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These are gorgeous - thank you, @Nicholas Weeks . :)

BBC "fact checking" is what they used during covid to "prove" the vaccine prevented infection and helped stop the virus spreading, and to completely denigrate any opinion that said otherwise. As that all proved false I would be careful about trusting it, especially as a lot of the political...

I wouldn't even begin to try, I don't have the knowledge or authority. :) It would be tempting to apply a modern interpretation like the post I made above, but I've been reading a lot about the origins of ancients mythologies, and it's clear that spiritual journeys are a tradition that goes...

Here in the UK the National Health Service (NHS) has problems. To their credit, they'll rush you into hospital for any suspected emergency, but then rush you out of any bed as quickly as possible to make room for the next person, leaving you to wait around for a lift or taxi back home. If you...

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system that consist of two stars like our sun - Centauri A and B - with a red dwarf star known as Proxima Centauri in a very distant orbit around them. Alpha Centauri B and Proxima have already had rocky planets around the size of Earth discovered around them -...

Well, as the person who originally started this thread clearly had an axe to grind and has done little else than complain that anything other than an acceptance that God made everything is unscientific (!), plus the fact they left the site years ago, I think it's time to close this thread. I'm...

No, it was from a steroid inhaler. I'd seen protests in the US about people claiming being vaccinated went against their rights, and I thought they were just nutty conspiracists. But when my wife was looking up how to manage my own illness, she kept coming across reports of myocarditis caused by...

It used to be a treatment for severe epilepsy to cut the nerves directly linking both cerebral hemispheres - it might even still be used. It's certainly given psychology textbooks extra content.

The original claim is that it stopped 90% of people being infected by covid. Now the claim is simply that it prevents the worst of the symptoms because it doesn't prevent infection - like traditional vaccines do. I'm really sorry to hear that as well. It's unbelievable how ignorant disability...

The claim was that covid vaccines prevented infection in the first place - that's the whole point of a *vaccine*: Here's a piece trumping that from November 2020, in case anyone forgot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105 And while it's wonderful that so much data has been collected on...

Ok, let's can the personal attacks, thank you. Otherwise you will be punished in either this life or an afterlife. :)

I remember when I was growing up it was well-known that bumblebees were too heavy to fly, and fish swam faster than physics allowed. It was only around the turn of the 21st century that it was found that it was turbulence that was responsible in both situations. Point being that observation can...

I see God as an active principle in the universe, rather than a being in itself - though some would argue that the universe in itself is consious. :) However, the idea that this is the only reality seems to go against the everyday experience that the same patterns repeat on smaller and larger...

Indeed, on other areas of the forum it would be unwelcome, but it's fine on the Christianity board. :)

Originally, there were officially no side effects from the covid vaccine, reports were censored, and any one who tried to draw attention to the issue was hysterically denounced as a conspiracy nut. This is what really annoys me about the whole issue - the blanket censorship and dismissal of...

I agree, but then that invites the whole concept of relative moralism - what seems wrong to one person might not seem wrong to another. Additionally, terrible things that happen in human history can result in very positive outcomes. I doubt anyone would argue WWII was a good thing with tens of...

Interesting to see in the BBC's coverage of the latest actions by RFK finally - though quietly - mention that myocarditis has been recorded as a side-effect of the covid vaccine: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly75p9yd67o What it doesn't say, while generally definitely mRNA vaccines -...

You're welcome to post links to a couple of favorites, if they're on YouTube - I would be very interested in hearing them. :)

I fondly remember his greatest hits album a friend played (Tom Lehrer was banned from BBC radio!), especially:

I'm reminded of a quote from the end of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: "take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy." I don't understand why people expect there must be some form of...