Month: September 2013

Friday Quote – Neils Bohr

Double quote goodness!

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

Neils Bohr, Nobel laureate physicist

Quantum level physics is one of those areas of science that I have to struggle with. It’s as if reality has decided that it’s normal rules are boring and it’s going to do something else entirely.

Primer to dealing with atheists

Here’s an eleven minute video on some of the more frequent questions/statements that atheists hear when believers find out we’re atheists.

The gist, is that if you have honest questions and ask the respectfully, most of us will be happy to explain our beliefs to you. Please don’t assume we came to our beliefs blindly or because of trauma.

Oh, and for the people that tell me I need to read the Bible more and I’ll believe? That has the same validity of telling me if I manage to get through all three books of Lord of the Rings, I’ll understand that hobbits are real.

Even the EPA Has A SWAT Unit

And feel the need to use it. Not to invade the evil polluting corporations armed with automatic weapons (seen on TV), but to do routine Clean Water checks. From Reason:

Chicken is a small roost, boasting all of 17 full-time residents and lots of seasonal mine workers, according to the Dispatch. The EPA wouldn’t explain why it has suddenly shifted to an armed team to check for Clean Water Act violations. According to the Dispatch, one Senate staffer was told the EPA sent an armed team because they were told by Alaska State Troopers there was “rampant drug and human trafficking” in the area. A spokesperson for the troopers denies they told the EPA any such thing.

Because, y’know, the EPA needs its own heavily armed agents to take water samples in the dangerous part of Alaska. And we’ll use the magic term drugs to explain.

Metal Tuesday – Delain – Control the Storm

This week’s Metal Tuesday is Delain’s “Control the Storm.”

Lyrics:

I can feel it grow
Starting like a little storm
Itching in my toes
But it’s will to take over
Ain’t quite that small
I can feel it grow
I can hear it moan
I can hear it’s bitter cries
In my veins it crawls
Underneath my tongue it hides
I’m in control

An error in my genesis
The reason why I started this
Where did we go wrong?

Don’t you know
In the end you’re no stronger of hand
You are no stronger of heart
Don’t you know
In the end, we’ll be tragically torn apart
If we can’t control the storm

Does it get to you?
Fury in your fingertips
It doesn’t get me too
Turning hands to angry fists
In rageful bliss
Oh does it get to you?
Crying all your lullabies
Do you lick your wounds
Wondering how we could try to stop this useless fight

An error in my genesis
The reason why I started this
Where did we go wrong?

Don’t you know
In the end you’re no stronger of hand
You are no stronger of heart
Don’t you know
In the end, we’ll be tragically torn apart
If we can’t control the storm