Tim on July 16th, 2008

I’d actually heard of gold dust and teeth making an appearance way way back but I didn’t know it was making a return to Charismatic circles until I heard a sermon about it on Sunday. A lady went up after and said gold dust had appeared on her during the sermon.
My first thought was “why [...]

Continue reading about Gold teeth “miracles”

Tim on May 30th, 2007

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 [...]

Continue reading about A Wager of Fear

Tim on April 28th, 2007

I subscribe to the RSS feed from Snopes.com: New Urban Legends. Pretty interesting and you get a good laugh from some of the more outrageous tall tales going around.
In the past two days I’ve actually had three people message me with links to a story that has been picked up by several news sites. The [...]

Continue reading about The Japanese aren’t Stupid (just weird)!

Tim on April 24th, 2007

On April 20th Pope Benedict XVI reversed an 800-year old Catholic tradition: the teaching of limbo.
Limbo is a place “between Heaven and Hell” and comes in two flavours: Patriach class, for the good people who died before Jesus’ Ressurection; and Child class, for infants and people who were mentally unhealthy. According to wiki: .
Saint Thomas [...]

Continue reading about Pope: Don’t do the Limbo

Tim on March 27th, 2007

It’s the tenth anniversary of MMU. Pretty big event. There isn’t any shortage of events being held to commemorate it either – nearly every notable club is holding something. Chalk it up to those Entrepreneurship lectures: never miss a possible tie-in for your event!
The Student Affairs and Sports Division (STAD) is going one better though: What better way [...]

Continue reading about Protocols of the STAD of MMU

Tim on March 25th, 2007

Remember the Bible Code? The theory was that every important person/event in the world is encoded in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible), and can be found by dividing the Hebrew script into columns and searching for phrases in them (so that’s what God was doing on the seventh day!). It was just one [...]

Continue reading about Chinese Characters (not) in Genesis