The ultimate Guru is a Bonobo according to Vanessa Woods in a book “Bonobo Handshake : a Memoir of Love And Adventure in the Congo”
Humans are doomed to war, genocide, environmental degradation and eventully self destruction only if we fail to grasp the processes of culture and continue to take a short-sighted view of what it can mean to be human,or Bonobo ” Reviewed in New Scientist.
Professor claimed he captured ‘holy water powers’ in tap water filters
From correspondents in Seoul From:AFP July 01, 2010
A SOUTH Korean medical professor who invented a digital device he claimed could transform tap water into holy water is facing fraud charges.
Seoul police say the professor claimed to have digitally captured the supposed curative powers of holy water on devices that he sold to more than 5000 people for a total profit of nearly 1.7 billion won ($1.54 million).
Eight others including the professor’s wife and brother-in-law face charges for manufacturing and selling the devices, an officer heading the investigation said on condition of anonymity.
Police said the 53-year-old professor claimed he obtained holy water from the shrine to the Virgin Mary at Lourdes - a world-famous Catholic pilgrimage site in France - and preserved its supposed healing powers in digital form.
He claimed to be able to digitally transfer those powers onto ceramic and paper filters and plastic cards used in water purifiers.
He and his associates allegedly told customers that different devices cured different illnesses including diabetes and tumours.
The professor sold the ceramic filters, which cost 1500 won ($1.45) in stores, for 40,000 won ($39). Filters for insulin and cancer treatments sold for 90,000 won ($87).
PRIMARY school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there is fossil evidence to prove it.
Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking Religious Instruction (RI) classes in Queensland despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts to convert children to Christianity have no place in state schools.
Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell.
Critics are calling for the RI program to be scrapped after claims emerged Christian lay people are feeding children misinformation.
About 80 per cent of children at state primary schools attend one half-hour instruction a week, open to any interested lay person to conduct.
Many of the instructors are from Pentecostal churches.
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Education Queensland is aware that Creationism is being taught by some religious instructors, but said parents could opt out.
Australian Secular Lobby president Hugh Wilson said children were ostracised and discriminated against if they were pulled out of the class.
In many cases, the RI lay people were not supervised by teachers.
Kings Christian Church youth worker Dustin Bell said he taught “about creation” in Sunshine Coast schools.
Set Free Christian Church’s Tim McKenzie said when students questioned him why dinosaur fossils carbon dated as earlier than man, he replied that the great flood must have skewed the data.
Queensland Teachers Union president Steve Ryan said teachers were sometimes compelled to supervise the instructors “because of all the fire and brimstone stuff”.
Mr Ryan said Education Queensland had deemed RI a must-have, though teachers would prefer to spend the time on curriculum.
Buddhist Council of Queensland president Jim Ferguson said he was so disturbed that Creationism was being aired in state school classrooms that he would bring it up at the next meeting of the Religious Education Advisory Committee, part of Education Queensland.
He said RI was supposed to be a forum for multi-faith discussion.
Education Queensland assistant director-general Patrea Walton said Creationism was part of some faiths, and therefore was part of some teaching.
New research shows three in 10 Australians believe dinosaurs and man did exist at the same time. The survey, by the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies, shows a “worrying” lack of basic scientific principles.
“The results underscore the need for students to be exposed to science and mathematics through a well resourced education system, rather than learning about science through Jurassic Park,” FASTS president Dr Cathy Foley said.
PhD researcher Cathy Byrne found in a NSW-based survey that scripture teachers tended to discourage questioning, emphasised submission to authority and excluded different beliefs. She said 70 per cent of scripture teachers thought children should be taught the Bible as historical fact.
A parent of a Year 5 student on the Sunshine Coast said his daughter was ostracised to the library after arguing with her scripture teacher about DNA.
“The scripture teacher told the class that all people were descended from Adam and Eve,” he said.
“My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that ‘wouldn’t they all be inbred’?
“But the teacher replied that DNA wasn’t invented then.”
