Turn the volume down before clicking play. Ease into it, especially if you’re over 50 40 30 years old.
Turn the volume down before clicking play. Ease into it, especially if you’re over 50 40 30 years old.
An excellent read: The Game That Let Me Mourn My Lost Faith. A former Christian describes his gradual abandonment of faith in the context of a video game about religion that he’s playing, and it’s subtle and complex…both the game and his loss. The games weren’t actively forcing atheism down his throat — they often had fictional religions embedded in them — but they did make him think about alternative explanations, and realize that maybe there were other ways to understand the world outside that bubble of Christianity.
Poor Erskine College. They recently had a successful volleyball season, then two of their players came out as gay — which shouldn’t be a problem, except that Erskine is in South Carolina, right there in the front flap of the Bible Tightie-Whities, and trustees and administrators and community supporters freaked out. What to do? Easy. They turned to the Bible and issued a statement.
Now you can learn everything you need to know about octopus sex. It’s a bit tangly:
Another day, another fabrication. It turns out he wasn’t “showered with rocks” in an LA riot — he just pissed off one guy by acting like an asshole. That’s just every day life for Bill O’Reilly.
Apparently, I missed the big noise raised about the color of this dress.
Some people see it as blue and black. Others (including me) see it as white and gold.
He tried to argue that global warming is a hoax, because it snows in February.
In a few hours, at 9 UK time, TheRationalizer (godless heathen, tool of the Enlightenment) will be trying to argue on Twitter with AllTruthRevealed (Islamic fanatic, general nutcase) on the question “Is the Qur’an man made?”
This is the latest mania on the internet: a couple of llamas were filmed running free on the streets of Sun City, Arizona.