by cameron | Jul 14, 2007 | Podcast, science vs religion
My guest today is Chris Summerfield. Chris works for Drug Arm WA, writes an intelligent blog called “A Churchless Faith” and recently took me up on my challenge to Christians to answer the question “What would it take for you to become an atheist?”. We talk a little about the striking similarities between the key points in the Jesus myth and the mythologies of other saviour gods such as Horus (3000 BCE), Mithra, etc. We also examine the troubling lack of first-hand eye-witness reports of Jesus (surely someone walking around raising people from the dead would have caused some interest from contemporary scholars) and the fact that the Jesus Seminar concluded that only 18% of the supposed saying of Jesus in the New Testament have any chance of being authentic or original.
The Zeitgeist Movie
Parallels between Jesus and Horus
Jesus and the other God-men are personifications of the Sun
Other saviour gods that pre-date Jesus, such as Mithra, Dionysus and Orpheus
The Jesus Seminar
The Historicity of Jesus
Why Are The Ancient Historians Silent About Jesus?
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by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | environment, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change.
G’DAY WORLD #243 – Dr Peter Ellyard (Part Three)
GDAY WORLD #213 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part Two)
GDAY WORLD #204 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part One)
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by cameron | Jul 12, 2007 | Podcast
Today my guests are Andrew and Kevin – an American and a Brit living in Japan – to talk about some current conspiracy theories, including hundreds of “concentration camps” being built in the USA to house ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ and Rex 84, “a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency”.
Here’s some links to scare the pants off of you:
Halliburton’s prison camps in America
Military Commissions Act of 2006
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Admits Military Commissions Act Vote Was Mistake
NYT: No Habeas Corpus
Kellogg Brown and Root
Civilian prison camps run by the Army
FEMA Camp Footage
The Georgia Guidestones
FEMA’s 911 Concentration Camps
Rex 84
Rumsfeld Sept 10, 2001: The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION
Operation ENDGAME
The Bush Family Crime Chart
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by cameron | Jul 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Damn I’m tired today. Went downstairs for a quick nap at 9.30am and woke up two hours later.
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Productivity tip of the day – delete the “Latest News” live feed from Firefox toolbar. I think I checked that 50 times a day. It’s now GONE.
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How do you know that someone in Facebook is real?
I went to add Richard Dawkins to my Facebook friends list today and was writing him an introduction message when I thought – how do I know this is really Dawkins? I stumbled upon his profile in the Atheism group. But how do I know this isn’t some 16 year old kid who created Dawkins’ profile? Is there anyway of telling?
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Anyone else still getting telemarketing calls even though you’re on the Do Not Call register? I actually registered a complaint about one today from “Freedom Escape”, some kind of holiday packages outfit.
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I love what Kimberley from Evolve has done with the magazine I got in the mail today.
Check out the sub-title!
If you want to read the article on the panel that Duncan, Jim and I did, read:
The Lunatics in Charge
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I did a Myers-Briggs test today and it said my personality type is INTP. For some reason, people on Twitter find that hard to believe….
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by cameron | Jul 8, 2007 | Podcast
Frank Arrigo, the guy who runs Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism team in Australia, a 16 year veteran of Microsoft, joins me tonight to publicly break his big news – he’s moving to Seattle to direct Microsoft’s DPE field strategy worldwide.
The quality of the Skype call is terrible so we don’t talk long, but we manage to chat a bit about Microsoft’s enormous drop in enterprise developer support for Windows in the last year (according to this report), what some of the reasons for it might be and what they need to do to stop the desertion. We also talk about the lack of support for kids with Asperger’s Syndrome in Sydney (two of Frank’s sons have it) and the great support in Seattle. And I finally bet Frank $50 and an iPhone that 50% of his team in Australia will quit in the next year after he leaves….
Check out this video of Frank doing his best attempt at Shakespeare:
http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf
Video: macbeth.ed
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