James Arthur Ray, the new age kook, was given a platform by Oprah to promote his daft ideas and as a result people died Here is an expose of what happened and how he ended up killing three people in a heat endurance test outside Sedona., Ariz The investigators looked into his claims and discovered that all the training and knowledge he claimed to have had was complete and utter bullshit, he had simply made it all up, so they sent him to jail for two years. Be aware – He is out now and is planning to get back into the same game once again. Ginny & George Brown, parents of one of those that died – Kirby Brown, have launched the SEEK Safely Promise. It is a very simply code that should be easy for any credible self-help …Continue…
Being good without any god
Belief often insists that it retains the high moral ground and also asserts a monopoly over meaning, and yet the evidence for this is simply not there at all. It is perhaps all part of the psychology of belief where an appeal to our empathy is tapped into by asserting a claim that inside the belief resides all that is good and outside lurks evil and darkness, and so there …Continue…
The perfect Xmas gift … TV on Amazon for just $39,997.99 … WTF!
With a hat tip to Tim Kirby for the link … in the “You have just got to be fracking kidding me” category, we have a special offer for you from Amazon. Yes you too can snap up this perfect little gift from just in time for XMAS … normally $44,000, but now on special offer at $39,997.99. Really? Yep, here it is … I note the following … You …Continue…
Islam – The UK’s fastest growing …… prison population
The statistics from a July 29 House of Commons research report entitled, “Prison Population Statistics” show that the number of Muslim inmates in England and Wales jumped to 11,248 in 2012, up from 3,681 in 1997. To put that another way … over the past 15 years, the number of Muslims in British prisons has jumped by more than 200%. So yes … when faced with claims that “Islam is …Continue…
Silly Claim of the Week: “God does exist”
On the surface, the claim that “God does exist” is not all that daft, there are of course many people who do believe and so for cultural and perhaps also emotional reasons people will assert that they “believe” that there is a god. It is not actually factual, but the claim is understandable due to the observation that humans tend to copy those around them and fall in-line. However, some …Continue…
