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The James Randi Educational Foundation forum presents itself as "a place to discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly and lively way." This statement reminded me of something that Michael Martin wrote called "Friendly Atheism". In his essay, so...

On HBO, you can watch this scary documentary of how powerful and prominent these cultists are in the USA. It's on-demand as well. "If you don't believe in Jesus, you're a loser."

Hi there, I'm not sure how to handle friends who believe in woo. I don't want to alienate these people who are my coworkers and my friends. I want to introduce them to skeptical thinking but at the same time, I feel like such a killjoy and don't like the conflict my different beliefs entail. I...

Making friends and influencing people A common refrain I often hear from readers is that “there seems to be no way I can convince anyone to change their mind about anything”. I am very sympathetic with that difficulty. I would like to suggest that the positive thing we can do is to learn...

Did anyone see this morning's broadcast of Fox and Friends? John Edward is promoting a new program where he follows up on past participants in their own homes to see how they have applied those readings into their daily lives. They took calls from the viewers for Edward to read. There were...

Thank you for infecting my computer with your digital feces. Thank you for the Ceres/Buddy disease, which I cannot get rid of, even though I have tried HijackThis, AdAware, Spybot, Spysweeper, Anti-Spy, and every other adware/spyware remover I could download, and have even gone into my own...

After reading your posts and scrolling through your "discussions," I thought a response was called for. I'll start this with a story. I usually do. Last Friday and Saturday, I made a run up North to pick up some heavy equipment for a client, along with a group of other drivers. We loaded up...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=1&u=/nm/20040120/wl_nm/iraq_saddam_trial_dc Some Iraqis want to see American leaders on trial, since the US supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war.

This is a darn interesting article on how Rumsfeld assured Iraq in 1984, after the gassing attacks that made the war on Iraq so absolutely neccessary in 2003 (and not the WMD's which were just a side-line), that 'bilateral relations wtih Iraq, at a pace of Iraq's choosing, remains undiminished'...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/03/1064988407493.html Yes, John Howard licked Bushes a***, he was a part of the coalition of the willing and actually sent some troops to fight, and didn't even ask for a cheque, and then they can't even get his name right. Way to go, USA. also...

I've been on the JREF for about a month. I've learned a lot and I have gained a new understanding of other's beliefs. I've enjoyed many of the topics and debates. Free exchange of ideas is always a good thing. I was really fascinated by atheist's views of theism in general and Christianity in...