Interesting Stuff Thread

recedite · 25-04-2013 02:49PM

This church seems to have been lucky. Its a historical quirk whereby anglican parishes act more as individual cells than other equivalent religions, so when the churches were originally built they were always set up with enough farmland around them to make their upkeep financially sustainable, and then just left to develop under local control. In an Irish context this land is called the glebe lands.

Bannasidhe · 25-04-2013 03:12PM

recedite wrote: »

This church seems to have been lucky. Its a historical quirk whereby anglican parishes act more as individual cells than other equivalent religions, so when the churches were originally built they were always set up with enough farmland around them to make their upkeep financially sustainable, and then just left to develop under local control. In an Irish context this land is called the glebe lands.

There is a borough of Sydney named Glebe as it land originally belonging to the Anglican church (well, 'belonging to' after they had removed the people who were already living there obviously...)

Hotblack Desiato · 25-04-2013 08:04PM

recedite wrote: »

This church seems to have been lucky. Its a historical quirk whereby anglican parishes act more as individual cells than other equivalent religions, so when the churches were originally built they were always set up with enough farmland around them to make their upkeep financially sustainable, and then just left to develop under local control. In an Irish context this land is called the glebe lands.

This still leads to some oddities.

FouxDaFaFa · 27-04-2013 12:48AM

I've posted about the topic before but this Vice documentary on 3d-printed guns is pretty interesting. (Just 25 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA

legspin · 28-04-2013 11:30PM

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201103/misinformation-and-facts-about-secularism-and-religion

Probably posted before but interesting nonetheless.

Turtwig · 28-04-2013 11:47PM

Totes amazeballs.
The moon is made from cheese.:eek:

PopePalpatine · 29-04-2013 11:11AM

legspin wrote: »

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201103/misinformation-and-facts-about-secularism-and-religion

Probably posted before but interesting nonetheless.

After checking t'udder forum, it seems like some of them need to read this.

Turtwig · 29-04-2013 02:45PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

After checking t'udder forum, it seems like some of them need to read this.

joseph brand · 30-04-2013 12:32AM

Do genetics influence our attitudes towards religion?

Shared beliefs

What identical twins teach us about religion

In the United States during the 50s and 60s,it was considered best to separate at birth twins who were to be adopted. This led to a number of these children being brought up by families who did not even know that their adopted baby had a twin; and sadly, the children themselves were brought up intotal ignorance of their "lost" twin.

Identical twins, of course, are formed in the uterus by the embryo splitting; so identical twins have exactly the same DNA.

Non-identical twins -growing from two separate eggs fertilised by different sperm - do not have identical genes, but will just share many general aspects of their genetic inheritance, as do any other brothers or sisters in one family unit.

If one identical twin showed evidence of religious thinking or behaviour, it was much more likely that his or her twin would answer similarly.

Non-identical twins, as might be expected (they are, after all, related), showed some similarities of thinking, but not nearly to the same degree. Crucially, the degree of religiosity was not strongly related to the environment in which the twin was brought up. Even if one identical twin had been brought up in an atheist family and the other in a religious Catholic household, they would still tend to show the same kind of religious feelings, or lack of them.

Work by several other scientists has inclined to confirm Bouchard's findings. One study, conducted by an international team at the Institute of Psychiatry in London under Dr Hans Eysenck, looked at information from twins living in the UK and Australia.

The researchers found that attitudes to Sabbath observance, divine law, church authority and the truth of the Bible showed greater congruity in identical rather than non-identical twins - again supporting the idea of a genetic influence.

An old article, but fascinating nonetheless.

Kiwi in IE · 30-04-2013 11:15PM

This is not so much interesting as funny. I was in my local Dunnes this morning and there was a poster advertising a service in the local CC where you may take your pets to have them 'blessed'. I thought I had heard it all but I nearly fell about laughing. Am tempted to take my two felines along on leads and beg that they be baptised so they won't go to 'hell', just to take the piss.

Turtwig · 30-04-2013 11:16PM

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

This is not so much interesting as funny. I was in my local Dunnes this morning and there was a poster advertising a service in the local CC where you may take your pets to have them 'blessed'. I thought I had heard it all but I nearly fell about laughing. Am tempted to take my two felines along on leads and beg that they be baptised so they won't go to 'hell', just to take the piss.

Odd, I might be wrong here but I think in Catholic Theology animals don't have souls. So why the fook would you be baptising them?

Edit: Yeah typical Catholicism stuff. Animals don't have souls like ours, but they do apparently have a type of soul.
Linky.

Bannasidhe · 30-04-2013 11:20PM

Jernal wrote: »

Odd, I might be wrong here but I think in Catholic Theology animals don't have souls. So why the fook would you be baptising them?

Because it's well known that only a splash of the holy water can contain and control the wildness of the average pussy.

Kiwi in IE · 30-04-2013 11:27PM

Jernal wrote: »

Odd, I might be wrong here but I think in Catholic Theology animals don't have souls. So why the fook would you be baptising them?

The local CC is offering to 'bless' not 'baptise' them. I assume something that dosn't have a soul must be able to be 'blessed'. I just added the bit about asking for them to be baptised to take the mickey

Turtwig · 30-04-2013 11:31PM

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

The local CC is offering to 'bless' not 'baptise' them. I assume something that dosn't have a soul must be able to be 'blessed'. I just added the bit about asking for them to be baptised to take the mickey

Oh yeah anything - even the roads- can be blessed.