After the parent complained, the girl spent the rest of the year’s classes in the library.
That’s disgusting on several levels. But the teacher’s assertion that “DNA wasn’t invented then” surely must rank as one of the stupidest things ever uttered by anyone on the subject ! And to ostracise an 11 year old who dared to exercise her mind - rather than blindly be indoctrinated - is hard to comprehend. But then again, there’s a lot of ignorance going around. I would be interested to know if this took place at a public school or a private one. Still shaking my head in disbelief - better go and check the calendar to see which century we’re living in ;)
Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and Adam and Eve were not eaten by dinosaurs because they were under a protective spell.
Is that the official “Creation Science” and YECS belief ? If so, what did Noah do with all those dinosaur eggs ( sorry, but I can’t provide a verse to back that up ) - perhaps they had scrambled eggs for breakfast - “but no bacon thank you” ;)
Oh, Adam and Eve were “under a protective spell” were they ? They must have got that one from the “Official Hogwart’s Bible”.
The really worrying aspect about people with these views - is that they probably drive and they might run into me one day ;)
There will always be whackos; there will even be some who claim to be Christians.
But one question always got to me - the incest question:
“My daughter rightly pointed out, as I had been teaching her about DNA and science, that ‘wouldn’t they all be inbred’?
I haven’t been able to reconcile it. Maybe it’s wise not to reconcile as I have traditionally separated creationism (over a long period of time) and science as both true. I texted that question at the ‘Burn Your Plastic Jesus’ Mark Driscoll talk a few years back. He completely ignored it.
North Korea coach punished hard
WWOS staff11:30 AEST Fri Aug 6 2010
The dinner party etiquette guide While Australia’s 2010 World Cup disappointment has been brushed aside as we focus on the 2011 Asian Cup, a 2022 World Cup bid and another A-League season, spare a thought for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea squad who copped some harsh punishment upon returning home.
Reports from the single-party state say that coach Kim Jong-Hun has been forced into hard labour after his team’s failed World Cup campaign, and others say the 53-year-old was reprimanded, abused and brain-washed by the communist leadership of Kim Jong-Il.
Hun’s ‘hard labour’ consists of toiling unpaid at a construction site where he allegedly works 14 hours a day, while US-based Radio Free Asia reported that the players were summoned to an auditorium at the working people’s culture palace in Pyongyang, forced onstage, and subjected to a six-hour barrage of criticism.
In their first World Cup finals appearance since 1966, the North Koreans were one of the biggest focuses at South Africa 2010, as news reporters tried to find out all they could about the players and coaches from the mysterious country.
Following a commendable 2-1 loss against Brazil, Korea DPR were then thrashed 7-0 by Portugal and 3-0 by Ivory Coast, finishing bottom of Group G with just one goal and no wins.
Unfortunately for Hun and his players, Pyongyang’s national state television broadcaster did not show their match against Brazil, but decided to telecast the disaster against Portugal in what is believed to be the country’s first live sports broadcast.
The ensuing 7-0 drubbing was labeled a humiliation and betrayal by the country’s dictatorship.
Supermarkets to boost own brand booze
Updated: 21:40, Friday August 6, 2010
Coles and Woolworths are set to boost their ranges of beer, wine and spirits through in-house, private-label brands.
But shoppers won’t know they are buying house brands because they will have names such as Duperrey, Coo-ee and Chateau Louise, Fairfax newspapers reported on Friday.
Coles and Woolworths have registered a string of trademarks with IP Australia as they prepare to expand their range of private-label alcoholic drinks.
Private labels, once snubbed as a low-quality alternative to branded products, are growing in popularity, the newspapers said.
Stephen Strachan, the chief executive of the Winemakers Federation of Australia, said the expansion of supermarket brands ‘puts a proposition to consumers that’s more and more based on price alone’.
Consumer groups have warned that more store brands means less competition. ‘They squeeze other brands off the shelf,’ a Choice spokesman, Christopher Zinn, told Fairfax.
