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25 Things You Should Have Learned by Middle Age

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:29:24 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321
clipper's remarks: Love this!

Clip Source: desiredcreations.com

If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
Someone who thinks logically, provides a nice contrast to the real world.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

Tags: humor, life

25 things you should have learned by middle age

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:16:59 GMT

clipped by: kwhitford

Clip Source: desiredcreations.com

25 things you should have learned by the time you have reached middle age

If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.
Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
Someone who thinks logically, provides a nice contrast to the real world.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

Tags: info

Pope Feared Bush Is The Anti-Christ

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:02:39 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks:

The Pope, who grew up facing the evils of Hitler and Stalin, knows evil when he sees it.

An old article from 2003, but very thought-provoking! Now, I'm no Catholic, but if Pope John Paul ll (rest in peace) had such concerns about the "goodness" of Mr George W. Bush, then I sit up and listen. Are there any Catholics out there who know what the Church's or the current Pope's stand on this issue is now?

Clip Source: www.counterpunch.org

Bush's "Christian" Blood Cult

Concerns Raised by the Vatican

Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and his constant references to "evil doers," in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations - the anti-Christ. People close to the Pope claim that amid these concerns, the Pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations.

John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil

the Pope and his closest advisers are also concerned that the ultimate acts of evil - the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon - were known in advance by senior Bush administration officials.

Bush represents a dangerous right-wing ideologue who couples his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult

the Pope should know

Tags: pope, john paul ll, catholicism, good, evil, christianity, anti-christ, religion., gwb, bush

Politican Cartoons

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:32:36 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "The United States, some years back, found its new bogeyman "Islam" to replace its former imaginary enemy "Communism." And now the European press appears to have finally (?) found a replacement for the Jewish people that they used to malign and attack. Anti-Islam/Muslimism appears to now have officially replaced anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe.

The roots of these attacks are the same: an inability to acknowledge and respect a diversity of people that might result in a Europe that is non-White and/or non-Christian.

The anti-Muslim/Islam cartoons of today are little different than the anti-Jewish cartoons that were published by the Nazis during WW II."

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Target: Journalists!

Newsitem: Eason Jordan, a CNN news executive stated that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Israeli Peace Plan

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The "Center for Islamic Pluralism" was founded on March 25th by neo-con Stephen Schwartz, and others.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The finger problem

Europe resurrects its Facist past

Stalingrad surrendered.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Everyone is innocent around here!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

United States' Media Propaganda!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

mosque and state

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Hate Speech

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Tags: politics, cartoons

100 most influential books ever written...

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:28:02 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: more than half I had clipped! (limit) For the rest, you may need to visit the site.

Clip Source: thegreatbookslist.com

'100 Most Influential Books Ever Written' by Martin Seymour-Smith

The I Ching

The Old Testament

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

The Upanishads

The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu

The Avesta

Analects, Confucius

History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides

Works, Hippocrates

Works, Aristotle

History, Herodotus

The Republic, Plato

Elements, Euclid

The Dhammapada

Aeneid, Virgil

On the Nature of Reality, Lucretius

Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Philo of Alexandria

Lives, Plutarch

The New Testament

Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus, Cornelius Tacitus

The Gospel of Truth

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus

Enneads, Plotinus

Confessions, Augustine of Hippo

The Koran

Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides

The Kabbalah

Summa Theologicae, Thomas Aquinas

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli

On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther

Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin

On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, Nicolaus Copernicus

Essays, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Don Quixote, Parts I and II, Miguel de Cervantes

The Harmony of the World, Johannes Kepler

Novum Organum, Francis Bacon

The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare

Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei

Discourse on Method, René Descartes

Pensées, Blaise Pascal

Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Ethics, Baruch de Spinoza

Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton

The Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

The New Science, Giambattista Vico

A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume

The Encyclopedia, Denis Diderot, ed.

A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson

Candide, François-Marie de Voltaire

Common Sense, Thomas Paine

An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Tags: books, influential, interesting, weightage of words.

Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:54:09 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Opinion
Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, ahead of genuinely important issues that actually make a difference to the world. It gains crucial electoral support from a religious constituency whose grip on reality is so tenuous that they expect to be 'raptured' up to heaven, leaving their clothes as empty as their minds. More extreme specimens actually long for a world war, which they identify as the 'Armageddon' that is to presage the Second Coming. Sam Harris, in his new short book, Letter to a Christian Nation, hits the bull's-eye as usual:

placed by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver-lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen: the return of Christ . . .Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and ¬intellectual emergency. Does Bush check the Rapture Index daily, as Reagan did his stars? We don't know, but would anyone be surprised?

Tags: science, religion, dogma, god

Ancient Blueprints of Calculus Uncovered in Archimedes Text

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:20:11 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Details have been released from the nine-year-long reconstruction project to recover the Greek mathematician's writings from this one-of-a-kind find and the results are fascinating.

Buried beneath the surface of this gilded palimpsest, researchers discovered more extensive demonstrations of concepts such as infinite series, approximations, limits, and integral calculus than had been known to exist in ancient times.

Archimedes wrote The Method almost two thousand years before Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz developed calculus in the 1700s. Reviel Netz, an historian of mathematics at Stanford University who transcribed the text, says that the examination of Archimedes' work has revealed "a new twist on the entire trajectory of Western mathematics."

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.

The top layer of writing in this 700-year-old book describes Christian prayers. But underneath, almost obliterated, are the only surviving copies of many of the works of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes.

The picture on the left is an ordinary photograph, with the Archimedes text barely visible. The picture on the right is a multi-spectral image, and the Archimedes text and diagrams are mostly legible.

Sometime after Johan Heiberg examined the book in 1906, someone painted gold-leaf images over four of the pages (left). Multispectral imaging couldn't peer beneath the reflective metal paint, but x-ray fluorescence imaging revealed the underlying text (right).

Archimedes computed the area of the curved figure (left) by enclosing it in a bigger one with straight edges (right). He then examined random slices to compute the volume—using the concept of actual infinity.

Tags: math, science, archimedes, calculus, infinity, greek, ancient, history, x-ray, book

Irreligious Cartoons? Not A bit funny! Ok?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:57:03 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Well, maybe a little funny. Some of them ...very funny..

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
–- Thomas Jefferson, 1813

Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a liberal?
--Hunter S. Thompson

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
--Frank Dane

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
--Arthur C. Clarke

It's downright amazing to see how many people have a direct line to God, yet all receive different messages.

Nothing is more dangerous than an armed religio-nut doing God's will.
Bush and Osama think alike.
-- Bartcop

Clip Source: edkrebs.com

Religious Bullshit !

Tags: religion, humour, usa

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

Clip Source: www.dvorak.org

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, life, religion, society

Zen Stories To Tell Your Neighbours

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:43:20 GMT

clipped by: chloetoo

Clip Source: www.rider.edu

Why tell a Zen story?
Please ReadMe!
Frames Version
Send a Story to a Friend

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the stories:

Banishing a Ghost
Bell Teacher
Books
Christian Buddha
Chasing Two Rabbits
Cliffhanger
Concentration
Destiny
Dreaming
Egotism
Elephant and Flea
Empty Your Cup
Enlightened
Full Awareness
Gift of Insults
Going with the Flow
Gutei's Finger
Holy Man
I Don't Know
Is That So?
It Will Pass
Just Two Words
Knowing Fish
Learning the Hard Way
Masterpiece
Maybe
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen
More Is Not Enough
Most Important Teaching
Moving Mind
The Nature of Things
Nature's Beauty
No More Questions
Not Dead Yet
Obsessed
Paradise
Practice Makes Perfect
Present Moment
Prosperity
Ritual Cat
Searching for Buddha
Self-Control
Sounds of Silence
Spider
Successor
Surprising the Master
Tea Combat
Tea or Iron
Transient
True Self
Useless Life
Wanting God
When Tired
Without Fear
Working Very Hard

Do you have a good story to contribute?
Do you have a different reaction to a story?
Let me know

|| Incoming Mail and FAQs || Westerners Speak Out on Zen Stories ||

|| About John Suler || About Rider University ||

*What is This Thing Called Self?*

- Kudos -

Tags: zen, zen-buddhism, zen-stories

Witty Sayings 2

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:20:50 GMT

clipped by: Wilhelmina

Clip Source: www.witty-quotes.com

Witty Quotes Haven: All Witty Sayings

House Guarded By Shotgun 3 Days A Week. Guess Which Days.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

I once prayed to god for a bike, but quickly found out he didnt work that way...so I stole a bike and prayed for his forgiveness

Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.

