Comments on: Science Fiction http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/ A showcase of the worst examples of architecture, design, culture and humanity in Perth Western Australia. Posts may contain adult concepts and occasional coarse language. Follow @theworstofperth on Twitter for BREAKING HOT NEWS WORSTS. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:23:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: marjx http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-19121 Tue, 12 May 2009 11:21:36 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-19121 The “First Church of Christ, Scientist” was started by Mary Baker Eddy in the late 1800s. She claimed to have discovered Christian Science in the Bible and began selling a book “Science and Health”, the general idea of this book being that all injuries and diseases are imagined by their sufferers, who can be relieved of their illnesses through Christian Science.

“Man controlled by his Maker has no physical suffering. His body is harmonious, his days are multiplying instead of diminshing, he is journeying towards Life instead of death…”

A marketing genius who copyrighted everything she wrote and said, and everything she claimed to have written or said, Mary Eddy, the Pastor Emeritus of the Christian Science Church, did very nicely out of this business venture. Her heirs seemed to have let the business model slip.

]]> By: Crashinoz http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-5160 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:51:49 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-5160 This looks like a rip-off of the Frank Lloyd Wright design for the Oak Park Illinois Unity Temple.

]]> By: The Lazy Aussie http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3139 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:19:01 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3139 Speaking of Il Duce, this was an early post.
http://theworstofperth.com/2007/10/13/but-the-sewers-ran-on-time/

]]> By: Rolly http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3138 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:17:27 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3138 It’s very reminiscent of the stuff ordered up by Il Duce prior to WW II.
From my limited experience of the church, their philosophies on dealing with opposing ideologies weren’t totally dissimilar.

]]> By: The Lazy Aussie http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3127 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:16:59 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3127 I think this was always a church, River Ralph. You know, a lot of the masonic halls are quite plain, simple and unworthy of TWOP. I think the big central city one is gone now.

]]> By: River Ralphie http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3125 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:51:16 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-3125 From memory, this used to be a Masonic hall… In fact, where’s the Masonic Hall section, I’m sure you’d get some great photo’s out of them!

]]> By: Mazarina http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-2011 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:00:21 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-2011 I love the building, but the name is another matter. This building reminds me of the East Perth Police station which used to be a boys school – the architecture really inspires a sense of foreboding and terror. Just what modern schools lack.

]]> By: Anonymous Perthon http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-1909 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:45:05 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-1909 AV you’re funny

]]> By: AV http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-1896 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:23:57 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-1896 I’m fairly sure that phrenology was never discredited

The notion that the brain is like muscle that hypertrophies or atrophies in certain areas depending on use–those areas corresponding to personality traits–resulting in bumps on the skull? Yep, that’s been long discredited. What has survived is the notion that certain functions, such as language, are localised to certain regions of the brain.

Further reading:
Phrenology: History of a Classic Pseudoscience (New England Skeptical Society)
History of Phrenology and the Psychograph(Museum of Quackery)

]]> By: Anonymous Perthon http://theworstofperth.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-1890 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:27:03 +0000 http://perthworst.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/science-fiction/#comment-1890 I’m fairly sure that phrenology was never discredited

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