Coles and Woolworths control 45 per cent of the retail liquor market and have plans to open 270 warehouse-style stores.
Church and state colluded to free ‘IRA bomber priest’
Official report reveals how prime suspect in 1972 atrocity was protected
By David McKittrick
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
It was on the last day of the worst month of the worst year of the Troubles that three IRA bombs exploded in the village of Claudy, Co Derry.
The carnage was terrible: nine people, including a little girl, were killed, bringing the overall death toll in Northern Ireland for July 1972 alone to almost one hundred. To many, it looked as if the conflict would escalate out of all control.
Yesterday an official report confirmed that the police, the British government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect: a Catholic priest. But it also revealed the profound moral and political dilemma which faced all those involved: the arrest of a Catholic clergyman would likely have inflamed an already dire political and security situation, but the failure to apprehend him risked hampering the search for justice for those who were killed.
Within days of the attacks, there was strong intelligence that one of the bombers was Fr James Chesney, the local republican quartermaster and “director of operations.” William Whitelaw, then the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, decided in consultation with the Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal William Conway, that the priest should not be arrested but instead discreetly transferred across the border into the Republic.
The present Secretary of State, Owen Paterson, said yesterday he was profoundly sorry Fr Chesney “was not properly investigated for his suspected involvement in this hideous crime, and that the victims and their families have been denied justice”. But he added: “I recognise of course that all those involved in combating terrorism at the time were making decisions in exceptionally difficult circumstances and under extreme pressure.”
The Bishop of Derry, Seamus Hegarty said yesterday he was “shocked and ashamed” that a priest would have been associated with the bomb attack, though the church insisted it had not been party to a cover-up.
The Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, reported he had found no evidence of criminal intent by anyone in the government or the church, but added that he had unearthed collusion. He said the decision not to pursue the priest was “wrong and contrary to a fundamental duty of police to investigate those suspected of criminality”.
Mr Whitelaw and Cardinal Conway are both dead but the Ombudsman recovered material from their files and diaries. While their exact thought processes remain unknown, the signs are they quickly agreed that Fr Chesney should be transferred.
There were many ecclesiastical precedents for moving priests – as has been seen in its reactions to various child-abuse scandals. In addition, in the months before Claudy, loyalists had begun to kill Catholics in large numbers. The emergence of an active IRA priest could quite possibly have encouraged them to kill clergy.
From the government’s point of view, the idea a priest was an active terrorist would have made far more difficult its attempts to persuade Catholics and Protestants to co-operate in a new partnership government. Furthermore, the arrest of a priest could have caused uproar, since many Catholics would have found it impossible to believe he could be a bomber.
A sense of the tensions of the time was given in the memoirs of the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath, when he wrote: “I feared that we might for the first time be on the threshold of complete anarchy.”
The Cardinal seems to have been persuaded by a file shown to him by Mr Whitelaw which referred to Fr Chesney’s involvement in Claudy and other acts of terrorism. According to an official document, the Cardinal said “that he knew the priest was a very bad man”. In his diary, the Cardinal described the meeting as a “rather disturbing tête-à-tête”. He also reported that in interviews with churchmen, Fr Chesney had strenuously denied any involvement in the IRA. Some state documentation showed that some individual police officers pushed for him to be arrested, even at the cost of causing a major stir.
One Special Branch detective inspector wrote in a memo: “We would need to be prepared to face unprecedented pressure. Having regard to what this man has done, I myself would be prepared to meet this challenge head-on.” When the Northern Ireland Office wrote to the then Chief Constable, Sir Graham Shillington, saying it was proposed to shift Fr Chesney to Donegal, he went along with the idea, noting: “Seen. I would prefer transfer to Tipperary.” By this he meant he would prefer Fr Chesney to be moved further away from Northern Ireland than Donegal, which is on the border.
Relatives of those killed were unimpressed by yesterday’s report. Mark Eakin, who was blown off his feet in the blast that killed his eight-year-old sister, Kathryn, said he wanted an apology from the Government.
