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		<title>Another set of well documented proofs.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I see this kind of IDotic mental abuse take place I feel a need to do something.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I see this kind of IDotic mental abuse take place I feel a need to do something.</p>
<p>Well here is something.</p>
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<div class="wpv_titleauthor">Evolution the big lie!? &#8211; Joachim Bublath(Chemist&amp;Physicist)</div>
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<p>And don&#8217;t comeback unless you have any proof otherwise.</p>
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		<title>Make a freaking song out of it if you like it so much ;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syncopations, bits
Hit the naked street
on an empty stomach
Haven’t walked that plain
Months without a day
Haven’t even panicked.
Sort of out of place,
kind of out of time
in a way not really
Syncopations, bits
falling to my wheels,
just an airy feeling.
Sober but withdrawn
Listen to a song,
Threading through ideas.
Weaving state of mind
Weather in decline
All forgiving tears.
It’s a kind of life
Hibernating strife
Subtle, unappealing
Sober [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Syncopations, bits<br />
Hit the naked street<br />
on an empty stomach<br />
Haven’t walked that plain<br />
Months without a day<br />
Haven’t even panicked.<br />
Sort of out of place,<br />
kind of out of time<br />
in a way not really<br />
Syncopations, bits<br />
falling to my wheels,<br />
just an airy feeling.</p>
<p>Sober but withdrawn<br />
Listen to a song,<br />
Threading through ideas.<br />
Weaving state of mind<br />
Weather in decline<br />
All forgiving tears.<br />
It’s a kind of life<br />
Hibernating strife<br />
Subtle, unappealing<br />
Sober but withdrawn<br />
Listen to a song<br />
What a pleasant feeling.</p>
<p>Not without a trace<br />
Do take up my space<br />
Fists are up when needed<br />
Pick a proper fight<br />
Sleep entire night<br />
Breathing unimpeded<br />
Take to face at times<br />
Daring has its price<br />
Rolling with the punches<br />
Had to write this in<br />
Much to my chagrin<br />
Need of human conscience.</p>
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		<title>Secular Organizations for Sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       The Center for Inquiry-West houses the international headquarters of Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS &#8212; also known as Save Our Selves). SOS provides a successful and increasingly popular non-religious alternative to &#8220;Twelve Step&#8221; recovery programs. In November, 1999, SOS launched a series of special events at the Center [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cfiwest.org/sos/index.htm"><img align="left" title="sos_logo" alt="sos_logo" src="http://www.cfiwest.org/sos/_borders/soslogo.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.cfiwest.org/sos/index.htm">       The Center for Inquiry-West</a> houses the international headquarters of Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS &#8212; also known as Save Our Selves). SOS provides a successful and increasingly popular non-religious alternative to &#8220;Twelve Step&#8221; recovery programs. In November, 1999, SOS launched a series of special events at the Center for Inquiry-West. All SOS events are open to the general public and of course are clean and sober. Light refreshments will be available for purchase.</p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got in the e-mail not sure of the original source:
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu,  Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Got in the e-mail not sure of the original source:</em></p>
<p>There are approximately two billion children (<em>persons under 18</em>) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu,  Jewish or Buddhist (<em>except maybe in Japan</em>) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to <em><strong>15%</strong></em> of the total, or <em><strong>378 million</strong></em> (according to the population reference bureau).  Santa has about <em><strong>31 hours</strong></em> of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to <em><strong>967.7 visits per second</strong></em> at an average (census) rate of <em><strong>3.5 children per household</strong></em>, which comes to <em><strong>108 million homes</strong></em>, presuming there is at least <em><strong>1</strong></em> good child in each. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around <em><strong>1/1000th of a second</strong></em> to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree,<span id="more-26"></span> eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.  Assuming that each of these <strong>108 million</strong> stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about <em><strong>0.78 miles</strong></em> per household; a total trip of <em><strong>75.5 million miles</strong></em>, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa&#8217;s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second or <em><strong>3,000 times</strong></em> the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky <em><strong>27.4</strong></em> miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) <em><strong>15</strong></em> miles per hour.  The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over <em><strong>500</strong></em> thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than <em><strong>300 </strong></em>pounds. Even granting that the &#8220;flying&#8221; reindeer can pull <em><strong>10 times</strong></em> the normal amount, the job can&#8217;t be done with eight or even nine of them, Santa would need <em><strong>360,000</strong></em> of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). A mass of nearly <em><strong>600,000 tons</strong></em> traveling at <em><strong>650 miles per second</strong></em> creates enormous air resistance &#8211; this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would adsorb <em><strong>14.3 quintillion joules</strong></em> of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within  thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.  Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 miles/second in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of <em><strong>4.26</strong><strong>17,000 g</strong></em>&#8217;s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim considering all the high calorie snacks he must have consumed over the years) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by <em><strong>4,315,015</strong></em> pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. <strong>Therefore, if Santa did exist, he&#8217;s dead now.</strong></p>
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		<title>Thrashing of relegious fanatism.</title>
		<link>http://boxofself.com/blog/2006/11/08/thrashing-of-relegious-fanatism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A wonderful spokes person from Aljezira Television Network.</p>
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<p>Would be great to watch this movement rise from with in. She is taking some serious risks though.</p>
<p>Another one from Wafa Sultan speaking  about Mohamad Cartoons and other issues of religion.</p>
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<p>Great stuff.</p>
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		<title>So what is scientific knowledge?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it is very aptly answered in the following video.</p>
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<p>Couldn&#8217;t say it better myself.</p>
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