Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

Richard Dawkins


"Leon Lederman, the physicist and Nobel laureate, once half-jokingly remarked that the real goal of physics was to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt. In that spirit, Dawkins offered up his own T-shirt slogan for the ongoing evolution revolution:
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

Napoleon Bonaparte

The 3 Laws of Prediction by Arthur C. Clark
  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

UMNO party candidates required to have blogs

In yet another knee-jerk, leap-before-you-look, jump-on-the-band-wagon move, the famously ridiculous dagger-wielding, hot-air politicians of UMNO have solemnly decreed (certainly not tongue-in-cheek I suppose)that all candidates who have applied for party positions must have a blog to "introduce" themselves. Abdul Rahman, the party sec-gen declared that "All candidates must have blogs... if not, they are not qualified to be leaders." Interesting piece of reasoning though: I blog, therefore I'm fit to lead. I won't comment further on the speaker; his statement speaks for itself I guess... No mention made of the quality of content though.....Sounds like its fit to be up there with the rarefied company of other other waste-o-time directives by the Govt: Moral Studies for high school students (where you memorise a list of values and the definitions (about 150 in total I think) and pretend to follow them), the Malaysian education system, MSC, and so on.....(Do I hear Proton in the background?)

PS: Heard this on the grape-vine: our beloved PM's throwing in the towel; talks abound that he's gonna hand over to his loving deputy..... Guess Doc M's taunting got to him......wont he (M) ever get over his prime ministerial hangover? Lets hope Mr. B will.....

PS: As a tribute to our brave citizens who risk life and limb to show off their truly wonderful skills, I give you : the Mat Rempits!! And there's a lesson here for our beloved PM: don't give up!! You're surrounded by monkeys of the very same nature as the ones portrayed below; surely no one can do a better job than you......and that includes your predecessor as well...The greatest virtue is not in falling down, but in getting up..(Confucius) Oh yea..don't overlook the pointedly direct reference (tongue-in-cheek as always) to the following video:

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