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celebratoryTopic: The New Box!
Once again I am writing in a brand new box. The first new box kept on crashing...at one point it crashed while in the BIOS setup! Then the hard drive started to complain...then we took it to the shop and now everything is working fine. Except for a few cookies that have been cleared out which contained a couple user ID's and passwords that I set up over three years ago and which I will likely never ever remember as long as I live!
I want to give shout out to a certain fan of the box who has wanted to know where I've been. Now you know! Now you can go back to polishing your bald spot.
So --plenty of weird things are happening in the world. The CBN/700 Club guy, Pat Robertson is once again proving why atheism is the only option for people with working brains. I must have been asleep in that part of sunday school, where they negated the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment. That one was probably declared null and void around the same time as the prohibition against boiling a young goat in it's mother's milk. I get so confused...first he says we must kill all those who espouse terrorism of any stripe, then he promotes terrorism by calling for the covert assassination of the president of Venezuela, and then says that the guy is a communist and a habourer of Islamic extremists. (In south America? A very Catholic continent? Where does PR get his news from?) and by his standards if we are to kill the ungodly terrorist who tell lies to further their cause then we should be killing him, but his holy book says thou shalt not kill but PR says it's okay because...Suddenly I feel like those androids in that Star Trek episode...the one where Harry Mudd has all those robots who do his bidding until they try to take over the enterprise...I feel like someone said something that doesn't make sense and my circuits are in danger of burning out, then my hard drive light will glow rather than flash...As I said, atheism is really the only way any of this makes sense. They're all whacked out loonies and should be ignored.
Speaking of odd experiences, There's an on line scientific study being done about Out of body experiences. It takes about five minutes if you've never had one, and about fifteen minutes if you have. Sadly, it doesn't give you a blog button to display when you are finished. The survey is found here OBE's are one of those things that are hard to prove and just as hard to disprove. As far as this skeptic is concerned...My mind is not yet made up one way or the other. Let's face it, the human brain is one place where the science is still in it's infancy. There's more we don't know about the brain that we do know. So OBE and telepathy are things that are still grey areas. I don't believe psychics like Sylvia Brown and her type, they're street corner magicians using tried and true cold reading methods. And when they have contracts with more personal space riders on them than Jennifer Lopez or Mariah Carrey, then you know what they really are about...fame and fortune and shameless self promotion.
My one son is obsessed with Mythbusters. His favourite one is Adam He will love this article in The Sneeze! The sneeze! Half blog half zine half bad with fractions! and if you weren't aware...Adam is also a Farker. So next time someone questions you science on Fark, it might be a mythbuster!
That's all for today! I have to get ready to go to Toronto Bye!
