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Irrational Disbelief Syndrome

The marketing agency for FiberOne has launched a clever campaign called Irrational Disbelief Syndrome. The advertising campaign is a mixture of clever, stupid, and the absurd, but it’s all of those things on purpose. The premise is that their high fiber foods taste good and will help you lose weight. From the campaign’s perspective, that’s [...]

Religion Wanes While Superstition Increases

The University of Chicago just released a new survey on religion. In the survey, they discovered that more Americans are praying and more people believe in an afterlife, but less people have any formal religious affiliation. The study also found that New England and the Pacific North West are the least religious populations. As I’ve [...]

Seven Sins of the World

by Mahatma Gandhi Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle Seven Sins of the World by JakeM.net

The Truth Hurts

Here’s another reason why I’m voting for Obama…he’s intelligent. This is a case of I wish I could have said that, but it’s not politically acceptable. He may be getting a beating from his political foes, but we all know that what he said is true. Referring to “these small towns in Pennsylvania,” Obama told [...]

Why Do People Go To Church?

In this very interesting article (and study), Emory University looked at the reasons “why people do and don’t go to church.” The study indicates that when exposed to new information, we filter it through our emotional brain systems, ending in our pleasure center. The area of our brain responsible for reasoning is virtually dormant. In [...]