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POPSHello All You Godless Infidels And Happy Heathens Gaylor said this to start her show, Hello all you godless infidels, out-of-the-closet atheists and happy heathens. You can turn on the radio or TV 24/7 to be preached at. This is one hour a week of the public airwaves that offers an alternative. This program is an antidote to the domination of public airwaves by the religious right. Your humble correspondent eagerly await the nauseating and hypocritical outcry from Fox Noise and the religious right in this country which is sure to come. For to them, freedom of religion has never meant freedom from religion and certainly not from our own brand of home-grown Christianity which more and more Americans are viewing as blatantly hypocritical, judgmental and overbearing.
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POPSGod vs the Bible There is far to much knowledge at this site to do more than clip a few points that will be made. There is a lot of great information to be found here. As I've said before, no one can prove or disprove "a god" or "a creator", but we have ample evidence to show that the bible god is complete fiction.
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POPSCorporation Armies. Private Enterprise Wars & Disasters This article has a humorous tint to it and a lot of fun with words, yet the same words that can make you laugh also point to new 'capitalistic imperialism,' that could make you cry (if tears are still possible). It seems that the bold and righteous ideas of America's founders have been twisted into a John Wayne movie where the Cattle Baron pulls all the strings. (If I read this article correctly, that's the idea). I think.
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POPSShizophrenia and Creativity This is an informative and absorbing article. Today is World Mental Health Day, and I am disappointed there aren't a lot more items to mark it.
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POPSEdge.org - The 3rd Culture The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.
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POPSSingularity Will Be a Global Phenomenon As I scour the web for news relating to it, I find that the singularity is being pursued from points all across the globe. Research is being done in many countries, in the fields of AI, nanotechnology, robotics, computer technology and life-extension, in many cases ahead of domestic research. What are the implications of the global reach of all this research and development? One implication is that the singularity seems to be more inevitable than ever. There is no single, regulated and controlled center of operations that can be scaled back or even slowed down. The pace of research is being driven faster and faster by an organic and chaotic momentum that will very probably lead to strong AI and radical life-extension far sooner than most people could imagine.
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POPSAsk Al-Gore to run for president! Now acknowledged for his contributions with the Nobel Prize, Al-Gore is the single most capable person for the job. His illustrious record for commitment to the climate, protection of the constitution, science and technology progress, opposition to war and abhorrence for selfish capitalism n big business politics are the most desirable qualities America and the whole world needs in the next president. Why Gore? http://www.draftgore.com/free_details.asp?id=46 Spread the WORD!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algore http://www.algore.com/index-splash.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore%27s_contributions_to_the_Internet_and_technology http://www.draftgore.com/ http://www.draftgore2008.org/ http://liveearthpledge.org/algore.php
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POPSAl Gore's statement on winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Now acknowledged for his contributions with the Nobel Prize, Al-Gore is the single most capable person for the job. His illustrious record for commitment to the climate, protection of the constitution, science and technology progress, opposition to war and abhorrence for selfish capitalism n big business politics are the most desirable qualities America and the whole world needs in the next president. Why Gore? http://www.draftgore.com/free_details.asp?id=46 Spread the WORD!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algore http://www.algore.com/index-splash.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore%27s_contributions_to_the_Internet_and_technology http://www.draftgore.com/ http://www.draftgore2008.org/ http://liveearthpledge.org/algore.php
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POPSBest Places to Get Free Books - The Ultimate Guide Best of the best free book resources on net. pdfs, docs, ebooks, mp3s... philosophy, science, technology, religion, theology, futurism, fiction.... almost all public domain intellectual work is available online. net is soon going to become the sum of all human knowledge (or has it already :)
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POPSProgrammableWeb ProgrammableWeb is where you can keep-up with what's new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform.
