Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
- 'The Sea Turtle's Tale: Back to the sea, and back again to the land' by Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net
- t r u t h o u t | Yikes!!! I'm a Slave to Socialized Medicine
- The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » Sarah Palin Gives Interview While McCain Gets Slaughtered
- Op-Ed Contributor - What’s the Point of Daylight Time? - NYTimes.com
- Chaotic Utopia : The Prickly Finger
- Billboard promoting atheism will be removed | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
That is unless the free speech is jarring.
- Researcher Sheds New Light On Witch-hunting And Epidemics Of Fear
- Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' - Times Online
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
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Re: Sea Turtles
Did you know loggerheads are the size of a small car?
http://flickr.com/photos/herpimage/2809926526/
Photos cannot do these animals justice.
Live near Space Coast, FL? These guys need your help:
http://www.seaturtlespacecoast.org/
Incredible. I guess those were the turtles in Master and Commander?
Now you've done it. I'm going to have to watch the movie one more time. I've read all of his books
WOW! I've heard about people like you. I read one, thought it was great but not a quick read.
That's how I remember a scene with Maturin. I really loved the movie - maybe I'll try watching it again, too, this time on the computer.
It's funny you mention it not being a quick read. The first was slow, and the second even slower. I damn near quit after that one, but read the third. I think the title was the HMS Surprise, but my memory is suspect. Anyway after the third in the series I just couldn't stop.
Interesting. I will put the third one on my list then -- but, not start it until a very opportune time since it sounds like it could get obsessive which can be very dangerous.
Sorry, but this is simply fucked up. There is no other way to describe it.
In my town we have billboards up at the Interstate with quotes from 'god'. It's ok to get in our faces with it, but billboards to the contrary are too controversial.
The billboards were 'jarring'. I find it amusing that this person feels it's perfectly reasonable to believe, without a shred of evidence, that there is some higher power controlling things here on earth, yet finds it unsettling when faced with the reality that someone might not see things the same way.
I so agree.
And it was SO mild. A line from a mainstream song, no mention of the existence or non-existence of God. When she said jarring, I think she meant thought-provoking and she didn't like that.I found it interesting that nine other billboards had gone up but this was the first in CA. I wonder where the others were. I also kind of wonder why they started there in CA when there would've been other more receptive areas but maybe that was the point.
But a public display of a man being tortured to death on a cross - no problem, right?
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