Are we including scientology as a religion, or is it just a cult of quasi criminal ignoramuses who should be locked in a disused mine shaft for their own protection?

I saw an adonised bell shaped 5 piece pan set the other day... Phwoarr!

think everyone at this point is content with believing in aliens. A curious assertion. What makes you believe that? Does anyone else find it somewhat strange that all religions and mythologies involve beings coming from the sky and dicking around a bit though? If it was true, perhaps, but it isn't....

The sci-fi crowd is obsessed with aliens If they exist, clearly they're invisible. Might be tickling some of us right now whilst we're unaware of it Or they're on some of the other billions of planets, perhaps? Whether aliens exist and whether aliens are nearby are two very different questions. I c...

Speaking of books, has anyone else read the Long Earth series by Pratchett and Baxter? Quite a fun take on the parallel Earths idea.

My country is very anti-women in general and I'll give you 2 examples: if a girl breaks up with a guy, the guy will take revenge by beating her or outright killing her. It happens way too often, it's already expected Cheating. Both men and women cheat like dogs, but when a girl cheats on her guy, s...

Cosmetics? Pah! In my day we were perfectly happy with a pair of plastic spectacles and a fake beard. What other decoration could a man possibly need?

Perhaps it needs a bit more spelling out. Why is an interdimensional alien necessarily extraterrestrial?

I wish to withdraw my useless fact. It would appear that other people who have also discovered this fact persevered and, with the application of a considerable investment in time and resources, turned it into a workable business. The fact can therefore no longer be considered to have been useless. h...

As extraterrestrial aliens are about as close to a certainty as you can get, I'd say it was pretty tricky for interdimensional whatucallits to be more likely.

What is meant by interdimensional anyway? Is this a variation of the many worlds idea?

Oh, come on.

Did no one else dream of having a solid chocolate Easter egg as a kid???

If you melt down all of your hollow chocolate Easter eggs to form one single solid chocolate egg, it's bloody hard to eat.

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That is the question

Really? I think you comprehend it perfectly well but simply prefer to call it something else. Ultimately it doesn't make a blind bit of difference, and the only measure that counts is whether you believe you've lived a good life. An acknowledgement that God is there to help guide you may be useful, ...

At a guess I believe Jamie's problem is something along these lines. The idea of God that is popular amongst atheists is that He's an awesome all powerful being. The obvious conclusion an atheist would draw from this assumption is that if you came across God you would bloody well know about it. He w...

Nobody listens to my thoughts, and I don't want them to. When I feel contentment and belonging, it is almost always due to the actions of another human. When I feel steeled by taking on a challenge? I did that. Go me. When I tried to kill myself, my friend Emily saved me. None of this is "God" to m...

I would gladly give up free will for all humans, if in return all suffering was ended. That's a fucking no-brainer. There is so much suffering in the world that ending it is worth almost any cost. Now that is interesting. It's a no-brainer, certainly, but I'd take free will every time. I've got an ...

You re-read Brave New World? Good Lord, why? Once is more than enough for any man.

I grew up a Christian so I somewhat know what it is like. I felt the guilt...and the fear. In the Bible, the rich person came to Jesus and said he does everything right...and he essentially asks Jesus "I am saved, right"? Jesus essentially tells him you can never do enough. That is the message I go...

Lots of very worthy books here... Gormenghast is still waiting patiently on the shelf while I read Jack Campbell's JAG In Space series. Bloody good fun! He's described by Rambles as " The best writer of legalistic military science fiction writing today ", and I know literally no-one who can argue ot...