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POPSWhat next after Karachi's carnage? What next after Karachi's carnage? General Pervez Musharraf is now a desperate man. Dozens were left dead in the horrific carnage on May 12, initiated by his violent political allies in Karachi, the MQM, in an attempt to stem the popular protests against Musharraf's dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan. But this may still not buy him enough strength. Protests will continue. His "million man rally" in Islamabad, held on the same day, blatantly used the state's full organizational machinery and was widely ridiculed. It was seen as a sign of his weakness rather than strength. So what is Musharraf likely to do next?
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POPSA History of Intellectual Discussion of 'Accelerating Change' Accelerating information and communication technologies have today become the most dynamic systems in modern society. Faced with the daunting prospect of further acceleration in their capacity, most people presently either deny the possibility, or ignore the phenomenon entirely. Futurists and Transhumanists believe that the evidence is strongly against the first response, and that the second response is unwise. Learning about accelerating change and grasping the concept from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective is the most pressing challenge of today. Here's an excellent article from http://www.accelerationwatch.com/history_brief.html that accumulates some of the most incisive thoughts on these topics from a range of careful future thinkers, and to provide a number of synthetic interpretations, including one, the developmental Singularity hypothesis
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POPSiBiblio links to book and media sources just about any topic.
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POPSSustainable World SourceBook The Sustainable World SourceBook is a concise (58 pages), attractive and user-friendly personal manual for contributing to a sustainable world. It contains essential information on the state of the planet and recommended solutions, effective actions for greening your life, and a resource directory of useful organizations, books, films and websites.
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POPSThe Ray Kurzweil Reader One of the best of the best futurism resources on net. anyone wanna know the future? read Kurzweil! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
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POPSKurt Vonnegut Library Read all of Kurt Vonnegut online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut my fav, Slaughterhouse Five
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POPSINTP Introverted Thinking with Intuition If any type personifies the absentminded professor, it would likely be the INTP. Their inter reflectiveness--Introversion--enables them to explore all the imaginative possibilities their Intuition preference provides. Their objectivity (Thinking) demands the analysis of all that information, and their open-ended and flexible attitude (Perceiving) prompts them to be responsive to whatever new data presents itself.
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POPSScribd Great service for storing & sharing docs online!
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POPSopenkapow - webmashup software Web Mashup = API + API + API A web mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or so called API.
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POPSThe Problem with Atheism
How true! religions are such a huge problem but atheism is not the appropriate counter strategy, Up-wing Transhumanism can fill in very well. it is the nature of Homo Sapiens that most individuals are always susceptible to magical thinking and always need to believe in a cosmic caretaker -n punisher- and the post-scarcity utopia called heaven in the afterlife. Transhumanism, Futurism and Evolutionary Spirituality equip us with just the right weapons to tame the beast. It is essentially Humanistic and promises a bountiful scarcity-free future right here, in this universe! All religions are based on One basic assumption, "Humans are the ultimate creation", whereas in futurist circles humans are long been viewed as only intellectual primates. Accepting Evolutionary Spirituality opens the doors for wondering about the future and working forward to make it happen. Its a really paradigm shifting realization that we are not the end result of evolution, the process is still on...
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POPSPoint of Inquiry podcasts Point of Inquiry is the premiere podcast of the Center for Inquiry, drawing on CFI’s relationship with the leading minds of the day including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, public intellectuals, social critics and thinkers, and renowned entertainers. Each episode combines incisive interviews, features and commentary focusing on CFI’s issues: religion, human values and the borderlands of science. Point of Inquiry explores CFI’s three research areas: 1. Pseudoscience and the paranormal (Bigfoot, UFOs, psychics, communication with the dead, cryptozoology, etc.) 2. Alternative medicine (faith healing, homeopathy, “healing touch,” the efficacy of prayer, etc.) 3. Religion and secularism (church-state separation, the effects and proper role of religion in society, the future of secularism and nonbelief, etc.) Contributors to Point of Inquiry include Lauren Becker, Paul Kurtz, Benjamin Radford, Dawkins, Sam Harris, Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, Tom Flynn, David Koepsell, and many m
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