The latest nerve gas poisoning in southwest england has all the hallmarks of Russian involvement.
Or does it?
In the back of my mind I seemed to remember a secret military facility in the southwest.
A quick google search shows that only a few kilometers from both poisonings is the old Chemical...
My father passed away last week and my sister asked me for something to put on the the memoria. I came up with this, but is it a poem or prose or even Haiku (Australian version)
Life is like a piece of string
Some are short some are long
Each has a start and each an end
It is the path it...
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I was just looking at the Australian Bureau of Statistic figures, as we have just completed the 2016 Australian census.
Here are the results for 1911 - 2011.
The results for 2016 should be available in a month or two where I suspect the figure will exceed 30% at the expense of the...
When I was brought up the Universe contained "ÄLL" since the big bang. I am now a science teacher and when approached by those of a religious bent I explain it this way. Like a concentric pool of Venn Diagrams I explain here is the Universe and here is that we do know and here is that we don't...
I seems the worlds most inherently violent religions Islam, Christianity and Judaism have in common the first four commandments/rules. Ensconcing an imaginary, hedonistic, xenophobic, paternalistic, misogynistic single idol symbol as top dog.
By accepting the first four you will be continuously...
When I watch videos such as this one I can see why disenfranchised naive young people can be conned into dying for ISIL, this Wahabbi high priest tells the audience that the West is the cause of all evil, that all the foretold signs of the coming "End of Days" are here and that it is fantastic...
Two recent events, amongst many, causes me to ask if a religion that professes peace and harmony can justify these actions in the name of Islam,
Atheist US Avijit Roy blogger killed in machete attack in Bangladesh
This shows me that these particular "extreme" people are intolerant of...
Sharia showdown
Sharia Showdown | Current Affairs | Dateline | SBS
Just watched this doco on SBS from Ache, a province of our nearest neighbor Indonesia. Indonesia is the largest Islamic state in the world (by population).
Indonesia's population is vast and varied, and most are just like you...
All around Australia today, Muslims have opened up their Mosques for anyone to come and visit. Guided tours and talks aimed at showing what Islam is really about can only be good in addressing many of the misconceptions we as Australians have, because most of us know very little about this...
Abbott has been blustering about chest thumping at Putin in the up and coming G20 Conference in Brisbane.
That's great television, but according to the Russian ambassador he hasn't even booked a private meeting with the Russian President, so is this more shallow hype from the budgie smuggling...
Obviously things like the printing press, the steam engine and the airplane are examples of inventions that have generally improved humanity. I was surprised when I read the other day, that one of the greatest inventions of the industrial revolution was the humble washing machine.
Why The...
Gene mapping and assignment of function can be costly and time consuming hard work, should someone not be rewarded for this massive effort. $2000 per screen to find your probable vulnerability to various breast cancers. We instantly have an apartheid of haves and have nots. What we are talking...
Stephen Hawking has just released a book called The Grand Design, written with Leonard Mlodinow.
Four points he makes are
Philosophy has not kept up with the mathematics of the universe and there fore is looking a little antiquated and irrelevant.
That God is not necessary for a full...
Iranian woman faces being stoned to death for adultery | News.com.au
Here we go again.
Can Muslims seriously expect the west to adopt and incorporate sharia law when once again we have a splendid example of its barbarity and brutality.
Cheers
The Abrahamic religions define themselves by their monotheism, it is a corner stone of their doctrine, yet they concurrently believe in angels and many other supernatural entities.
A god is super natural and not human, an angel is supernatural and not human, are they not both "godlike" with...
Found this while surfing it makes quite a good point.
How The Qur'an Came to Be
According to the Hadith, the Qur'an was written in heaven by Allah on a large stone tablet. The angel Gabriel brought it down and Muhammad recited it verbally but did not write any of it down. It was Muhammad's...
I would like an Islamic perspective on the following Four Corners documentary shown 20:30 EST 17 May 2010 on the Australian Broadcasting Commission channel.
Four Corners - 17/05/2010: In a Strange Land
I ask because it seemed honest and genuine, do you think it is biased. It appears to...
Archimedes, Pythagoras, Plato were all great philosophers.
They were typical of the time, and some of the many, as was the fashion to state worldly claims and assume it was right for the Universe. Many of their concepts have been proved correct, but a great deal more were shortly proved wrong...
An Islamic woman in full hijab may win Dubai's $1,000,000 Talent quest with poetry.
Its not so much that a woman might win but what her poems contain.
gulfnews : Saudi woman blasts clerics in TV contest poem
They condemn the patriarchal heirachy of these islamic nations with profound words...
The Rise of Atheism
The Rise Of Atheism | 2010 Global Atheist Convention
Tickets to the Global Atheist Convention are SOLD OUT
With only 9% of Australians still churchgoers and dwindling, it is not surprising this event, to be held at the largest convention centre...