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Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Secretly Operating in Pakistan
FOX: Atheist Billboard Stirs God Debate
FOX: Atheist Billboard Stirs God Debate
If someone wants to limit the debate to something less esoteric like, say, the morality of the bible?...oh, I'm on it like a bonnet.
A hilarious take on Matrix Reloaded (Rifftrax)
William Shatner for the Commodore VIC-20
Howard Stern Hates Kirk Cameron
Bright green meteor fall caught on CCTV camera
a) iron
b) copper
c) god's wrath
d) the luck o' the Irish
Synchronised leg breaking
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Pissing on Jesus
Interview with Pink Floyd in 1967, interviewer hates them
What it Takes: Phoenix Anarchists face down NAZIS (NSM)
Proceeds to run them off the road with the Bluesmobile.
Converting a Young Earth Preacher to Atheism (Blog Entry by dag)
Kennedy Banned From Communion
CUNt PUNCH
Beat the Horse by Pomplamoose
Bolivian police release the world's most detailed sketch
http://aroundthesphere.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/operation-game.jpg?w=500&h=500
Palin Screws Her Stupid Fans
No Country For Old Men - The Ending Scene
Ed Tom (TLJ) has decided on retirement rather than bringing the killer to justice. He found the killer but he retires because he realizes that Texas is essentially No Country for Old Men. So he tells his wife about a dream: heading into snowy, dangerous mountains on horseback and his father carrying fire, goes on ahead of him to await him.
This idea of father & son carrying fire is also explored in The Road, McCarthy's follow-up to NCFOM, as the man and the boy seek to establish their place in the overwhelming bleakness of their existence.
The Sheriff knows he's outmatched by this new kind of evil (Bardem) and since he's older now than his father ever was, the dream is kind of an acceptance of his retirement, a "letting-go" of this hazardous job so he can follow the fire of his father. Perhaps he feels he owes it to his father to continue to survive, since he's older.
Like Bob Dylan said, "Momma, take this badge offa me, ... I feel I'm knockin on heaven's door."
What if Earth had rings like Saturn?
Far as science discovery goes, I like to think the inhabitants of a ringed Earth would have shed any "flat earth" ideas far far earlier than we did and I think the reason is obvious. It would also have been a simple matter to show how large and how far away the rings were. Plus, I believe man would have done anything it took to see how far the rings go, which would have led to an accelerated shipbuilding craft, which would have led to accelerated human expansion, etc, etc.
On the other hand, I can also see religious forces using it to incite a more potent fear, which would likely have tempered the above.
Oh, I love this.
What if Earth had rings like Saturn?
But seriously, imagine cavemen trying to make sense of it. Or the Romans. Or Kepler. Our entire theology, science, and society might be vastly different. We might have been more advanced in a "ringed" 2009. Or a ringed 2009 might look like 1940. Who knows for sure? Fascinating to think about.