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Comments by Johnny O


1. Stephen Hawking's explosive new theory

Comment #203544 by Johnny O on July 3, 2008 at 5:59 am

What a brilliant thread, I've learned so much.

My question is, do psychadelics and cosmology mix?

I think you might be on to something there chuckgoeke. I started reading A Brief History of Time in hospital after surgery to recontruct my shoulder. I was off my tits on morphine and understood most of what I read. When I got home and tried again my head hurt.

Now I realise the book gets harder as it goes along and the headache might have been caused by the morphine "come down", but that's my experience and I just know that it's true... (where have I heard that before??)

2. Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?

Comment #202566 by Johnny O on July 1, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Who would win in a fight, Lincoln&Spiderman, or Darwin&Batman?
I just can't see Darwin getting past Lincoln's superior reach.

But Margaret Thatcher & Wolverine would take the lot of em. I'm not sure which scares me most. Maggie's handbag or Wolverine's Adamantium Claws...

3. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #201704 by Johnny O on June 30, 2008 at 5:46 am

Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found.


Surely that's nothing to do with the brain lying to them, they're just fucking stupid.

4. Should We Rid The Mind of God? A Debate

Comment #198443 by Johnny O on June 24, 2008 at 1:12 am

Here's another Peter Atkins debate...

Thinking Critically

5. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198051 by Johnny O on June 23, 2008 at 5:39 am

Would it be desperately inappropriate to say "s___, p___, f___, c___, c___sucker, motherf___ker, and t__s" if I censored them..?


Baldyslaphead,

I think in honour of the man, every cocksucker on this motherfucking webite should include some fucking swear words when they type their shit.

It's the least we could do.

PISSFLAPS

6. Physicists in Congress Calculate Their Influence

Comment #194656 by Johnny O on June 17, 2008 at 6:23 am

30 scientists among the 535 senators and representatives in the 110th Congress, and that is counting the psychologist, the psychiatrist, a dozen other M.D.'s, three nurses, an engineer, two veterinarians, a pharmacist and an optometrist.
They have a pretty loose interpretation of what a scientist is...

7. George W Bush meets Pope amid claims he might convert to Catholicism

Comment #194649 by Johnny O on June 17, 2008 at 6:11 am

Mr Bush was overheard whispering: "What an honour, what an honour, what an honour!" as he ascended the steps to the tower.


I suspect the simian looking fuckwit was just practising what to say...

8. Synthetic Copycat Of Living Cell Underway: Life, But Not As We Know It?

Comment #186304 by Johnny O on May 30, 2008 at 5:33 am

Hey KING OF NH- I live in NEW England (Maine), not England, so does the NH stand for what I think it does, or is it something like Notting- Ham? or something like New Hinklebottomshire?

Have you ever visited New Hinklebottomshire? There's nothing like a warm pint of Old Toby's Scrote down at the Flange and Mirkin...

9. Fossil reveals oldest live birth

Comment #186301 by Johnny O on May 30, 2008 at 5:23 am

That's no umbilical cord... that's a noodly appendage

10. Top 6 Incestuous Relationships In The Bible

Comment #185916 by Johnny O on May 29, 2008 at 4:41 am

This explains why Religion is so popular in the southern states of the U.S.

11. Town moves against Islamic school

Comment #185148 by Johnny O on May 27, 2008 at 5:02 am

Twice the town has managed to rebuff the fast food giant McDonald's
Good on ya.

"Everywhere is being destroyed. Why don't we tell the truth. They're wrecking Australia. They're taking us over," she said.

"Why hasn't anyone got any guts? They've got terrorists amongst 'em... They want to be here so they can go and hide in all the farm houses... This town has every nationality... but Muslims do not fit in this town. We are Aussies, OK."
But that's just ignorant bigotry...

12. Edgar Mitchell ushers in the Next Epoch in Evolution

Comment #182925 by Johnny O on May 21, 2008 at 6:01 am

So you do believe in the idea of God?

