Paul ⁽³³⁷⁾

Something surprising happened to me a few days ago. It started with what looked like a spam mail that somehow had made it through the entanglements of the filtering. It was from "Bernie Jones" (name altered for privacy reasons) who had a question. I thought I had something of an answer so I wrote back to him, starting my reply with "Dear Mr Jones..." There we had it. Mr Jones, a.k.a. Bernie, took a LONG…

Yes. This is a little bit about that guy up there. The christian sky-wizard who does so many great things. It hit me, a while ago, that someone was happy a close relative was healed from a serious medical affliction. The doctors had done quite an amazing job fixing that person up. For some reason, the someone said, "Thank god for your healing." I don't get that. This man got sick and the doctors healed…

I have started listening to a podcast series called 'The thinking atheist'. (Follow the link to the website.) At first, I thought it would be an interesting addition to the podcasts I'm already listening to. As I am progressing through the podcasts though, I am more and more shocked about the state of religion in the US of A. I had no idea it was that bad! From visits to the USA I knew that…

Each time I see that somewhere on the Internet, I shake my head. Do these people really believe that? If yes, I am sad they are so brainwashed. I googled "What is god's infallible plan". All kinds of stuff came up but not a definitive answer. There is a facebook page about it which makes little sense. I came across a website called 'cityhopeboise.com' which talked about the infallible plan god for Joseph. Does this…

Today I visited an optician who can supply Enchroma glasses. It was an interesting experience. For that you need to know what is colour blindness. Most people probably know what it is. A colour blind person has a visual defect or deficiency that makes it hard to distinguish some or many colours. The above image comes from colourblindness.com. If you see six numbers in the above circles, you're probably not colour blind. I see 25…

I've been thinking about this funny tidbit in the bible called Noah's Ark again. I'm sure most of you have heard of it. According to the old testament (Genesis 6-9), there was this old man called Noah (he was 600 years old, apparently) who has chats with the Christian god. The god tells Noah to build a big boat, load his family on it and also collect pairs of all the animals in the world.

If you've ever been around computers, you probably know what this is. A flash-drive. USB-stick. Name it what you want. It used to be my Dad's. There is music on it. Music I put on it for him, because in his last days he couldn't do much more than listen to it. The music on it isn't my kind of music, but I will never be able to wipe it off this USB-drive because the…

Yep, I read an interesting article. It asked why aeroplane flights (which are quite polluting) were so cheap compared to train travel which takes long and is definitely expensive. They compared a flight from Amsterdam to Prague for €40 to a train journey of 11 hours, costing €180. (This can be reduced to €100 but that is still 2.5 times the price of a plane ticket.) To make a change, trains should become MUCH faster.

You may think I'm crazy for saying that, because the USA sends things into space. Japan sends things into space. Russia, China and India are doing the same thing. Europe is also in the game. So why aren't we going to space soon? Because of exactly that. Each country does the same thing, invents the same thing, spends time and resources on the same thing. What a friggin' waste! Imagine what progress could be made…

I'm sure you've all noticed how people want to have things faster and faster. You go on the Internet, hit your favourite outlet website, you click buy, and by the time the confirmation mail has reached you, you want it in your hand. Companies are catering to that. Amazon, for instance, is using drones to get stuff to the eager customer as soon as possible. After couriers for same day delivery, they now aim for…