What good are books in a post-truth world anyway? Just throw them all away. Or better yet post a video on TikTok of you burning all your books. Because, you know, you might as well get some "likes" out of the deal.

how do we understand the warming we see is due to GHG's and no longer some other reason, like cyclical versions in the tilt of the earth's axis? There are two "signature" effects that are fairly easy to check out. One is the greater warming during nights than in the daytime. The GHG's act...

There's some—maybe a lot of—evidence suggesting humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife. We are wired to believe in a "higher power" and it's this intuition that leads many of us to religion. That would not be proof of any god or gods, just the monkey brain fuck...

We're all born "nones". The problems start when the propaganda starts. "My fictional friend is the BEST fictional friend." Unproven. There's some—maybe a lot of—evidence suggesting humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife. We are wired to believe in a &...

Recommendation: I don't recommend reading this book. Ha ha, I got an inkling of that before getting to the end of Murmur's review! The problem is the typical reader for "Come on MAN, Speak English to ME about GOD” won't care about Murmur's particular comments because Murmur is a godless heathe...

This discussion is making it very clear to me (and you) that I know little to nothing about the situation. (I edited this post) This seems a very intellectually honest statement. I do think Putin is an evil dictator and his invasion against Ukraine was a brutish act, causing profound misery for unt...

“And now, folks, get a load of what our cameraman found in Ecuador. Vegetables on vacation! You've only seen this kind of thing after a party, but down in sunny Ecuador they see it any time-and no hangover to follow! Monster plants on the march! Say, now, that's given me a big idea! Maybe if we can...

This book is a great read. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. As such, I was looking around to see if any movies were made of it. There are a couple of movie versions, but apparently they stray far from Wyndham's text, and aren't considered very good. But here's a 1981 BBC TV series in case anyone's intere...

If anyone wants to get the ball rolling, with a new discussion on religion, start a new thread and make a first post. I miss those days when folks would come on BT and make outlandish claims about the earth being six thousands years old, or about evolution not being real, or that Catholics aren't &...

Triffids aside, Wyndham's novel is about survival in a post-apocalyptic future. In that sense, The Day of the Triffids is similar to The Road by Cormac McCarthy or the movie, A Quiet Place (starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt), or pretty much any zombie movie. The real struggle in these kinds of...