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Well folks, today marks the end of my 28th year on the planet earth and the beginning of the 29th. Yup, Happy Birthday to me!!
Also, this marks the two year anniversary of the first blog I ever posted. You see, my first ever blog was posted around 6AM on my birthday in 2006. I had returned from drunken strip club adventures and finally decided to set up a MySpace account from which to blog (although I obviously migrated over here later). I don't know if you've ever tried to do that while drunk..... not particularly easy. About a month later, I finally decided to put some effort into producing blogs on a regular basis and I put out a sort of blogging mission statement as a jumping off point.
Now, I realize I haven't been posting much lately, and for that I apologize. Apparently working on a Ph.D. is a lot of work. On top of that, my personal time has been chock full of things to do that preclude blogging. And as much as I like you fine people, my new lady friend is far more entertaining than writing stuff for you.
I don't foresee being able to write anything significant in the near future, so I figured I would take this two year anniversary as an opportunity to do a little something to keep you occupied. I have gone through my blogs and found some classics that I either like, or that I think provide some insight into yours truly. This is an opportunity for those of you who only recently found my amazing site to get better acquainted with it. So without further ado.......
One of the early blog series I wrote was about my name. I decided to explore the intricacies of where my name came from and what it means:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Next we have one of the long running series here, my viewing suggestions. Basically, I inform everyone that they should be watching some movie or TV show. Some of my favourites are listed below:
I - Coupling
III - Free Enterprise
VI - Thank You for Smoking
XI - Orwell Rolls in His Grave
XVI - The Mythbusters
XXII - Way of the Gun
XXVI - Sicko
XXVIII - Californication
Next we have the collection of procrastination blogs, designed to help you waste some time on a Friday afternoon. Because we all know, working on Friday afternoon is ten shades of suck!
I - Ultimate Showdown & Kitten Cannon
IV - Geography, Monkey Cliff Diving and Stick Men
VIII - Boneless Girl, Bullet Time Fighting and Self-Defense
XVI - Some xkcd Favourites
XVIII - Stephen Lynch
XX - Particles
XXIII - Attraction
XXX - Adult-Oriented Games
Yet another regular series involves me telling you folks about some scientific item that I find particularly interesting. It's basically a chance for me to nerd-out a little and not feel like I'm doing it alone.
I - Dark Matter
IV - Wireless Energy Systems
V - Hubble Deep Field
X - Super Chimp Memory
XII - Dextre the Robot
On the fun side of things, I have also participated in a few of those memes that have been floating around the blogosphere:
Nearest Book Meme
Nearest Book Meme - Home Edition
Make Your Own Band
Google #1
I have made several posts about a movie game where you mix up titles to movies starring the same actor. I had loads-o-fun with it, so you may too.
First
Second
Third
Finally, I have made several interesting (at least I think they are interesting) posts on a variety of subjects including life, science, politics and religion. Rather than break things into categories, I have listed some of my favourites all together below. The ones with an asterisk I thought were particularly good.
*Surgery Gobots and Hercules..... Oh My!
A is for Atheist
On the Art of Giving a Decent Technical Presentation
An Open Letter to the Drivers of El Paso
Hookt on Foniks Wurked for Me
*A Dr. Phil Blog? WTF?
*The Four Big Bangs? WTF?
The Chase
*Anti-Intellectualism and the Value of Education
My Car, uh, doesn't exist
*Harvey the Wonder Hamster
I'm in Love with Mary Jane
Double Standard
Chad Gets Political
Answers in the Face of Death
*Grandma O's Jam
Why You Should Quit Smoking
So people, I now say unto you...... Go forth and read anything that you find interesting from above. Leave comments and they shall be replied to. I will try to write something new in the near future.
Cheers,
Me
Also, this marks the two year anniversary of the first blog I ever posted. You see, my first ever blog was posted around 6AM on my birthday in 2006. I had returned from drunken strip club adventures and finally decided to set up a MySpace account from which to blog (although I obviously migrated over here later). I don't know if you've ever tried to do that while drunk..... not particularly easy. About a month later, I finally decided to put some effort into producing blogs on a regular basis and I put out a sort of blogging mission statement as a jumping off point.
