Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Evolution debunked?



I read this article and thought it made a great deal of sense, at least where I could follow what the editor was saying. I'm not going to jump to any conclusions, but I've always been of the conviction evolution never made complete sense. This guy states some of the reasons I felt supported this feeling, and gave more - a whole lot more.

Here's the article...

http://www.newgeology.us/presentation32.html

The guy doesn't seem to be religious, but does believe in a God; however, he doesn't use God anywhere in his explanation, rather appearing to believe as a result of disproving evolution. This is reportedly a scientific debunking of a scientific theory.

He also has a PDF you can download, top-left on the page. I'd download it before a rampant scientific organization tears the page down.

Leave comments on your thoughts.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

If homosexuality's a sin, then...



Of all the things in the world homophobic Christians could be actively working to prevent or reverse, like war, poverty, disease, or corruption, the center-focus of their concerns is usually same-sex relationships - because that kills so many more people, creates so much more suffering, and, fuck it - might destroy the world, too. Don't worry about hydrogen nukes and all that shit - homosexuality's the MOAB of all temporal and ethereal existence. And you just gotta stand back and gape... in complete awe... at the sight of the 'shroom cloud of two men's kiss ebol-izing, corroding and liquefying solid, righteous order into nebulous, abysmal entropy.

When I Googled 'cloud' and 'strife', I wasn't looking for this...
It's a 'shroom cloud, after all, because this variety of Christian must be tripping on acid. Fortunately, I think the only cloud to be worried about right now is the one in their minds.

Meanwhile, Christian science (oxymoron?) apparently made a breakthrough discovery: homosexuality's actually a choice and obesity's really genetic! Well, shit. So obese Christians stuff their faces and tell themselves Jesus didn't want that food to go to someone who's dying without it. "They didn't get the food because- nom, nom - they're sinners." Well shit, why didn't I think of that? Word, right on, H. Christ. Respect, me bredah. (As I was saying about 'shroom clouds...)

I think it'd be pretty awesome to weed out (pun) how they concluded Elvis was the Antichrist back in my father's day, but no, wait - then Judas Priest, he's the-... waaaiit, shit, shit, now it's Marilyn Manson... no... no, fuck me, it's actually Eminem!... God screwed up, sorry. But it was intentional, a Perfect Mistake without mistakes... so don't yeh judge. Only thou... thy... thus... fuck it, whatever - themsomes Lord may judge, you're not allowed to do that, silly.

In the meantime, let's talk about some hard, proven facts Creationist science has uncovered over the past generation, starting with this olde-timer: "Damn blacks are blacks because they choose to be!" < Christianity 60 years ago. Since then, God apparently decided He made another Perfect Mistake, so now He's cool with blacks. Unfortunately, gays are about four decades behind that step up, when they too finally can be born gay not as a choice, but as a forced genetic characteristic - and what a relief that will be. Until then, Creationist science has proven it is a choice. And don't you dare question us, lest ye burn eternal.

Fuck it.

I wonder; what are homophobic Christians going to do if they go to Hell and discover they were the wrong ones? "Well, shit."

Some Christians think being gay is outright unforgivable by any means. I ask them, what are gays supposed to do when they discover they're nonredeemable? "Well, shit. Better prepare for an eternity in Hell, guys." And they should be happy, right? Because it's all part of... God's Perfect Plan. People don't die for reasons, they die for really good excuses! And you learn the trade real quick: they all go to Hell. Makes God's paperwork easier. "He died b-because... uhm... he must've been a closet homosexual, or something. Whatever, he's probably going to Hell because of it."

Here's the one that gets me best... You see, God's alright with Christians murdering in the name of God, and God's alright with heterosexuals committing an unending stream of extremely violent and emotionally-virulent crimes over the course of a lifetime with a plea to Jesus for redemption in their dying breath... "Oh, it's alright, we forgive you, man. Come on up to Heaven!" ...But we must all remember, a Good-Samaritan gay Christian will always be condemned. Soon I'll get a comment on this post saying, "You can't be Christian if you're gay!" Well, shit. I thought you could be. But if gays can't be Christian, I can be sure of one thing - faggots can, and you're the poster-child for it. "Yes we can (persecute whoever we want because our version of the Bible says it's alright!)"

One thing these Christians forget... is the purpose of punishment. But I guess that doesn't matter when Perfect God realizes he was Perfectly Wrong and arbitrarily changes the point of punishment into something that fits His Perfect Plan perfectly. "Oh, you mean we don't punish people to teach them right from wrong? Well, shit."

I can see Jesus meeting a gay at the pearly gates: "Look man, you're a cool guy and all, and a great example of a good human being, assisting the unfortunate and helping orphanages and all... but we can't allow a spirit who inhabited a body predisposed to homosexual genetic coding. I'm sorry, man. You're being sent off to the flames for eternity and that's all I can say. But remember... God does it because HE LOVES YOU."

HE LOVES YOU.

...Well, shit. I'll keep that in mind and burn my girlfriend alive because... I love her. Eh? "Oh, you're hetero? Damn, I thought you were gay all this time. You know you're always welcome in Heaven if you repent now..." No thanks, I'd rather burn in Hell than revel in a Heaven with a God so cruel as yours. But, you know, thanks for the invitation. (I hate getting those things in the mail.)

