As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population. The plain truth is this: There is no good reason to believe in a personal God; there is no good reason to believe that the Bible, the Koran, or any other book was dictated by an omniscient being; we do not, in any important sense, get our morality from religion; the Bible and the Koran are not, even remotely, the best sources of guidance we have for living in the 21st century; and the belief in God and in the divine provenance of scripture is getting a lot of people killed unnecessarily....
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Swades: My comments
I have been wanting to make a post on this movie called Swades for a long time. But I have always been distracted by the topics of interest and never seemed to have any time or mood. But now, here's my chance. It's one of my favourite movies. For the synopsis of the movie, go to this site.Many of the sites that offer a review of Swades have either made it sound mundane or very great. Eventhough it's a documentary-movie, I think Swades is a consciousness-raiser for all those who live overseas without any knowledge of what is India like...
Saturday, February 24, 2007
My Temple Tours in India
Last time, three years ago, when I went to India, we only went to Thirupathi. But this time in 2006, we went to a lot of different temples. We went to Thiruvannamalai, Srirangam, Namakkal, and Palani. And what more, it was Ayappan season and so we saw a lot of guys in black clothes. Once in a restaurant, I almost bumped into a guy and he saw me and said, 'swami saranam' and went up away. Oh my, what a devotion to God!Do I sound mocking? Definitely not. I'm not mocking at anyone and nor do I wish to. I learned a lot of things from these...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
An Educational Scandal
I borrow the above post title from Richard Dawkins's book, The God Delusion. Steven Layfield, the Head of Science at Emmanuel College in Gateshead, once gave a lecture called The Teaching of Science: A Biblical Perspective. For goodness's sake, he is the head of science! And it seems that he has no masala in his head! Do read the lecture text in the link provided! Also, take time to read this, a reply by Richard Dawkins to this lecture. Have a good laugh! What a loser?! And at the end he says:As we stated at the beginning, Christians, with very good reason, reckon the Scriptures of the Old & New Testaments a reliable...
Saturday, February 17, 2007
The gullibility of children
It has been a long time since I've posted. Most of the time, I was busy and even when I had the time, I was not in the mood to blog. Not to mention not having any topic at hand to discuss. But now I have. I have always been wondering why so many scientists in our labs and other labs believe in their religions. Being so educated and having seen the scientific explanation of life in our universe, how is it possible that they can still believe (have blind faith with no irrefutable evidence) in their religion, be it christianity, islam, or hindu? One of my colleagues is a post-doc. She is now working on a paper. I went home with...
Friday, February 9, 2007
Fun SMS
An SMS that I got from my friend:Tamil Hero's next film titles... (just for laughs)RAJINI: Sivaji, M.G.R, Geminiganesan, NageshVIJAYKANTH: dharmapuri, masalapuri, cholapoori, panipuriVIJAY: pokiri, pichakaran, mollamari, kepemariAJITH: Varalaru. Science, Maths, GeographySURYA: 6, 7, 8, 9JEEVA: E, erumbu, kosu, kambilipuchi :-)LOL!!...
Friday, February 2, 2007
Thaipusam
The hindus in Singapore celebrate Thaipusam very elaborately. Check this link. It's a news item from the local news channel. It's really amazing how multicultural Singapore is. Traffic has been diverted and roads blocked to facilatate the crowds in the roads during the procession of the devotee...
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