there’s an article by James Randi, but the link is a dud. There’s one from Stop Sylvia Browne, but that link too is a dud. The very first one is from December 2004 (jeezis) and is about Sylvia Browne’s angelology. [...]

Comment on How’s it going? by More documenting the harassment » Butterflies and Wheels

More documenting the harassment » Butterflies and Wheels — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:00:06 +0000

[...] Well duh, but I’ve never done that. I haven’t complained that Richard Dawkins is “an old white guy.” I’ve objected when other people do, even when they are friends and/or allies. [...]

Comment on 2012 Global Atheist Convention – Redux by In Dawkins’ Honour? | Rousing Departures

In Dawkins’ Honour? | Rousing Departures — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:34 +0000

[...] year I covered the Global Atheist Convention for Ophelia Benson’s Butterflies and Wheels, although at the time I left something out of my coverage; an incident where my eyes were flecked [...]

Comment on The Necessity of Humanism in Africa by Barry Kendall

Barry Kendall — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:53:18 +0000

Does Leo Igwe see Kwame Nkrumah as a good man? Phooey!!! Once Nkrumah got himself into power he became a worse oppressor than British colonial authorities. When Nkrumah was overthrown, the son of one of those he had imprisoned without trial and who had died in prison went into the Ghanaian embassy in London, took down a portrait of Nkrumah, took it out into the street and smashed it on the sidewalk. Good for him! He tried to take out a bust of Nkrumah but it was too heavy. He should have come back with a hammer and smashed the bust right in the embassy.

Comment on Not So Clean, Not So Dry by Daniel Reed

Daniel Reed — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:57:33 +0000

I read constant awful stories of corpses exploding from crypts not having the correct ventilation. Also hear of corpses seeping bodlerly fluids and staining the concreate front block of the crypt causing cracks in the concreate front block, which I have seen many pictures similar too what I described. Plus Us gov when Obama cam in into power he would get funeral establishments registered and regulated and for relatives to be able too chose caskets from other funeral homes if they are cheaper also funeral homes must not force sell most expenive caskets first they must shot the costs of all caskets from the cheapest too the most expenive before chosing the casket and also Iam saddened too hear that heavier cause 18 caskets too relatives without any other choice, yet there are other options clearly yet obama I not enough too regulate funeral industry in the states really with what I have seen in videos and in us press sadly. I am just grateful that uk funeral industry is really heavily regulated and you never hear of such awful stories of finding seeping fluids too open crypts only thing I do find are pot holes in and around uk graves yet its apart of natural decomposition process and coffin or caskets go next too earths soil and not lined in a concreate tomb with the chance of casket being opened or floods unearthing them and causing more upset than its worth

Comment on It won’t work unless the operator is relaxed by Time for Inspector Plod to go after the homeopaths » Butterflies and Wheels

Time for Inspector Plod to go after the homeopaths » Butterflies and Wheels — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:51:11 +0000

[...] I remember blogging about that years ago. In fact [goes to find the posts] – yes, in It won’t work unless the operator is relaxed and Flashing lights, and a beeping noise. A bit from the latter: Call me sentimental but I do [...]

Comment on Shunning by Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:37:56 +0000

Thank you Marie-Therese for inviting me to comment on the B&W posts.

I had just started to read your story on Goldenbridge, starting at the beginning and working my way through over the next few days I hope, when you directed me to The Rosary Beads Factory.

It is still shocking to hear and read the story of what was Goldenbridge, and more so when one can put a specific face on it, when it becomes really ‘personal’, as is the case here with Marie-Therese. I am so sorry you had to go through this – and thousands of others too.

I have – I always do – the same reaction as another person on the site, likening – imagining the experience of these poor kids as something out of Nazis concentration camps. However at this point, I would just like to say 2 things:

1/ I was shocked and dismayed when the original documentaries came out about Goldenbridge, but my anger soon turned to disbelief, when I realized that the Irish people seemed totally UN-aware, that this was still going on…. in the 80′s !

2/ Now that:

we know everything

the stories have come out

the Reports have been published, one after the other

some bishops, even the Pope, have been toppled

while other bishops and cardinals still preside

and the Government still fights every step of the way

NOW THAT WE KNOW – IRREFUTABLY AND NO EXCUSES ARE LEFT…..

what, WHAT – if anything, has changed? NOTHING

The mundane business of Irish life continues:

Children (and women) have LESS RIGHT today than before the Referendum

Women die in childbirth

and the Bishop STILL calls the shots (at per the latest news)

So what does that say about our Society, our Communities, our Families

and Ourselves ?

Comment on The abyss of hatred by Musa

Musa — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:15:33 +0000

Evil is a religion based on the superiority of the white race (white European Jesus said sarcastically, white European Pope, white European Archbishop of Canterbury etc….) and demeaning the vast majority of followers. Evil is forcefully converting people since its inception of this disease called Christianity. Evil is the fact that your religion is based on a “selective un-holy spirit” that each member of this vile cult adopts and illustrate through incomprehensible jargon called tongues. Evil is agents of the Churches of Dome call for the return of every Jew to Jerusalem WHY??? so they can perish. Evil is the book that forces raped woman to marry their oppressor. Evil is this cross worshiping religion Mr John. No go back to your empty existence and believe that almighty God came from a woman’s private part.

Comment on How “Hindu” is yoga after all? by Swami Param

Swami Param — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:13:26 +0000

How Hindu is Yoga? Real Yoga is Hindu. Phony Yoga is, of course, not Hindu. Interestingly the phony prevails.