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Low-level anxiety, procrastination, jittery energy useless for humdrum work, bad overall energy levels if you consume alot of strong coffee, painful wakeup in the morning, adrenali…

Marsha Hunt, actress now aged 102, on her family: "I lucked into the most fortuitous, warm, constructive kind of family context imaginable. My father was a top scholar, a Phi Beta …

The Middle-East was actually pretty Ok until the secular West decided to interfere and upset the balance of powers. As for harm more generally, historically religious wars are at 7…

I live among Christians and we're pretty happy. The only atheist is also the one screw-up and his life is a mess. Statistically, Christians live longer than non-believers.

Depends what version of Christianity you're thinking of. After all, the inventor of the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest (top physicist first), and the father of modern geneti…

"The power of this disquieting portrait of divinity—a persona unseeing, all-knowing, eternal, pitiless." I agree. Completely the opposite of the 'suffering god' of pure self-giving…

That painting is a mockery of who it purports to represent. It's very well done.

MySql is the PHP of databases. Easy to get in to, but soon becomes a mire of pitfalls, exceptions, ambiguities etc. PHP introduced me to the mindblow of having to use a lookup tabl…

Why is there no Christian god? Where does the 'absolute not' come from? I ask that for two reasons: scientist Christians clergyman invented the Big Bang theory AND are at the root …

How was what I wrote a 'flamewar'? And especially in the context of the anti-religious views that elsewhere were not flagged nor called flamewars. What's your agenda, Dang? Politic…

Yet I spelled out that much of Christianity (at least; if not other religions) have no issue with the fundamental scientific claims that are said to disprove religious claims. That…

You mean you suppose it to be imaginary. The example isn't the same as religious claims. Firstly because all religious people claim that the 'invisible' friend will talk back if yo…

cannoneshamster: "Your post is full of strawmen and logical fallacies." You've made a lot of assertions about my 'logical fallacies' without any reasoned demonstration. How am I me…

"Nope. A-theist simply means someone who lacks theism." Actually it was coined by theists without a strict reference to the greek and was defined as "To Deny the gods/God". Lately,…

A great deal of speculation in that article. Sounds more like psycotherapy ideas than real psychology/neuroscience. Meanwhile, let's look at the (paraphrased) claims: "Science is n…

Veganism unavoidably implies a moral superiority where vegetarianism doesn't. That's pretty irritating. It also just doesn't mesh with most people's understanding of simple animals…

This is only an issue because Donald Trump is misrepresented as being racist and anti-immigration when he has only talked of illegal immigration and the problem of Islamic migrants…

The gender gap is an IQ spread difference. Search "iq sexes" and look at the graphs. The average is the same (in most studies), but there are far more extremely dumb males and far …

Before anyone goes vegan, check-out the numerous ex-vegan videos on youtube. Even with supplementation veganism isn't sustainable for most people past 3 years, 10 if you're lucky, …

The wonderfully mad thing about UK politics is that the socialists are very much against the EU and for leaving, but their nominally socialist party, the Labour Party, is Remainer …

"As long as everyone gets the same voucher, same amount for voucher, and has guaranteed public transportation to the same schools as others, with no regard for race, ethnicity, bac…

A healthy capitalism is expressed by G K Chesterton, and is an argument against liberal capitalism,which even Thatcher did not support: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many …

...or trust the government with the education of your children. As much as the Left sneer at it, a voucher system would give people the liberty to choose the schools they want and …

It's quite incredible how progressives defend Islam. The self-deceiving needed is pathological. They are teetering on the edge of insanity. As a religious person I would prefer an …

I heard Fred Hoyle when he came to lecture at my school in the 80s (a prestigious, rich boys school). It was one of the few places willing to give him the time as his views were va…