The Hazards of Belief

Mark Hamill

MrPudding wrote: »

Things are bad when you lose a libel case to a psychic.

MrP

From the article:

[The "psychic"] was quoted as saying: "It was an unjustified and unfair attack and it has been a very difficult, costly and painful process to get where I am today and to rectify that wrong.

If only she had seen it coming, then maybe she could have avoided all the difficulty and pain :pac::rolleyes:

kylith

She won the defamation because they claimed she was wearing an earpiece, and since they can't prove that she was then they lose. It has nothing to do with her supposed psychic abilities, which she is well able to fake without the need for earpieces of any kind.

Brian Shanahan

SebBerkovich wrote: »

The UK need to get their act together and fix their libel laws. It's getting more and more ridiculous.

Between Tugendhat (he seems to revel in making rulings contrary to law or evidence), that bunch of Nazi sympathisers, and Ms. Morgan the only good result would have been a highly localised meteor strike on that court room.

joseph brand

kylith wrote: »

She won the defamation because they claimed she was wearing an earpiece, and since they can't prove that she was then they lose. It has nothing to do with her supposed psychic abilities, which she is well able to fake without the need for earpieces of any kind.

Every time I hear about her, I remember watching a program following her on the road, as she went from sucker-filled venue, to sucker-filled venue.

Sitting forward, driving a brand new, cream-leather-upholstered, Land Rover she turned to the camera and said something like "It's hard work, but I don't mind doing it".

From then on, I knew. This lady is a saint. Saint Sally.

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PopePalpatine

Christianity and 50 Shades of Gray seem to have conceived a child in the irradiated wastelands surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and have spawned "spanking for Jesus": link.

Heard about that ages ago. twisted version of d/s or wha

Brown Bomber

The backstory to this is interesting. A scientist by the name Sheldrake gave a TED talk in London challenging the dogmatism amongst the scientific community. As it attacked the religion of the militant atheist, materialism, this lead to some militant atheists throwing their toys out of their prams and getting the talk removed from the TED website.

The talk itself is very enlightening. Enjoy,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-HkM3T9xk

Galvasean

He was doing quite well until 3:00 in when he was rightfully laughed at by some members of the audience after making a positively bizarre claim about mainstream science. Some of the 'dogmas' he cites are certainly worthy of challenging, but others I don't think are anywhere as near as dogmatic among the scientific community as he makes them out to be.
I'll check the rest of it out later as it's interesting enough.

Although, Brown Bomber, your insistence of equating atheism with being a religion and the overuse of the word 'militant' in your opening post probably wasn't the best way to get a forum full of atheists, whom you have a habit of annoying, to check out the video sans-cynicism.

Penn

Galvasean wrote: »

He was doing quite well until 3:00 in when he was rightfully laughed at by some members of the audience after making a positively bizarre claim about mainstream science. Some of the 'dogmas' he cites are certainly worthy of challenging, but others I don't think are anywhere as near as dogmatic among the scientific community as he makes them out to be.
I'll check the rest of it out later as it's interesting enough.

Although, Brown Bomber, your insistence of equating atheism with being a religion and the overuse of the word 'militant' in your opening post probably wasn't the best way to get a forum full of atheists, whom you have a habit of annoying, to check out the video sans-cynicism.

I should point out, this was originally posted in Conspiracy Theories but I moved it here as there was no conspiracy outlined and this forum seemed a better fit for it. So his terminology wasn't directed at the posters of this forum.

robindch

Brown Bomber wrote: »

A scientist by the name Sheldrake gave a TED talk in London [...]

Mr Sheldrake stopped doing science many years ago and in recognition of that fact, that post has been moved here, to the "Hazards of Belief" thread.

Dades

Context is king.

Brown Bomber wrote: »

The backstory to this is interesting. A scientist by the name Sheldrake gave a TED talk in London challenging the dogmatism amongst the scientific community. As it attacked the religion of the militant atheist, materialism, this lead to some militant atheists throwing their toys out of their prams and getting the talk removed from the TED website.

The talk itself is very enlightening. Enjoy,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-HkM3T9xk

Brown Bomber

robindch wrote: »

Mr Sheldrake stopped doing science many years ago and in recognition of that fact, that post has been moved here, to the "Hazards of Belief" thread.

