1. Malaysia woman scores rare legal win to quit Islam

Comment #181386 by vijikumar on May 17, 2008 at 5:36 am

I was born and lived in Malaysia for the first 19 years of my life (left 33 yrs ago) and don't recall any sense of religious intolerance but the Malaysian state,it fucks you up because of its absurd habit of instituting religiously inspired constraints on the behaviour of the populace.
This is encouraging.

2. Beware the Believers

Comment #152265 by vijikumar on March 30, 2008 at 2:57 pm

SH:On the shoulders of midgets we built up this machine,
DD:YEAH!!!

Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantium humeris insidentes) is a Western metaphor meaning "One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past"; a contemporary interpretation.

3. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #149956 by vijikumar on March 26, 2008 at 11:05 am

Happy Birthday Professor Dawkins. Thanks for this great website and your contributions to science and reason.

4. Fleabytes

Comment #149063 by vijikumar on March 25, 2008 at 4:28 am

So both Steve Zara and Richard Dawkins share a birthday - 26 March.

Happy birthday guys.

5. EXPELLED!

Comment #147696 by vijikumar on March 21, 2008 at 6:16 am

Very funny. Well-played PZ

6. They prayed to cast Satan from my body

Comment #145747 by vijikumar on March 18, 2008 at 4:43 am

E-mail reply from the training director GJ UK to say:

we are not on the Board at Mercy and are sponsors of Mercy Ministries as part of our National Franchise Agreement.
I am waiting for a reply from Australia regarding this article and will reply to you as soon as I have received this

7. Fleabytes

Comment #145738 by vijikumar on March 18, 2008 at 4:13 am

Hai epeeist. Thanks for the welcome.

Growing up in Malaysia where Hinduism is the delusion of choice of only approx a tenth of the population I assumed that the mutual exclusive 'truths' and religious affiliations held by different groups of people are just a gang thing and that savvy people use it control their flocks.
Arriving in the UK for further education in the mid 70s I was surprised at the number of 'educated people' who still held religious views. Naive or what.

BTW - This site is great fun.

8. Fleabytes

Comment #145721 by vijikumar on March 18, 2008 at 3:30 am

Steve

if Shiva turns up, Quetz is in big touble.

9. They prayed to cast Satan from my body

Comment #145707 by vijikumar on March 18, 2008 at 2:59 am

Leon
Thanks for the prompt.

I've sent similar comments to GJ in the UK and Australia. Depressing, very depressing.

P.S. Is the coffee any good?

10. Out of the Blue

Comment #140681 by vijikumar on March 8, 2008 at 10:36 am

What about AI systems wanting to commit suicide or help to be deleted - euthanasia?

11. Fleabytes

Comment #140467 by vijikumar on March 7, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Richard Morgan

That's great. I'm at the Cartomancer end of the musicality spectrum but "we saw the comet" was excellent.

P.S. thanks for the welcoming messages folks.

12. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139591 by vijikumar on March 6, 2008 at 7:04 am

Reverend Dark

We can see our mind, we can map out our minds to an extreme that is staggering.

13. Fleabytes

Comment #139525 by vijikumar on March 6, 2008 at 3:15 am

Hello blog world,
This is my first post. This fleabites thread, seems to me, an unreservedly wonderful forum. Thank you Paula Kirby. I have been lurking for about the last 2 months. I apologise for that as I realise that that level of lurking does seem excessively voyeuristic, so just to let you know, I am a 52 year old male atheist living in the UK and enjoy reading your posts.
You people strike me as great fun, well-informed and incredibly patient in the face of torrents of incoherent religious apologetics. The initial civility, fairness and intelligence evident in the responses to wooter's and David Robertson's contributions were unfortunately not repaid in kind. However, I'm not complaining as their rubbish did serve as an irritant to tease some magnificent pearls of wisdom from the good Steve Zara, MPhil, Dr Benway, epeeist et al. There has also been some seriously funny invective.
Thank you very much.
Viji Kumar