“An apology, yes, but… I would like to see somebody brought to justice for this,” Mr Eakin said. “The families need to know how far up the conspiracy went.” Mr Eakin, a Protestant, added: “I just feel so sorry for some of the Catholic people. I feel they’ve been let down by their church.”
Finally, Fidel Castro confesses what many of us already knew :
Cuban communism doesn’t work - Castro
From: NewsCore September 09, 2010 2:31PM
FORMER Cuban president Fidel Castro said the “Cuban model” of communism no longer works, an apparent admission that the economic policy that underpinned the country’s revolution more than 50 years ago had failed.
“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” he told The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in an interview last week. Goldberg published parts of the exchange on a blog.
The former president’s candid admission comes amid speculation that the 84-year-old former premier is in seriously declining health.
He handed over control of the country in 2008 to his older brother Raul, who has since passed reforms that loosen the state’s hold on the economy.
During a part of the interview, the former president discussed his regrets over helping to escalate the Cuban missile crisis.
“After I’ve seen what I’ve seen, and knowing what I know now, it wasn’t worth it all,” he said.
He also lamented the current state of Iranian-Israeli affairs, saying that the Iranian government should understand the consequences of anti-Semitism.
“I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims,’ he said.
“The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.”
*Groan*. If I had my funeral I’d like to go out with ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’. Fortunately it isn’t restricted by the Anglican / other Protestant churches.
Re the Catholics:
I have some sympathy with them here. The use of contemporary culture, when it’s used to imply the departed will be up there somewhere, doing what they most loved on earth, can be pretty pagan.
Re the guns:
Paintball is fine, but I wouldn’t be impressed if my son’s youth group organised a paintball activity. If only because of the expense.
[ Edited: 10 September 2010 05:07 PM by Ros Burgess]
Show commitment to God with a tattoo, California church urges
By staff writers From:NewsCore September 14, 2010
A CALIFORNIA church called on its congregation to show their commitment to God by getting a tattoo of the church’s logo.
The City Church in Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles, is known for holding its Sunday services in a punk rock nightclub and using KFC buckets as collection tins, The Orange County Registersaid.
Lead pastor, Kyle Steven Bonenberger, 26, calls it “the church for the people who don’t like church.”
“It’s the furthest thing from what people perceive church to be,” he said.
To celebrate its first anniversary, the church challenged its flock to tattoo themselves and Pastor Bonenberger led the festivities by getting inked with the logo, which features a red heart.
He told the congregation that God “tattooed your name on his heart.”
About a dozen churchgoers have so far taken up the challenge and gotten a matching tattoo.
The implications of this for the world economy - and the possibility of another world depression - are sobering indeed. Obama ( and his leftist Democrats ) need to STOP SPENDING .....
By Gregory Bresiger From:NewsCore September 20, 2010 9.09am
THE actual figure of the US’ national debt is much higher than the official sum of $US13.4 trillion ($14.3 trillion) given by the Congressional Budget Office, according to analysts cited on Sunday by the New York Post.
“The Government is lying about the amount of debt. It is engaging in Enron accounting,” said Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future.
“The problem is we’re seeing an explosion in spending,” added Andrew Moylan, director of government affairs for the National Taxpayers Union.
In 1980, the debt - the accumulated red ink incurred by the Federal Government - was $US909 billion.
This represented some 33 per cent of gross domestic product, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Thirty years later, based on this year’s second-quarter numbers, the CBO said the debt was $US13.4 trillion, or 92 per cent of GDP.
The CBO estimates the debt will be at $US16.5 trillion in two years, or 100.6 per cent of GDP.
But these numbers are incomplete. They do not count off-budget obligations such as required spending for Social Security and Medicare, whose programs represent a balloon payment for the Government as more Americans retire and collect benefits.
In the case of Social Security, beginning in 2016, the US Government will be paying out more than it is collecting in taxes.