Mitchell: Well, it depends on how you want to define that.


Oh fuck off.

13. Lab agrees to test Shroud of Turin for new theory

Comment #182913 by Johnny O on May 21, 2008 at 5:49 am

...stains around the head are consistent with punctures by thorns... The scourge marks on the back are consistent with those made by a Roman whip called a flagrum...A large puncture wound to the man's side is consistent in shape and size with a Roman spear of the era.


No way could someone have research all of that, it's not as though it's all just written down in some big old book...

14. Geeks and Guinness: the formula for sexy science

Comment #182442 by Johnny O on May 20, 2008 at 6:15 am

There's one in Salisbury, about 15 miles from where I live... sweet

Edit: It has talks on the first tuesday of every month... I take my daughter to her horse riding lessons on Tuesdays... arse

Edit Edit: The next talk on June 10th is "Epigenetics - The Enigma of Non-Genetic Inheritance"... double arse

15. God and Science Collide in Nation's Capital

Comment #182017 by Johnny O on May 19, 2008 at 5:49 am

Yet many scientists â€" 40 percent according to a 1997 poll cited by Shermer â€" believe in God
I wish this statistic was followed by the words, In America. The number of of non-religious scientists in Europe is much higher

16. Texas Megachurch Minister Busted in Internet Sex Sting

Comment #182013 by Johnny O on May 19, 2008 at 5:41 am

"We are disturbed and saddened by the reports we have heard and we are praying for the Barron family"
Not for the 13 year old girl he was grooming? Nice...

17. Face to faith

Comment #182005 by Johnny O on May 19, 2008 at 5:29 am

My son went into his RE GCSE armed with quotes from The God Delusion and got an A.

I have now converted him and he is a practising pastaferian

18. Pop Goes Christianity

Comment #182004 by Johnny O on May 19, 2008 at 5:27 am

Every American pop phenomenon has its Christian equivalent, no matter how improbable.

Can you get Christian Porn??
loving Christ... just like loving your boyfriend,

Oh, apparantly there is?

19. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, ed. Richard Dawkins

Comment #181996 by Johnny O on May 19, 2008 at 4:53 am

Why is everyone getting so touchy about the "Chief Pastor of World Atheism Inc" comment?

He's just saying what a lot of people, myself included believe. It's a shame after all RD's wonderful books that he is most known for The God Delusion and for arguing for atheism.

and Sally...

Since when was atheism a "tarnish" or a "debauchery"?

That is terrible paraphrasing. The authour isn't saying that, he said.
the religious right in the US has always sought to tarnish evolution by association with atheism, communism and a declension of debaucheries.
Something he clearly doesn't believe himself

20. A natural selection

Comment #180045 by Johnny O on May 14, 2008 at 6:21 am

Islam might turn out to be a greater danger for the teaching of evolution in Europe than Evangelical Christianity which is still pretty marginal.

Maybe in Britain, but not in other European countries. Especially France. They don't even let Muslim children wear headscarfs at school.
And they won't get a sniff in the Scandanavian countries

21. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #180034 by Johnny O on May 14, 2008 at 6:11 am

So what happens when the spaceships arrive and a set of talking snakes comes out?

You mean more Catholic Priests??

22. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179301 by Johnny O on May 13, 2008 at 4:59 am

Fuel in Britain is more than twice that in the US, but I bet I still pay less because I get decent mileage from my car.

If the American car industry knew how to build decent cars there wouldn't be so much of a demand and that really would be a miracle...

23. I Am Evolution

Comment #178829 by Johnny O on May 12, 2008 at 5:43 am

To believe in something takes faith, trust, effort, strength.

Oh no...
I need none of these things to believe evolution

WOO-HOO!!! I was worried there. What an excellent article.

24. Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier

Comment #171412 by Johnny O on April 28, 2008 at 1:29 pm

The MoD had no official advice for troops on how to behave with Iraqi women. The serviceman involved would not have been told that any relationship with her could put her life at risk, the paper said.

When I went to Iraq, during the first Gulf War, we were told about not getting 'involved' with local women as it would cause great offence to the local men and might cause tensions between the coalition troops. That however was in reference to a romantic involvement, this seems to be a totally inoccent working relationsip.

I will do some investigating with mates I have out there at the moment to see if they are aware of this incident.

25. Religion a figment of human imagination

Comment #171399 by Johnny O on April 28, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination

An interesting article, but they're forgetting that goddidit...

26. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #167505 by Johnny O on April 24, 2008 at 5:37 am

Even Jesus didn't worry about proofs for God's existence.

That is the funniest thing I've ever read, I had coke coming out of my nose when I read it.

EDIT: Coke as in Coca Cola, not the Columbian variety

27. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #167499 by Johnny O on April 24, 2008 at 5:31 am

Here's what seems like a decent summary of the debate.

Dennet V Winston

The motion was defeated by the way.

28. Pope's Views on Science Invoke Spirited Debate

Comment #165522 by Johnny O on April 21, 2008 at 2:53 pm

The tree of knowledge is fed through spiritual roots," he wrote, "and without those it will wither and die."

Was it not the 'Tree of Knowledge' that Eve picked the forbidden fruit from and gave to Adam?

We'd all be living it up in Eden if wasn't for that bloody tree...

29. Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary

Comment #165512 by Johnny O on April 21, 2008 at 2:38 pm

"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry.


Amen

30. Evolution exhibit shows why nobody's perfect

Comment #165509 by Johnny O on April 21, 2008 at 2:35 pm

This sounds amazing. I hope there are events like this in Britain too, to celebrate "The Year of Evolution"

31. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #164234 by Johnny O on April 19, 2008 at 7:11 pm

Now that they;ve disproved Evolution, it looks like they've moved on to Gravity...
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512" target="_blank">Intelligent Falling

32. Evolution fray attracts top scientist

Comment #162456 by Johnny O on April 17, 2008 at 2:20 am

I love Sir Harry Kroto, he gave the Charles Simonyi Lecture this year, which I have on my lectures playlist on my phone/MP3 player. ( I also have The God Delusion, Ancestor's Tale, Origin Of Species, God is Not Great, and many of the debates from this site and others)

Charles Simonyi Lecture

And he runs/contributes to the following website which has some amazing interviews with Nobel Winners:

vega.org

33. British schools are falling for the pseudoscience of Brain Gym. Why fill kids' heads with nonsense?

Comment #161276 by Johnny O on April 15, 2008 at 5:20 am

Replace history lessons with screenings of the Star Wars trilogy?


I wish...

34. Christian Founders 3D Adventure Computer Game

Comment #153128 by Johnny O on April 1, 2008 at 5:11 am

rod-the-farmer,

The trick is to stay still and let them come to you. It's always the last few that are the hardest to get.

I bet there's an anology there somewhere...

35. Vote on freedom of expression marks the end of Universal Human Rights

Comment #153049 by Johnny O on April 1, 2008 at 12:57 am

In total, more than 20 of the original 53 co-sponsors of the resolution withdrew their support.


Why didn't they vote AGAINST it then? If they had it wouldn't have gone through.

Abstentions achieve nothing.

36. Christian Founders 3D Adventure Computer Game

Comment #153047 by Johnny O on April 1, 2008 at 12:49 am

Here is the game for the one true religion....

FSM Conversion Game

37. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152280 by Johnny O on March 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm

This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net

And we all know whose side the politicians and religious leaders will come down on... that of the ignorant, intolerant bigots that threaten violence against those that espouse a view that is contrary to their own.

The one good thing is that corroborates the film's message

38. In His Name We Pray, Ramen

Comment #152269 by Johnny O on March 30, 2008 at 3:08 pm

FSM Game

My highest score is 6300 so far. I only had one person left to convert...

