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Posted in Education, Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jul 28th, 2009
Despite what the (American) religious right may teach, just saying “No” to yourself doesn’t always work.
Many of us already knew that, but it’s now official. The truth is out at last – abstinence-only programmes make the situation worse. To the surprise of few, it has recently emerged that George W. Bush’s “abstinence only” [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Internet, Relationships, Society, Technology on Jul 4th, 2008
One story which has been causing a fair amount of sniggers in the press this week is a research report by the UK Health Protection Agency indicating that sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young. (The overall rate of [...]
Posted in Education, Existential, Faith, Internet, Other Blogs, Psychology, Religion, Science, Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008
Did you know that:
George Bush planned the September 11 attacks,
MMR injection triggers autism in children,
the ancient Greeks stole their ideas from Africa,
Creation Science disproves evolution,
homeopathy can defeat the AIDS virus,
Jesus and Mary Magdalene sired a dynasty of Merovingian kings,
MI5 killed Diana, Princess of Wales?
If you did know any of these things, you have been a [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Television on Jan 14th, 2008
Authority has more authority when it comes soaked in credibility.
If you were learning to drive, you wouldn’t want to be taught by someone with very limited experience of the road - someone who had only trundled up and down a straight piece of tarmac in a very limited and safe environment. You would hope [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Society, Terrorism on Dec 6th, 2007
Myth 1: Without religion we would have no moral values and our society would be worse off.
Surely, the argument goes, the benefit of having a god in your life is that it gives you rules to live by. “If God does not exist then everything is permissible,” said Dostoyevsky, and indeed, without the threat [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Health, Human Rights on Dec 2nd, 2007
I think it is at least a triple rather than a double whammy.
Let Kousalya Periasamy tell her story:
In 1995, at the age of 20, I was forced to marry my cousin because my father wanted the ancestral property to remain within the family. Unknown to me my husband was HIV positive. Just 45 days after [...]
Posted in Government, Health, Humor, Humour, Politics, Relationships, Society, Terrorism on Sep 13th, 2007
Its now official. You dont need the store cupboard anymore. You can have time off work to have sex. Well, at least you can if you live in Russia.
The governor of the central Russian province has urged couples to skip work on Wednesday to make love in order to boost Russias low birth-rate. The population [...]
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