Thinking Christian

Paul, frequent commenter here, sent me this link by email: Overcoming Bias: Zombies: The Movie. Some excerpts:

DOCTOR: David! David Chalmers! Can you hear me?

CHALMERS: Yes.

NURSE: It’s no use, doctor.

CHALMERS: I’m perfectly fine. I’ve been introspecting on my consciousness, and I can’t detect any difference. I know I would be expected to say that, but -

The DOCTOR turns away from the glass screen in horror.

DOCTOR: His words, they… they don’t mean anything.

…

OFFICER 1: State your business here.

MAN: Is this where you’re keeping David Chalmers?

OFFICER 2: What’s it to you? You a friend of his?

MAN: Can’t say I am. But even zombies have rights.

OFFICER 1: All right, buddy, let’s see your qualia.

MAN: I don’t have any.

Paul is right–if you’ve read anything on mind and brain, this is hilarious!

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It doesn’t matter what you think about Intelligent Design or ID, and you don’t have to agree with all the comments and commentary here. Still, the punch line on this story really is hilarious:

Expelled! - The Panda’s Thumb

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The Best Headline Ever?

“Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo”

It’s a real story, from Washingtonpost.com

Hat Tip to The Point

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Rodents of Unusual Size: eight feet long, 1700 to 3000 pounds–really!

But they lived a long time ago.

(Never heard of ROUSes? You gotta watch The Princess Bride. You don’t know what you’re missing.)

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From BRITES:

The veiled agenda of Intelligent Design bleeds through its empty rhetoric like a gushing chest wound staining a freshly bleached T-shirt. ID is a fascist politico-religious movement that masquerades as science and attempts to force a wedge between the scientific community and the wider culture. The ultimate goal of this wedgie is to establish a theocracy in which the Bible becomes federal law and the Biblical creation account in the book of Guinness is taught as fact.

You owe it to yourself to learn the truth about this menace!

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Sometimes on Sunday mornings, standing in line for coffee in our church fellowship hall, I tell the people in front of me, “You sure are brave to be standing between me and that coffee!” So even though it’s not a terribly Christian sentiment, I like this sign anyway:

“Give me the COFFEE and no one gets hurt.”

It’s good for a smile, as they say.

The sign is on the wall of our favorite coffee stop, Harbor Café in Newport News, VA. It’s in an office building, not easy to find, but well worth the search. Starbucks doesn’t hold a candle to it!

(Cell phone photo–low quality, but you get the idea anyway)

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Touchstone Magazine Blog’s Hymn Parodies:

All too true. Hilarious!–but all too sadly true of some parts of modern “churchianity.” They’re calling for more of the same to be posted on their blog now, so watch this new page for more.

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You can look but–too bad–you can’t taste! I said before that this was a Norwegian tea-ring. In some cookbooks it’s called a Swedish tea-ring, but I don’ think the Swedes knew our family’s secret ingredient. That’s what we like to think, at least.

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I’ve had some time off from the office this week. That’s what I needed to be able to do something I haven’t done since I was half this age–swim a mile. Well, two half-miles, actually, and then some. I did 1000 yards on Wednesday and 900 this morning. At least it was all in one week. I’m pretty pleased with it, if I may say so myself–not bad for a 51-year-old.

Back in my mid-20s I did a mile swim once. Now I’m thinking I might be able to do it again before long.

This afternoon I’m doing some baking, another hobby of mine. The Norwegian tea-ring dough is rising as I write this. This is a real family holiday tradition that goes back as far as I can remember and then some.

When it’s done it should look something like this. Maybe I’ll put up a real picture of the one I’ve baked when it’s done. (Update 12/22: here it is.)

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Our family was gathered in the kitchen/dining area of our home, doing some general cleanup. The others became quite concerned when they heard me cry out, “This is just awful!” I was looking at this ad, which came with this month’s Reader’s Digest: “Dog Stained Glass Clocks.” Once I showed them what I was looking at, we all had a good laugh together.

Somebody at the Danbury Mint needs a better copy editor.

It reminds me of another instance of the same kind of error, which we saw on a sign in front of a motel in Daytona Beach. (We’ve wondered just what this establishment’s hiring policies are.)

Clean Spacious

Maid Wanted

Moral of the story: it always pays to re-read your work.

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