October 2011
Just discovered that I can get an unsecured $3000 loan at 3.99% p.a. over two years from National Australia Bank (NAB). It also has no fees at all. It’s meant to a non-profit offering to those on low income, and so it has rather strict criteria, but I tick every box.
For those unaware, unsecured loans have an interest rate of ~12-17% p.a., and also usually come with monthly fees + setup...
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“Power does what it wants, and now they just put it right out front and say...”
– George Carlin
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Just when I thought I had done enough to show myself as an anti-theist, ‘praise-allah’ becomes my follower.
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Are we of one mind, or are we of many?
In studying Multiple Personality Disorder a few weeks ago I came across something interesting in my reading.
It proposed that rather than there being a certain ‘self’ that we each have, personal identity is only a figurehead for all the different selves we have within us. An analogy was used: Consider the USA. As a country, it has a certain kind of personality. It hates Communism, is...
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The End Of The Affair, The Ministry of Fear & OMH
“If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and...
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Statistics for the year 2011 alone
93.57% of all humans who have ever lived dead 19 million traffic accidents 1 million fatal traffic accidents 314 thousand drownings 280 thousand poisonings 684 thousand suicides 486 thousand homicides 149 thousand war homicides 33 million abortions 2 million HIV/AIDS infections 44 million nutritional deficiencies 24 billion metrics tons of CO2 emissions 22 thousand species extinctions 10.5 million...
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What crime did this woman commit?
This picture was sent to Dr. Homa Darabi from a woman in Iran. This picture was taken 20 days after she was lashed fifty times for being present at a family gathering where men other than her father and brother were present. Her crime? She is a single woman. It is forbidden for women to be present under the same roof with men other than their close relatives (father, brother and son) without...
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“I hope they’ll understand the message I want to leave: it is a form of...”
– Alfredo Ormando, who set himself on fire on January 13th 1998 in front of St. Peter’s Basicila at the Vatican. He was taken to hospital, but died 11 days later. In the jubilee year of 2000, Pope John Paul addressed his crowd of followers who stood in the same spot where Ormando had set himself...
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“The reason why those people are so boring and nauseating to listen to is because...”
– Christopher Hitchens, speaking about the growing favor of consensus in politics, 1990.
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A week before the events of September 11, 2001, I was on a panel with Dennis Prager, who is one of America’s better-known religious broadcasters. He challenged me in public to answer what he called a “straight yes/no question,” and I happily agreed. Very well, he said. I was to imagine myself in a strange city as the evening was coming on. Toward me I was to imagine that I saw a...
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