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  • the nonsense of happiness studies

    All these so called happiness studies are complete nonsense because they rely on a person reporting their own happiness, which anyone with a little bit of common sense knows is a completely unreliable indicator. I'm sure you'd find drones living in cults to be among the ''happiest'' people in the world by these standards. How many truly ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by samalex on November 7, 2008
  • Vintage Hitchens destroys Gov Palin's remains

    Mr Hitchens warns us of his ire with the 2 year campaign in his 1st sentence which goes far from being soured gastric juices. A manufacturing chemist who works daily with the most toxic compounds will identiy the composition of Mr Hitchins's 1st sentence for us shortly. I wish to be enlightened. Sarah Palin's remains, political & earthly, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on October 28, 2008
  • Mike's Buyers Guide to God - Part III

    Hard Copy Whatever it is you want in a God, you probably want it in writing. In the form of stone tablets, sheets or scrolls of papyrus, illuminated vellum manuscripts, gold plates or cheap paperbacks, most religions can provide you with their histories and beliefs, their do's and don'ts. If this were a buyers guide to cars or ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Eckolake on February 27, 2008
  • Mike's Buyers Guide to God - Part II

    Unless you follow St. Augustine of Hippo or John Calvin, who, by the way, never even made Saint, let alone Patron Saint of Brewers as Augustine did, you have something called free will and, yes, that's an enormous burden as well as an empowering freedom. And, for God's sake, if you're firmly in that predestination camp, pass this on at once to ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Eckolake on February 26, 2008
  • Mike's Buyers Guide to God - Part I

    Find the religion that's right for you by answering these two questions: What do I want from God? and What does God want from me? Whether you're a first time shopper or just no longer satisfied with your current spiritual affiliation, you need help. If you were looking for a new house or car your local bookstore's shelves would be ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Eckolake on February 26, 2008
  • if scientology isn't a cult then battlefield earth is the greatest motion picture since citizen kane

    perusing the list of (generally valid) gripes that have been posted in response to oppenheimer's defense of the religious bona fides of scientology, i notice one rather obvious grievance has been left out: how can oppenheimer--purportedly a professional writer--claim that any religion is or is not a cult when he hasn't even bothered to define what ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by locdog on August 1, 2007