Waves of Enthusiasim
Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab! Summary of how the 2008 federal election went in Barrie. Starring Rick Jones, Myrna Clark, Erich Jacoby-Hawkins, Elizabeth May, and Patrick Brown as Sargent Slaughter.
The world is a fine thing to be enthusiastic about. There are so many weird things to look at that you could travel the world several times over and not spot them all. Take for example the below. This is a map of Vulcan point. View Largest Island in a lake… in a larger map [...]
[Some religious] people claim to be motivated and sustained by their faith. Do you deny that? I don’t claim. I don’t deny it. I just don’t respect. If someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction? -The Hitchens Transcript (page 2) The complete interview between [...]
As someone who participates in and reads about how hard it is to start an atheist group, I was struck by some signs while driving down a street. I found this sign. To me, and I could be wrong, this looks like a sign that the city has put up. Oh, you see them all [...]
Back in February of 2000 a doctor began refusing birth control pills to his patients.[1] When patients complained of him forcing his morality on them he said “if a Christian physician must forsake his religious beliefs to maintain his medical license, we cannot delude ourselves to believe we live in a free country.”[2] Of course, [...]
After having my phone for a couple weeks I’ve finally uploaded all of my contracts in my adderss book to my LG Dare on the Telus moble phone network. I was having troubles on both Linux and Windows. So I took the morning off today and tried to get it to work in Windows. I [...]
Excepts from Iain M. Banks’ “The Culture” series of books describing the Culture: From Iain M. Banks’ Use of Weapons, chapter XIII, page 33-37 ‘Once upon a time, over the gravity well and far away, there was a magical land where they had no kings, no laws, no money and no property, but where everybody [...]
I was listening to Tim Wise giving a talk to promote his new book “White Like Me”. Tim Wise is an anti-racism advocate. He makes an interesting point in the video I was listening to. I have often wondered why so many people vote against their interests. For example, the working class or even lower [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying that every time God closes a door he opens a window. When this was said recently someone turned to me and asked for the Humanist perspective. What a question! I’m setting aside the idea that God actively micromanages everyone’s life and is personally responsible for all the good [...]
Expectations can really let you down. I was recently listening to an episode of CBC Radio’s Definitely Not The Opera called “Great (or not so great) expectations“. This episode discussed how romance movies are killing romance and relationships (MP3 file, 51:34 minutes). That people who believe in “the one” predestined “soul mate” will be let [...]
