Jeg fikk i posten i dag en brosjyre fra en Pål Bryn, som ber meg bli kristen. Han henviser til sitt nettsted, http://www.ta-tilflukt.info/. Ifølge Aftenbladet, har han produsert brosjyren i 2-millioner eksemplar, som han er i ferd med å distribuere gjennom posten. Brosjyren fremstår uten noen form for organisasjonsaffiliering, og ber heller ikke om penger. […]
Märthe Louise, elder daughter of the king of Norway, can apparently talk to angels. She is starting a school to help others talk to angels.
These angels, it must be said, are the New-Age variety, and since the media’s exposé last week, Norwegian churchmen have been busy condemning the princess. Their imaginary friends don’t like […]
It’s a shame the Earth’s Greatest Lawsuit is oriented mainly against Christian religions; I’m sure other religions have caused as much misery in people’s lives.
How to bend spoons: instructions and pictures.
… and boy, is he pissed - at vampires.
Not in Massachusetts in this day and age, but New York city where a teacher was sacked for teaching witchcraft — you know, letting the kids read Harry Potter and Goosebumps, and wearing dark make-up, and black clothes. Needless to say, the teacher is suing the school district for wrongful dismissal.
Spandrels are evolutionary biproducts — things that develop as a result of evolutionary adaption, but that have no intrinsic value in terms of survival. Deities may be the spandrels of the development of the brain, the “nonadaptive side consequences of building a device with such structural complexity“.1
Specifically, deities could be the biproducts of:
the development […]