Without basic measures - such as payment cuts or higher payroll taxes - the system could be on the road to bankruptcy, according to officials.
“Without changes,” wrote Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue, “by 2037 the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. There will be enough money only to pay about $US0.76 for each dollar of benefits.”
Mr Kotlikoff and Mr Moylan agree US national debt is much more than the official $US13.4 trillion number, but they disagree over how to add up the exact number.
Mr Kotlikoff says the debt is actually $US200 trillion. Mr Moylan says the number is likely about $US60 trillion. That is close to the figure quoted by David Walker, the US Comptroller General from 1998 to 2008.
He launched a campaign to convince Americans that the federal spending and debt is a greater threat than terrorism. But whichever figure is accurate, all three agree that the problem has worsened in the last few years. They say it is because Congress and the Administration, whether Republican or Democrat, consistently overspend
The CBO estimates the debt will be at $US16.5 trillion in two years, or 100.6 per cent of GDP.
100.6% of GDP ???? If they were dealing with one of our Aussie banks, they would be called in and declared BANKRUPT ! These are crazy figures.
[ Edited: 20 September 2010 09:36 AM by Kevin Goddard]
PAPUA New Guinean villagers have taken democracy to a new level when they set upon their local MP with stones and sticks for failing to deliver the area basic services.
‘The angry mob of 300 men and women chased, kicked and punched Kerema MP Pitom Bombom last Thursday when he got off his plane in the Gulf Province, on PNG’s southeast coast.
Both national newspapers reported Mr Bombom came under attack by his own people who accused him of lying and failing his electorate during the last three years he had been in parliament…...
Vikki Campion From:The Daily Telegraph September 21, 2010
A CHURCH has been given $2.5 million of taxpayers’ money to build a hall with a liquor licence that keeps nearby residents awake until late at night.
New planning rules, which exempt government projects from council planning laws, mean the Building the Education Revolution hall behind the Greek Orthodox Church at Belmore was agreed to in secret.
Residents allege the taxpayer-funded hall, which will be used by both the church and the All Saints Parish School, is already holding boozy functions.
Residents are furious they had no say in the plans, which were assessed by a private certifier instead of being publicly considered by Canterbury Council.
Next door neighbour Zizimos Markous said he only found out about the 10m high hall - that flouts council height, setback and scale standards - two days before construction began because there was no public exhibition.
“The result is a building next door to me that would never pass council’s planning rules,” Mr Markous said.
The liquor licence can be used for dinners, balls, sporting events, fetes, carnivals and any activity “conducted for public amusement or to fundraise for any charitable purpose”.
Up to 1000 people flock to the church every weekend, Belmore Residents Action Group secretary Fiona Cameron said.
The church was found to be flouting its liquor licence in February after an Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing investigation discovered “several breaches of legislation, including compliance issues, resulting in enforcement”.
An Office of Liquor spokeswoman said NSW liquor laws did not prohibit a liquor licence being attached to a school premises.
Actually found a link to this classic old commercial via the site of that Erina Church that burned down on Saturday - http://www.coastlifechurch.com/ .
Go figure, but they also have a wierd youtube clip at the start of their home page - http://www.coastlifechurch.com/new_front.html I thought the opening clip would have been an invitation saying what their church was about. Must be a Pentecostal thing ;)
ANYWAY, here’s that radioactive commercial for face cream :
Here’s my favorite radioactive 50s ad: Duck and Cover
Hope they had plenty of Dorothy Gray face cream to help clean up all that nasty radioactivity afterwards.
He is an idle, pea-brained glutton with a permanent craving for doughnuts and Duff beer, but Homer Simpson has been declared a true Catholic by the Vatican’s official newspaper.
L’Osservatore Romano said ‘The Simpsons are among the few TV programmes for children in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes.’
Homer Simpson ‘is a true Catholic’
By Nick Squires in Rome
17 Oct 2010
The long-running cartoon series explores issues such as family, community, education and religion in a way that few other popular television programmes can match, according to L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s daily broadsheet.
