Glenn Kelly

I’ve read quite a few books on philosophy, some on various religions and pondered it quite alot myself.

But, after surfing the web quite a bit, reading alot of forums and hanging out on Digg, I think Truth can be defined thusly:

Truth = (Any three lines of text * the number of posts in agreement ) / the number of disagreeing posts * how popular the site is / how easy the page is to read and navigate * agreeing Truth factors from other sites.

God never had it so easy.

Borrowed from Lela

Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
Italicise a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it.
Underline the ones you own copies of.
If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
7th Heaven
8 Simple Rules
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
Ally McBeal
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America’s Next Top Model/Germany’s Next Top Model
Angel
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Blake’s 7
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caitlin’s Way
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Carnivale
Charmed
Cheers
Clarissa Explains It All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling [UK]
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flash Forward
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Heroes
Hill Street Blues
Hogan’s Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell’s Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
John Doe
Just Shoot Me
Keen Eddie
LA Law
Law & Order
Law & Order - Criminal Intent
Law & Order - SVU
Laverne and Shirley
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married… With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My So-Called Life
My Super Sweet 16
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) (Original Series)
Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) (New Series)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings & Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Space 1999
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The Apprentice
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Famous Jet Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man (1975 - David Mccallum )
The Invisible man (2000 - Vincent Ventresca)
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wire
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Torchwood
Traders
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and A Half Men
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Vicar of Dibley
Whose Line is it Anyway? [US]
Whose Line is it Anyway? [UK]
Will and Grace
Wings
Without a Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati
Xena: Warrior Princess
Yes Minister
Yes Prime Minister

Working hard during the week I forgot that I had a ticket to see Pearl Jam and Placebo on Friday. I hadn’t even checked when/where it was. All I knew was that come friday, I was going to see Pearl Jam again. Would they be as good as canberra? Will they play all the new songs that I haven’t heard? Time would only tell.
I managed to find the venue details the night before and thankfully the bands I wanted to see weren’t until the evening, thank god!
I made it in to Leeds by the afternoon on my second attempt. After having to get off my bus after only 3 stops to run home and get my festival ticket ( you know that ‘I’ve forgotten something feeling’?)
After another long bus trip I made it to Carling, with hours to spare.
What to do?
I wandered and people watched of course!
Festival types aren’t your usual headrow types, there were dreads and wellies as far as the eye could see.
So I stuffed around getting wrist bands to swap for my ticket. Fare the well ticket, hello plastic wrist strap. Score.
At last, the main stage. Soon to be the holder of the great bands. But there was some kick arse metal coming from it. Slayer! Man they’re good. They’re old, but they’re still good.
And still singing about death. Which is even better that they’re older and closer too it.
After grabbing some refreshingly yummy vegetarian food, it was time to heard up to the stage for a good spot to see Placebo, and then Pearl Jam. I figured that if I hearded early, ( 3 hours ) I should get close to the stage for Pearl Jam…
The band was great, Placebo and Pearl Jam rocked. I moshed for about 3 hours at the front. Not by choice, but that’s where the crowd shoved me. When against so many people, it’s usually better to go with the flow. But after three hours I needed to make a surgical exit,
Caught the bus back to Leeds, and taxi’d home. I’d recommend Leeds Carling Festival to anyone!

http://youtube.com/profile?user=rayato

America’s a funny place. But more and more they’re looking at taking themselves too seriously.
Terrorism
Drugs
Race
Poverty
Health
Education

Boring Boring Boring.

Thank god for Stephen Colbert.
The comedy genius who can sarcastically tell-it-like-it-is, get a great message across, and not bore or scare people away from the issues.
There’s so much going on in the US at the moment that many people have just switched off from all the ‘issues’. But Stephen’s show is reminding us that there’s still fun in fundamentalism.

