The Thing That Went Wrong on 9/11: The Timing of WTC7's Destruction

One frequently hears the argument that 9/11 couldn't have been an inside job, since something surely would have gone wrong.  Well perhaps there was something that did go very, very wrong:  the timing of the demolition of WTC7.  Perhaps it was meant to go down at 10:45am.  Surrounded by the dust from the collapse of the North Tower that happened at 10:30am, WTC7's collapse would have been invisible to almost everyone.   Instead, there is some evidence that the demolition that was supposed to happen, didn't.  Watch the following:

A Hypothetical Timeline of WTC7's Destruction

I Finally Succumb to Showing a Cat Video

A friend sent me this one.  I think the encaption is in Greek, so I don't know how to look it up on my blogger service, but here is the link. It was the audio that got to me.

The Core of Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"

A friend sent me a link to a summary of Thomas Nagel's book, Mind and Cosmos, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False , by Nagel himself.  It's short and to the point and should help remove misunderstandings and clarify the issues.

Government Attempt to Intimidate Glenn Greenwald Has Opposite Effect

Glenn Greenwald waxes wroth over the detaining of his partner in Britain:

This is obviously a rather profound escalation of their attacks on the news-gathering process and journalism. It's bad enough to prosecute and imprison sources. It's worse still to imprison journalists who report the truth. But to start detaining the family members and loved ones of journalists is simply despotic. Even the Mafia had ethical rules against targeting the family members of people they felt threatened by. But the UK puppets and their owners in the US national security state obviously are unconstrained by even those minimal scruples.

If the UK and US governments believe that tactics like this are going to deter or intimidate us in any way from continuing to report aggressively on what these documents reveal, they are beyond deluded. If anything, it will have only the opposite effect: to embolden us even further. Beyond that, every time the US and UK governments show their true character to the world - when they prevent the Bolivian President's plane from flying safely home, when they threaten journalists with prosecution, when they engage in behavior like what they did today - all they do is helpfully underscore why it's so dangerous to allow them to exercise vast, unchecked spying power in the dark.

Risking One's Life for 9/11 Truth Graffiti

HT: 911Blogger.com

If, like me, you've wondered how the 9/11 Truth Graffiti artists have been able to do it, you might want to watch this video:

Besides being illegal, this is crazy.  I pray that they don't get themselves killed.  For their sakes I hope they stop.

What on Earth do We Know about Heaven?

At least Randal Rauser comes up with book titles that intrigue me, such as What on Earth do We Know about Heaven?

 And he guarantees that this is the best book on heaven that he has ever written.  I guess I'll risk ten bucks on it.

UPDATE: Adam Hazzard offered some good advice:

"Perhaps the title could use an asterisk and some small print, like the ads for prescription drugs : Warning: The work "know" is used here in a figurative sense and does not imply actual knowledge. Assertions contained in this work are unverifiable. Customers requiring a fuller description of any possible afterlife are advised to solicit information from those who have already died. No warranty is offered or implied."

  UPDATE II: I just read the Afterword: Waiting for the Dream Car. Worth reading.

How to Design Evolution

Intelligent Design covers a rather wide spectrum of views, from Young Earth Creaionism at one extreme, to Front-loaded Evolution at the other. Mike Gene is the best known proponent of the latter view, and a recent essay tries to explain what it's all about, or How to Design Evolution.