Episode 0031: Remember Witold Pilecki

A bit shorter than usual, because I didn't rant as long as I thought I would.

The Auschwitz Volunteer. The most disturbing book on WWII that I've read.

From Dictatorship to Democracy

PDF version of From Dictatorship to Democracy

Israel arrests members of a Jewish extremist group.

Thailand resort attracts jihadists.

Egyptian burial site contains 1 million bodies

Socket wrench in SPAAAAAAAACCCCEEEEE!

Photos of the tool boxes on the ISS

Cricket bat gets man labeled a 'terrorist.'

Missouri state official wants women to get permission from a man to have an abortion.

Previous bill by the same dickwad.

SCOTUS denies stay to Florida's attempt to cockblock gay marriage.

TN town fails to understand how the internet works.

Episode 30: Hangin' With the Big J!

Early Christian Father Julius Firmicus

First newspaper account of the trial of the enigmatic Dr. Thomas

Second newspaper account of the Dr. Thomas that Doane mentions.

Third newspaper account of Dr. Thomas.

Fourth newspaper article about Dr. Thomas

Canadian Methodist church minister (whom I misidentified as a bishop) who got into trouble due to Dr. Thomas.

The images of Krishna that Doane talks about.

Indra looking like Wolfman "Jesus"

Christ on a banister, or Indra on an altar, you decide.

The Thanjavur district in India

The Hindu god Kalki

Serapis, the god who looks like Jesus with a flower pot on his head.

Codex Borgia

Codex Vaticanus B

Codex Rios

Batshit crazy website with photo of the codex illustration of Quetzalcoatl being crucified.

The illustration, if you'd like to skip the batshit crazy part.

The knotted necklaces I mentioned in the podcast.  It turns out that they have been partially decoded, but much of the information contained on them remains a mystery.

Wiki article on the earliest depictions of Christ crucified.


Elymus the magician

Episode 0029 Blame Fuzznuts!

Okay, while Fuzznuts is basking in the warmth from the kerosene heater, let me get the show notes posted.

Old laptop batteries could provide power to slums.

Giant tulip shaped solar power plant to provide power in Ethiopia

Jevon's paradox

Kenya school to use poo power.

Catholic nutjob Bill Donahue thinks atheists are mentally ill.

Former Vatican bank execs have assets seized.

American who helped craft Ugandan "Kill the Gays" law charged with "Crimes Against Humanity."

Uganda tries again on anti-gay law.

Oldest human made engravings found.

Largest stone block carved in antiquity found.

Tiny satellites cost a "mere" $20K.

Tiny CubeSats used on the ISS.

Project wants to use CubeSats to provide global internet access.

New Horizons probe wakes up 1 month before it reaches Pluto.

ETA: The Dollop episode on Ferguson.

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Episode 28 40 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

In this slightly shorter than usual episode, I read from chapter 19 The Temptation, and Fast Of Forty Days from TW Doane's work Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions.  I also announce the winner of the cover art for the contest I'm planning on launching later on this month.  Its Steve at Hudson Media from Columbus, OH.  You can see his entry below.

I blather on a bit in the podcast about how Doane admits that there's a significance to the number 40, which is common in a considerable number of religions, but gives no explanation as to why that might be.  I think that I might have figured it out.  Forty is double the number of fingers and toes a human being has, so in societies where numeracy is limited, this would seem to be a very large number, and would be something common in all societies.  The speculation about Venus that I talk about in the podcast is likely to have come later, once societies had become literate, I think.  I'll blather more about it in the next episode.

I'd also like to give a big shout out to Tom and Cecil over at the Cognitive Dissonance Podcast for playing my voicemail.  They rock, and for anyone who found me thanks to them, I want to thank you for listening, and apologize in advance for not being the least bit funny.

Episode 0027 Frothy Birthday Boy

Bicycle powered centrifuge.

Mali primary school made from earth-rammed bricks.

