Interesting Stuff Thread

Dades · 2006-09-14 14:24:01

Hey folks, About time we had a sticky for links that users of this forum may find interesting. Links don't have to be specifically atheist/agnostic related, but should have some relevance to the topics that crop up here. It might also be best to keep links to news articles or humour pages (with the exception of the Lego…

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#902 15-09-2010 11:19AM

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lol i love that website its really good, the best ones have best written in bold on the right a bit

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#903 17-09-2010 12:06PM

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this is just bizarre, and i can't see it standing up on appeal.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0917/1224279094345.html

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#904 17-09-2010 12:13PM

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magicbastarder wrote: »

this is just bizarre, and i can't see it standing up on appeal.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0917/1224279094345.html

holy **** , this state is secular this is total bull

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#905 17-09-2010 02:18PM

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magicbastarder wrote: »

this is just bizarre, and i can't see it standing up on appeal.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0917/1224279094345.html

The mind boggles?! I'd be interested to hear the questions he asks him to determine if he did it.

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#906 17-09-2010 04:42PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y&feature=related <interesting

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#907 17-09-2010 04:57PM

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A poll in After Hours is currently showing that, of around four hundred polled, 85% do not go to mass:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056034332#

There's hope for this country yet

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#908 17-09-2010 04:58PM

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robindch wrote: »

A poll in After Hours is currently showing that, of around four hundred polled, 85% do not go to mass:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056034332#

There's hope for this country yet

They're probably all 'Catholics' though. :mad:

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#909 17-09-2010 07:14PM

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ColmDawson wrote: »

They're probably all 'Catholics' though. :mad:

AH tends to be pretty skewed compared to the country at large. There's quite a lot of atheists on the internet.

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#910 17-09-2010 09:21PM

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The Mad Hatter wrote: »

AH tends to be pretty skewed compared to the country at large. There's quite a lot of atheists on the internet.

Lots of atheists on the internet...lots of porn on the internet...:eek:

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#911 18-09-2010 12:16PM

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magicbastarder wrote: »

this is just bizarre, and i can't see it standing up on appeal.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0917/1224279094345.html

I think more stuff like this should be done. The saying a few prayers bit was a bit off the wall cause it would only apply so certain people but any able bodied person can be told to go climb a mountain. Mind you, I do think a couple of weeks picking up rubbish is a more productive and positive punishment.

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#912 19-09-2010 08:26AM

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sonicthebadger* wrote: »

I think more stuff like this should be done. The saying a few prayers bit was a bit off the wall cause it would only apply so certain people but any able bodied person can be told to go climb a mountain. Mind you, I do think a couple of weeks picking up rubbish is a more productive and positive punishment.

in the spirit of compromise they should make him pick up rubbish on his way up the mountain.

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#913 20-09-2010 10:59PM

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Hitch (with cancer) debating:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/232872

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#914 21-09-2010 03:04PM

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Church crisis as bishops revolt on mandatory clerical celibacy

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/church-crisis-as-bishops-revolt-on-mandatory-clerical-celibacy-2345503.html

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#915 21-09-2010 09:36PM

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Dave! wrote: »

Hitch (with cancer) debating:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/232872

lol @ the woman laughing around 3 minutes!!

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#916 21-09-2010 10:20PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrA-8rTxXf0

For the physically-minded person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_MpQG2xXVo

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#917 22-09-2010 01:43AM

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Dave! wrote: »

Hitch (with cancer) debating:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/232872

Want...to watch...but...must sleep...

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#918 22-09-2010 01:47AM

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The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Want...to watch...but...must sleep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-mS5nr-dU8

/on part 5...

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#919 22-09-2010 01:53AM

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WTF!! Is everyone doing up at this hour??

Me first : Study:(...er I mean..

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#920 22-09-2010 01:53AM

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Watching it now anyway. This guy he's debating against is a looper.

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#921 22-09-2010 02:14AM

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The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Watching it now anyway. This guy he's debating against is a looper.

Well I said I'd sample it and I have to agree, but he's an agnostic - always knew agnostics were loonies.:pac:

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#922 22-09-2010 02:31AM

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The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Watching it now anyway. This guy he's debating against is a looper.

I thought the guy was pretty reasonable and level headed.

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#923 22-09-2010 02:36AM

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Hm, maybe just his voice rankled me. And his equating of atheism to Nazism. And his equating of "Darwinism" and the holocaust.

Hitchens' closing argument (before the Q&A, which I'm not going to watch tonight) was superb, though.

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#924 22-09-2010 02:37AM

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strobe wrote: »

I thought the guy was pretty reasonable and level headed.

Yeah me too, thought he was quite articulate and reasonable.

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#925 22-09-2010 02:53AM

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strobe wrote: »

I thought the guy was pretty reasonable and level headed.

Until he pulled out the Nazi Darwinism :pac:, Hitchens was qualifying the
guy using the same old arguments except for the French history bit.
Considering the topic it was to be expected but we could have gotten
an argument a bit more novel than something pulled up & answered for
in every debate... Considering this guy has written a book on the subject
you'd imagine he's well informed on these arguments. Other than that old
horse I thought he was okay if a little fresh to debating seeing as he
deferred questions. I know that there is no problem with this but I'm sure
he could have said something relevant to the discussion.

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#926 22-09-2010 04:53AM

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Brian Coxarooney interview and lecture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ87e4KIung

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#927 22-09-2010 10:52AM

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Moses could've done it

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#928 25-09-2010 10:16PM

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Don't know if this was posted before but:

http://newhumanist.org.uk/1915/god-trumps-part-i
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2002

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#929 27-09-2010 09:54AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7BlcWDW-s

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#930 28-09-2010 05:39PM

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Here is an interesting science-related post:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1

Do read the comments

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#931 28-09-2010 05:59PM

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robindch wrote: »

Here is an interesting science-related post:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1

Do read the comments

"This fragment will be put on its own line for no obvious reason."

This is the best thing I've ever read out of this paper, the guy has it
characterized perfectly. Honestly this is why I try not to read popular
science magazine's because they all follow this monotonous pattern.

I think this article made my day, well another comment in a book from
the 1930's about Negro's catching up to the civilized white man also had
me laughing in the street but I think it's been replaced by this

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