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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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POPS‘We have broken speed of light’!!! A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory. The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled “instantaneously” between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.
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POPSThe Message of Fazlur Rahman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Rahman By reviewing Fazlur Rahman’s works, it is hoped that the following contentions will be demonstrated. Firstly, it is argued that Fazlur Rahman’s approach was broadly in line with a ‘historicism’ that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe i.e. the view that the classics of one’s own society embody basic truths that must be reformulated to meet new circumstances. Put simply, Fazlur Rahman’s historicism was comprised of three stages: first, to understand the historical processes by which Islam has come to assume the form which it has today; second, in analysing this process to distinguish between essential principles and their particular formation as a result of specific needs of now probably outmoded social, economic and political contexts; and third, to consider how best to apply the essential principles of Islam after a critical assessment of the contemporary period.
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POPSScience and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement The question I want to pose—perhaps as much to myself as to anyone else—is this: With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge? To be definite, I am here using the 57 countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as a proxy for the Islamic world. It was not always this way. Islam's magnificent Golden Age in the 9th–13th centuries brought about major advances in mathematics, science, and medicine. The Arabic language held sway in an age that created algebra, elucidated principles of optics, established the body's circulation of blood, named stars, and created universities. But with the end of that period, science in the Islamic world essentially collapsed. No major invention or discovery has emerged from the Muslim world for well over seven centuries now. That arrested scientific development is one important element—although by no means the only one—that con
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POPSGod and War Are religion and religious differences to blame for war and conflict? Many war leaders have claimed to have God on their side, but should religion get the blame? A "War Audit" commissioned for the BBC programme "What the World Thinks of God" investigated the links between war and religion through the ages. It was carried out by researchers at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University. George Bush was in little doubt about how the US-led coalition would bring down Saddam Hussein. At a prayer meeting, shortly before the invasion of Iraq, he said: "Behind all of life and all of history, there's a dedication and purpose, set by the hand of a just and faithful God." - President Bush But God's help was being invoked in Baghdad, too. Saddam Hussein told Iraqis: "Fight as God ordered you to do." !!! which god is right!? or who's side god on !!??
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POPSTafsir Ibn-e Kathir Tafsir Ibn-e Kathir is the classic 14th century commentary on the Quran most widely referenced to by scholars
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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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POPSUSC compendium of Muslim texts The Qur'an is one leg of two which form the basis of Islam. The second leg is the Sunnah of the Prophet (saas). What makes the Qur'an different from the Sunnah is primarily its form. Unlike the Sunnah, the Qur'an is quite literally the Word of Allah, whereas the Sunnah was inspired by Allah but the wording and actions are the Prophet's. The Qur'an has not been expressed using any human's words. Its wording is letter for letter fixed by no one but Allah. huh ;)
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