Godless Business

2.2 – The Return of Jim

This week the entire team is on deck, including our resident radioactive time keeper keeper Jim who has risen like Lazarus from the dead.  Death has affected Jim’s brain and convinced him football and cricket are actually worth watching.  Guess there are repercussions. At least he has spent the time reading more of the Bible.  Well, a little bit more at least.

We also discuss if Cats should be allowed into the country, the idiocy of the Royal family, the complete insanity of not allowing your pets to receive blood transfusions, the irony of being killed during a good luck ceremony, and Muslim tits who want to breast feed but lock each other up if they kiss.

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  • Damion

    Hot damn thats a vector that would catch me the god virus! :p

  • http://www.facebook.com/anwyll David Gibson

    Re: Your discussion on homeopathy, have you heard about the case in WA with a woman who died from cancer was seeing a homeopath? Pretty messy at the moment with the Coroner's inquest
    http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/cancer-victim-fan…

    • askegg

      Disgusting. I will try and bring this up in our next episode.

  • Avenging Skeptic

    I’ve been trying to read the bible on an iPhone app too! A good friend (and former preacher) recommended the world english bible version (WEB) for its ease of reading and plain language. For instance, in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the crowd outside the door asks Lot to send the angels out so they “can have sex with them”. No mistaking the meaning. I’m so offended by the book it holds my interest better.

    Good luck!

    • askegg

      I wonder what the Biblical translators make of this? Probably just put it down to "oh, that was the old testament days, it no longer applies because we killed our god."

    • Anonymous Atheist

      And then Lot suggests that instead of having sex with the angels, they can have sex with his own young daughters!

  • goat

    I was just listening to this, the point at around ~22mins where one of you is describing the story of the eye witness test that was done, and I couldn't help but notice the irony of pointing out how bad our memories are:
    Why should we trust his account of the story (as it's based on his memory of the events)? He says himself many times that he can't remember details of the story.
    Hmmm..

    • askegg

      Trust no one. Stay away from the doors. The walls are your only friend.

      • http://www.facebook.com/anwyll David Gibson

        That is precisely what TodayTonight, A Current Affair, 60 Minutes and Sunday Night all want you to think. Around every corner is a shonky mechanic, a dreadful tenant, a coniving landlord, a supermarket charging too much, someone cheating the tax office, a bank rorting the system, the tax office cheating you, some quack who thinks he can run his car on water, another quack who thinks electromagnetic fields from home appliances are causing a range of health issues (everything from migraines to impotence to cancer), weight loss solutions and footage of idiotic criminals (can you identify these morons? We only assume so because you're watching this…). Not to mention any number of other attempts at instigating some kind of moral outrage without ever turning a similar eye of derision towards themselves or their own preferred causes, institutions or favoured past times.

        /endrant

        On a serious note to the comments from goat, I remember (damn there we go again!) in my first year Psych class when we studied memory our lecturer also ran a similar test as described in the podcast except the interuption was a person walking in to the lecture theatre with a giant mobile phone to his head talking really loud, walked down to the lecturer, swapped hats and then left. Then within the next few days as we all attended our lab class we were asked to identify the person on the phone from 6 images and to identify features about the person (clothes, the hats, what he was carrying). Not surprisingly between 600 students who were in the theatre a very small proportion identified the guy or even remembered what he was carrying or that he swapped hats with the lecturer.

        Considering the recollection was only after a couple of days not many months like a court case I have very little 'faith' in eye witness testimony and would hope these days very few cases are prosecuted if that is all there is. But I'm no scholar of law and my experiences of jury duty have been dry and wholly unenlightening towards our legal system.

  • http://www.teakforboats.com Burton Haynes

    Zune and iPod: Most people compare the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It’s very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker.

  • Anonymous Atheist

    Regarding lights in the sky, a possibility even if you don't otherwise see planes or helicopters in the area, is a medical/rescue helicopter. They fly when and where you wouldn't normally see flights.

    • http://www.godless.biz/ askegg

      Valid. Many people seem to forget what the "U" in "UFO" stands for.

  • FactoryGirl

    2.2. In this episode you bought up a case in the news where a boy had died because he was a Jehovah's Witnesses and refused blood.(Hope I got the right episode)As you were discussing the story, I think it was you Andrew that made a passing comment along the lines of "I'm glad they don't take the blood….. that's evolution in action for you"….. Obviously not an exact quote but anyways, It reminded me of a something I read on the internet a few months ago, about depression. Which you can find here:
    http://www.livescience.com/health/etc/090828-why-…

    Basically it was saying maybe the reason why so many people get depression is because its evolutions way of separating the weak from the strong. And is a way of killing of humans that aren't any real benefit to society, because many who get depression end up killing themselves.

    A quick Google search of the terms "depression" and "evolution" bring up loads of other pages on the same topic of why humans have evolved to react to their emotions in such a way. And what is the real benefit of humans getting depressed on us as a species.

    I'm sitting on the fence a little bit on this one, not sure exactly what to think, was wondering your thoughts on it?

    take care.

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