Earthship houses

Temple of the Holy Shit.

Talking Books to be trialed in Ghana.

Catholic bishops oppose lifesaving vaccine.

Skeleton found in enigmatic Grecian tomb.

3D printed electric car.

ISS fires up its 3D printer

Texas schoolbooks declare mythical Jew to be Founding Father.

'The True Believer' by Eric Hoffer

House Republicans despise science and the EPA.

Episode 0026 Blue Genes and Baby Killin'

I've really got to work on getting these show notes posted earlier in the day.  Anyway, here's the links I mentioned in the latest episode.

Wikipedia article on the Elephanta caves

Official website of the Elephanta caves.

Shrine to Jesus' time in Egypt.

Peter's Evil Overlord List.  If you click no other link on this post, make sure that its this one.

Episode 0025: Doctor Doctor, Was Jebus King of the Jews?

This episode features my interview with Dr. Robert M. Price of the Bible Geek Podcast and the Human Bible Podcast.  The audio quality isn't great because we had to do it over the phone, but its not so horrible that you can't understand everything.  It runs a bit longer than usual.  You can listen to the episode here.

Some of the many books authored by Dr. Price that you might find interesting:

The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul

The Christ-Myth Theory and its Problems

The Case Against the Case For Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel

The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty Four Formative Texts

The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?

Jesus is Dead

Evolving Out of Eden: Christian Responses to Evolution

Episode 0024 I Gots Lots of Internet!

You might a redneck, if your mayor sends out campaign literature featuring her holding a shotgun.

Groups threaten to sue over recently passed amendment in TN.

Tibetan monks build artificial glacier to combat global warming.

Peru paints mountains to stop global warming.

Ethiopia promotes green economic growth.

Saudis deny plan to allow some women to drive.

ISIS publishes a cookbook. For food.

Followers of John the Baptist try to flee genocide in Iraq

3D printed laptop exceeds crowd funding goal.

Compact, portable 3D printer in the works.

A short episode this week, because I'm a bit rusty at doing a news episode.  I'm holding a contest to develop iTunes cover art for a new podcast I'm planning on launching next month called "Bootstrapping the Planet."  Artwork needs to be 1400x1400 pixels, and ideally in .PNG or .JPG format.  Winner gets a dead tree edition of Doane's "Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions."  Send your entry to me at my email address.  Next episode should feature my interview with Dr. Price.

Episode 20: Dutch Man Prefers Ark to Dikes!

Weather on a planet 260 lightyears from Earth.

Wall Street accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers says, "When it comes to global warming, we're boned!"

7 women burned alive as witches in Tanzania.

Dutch contractor beats Ken Ham to building ark.

Image of clean-shaven Jesus found

New images released of the mysterious Grecian tomb.

Remains of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II, identified.

New relics from the wreck where the Antikythera Mechanism brought to the surface.

And remember, Biblical scholar, Robert M. Price has agreed to be a guest, so if you have any questions for him, let me know.

Episode 0019 The Miraculous Birth of Christ Part 2

You can hear the latest episode here.

Not too many links with this episode, the official home page of Dr. Robert M Price is here.  If you haven't listened to his The Bible Geek podcast, you might want to give it a listen.  I will let you know if and when I hear from Dr. Price about doing an interview on the podcast.

Episode 18: The Archbishop and the Porn Collection

Okay, this is going to be a short episode again, owing to the fact that I'm running low on space this month.

More details emerge about the ancient Grecian tomb mentioned in episode 11.

The documentary about The Ark Before Noah, apparently just debuted in the UK.  It does not appear to be available for those of us in the US.  But you can watch the trailer for it below:

If you're in the UK, you can watch it here.

Boko Haram still running amok in Africa.

Map produced by aid workers showing the locations of ebola outbreaks.

Liberian health minister forced into isolation after staff member dies from ebola.

There are concerns that this could reignite the Liberian civil war.