The newspaper acknowledged that Homer snores through the sermons of the Reverend Lovejoy and inflicts “never-ending humiliation” on his evangelical neighbour, Ned Flanders.
But in an article headlined “Homer and Bart are Catholics”, the newspaper said: “The Simpsons are among the few TV programmes for children in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes.”
The family “recites prayers before meals and, in their own peculiar way, believes in the life thereafter”.
It quoted an analysis by a Jesuit priest, Father Francesco Occhetta, of a 2005 episode of The Simpsons, The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star, which revolved around Catholicism and was aired a few weeks after the death of Pope John Paul II.
The episode starts with Bart being expelled from Springfield Elementary School and being enrolled in a Catholic school where he meets a sympathetic priest, voiced by the actor Liam Neeson, who draws him into Catholicism with his kindness.
Homer then decides to convert to Catholicism, to the horror of his wife Marge, the Rev Lovejoy and Ned Flanders. The episode touches on issues such as religious conflict, interfaith dialogue, homosexuality and stem cell research.
“Few people know it, and he does everything he can to hide it, but it is true: Homer J Simpson is a Catholic,” insists L’Osservatore Romano.
It is not the first time that the Vatican newspaper has praised The Simpsons. Last December, as the television series celebrated its 20th anniversary, the paper said that “the relationship between man and God” is one of its most important themes and that it often mirrored the “religious and spiritual confusion of our times”.
Once a staid and sober paper of record, L’Osservatore Romano has ventured into popular culture in the last three years under a new editor, commenting on everything from The Beatles and The Blues Brothers to the blockbuster film Avatar and the Harry Potter books and films.
How many politicians does it take to fix a lightbulb ? None, they’re not allowed to
From:AAP October 20, 2010
POLITICIANS reckon they and their staff are quite capable of climbing a ladder to replace a blown lightbulb.
But occupational health and safety requirements say that should be left to a qualified electrician.
The issue surfaced during a Senate estimates hearing when Liberal Eric Abetz told upper house colleagues he was prevented recently from changing a lightbulb in his electorate office.
He was told that the rules meant an electrician had to be called.
“It is just impractical, it’s stupid,’’ Senator Abetz told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
“Most Australians would say if a person is not capable of changing a light globe, chances are they are not capable of running an electorate office.’‘
Senator Abetz said he had been told changing a bulb could require climbing a ladder which was a safety risk.
Australians managed to change bulbs in their own homes every day of the week without getting electrocuted.
“It’s bureaucracy gone mad, it’s a waste of money and the minister should intervene to stop it,’’ he said.
Nationals senator Fiona Nash said she was quite capable of changing a lightbulb.
“I would certainly be able to get up a ladder as a farm girl and change a light globe,’’ she said.
But Labor senator Doug Cameron was more cautious.
“I have never even thought about changing a lightbulb in my office,’’ he said.
“If someone ended up being electrocuted with a faulty wire, then you wouldn’t be asking these questions.’‘
Independent MP Bob Katter said it was a story for the times.
“PJ O’Rourke said `the safety Nazis are going to get us’ and they really have,’’ he told.
Opposition frontbencher Ian Macfarlane suggested changing a lightbulb was something for which he did not necessarily seek bureaucratic confirmation.
“As the old saying goes, don’t seek permission, seek forgiveness,’’ he said.
Liberal senator Simon Birmingham said he may have changed lightbulbs in his office in contravention of the rules.
“I didn’t realise were an enormous breach of any type of laws,’’ he said, adding a bit of common sense had to apply.”
21 October 2010 D’oh! Simpsons are not Catholic, say producers
The producers of The Simpsons have contradicted the Pope’s official newspaper by declaring that the animated family are not Catholic.
It comes after the L’Osservatore Romano stated that Homer and Bart were followers.
But Al Jean, executive producer of television show, said the pair only considered converting for one episode - The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest - aired in 2005.
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