From Allusions to Illusions
In practice, many state schools in certain areas blur that division and a survey by Scientific American revealed the extraordinary statistic that just under half those polled believe that God created earth sometime in the last 10,000 years. In a country where a significant number of adults worry about being abducted by aliens this may […]
“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are […]
I didn’t write this I don’t know who did but I thought it was worth saving.
I wanted to share with you and your readers some interesting information gleaned from “Collier’s Encyclopedia Yearbooks” from the years 1961-63. As you know, the religious right often claims that the upsurge in crime and violence that plague this country […]
But it seems to me that there is a crucial difference between believing something and believing it utterly. And regardless of his or her beliefs, it seems to me that in a democracy, every citizen has an obligation to recognize that just because you believe something doesn’t make it so. We wouldn’t want to go […]
Rushworth Kidder:
“When you talk to people anywhere in the world about what they think are the most important values to hand on to the next generation, they will talk to you about five things: compassion, fairness, responsibility, honesty and respect. It’s uncanny the commonality with which those particular five values keep coming up.”
Michael Josephson:
His research […]
Alabama: Hell Yes, We Have Electricity
Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can’t Be Wrong!
Arizona: But It’s A Dry Heat
Arkansas: Literacy Ain’t Everything
California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than
Your Honda
Colorado: If You Don’t Ski, Don’t Bother
Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy’s
Don’t Own It Yet
Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water
Florida: Ask […]
French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban of Non-Existence of God
By
Michael Kelly
The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taliban zealots by proving the non-existence of God.
Elements from […]
God is not sufficient to prevent evil, and is not necessary to create good.
Blake Maddux, Resident of Lancaster
March 4 2002 http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/news/stories/20020304/opinion/1757696.html
CHENEY’S BRIEF APPEARANCE, RETURN TO SECURE LOCATION MAY MEAN SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER, EXPERTS SAY
White House Downplays Veep’s Influence Over Seasons
Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from his secure, undisclosed location to make the rounds of the morning news programs this Sunday, but then immediately returned to his hiding place — indicating that America may […]
A woman takes her 16-year-old daughter to the doctor.
The doctor
says, “Okay, Mrs. Jones, what’s the problem?”
The mother says, “It’s my daughter, Debbie. She keeps
getting these
cravings, she’s putting on weight, and is sick most
mornings.”
The doctor gives Debbie a good examination, then turns
to the mother
and says, “Well, I don’t know […]
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