39. In His Name We Pray, Ramen

Comment #152266 by Johnny O on March 30, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Note that this is comment #152195, which contains two 5's (Law of Fives). It was also posted in 2008(2008 - 8 = 2000, 2000 / 1000 = 2), and on March 30 (30 / 10 = 3) thus giving 23!!!

Spooky eh?

And people say there is no evidence for Religion. What have you got to say about that Prof Dawkins?? Eh?

40. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150161 by Johnny O on March 26, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Happy birthday to you,
Squashed tomatoes and stew,
You look like a monkey
and you've evolved from one too.

(Yeah I know it should be ape and not a monkey, but it doesn't work in the song)

Professor, thank you so much for all I have learned from your writing in the last few years and for bringing me into this wonderful community.

Happy Birthday

41. John Templeton: God's sugar daddy

Comment #149089 by Johnny O on March 25, 2008 at 5:29 am

Now, having made and saved more money than most people can imagine

What's that story about the camel and the eye of a needle again...

42. 'Anonymous' takes anti-Scientology to the streets

Comment #144512 by Johnny O on March 16, 2008 at 9:12 am

They should have all worn Tom Cruise masks, that would have been hilarious.

Must say I agree with the IRS's original opinion...

Scientology was a business and not a religion

Hail Xenu

43. I don't believe in atheists

Comment #144504 by Johnny O on March 16, 2008 at 8:59 am

Harris is just intellectually shallow. Harris doesn't know anything about religion or the Middle East
He forgot to add...
And ripped me a new arse in our debate


What a cock!!

44. Deadly Sins 101

Comment #144501 by Johnny O on March 16, 2008 at 8:45 am

And 'SE7EN' will have to be changed into 'FOURTEEN' and have twice has many victims.

AH!! You've hit upon the source of these new sins.... Hollywood.

It's all just so they can make a sequal

45. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Comment #144497 by Johnny O on March 16, 2008 at 8:33 am

This book has been out a couple of weeks hasn't it? I got it at the beginning of March from my local Waterstones and was very surprised not to have heard about it first on the website.

I've been picking and choosing chapters so far and have loved it. It's the sort of book you can take in the bath, read any part of and be satisfied when you emerge, hours later from the tepid water.

Brilliant

46. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Comment #144496 by Johnny O on March 16, 2008 at 8:28 am

Does anyone else have Hitchen's "god is not Great" audio version?


I do and whilst I still enjoyed it, I got the impression Hitch was bored and wanted to do something else. At times it was like he was reading a list.

47. Beauty ad banned after Christian outcry

Comment #142857 by Johnny O on March 13, 2008 at 6:37 am

The ASA said that while previous ghd campaigns did not "mock" faith or belief, the new ads went further with the women appearing to be praying while being erotic.
I hope they don't try an ban shouting, "OH, MY GOD" everytime someone reaches sexual climax???
Can I ban 'Songs of Praise'? I find it offensive. Thanks.

Matt7895, that is a brilliant idea. I wonder what would happen if enough secularists complained?

48. How to abandon your God

Comment #139583 by Johnny O on March 6, 2008 at 6:26 am

What by the hair on Odin's chin is...

open-throated sex
I'm scared to Google it

49. Survey shows Non-Religious Outnumber Those of Every Single Faith (But One)

Comment #137631 by Johnny O on March 3, 2008 at 9:21 am

The study also shows the number of Americans who identify as atheist or agnostic has risen from 3.2 percent to 4 percent
That seems very low.

50. A God blog

Comment #137532 by Johnny O on March 3, 2008 at 5:17 am

Whilst I like the article I'd like to point out...

Posted by Ceri Radford on 25 Jan 2007 at 16:50

It's over a year old and was written not long after the release of the book, when everyone was still reading it after receiving it for Christmas.

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