What is it about religion that makes it seem impervious to scrutiny? In many conflicts in the world today: Palestine/Israel, Ireland, Thailand, Iraq, Pakistan, Darfur, etc, a lot of awareness is raised of the violation of civil rights, women’s rights and needless deaths – but you’ll hardly ever catch people criticizing religion. And while none [...]
The Federal Court doesn’t “recognize” her conversion; therefore Lina Joy is still a Muslim. If she wants to become a formal apostate, she will need to go through the Syariah Court – considering the penalty outlined in the Quran, you can’t blame her for not wanting to.
The judge says that “You can’t at whim and fancy [...]
Unless you’re completely clueless about theology, you’ll know what Pascal’s Wager is: A “gamble” whether to believe in the existence of God.
It states that
If God doesn’t exist:
Not believing in God will gain you no additional benefit (negligible gain)
Believing in God would lose you nothing (negligible loss)
If God does exist:
Not believing in God means you will [...]
Linking to newspaper articles in a blog entry is very common, and encouraged – it shows you have done research.
Problem is that some newspapers and magazines “archive” their online articles. The practice varies from one publication to another. I’ve managed to find archived articles from TIME.com from all the way back in 1969 (!), for [...]
Nothing quite like the sweet smell of being right, is there?
I have to admit that I was half-rooting for Blake towards the end – rooting for the underdog and all that sort of thing. What’s absurd is the winning entry for the songwriter’s contest – This is My Now? Well whatever the criteria for the [...]
I sometimes find myself “filtering” conversations with others.
Take for instance something that happened to me recently – two months ago, I borrowed a book from the library to refer to for an assignment. After I was done with it I passed it to a groupmate, who was supposed to return it to the library for [...]
From the Sun:
TheSun won two top regional awards for journalistic excellence at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) held here last night.
A first-time entrant for the prestigious award, theSun came out tops for Excellence in Opinion Writing and Excellence in Public Service Journalism against major and more established regional publications in the category for [...]
Today’s Star – Action against 38 undergrad campaigners:
JELI: The Higher Education Ministry has identified 38 students from various public institutions of higher learning who actively campaigned for the opposition in the Machap and Ijok by-elections.
Their names have been submitted to the ministry for action, said minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed after opening Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Jering’s [...]
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You may know I hate spam. The practice of selling emails is very common, and while definitely unethical, the number of verdicts actually being passed are few and far between – what more in Malaysia!
Which is why this auction from Lelong.com is disgusting:
Here are few smart reasons to purchase the Email Marketing CD from us [...]
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The Non-apology Apology. It’s actually become a well-known phrase. Wikipedia has a good article on it; and here’s another with more specific examples.
You already know the incident I’m referring to, of course. Now, I highly doubt that those two even know how to use a computer, much less be aware of other public apologies (CSMonitor [...]
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