It’s a miracle! Joemma’s voices speak to you out of thin air and proclaim sacred prophecies and secrets for those who obey The Second Law. In this episode we discuss some of the better known modern day Catholic miracles. More Holy Mary Mother of Gods than you can poke a Maguey at, holey hands, and a whole lotta WTF? await the faithful. Don’t believe us? The proof is in the podcast.

Oh, and apologies for the dodgy audio. The spinning, dancing multi-coloured sun threw out a few coronal mass ejections that killed Joe’s laptop.

PS: The intro came up on my news feed the day after we recorded this episode. It was indeed a miracle.

PPS: Word nerds (esp. Meowicus), stay tuned at the very end for a deep and meaningful discussion about the role of schwa in the word “Katsushika”.

Joemma

Joemma are back with a chimera of a podcast about Pythagoras. He was a bad ass/arse possibly batshit crazy guy who led a cult with some really weird ideas. Despite being a brilliant mathematician and philosopher, his views on beans, chicks wearing gold and the square root of 2 will amaze you. This is not a dude you wanna piss off, but he’s handy to have around if you’re about to be mauled by a raging wild animal or want to know how long a hypotenuse is. The first time we recorded this podcast it sounded like we were 13 year old kids with ADHD on speed. So we recorded it again and sounded like 80 year old half dead philosophy professors. We have tried to combine the best of both worlds via the joys of editing – hopefully you’ll love it as much as a fat kid loves Pi.

Joemma

Yarr ye scoundrels. In this episode, Joemma combine discussion of one of Emma the wench’s favourite topics (carbohydrates), and one of Cap’n Joe’s favourite topics (pirates). Yes, we get stuck into some heavy FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monsterism) and segway nicely into Pirate and seafaring mythology with stories of guts, glory and gore. Apologies in advance for some shitty audio quality (the FSM was causing interference with his noodly appendage. Maybe we were being sanctimonious holier than though arses). Feel free to criticise us, but we’d really rather you didn’t, and if you do, we might just have to throw a stab rabbit at you, or tie ropes through your fingers and set them on fire. Just sayin’.

Joemma

Wominjeka (that’s “Welcome” in the Wurundjeri language). In this episode, Joemma explore the antipodean aspects of Aboriginal Australian Spiritualty. Between flying uteruses, yowies, being sung to death, The White Australia Policy, missionary positions, the inaugural Skunk Dick of The Universe and more tangents than you can point a bone at, it’s a dream of an episode. We tried to stay away from politics and be PC, but, well, that was an epic fail.

Emma

[chuck]So given the amount of questioning going on about the source of our Hate Mail #2 and similarities in tone, content, and concerns with the E4F debate and particularly Kirk Hastings’ various emails, I followed the advice of one of our posters and checked the headers:

From: KirkHastings5@aol.com
Message-ID: <55b03.43193a8d.3adf0d24@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: A brief note from an Irreligiosophy listener
To: irreligiosophy@gmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”part1_55b03.43193a8d.3adf0d24_boundary”
X-Mailer: AOL 9.6 sub 130
X-AOL-IP: 108.25.154.141
X-Originating-IP: [108.25.154.141]

From: GrantGardner44@aol.com
Message-ID: <63321.1885153b.3ae318b2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:45:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Your website
To: irreligiosophy@gmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”part1_63321.1885153b.3ae318b2_boundary”
X-Mailer: AOL 9.6 sub 130
X-AOL-IP: 108.25.154.141
X-Originating-IP: [108.25.154.141]

Now, I’m not a techie, but those originating IPs look exactly the same to me. Anyone in the know care to expound on exactly what that means?

PS: The IP address traces to … New Jersey, headquarters of Evidence 4 Faith.

UPDATE: Lying hypocritical Christian Kirk Hastings of Evidence 4 Faith has admitted his sock-puppetry in an email reply to one of our posters, copied to us (the header of that email exactly matches the headers of the previous two). I’m going to give Kirk the benefit of the doubt and assume that this behavior is the absolute bottom of the barrel for him. Given past history, though, I will not be surprised if it isn’t.

[chuck]Two years, four months, and today we get our second piece of hate mail, from an attorney named Grant. I guess we’re just mostly too darn loveable to generate much hate mail. This particular piece is from a concern troll who would like us to change our attitude because gosh darn it, we just might be harming the cause of atheism.

Grant doesn’t like us, but he’s mighty impressed by Lee Strobel, who apparently was so curious about Christianity in his hard-hitting investigative Quest for Truth that he only talked to conservative evangelicals. Grant’s bit about thermodynamics and evolution is also priceless, betraying a fundamental lack of knowledge about both. You can read it yourself after the jump. Not surprisingly, it originates from an aol.com email addie.