What’s it like to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas?

***PLEASE don't show this video to my children.*** Nick Smith of pwnordie.com had the inspiration to hunt through youtube to visit the living rooms of 50 gleeful/tearful/wild/choked-up children to see each of them ripping open a new Nintendo Wii. "Oh My Gosh!" Watching this video provoked a host of emotions,…

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What do non-Christians do at Christmas anyway?

What indeed! Well, it may surprise some people, but we don't sit around eating freshly roasted babies in front of a roaring church fire and wiping our mouths with Bible pages while we plot the destruction of Christianity. For one thing, it's summer in Australia, which means it's bushfire season. No,…

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Manger scenes from around the world show that humans create God in their own image and likeness

People create their Gods in their own image and likeness.  This is not an argument that God does or does not exist.  It's merely an observation that what people claim to know about God is always a projection. This thought that God is a projection occurred to me when looking…

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Historical Contraception and Carols in mid-October

I was having lunch with Joe the Juggler at the City Diner earlier this week. He was showing me some papers he found in the wall of his house. The original owner in 1892 apparently was in the personal rubber products business. Back then, this was a euphemism for (shocked…

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