Now, I realize I haven't been posting much lately, and for that I apologize. Apparently working on a Ph.D. is a lot of work. On top of that, my personal time has been chock full of things to do that preclude blogging. And as much as I like you fine people, my new lady friend is far more entertaining than writing stuff for you.
I don't foresee being able to write anything significant in the near future, so I figured I would take this two year anniversary as an opportunity to do a little something to keep you occupied. I have gone through my blogs and found some classics that I either like, or that I think provide some insight into yours truly. This is an opportunity for those of you who only recently found my amazing site to get better acquainted with it. So without further ado.......
One of the early blog series I wrote was about my name. I decided to explore the intricacies of where my name came from and what it means:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Next we have one of the long running series here, my viewing suggestions. Basically, I inform everyone that they should be watching some movie or TV show. Some of my favourites are listed below:
I - Coupling
III - Free Enterprise
VI - Thank You for Smoking
XI - Orwell Rolls in His Grave
XVI - The Mythbusters
XXII - Way of the Gun
XXVI - Sicko
XXVIII - Californication
Next we have the collection of procrastination blogs, designed to help you waste some time on a Friday afternoon. Because we all know, working on Friday afternoon is ten shades of suck!
I - Ultimate Showdown & Kitten Cannon
IV - Geography, Monkey Cliff Diving and Stick Men
VIII - Boneless Girl, Bullet Time Fighting and Self-Defense
XVI - Some xkcd Favourites
XVIII - Stephen Lynch
XX - Particles
XXIII - Attraction
XXX - Adult-Oriented Games
Yet another regular series involves me telling you folks about some scientific item that I find particularly interesting. It's basically a chance for me to nerd-out a little and not feel like I'm doing it alone.
I - Dark Matter
IV - Wireless Energy Systems
V - Hubble Deep Field
X - Super Chimp Memory
XII - Dextre the Robot
On the fun side of things, I have also participated in a few of those memes that have been floating around the blogosphere:
Nearest Book Meme
Nearest Book Meme - Home Edition
Make Your Own Band
Google #1
I have made several posts about a movie game where you mix up titles to movies starring the same actor. I had loads-o-fun with it, so you may too.
First
Second
Third
Finally, I have made several interesting (at least I think they are interesting) posts on a variety of subjects including life, science, politics and religion. Rather than break things into categories, I have listed some of my favourites all together below. The ones with an asterisk I thought were particularly good.
*Surgery Gobots and Hercules..... Oh My!
A is for Atheist
On the Art of Giving a Decent Technical Presentation
An Open Letter to the Drivers of El Paso
Hookt on Foniks Wurked for Me
*A Dr. Phil Blog? WTF?
*The Four Big Bangs? WTF?
The Chase
*Anti-Intellectualism and the Value of Education
My Car, uh, doesn't exist
*Harvey the Wonder Hamster
I'm in Love with Mary Jane
Double Standard
Chad Gets Political
Answers in the Face of Death
*Grandma O's Jam
Why You Should Quit Smoking
So people, I now say unto you...... Go forth and read anything that you find interesting from above. Leave comments and they shall be replied to. I will try to write something new in the near future.
Cheers,
Me
I love it when someone takes up a word that has been grossly misused and gives it a new meaning. Just like the Spanish Inquisitor, deriving his name from his own urge to find out more about what religions tell us and about the eternal question when it comes to religion and faith: fact or fiction? This is inquisition at its best, what cannot be said of its historical precursor some centuries ago in Catholic Spain.
The Spanish Inquisitor presents Humanist Symposium #18, the Age of Aquarius version. I was about to shake my skeptic head and sigh, but regained my pleasure after having read his witty comment. And I agree, astrology can be fun if you don't take this crap seriously.
As usual, this symposium is a great collection of ideas based on secular, non-religious humanism. There is some spiritual stuff, too, and I was quite surprised to follow this piece of afterlife talk among a group of women. It is such thoughts and connotations that make me say decidedly that I am not spiritual but mindful.
