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Skeptic Summary #27
By The Staff
Posted on: 2/11/2005
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Fate and karma, spinning, illuminati, procreation, non-"enemies," haikus and more!
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Week ending February 11, 2005 (Vol 2, #6)
Welcome to the Skeptic Summary, a quick week-in-review guide to the Skeptic Friends Network and the rest of the skeptical world.
Forum Highlights:Fate, Karma, Aethism, and the Occult… - It was bad juu-juu, but it was pre-ordained to happen.
Spin… - To everything, turn, turn, turn.
Wanna think your a god? Join the Iluminati! - More misinformation than you can shake a stick at, courtesy our resident rabid Fundie.
Editor’s Choice: Welcome Rafferty Meyer-Heinrich - One of the SFN’s moderators procreates!
From the Archives: Illegal Combatants - This hacked off a lot of people. Kil’s Evil Pick:Insulting hiakus - Want a description? / Tough, just follow the danged link! / I won’t hold your hand. Chat Highlights:Sunday: How can skeptics appreciate ghost-movies? (we just do…) Fate/karma versus superstition and belief. Where do deities fit in? Can an atheist, who rejects deity/ies, believe in fate/karma? Discussion continues over here… Philosophy, occult evolving into science. Most important though: An attempt to design an experiment to show if Storm’s experience was an out of body experience, or sleep paralysis.
Wednesday: Nobody on staff really remembers this chat, so it must have been good.
Come chat with us. New Members this Week:MAT
masters
Hal
paul
Duaa
zslavko
Joao VA
jimrobb
(Not a member? Become one today!)
Happening Now:There will be a “Conscious Life Expo” at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton Feb 11- 13. Any SFN members who would like to experience a “New Age Expo” with an Evil Skeptic please contact Kil with a PM or an email, or a reply in this thread.
Who knows? Maybe this will lead to an “Evil Skeptic III” report… Elsewhere in the World:Astronomers: Planets may be diamond makers
Bad Science
The Skeptic’s Dictionary Newsletter 52
What’s New by Bob Park
Got some skeptic news items? Send them to us, and we’ll think about adding them. Book of the Week:The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene
“Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images.”
— Amazon Editorial Review
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