#rational response

[before-night]

' "Finally, a rational response!" he murmured. "I was beginning to think you had no sense of self-preservation at all." '

-my therapist, one day

hopefully

[swissdictator]

The Jurassic Park problem

One thing about the whole jurassic Park universe that doesn’t make sense to me is how there would be a second park.

I mean, after the first I would have had the original island carpet nuked, carpet bombed, and every square inch napalmed, and then do it again.

Then I would have the CIA/MI6/Mossad/etc hunt down every scientist involved and eliminate them and their work. They would also be tasked with eliminating any scientist, businessman, investor, or indeed anyone that tried to replicate their work.

[religionisbs]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qht73MF6C84)

This is a difficult and often unpopular conversation, but a necessary one. And amid the global avalanche of human suffering, we must address and understand what prayer is, why we do it, what results it does (or doesn't) bring, and the nature of the god who receives our desperate pleas. We must also reevaluate our models for compassion, help and healing...and the agents of rescue and goodness who are so often, tragically, ignored. This presentation by Seth Andrews, given at the "Shift to Reason" conference in Regina, Saskatchewan on April 30, 2016, is far from a complete examination of the subject, but it explores some important, key questions regarding faith, divine protection, suffering, prayer and healing intervention.