The symposium presents, as usual, lots of great stuff. My favourite is this piece on peace among primates, partly because it features my old professor Hans Kummer of Zurich University who supervised, three decades ago, my diploma thesis on the social behaviour of Hamadryas baboons, and partly because it is about primate behaviour which is fundamental stuff when it comes to understanding humanism, humanity, and ethics. I never would have dreamt of coming across my old professor at a blog symposium. The world is a global village, really.
I love it when someone takes up a word that has been grossly misused and gives it a new meaning. Just like the Spanish Inquisitor, deriving his name from his own urge to find out more about what religions tell us and about the eternal question when it comes to religion and faith: fact or fiction? This is inquisition at its best, what cannot be said of its historical precursor some centuries ago in Catholic Spain.
The Spanish Inquisitor presents Humanist Symposium #18, the Age of Aquarius version. I was about to shake my skeptic head and sigh, but regained my pleasure after having read his witty comment. And I agree, astrology can be fun if you don't take this crap seriously.
As usual, this symposium is a great collection of ideas based on secular, non-religious humanism. There is some spiritual stuff, too, and I was quite surprised to follow this piece of afterlife talk among a group of women. It is such thoughts and connotations that make me say decidedly that I am not spiritual but mindful.
The symposium presents, as usual, lots of great stuff. My favourite is this piece on peace among primates, partly because it features my old professor Hans Kummer of Zurich University who supervised, three decades ago, my diploma thesis on the social behaviour of Hamadryas baboons, and partly because it is about primate behaviour which is fundamental stuff when it comes to understanding humanism, humanity, and ethics. I never would have dreamt of coming across my old professor at a blog symposium. The world is a global village, really.
Curmudgeonly
If for some ungodly reason (pun intended) you just got tired of Jesus Christ being your God and Saviour, I have some good alternatives for you. Don't worry they all have many similarities with Jesus Christ you wont even know the difference. Birthday, Virgin Birth, Baptism, Ministry at the age of 30 and even miracles performed you name it, they have it.
Now the list:
1. Attis of Phrygia
2. Buddha
3. Dionysus/Bacchus
4. Hercules/Heracles
5. Horus/Osiris of Egypt
6. Krishna
7. Mithra
8. Prometheus
9. Quetzalcoatl
10. Serapis
11. Zoroaster
Compilation Source:
"The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold"
On a side note, early Christian Apologists explained to us that this pagan Gods are the Devil's way to confuse us into thinking that Jesus Christ isn't the real Son of God. The Devil created all this pagan God anticipating Jesus Christ life on Earth (Wow! the Devil must have been very clever!).
PS:
After linking the Gods from Wiki the information about the birthday and virgin birth of some where not mention. Im pretty sure that Krishna was documented to be born on December 25 and not between July 19-21, even Indian's celebrate her birthday on December 25. Weird!
Now the list:
1. Attis of Phrygia
2. Buddha
3. Dionysus/Bacchus
4. Hercules/Heracles
5. Horus/Osiris of Egypt
6. Krishna
7. Mithra
8. Prometheus
9. Quetzalcoatl
10. Serapis
11. Zoroaster
Compilation Source:
"The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold"
On a side note, early Christian Apologists explained to us that this pagan Gods are the Devil's way to confuse us into thinking that Jesus Christ isn't the real Son of God. The Devil created all this pagan God anticipating Jesus Christ life on Earth (Wow! the Devil must have been very clever!).
PS:
After linking the Gods from Wiki the information about the birthday and virgin birth of some where not mention. Im pretty sure that Krishna was documented to be born on December 25 and not between July 19-21, even Indian's celebrate her birthday on December 25. Weird!
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The man who has coined the term butterfly effect, Edward Lorenz, has died last week, aged 90. I owe him some positive thoughts regarding my life and what will remain after my death.
As you may know (else read my FAQ), I am convinced that, after my death, all of me, physically and mindwise, will cease to further exist. At the time when I stopped believing in afterlife, I admit that such thoughts have left me depressed, or at least uncomfortable. I used to push them quickly away, and that's why it is difficult for me to analyze them in hindsight. But I think that one of the negative aspects has been the idea of "no traces left" or a future state of the world "as if I never had existed". After the birth of our children, a son and a daughter, such negative thoughts faded away.