Bannasidhe · 30-04-2013 11:32PM

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

The local CC is offering to 'bless' not 'baptise' them. I assume something that dosn't have a soul must be able to be 'blessed'. I just added the bit about asking for them to be baptised to take the mickey

Well obviously animals can't be baptised as they are incapable of understanding the deep meaning and commitment of the act of baptism - not like 3 day old baybees. They are totally down with it.

Kiwi in IE · 30-04-2013 11:33PM

Jernal wrote: »

Edit: Yeah typical Catholicism stuff. Animals don't have souls like ours, but they do apparently have a type of soul.
Linky.

Hmmmm just checked out the linky. So too apparently, do plants. Well I really should have had the daffodils baptised before they died off.

How do these get taken seriously by so many?

Kiwi in IE · 30-04-2013 11:42PM

Quotes from linky:

all living things have a soul. Here soul is defined as what makes an organic body live. Now when any living thing dies, its soul is separated from its body. In the case of plants and animals the soul goes out of existence.

And then in the next paragraph:

Secondly, the soul is immortal. A thing which has no physical parts cannot fall apart or be poisoned or be crushed or be put out of existence.

Hmmmmm Really?

Sarky · 30-04-2013 11:47PM

Systems biology really needs to be brought into the biology curriculum, it might help stop all this soul bollocks.

Bannasidhe · 30-04-2013 11:50PM

Sarky wrote: »

Systems biology really needs to be brought into the biology curriculum, it might help stop all this soul bollocks.

Can't be discussing that now - I'm too concerned about kiwi's daffs (maytheyrestinpeace).

Turtwig · 30-04-2013 11:54PM

So really the moral question here is : Should plants have funerals?
What about plant marriage too. I know there's pollination to take into account there but still wide radius or not some accommodations can be made.

Kiwi in IE · 01-05-2013 12:10AM

Jernal wrote: »

So really the moral question here is : Should plants have funerals?
What about plant marriage too. I know there's pollination to take into account there but still wide radius or not some accommodations can be made.

No it's ok they don't need religious rituals because their 'souls' go out of existence when they die. However apparently souls can't go out of existence. I don't know I'm confused.

kiffer · 01-05-2013 12:38AM

Wait... if I can't get the dog baptised, just blessed, how will I get him into the local dog school?
I insist that you baptise my dog and provide a baptismal certificate.
So what if dogs can't understand it, neither can babies.

Hotblack Desiato · 01-05-2013 01:26AM

Jernal wrote: »

Oh yeah anything - even the roads- can be blessed.

http://corporate.aerlingus.com/mediacentre/75thanniversary/

All Aer Lingus aircraft are traditionally named after Saints. The decision to do so began in 1946, following discussions on how best to project an Irish image to the world. The first annual blessing of the Aer Lingus fleet took place on 23rd July 1947. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. Kenry, C.C., of Swords, Co Dublin.

They still have saints' names - wonder if they still perform the blessings? Do the blessings need to be topped up during a major maintenance check?

Sulla Felix · 01-05-2013 08:40AM

ninja900 wrote: »

http://corporate.aerlingus.com/mediacentre/75thanniversary/

They still have saints' names - wonder if they still perform the blessings? Do the blessings need to be topped up during a major maintenance check?

In fairness to them, they don't have St appended to the front, and from looking up lists of saints for that confirmation thread a while ago, you'd be hard pressed to pick a name that wasn't a saints at some stage.

Edit: Forgot I came to actually post something.

Polar hurricane on Saturn! Pictures!

http://www.livemint.com/Multimedia/RBxIwIDZEMtlp2xkF8yhUN/Saturn-hurricane-captured-by-NASA.html

robindch · 01-05-2013 09:09AM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Polar hurricane on Saturn! Pictures!

False color though -- was very disappointed, but still, WTF, that's one mean-looking hurricane.

Hotblack Desiato · 01-05-2013 09:11AM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

In fairness to them, they don't have St appended to the front

They do on one side of the plane in English (the other side has the Irish name, with no St or Naomh) http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Aer-Lingus

kylith · 01-05-2013 10:24AM

Jernal wrote: »

So really the moral question here is : Should plants have funerals?
What about plant marriage too. I know there's pollination to take into account there but still wide radius or not some accommodations can be made.

And if I pull the stamens off of lilies is that contraception?

ninja900 wrote: »

http://corporate.aerlingus.com/mediacentre/75thanniversary/

They still have saints' names - wonder if they still perform the blessings? Do the blessings need to be topped up during a major maintenance check?

...how best to project an Irish image to the world...

Because it's not like we have 5,000 years of our own myths and legends to choose names from :rolleyes:

Hotblack Desiato · 01-05-2013 09:34PM

Jernal wrote: »

So really the moral question here is : Should plants have funerals?

Yes.
But don't send flowers, obviously.

legspin · 02-05-2013 10:06AM

http://dedalvs.tumblr.com/post/48998678919/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier

A collection of crackingly good ideas.

Obliq · 02-05-2013 10:31AM

legspin wrote: »

http://dedalvs.tumblr.com/post/48998678919/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier

A collection of crackingly good ideas.

Cool! Loads of deadly ideas. Am loving the bagel/cd pack

AND the pancake mix squeezy bottle. Genius.

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