Archive for 'Less Insane Shit'
In the Year 2000
Posted on 15. Mar, 2009 by rents in Technology | No Comments
Alternative titles which were considered: “Welcome to the WORLD OF TOMORROW!” and “Going Mobile”. There was nothing I could do: the high-tech zombie apocalypse was upon me and there was no longer any reason to resist. After a valiant hold-out, after insisting for years that mobile phones and pagers are only for important people like [...]
Move over, Darwin: St. Augustine discovered evolution
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by rents in Charles Darwin, Religion, Science, evolution | 5 Comments
The Catholic Church, ever the survivor, has a long and noble history of apologizing for misdeeds and accepting established facts… as long as at least one hundred and fifty years have passed. The most famous example must be that of the persecution and rehabilitation of Galileo: tried and imprisoned by the Inquisition for heresy in [...]
Conversations with a Biblical Literalist
Posted on 21. Apr, 2008 by rents in History, Religion, christianity, egyptology, rants | No Comments
Or: How to Go From Casual Exchange to Raging Antisemitism in Three Easy Steps! Of all the historical inaccuracies in the bible, the one that has always bothered me most is the story about Moses being the adopted brother of Ramesess II and the nonsense about the Pharaoh’s son dying in a plague, despite the [...]
