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Comment on Letter to David Cameron by Chris Worfolk

Chris Worfolk — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:52:32 +0000

I suspect Cameron was playing to an audience when he made to the comment, I’m not entirely sure what his actual views are.

Never the less, it’s good to see that all three parties have humanist associations within them, this is certainly a step forward to ensuring that humanist interests are looked after as much as religious interests are.

Hopefully this will be reflected in any responses you receive though unfortunately the fact that they will no doubt discuss in length ideals of non-discrimination and valuing everyone equally such words provide little indication of their truth beliefs in the political sphere.

Comment on Google Wave by Will

Will — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:33:36 +0000

I made a similar observation when I got invited to Google Wave a few days ago — it would be such a good platform for enabling people to run a society. Get the A-Soc committee signed up and let us know if truly is as useful as it promises to be.

Comment on Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies – a history. by Chris Worfolk’s Blog » Blog Archive » The H-Soc

Chris Worfolk’s Blog » Blog Archive » The H-Soc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:20:22 +0000

[...] went down to the Humanist Society of West Yorkshire on Thursday to listen to Norm’s talk on student atheism. It was a good talk although oddly punctuated by an all together not all their Christian who had [...]

Comment on What I have been up to this week 2009-10-25 by What I have been up to this… | The Gers Info

What I have been up to this… | The Gers Info — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:24:34 +0000

[...] the original here: What I have been up to this… Filed under Rangers Tags: actual-fascists, apparently, game-off-ebay, ideas, moment, package, [...]

Comment on Spending my bonus! by Norman Ralph » New kit

Norman Ralph » New kit — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:56:51 +0000

[...] my August overtime I went out and bought the first part of my planned AV setup at home. I decided to start with the TV and plumped in the end for the LG (model 32LG2100) pictured [...]

Comment on Is Atheism the New Coca-Cola? by Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:27:15 +0000

The problem with Atheism and why it will never beat Religion is in its own thinking. In effet Atheism promotes the individual above the group-thought of Religion, as such, as the writer of the article has found, individuals become selfish and will not work as a group, hence will not be able to organise against Religion.

The second problem is that Atheism has nothing to sell, it can never be regarded as a product, for in effect all it is saying is an individual can exist less God and Religion. Atheism sells nothing. Is nothing a sellable commodity? No.

The third problem for Atheism is that it is a left brain activity, whilst Religion is a right brain activity. The right brain deals with imagination, creativity, motivation and religion. People will die for, feed the hungry, look after animals, be motivated to do good because of the actvities in their right brain, stimulated by Religion. In contrast the left brain from which Atheism stems is cold, calculating and separated, and hence will not inspire anyone to do anything for any cause, including Atheism.

Comment on New phone! by Norman Ralph » Blackberry Applications

Norman Ralph » Blackberry Applications — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:35:08 +0000

[...] itching to really get to grips with unleashing the power of my Blackberry device since I upgraded earlier this year. It seems this itch has taken a back seat as I have been busy with other things. That is until [...]

Comment on What I’ve been up to this week…2009-08-23 by Thomas Cherryhomes

Thomas Cherryhomes — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:42:13 +0000

Hello,

I am one of the LinuxMCE Developers.

We’d love you tot try out our system. There are a few things I would recommend you keep in mind:

(1) Use TWO Network Interface Cards. This system is intended to be the center of a home network, becoming your router, gateway, firewall, and central file server.
(2) Use NVIDIA graphics cards if you want the full alpha blending experience. We’re watching other video driver support mature, so this hopefully won’t be a requirement later.
(3) Understand this is a smart home solution, the first of its kind, so while the requirements are far greater than say, XBMC, Boxee, Windows 7 Media Center Edition, etc., the functionality is also far greater.
(4) For newer hardware, go to the wiki, and click on the LinuxMCE-0810 Alpha2 link, to download and install that version of the software. The stable release is very old now, and does not adequately support newer hardware.
(5) Finally, talk on the forums and the IRC channel, there are lots of people willing to help, and if we can answer a question, we will.

Welcome.

-Thom

Comment on Man fined for Halal slaughter by Chris Worfolk

Chris Worfolk — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:29:23 +0000

I saw this news story a few days ago and what I found interesting was that London’s Halal Food Authority don’t actually ban pre-stunning. Hopefully this will gradually propogate throughout the Muslim community.

Comment on Ethical Meat by Norman Ralph

Norman Ralph — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:11:09 +0000

[...] is an interesting development following my article on this very subject not so long ago that was published in Secular Future. Tags: Article, Halal, [...]