And that’s the word

You can find a good collection of The Colbert Report on YouTube here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_versus_the_Internet

After reading about scientology on wikipedia, and visiting a few other sites, I couldn’t help but post some links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_versus_the_Internet

Of course, I take no responsibility for information at these sites

http://www.xenu.net/archive/oca/

Found this online. I’ve you’ve ever been tempted to do one of those scientology/dianetics tests, here it is. I can’t say if it is real, or the one they’re using now cause I’ve never done one, but it’s interesting reading nonetheless .
[each question has a YES/MAYBE/NO box]

1. Do you make thoughtless remarks or accusations which later you regret?
2. When others are getting rallied, do you remain fairly composed?
3. Do you browse through railway timetables, directories, or dictionaries just for pleasure?
4. When asked to make a decision, would you be swayed by your like or dislike of the personality involved?
5. Do you intend two or less children in your family even though your health and income will permit more?
6. Do you get occasional twitches of your muscles, when there is no logical reason for it?
7. Would you prefer to be in a position where you did not have the responsibilities of making decisions?
8. Are your actions considered unpredictable by other people?
9. Do you consider more money should be spent on social security?
10. Do other people interest you very much?
11. Is your voice monotonous, rather than varied in pitch?
12. Do you normally let the other person start the conversation?
13. Are you readily interested in other people’s conversations?
14. Would the idea of inflicting pain on game, small animals or fish prevent you from hunting or fishing?
15. Are you often impulsive in your behavior?
16. Do you speak slowly?
17. Are you usually concerned about the need to protect your health?
18. Does an unexpected action cause your muscles to twitch?
19. Are you normally considerate in your demands on your employees, relatives, or pupils?
20. Do you consider that you could give a valid ’snao judgment ?
21. Do your past failures still worry you?
22. Do you find yourself being extra-active for periods lasting several days?
23. Do you resent the efforts of others to tell you what to do?
24. Is it normaly hard for you to ‘own up and take the blame’?
25. Do you have a small circle of close friends, rather than a large number of friends, speaking acquantances?
26. Is your life a constant struggle for survival?
27. Do you often sing or whistle just for the fun of it?
28. Are you considered warm-hearted by your friends?
29. Would you rather give orders than take them?
30. Do you enjoy telling people the latest scandal about your associates?
31. Could you agree, to strict discipline ?
32. Would the idea of making a complete new start cause you much concern?
33. Do you make efforts to get others to laugh and smile?
34. Do you find it easy to express your emotions?
35. Do you refrain from complaining when the other person is late for an appointment?
36. Are you sometimes considered by others a “spoilsport”?
37. Do you consider there are other people who are definitely unfriendly toward you and work against you?
38. Would you admit you were wrong just to “keep the peace”?
39. Do you have only a few people of whom you are really tend
40. Are you rarely happy, unless you have a special reason?
41. Do you “circulate around” at a social gathering?
42. Do you take reasonable precaution to prevent accidents?
43. Does the idea of talking in front of people make you nervous?
44. If you saw an article in a shop obviously mistakenly marked lower than its correct price, would you try to get it at that price?
45. Do you often feel that people are looking at you or talking about you behind your back?
46. Are you ‘always getting into trouble’?
47. Have you any particular hate or fear?
48. Do you prefer to be an onlooker rather than participate in any active sport?
49. Do you find it easy to be impartial?
50. Have you a definitely set standard of courteous behavior in front of other members of your family?
51. Can you start the “ball rolling” at a social gathering?
52. Would you “buy on credit” with the hope that you can keep up the payments?
53. Do you get an after-reaction when something unexpected such as an accident or other disturbing incident takes place?
54. Do you consider the good of all concerned rather than your own personal advantages?
55. When hearing a lecturer, do you sometimes experience the idea that the speaker is referring entirely to you?
56. Does ‘external noise’ rarely intertere with your concentration?
57. Are you usually “up-to-date” on everyday affairs?
58. Can you confidently plan and work towards carrying out an event in six months time?
59. Do you consider the modern “prisons without bars” system doomed to failure?
60. Do you tend to be careless?
61. Do you ever get a ‘dreamlike feeling toward life when it all seems unreal?
