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I went out on an RSVP date a couple of days ago. Now I know I promised a few weeks ago that I wouldn’t be writing about my dating experiences anymore, but I think this is alright – I can write about this experience because: I’m not going to be saying anything particularly personal or identifying [...] From time to time, I like to have discussions with religious people about their faith, be they Christian, Buddhist, Scientologist… I don’t discriminate. I find it a good way to examine my own beliefs, and given how religion has been such an important, some would argue integral, part of human development, it also helps me [...] Last Friday night I attended the opening night of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. The title of the talk was: Does Religion Poison Everything? and involved ABC journalist Tony Jones in conversation with writer and devout atheist Christopher Hitchens. It was a lot of fun. If you don’t have time to [...] Alright, so I’ve been a lazy little blogger recently. I’m not beating myself up too much about it. It’s not because I’ve been generally lazy, the opposite is true. I took too much on and something had to pay the price. International media last week (and continuing into this) was concentrated on the presidential elections in Iran and the death of Michael Jackson. Both are engrossing, for very different reasons. Iran needs to release the remaining British Embassy staff asap (or Downing Street will write them a very angry letter) and the latest I’ve heard about [...] In these uncertain times of pandemic and impending Western poverty, it’s important to spare a thought, and a little compassion, for the Church of Scientology. A Polish Catholic Priest has written a book, dubbed the Catholic Kama Sutra, intended to put a little liturgical oomph into the sex lives of Catholics. The celibate Priest’s qualifications for writing the book are marriage counseling and running a website giving sexual advice. You may scoff, as indeed I did, but then again an [...] I might have mentioned before I was brought up Catholic. Even though I definitely don’t regard myself as one anymore, I still keep an eye on what goes on within the ranks. So I’ve been quite interested in reading about what’s going on in St Mary’s and Toowoomba in Queensland. A man claiming to have killed 110 child ‘witches’ has been arrested by police in south-east Nigeria. After his arrest he changed his statement to say that he didn’t actually kill the children, just the ‘witch’ inside of them. Whatever the case may be, the story highlights a horrible superstition plaguing parts of Africa. If you’re in Sydney at the moment, or going to be in the near future, I can highly recommend visiting the latest exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, The Lost Buddhas. I went and saw it on Friday afternoon and was thoroughly impressed by the serenity and beauty of these 6th century Chinese sculptures. |
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