Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on “a special perspective of our role and place in the universe…”
   on 31 August 2011 at 2:20 pm

   Carl Sagan’s ‘pale blue dot’.

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2. Comment on ‘the Irish republican version of the Imperial War Museum’
   on 31 August 2011 at 12:58 am

   There are many museums throughout the world which are simply fantastic to see. The Natural History museum, the Imperial War Museum, Yad Vashem and others.
   Parochially, we are scarce, even the Folk and Transport museum is banal.
   But ‘republican’ and ‘loyalist’ iconography is just, a a la Lenny Murphy and Bobby Sands, shite. Utter shite.
   Apart from the mediocre aquarium at Portaferry, we just don’t have the right stuff.
   A backwater pond. But full of pond life.

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3. Comment on ‘the Irish republican version of the Imperial War Museum’
   on 30 August 2011 at 11:40 pm

   A toilet roll holder is a perfect exhibit for the people who wish to see the reality of ‘the struggle’. Very symbolic. It’s a pity they didn’t find a sheet containing excrement from Saint Bobby. Maybe a scratch’n’ sniff vendor. That would have been an excellent ‘wow’ factor before the gift shop.
   Shit sells.

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4. Comment on Yer man’s name
   on 27 August 2011 at 1:51 pm

   If Gadaffi is to appear before a tribunal for atrocities against civilians then Cameron and Sarkozy and Obama and Berlisconi should be right up there in the dock beside him. At least the press will be able to agree on the spelling of their names.

   Well they might get the correct spelling for Berlusconi at least.

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5. Comment on Slugger’s guide to A level results day and the best degrees still available through Clearing
   on 23 August 2011 at 1:29 am

   FuturePhysicist
   go along with that.

   But the civil service/public sector have stopped recruiting. And Retail is looking forlorn.

   Back to the 80′s.
   At least the soundtrack was good.

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6. Comment on Slugger’s guide to A level results day and the best degrees still available through Clearing
   on 23 August 2011 at 12:51 am

   FP
   http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0822/breaking2.html

   Science is the new hip degree.

   Market forces are going to push journalism, media studies and associated ‘weak’ qualifications to the margins. They’re already in League 2 well below History, Sociology and English Literature in the Chamionship and lower echelons of the premiership. The football metaphor is apt for academia.
   Physics,Chemistry and Mathematics will always be the top three. (Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science lie within. ) Then Biology, History, English and Modern Languages. (Latin and Classics an aberration). Good job at £25000+
   After that the upper mediocre. Economics, Sociology, Philosophy , Nursing and Law. reasonable job at £22000+
   Lower mediocre is anything with the appelation ‘studies’. Business, Health, Media, Culture etc.
   Dosey job at £15000+, if lucky.
   Everybody else, uneducated, try for PSNI or refuse collection ,top level money for doing nothing.

   Take your pick.

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7. Comment on Evangelical Journeys – choice and change in a Northern Ireland religious subculture
   on 22 August 2011 at 12:39 am

   pauluk
   Is straight out of Private Eye’s ‘online commentator’ nutter column, the biblical quote and wiki link to other nutters.
   very funny.

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8. Comment on Evangelical Journeys – choice and change in a Northern Ireland religious subculture
   on 21 August 2011 at 11:53 pm

   seem to have hit a nerve

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9. Comment on Evangelical Journeys – choice and change in a Northern Ireland religious subculture
   on 21 August 2011 at 11:36 pm

   FJH neatly avoided Darwinian evolution, but didn’t miss on the chance to throw Mengele in to the mix.
   Eugenics (and the nazis) are an irrelevant sideshow in Science, history is different.
   Christians, evangelical or otherwise, have to encounter scientific facts, and Evolution is the factual wall.
   We are all apes, and our particular variety has come up with a variety of creation myths. Every ethnic group on our little planet has one. Science has slowly eroded, and finally kicked the door in every single one of them.
   Our common ancestor was a trilobite.
   A lot of people can’t seem to deal with that fact.

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10. Comment on Evangelical Journeys – choice and change in a Northern Ireland religious subculture
    on 21 August 2011 at 7:20 pm

    CS
    No argument with your comments. I was using the term ‘believe’ in the context of FJH’s post, and what I thought was his misjudged narrative that atheists ‘believe in nothing’.
    Ex evangelical Christians, who have become sceptical, for example Michael Shermer, have attempted to look at ‘belief’ from a scientific viewpoint. The conclusion is that superstition and delusion are hard patterns of behaviour to shift, because people have so much psychological investment in them. When reality intrudes the ‘believer’ makes whatever mental adjustment necessary to cope with preserving the delusion.

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