62. Do you speedily recover from the effects of bad news?
63. When you criticize - do you at the same time try to encourage?
64. Are you normally considered “cold”?
65. Are your opinions insufficiently important to tell other people?
66. Are you so self-assured that it sometimes annoys others?
67. Do you keep “close contact” on articles of yours which you have loaned to friends?
68. Do you enjoy activities of your own choosing?
69. Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?
70. Do you completely condemn a person because he is a rival or opponent in some aspect of your relations with him?
71. Do you often “sit and think” about death, sickness, pain and sorrow?
72. Are you perturbed at the idea of loss of dignity?
73. Are you always collecting things which “might be useful”?
74. Would you criticize faults and point out the bad points on someone else’s character or handiwork?
75. Are you openly appreciative of beautiful things?
76. Do you sometimes give away articles which strictly speaking do not belong to you?
77. Do you greet people effusively?
78. Do you often ponder on previous misfortunes?
79. Are you sometimes considered forceful in your actions or opinions?
80. Do you accept criticism easily and without resentment?
81. Are you usually undisturbed by “noises off” when you are trying to rest?
82. Are you likely to be jealous?
83. Do you tend to put off doing things and then discover it is too late?
84. Do you prefer to abide by the wishes of others rather than seek to have your own way?
85. Do you find it easy to get yourself started on a project?
86. Do you bite your fingernails or chew the end of your pencil?
87. Do you “turn up the volume” of your emotions just to create an effect?
88. If we were invading another country, would you feel sympathetic towards conscientious objectors in this country?
89. Are there some things about yourself on which you are touchy?
90. Do you have few interests and activities that are your own choice?
91. Do you ever get a single thought which hangs around for days?
92. Are you a slow eater?
93. Can you be a stabilizing influence when others get panicky?
94. Would you stop and find out whether a person needed help even though they had not directly asked you for it?
95. Are you prejudiced in favor of your own school, college, club or team, etc,?
96. Do you pay your debts and keep your promises when it is possible?
97. Do you sleep well?
98. Would you use corporal punishment on a child aged ten if it refused to obey you?
99. Do you prefer to take a passive role in any club or organization to which you belong?
100. Are you logical and scientific in your thinking?
101. Does the youth of today have more opportunity than that of a generation ago?
102. Do you throw things away only to discover that you need them later?
103. Would you give up easily on a given course if it were causing you a considerable amount of inconvenience?
104. Do you “wax enthusiastic’ about only a few subjects?
105. Do you rarely suspect the actions of others?
106. Do you sometimes wonder if anyone really cares about you?
107. Do you turn down responsibility because you doubt your fitness to cope?
108. Do you sometimes feel compelled to repeat some interesting item or tidbit?
109. Do you tend to exaggerate a justifiable grievance?
110. Is your facial expression varied rather than set?
111. Do you usually need to justify or back up an opinion once stated?
112. Do you openly and sincerely admire beauty in other people?
113. Would it take a definite effort on your part to consider the subject of suicide?
114. Would you consider yourself energetic in your attitude toward life?
115. Would a disagreement affect your general relationship with another person?
116. Does a minor failure on your part rarely trouble you?
117. Do you sometimes feel that you talk too much?
118. Do you smile much?
119. Are you easily pleased?
120. When met with direct opposition would you still seek to have your own way rather than give in?
121. Provided the distance were not too great, would you still prefer to ride rather than walk?
122. Do you ever get disturbed by the noise of the wind or a “house settling down”?
123. Is your opinion influenced by looking at things from the standpoint of your experiences, occupation or training?
124. Do you often make tactless blunders?
125. Are you suspicious of people who ask to borrow money from you?
126. Are your decisions swayed by personal interests?
127. Can you get quite enthusiastic over “some simple little thing”?
128. Do you frequently take action even though you know your own good judgment would indicate otherwise?
129. Are you in favor of color bar and class distinction?
130. Are you aware of any habitual physical mannerisms such as pulling your hair, nose, ears, or such like?
131. Can you quickly adapt and make use of new conditions and situations even though they may be difficult?
132. Do some noises “set your teeth on edge”?
133. Can you see the other fellow’s point of view when you wish to?
