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@robert That is a seriously good reply 🙂

No

The nearest I have to a phobia is for jellyfish. Luckily I don’t run into them often

@tomsarbeck I think it’s the guilt. When those trying to shed the chains of Catholicism feel guilty about something, it drags them back to the confessional as they have not learned how to process guilt in a secular way.

The man, a University of Auckland academic who has not been named, was fired after he was found trying to make a Muslim woman shake his hand before making the complaint according to an email from vice-chancellor Stuart McCutcheon.

Mr McCutcheon said the man did it intentionally knowing it was culturally and religiously inappropriate to ask the…

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@regthefronkeyfarmer I think he’s on the bus again 🙂

The article nuance is that the academic who was fired was well aware of the custom of not shaking hands with females of Muslim religion, and attempted to provoke a discrimination charge.  I somehow doubt that hand shaking is an integral part of the schools education process, and it would appear, from the article, that the academic was trying to…[Read more]

“No one created our universe, and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”

Stephen Hawking

How sad, and yet how amazing his life was.  Born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, the news of Stephens death reaches us on Albert Einstein’s birthday. He was proud of the Galileo connection, so I imagine the Einstein birthday thing would have pleased him too.

He inspired so many people.

Would you like me to list some authors who have written about a pink unicorn?

Hi @Michael17 you’ll have to be specific about the source and what it specifies.  Well your several repuditable independent sources, actually.

@michael17 it’s as if I announced that I was in search of a pink unicorn, I’d read about it from many sources, even seen pictures, but I’d yet to find it.  It would trigger incredulous responses and I wouldn’t be taken seriously. What is the difference?

@regthefronkeyfarmer good luck with the horses!

@michael17 I have no idea of what you would call a miracle. I’m presuming it would be something that defies the laws of science as we understand them. What exactly are you looking for?

So basically, @michael17 , you are saying that miracles are necessary to evidence the ‘true’ god/Jesus/entity and that because there are no miracles evidenced in the current worldwide religious organizations, those organizations are false.  You are saying that evidence of miracles is needed to authenticate the religious groups. As there is no…[Read more]