An importance booster
The "survival" of the own biological traits in the children is only one aspect, and it does not work in all those without children. Children, of course, are big events in a life. But even less important events make big differences in the outcome, thanks to the butterfly effect.
Lorenz has detected the high sensitivity of the global weather system to small changes of an initial state. Human societies are even more complex than the weather system, therefore small changes may have even more changing power.
Just an example: The world-changing effect of the World Wide Web is due to the small but important decision of Tim Berners-Lee not to patent his idea but to make it freely available.
Think your version of Back to the Future
I think I've seen two parts of the Back to the Future trilogy, and I enjoyed it. I am especially fond of those scenes when photographs or newspaper articles begin to fade away because something has changed back in the past.
I have tried to figure out the parallel world beginning with my hypothetical abortion as a fetus. I never would have been born, and this would have changed the time schedules, plans, behaviours and emotions of hundreds of people up to now, and this in turn would have changed the time schedules, plans, behaviours and emotions of thousands of people connected to these hundreds, and so on and on and on. In all those decades since my birth, hundreds of people would not have been born, but hundreds of others instead of these.
Conclusion
This planet is definitely a different place because I, the author of this blog, and you, the reader of it, have been born and changed it. Yes, we change the world. We do not need to invent the Web, or become President of the United States, or start wars or make billions of dollars. Due to the butterfly effect, every single decision of ours will make a difference, and some of these differences will have really big effects that change the world.
Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/victoriabush/48704596/
The man who has coined the term butterfly effect, Edward Lorenz, has died last week, aged 90. I owe him some positive thoughts regarding my life and what will remain after my death.
As you may know (else read my FAQ), I am convinced that, after my death, all of me, physically and mindwise, will cease to further exist. At the time when I stopped believing in afterlife, I admit that such thoughts have left me depressed, or at least uncomfortable. I used to push them quickly away, and that's why it is difficult for me to analyze them in hindsight. But I think that one of the negative aspects has been the idea of "no traces left" or a future state of the world "as if I never had existed". After the birth of our children, a son and a daughter, such negative thoughts faded away.
An importance booster
The "survival" of the own biological traits in the children is only one aspect, and it does not work in all those without children. Children, of course, are big events in a life. But even less important events make big differences in the outcome, thanks to the butterfly effect.
Lorenz has detected the high sensitivity of the global weather system to small changes of an initial state. Human societies are even more complex than the weather system, therefore small changes may have even more changing power.
Just an example: The world-changing effect of the World Wide Web is due to the small but important decision of Tim Berners-Lee not to patent his idea but to make it freely available.
Think your version of Back to the Future
I think I've seen two parts of the Back to the Future trilogy, and I enjoyed it. I am especially fond of those scenes when photographs or newspaper articles begin to fade away because something has changed back in the past.
I have tried to figure out the parallel world beginning with my hypothetical abortion as a fetus. I never would have been born, and this would have changed the time schedules, plans, behaviours and emotions of hundreds of people up to now, and this in turn would have changed the time schedules, plans, behaviours and emotions of thousands of people connected to these hundreds, and so on and on and on. In all those decades since my birth, hundreds of people would not have been born, but hundreds of others instead of these.
Conclusion
This planet is definitely a different place because I, the author of this blog, and you, the reader of it, have been born and changed it. Yes, we change the world. We do not need to invent the Web, or become President of the United States, or start wars or make billions of dollars. Due to the butterfly effect, every single decision of ours will make a difference, and some of these differences will have really big effects that change the world.
Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/victoriabush/48704596/
… they put up a sign like this:
From the article:
Pastor Byrd says the sign is not meant to be racial or political but rather to make people think. “His name is so close to Osama I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn’t recognize Christ,” Pastor Byrd said.
and:
Pastor Byrd told News Channel 7 he would ask his congregation to vote on whether to keep the sign. They voted unanimously to keep the sign up Sunday night.
Jonesville Church of God does not have any African American members.
