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One on evolution and non-evolution. Lovely.
One on an online petition that actually worked! Some of you will be happy to read this.
One on schizophrenia.

Comments

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm thrilled about the bugs bunny thing. The new coyote was kind of cool though, the rest suffered.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Bah, the schizophrenia article is hosted by an evil site that isn't disability-friendly. Or, in other words, I get text overlapping text with just jumbles of words, it's very hard to make sense out of it. A lot of sites seem to do this - the increased font size I use seems to push the text into places where they didn't want it to go. But this is only because they are evil people who don't understand the design principles behind the WWW and try to dictate how things should look rather than letting my browser do the interpretation.

It's a lost battle, but it's a battle we should have won.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

The schizophrenia thing is weird, because I've seen more than one such simulation developed by people with the actual diagnosis with no ties to the pharmaceutical industry. When a drug company puts out a simulation like that that somehow eclipses the ones put out already by self-advocacy organizations, I grumble.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

My take on evolution has always been that if there is a god, and he's all powerful and can accomplish everything, then it would actually be a better idea to create a world that has the ability to create itself through systems such as evolution.

In that way, 1) god does not leave anything around to prove himself (and as Douglas Adams pointed out, proof denies faith and god thrives on faith. 2) the system is stable and nothing in it is incompatible (which doesn't make sense unless you've read some of the Myst books and seen the way that Ghen puts together worlds by taking scraps from other ones and they always are stable for a while but fall apart (not that an all powerful god could eliminate such incompatibilities, but still...))

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm thrilled about the bugs bunny thing. The new coyote was kind of cool though, the rest suffered.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Bah, the schizophrenia article is hosted by an evil site that isn't disability-friendly. Or, in other words, I get text overlapping text with just jumbles of words, it's very hard to make sense out of it. A lot of sites seem to do this - the increased font size I use seems to push the text into places where they didn't want it to go. But this is only because they are evil people who don't understand the design principles behind the WWW and try to dictate how things should look rather than letting my browser do the interpretation.

It's a lost battle, but it's a battle we should have won.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

The schizophrenia thing is weird, because I've seen more than one such simulation developed by people with the actual diagnosis with no ties to the pharmaceutical industry. When a drug company puts out a simulation like that that somehow eclipses the ones put out already by self-advocacy organizations, I grumble.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

My take on evolution has always been that if there is a god, and he's all powerful and can accomplish everything, then it would actually be a better idea to create a world that has the ability to create itself through systems such as evolution.

In that way, 1) god does not leave anything around to prove himself (and as Douglas Adams pointed out, proof denies faith and god thrives on faith. 2) the system is stable and nothing in it is incompatible (which doesn't make sense unless you've read some of the Myst books and seen the way that Ghen puts together worlds by taking scraps from other ones and they always are stable for a while but fall apart (not that an all powerful god could eliminate such incompatibilities, but still...))