JREF to Appear on ABC’s Primetime Nightline

Unrelated to the post, but the first thing that popped up when I opened this page was an add for ChristianMingle.com.  I think they may be advertising to the wrong demographic.

Many times when my mother was alive we both called each other at the exact same time. Neither of us has planned to call each other, it was just a random act. I’ve also had this happen with my sister’s more than once and my daughter. We just choose to call one another at the same time for unknown reasons.

My mom and her sister have also more than once purchased the same birthday card for their mother even though they lived over 1800 miles apart. Same taste or just a coincidence? maybe but for it to happen more than once, I don’t know.

Our family has often discussed this and tried to figure out why it happens but we have never attempted to do a scientific study and I doubt we ever will. Mom is no longer alive but the phone stuff still happens often with my daughter and the card thing has happened more than once as well. Again, I don’t’ know if it is just coincidence.

As an atheist I still think other life is out there and my mother used to tell me I was born in a green egg because my favorite color is green but I’ve always had this connection to outer space and I do have a huge fascination with alien life.

Does my family have some sort of alien DNA that allows us to communicate and think of one another over a vast distance? Maybe, maybe not.

I just know I cannot explain how over my past 41 years these things have happened. I just know they do.

Well ad’s help pay for bandwidth and while Chrome is fast is just sucks the big one when it comes to customizing and Firefox I just do not like. I’ve tried it over and over and their font just sucks big time. I also don’t like the feel of it. I’ve been using IE since it first came out and I will deal with the ad’s because I can ignore them.

People love to slam IE but I’ll keep on using it.

I love that skeptics would get angry if the show ended in some sort of ambiguous zone, but why do some of them get so angry at atheists in the skeptical movement then? If they are so sure that psychics can’t actually do what they say they do how is that any different than religious claims? There are plenty of psychics who claim to only get accurate visions when the universe wants them to. You can’t disprove that! Much in the same way we can’t disprove some God who’s outside the universe.

Actually, as an Atheist and a skeptic, I have to say that there is a great deal of a difference.

The difference is that religious people claim that God can break the laws of physics, chemistry, etc… and psychics claim that *they* can do the same thing.

There is no such thing as “psychic energy” or any other mumbo jumbo. The laws of our entire scientific experience tell us this, no matter how much people want to “believe” otherwise. Mere “thought” does not affect matter in any way whatsoever. And material things do not “send vibrations” to the human brain in terms of intent or any other such thing. In the exact same vein, minds cannot send out “waves” to each other. There is no physical phenomenon in the universal body of our studies and experiments which have proven an iota of this that it is even remotely possible. If you actually understand physics and how atoms, particles and waves actually work, you would understand this to be completely true.

It’s far easier to claim that there is some sort of amorphous, non-descriptive, supreme being which exists out there somewhere in the universe and to leave it at that deist level and say that we just don’t know than it is to say that Joe Smith down the street cannot do something we know to be completely physically impossible.

Again, as I said: the difference is that religious people claim that God can perform “miracles”, and psychics claim that *they* can perform miracles.

Exactly. It seems rather obvious that the same applies to God. I don’t see how that isn’t skepticism.

On the same note of not all skeptics being atheists, not all atheists are skeptics. There are a lot of atheists out there who still believe in all kinds of nonsense woo without evidence. Believe me I’ve met a few and it always surprises me even though it shouldn’t.

Everyone’s got different beliefs, even if they don’t always make sense or create cognitive dissonance.

Again, at least ABC is keeping bullshit in primetime. I have faith that the show will not end like that.

Once in college I was studying late at night, when for some inexplicable reason I felt this overwhelming feeling of concern for my grandmother. A few seconds later, my phone rang. With a feeling of anxiety, I answered it. It was a wrong number.

With 7 billion people on the planet, that kind of thing is going to happen occasionally.  It isn’t unusual, or creepy, or even amazing.  With those kinds of numbers, it should be expected to happen.  The odds are for it.

As Dr. Scott Lilienfeld said during his guest spot on ‘The Infidel Guy’ show, what would be _really_ extraordinary is if such coincidences NEVER happened.

It would seem that there are two kinds of ads. “Impressions” and click-ads (for lack of a better term). So adblockers only matter when it comes to impression ads (assuming you wouldn’t click on the other ads anyway).
I hate ads, however, they’re distracting, especially if they have blinking or shifting text/imagery, and here at home I prefer as clean a screen as possible.
I think the only ads I could tolerate are the small text google ads off to one side.
I know it might cost a bit of revenue, but I’d rather donate once in a while to a site I frequent often than having to be burdened with ads all the time.