134. Do you go to bed when you want to, rather than “by the clock”?
135. Do the “petty foibles” of others make you impatient?
136. Do children irritate you?
137. Are you less talkative than your associates?
138. Do you usually carry out assignments promptly and systematically?
139. Would you assist a fellow traveler rather than leave it to the officials?
140. When voting, do you vote the same party ticket straight rather than studying the candidates and issues?
141. Do you frequently dwell on your past illnesses or painful experiences?
142. Do you get very ill at ease in disordered surroundings?
143. Do you usually criticize a film or show that you see or a book that you read?
144. When recounting some amusing incident can you easily imitate the mannerisms or the dialect in the original incident?
145. In subjects about which you are not expert, are your own ideas of sufficient importance as to tell others?
146. Do you have a tendency to tidy up a disorder of somebody else’s household?
147. Can you accept defeat easily without the necessity of “swallowing your disappointment”?
148. Do you often feel depressed?
149. Are you ever ill at ease in the company of children?
150. Do you get frustrated at not being able to do something rather than finding a substitute activity or system?
151. Are you sometimes completely unable to enter the spirit of things?
152. Do you rarely express your grievances?
153. Do you work in “spurts” being relatively inactive and then furiously active for a day or two?
154. Does the number of uncompleted jobs you have on hand bother you?
155. Do people enjoy being in your company?
156. Could you allow someone to finish those “final two words’in a crossword puzzle without interfering?
157. Do you consider the best points of most people and only rarely speak slightingly of them?
158. Do you laugh or smile quite readily?
159. Are you detinite and emphatic in voice and manner?
160. Are you effusive only to close friends if at all?
161. Are your interests and tields of knowledge so important as to give little time for anything else?
162. Would you like to ’start a new activity’ in the area in which you live?
163. Would you make the necessary actions to kill an animal in order to put it out of pain?
164. Is it easy for you to relax?
165. Do you have little regret on past misfortunes and failures?
166. Does the idea of fear or apprehension give you a physical reaction?
167. Can you trust the decision of your judgment in an emotional situation in which you are involved?
168. Could someone else consider that you were really active?
169. Do you find it hard to get started on a task that needs to be done?
170. Are you opposed to the “probation system” for criminals”
171. Do you spend much time on needless worries?
172. In a disagreement do you find it hard to understand how the other person fails to see your side, and thus agree with you?
173. Do you cope with everyday problems of living quite well?
174. Are you usually truthful to others?
175. Would you rather “wait for something to happen” as opposed to you causing it?
176. Do you spend too freely in relation to your income?
177. Can you take a “calculated risk” without too much worry?
178. If you were involved in a slight car accident, would you really take the trouble to see that any damage you did was made good?
179. Do others push you around?
180. Do you make allowances for your friends where with others you might judge more severely?
181. Do you often ponder over your own inferiority?
182. Do people criticize you to others?
183. Are you embarrassed by a hearty greeting such as a kiss, hug, or pat on the back, if done in public?
184. Do you frequently not do something you want to do because of other people’s desires?
185. Are you sometimes convinced of the correctness of your opinions about a subject even though you are not an expert?
186. Do you often find yourself “going off in all directions at once”?
187. Do your acquaintances seem to think more of your abilities than you do?
188. Is the idea of death or even reminders of death abhorrent to you?
189. Having settled an argument out do you continue to feel disgruntled for a while?
190. Are you friendly in voice, attitude, and expression?
191. Does life seem rather vague and unreal to you?
192. Do you often feel upset about the state of war victims and political refugees?
193. Do “mere acquaintances” appeal to you for aid or advice in their personal difficulties?
194. If you lose an article, do you get the idea that “someone must have stolen or mislaid it?”
195. It you thought that someone was suspicious of you and your actions, would you tackle them on the subject rather than leaving them to work it out?
196. Do you sometimes feel that your age is against you (too young or too old)?
197. Do you have spells of being sad and depressed for no apparent reason?
198. Do you do much grumbling about conditions you have to face in life?
199. Do you tend to hide your feelings?
200. Do you consider you have many warm friends?

