“I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek

July 16th, 2007

I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist cover Overall, this book was pretty frustrating to read. I am a fairly open-minded person, but I don’t consider myself an atheist or a theist. I consider myself pretty intellectual, but I don’t consider myself an expect in science, philosophy or logic. However, despite these fairly even balances — which I expect to be the prime demographic for this book — I see a lot of flaws here. Beyond the fact that much of “I Don’t Have Enough to Be an Atheist” reads like Christian propaganda. The authors go through a point-by-point argument about how Darwinist theories and ideas are “flawed” and contain fallacies, but will often ignore those exact same fallacies as they exist for Theism.

All too often the authors make arguments that are simply too black and white (if theory x is not true, then y must be true), or simply use awful circular logic (e.g. we know God exists because it says so in the Bible). It has no problem pointing out these flaws in atheistic logic (which is fine), but will simply ignore them when they apply in just the same way to theism. From this the authors draw what they seem to consider solid conclusions that are “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Throughout the book they essentially acknowledge that “beyond a reasonable doubt” is acceptable enough as a conclusive state for theism, but not atheism.

For anyone with basic common sense, this book will just prove aggravating. For any who is gullible enough, believes everything they read, or has put his- or herself in a vulnerable mindset, they will likely find it inspiring and potentially life changing. Although no matter where you are, you will find it an interesting read that will make you consider the greater possibilities of life a little more deeply.

I don’t want to say too much more about the book, neither do I have too much more to say about it as a purely literary review, but I would like to do a multi-part series on the site, providing counter-points to many of the fallacies and arguments provided by the book. So, keep an eye out!

Recently Discovered Artists

July 8th, 2007

I’ve spent a little bit of time this weekend looking for some new music to add to my already eclectic iTunes playlist. And without my Last.fm user account I wouldn’t have been able to find any of these.

I’ve been a Last.fm member for a little more than two years now, and I’ve seen it go through quite a number of changes, and there wasn’t a point in time that I was frustrated with this amazing free service. I am in no way affiliated with the company that runs the site, I just think this site deserves all the credit and acknowledgment it can get. And after more than 18,000 tracks scrobbled, the most useful feature of the site is the music recommendation, which has helped me discover so many bands that I wouldn’t have otherwise known about — and it knows based on what I’ve and others have listened to and makes pretty knowledgeable suggestions. Ingenious!

Anyways, here’s the list of the bands I’ve recently discovered, rediscovered, and enjoyed…

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Tomahawk - Anonymous

July 4th, 2007

Tomahawk - Anonymous album cover Wow, this is certainly not what I expected. Again, my expectations getting in the way, but I don’t think any fan of Tomahawk can deny that this album practically came out of nowhere in terms of musical anticipation.

For the first few tracks I was hard-pressed to believe that this was actually a Tomahawk album, and not something more from Fantomas. It took me a couple of solid listens before I started to see the resemblance. I’m still convinced this is a bit of a mix between Delirium Cordia-era Fantomas, a touch of Mr. Bungle, and a sprinkle of non-Patton Secret Chiefs 3.

While there’s no doubt about the Native American theme here, I don’t think this is an easy concept album to pull off. However, Tomahawk pulled it off and there’s no question about it. While the band was originally Mike Patton’s most "normal" band, it leads me to believe that there will be a lot of disappointed listeners out there. To the generic love-Patton-for-Patton fans, this will definitely be an awesome addition to the CD collection.

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Ion Dissonance - Minus the Herd

July 2nd, 2007

Ion Dissonance - Minus the Herd album cover I needed a good two weeks or so — past the two weeks that I wasn’t even aware this album was out — to fully get a grip on it. However, I knew from the very first track (’The Surge’) that this was different, a lot different, from the previous two Ion Dissonance albums. I had even called up a friend of mine, whom I had also gotten into the band a year or two beforehand, before the first track was even finished to tell him about it.

While at one moment I’m really excited about this album still (after listening to it constantly for two weeks), I can’t help but feel a little disappointed at the same time. It’s definitely Ion Dissonance, but it’s just a bit too much of a jump from the previous two albums (Breathing is Irrelevant, Solace). I was expecting the same math metal chaos as before, but instead got something that I might even be more inclined to compare to Meshuggah. That’s certainly not a bad thing, it’s just… different.

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My All-Time Top Albums

June 17th, 2007

There’s no human interest that can generate such extreme opinions as in music. I’ve certainly seen this to be true with some of my album reviews when people leave comments — most of which I have to delete before they even reach the site.

Since this is the case, I thought I’d generate a small list of my own all-time favourite albums. I really have no reason to do this, I just like to read some of the comments people leave about my (”awesome”/”horrible”) taste in music. So here it goes, in no particular order…

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My Lucid Dream Induction Experiences

June 12th, 2007

Recently I had been reading a copy of Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold that I picked up from the library. This isn’t the first time I’ve made my way through the pages of the book, but I was really focused on practicing the techniques from the book, and intent on making lucid dreaming a regular thing rather than a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence that it is now.

The problem for me is that they don’t seem to be working for me.

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DMT: The Spirit Molecule

June 8th, 2007

DMT: The Spirit Molecule DMT: The Spirit Molecule, simply put, was one of the most fascinating and thought provoking books that I have ever read. I’m embarrassed to say that my first knowledge of the book came from some sort of radio chat Joe Rogan (Fear Factor, UFC commentator, comedian) that I came across randomly on YouTube several months ago while at school. I didn’t really care for Joe Rogan’s pseudointellectual rant about DMT in the clip, but his brief mention of Rick Strassman’s book really got me interested. As usual, I waited put it on my to-read list and waited until the time was right to give it a go.

From start to finish, I was chained to this book, always ready to keep reading more. It never disappointed me, and I was always looking for someone to share with what I had just learned.

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PHP Pagination with a Collection Class

May 28th, 2007

Recently in my work I had begun using some of the code offered from WROX’s Professional PHP 5 book. Earlier, I even wrote about the UserSession class that I ported from PHP 5 to ASP 3.

It’s been in my experience with WROX’s code that one of the most invaluable classes that I couldn’t live without is the Collection (and associated CollectionIterator) class. The Collection class, as it sounds, essentially lets you build a collection of any type of variables or objects you desire (a Collection of arrays, or integers, or more commonly GenericObjects — also from the WROX code).

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“Death by Black Hole” by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

May 27th, 2007

Death By Black HoleJust like how I found out about “2012: The Return of Quetzacoatl” by Daniel Pinchbeck, I saw an interview with Neil on an episode of The Colbert Report, where he was promoting this new book, "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries". I can’t recall how long ago the episode had played, but I immediately added it to my ‘to read’ list after watching it. It wasn’t until about two weeks ago that I found a copy in my local Chapters and started reading.

I hate to offer a negative side to any review of this book, because it really was quite fascinating and readable, but also much like Pinchbeck’s novel which I reviewed a few weeks ago, it was slightly different than I had originally thought it to be. Beyond those two little tidbits, the two books really have nothing in common. My only gripe with "Death By Black Hole" is that it is a little bit more introductory than I expected it to be, although my complaints don’t stretch any further than that.

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Hemi-Sync: Gateway Experience — Wave 1: Discovery - Introduction To Focus 10

May 24th, 2007

This was my first attempt at the ‘Introduction to Focus 10′ track in many months but, needless to say, it wasn’t very successful.

Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience. Wave 1: Discovery - Introduction to Focus 10. Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007: 10:30pm to 10:45pm.

Previous Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience Experiments:
» Wave 1: Discovery - Orientation

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