Pastafarian Families Needed For Major Primetime Show!
Wife Swap, ABC’s hit primetime reality show, is looking for Pastafarian families for an upcoming episode.
Families must consist of two parents and at least one child between 7 and 17.
Families that appear on the show receive a generous honorarium. Anyone who refers a family receives $1,000 if that family is cast in an episode.
Email Greg at your earliest convenience if you or anyone you know have what it takes for this amazing opportunity. Please include names and ages of all family members and a brief description of your family and a photo.
Greg DeLucia
Casting Producer
RDF Media USA
greg.delucia@castingrdf.com
646.747.7954
Shoppers do crazy things. And retailers bank on it.
Several studies reveal how Americans shop in irrational ways, and increasingly scientists are figuring out how easily we can be duped. Retailers in turn use these tricks to get inside our heads, encouraging window shoppers to become real shoppers, driving purchases of sales items regardless of real value, and helping buyers feel good about the things they walk out with … often for no good reason.
Making good on a promise to a friend to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Then, relying on a cut-and-paste technique, he reassembled the excerpts into what he believed was a more coherent narrative and pasted them onto blank paper — alongside translations in French, Greek and Latin.
In a letter sent from Monticello to John Adams in 1813, Jefferson said his “wee little book” of 46 pages was based on a lifetime of inquiry and reflection and contained “the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.”
He called the book “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” Friends dubbed it the Jefferson Bible. It remains perhaps the most comprehensive expression of what the nation’s third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence found ethically interesting about the Gospels and their depiction of Jesus.
Posted by dimossi on July 11th, 2008 at 3:11 pm Filed under Topics.
Move over “War on Christmas”, there appears to be a new “war” brewing. Check out the post on The Calladus Blog that explains the “The Cracker Controversy”.
I just don’t get it - this belief in god. I never have. I grew up in a household where god was non-existent. Religion simply didn’t exist for me as a child. The only thing I knew was that Sundays were terribly boring because all the other kids in my neighborhood had to go to school on Sunday. I understood that people believed in this guy God and he was a good guy as long as you followed all his rules so I went along with it. If you had asked me when I was seven if I believed in god I would have replied ‘hell, yes!’ despite the fact that I had never stepped inside a church before. That’s just what people did; they believed in god. So I did too.
But not really. I never really believed there was an actual god or supernatural being. And boy did I try! I tried my hand at Christianity, Judaism, Paganism and Buddhism when I was a teenager and I felt just as silly praying to god as I did casting a spell. I was looking for something and I thought god might be the answer but… I just could not buy into it. There was nothing there.
Posted by dimossi on July 8th, 2008 at 9:08 pm Filed under Topics.
A blog post regarding the Philly Coalition of Reason billboard over at Atheist Experience asked the question: “Is there any way—at all—that an atheist can express his opinion that won’t be considered an attack on or offense to believers?”
Read the post and comment here or there if you like.