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Sorry for the simplified / cruddy English It isn't my first language and I had a booze or 2 (3+ ;) ) when I came up with this.
So I was reading Hawking's Brief history of time late at night when I could not get the sandman to come near. During reading his explanation of entropy something struck...
This is a quote from the book 1984 by George Orwelll.
In Part three it contains a quote which deals with common sense
(I am sorry for any mistakes in this posts, I was intoxicated while typing )
for the people not familiar witth the book, the main person is in a cell where he is being...
Re: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exist
The dutch news network NOS just reported that the NASA found life with different elementary building blocks than our own.
Where instead all the organisms we knew uses Phosphorus as a building block a small bacteria at Lake Mono...
I agree Christian 'Rock' music is as retarded as the idea of a god who has a personal connection with all humans on Earth.
But it is everyone's right to make the music they want to make. Just ignore it, if it makes these people happy I can't see the harm in it. Most music nowadays is crap...
To clarify, I used the term poison because of the subtitle of Hitchens's book that made me think how it affects the daily life.
Not in the 'poison that destroys you from the inside' poison.
I remember one other instance where religion interfered with my daily life.
A few years ago I met a...
In the first chapter of the Christopher Hitchens book God is not great Hitchens writes that he would have no problem with religion, and leave religions alone if that they in turn leave me alone.
This got me thinking, in what ways does religion influences me and my daily activities.
Then I...
Maybe it's better to read the book first before everybody starts spewing there 'knowledge' on the subject.
This seems like a publicity stunt for the release, and it worked cause I'm buying the book as soon as it hits the shelves.
I spend a lot of time reading up on this guy. Since I am Dutch i got to vote on him ( I didn't I voted on the Pirate party FYI).
but this interview he gave to muslimsdebate.com buried herself in my memory and I'd like to share it with you.
I first visited an Islamic country in 1982. I was 18...
Hey LOR.
After spending a few hours (or days I can't remember) watching videos and reading texts on the intertubes i surfed across this website and decided to participate.
A few years ago I had some pretty bad experiences with the local religious authorities.
(They told my mother that god...