The inability to add cost an Indian man his wedding day.
An Indian bride walked out of her wedding ceremony after the groom failed to solve a simple math problem, police said Friday.
The bride tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked out.
The question she asked: How much is 15 plus six?
His reply: 17.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
I: Criticism of Religion§242 No one is sufficiently aware of the barbarity of the notions among which we Europeans still live. To think that men have been able to believe that the “Salvation of the soul” depended upon a book! And I am told that this is still believed even today. What is the good of all scientific education, all criticism and all hermeneutics, if such nonsense as the Church’s interpretation of the Bible has not yet turned the colours of our bodies permanently into the red of shame?
Again, for those who are joining us late: The materials found in the Will to Power were selected posthumously from Nietzsche’s notebooks by his literary executor. It is not a finished book, and much of the material found in WTP never made in into a book overseen and produced under Nietzsche’s direction.
This is a passage that I can’t recall encountering anywhere else in his published writings, and among those that most resonate with me, because I am honestly baffled by educated adults who repeat the Bible’s nonsense as though it actually makes sense. Is there a religious part of their mind that is partitioned away from the rest of reality? Are they simply too cowardly to speak frankly about this particular subject, because the clergy have improbably succeeded in cultivating the idea that it is improper to subject their magical claims to inspection?
No matter. Unreasoning belief, faith, is the engine of Niagaras of human bloodshed and misery; it is no less deserving of scrutiny than the other forces at work in our lives — economics, say. No deference, then — ever.
A deeper, truer knowledge of your sin will devastate and liberate you. http://t.co/1dWUj29tRK
— Desiring God (@desiringGod) March 12, 2015
Never ever forget: Y’all are no damn good.
After leaving the convent, my curiosity led me to research the genesis of the faith. It was an awakening to read of the various Church Councils and the mere flawed men who arrogantly defined an inscrutable God, His Trinity, Original Sin and all the fabrications that followed.
This goes, once again, to a systemic failure of character in the pulpit. No seminary-educated pastor has any excuse for not knowing that he’s peddling make-believe.
About 75% of the besieged Iraqi city of Tikrit is now back in government control, the head of a key paramilitary force taking part in the attack told CNN on Thursday.
The other 25% is in the hands of about 150 ISIS fighters who continue to hold out, said Main Al-Kadhimi, commander of the Hasd Al-Shaabi militia.