Archbishop busted with 145K child porn images on his PC

Opulent archdiocese residences

HP looking to start 3D printing glass

Plastic 3D lenses are already a reality.

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Episode 0017: The Ham Bone's Connected to the Klan Bone

Kentucky senate candidate has an anti-semitic platform.

Federal judge cites Hobby Lobby case as justification in not requiring a member of Warren Jeffs Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints to testify in a child labor case.

49% of Americans think that religion should have a GREATER role in politics.  Bunch of fucking idiots.

Ken Ham to speak at a function held by bigots who want to bring back the Confederacy.

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Episode 16: The Miraculous Birth of Christ Part 1.

And it'll be Wednesday before I can get the next news episode up.

Alexander Hislop, being a nutter who utterly hated the Catholic Church.

Wiki article on Hislop's most infamous work: The Two Babylons Or the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife

Online edition of Hislop's book, hosted by a group of Christian nutters.

Google books edition of The Two Babylons.

Internet Archive edition.

Kindle and dead tree editions from Amazon.

Wiki article on Ultramontanism.

Wiki article on Collyridianism

Vicegerent

Will this be the last Dalai Lama?

Amunothph III is actually Amenhotep III

Previous episodes can be found here.

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Episode 15: If You're Happy and You Know It, Go To Jail!

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A news episode at long last!  I must admit I got a bit ranty during the first part of the episode.

Iranians get up to 1 year in jail and 91 lashes for dancing.  Here's the video which got them into trouble.

Parents who gouged out 5 year old boys eyes with spoon during a Satanic ritual given 30 years in prison.

Exorcists and 'Saint Death'

Arab region has fastest growing HIV rate.

CDC on MERS

Bible college president guilty of being a slave owner.

Egyptian imam and an Iranian member of parliament claim ISIS is a plot hatched by the US and Israel.

Foundation Beyond Belief

Solar 'light' inventor not in it for the money

iPad app enables kids to learn math significantly faster.

Onebillion math app

Load carrier for labor

Local Motors 3D prints a car in 44 hours.

'Wolverine' style 3D printed prosthetic hand developed for kids.

Stop motion children's movie makes extensive use of 3D printing.

NASA to launch 3D printer to the ISS soon.

Episode 14: Who Wrote the Old Testament, Part Two

Professor Fuzznuts assisting with the editing of the episode.

I'll be the first to admit that this episode is a bitch to get through in spots.  (You can listen to it here.)  It is actually kind of important when you're trying to understand Biblical history and how the myths came to be.  Respected scholar Irving Finkel, in January of this year, talking about the discovery of  the oldest account of the Flood myth.  Finkel's book about the discovery The Ark Before Noah, which is well worth a listen.  Finkel's book on ancient board games.

Plum ketchup recipe I mentioned in the episode.  Here's the BBQ sauce recipe I mentioned.  In addition to the use of corn starch, the other variation I used was Smoked Chipotle Tabasco sauce.

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Episode 13: Who wrote the Old Testament?

Okay, so I didn't have time to do a news story episode, and just read a chapter from Bible Myths, since I was already several days late in getting an episode posted.  You can listen to the latest show and past episodes here.  Follow the show on Twitter.  Like the Show on Facebook.  You can email the show at trailerparkatheist <at> gmail.com

Steven Novella's skeptical look at the claims that the Ripper murders have been solved.

Biblical scribe Hilkiah credited with "discovering" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) portions of the Old Testament.

Ezra, another biblical scribe credited with "discovering" parts of the Old Testament.

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Episode 12: Jonah Gets Circumcised!

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A bit of a bonus episode this week!  Its chapters 9 and 10 of Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions by TW Doane.  Chapter 9 details Jonah and the whale, and how Jonah was most likely a sun god, while chapter 10 discusses circumcision in Judaism and other societies.  The Tale of Little Golden Hood, another sun god (or in this case, goddess) myth.  Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

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Episode 0011 -- Kentucky Ham's Bigoted Bones

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Archeologists in Greece discover giant tomb which dates from 325-300 BC and may have connections to Alexander the Great.

