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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Some televangelists,like the ones below,so that I could give them a piece of my mind for bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ into disrepute!!Nonetheless,I hope you will enjoy the music videos by the legendary Johnny Cash("Hurt"),The CULT("She Sells Santuary")and Jars of Clay(who perform America's "Lonely People"). emb

Music:

Pink Floyd,Led Zeppelin,Queen,Peter Gabriel,Fleetwood Mac,U2,The Police,David Bowie,Rush,Bob Marley, and some popular classical music.

Movies:

JFK,Platoon,Alexander the Great(Oliver Stone version),Casualties of War,2001,Spartacus,Full Metal Jacket,Braveheart,Passion of the Christ,Heat,Silence of the Lambs,Aliens,Shawshank Redemption.

Television:

History Channel,Discovery Science,Biography channel,CNN,BBC 24,UK TV Documentary,Various TV chefs:Rick Stein,Gordon Ramsey,Delia Smith,Anthony Worrall Thompson and the voluptuous Nigella Lawson!

Books:

The Bible,Chess Praxis and My System(Aron Nimzovwitsch),The Art of Attack in Chess,A Brief History of Time.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ of Nazareth,St Paul,and people who stand up to blaggards,bullies,pushy people and other brainless wonders!!My mother.

My Blog

The Secret ,the Prosperity Gospel and Gullible Christians.

While surfing through Myspace I often come accross pages by Christians that promote the self-help book entitled "The Secret".It claims that by merely thinking about something that you desire,for examp...
Posted by david on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:17:00 PST

The 10% Rule and Internet Predators.

Have you ever heard of the 10% Rule?This is the idea that wherever you go(at school, college,work etc)10% of the people you will meet are scumbags.Well this seems to be especially true of the internet...
Posted by david on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:41:00 PST

Alleged Moral Superiority of Atheism Over Christianity as a Moral Force.

I recently read in a Myspace blog that "atheism is perfectly compatible with the basic aspirations of a civil society".Needless to say,given the facts of 20th century history,I was somewhat surprised ...
Posted by david on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST