“Burning the Future” on television NOW NOW NOW
May 13th, 2008
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Sorry if this post is short but right now on the Sundance Television Channel, which you may or may not get, the documentary Burning the Future is on… or coming on.
It is now 9:32 PM on the East Coast of the USA and it’s coming on at 9:35. Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier! EEK! I gotta go watch it! (And record it too!)
It’s likely it’ll be on at another time as well. I don’t have time to check though. I gots to go get to the television.
UPDATE: If you get the Sundance Channel, you can still see this excellent documentary on May 16 or May 18. Information here.
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May 13th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
“EEK! I gotta go watch it!”
You know, a laptop with a wireless connection would allow you to blog whilst watching the TV.
You’re not electrosensitive, are you?
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May 14th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Frank said:
Now Frank, we don’t mention Doc’s unfortunate condition. You know how much he’s in denial about it…
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Frank said:
I was at one time. I was cured with homeopathy
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May 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Why not so many posts lately? I was getting used to three or four per day.
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May 14th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
A combination of things actually.
In order of the burden on my time, from least to most:
- Family obligations
- Work
- I’m in the market for a new car and I’ve been looking and also getting the finances arranged
- I’ve been spending some time with a lady friend recently. Actually in increasing amounts as a function of recent days passed. We’ll see where that goes, but you know how that is…
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May 14th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
oh (sigh)
I hope it all goes well for you.
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May 14th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Oh there’s a girl in your life now? Well I guess that probably means you’re having a lot of sex with her with no concern for whether or not it’s right and who you or her have been with, right? Do you think you might marry her? What if you get her pregnant? Oh I forgot, you can always have an abortion. It must be pretty uninteresting when your relationships are all just about sex and a piece of meat you can do stuff with and try to be as perverse as possible to chase your highs.
I just don’t know what it’s like when you’re like that because I’m not an atheist. For me, I think Christian relationships and the hope that it might become something bigger and knowing it’s part of a bigger thing. I think it would become boring to just engage in activities of the flesh.
have you ever thought that a more godly way of living might actually be better? I mean not only for the Lord but for yourself, just because he gave us the laws to live a better life?
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May 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Okay. Honestly, that has got to be one of the most offensive and personal things I’ve ever had posted on here and so I’m addressing it now despite the fact that I’m about to go out.
Yes, I am an atheist. She, also happens to not be affiliated with any religion. She’s not as much a member of the skeptic movement as myself, but also she is a non-believer.
No, I’m not interested in her or any other woman for just sex. Actually it’s not even a major thing I’ve been concerned with right now. And the answer to the obvious question: No, we have not.
That’s not what anything has been about since I was maybe 19, at the latest.
Secondly, I don’t know much about her past (nor do I really care to), but I don’t have the impression she’s ‘easy’ or all about that kind of thing either. Nor would I want her to be! I’m not really looking for anyone into that on the first or second date and it’s not the primary motivation in seeing someone. For that matter, I would not want it to become one and certainly not now.
Would I marry her? I don’t know. It’s possible. Not now. Not next month, but I mean if things turn out especially well then sure, the potential is there for anyone I’d see. I don’t have plans of that, but that’s a real distant thing anyway. In all probability I’d say it probably won’t culminate in that. But who knows?
And I don’t think there is any worry of getting anyone pregnant any time soon.
Where the hell do you get off with that kind of thing? Why would it be your business anyway?
Do you really think anyone who doesn’t pray to the invisible man in the sky is just obsessed with earthly hedonism and trying to do everything perverse or ’sinful’ just because?
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May 14th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
My goodness Keith, put a sock in it!
How offensive do you want to get here? Go accuse Steve of everything in the book and then tell him how wicked it is?
Look, keep your opinions to yourself about what Steve does with his personal life, and we’ll keep our opinions to ourselves about you.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I don’t mind hearing your opinion of someone who is part of an atheist, anti-Chistian, anti-god, left-wing website which exists to tell everyone else how wrong they are and how important it is that they are not Christian and do not give the Lord the servitude and glory he is due. Say what you want.
It is my business because I exist to serve Him and every sinful act on the earth is something I must not turn my back on for this is why I am. I am to serve him by preaching the good news and showing people for who they are.
If someone wants to have all kinds of orgies and do things like homosexuality and fornication then why are they so ashamed that they will not talk about it openly? Are his sinful acts to shameful to stand by? It does not matter if you want to keep it from everyone else because the Lord still knows all and you will be judged for defaming his name by abominations of the flesh!
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
drbuzz0 said:
Bahahaha!
Oh, btw, Keith, thanks for spoiling it all, moron. Do you think it’s Christian-like behaviour to jump down someone’s throat with your prejudices and stupidity?
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Frank said:
It’s unfortunate that a small minority give so many people a bad name.
Good movie though. On a totally different note I almost had to laugh out loud when today McCain was getting flak for supporting nuclear power, and someone brought up the Hanford Site as evidence that nuclear is a bad idea, ugh! The anti-nuclear people are so thick they don’t even understand the difference between the Manhattan project and nuclear power…
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Keith said:
Talk about a straw man!
Personally, i believe in God. And as such it sounds to me that you’re serving Satan with your half-truths and outright lies and expressing your divisive behaviour where it is not warranted.
First of all, it is none of your business what people do in their own time so as long as it doesn’t affect the liberties of another individual. God gave us free will to decide these things for ourselves – not to have idiots like you to take those decisions for us. Secondly, homosexuality and fornication is only a shameful act in a BACKWARD culture. Seems to me that your mind has been polluted by misleading preachers and a deliberately inaccurate and mis-translated bible.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Andrew said:
Actually, it just occurred to me (whilst i was in the toilet a minute ago having a ’sit and think’) – this guy’s just trolling.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Christians in the pre-internet days would say the things Keith seems comfortable saying because they had to do it to someones face. And then they learned the difficulty of trying to pick their teeth up off the ground with broken fingers.
I’m sure god loves you for being a coward Keith, and hiding behind the safety of the net as you Witness.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Steve, would you consider allowing guest posts?
They could be mailed up to you, and you would still have complete editorial control to post or not post as you see fit.
Just an idea.
-DV8
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Keith, do you honestly think non-Christians are all the kind who just go around having sex with whoever just for the hell of it and doing every kind of perverse action in the book just because they know god doesn’t want them to?
That’s certainly not true of me. For example, I would never ever even consider having sex with someone like you. It wouldn’t matter what you looked like or even if I were desperate, because I have more self respect than to bed a moron like yourself.
It’s amazing how obsessed people like you are with all the kinds of things going on in other people’s lives and lavishly imagining orgies and S&M and stuff. Maybe it’s a fantasy or just desperation to justify your lack of any relationships? Perhaps you are so universally rejected that you pretend it’s your choice. I don’t know, but something screw is going on in your head.
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
DV82XL said:
I’d say that he would feel shame speaking the way he does to someone off the street.
Gee, i dunno, Keith, perhaps you should ask yourself that question.
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I’m a Christian Keith and your behavior is very un-Christian. Go home and be quiet. You’re embarrassing all of us here.
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Wow, calling this blog anti-christian or anti-god is foolish. (also-calling it left-wing is a BIG stretch). If this blog is anti-anything, I’d say it’s anti-stupid. Thats why I like it, attacking ideas based on their merits and facts rather than their source.
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Alice in Blunderland said:
Not really Alice, it’s their own puerile cravings that they are projecting on to everyone else. Eaten by these desires they imagine that we all have them, and unfettered by the fear of eternal damnation, must be indulging in them.
Note how some of the biggest perverts are those who have taken religious orders.
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Frank said:
Yeah, I think that’s almost certain.
The internet is anonymous, that’s what’s great and terrible about it. Keith could actually be an atheist trying to make Christians looks bad. He could be agnostic and just having a laugh. Or he could just be someone who dislikes this blog.
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Andrew said:
He could even be, *shock!* drbuzz0!!!!
No, sorry, I didn’t mean that – just stirring the pot
Then again, I read on counterknowledge.com the other day that it’s possible that snopes.com – the biggest anti-internet rumor site (that i know of, anyway) actually starts the rumors to begin with!
Hmm… maybe treating your electrosensitivity with homeopathy had some undesirable side-effects, Steve.
Gourry said:
Or, as LGF lizards would prefer to call it – anti-idiotarian.
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Keith said:
Ignoring for the moment the offensiveness, inappropriatness and idiocy of the rest of Keith’s posts, I’m just amazed that ANYONE who regularly reads Doc’s articles could come away with the impression that he’s a leftist. Now I don’t know what his actual political affiliations are precisely, but I think it’s unlikely that he would be, for instance, a communist, or a European-style social-democrat.
Actually, wasn’t there a commenter on the thread about the Christian teacher accused of torturing his students who alleged that anyone who didn’t follow Jesus was a left-winger? I wonder what these people would make of objectivism?
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
DV82XL said:
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that. Maybe this weekend we’ll see if it could be worth a shot. One thing I am going to do is mess with wordpress to make it show the author on the article which will allow me to create more than one author account so that there can be multiple authors and the credit will be more clear
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Okay, well it looks like my reception has not been so great.
Am I a troll? Call me what you want, but this is honestly what I believe and I think it’s fair to put someone out for their immorality and bad behavior which it sounds like all you approve of. I don’t approve of it because the Lord has told me not to and to maintain his laws on this earth and for that reason I think that the author needs to be shamed for what he has done against God and against the commandments and the Bible.
I don’t direct this just at the author. I want to know from all of you. If you are willing to do shameful and disgusting things behind closed doors, why are you so afraid to admit them? Why do you turn away and not stand behind your actions? Is it because you know they are wrong? I will tell you what I do because I do nothing disreputable and perverted. I’m not married and I remain pure. I have no shame in admitting this.
Why then, will you not stand with pride behind it, if it is right? Do you not think you will have to stand behind the Lord one day and account for your sins of the flesh? The judgment of man is not what you need to worry about, because His judgment is what is matters.
Also, if you have engaged in homosexuality or orgies or multiple parters, perverse fornication, sodomy, lust and other sins, then you are not barred from salvation. You must change and accept your failings for them to be forgiven. Do so now, for you never know when your life may end and if it does while you do not accept the Lord and his laws and words, you will not be saved from eternal torture and misery.
You have done many shameful things, but rejoice because this is your chance to wash them away and be reborn as a new and pure being!
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Keith said:
No kidding!!
Your not a troll, you’re an offensive little busybody, with an ego as big as your intellect is small. I don’t give a rats @ss how you live and what privations you inflict on yourself, because it is monumentally disinteresting. As for what our morals and ethics are and how closely they align or not align with yours, that is none of your affair and your interest in them puerile and offensive in and of itself. Why would anyone wish to discuss this subject with you?
Doc – this is nothing but spam pure and simple, and IMHO should be treated as such, or the place will be overrun by those coming here to preach.
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Alright. I have to agree with this. Keith: If you post anymore off topic and irrelevant comments demanding personal details on myself or anyone else for your own agenda it will be treated as spam. You’re welcome to make relevant comments even that disagree with stuff here, but not this garbage.
And by the way. All I’ll say about my personal life is that it’s not anywhere near as fun or exciting as you seem to think.
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May 15th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Keith, have you seen “2 Girls 1 Cup”?
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Sung Li Kim said:
Jesus Christ Kim it’s dinnertime on the East Coast. I didn’t need to see that title right now (or ever again, for that matter)
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Sung Li Kim said:
Ahh yes one of my favourite sites (lemon party is great too!) – i guess those ladies aren’t ashamed to admit anything.
Whilst we’re on that topic, I’m ashamed to admit – i did the stinkiest sh-t the other day – had to leave the window open for hours afterwards. It was really disgusting – there was much volume of material in various consistencies, and required multiple flushes.
That’s better now that it’s off of my chest – I am no longer ashamed to admit to it to Keith and the rest of the internet community – thanks for helping me heal, Keith.
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Frank said:
Frank, I feel your description of this incident to be insufficiently detailed. In fact, it really raises more questions than it answers.
But putting all that to one side for the moment, I now recognise that it’s quite clear that the stinkiness of aformentioned sh-t is undoubtably due to your being insufficiently Godly. It’s the demonic content of the large intestine and upper colon which produce this phenomenon, as Vatican researchers have known for centuries. Of course, the further advanced one is in Christianity, the greater the abatement of said stinkiness, and for the really, really pure, why there’s no discernable stench at all! Just ask Keith.
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May 16th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Doesn’t anybody also think that this Keith guy reminds them of the guy in this Monty Python sketch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I
With the disgusting difference that he wraps and justifies his sick curiosity into a religious mantle?
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May 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
KLA said:
Yes, I think that about sums it up
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May 17th, 2008 at 12:52 am
So what was the show like? (Burning the Future, that is to say).
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May 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Finrod said:
Quite right – next time, i’ll take a photo and put it up on ratemypoo.com… after all, a picture’s worth a thousand words…
Interesting thoughts. Next time it happens, I’ll send the Vatican a sample for ANALysis… geddit? poo? ANALysis??? Baajajhhahaha i crack me up
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May 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Finrod said:
I would give it 4-4.5 out of 5 stars. I’ve seen better – but not many. Not many at all. There are a few things I might have changed a bit if it were up to me. For one thing, I would have added more focus to the fact that what they were talking about in West Virginia was not limited to a few communities but also mention it was all over America – Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, Kentucky and so on and also in Russia, China, Germany, Poland, Australia, India etc etc. Few countries are downsizing their coal mining. Canada is hoping to shortly, if they can get a couple more reactors going. The only other country is France, which closed their last coal mine in 2004.
I might have focused more broadly on the global consequences too. Both these issues are there, but not as much focus as I would have had to show that the community they showed was not atypical. They also implied that traditional mining is better than mountain top mining, which it is. But it’s also pretty crappy.
Overall, however, it packed a lot of dramatic and informative content into a film that was a good length and had pretty good flow. Any criticism I have of it is, at most a nitpick. I’d recommend it.
Anyone who watches it should see the dramatic scope of the problem and then also bare in mind how enormous the geographic scale of it is and the number of communities and areas which are forever changed. It is sobering.
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