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After a deluge of complaints from Mind Set readers and podcast listeners concerning the lack of feedback on the site, we are pleased to announce that the addition of the Mind Set Forum to the site.

The forum can be used for posting discussions, thoughts and comments concerning the site and the Mind Stet podcast.  While currently we have the forum set up to accept all postings, so you don’t have to register, we strongly advise that you do so.  We’re going to play the registration issue by ear, and see what happens in the area of SPAM, and if it gets out of control we’ll switch to registration only.

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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the California Science Center is about to be sued by the American Freedom Alliance, which is a non-political, non-partisan movement which promotes, defends and upholds Western values and ideals.  (Translation, Western Values = a Christian worldview which aligns itself to Creationism and Intelligent Design)

The AFA had planned an Oct. 25 screening of two films at the Exposition Park museum — one a short Imax movie called “We are Born of Stars,” which favors Darwin’s theory; the other, “Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record,” a feature-length documentary that criticizes Darwin and promotes intelligent design.

The AFA says that it has no position on Darwinism and intelligent design but is concerned that debate is being stifled by the scientific establishment.  The scientific establishment has dismissed Creationism and Intelligent design, as the theory of evolution has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by the genetic and fossil evidence.

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Has Health and Safety finally forced churches to abandon one of its oldest and best loved traditions? Churches in the UK have always started services around 11pm so that they continue into Christmas Day to mark the arrival of Jesus into the world.

However in recent years many have begun to move Midnight Mass services forward to earlier in the evening, to stop them being interrupted by drunks staggering out of the pubs or to make them more user friendly for young families and the elderly to attend and return home safely afterwards.

Some Roman Catholic churches are starting the service, renamed the First Mass of Christmas or Vigil Mass, around 8pm.

Among the earliest found is St Teresa of the Child Jesus Church in Liverpool, where the inappropriately named Midnight Mass will take place at the improbable time of 6pm.

Several churches are holding the service early in the evening so it coincides nicely with midnight in Bethlehem, which , conveniently , is two hours ahead of the UK.

Holy Trinity and All Saints in Winterton, Norfolk calls its service “Moonlight Mass” and the blurb states: “All the mystery and wonder of Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, but at a slightly earlier time. As the Mass reaches its climax a bell chimes to tell us is it is midnight in Bethlehem the place of Christ’s birth. Mulled wine and mince pies to follow.”

Meanwhile , over in the Vatican , Midnight Mass was brought forward two hours so that the Pope doesn’t get too tired to deliver his Christmas Message in the morning. Unfortunately the Pontiff suffered a security scare when a ‘mentally unstable’ woman leapt a barrier and tumbled the 82 year old to the floor. She was the same person who tried to jump a barricade to get close to the Pope at last year’s Christmas Mass, the spokesman said.

MaryBeth Burns from Paris, Texas, was about four people away from the woman who jumped the barriers and was filming the pope’s procession as the commotion started.

“I’m really mad because I had a perfect shot lined up,” she said. “I’m still shaking.”

Burns, who was visiting Italy with her family on a religious pilgrimage for Christmas, said the security guards immediately pulled the woman to the ground and the pope tumbled with them.

Also involved was Cardinal Roger Etchegaray who was taken to hospital after being given first aid in the Basilica. He is reported as suffering a fractured femur.

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Happy Christmas, War is Over was a message presented to the world in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam war.  John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Christmas message that still speaks to us all today, we can change reality with a thought, with an idea.  All war could end tomorrow, if we wanted it to.

This Christmas message, while presented by Mind Set Central, is John a Yoko’s message.  A message of peace, a reality changing message.  So listen to the MP3 and subscribe to the podcast.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.  That’s what’s insane about it.

- John Lennon

Happy Christmas, War is Over!

- The Mind Set Podcast

Scotland Yard has warned businesses in the City of London to expect a Mumbai-style attack.

In a briefing in the City of London on 8th December , a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said : “Mumbai is coming to London.”

The detective said the money centre of the UK should anticipate ” a shooting and hostage-taking raid ” “involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and improvised explosive devices”.

The Mumbai attack to which the police officer so glibly refers cost the lives of 173 people and , according to Indian authorities , involved British men amongst the terrorists. Reports of ‘fair skinned gunmen’ (BBC 27/11/08) were quickly down-graded to ‘ British Citizens of Pakistani Origin’. (Daily Telegraph 28/11/08). This was further altered to ‘the Indian Government later stated that there was no evidence to confirm this.’ (Wiki)

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Uber-Atheist Richard Dawkins recently talked to Ben Stein about guess what? Yep you’re right, the non existence of god. What was interesting about this conversation was that Dawkins let it slip that it is entirely possible that we (humans) could be the product of Intelligent Design, abet through alien DNA creation and or manipulation…

It could be that at some earlier time somewhere in the universe a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very very high level of technology and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Now that is a possibility and an intriguing possibility and I suppose it’s possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry or molecular biology you might find a signature of some sort of designer.

“If everything is ready on the Dark Side of the moon, play the five tones…”

An unholy row has erupted after a Parish Priest in York , UK seemed to condone shoplifting if in desperate need – but only from the multi-national chain stores.

Fr. Tim Jones of the Parish of SS. Lawrence and Hilda appeared on national TV to explain his comments. Is it really a surprise that , if faced with a choice between starving and shoplifting , a priest would advocate the latter?

The thought of the poor stealing from the multinationals is not a thought to fill anyone with particular dread.

The story is possibly a welcome break for the Government from the daily headlines over MP expenses.

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