Italian tomb with paintings which look like they're done by Neil Gaiman.

Indian province running low on priests as people would rather make money than join the priesthood.

Ken Ham's Ark Encounter engages in illegal hiring practices and has ties to a racist organization.

Jordan's LGBT community fears the possibility of growing intolerance in a region gripped by violence.

1848: The Year of Revolutions in Europe

Allied efforts during WW II to sabotage Norwegian heavy water production.

World's first 3D printed vertebra implanted in a child.

Mind blowing 3D printed chess set.

Two Indian teenage girls commit suicide after months of sexual harassment.

Ohio law maker has issue with the scientific method being taught in schools.

Foundation Beyond Belief

Rugged bicycles for Africa

Simple adapter turns bicycle into a power source for people.

99 year old works to sew 1,000 dresses for young girls in Africa.

Episode 0010 Samson, The Pimpin' Sun God

The episode can be found here.

Things mentioned in the show:

Salome's Last Dance, a film by Ken Russell, available for streaming on Amazon.com

The constellation Hydra.

Cecil B. DeMille's classic film Samson and Delilah, available from Amazon streaming.  It makes more sense than the Biblical account, and young Angela Landsbury is surprisingly hot, I must say.  Even better looking than the ravishing Hedy Lamarr (who plays her younger sister, despite being older than her).

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Episode 0009 TN is for Morons

TN decides to drug test welfare recipients, only .012% come up positive.

TN governor thinks prayer is the cure for TN's failing educational system.

Company owned by TN governor pays $92 million in fines for defrauding clients.

TN court rules gay marriage ban legal.

A look inside a California trailer park.

Religious group in Iraq targeted by ISIS over their pre-Christian beliefs.

PARC develops 3D printing method which can pave the way for embedded electronics.

Open source, folding 3D printer developed.

3D printed wind turbine developed.

Scientists may have found dust particles which pre-date the solar system.

East African girls educated on hygiene.

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed.

Next week will be a Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions episode on Samson.

Episode 8: The 10 Commandments and News Bits Updated! 8/10/14

New book claims to have proof that Hitler died in Brazil in 1984.

Nutjob preacher thinks that ebola will "purify" America.

ISIS group crucifying people in Syria

Siberian crater could be really bad news.

1948 version of Superman. The key segments are in the first 15 minutes.

Wango Tango! Ted Nugent continues to be a crazy, racist, dickhead, to no one's surprise.

Futility Closet episode talking about animals "obeying" the 10 Commandments.

Episode 0007: Alabama's Coal Powered Jebus!

I want to do a big thank you and shout out to Noah Ludgeons and the gang over at The Scathing Atheist podcast.  They were kind enough to give me a plug, so if you're listening to me, but not listening to them, you should probably start listening to them.  Unlike me, they're actually funny on purpose.

Links to stories mentioned in the podcast:

Freakonomics: Does Religion Make You Happy?

Pastor says American Christians are "going to be killed"

Pakistani mob kill two children and their grandmother over "blasphemous" facebook post.

Wiki entry on the sect the victims belonged to

UK politician wants doctors to use astrology in their practice.

TX police scramble to cover up that they want God in schools

AL politician says that God WANTS them to burn coal.

1,000,000 year old stone tools found in Africa

3,500 year old astronomical symbols found in Peru

Now you can 3D print a NASA space probe!

African hackers develop $75 3D printer

3D printing a '60s era Aston Martin DB4

Scientist fired for claiming triceratops fossil supports Young Earth Creationism

That's all for this week!

Links for Episode 6: Let Muh Peeps Go!

Wikipedia entry on the Exodus


Bathing in ancient Egypt. (You'll have to scroll down to find the relevant section.)


Wiki entry on Ramses II, the pharaoh thought to be the one ruling during the Exodus