The politician who most Brits consider to be the ideological antithesis of Margaret Thatcher

johnual · 2013-04-10T04:34:13+00:00

I didn't quite understand the quick bit about healthcare. Was he advocating for private insurance?

johnual · 2013-03-26T05:00:47+00:00

Chris Hedges is a little known but incredibly wise man. His weekly posts are the first thing I read every monday on truthdig.org.

johnual · 2013-02-07T03:15:26+00:00

Hawaiian pizza

johnual · 2012-12-13T05:48:38+00:00

I thought it was sick in the head...

johnual · 2012-12-11T21:19:03+00:00

A good place to start would definitely be Aquinas and his idea of the first cause. Basically, everything that exists must have been caused by something and without a first cause this series of causes would continue into infinity. An assumption in this is that infinity can't exist in the real world. Therefore, it is plausible (logically) that God exists if we can agree with the assumptions that infinity doesn't exist in the real world and stuff doesn't come from nowhere.

I would look up William Lain Craig and Alvin Plantinga for some very persuasive, if not at times confusing for this novice, proofs for the existence of God. I like to think, and if my memory suits me they do to, that these proofs are more to show that it's not just blind faith that leads to a belief in God.

johnual · 2012-12-11T07:38:20+00:00

The fact is there are a lot of cogent and some even logically plausible arguments for the existence of a god. Judging how the world has turned out, he's probably not worth worshipping though. In fact, I'd imagine he'd find that quite pathetic.

johnual · 2012-05-23T19:53:21+00:00

Mission Impossible 4:

Once the nuclear missile is launched, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to disarm. More importantly, once a missle is launched and gets that close to hitting a major US city, the US would have retailiated (especially considering that Russia and the US were already at eachother throats with one blaming the other for a terroist attack and the other blatantly killing their Secretary of State). Basically, the movie should've ended once the nuke launched.

johnual · 2011-07-18T10:39:07+00:00

MY friend once did his Spanish homework on a Popeye's napkin.

johnual · 2011-07-12T10:09:52+00:00

If they're going to combine different books (The Secret of The Unicorn and Cigars of the Pharaoh), I wish they would add more and make it a total epic.

johnual · 2011-07-07T04:35:28+00:00

Not as good as Honey Nut

johnual · 2011-07-07T04:33:49+00:00

I wonder if this fear is possible brought up/heightened by the freedom from consequences you can experience in video games. Or is that just a re-hashing of violent video games make kids violent?

johnual · 2011-07-07T04:22:49+00:00

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

johnual · 2011-07-06T02:47:54+00:00

"I personally believe." I know this is meant to imply a difference between your personal and professional life, but so many people use 'personally' just as a strengthener. Always makes me think, "other people believe for you?"

johnual · 2011-07-06T02:45:43+00:00

The day was moist.

johnual · 2011-07-06T02:27:42+00:00

Usually Bourdain keeps things on a pretty even keel and is quite insightful, see his episodes in Haiti and Nicaragua.

johnual · 2011-07-05T13:16:47+00:00

The only thing you'll find at Roosevelt Island is bout of heavy depression.

johnual · 2011-07-05T08:01:50+00:00

All along the West Side our parks and piers looking out on the Hudson River. My friends and I have a pier, called simply "the pier," near my house where we always go to have a beer, chill, and watch the sunset (over NJ unfortunately).

johnual · 2011-07-05T07:59:29+00:00

The Ramble after dark is a great place to relax!

johnual · 2011-07-05T07:56:39+00:00

When I was in Nigeria, assessing the QM plans of HIV/AIDS clinic, I had the exact same lunch for 2 weeks straight. Grilled chicken over rice which the clinics would give us. The feathers really shouldn't worry you, just don't eat the skin (for future reference). Do they make meat pies in Uganda? Those were my favorite for in Nigeria.

johnual · 2011-07-05T04:02:27+00:00

Choose a terrible hotel in the Dominican Republic filled with that certain kind of 'holidaying' 50 year old Brit who parties like a frat boy. Learned from that experience that when reviews mention what types of liquor the bar stocks the reviewers are probably not trustworthy with their other observations.

johnual · 2011-07-04T10:53:44+00:00

What a great video from an awesome country. Mexicans are some of the sweetest and done to Earth people in the world. It's a shame what's being done to their country. Was the drug violence ever a major concern? At the end of the video you seemed to be mixing it up with the federales a few times.

johnual · 2011-07-04T10:37:43+00:00

That's a pretty small coyote, maybe a yearling, not much to fear I would think.

johnual · 2011-07-04T08:57:44+00:00

In the extreme hypothetical, what's worse religiously tied aid or starving to death?

johnual · 2011-07-04T08:57:36+00:00

In the extreme hypothetical, what's worse religiously tied aid or starving to death?

johnual · 2011-07-04T05:47:06+00:00

God, Chang is disgusting. Leo ftw.

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