"God" is Part of the 1 Percent Once upon a time a very, very angry man named "god" created the world, got pissed off at everybody and killed them all with a flood, except for his buddy Noah and his 2 live crew. Later God decided everyone is so lame that he chose his "chosen people" to give a plot of real estate to while telling everyone else to f*ck off, ordered some ethnic cleansings to clear out the area and so forth. Still finding nearly all people to be unbearable (and who can blame him, really?) this god person decided, out of the kindness of his heart, to send his only son to be brutally tortured and savagely murdered so that he won't have to send us all into a lake of hell fire for all eternity, because he loves us. About 600 years later, god met this slave owner named Mohammed who also hated most people and the two of them really hit it off.
Atheist's Wager One formulation of the Atheist's Wager suggests that one should live a good life without religion, since Martin writes that a loving and kind god would reward good deeds, and if no gods exist, a good person will leave behind a positive legacy.[1][2] The second formulation suggests that, instead of rewarding belief as in Pascal's wager, a god may reward disbelief, in which case one would risk losing infinite happiness by believing in a god unjustly, rather than disbelieving justly.[3] Explanation[edit] The Wager states that if you were to analyze your options in regard to how to live your life, you would come out with the following possibilities:[1][4][5] The following table shows the values assigned to each possible outcome: A benevolent god exists No benevolent god exists References[edit]
”Femme de la rue”, documentário sobre piropos gera polémica Sofia Peeters, estudante belga de cinema, resolveu criar um documentário sobre a forma como as mulheres são assediadas pelos homens, quando passam na rua. No filme, a estudante faz o percurso habitual de casa para outro local, ao longo do qual é abordada por vários homens de diversas maneiras — convites para sair, comentários sobre o aspecto físico, até insultos. O filme gerou controvérsia ao ponto de o Ministério do Interior belga ter adoptado medidas para prevenir a situação. "Femme de la rue", assim se chama o documentário de 17 minutos, foi filmado nas ruas de Anneesens-Lemonnier, um bairro com um elevado número de população imigrante, sobretudo de origem árabe. Usar calças em vez de saias? No documentário, exibem-se testemunhos de mulheres, vítimas de sexismo, que relatam as estratégias que adoptam para evitar o assédio nas vias públicas. "Tenho a sensação de que não sou livre", comenta uma das jovens. Cultura machista? Portugal não tem legislação
The 10 TED Talks They Should Have Censored - By Joshua E. Keating It's been a big week of news for TED (Technology, Education, Design) conferences -- and their self-organized TEDx offshoots. This week, TED sparked controversy over a talk on income inequality that organizers decided was too partisan to post online and made news (well, at least in these quarters) for the convening of TEDxMogadishu -- the conference's most extreme location yet. Over the years, TED talks have been a showcase for dozens of enlightening and entertaining presentations. (These include some great talks by FP contributors like Paul Collier, Tyler Cowen, and Evgeny Morozov.) On the other hand, critics also charge that "nerd Coachella" as often as not serves as an elitist self-aggrandizement opportunity for gimmick-peddling narcissists. With all the fuss over TED's self-censorship, we searched through hours of footage to find 10 talks the organizers really should have excised. Joe Smith: How to Use a Paper Towel TEDxConcordiaUPortland 2012 Terry Moore: How to Tie Your Shoes
Introduction to the Spiritual Abuse Web Site Established August 23, 1997 © 1997 - present by Lois E. Gibson Contents of this website and all original works are copyright - All rights reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced elsewhere except with the prior written permission of the owner. Shop at our Amazon store! Links | Terms & Conditions What is spiritual abuse? David Johnson & Jeff VanVonderen, co-authors of “The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse,” describe the action: "It's possible to become so determined to defend a spiritual place of authority, a doctrine or a way of doing things that you wound and abuse anyone who questions, or disagrees, or doesn't 'behave' spiritually the way you want them to. Does leadership in your church demand you consult with them (or your discipler) before making major decisions or any decisions at all? Do you find yourself periodically questioning your spirituality or standing with God? Has the initial joy you felt when first coming to know the Lord been replaced with worry?
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster The God Fuse: 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can Agree On The war that's coming between the fundamentalist Christians and the hard-core Atheists probably won't be the most violent of the holy wars. But it has the potential to be the most annoying. We'll, I'm going to try to stop it. So I'm running into this guy basically everywhere I go: Not that exact guy. These things never end well. But I think we've got more common ground than we admit. Celebrating the death of somebody you disagreed with pretty much makes you a dick. I doubt anybody reading this has ever waved a snarky sign at a funeral, so I think we're pretty much all in the same boat still. So how about this: I'm going to throw out a few of these statements - things I think we have to agree on if we want to avoid disaster - and you can read until you see something you disagree with. Why? I go home, log into one of my favorite forums and one guy's got this as his avatar: And another dude has this: So I retreat to my own forums, and find out turbo evangelist Jerry Falwell had died that day.
Crescimento sustentável? Mariana Trigo Pereira A discussão corrente sobre o crescimento económico esgota-se, invariavelmente, na análise da evolução do ‘output’ final em detrimento das características e ‘drivers’ desse crescimento. Contudo, são as dimensões qualitativas do crescimento que nos permitem aferir a sustentabilidade do modo como cada país produz riqueza e gera oportunidades de emprego. Nas últimas décadas, os anos mais fortes de crescimento foram impulsionados por fatores que se esgotaram, ou por circunstancias irrepetíveis, pelo menos no curto prazo, como o financiamento ‘low-cost' à economia e às famílias, o forte dinamismo do sector da construção, níveis significativos de investimento público ou investimento direto estrangeiro. Que políticas económicas? Políticas que privilegiem sectores exportadores em melhores condições de gerar emprego no curto-prazo (e.g. Mariana Trigo Pereira, Economista