Another week over, its friday which meant a trip to Ikea , a dinner of chips and meat and a splendid purchasing of a sofa bed. Not quite sure whats happened to my syntax buts its rather strange, perhaps too much pritt stick when I was younger. Life in the new pad is starting to settle in something resembling a rhythm, but we still have far too many boxes littering the place. God only knows what it will be like when I get my act together and bring even more stuff over from the UK. As it is, E is living practically feral at the minute, hunting morsels of food between alleys of cardboard boxes stuffed with papers, only emerging to demand that his nappy be changed (which incidently, requires a stable boy these days).

Lamentable News: Its kind of weird to hear a nation that sanctions torture, incarceration without trial and invasion of countries without evidence to suddenly start brandishing the Geneva convention about when its a picture of a bloke in his pants....BBC NEWS World Middle East Saddam underwear photo angers US: "Other pictures showed Saddam Hussein washing his socks in a bowl, shuffling around and sleeping.
The US said the photos appeared to breach Geneva Convention rules on the humane treatment of prisoners of war. "

Recent Movies: Cube (finally, and rather good), Minority Report (finally once again, and okay).
Under the Reading Lamp: Still reading about the Human Genome, but also getting the Gruaniad almost everyday now, having found a new supplier (the newsagency around the corner, sweet).
Recently missed: Getting anywhere close to involved in doing a Sudoku, apparently this is a craze sweeping the uk.....

and here's the rant.....

Current Rationalist Moaning: What the Bleep Do We Know. Clearing of throat. Lets begin. Okay, so I'll lay my cards on the table and say, up front, I have not seen this movie - which immediately makes me a complete censoring surf nazi I know but, hey, ignorance has never stopped the delivery of an arguement badly put so - with the ground truth exposed - lets continue. For those of you who don't know, this is a documentary attempting to answer the bigger questions about life, existance and so on. Very worthy I say, bring it on. It takes on the mysterious quantum world (which is very fucking mysterious, having recently binged on serious academic books about multiverses, uncertainty principle and probababilty waves I narrowly avoided my brain abandoning ship), and - by following the adventures of Marlee Matlin - attempts to explain things like quantum mechanics. It would seem, however, that it quickly delves down in the strange (Japanese scientist controlling water with his brain waves) to the completely fucking mad, to wit, 35 000 year old Atlantean spirit being channeled through the body of some bonkers Washington woman called JZ Knight. As Richard Dawkins said in a review of this movie, Ramtha (for it is he, (see below)) has clearly not lost any of his business skills in his 35 000 year journey to the present day as he charges a 1000 dollar an hour for counselling (exactly what he cousels god knows, presumably how to deal with your entire civiallisation disappearing under the sea or, worse yet, not existing at all outside of Doug McClure movies).

This kind of shit is dangerous - it gives people the wrong idea about science, giving credence to fucked up new age cults and is generally getting away with lieing to people by dressing it up as science and giving 'experts' the space to bullshit away. What the Bleep Do We know? probably Bleep all after seeing this movie other than seeking enlightenment through a 12 stage course, a ranch retreat, and a bio-feed back machine. Wankers.

Ramtha - 35 000 year old Atlantean Entrepreneur

So lets have a quick look at Ramthas School of Enlightenment shall we? And straight away I'm not smiling anymore, when scrolling quickly through all the opportunities to go on retreats with Ramtha (less of a retreat, more like flee for your lives) I see the words 'To learn to heal and rejuvenate your body through an ancient ritual. This discipline has healed every conceivable disease and can extend your life beyond your genetic expectancy.'. Every conceivable disease? Fuck me, this bloke Ramthas shit hot - lets see what else there is.....Ramtha is a Lemurian, and a great warrior, from a time long long ago - 35 000 years ago - in the time when the lost continent of Atlantis was not so lost. Now this is great......Apparently 'Ramtha does not wish to be worshiped.', he just prefers the folding green instead then...He is channeled through the body of a nice wholesome lady (who also owns a gift shop) called JZ Knight but its okay, there is independent proof of his existance after a battery of tests was conducted on JZ Knight, hmmm, I see. It may be that she has physiological and neurological symptons (or pathology) which are unusual but which diagnosis is more appealing? That she has - 1. Some form of mental illness. 2. That it is a con or 3. She is possessed by a dead warrior spirit who, for reasons best known to himself, has come back from the spirit world as the some kind of cosmic counsellor. I could go on but if your ghast still needs to be flabbered a little bit more I suggest visiting the FAQ page of Ramthas website......But before we leave Ramtha and JZ the cost of spending some time with his holiness is around 1000 bucks a throw which, as Ramtha proudly says - 'somewhat lower than the average professional training courses in today's marketplace.' For some pictures of Ramtha in action, you can visit here.

I could rant about this all day but I'll start spitting, and going red, which is never appealing. I need to calm down, wheres my L. Ron. Hubbard tapes......