Studying religion, studying science

This is a very interesting article that anyone interested in linear and cyclical examination of scientific processes should check out.

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Merry Christmas!

Happy festive season to all of this blog’s small audience. If you are non-Christian, happy secular/pagan Yule/Winter Solstice/Sol Invictus/Mithras’s birthday Christmas, and if you are Christian, happy birthday of Jesus Christmas. ^_^
‘Tis the season to be jolly!

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My new favourite song

Taiwan pop star Jay Chou has released his latest EP, Golden Armour (黄金甲), with the theme song for the new movie Curse of the Golden Flower, starring Asian megastars Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, and Jay Chou himself (…). Golden Armour is not a long song - it’s only 3:34 - but I personally think it’s [...]

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Bored? Check these out.

A heap of great links covering a spectrum of subjects, such as moral philosophy, the relevance of modern religion, Middle Eastern and Indian history, fun stuff like comics, Hellsing, Teen Titans, etc. is coming to keep you busy nerding at your computers this holiday season. Usually I recommend sites to people when they are bored [...]

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Teen Titans philosophy

Although Teen Titans is primarily an action cartoon, it features a noticeable amount of postmodern aesthetics. Heavily influenced by modern Japanese anime art style and humour, its ironic self-referential humour is in fact nothing new. It is, rather, part of a larger movement in general entertainment.
Self-referential humour and existential questions is a very common [...]

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Global Warming

For a short while I was a “greenie” - I was really worried about global warming, and I believed it was the greatest threat to human survival.
In many ways I still am that “greenie” to this day. I’m not as hung up on the environment anymore (for better or for worse). I do my best [...]

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Gratitude for our Western European emissaries.

It is said that we should not forget the mistakes on the past, but should focus more on what we have gained from each other in order to improve our lives and the lives of successive generations together. We have much to be grateful to various nations and continents for their contributions to the advancement [...]

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My Favourite Blog

My favourite online blog (apart from my own) is the Eternal Bachelor blog.
Apart from the standard humanities and arts, I also pay a lot of attention to social issues that crop up from time to time. Eternal Bachelor has some very worthwhile stuff to read about the life of a bachelor. A normal relaxing day [...]

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The Best Analogy for Christianity: Hero Savior of Vietnam

From Richard Carrier
Suppose I told you there was a soldier in the Vietnam War named “Hero Savior” who miraculously calmed storms, healed wounds, conjured food and water out of thin air, and then was blown up by artillery, but appeared again whole and alive three days later, giving instructions to his buddies before flying up [...]

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God or Buddha: Who is the Highest? Part 2

Attitude to Disease
Disease, sickness and plagues have been the scourge of mankind for centuries causing untold suffering and misery. The Bible shows us that God has always’ considered disease a useful way of expressing his anger and exercising hi vengeance. When Pharaoh refused to release the Jews, God caused festering boil to break out on [...]

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