TRUE RELIGION AND SHAMANIC INITIATION

Three More Years of This You Say – Fair Dinkum. « The Australian Independent Media Network

Three More Years of This You Say – Fair Dinkum. « The Australian Independent Media Network: "‘’If the economy is in such a dire state, how did it retain its triple-A credit rating throughout the turbulent post-GFC years? And was the IMF mistaken in asserting only this month that Australia is expected to outperform all major advanced economies until at least 2018? Please explain this apparent contradiction to those of us who don’t have the benefit of an economics degree”."

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Hard science and the metaphysics of gender

Ascent and Descent / open & closed modes of being

Skepchick |

Skepchick |

As a woman who has opinions online, I get rape and death threats on a fairly regular basis, mixed in amongst the barrage of gendered slurs and comments about how fat I am. For the most part, the “threats” are obviously empty attempts to scare me into being silent – just another aspect of the usual bullying. Every now and again, though, there’s a threat that sounds just a bit more legitimate.The first one came back in 2005 when I lived in Boston and had just launched Skepchick. I was able to write up a short article about the project for an issue of eSkeptic, Michael Shermer’s free email newsletter. Within a day of that eSkeptic hitting in-boxes, I received a brief email from a man calling me a cunt. I responded with a chipper “Thanks for taking the time to write!” He responded with, “If I lived in Boston I’d put a bullet in your brain.”

What is genuine religion?