Elevatorgate, 2013 edition
It sure seems like an eternity and definetely longer than 2 years since Rebecca Watson moved house and made a rather tedious video about it, one in which she briefly mentioned that she didn’t...
View ArticleImpossible!
Yes yes, I know, I said I was going to write a daily summary of proceedings at the Empowering Women through Secularism conference! But I realised during the first panel this morning, after already...
View ArticleWhat’s this about atheist monuments?
Oh mother of the holy bejesus Dave Silverman, say it isn’t so: A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten...
View ArticleWhat is it with “Skeptics” ?
There must be a rule somewhere that self-proclaimed rationalists and skeptics are more likely to be afflicted by the Dunning-Kruger effect (the title of their study was: “Unskilled and unaware of it:...
View ArticleUm, so yeah
I guess I told you so. But it’s one thing to call yourself a skeptic and feel smugly superior about it while being an illogical unreasonable shit with a ton of biases and a petunia’s ability to think...
View ArticleFuckwits
I was feeling adventurous tonight. Busy day at work, bit tired, bit more frustrated with the atheist and skeptic movement than usual, so I dared to stir the hornet’s nest a little by asking this...
View ArticleJust curious here, Atheist Foundation of Australia
When you retweeted that Mr Deity video by Brian K Dalton containing his tasteless, wrong and embarrassingly misplaced comments on the Shermer business yesterday, hours after multiple websites had...
View ArticleA primer on Hyper-Skepticism
Hyperskeptics seem to abound these days, whenever there is a challenge to people’s long-held beliefs in the form of conflicting testimony or evidence, that testimony or evidence is dismissed by...
View ArticleWhy Atheism by itself is worthless, useless
Who is a better person, the faithful Hindu, Muslim, Jew or Christian who goes to church regularly and lives an otherwise normal life, or a non-believer? Well, I can’t tell, it is not a priori obvious...
View ArticleThere are really only 2 types of atheists
I’m a bit late to the party here, having just now come across this post on CNN’s religion blog from back in July, titled “Behold, the six types of atheists”, which reported on findings from research (I...
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