Strega

I honestly think that tolerance and acceptance have been tremendously accelerated by the advent of the Internet. It enables people to experience societal influences from outside of their own community. Television and radio news had the adverse effect of installing fear of unknown communities. The Internet is the worlds biggest ever experiment…[Read more]

My atheist mother sent me to Sunday School when I was 11 years old. I was astonished. On the first Sunday, I got into the philosophical message of the prodigal son. I’ve never agreed with the message and it appeared that the teacher wasn’t able to explain it either. Giving some thought to WHY my mother actually sent me, I came to the…[Read more]

@joko Please take three and a half minutes to review the attached YouTube video of Stephen Fry of QI on the BBC on the subject of crop circles 🙂

Thanks

Strega

At that age we like to do the exact opposite of what our parents would like. If they weren’t indoctrinated as children, they’re probably just exploring. I suspect the less you show it bothers you, the sooner the novelty will wear off.

How old are they?

Make sure you mock and disrespect them, the mocking is quite important, I think. (Who am I kidding its such a load of bollocks)

@Davis. Whatever you do, once you’ve libated the tarot cards, do nothing else that might jinx you, so as to keep the experiment clean.

If Simon is correct, what do you want on your tombstone?

@Simonpaynton. You are seriously setting Davis up for what you believe will be a disaster? If I had information on how to persuade someone to do something I believed would damage them, I think I’d be keeping that to myself!

It’s not the fact that nothing is going to happen to @Davis that would not have happened if he hadn’t brutalized the cards.…[Read more]

@Simonpaynton. Exactly how do you propose to evidence the absence of bad luck? It’s rather tricky to prove the absence of something, as you know from trying to evidence atheism as the position of reason.

If @Davis runs out of toothpaste the day after he ate garlic, is that bad luck? If he doesn’t get a promotion he was hoping for, is that bad…[Read more]

@simonpaynton as far as I recall, you think horoscopes work too. These sorts of beliefs might stem from a need to place order and predictability on what would otherwise be perceived as a chaotic and random existence. It seems to give reassurance that there’s a big master plan out there that humans can tap into.

Honestly Simon, if you took one…[Read more]

What Belle said 🙂

I’ll believe in miracles when Bovine Jesus turns my wafer into filet mignon

Ha Reg, you managed it.

Too bad, too late. I’ve got the visual now, and I’m not done with it yet 🙂

Not that it matters, however I was actually addressing one of the Pope’s comments above

@mriana oh please tell me Unseen has to bring his cat a toy in Unseens mouth. Would he have to do this on all fours? Fantastic!

@bellerose very likely, Occams Razor proposes the simplest answer is likely to be the correct one. Plus I kind of like the image of @Unseen‘s cat holding a toy in its mouth, staring at Unseen, commanding, “Dance, little boy! Dance and play for me!” in cat-speak.