Saturday, January 31, 2009

Please check out the following links, especially Jesus and Mo (NOTE: The depiction of Mohammed is actually a look-alike stand in, but Jesus isn't). Also Russell's Teapot
Nov. 25: NY Post Reports that due to a broken Jaw, Ann Coulter's mouth has been wired shut. Atheists everywhere are given momentary pause. From Tom Tomorrow

God's a name for the object of a person judging themselves. It's probably too late now, but if I were an ancient dictator, I'd say how I have a divine right to rule, and how god has a short & gruesome cure for dissent. Then I'd levee taxes that will reveal non-believers as traitors. They all did it, Moses, Ashurbanipal, Ramses, Genghis Khan. It's a sign of civilization if not enlightenment. Saddam was going to resurrect the glory of Babylon & I think the Bushes were jealous of his hubris, so they had a war. But these things don't stay in the publics awareness for very long. I suspect as soon as the outrage wears off & the hormones evaporate, something else will come along. Religion and atheism will both loose favor as that polarization recedes too. Self judgments need a social context, like some group to identify with, what a politician would call "an issue". Who's side are you on?

Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists (St Petersberg Times)
Atheists dealing with death
Religion may have evolved because of its ability to help people exercise self-control.
Thomas Jeffersons advice to his nephew on religion (#4).
Demographics of Atheism (Wikipedia)
Brain mechanisms of social conformity (eurekalert)
The next big religion UFO cults
When prophecy fails How to rationalize the difference between what's expected and what actually happens.
Atheists that believe in god
Butterflies and Wheels Command central in the war against fashionable nonsense

Saturday, January 03, 2009

ok here we are again in Faerie: I have beneath this satin cloth, a small box (whoosh) pretty isn't it? it was made that way to elicit curiosity, and given by Jupiter to the first woman (not Eve) to illustrate the complications of knowledge. So like once you know something, it becomes an indelible point of reference in your intellect. Even though the discovered thingie may only be an unprovable plausibility, there's no way you can erase it's existence (except with lots and lots of drugs, but which again compound the distraction). So whatever you do, don't think about some secret govt. agency watching through your desktop video cam.

Now inside this box (creak) is a personal problem which everyone has .. (fumble - rummage), Ah-Hah! there he is, it's God. No, don't let him out, he just makes trouble, ... oh shit.

Now we have to explain him away, & how we gonna do that with him floating around, morphing faster than HIV. Maybe we could just ignore him.