The God Delusion~R. Dawkins
Synopsis:
Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implications—the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates —through spiritons!—and where it resides. Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite.
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GOD!!
Few days back I was reading some random blog... The person wrote a topic on "God...who the hell is he ???". Actually I personally felt the person is awfully puzzled over his thoughts.
Starting the thoughts with
'GoD!! who the hell is he??', he ends up saying
" I believe in one God, that is inside me"
Actually I personally feel sorry for this person. He is a perfect example of some totally perplexed living being stuck in the middle of nowhere. Reading his other posts in the blog, I was really confirmed that the person is not at all happy with his current life. Maybe he intends to get more out of his life by being such a sorrowful creature.
Well maybe these thoughts have come to me because I am a GOd fearing person, but thinking it reasonably, even if I was one of those atheist, I wont say 'I believe in one God, that is inside me' at the end of writing some big lecture on atheism.
Then just yesterday I stumbled upon some atheist guy who opened his own library in an internet community forum. Well, this person I felt like was an actual atheist.
Well, just let me share some of his comments...
Believe in God or not, the most important point is don't be a dumb believer or disbeliever...
Hi to all.......
This thread is dedicated to those lonly,tearfull,futile,long and painfull 20 years of my life which i have served in the service of a imaginary friend of mine...
The World gave him a name "God" .
A library dedicated to keeping the lights of reason and logic burning against the superstitious night that's falling.
lots 'n' lots of books are coming on this topic
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
-- John Buchnan
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." From a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954
Charlie Chaplin
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none." "Manual of a Perfect Atheist" by Rius
Benjamin Franklin
[1706-1790] American public official, writer, scientist, and printer who played a major part in the American Revolution.
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
Compile and run codes ONLINE!!
Sitting in front of a computer which doesn't have a compiler/interpreter.. but you need to run some program and share with your friends colleagues or anybody???
Well I was in such sort of a problem a few minutes back.. Needed to share a running code but the person with whom I needed to share didn't have a compiler..
Welcome to codepad . Great website. Works great for simple programs or rather at least you can be sure there aren't any errors in the code.
What it is
codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. It's a pastebin that executes code for you. You paste your code, and codepad runs it and gives you a short URL you can use to share it. Paste the URL into chat or email to get help or to show someone how to do something. Or just try things out when you don't have an interpreter handy. It works well on many phones.
How it works
Code execution is handled by a supervisor based on geordi. The strategy is to run everything under ptrace, with many system calls disallowed or ignored. Compilers and final executables are both executed in a chroot jail, with strict resource limits. The supervisor is written in Haskell.
Languages you can work on the website
C
C++
D
Haskell
Lua
OCaml
PHP
Perl
Plain Text
Python
Ruby
Scheme
TCL
Here are the compilers and interpreters codepad uses to execute code:
C: gcc 4.1.2
flags: -O -fmessage-length=0 -fno-merge-constants -fstrict-aliasing -fstack-protector-all
C++: g++ 4.1.2
flags: -O -std=c++98 -pedantic-errors -Wfatal-errors -Werror -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wwrite-strings -Wno-deprecated -Wno-unused -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-variadic-macros -fmessage-length=0 -ftemplate-depth-128 -fno-merge-constants -fno-nonansi-builtins -fno-gnu-keywords -fno-elide-constructors -fstrict-aliasing -fstack-protector-all -Winvalid-pch
D: Digital Mars D Compiler v1.026
Haskell: Hugs, September 2006
flags: -98
Lua: Lua 5.1.3
OCaml: Objective Caml version 3.10.1
PHP: PHP 5.2.5
Perl: Perl v5.8.0
Python: Python 2.5.1
Ruby: Ruby 1.8.6
Scheme: MzScheme v372 [cgc]
Tcl: tclsh 8.4.16
Check more about the website here.
Repairmen of Cyclops by Brunner, John.
Synopsis
The third in Brunner's Zarathustra trilogy reunites us with the heroes of Carrig, Madeleina Dos Santos and Gus Langenschmidt. A horrible deception is being practised on the inhabitants of an isolated planet.
This is a good adventure story, but somehow Brunner's parallel plot mechanism didn't carry as much here as in some novels. Perhaps some of the storylines do not develop enough before they are brought together.
Zarathustra Trilogy: 1. Polymath 2. The Avengers of Carrig 3. The Repairmen of Cyclops
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