Month: January 2013

  • Restarting Demon threads in Python

    Having just spent over an hour trying to find how to do this, here is my contribution to the problem. Say that you have a thread that you have called start() on, and your run() method terminates with an exception, or quite naturally (for example, your listening to a socket, and it gets disconnected). Your…

  • Richard Dawkins Congratulates Wales

    … for being Atheist. Source : The BBC There’s something rather odd about being congratulated for having no faith. Perhaps in the same way it’s rather odd to be congratulated for having faith. Perhaps the worst thing about the article is Richard Dawkins being his usual vitriolic self, by making such sweeping statements as: He…

  • Genesis, and the rise of People, and Man and Woman

    While reading handy pull-out debate of Women Bishops in the Church Times (Church Times, 18 January, 2013), I came accross the article by Judy Stowell. She begins where the debate about women always begins : Genesis. She makes the point that when we first meet Adam, the Dustling, the person made of Dust, he stands…

  • Who’s Afraid of the Devil?

    Evil and Salvation – the devil you know? whos afraid of the devil

  • Should Christians Carry a Gun?

    Adam Dickison said If somebody comes into steal my t.v. should I help them load of the V.C.R. and tv stand too? Maybe give them some cash for gas? I mean is my stuff so important? The gun in connection with protecting my stuff is where I’ve felt out of sync mostly In a dicussion…

  • Introduction to BlackXanthus’ Systematics

    I have long been contemplating embarking on an attempt to write Systematic Theology. Though I’m hoping, of course, that this will be somewhat different. I don’t have a “system” that I’m attempting to explore, I’m not really trying to find the place of Grace in the great contemporary issues of the day, or looking at…

  • Inclusion, Women, and Homosexuality : A theological article.

    An Article on Inlusion, Homosexuality, Women, and Culture This article is quite an interesting one for me, touching as it does on so many parts of my own personal interest. I don’t have time to write a full description of it, so you will just have to read it yourselves. ~BX

  • Dora And Velma Kick Ass

    You Didn’t Ask for it. You didn’t even think it, but here it is. A short script for the AWESOME Concept of Dora the Explorer and Velma Dinkley (of Scooby Doo fame) meeting in their very own mystery, to kick ass against the notorious Dr. Edmund Vile. This is an original script written by BlackXanthus,…