The Hall of Fire

It seems to me that there is a great confusion between science and technology. Science is the business of discovering the truth about the natural world. Technology is the application of various forms of knowledge to affect human existence. Much of this discussion seems to be about the effects of tec...

It wasn't GdT, it was from the comments on an article.

Science is banging it's head into the same wall of [...] evolutionary beliefs and vague pseudo-scientific theorizing so much that it's long ago become a false religion of it's own I can quite imagine pseudo science becoming a false religion. The God of Science however is truth and its priests are v...

[Note: I split this off from the thread on Norwegian Terrorism - VtF]

I am fascinated how religion shuffles off misdeeds done in religion's name or by people who identify as being of that religion.

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The Ring Verse in Anglo Saxon!

Well, another one got arrested today.

I haven't laid this aside permanently but at the moment we are dealing with our own Smaug.
A few trolls and goblins have been dispatched so far so we are pressing on. I promise to come back to it.

So if we take a killer like Breivik to be 'evil', what do we say about a well paid national commentator who can attract sizeable crowds in Washington who after the event characterises the victims as Hitler Youth?

I hear an American media personality considered the children killed on the island were equivalent to Hitler Youth.

Say he doesn't end up in the Lockholes does he? I think I've heard this story.

Nope, a campsite doesn't mean race track. There are parameters to meaning. Sure, close definitions are needed for sensible discourse but to claim words mean nothing is either nihilism or a shallow debating trick.

I'll bite. Liberalism is a static concept, that of a balanced fair, open society with freedoms.
Progressivism is a kinetic concept, that change is necessary to get to a state in the future.

It has been reported that over a million e-mails have been deleted at News International since the beginning of the year.

It will be The Sun on Sunday. They registered the name several days ago so yes, it was pre-planned.

So this is still brewing and it's going to be big. So far a 150 year old newspaper has been completely closed down. One previous editor who was hired by the Prime Minister to be his press aide is to be arrested tomorrow. A whole slew of advertisers, all big corporations pulled their advertising from...

I have some stuff written and as I said I think Ethel had some better ideas than me but I'm very busy at the moment. I'll pop my version up when I get chance.

Tolkien also said that given a choice between evils (I paraphrase from memory), he would prefer vulgarisation to sillification. Well he got that with PJ. To be even handed, PJ did get some transcendent things right though. Chief among them and rarely noted but plainly delineated was that the Ring on...

Rebecca Brookes has also refused to come to Parliament to answer questions to MP's about illegal phone surveillance. MP's who tried to pursue the matter were warned privately that their private lives would be targeted by the Press. The Metropolitan Police are reportedly scared of the power of the Mu...

Di Caprio for Drogo; he has the acting skills for it.

I think we actually did do this 70 years ago. I believe the French were very grateful at the time.