Science Friday Archives: The Happening

This is one of only two NPR programs I listen to regularly, and while I occasionally find it a little "soft on science" it is generally well produced and presented.

That's why the recent segment allowing Mr. Shyamalan to flog his new movie "The Happening" was surprisingly bad. Evidently Mr. Shyamalan believes we must stop expecting Science to save the day, embrace our ignorance, and find God in all his many and multifarious disasters.

From bees to storms, Mr. Shyamalan blithely rattled off some failings of modern Science (as he sees them) and then reminded Mr. Flatow that Einstein started out life as a non-believer, but was a wholly religious man toward the end of his life.

Unfortunately, Mr. Flatow only corrected his most baldly false assertion, but was unable or unwilling to engage him on his larger agenda. The anti-science pro-Jeebus lobbies are indeed poisoning the well, infiltrating public schools, and, of course, getting prime airtime to flog unreleased films on NPR's Science Friday. 

I pray for America's brain.

This project has been simmering on the back burner for a long time.
This blog may however not be the appropriate venue.
This is not a promise, threat, or binding agreement of any kind.
Any similarity to actual persons or places is purely coincidental.

Chapter Outline:

1. They killed my father and danced on his grave (a slight exaggeration)
2. Free school & Unitarians
3. Theosophism, Ojai, New Age-y Latecomers
4. Mountain Drive, Banana Road, Communes, Hippies, Millionaires and Us
5. Pretending to be Into Drugs (at 8 years old)
6. Everyone In The Pool (nudity required)
7. Los Angeles "dumb-lady" cult style vs. Huntsville "brainwasher's" cult style
8. Seizing Control of Minds, Wills and Assets
9. The Inner Circle, Monetization, Branches, Franchising & Event Marketing
10. The Dark Art of Human Brainwashing (a.k.a. behavior modification, basic training)
11. The Very Best of Intentions
12. The Carrot & The Stick
13. The Escape
14. The Jim Jones Legacy
15. Signs you may be In a Cult
16. A Cult by Any Other Name
17. Scientology & Anonymous
    
18. 131 flavors of Jeebus
19. Signs a relative or friend is in Jeopardy
20. Things that may help with Cult Inoculation
21. Modern Trends in Anti-science, Bad Education and "Beliefism"

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Apologies to my international readers; Hulu is restricted to the U.S. currently.

Seen recently on Hulu: Simpsons Season 19 ep. 19 (Mona Leaves-a)

Troublemakers have published an Irish Catholic website containing a blasphemous video and a link to the Irish Atheists page.

Straight from The Horses Mouth:

My Argument With God: How I went from Jesus-loving Christian to fun-loving infidel... in one afternoon

This is not, as one might be led to think, a confessional wherein he admits to being a fan of Karl Pilkington.

...one can laugh with and not just at Karl Pilkingtons everywhere...

Meet Karl Pilkington

The Power of Nightmares Part 1: Baby it's Cold Outside - by Adam Curtis (Google Video)

P of Ns (Internet Archive)

Synopsis: Alarming information feeds from the remote Galaxy ZEWEUWQQI, sometimes called Sleeping Satanic Spirals, indicate activities which call for immediate deployment of counter-insurgency demolition forces under Galactic Planetary Decree #225.344.239.294

It seems inevitable to this reporter that once these Earthling Religious Fanatics discover the provable absence of a Divine Dictator, they will take violent action.  Since their most stable civilizations [term used loosely here] are based on mutually exclusive monodic godheads, it is only a matter of time before the big three join forces and perpetrate terrorism on their little corner of the universe, in the name of all three One and Only Gods who’s existence they have just disproved. 

They will undoubtedly realize that their cluster’s star, a yellow youngster of type YY131.009 is the most powerful potential weapon within their grasp.  This reporter need not remind Galactic News readers that the technology required to initiate a stellar collapse and novation sequence is all over the galactic infoplane, and more to the point, is self-evident soon after a pre-telligent species starts connecting sub-atomic dots with silly-string theories. 

All of the indicators for a stellar suicide bomb are in place and it is our duty to protect our Galactic Hinterlands from further de-volutionary decline and to ensure its continued service as the vacation getaway of galactic choice.  It would be upsetting to have a new Atomic Streamliner damaged on its first voyage as bits of EarthStar zing past the StreamProtect anti-matter agent.