You know what really infuriates me about this? Not that these assholes do this, but that it works. A good percentage of Americans probably “have a feeling” that Obama might be a Muslim, simply because of his name. How stupid can you get?
(via Friendly Atheist)
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If you're not familiar with Ben Stein's recent involvement with a film called "Expelled," I'll give you the short version and you can check out the rest on Wikipedia and/or through a Google search.
Essentially, Stein is the host of an anti-science screed of a movie which seeks to get people all worked up against science, biology, atheists and Planned Parenthood. I first heard of this film when he fooled some prominent biologists into being interviewed, and again later when one of the interviewees was barred from seeing the film in public. The new York Times reviewed the film and called it "a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry."
I hadn't discussed this story before because it was all over the atheist blogosphere. But the latest development in this saga has me really upset.
If you're a skeptic, you've likely heard the name "Michael Shermer." He's the founder of the Skeptics Society and of Skeptic magazine. In addition to debunking psychics and other bullshit artists, he has written books on the reasons that people believe strange things and on pseudohistory.
It was from Shermer that I first learned about the deeply delusional world of Holocaust Deniers. Before I read Shermer, I didn't realize the depth of denial some people harbor regarding the Holocaust. I found it eye opening; it was a moment in my life when I saw more clearly how the delusional thinking that is the antithesis of skepticism is not harmless. The danger of delusion, of believing things that make us happy, was something I had suspected. But it became more real and more visceral when I read about Holocaust denial.
Shermer has spent a great deal of time debunking Holocaust Deniers. Which is why I am upset at what Stein and his fellow filmmakers have done.
In their linking of evolutionary biology to all the evils of the world, they have painted creationism skeptics as contributors to the Holocaust on the oft-repeated but unsupported belief that Hitler's atrocities were driven by atheism and evolutionary biology. In their effort to smear Shermer in the film, as a person who has opposed the creationist delusion, they've convinced some Jews that this champion of the facts of the Holocaust is somehow responsible for the Holocaust.
This came to the attention of Richard Dawkins, and he's posted about it on his website in an entry called "Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda." The short version is that after seeing Expelled, a moviegoer contacted Shermer and criticized him as someone who thinks "that it was okay for [his] great-grandparents to die in the Holocaust!"
I find this to be a very sad and upsetting irony, and an example of the infectiousness of delusion. Ben Stein and the other makers of Expelled have taken up their own kind of Holocaust denial, denying the reasons why the Holocaust happened and hijacking it for their own creationist purposes. In the process they have smeared innocent people.
What they have done is absolutely despicable.
From the BBC we have this report published today demonstrating the cutting edge of current Muslim scientific thinking. Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to...
From the BBC we have this report published today demonstrating the cutting edge of current Muslim scientific thinking. Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to...
As i watch the news about rice shortage here in the Philippines, i can't help but cry seeing how hard it is living in our country if your are class D to lower C. When i saw a woman who has been in line for 4 hours just to get 2 kilos of rice begging and crying to the seller (to no avail) to give her an extra kilo because they are a family of 8, i really can't stop the tears slowly flowing from my eyes.
News about who's to blame on this crisis have become rampant:
Church urged not to interfere in population policy
Catholic Church reiterates stand vs artificial birth control
Palace not discouraging artificial birth control - Apostol
Church urged to rethink stand on population
I know rapid growth of our population is to blame in this crisis. But whose to blame about the population control? Government or Church?
Here are my rant on both sides because im tired of them pointing fingers at each other.
GOVERNMENT
As i browse the the population and family planning laws here in the Philippines, all of the laws about family planning are laws about educating people about it. How about some sort punishment or new laws? Let me give you some of the things that i can suggest:
1. Additional taxes to family exceeding 3 children - Lets help the poor to not add any more expenses.
2. Imprisonment of underage pregnancy (both the mother and father) - Underage pregnancy rate in the Philippines is really alarming.
Or something extreme like:
1. Legalization of Abortion - Very controversial, but i can add the following rules like "only before the second trimester", only when the mother is raped and can only be done once or twice.
2. Promoting Male Castration - Maybe for sex offenders or people who really can help themselves.
If only politicians are not afraid or blinded by the church. Which brings us to the other side.
