Here's an interesting pattern ( Read more... )

 (slightly paraphrased, for clarity and faulty memory purposes ( Read more... )

So two weeks on with my whole not being Jewish thing, a couple of points have come up. The first being that I told my family and got even less response than I was expecting (I wasn't expecting Mum to be terribly bothered in the first place, since she's been known to eat ham and bacon occasionally). Turns out she's much more concerned about the ( Read more... )

So one of my coworkers rang me up and convinced me to come with him to hear about some business proposal project thing with as-yet unspecified details. As the weekend approached I finalised the plans with him: He would pick me up from my flat on Sunday at around 11, and then we would go out to Burwood to hear about this thing. "Why so early?" I ( Read more... )

A lot of people I know seem to find comfort and security in their absolute knowledge that God exists. My understanding of this is that it lets one make sense of seemingly senseless events because then you can say that your cousin didn't die in a car accident because of a meaningless set of coincidences, but that God works in mysterious ways and his ( Read more... )

I'm looking to move out to a place closer to uni by the end of February with a couple of friends from uni, so to this end we've spent the last week attending various house inspections ( Read more... )

The Poll
When you sing the Australian National Anthem, how do you pronounce the word 'advance'?
A: To rhyme with 'pants'
B: Advarnce, to be assonant with the word 'path'

For myself, I have no idea. I read both pronounciations and they both sound correct to me.

Random Linguistics I finally discovered why I've occasionally been mistaken for ( Read more... )

I have now had the second person ask me if the reason for my religion's name is because of the apostle Judas. Judging by the cultural, social and physical distance between the two queries leads me to think that this belief must be quite widespread ( Read more... )

http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

What I found most fascinating about this is that the views on God are exactly what my friend Zhe and I discussed late into the night once upon a time, and which I reproduced in part in an earlier post about the nature of GodStill ( Read more... )

I should warn you now, that what you are about to read is quite flameworthy. If you have definite ideas about God which you're not comfortable being challenged on, or you just don't like reading about someone else's fairly atheistic conclusions, or if religious debate just bores you then don't read past this paragraph. If you choose to read on ( Read more... )