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[The North West Passage] The North West Passage - The passing of Deo's Shadow: Bren, it seems to me that you're making one of the more common philosophical mistakes concerning religion in insisting that statements about religious experience have to conform to what amounts to a positivist standard of proof. One of the central claims of religion is that the objects of religious experience are not analyzable in terms of ordinary reason, but rather require a distinctive language that I have elsewhere called apophatic communication -- a language of symbol and reference that is self-canceling in logical terms, because it refers to objects of experience that transcend logic.

[PM] BBC - PM: The BNP on Question Time.: In order to recreate the atmosphere of the latest edition of Q.T the studio audience should be instructed to ask provocative questions and a frenzied mob should be attempting to break in to the studio to lynch them. What have te BBC got to lose?

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Imus in the Mourning - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine: Whether or not you like Imus, he's pretty egalitarian in whom heinsults--its basically everyone including his own family and staff.He's called his brother Fred things that are 100 times worse than"nappy headed ho". The only difference is that Fred Imus and mostof the other targets of his insult don't have an "outrage for hire"infrastructure set up for just such an occasion like Sharpton andJackson do.

[Radio Open Source] Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » The Pain of Borat: If the victims are fictitious as in most TV, film, or radio bits I agree, but when the “victims” (whom I also agree make themselves one) are real, live, persons who are put thru changes by encounters with disingenuous “comedians” such as Borat or Kaufmann or Alan Funt or Don Rickles and suffer in whatever degree from that experience – no matter that they were willing participants (by dint of release signing) and the fact they engaged in the process doesnâ€â™t justify that process.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - The Editors: That Salmond interview: Having been enraged by Kirsty Wark`s attitude in the Alex Salmond interview, I was likewise none too happy with the contrasting treatment of Gordon Brown on last night`s Newsnight. Tough questions were indeed asked of him, but he was allowed to prevaricate and talk around the subject, hardly ever giving a clear answer which viewers would understand -- "towering intellectual waffle!" Why was he, as future PM, not subjected to the aggressive questioning Wark-style?

[Full Comment] Don Martin: Harper and his pride in surrender mode - Full Comment:  It's good on Prime Minister to see him squirm, perhaps now he will realize that Canadian couldn't really care about ideology but rather a job, food to provide our families and a roof to keep them warm.  The same can be said for Ignattief, who wouldn't know a good position to take if it hit him in the head....

[Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog] Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog » Closeted Christians: Anyone who thinks objectively about the doctrine of eternal damnation, and watches theistic friends squirm when asked whether particular nonbelievers among their friends and family will burn, can see the problem with this kind of dogma. There are quite a few people who have gained some knowledge in these areas, and are adequate to the task of explaining what these things say about religion, though they may have less erudition and eloquence than Dawkins or Harris.

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] William Wimsatt””Why Development is Crucial to Cultural Evolution ...: As a journal at the forefront of cultural theory, Social Text invites provocative interviews and challenging articles from emerging critical voices. Each issue breaks new ground in the debates about postcolonialism, postmodernism, and popular culture.

[Celtic Quick News] Absurd refereeing denies Celtic again - Celtic Quick News: If you take simply the 2 old firm games, the Falkirk game on Saturday and Dundee Uts game at parkhead thats a ten point swing in only FOUR games (in the 2 old firm games would have been a draw and win so take 3 points away from rangers and add 3 to celtic - 6 point swing - 2 points in each of the other 2 games) then we are 1 point ahead with game in hand. That is only from analysing 4 games, that does not take into account any of the other games this season.

[Kong Hee] The Power of Fasting | Kong Hee: I hope CHCers refrain from blaming others of being judgemental and personally attacking their pastor. Unless you accord other pastors/believers the same respect , why should you expect more from others?

[Radio Open Source] Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » Pitch a Show: 3/1/07: David: Further to silvio.rabioso's suggestion about Latin America, one rather provocative guest ”” on the face of it, given his history ”” would be the renegade spy, Philip Agee, who has recently written about the shifting balance ....

[About Agnosticism / Atheism] Pointy-Haired Cartoonist? Scott Adams Misrepresents Atheism ...: What Scott Adams fails to understand, though, is that this idea is offered in the first place to demonstrate that there's no independent, objective grounds for assuming that if there is a God, then it prefers adherents of any religion either. Adams is engaging in a blatant and obvious (though not obvious to him) double standard: he wants a reasonable explanation for why God would prefer skeptics, but he doesn't demand a reasonable explanation for why God would prefer adherents of this or that religion.

[Snarkmarket] Snarkmarket: Society/Culture: During the first half of the show Ogletree made the soldiers squirm about ethical tangles on the battlefield. The man getting the roughest treatment was Frederick Downs, a writer who as a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam had lost his left arm in a mine explosion.

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