October 2010
This is how my Nan was banned from Church
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My sweet, elderly nan was banned from the Catholic church because she interrupted a sermon and told the entire congregation to go to Hell after they shunned my Uncle for coming out. She also called the Father (or whatever) a cock sucker, and said she was proud her son was one. (Ha!)
So yes, my nan is a total BAMF and there should be more people like her...
September 2010
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“It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in...”
– Gloria Steinem
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http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html
A pretty comprehensive list of why atheists are angry. I didn’t even realize that these things annoyed me until I read some of them, but they’re mostly right.
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“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen...”
– Ferdinand Magellan
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There Is No God: Judith- A Perfect Circle →
thereisnogod:
You’re such an inspiration For the ways that I will Never, ever choose to be Oh so many ways for me to show you How your savior has abandoned you Fuck your God, your Lord, your Christ He did this, took all you had and Left you this way, still you pray, never stray, never Taste of the fruit,…
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“The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone...”
– Sigmund Freud
theepicspaceodyssey-deactivated asked: What are your own views about anti-clericalism?
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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Faith means not wanting to know what is true.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after...”
– Isaac Asimov
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The Stanford Prison Experiment →
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“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to...”
– George Carlin
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“Believing in God is a personal decision. Believing in The Church is a social...”
– Unknown Author
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Being Crazy is Noisy
John Sterns is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder (a co-diagnosis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), chronic depression and chronic anxiety. He describes a lifetime of fighting demons …
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I. I hear voices (“auditory hallucinations”, technically). They come from all directions and fill my mind with hateful, self-destructive demands. One comes from...
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The Neocortex
The last and most advanced brain to evolve to date is called the Neocortex, neomammalian or rational brain. We share this part of our brain with other higher level mammals like the primates and dolphins, although in humans the neocortex is the largest. It takes up 2/3’s of the human brain. This is where we find the brain power to develop language, abstract thought, conciousness and...
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The Hindbrain
Having evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, the Hindbrain or the Reptillian Brain is the oldest part of the human brain. As you might guess from it’s name, it’s a piece of brain anatomy that we share with reptiles and is the most primitive. Likewise it’s in charge of our primal instincts and most basic functions. Things like the instincts of survival, dominance, mating...
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M*A*S*H
Hawkeye: "Are you really an atheist?"
Wounded soldier: "Swear to god!"
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by...”
– Seneca the Younger
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“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save...”
– Isaac Asimov
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“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people...”
– Robert Pirsig
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“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of...”
– Chapman Cohen
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“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is...”
– Mark Twain
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“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you...”
– Stephen Roberts
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“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”
– Christopher Hitchens
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“Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.”
– Unknown Author
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“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
– Delos B. McKown
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“Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we...”
– Unknown Author
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed,...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via smorgasborddd)
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“If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.”
– Epicurus
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“The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence,...”
– Unknown Author
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Matty and Bobby attempt to break world record for... →
Live stream of event
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Mohammed Aldouri (Iraqi ambassador): The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We don’t even have a chicken.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
George W. Bush: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on...
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Abortion Sense and Nonsense
First the pro-life nonsense. I think it’s nonsense to think personhood begins at conception. A 5-day old embryo composed out of undifferentiated, pluripotent cells is not a complete person like you and me. A 2-month-old fetus, even with its complete set of rudimentary organs, is not a complete person like you and me.
Now for the pro-choice nonsense. A commenter here said recently that aborting a...
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“The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery....”
– Atisha [On Buddhism]
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“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman...”
– Thomas Paine
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“An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the...”
– Sydney J. Harris
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Question of the Day?
What is your favorite quote?
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“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but...”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“Being happy does not mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to...”
– Unknown Author
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The Coffee Cup Analogy
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling...
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