Wow, as I was reading your criteria I thought - hey, I could fit that. :D But then I remembered a great leader saying, & I realized if I become a leader then God Most High will ask me about a goat dying somewhere in my country. Be held responsible for a lot of things! So. Oh.

Peace.

- Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 20:59 [ Permalink to this comment ]

“If only so many folks weren’t quite so busy forcing beliefs on others.”

AMEN!

- Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 0:11 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Great post, Adam. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You so inspired me that I went back to publish a post that I had unpublished for fear of some backlash.

I wonder if the reason people are prejudiced against atheists could be revealed in the following:

When I described myself as an atheist to someone, he called me a “devil worshiper.” My response was that someone who doesn’t believe in a supreme being isn’t going to believe in his nemesis either. I can’t worship something I don’t believe in.

No wonder people are afraid of atheists if they equate them to devil worshippers.

- Posted on Friday, June 1, 2007 at 0:52 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I have a whole bunch of American clients here in Larnaca.

Over the past couple of days or so I’ve shown them this post and they have universally loved it.
It does seem that [as per your first requirement, sort of...], once an American sees something of this planet, his/her word-view does seem to change quite dramatically.

An absolutely outstanding, as well as insightful & entertaining post sir…

I shall remove my brown nose forthwith

P.S. Your pop-up smiley chooser is really hard to look at late at night after a long day staring at the screen

- Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 15:12 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Ok… hang on a sec here…

I appear to have a German flag next to my last comment but, although I am in fact a Kraut, my machine does not contain any German language settings at all.

Is there something we should all know about your blog’s psychic reader detection algorithms? 

- Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 15:15 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Wow, the response here makes me feel a lot better about having posted this!  I was seriously worried about getting flames or “you’re going to hell” notes and so on.  Certainly a pleasure to have these thoughtful replies .

And IceGiant… I’d brag that my blog setup includes MindReading 2.0, but in truth, it’s just lookin’ at your IP address and matching that up against a known database of regions.  Perhaps it’s time for me to somehow update this database and/or your ISP is centrally based in Germany or...?  Hmm!

- Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 15:25 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Hi Adam

MindReading 2.0, eh?

My ISP is the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority… err not in the least bit German to the best of my knowledge.

Very strange

- Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 16:12 [ Permalink to this comment ]

- Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 9:22 [ Permalink to this comment ]

why isn’t there a Google way to contact influential persons who might be able to help with human issues such as a child dying every 30 seconds?

- Posted on Friday, August 24, 2007 at 14:42 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Probably for the same reason Bill Gates and George Dubbya aren’t in the phonebook… and because the whole thing would be abused and spammed to buggery by all and sundry in an instant.

- Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 1:23 [ Permalink to this comment ]

George and Bill are in the phone book they just don’t answer their own phones,.. and I’m sure that anyone who spammed Bill would get the contents of his C drive stuck down their server several times.
Anyway they just give away other peoples money I want talk to someone who can do something about this matter.

- Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 3:53 [ Permalink to this comment ]

- Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:24 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Whoa whoa… Reel?  You indeed bring up real problems, but:
- they don’t seem to have anything to do with this blog entry.
- they don’t seem to have anything to do with Google (other than the fact that Google has a philanthropic wing—google.org—which is already doing good stuff in the world)

So please, no more off-topic comments, okay?

- Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 23:50 [ Permalink to this comment ]

- Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 4:48 [ Permalink to this comment ]

maybe you could send me a copy of MindReading 2.0

- Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 4:58 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Hi Adam,
Perhaps the answers to your topic/questions are contained in The Happiness Purpose by Proff. Edward de Bono, a definitive work on belief and religion.
I first read this book before you were born and since then I have read again and again, each time it reveals something new to me.
He is someone who is insanely smart and sober and thoughtful, laterally! .......pun intended.

For further reading check out The Art of Warfare by Tzun Tzu another clear thinker, and the author of MindReading 2.0.

- Posted on Monday, September 3, 2007 at 8:55 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Interesting post… However, the person who is elected president is hardly the one running the country and is in fact most likely getting advice in one form or another from gay and/or atheist individuals anyhow.

So, unless this country is truly run by one man or woman, then who cares what their religious or sexual preference is…

Lynne

- Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 17:15 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I agree with you Lynne,.. in my mind that’s the meaning of so called democracy. My skin is not white it is interestingly pink depending on the weather of the country I am in, and I don’t have enough hair left to describe by colour. Of the 92 countries I have visited or lived in I have been called all sorts of names due to the actions of my ancestors. My sexual preference is no longer relevant, my mother was Danish and my father was English and my wife was Siamese, my children were called bananas in Thailand because they were yellow on the outside and white on the inside but in England they were called chinky. I spent 25 years as a single parent sending my boys though college.
Now when I apply for employment I am either too old or over qualified. Unfair discrimination is a fact of life I’m afraid, no matter what you are.
In the last Census in UK 47% of the population put Jedi Knight as their religion, that tells you something of what the people think of religion however a large percentage of the land is still owned by the church.
After you say Haliburton, Schlumberger and Sony there isn’t much left to mention,.. who runs that runs pretty much runs everything.....

What sticks in my throat is that a child is dying every thirty seconds from Malaria and the cure is 2000yrs old. Nobody can patent something that old so nobody seems to be interested in pursuing the cause without making a profit.

If I knew who was blocking this cure being passed on to those in need I would happily spend the rest of my life kicking them in the groin.
I don’t suppose anyone anyone will be interested in my comments but thank you Lynne for your respose

- Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 1:27 [ Permalink to this comment ]

The election of leaders is a very carefully crafted event, which is why most running for high offices appear so sanitized.  It will be interesting to see how many more decades pass before a female or non-white gets in.

- Posted on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 5:01 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Hey if America could only elect a president that didn’t have conflicts of interest ie. bussinesses that have very lucrative contracts awarded by the government. Maybe then the candidates would be a little more level headed.
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- Posted on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 21:38 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I believe polititions need to use common sence and not make decisions based on what they are going to get out of the decisions they make.

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- Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 3:09 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I think the same,
Just look, Mr.Obama who is in race of next US President election does not want to outsource the work,
and promises the people outside US for permanent residency of US.
Well Mrs.Clinton wants to outsource the work because she believes if work won’t be outsourced than US companies need to recruit candidates over there, and Hillary now does not want any non American to stay in America.
This is called politics.

- Posted on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 3:31 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Thinking is not bad, but they need to promote them selves as a leader of a Great US.
and you can find for both the slogans wants to change America.
How? This is the only way.

- Posted on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 3:35 [ Permalink to this comment ]

No any politician is free to take decision.
There are many factors affecting in taking good or bad decision.
The most and the worst factor is Party itself.
Some times because of party policy they can’t take right decisions.
and some times they don’t want to leave their conventional approach.
and some times money matters.

- Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:31 [ Permalink to this comment ]