I don't understand. Could you explain this? What is the significance of it being moved to "Hazards of Belief" thread?

Brown Bomber

Can anyone explain what the purpose of this stickied thread is?

robindch

Brown Bomber wrote: »

What is the significance of it being moved to "Hazards of Belief" thread?

As Penn pointed out above, your thread was moved from Conspiracy Theories and as it didn't warrant a separate thread here, the posts were moved -- as I said above -- into this thread which is the forum's best match for Mr Sheldrake and his silly ideas.

Brown Bomber wrote: »

Can anyone explain what the purpose of this stickied thread is?

As the thread title and the OP suggest, this thread is for posts about the human tendency to elevate unevidenced beliefs over reality, and the people who do that kind of thing. Mr Sheldrake fits this description well.

endacl

When I typed 'morphic resonance' into my phone, 'morphic' was autocorrected to 'moronic'.

What does my phone know that Sheldrake doesn't?

recedite

Anyone else detect a strong morphic resonance between Dr. Shelduck and our own Minister Shatter?
I wonder if this good doctor also has an inherited habitual antipathy towards any bearded eastern types having a Ming resonance?

Bannasidhe

recedite wrote: »

Anyone else detect a strong morphic resonance between Dr. Shelduck and our own Minister Shatter?
I wonder if this good doctor also has an inherited habitual antipathy towards any bearded eastern types having a Ming resonance?

Shatter doesn't like Jebus??? :eek:

legspin

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Shatter doesn't like Jebus??? :eek:

He's jewish so probably not.

Bannasidhe

legspin wrote: »

He's jewish so probably not.

So was Jebus.

robindch

Keeping god's planes airworthy doesn't come cheap:

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2013/06/pastor-mark-barclay-jet-repaint-79000
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2013/06/new-light-church-50000-helicopter-blades

recedite

That's a very good deal from Helicopter preacher, I'm tempted...

Bishop I.V. Hilliard told parishioners that if they each donated $52 to the church’s aviation department, which would in turn pay for the helicopter replacement blades, they would receive a car of their choice as a blessing from God that would arrive in either 52 days or 52 weeks

I'm not so sure about Jet preacher. He makes contradictory statements. First he says;

The airplane does belong to Him and not me

But then a few lines down its;

I must have this aircraft...

:pac:

PopePalpatine

B-b-b-but recedite, you're taking his statements out of context! :pac:

Hotblack Desiato

So this miracle new car - does it just appear on the driveway by magic? Do you get to choose the colour, or maybe add a few options??

Gbear

A brief history of Scientology for anyone who isn't au fait with it:



How the **** did anyone ever fall for that bollocks in the first place. You'd think that 1975 would be too late to invent literally the most stupid religion ever conceived (and that's saying quite a bit).

endacl

Gbear wrote: »

How the **** did anyone ever fall for that bollocks in the first place. You'd think that 1975 would be too late to invent literally the most stupid religion ever conceived (and that's saying quite a bit).

The only counter to stupid is non-stupid. And there's quite a shortage of non-stupid about...

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

The only counter to stupid is non-stupid. And there's quite a shortage of non-stupid about...

There does seem to be a lot of people about who find thinking a bit of a challenge.

endacl

Bannasidhe wrote: »

There does seem to be a lot of people about who find thinking a bit of a challenge.

Sky King

Gbear wrote: »

How the **** did anyone ever fall for that bollocks in the first place. You'd think that 1975 would be too late to invent literally the most stupid religion ever conceived (and that's saying quite a bit).

It's just because we're unfamiliar with it. It's no crazier than Christianity.

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from something invisible called your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat an apple from a magical tree.

-Urban Dictionary.

kiffer

Sky King wrote: »

It's just because we're unfamiliar with it. It's no crazier than Christianity.

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from something invisible called your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat an apple from a magical tree.

-Urban Dictionary.

Symbolically eat his flesh?
I was taught that it was literally his living flesh that just happened to taste like cardboard.

endacl

kiffer wrote: »

Symbolically eat his flesh?
I was taught that it was literally his living flesh that just happened to taste like cardboard.

It was the climate you see. Jebus didn't moisturise.