The “correct” answers:
This shows the idiocy behind this test; each question has a numeric score set by Hubbard. Just like simple “personality tests” in a woman magazine. The accuracy of this test is probably as good as the weekly horoscope in the same. The test has absolutely nothing to do with reality, other than producing a result that may make a gullible person buy a course. Here are the answers that would give the best result (try it at an Scientology shop, and they’ll still recommend you buy their courses!):

1 N
2 Y
3 Y
4 N
5 N
6 N
7 N
8 N
9 Y
10 Y
11 N
12 N
13 Y
14 N
15 N
16 N
17 Y
18 N
19 Y
20 Y
21 N
22 N
23 N
24 N
25 N
26 N
27 Y
28 Y
29 Y
30 N
31 Y
32 N
33 Y
34 Y
35 Y
36 N
37 N
38 N
39 N
40 N
41 Y
42 Y
43 N
44 N
45 N
46 N
47 N
48 N
49 Y
50 Y
51 Y
52 N
53 N
54 Y
55 N
56 Y
57 Y
58 Y
59 N
60 N
61 N
62 Y
63 Y
64 N
65 N
66 N
67 Y
68 Y
69 Y
70 N
71 N
72 N
73 N
74 N
75 Y
76 N
77 Y
78 N
79 Y
80 Y
81 Y
82 N
83 N
84 N
85 Y
86 N
87 N
88 Y
89 N
90 N
91 N
92 N
93 Y
94 Y
95 Y
96 Y
97 Y
98 N
99 N
100 Y
101 Y
102 N
103 N
104 N
105 Y
106 N
107 N
108 N
109 N
110 Y
111 N
112 Y
113 Y
114 Y
115 N
116 Y
117 N
118 Y
119 Y
120 Y
121 N
122 N
123 Y
124 N
125 N
126 M
127 Y
128 N
129 N
130 N
131 Y
132 N
133 Y
134 Y
135 N
136 N
137 N
138 Y
139 Y
140 N
141 N
142 N
143 N
144 Y
145 Y
146 N
147 Y
148 N
149 N
150 N
151 N
152 Y
153 N
154 N
155 Y
156 Y
157 Y
158 Y
159 Y
160 N
161 N
162 Y
163 Y
164 Y
165 Y
166 N
167 Y
168 Y
169 N
170 N
171 N
172 N
173 Y
174 Y
175 N
176 N
177 Y
178 Y
179 N
180 N
181 N
182 N
183 N
184 N
185 Y
186 N
187 N
188 N
189 N
190 Y
191 N
192 N
193 Y
194 N
195 Y
196 N
197 N
198 N
199 N
200 Y

Well, they lost.
Shouldn’t be headbutting people now should we?

I’m sorta suprised they didn’t surrender at first chance

Well, after Englands attempt at the world cup I think it’s time for them to find a new national sport.
Maybe, darts?
What about knitting? The National English Knitting Team?
I rains alot there, so maybe something with alot of water.
Underwater knitting. Now there’s a sport!

Now a note to the English footballers.
The key is to get the ball in your opponents goal.
Now that’s their goal, not yours. The one on the other side of the field when the whistle blows.
Now by inside the goal I mean between the vertical bars, and under the horizontal one.
I know the goal keeper can get in the way at times but don’t let that get your spirits down. They’re not that big, and the goal is bigger.
Especially don’t aim for the goal keeper, even if you don’t like him. That’s what he wants you to do.