CHURCH
“And God blessed them (the male and female humankind), and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it …” - Genesis 1:28
Do i still need to state my case? Anyway, I hate it when the church are taking this verse out of context! God told them this because there are only few people in the Earth that time.
Now people are confuse, the government have been teaching us about family planning and the church is teaching us the opposite. Now let me give you a scenario:
1. Who will you side with, The President who has power over the country or God who has power over us all?
2. Do want to have guiltless sex or not?
3. Heaven (Pro-Life) or Hell (Birth Control)?
Well thats very easy to answer right?
Man! Talk about separation of State and Religion!
Im just afraid that finger pointing will continue and no real solution will be found for this problem and our poor fellow Filipino brothers will suffer.
News about who's to blame on this crisis have become rampant:
Church urged not to interfere in population policy
Catholic Church reiterates stand vs artificial birth control
Palace not discouraging artificial birth control - Apostol
Church urged to rethink stand on population
I know rapid growth of our population is to blame in this crisis. But whose to blame about the population control? Government or Church?
Here are my rant on both sides because im tired of them pointing fingers at each other.
GOVERNMENT
As i browse the the population and family planning laws here in the Philippines, all of the laws about family planning are laws about educating people about it. How about some sort punishment or new laws? Let me give you some of the things that i can suggest:
1. Additional taxes to family exceeding 3 children - Lets help the poor to not add any more expenses.
2. Imprisonment of underage pregnancy (both the mother and father) - Underage pregnancy rate in the Philippines is really alarming.
Or something extreme like:
1. Legalization of Abortion - Very controversial, but i can add the following rules like "only before the second trimester", only when the mother is raped and can only be done once or twice.
2. Promoting Male Castration - Maybe for sex offenders or people who really can help themselves.
If only politicians are not afraid or blinded by the church. Which brings us to the other side.
CHURCH
“And God blessed them (the male and female humankind), and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it …” - Genesis 1:28
Do i still need to state my case? Anyway, I hate it when the church are taking this verse out of context! God told them this because there are only few people in the Earth that time.
Now people are confuse, the government have been teaching us about family planning and the church is teaching us the opposite. Now let me give you a scenario:
1. Who will you side with, The President who has power over the country or God who has power over us all?
2. Do want to have guiltless sex or not?
3. Heaven (Pro-Life) or Hell (Birth Control)?
Well thats very easy to answer right?
Man! Talk about separation of State and Religion!
Im just afraid that finger pointing will continue and no real solution will be found for this problem and our poor fellow Filipino brothers will suffer.
A federal ethics commission issues a paper, declaring that spinach has a dignity, and therefore certain behaviours against spinach should be regarded as morally not acceptable. A spinach-hating child, for instance, is not allowed to tear out spinach plants in mother's garden wantonly. The reason, according to the commission, is not the damage of this vandalizing act to the gardening mother, but the dignity of the spinach plants. In contrast, tearing out spinach plants for eating them does not hurt their dignity. The commission does not comment on the influence of cooking versus eating as salad on the dignity of spinach plants.
Does this sound like a joke? Maybe, but it really happened last week in Switzerland. Our Federal Ethics Commission is a panel of reputed philosophers, theologians, biologists and physicians. And it came, unanimously, to the conclusion that plants have a dignity that is to be respected. The spinach example is mine, not theirs, but I derived it from their own examples because I find spinach more fun than, say, beautiful flowers by the wayside. Dignity must not depend on beauty, in my view.
It seems that the philosophers and theologians have been the leading spokespersons in these discussions and that the natural science fraction has not managed to keep things down to earth.
Our leading weekend TV satire show has tried to apply the plant dignity guidelines in everyday situations. It was a real fun. For instance, the show introduced a papa tomato and a mama tomato, together with a couple of cherry tomatoes, as a family. After some heart-warming, humanizing talk, one of the anchormen outed himself as a cruel child eater. And his fellow, after peeling an onion, broke out in tears, stating that he knows now why we all weep when violating the dignity of these veggie beings.
Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/snowriderguy/250623239/
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