A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station...

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

You can't be late until you show up.

Tags: witty, sayings, joke, jokes, one-liner, humour, humor

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:04:45 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: "She said her family believed in the Bible and that healing came from God. But she insisted that they were not "crazy religious people"

"Even after her death, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, who did not belong to any organised faith, prayed over her body in the hope that she might be resurrected."

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid

An 11-year-old girl died from diabetes after her parents prayed for her recovery rather than calling for medical assistance.

Madeline Neumann died on Sunday in Wisconsin, from an undiagnosed but treatable ailment.

Dan Vergin, the local police chief, said she had been ill for a month, suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

"She just got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.

Police are now preparing a report for prosecutors. However, legal action against the parents may be prevented by a Wisconsin state statute against failing to act to protect children from bodily harm.

The statute contains an exemption for what it refers to as "treatment through prayer". Mrs Neumann, whose husband is a former policeman, said they had never expected her daughter to die. She suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin.

Tags: faith, faith healing, prayer, bible, christianity, christian, religion

'Missing Link' Between Madness and Genius

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:18:17 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus

Clip Source: www.mindpowernews.com

'Missing Link' Between Madness and Genius

By Amy Iggulden
The Telegraph

Genius cannot exist without mental disorder, according to a study that names George Orwell, LS Lowry and Lewis Carroll among 21 artists who suffered a form of autism.

The psychiatric portrait of some of the most imaginative minds in history claims to prove the link between madness and greatness.

Beethoven, Mozart, Hans Christian Andersen and Immanuel Kant are among the musicians, writers, painters and philosophers who have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.

Prof Michael Fitzgerald, a psychiatrist and expert in the syndrome that affects social relationships but not intellect, claims that people with Asperger's can have exceptional artistic creativity, as well as mathematical genius.

Tags: mindpower, brain, noology, mental disorder, asperger's syndrome, intelligence, genius

Shroud Of Turin Accidentally Dyed Pink

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:37:10 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.theonion.com

VATICAN CITY—The Shroud of Turin, an ancient linen cloth believed to bear the image of Christ and considered by many clerics and devotees to be one of the holiest relics of the Christian faith, was inadvertently dyed a light shade of pink after being washed with a red T-shirt, sources reported

Though it has suffered oxidation and fire damage over the centuries, this is the first time that the shroud has been harmed in a laundry-related mishap

"Simply because the shroud has been given a slight pinkish tint does not in any way diminish its sanctity," Vatican spokesman Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo said during a press conference held to address the spiritual repercussions of the shroud's staining

the damage occurred when Pope Benedict XVI

did not notice that a brand-new, bright-red Hanes Beefy-T belonging to Cardinal Angelo Sodano had been placed inside of the consecrated cleansing vessel

And who are we to question or reject the ways the Lord works through our laundry?" Lajolo continued

Your brain lies to you

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:28:19 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. But this effort may be more difficult than it seems, thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories - and mislead us along the way.

The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer's hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man's curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned

Tags: brain, misleading, false beliefs

Clipmarks | wiccantexan's 'christian' clips

25 Things You Should Have Learned by Middle Age

25 things you should have learned by middle age

Pope Feared Bush Is The Anti-Christ

Politican Cartoons

Ever been a Muslim?

Bring 'em home, Rummy, Bring 'em home!

the spread of american democracy

Internment camps for Muslims in America?

The Enemy of "Freedom!"

Target: Journalists!

The Israeli Peace Plan

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The finger problem

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Everyone is innocent around here!

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

United States' Media Propaganda!

mosque and state

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100 most influential books ever written...

Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

Opinion Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

Ancient Blueprints of Calculus Uncovered in Archimedes Text

A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.

Irreligious Cartoons? Not A bit funny! Ok?

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

Zen Stories To Tell Your Neighbours

Witty Sayings 2

Witty Quotes Haven: All Witty Sayings

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray

Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid

'Missing Link' Between Madness and Genius

Shroud Of Turin Accidentally Dyed Pink

Your brain lies to you

Opinion
Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God