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Hello, I've been wanting to write this for days. I watched the pinklady threads with interest. Towards the beginning, I was even tempted to ask her a question, but that opportunity ended when the thread took a turn and pinklady stormed out, which was no great loss. It was clear he/she was here...

I'm also going to ask this question on some religious boards and gauge the respective reactions. If every Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu etc. decided not to expose their next generation to their religion at all. To answer questions with simple explanations like "You can't kill people because it...

I cannot post this in appropiate thread(Challenge Applications)so thought some may like to read it here. http://www.lougentile.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=2274#2274 Randi the bad guy as usual. :rolleyes:

This question is currently plaguing me. I apologize if it has been covered before. Since we already know that when a master tape is digitized or a digital master created, how is that new releases that are remastered sound different? What has changed? If the CD's originally released were...

For the last couple of weeks, I've been browsing the archives of www.fstdt.com . Although I am aware that the quotes have been collected from a multitude of forums, from the ravings of the worst offenders over a long period of time, I'm getting an increasing feeling of unease, thinking what...

So in little breaks between my workout, I'm watching this documentary on TV about parole. A guy goes before a parole board, and they talk about how he has 8 kids by 6 different women. He hasn't paid child support, because even when out of prison, he had trouble holding down a job. If I...

This question is bothering me. If I transmit a sound wave through a medium, ie air, and it reaches a denser medium, ie water, what percentage is transmitted and what percentage is reflected.

Ok, rant for the day. I saw Lynn Cheney on CNN yesterday. She was urging people to talk with children about the election in Iraq and making the argument that the Iraq election has a historical parallel in the early elections and Constitution ratification process in the young United States. Am...

That's the question someone asked me. She was obviously fed the line by some crazy churchgoer, but not being a planetary scientist, I found it hard to try to explain to her. Can anyone give me an answer to that question that a fundie can understand?

This is a spinoff of the "What's Going On In Paris?" thread. Around page 4 or 5, it started getting into a discussion of why French store owners and home owners don't use physical force or firearms to defend their property, since the police seem to be powerless to protect them. The cleavage...

http://www.webcom.com/mhc/archaeology/deca...agrammaton.html http://www.yahweh.com/PWMags/PW11-04/theName2.html The DSS are the oldest copy of biblical texts. YHVH is foundational and key to it, regardless of anything. Truth is truth however far back in antiquity it might go...

I'm thinking of subscribing to a parapsychology journal, but I'm not too au fait with their various reputations. I've got online access at the moment to The Journal of Parapsychology, but I'm not wholly convinced about the Rhine Institute of Parapsychology of which the journal is a publication...

I'm steering well clear of the other one! Can anyone explain the factors that led to the development of a sizeable city like New Orleans below sea level in such a dangerous location? Although it's easy to be wise after the event, it does seem inevitable that this would happen at some stage...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4173956.stm Anyone read the actual paper and what it (really ;) ) concludes? There seems to be some strange conclusions being drawn in the article, for instance the following quote to me reads like new-age babble. And “Westerners live in less...

From the Economist: http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/newthread.php

Ed Norton certainly can. I just say Fight Club, and couldn't believe it was the same guy from "American History X". Nice for a change.

Does the electoral college decide not to vote in the winning prez's running mate. COuld they say vote in Bush, but then choose Edwards for VP?

I was reading an article recently in (I think) Skeptical Inquirer. It had to do with astrology. Someone had written an article debunking it and of course the astrologers were displeased. In the study they grouped people whose birth times differed by an average of five minutes. On of the...

To me, politics IS religion for the most part. People accept one of the political "faiths" based often on their own upbringing or on their exposure to mass media. Virtually no one studies the actual impact of various policies in the real world, i.e. actual journal articles or independent...

The rest here <u>Reason</u> is a libertarian magazine that has criticized the war effort, but not from the left or the right. Posting a link to <u>Reason</u> does not imply 100% agreement, but <u>Reason</u> is always worth reading.

Chinese zoo stops allowing visitors to shoot animals Maybe they should rent smallish pistols and make the visitors shoot to wound? Include a local school of veterinary medicine in the program so they can get training? MattJ

What makes two different animals two different animals? The concept that two different animals are two different animals because they can't breed with each other has one problem. Two animals that can't breed with each other are not necessarily two different animals. Two male guinea pigs can't...

I was reading through some of the material at http://www.atheists.org and came across an interesting article: http://www.atheists.org/comingout/othercloset.html I fall into "category 1" and was curious about any atheist coming out stories or advice from those who have already done it.

I like Randi's commentaries. He writes about Geller, Browne, yes, but also about other things that are more interesting and current.