After all, if homosexuality's sinful, so are infants born with terminal congenital diseases. We should leave the poor things to die an excruciating death and that agony will continue with an eternity in Hell. Google 'depleted uranium' (because I'm not putting those kinds of pictures on here) - those babies are destined for the flames. That's fair, isn't it?

See? Even '60s Spiderman in his blue spidey-tighties agrees it all 'makes sense'.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Arrogant New Ageists



Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of very nice and open-minded New Ageists. It's just the ones riding the ego-blimp I can't stand. We can all agree any belief has its members with a mind's eye resembling an asshole sphincter - opening to shit on everyone, and closing to everything inbound. Occasionally they fart out their opinions loudly where they don't belong, and when disdain's publicly expressed in response, Arrogant_Fuckhead01 pretends it wasn't his idea.

Actually though, the stronger-willed ones are what really irritate me, because you can't piss them off, or toy with their emotions, or easily make them walk into their own logical flaws. This often happens with fortunately calm, intelligent people who use both in defense of an unfortunately illogical stance. Just what we need - convincing people expatiating bullshit. No matter what's 'right' about an argument, they always have to put their fuck where their fuck is unwanted by finding everything wrong with everyone else's views but doing the exact opposite with their own - because proactively putting your foot down on others' toes shows them who knows their shit, right? When you corner them, they just kinda stand there, Stonewall Jackson, never admitting defeat (even when they know they're wrong,) and seldom reaching out to understand others' views sincerely. If it can boost their reputation and sustain their zeppelin ego, they'll do it, man - rock out the 16 alternate accounts and make it appear everyone loves you so dearly. It's like they're 12-year-olds using spirituality as an expression of over-inflated self-importance built up by the influence from the anime, videogames and movies they're overexposed to. "I must be cool, calm, and sound like I know what the fuck I'm talking about, because that's what Cloud Strife does, and Master Chief, and all the other cool, important, non-fiction people I look up to."

Don't confuse this with steadfast calmness coming from an open-minded individual who's simply stating their firmest convictions but without the edge of ego. I have the fullest respect for people following this manner, because even if they're wrong, I've been there and know what it's like. As long as you're not being an ego-shit, I'm generally cool with you, you know?

...And this is exactly what chased me off boards like David Icke's Forums and Godlike Productions, eventually settling in YouTube comment sections where I could find the most open-minded people to trade ideas with, ironically. There are assholes there too, but it's more tolerable somehow when each BLAAAHHFUCKYOU comment's contained to 500 characters maximum. Forces them to leave out all the excess expletives that initially added up to some 1500+ characters before they finished ranting.

http://atheistpictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/050311.jpgYou know what I think?... Well you might not care, but I'll care so you don't have to, and say it anyway. I think these particular New Ageists are just religious radicalists blinded by this arrogance fueled by self-acknowledging a status as 'awakened to the truth' and above 99% of the world while everyone else is considered 'dumb fucking sheeple', just the way most of them are taught to think. When you question them, they sometimes take this attitude of "Isn't it obvious?" and tell you that's how it is, that's how it is. When you ask them about other matters, you usually get, "Meditate and the answer will arise," and, "You will know when you are meant to." It's absurdly reminiscent to religion and government, never giving you a straight answer and almost always offering an excuse not to concern yourself searching for the answer to your questions, like it'll just happen upon you at some point in the future, so "don't worry, don't bother with it." It's a somewhat euphemistic way of saying you're not in control of your fate. Which I don't buy, and never will. But they act as if it should be a self-evident knockout punch, and if you don't 'get it', clearly you didn't believe hard enough. Otherwise, you may as well go worship the religion of Fuk'Awf.

The nature of weaker-minded spiritualists is noted by frequent runs (like chronic diarrhea) to the nearest website on spirituality to perform routine emotional airstrikes on the 'Spiritual Truth' forum with claims broader than the obese Americans around me as to how reality really works - because they're the world's rightest person for about five minutes, until someone else finishes their 26-paragraph thread, 1,500 characters each, on another seemingly entropic version of reality's workings.

Some New Ageists - or conspiracy theorists, or spiritualists, or religious individuals, or even atheists for that matter - don't seem to understand that echoing extravagant 'truths' about our government or spiritual reality doesn't suddenly, consequently dismiss them from being imprisoned by any of the media-programmed macros in the average human's thought process. But it's that assumption which seems to form the feeling they're incontrovertibly right while maintaining total blindness to the reality of being as much affected as the rest of us. There's no slavery greater than the one convincing us we're free.

Of course, anyone questioning them's obviously a part of the machine and either too blinded to 'get it', or you're hiding yourself from the 'connected dots' and 'sense' of it all to avoid the 'truth' and generate continuity in your 'operations'. I can see this turning into a genocide. I really can.

Seeing how some of these spiritualists exhibit religious behavior sort of leaves me sickened, wanting to go back to eating the media's bullshit than trying to hold hands with spirituality when it's become grounds for crazed self-importance in a world where the imagined possibilities are just too close to reality on our HDTVs despite the boring, limited lives we often live.

I suppose it doesn't matter in the end. It's not like arrogant New Ageists are any worse than violent Muslims and homophobic Christians.

Monday, February 6, 2012

"You can't hit me, I'm a girl!"


^ That's a good example of something wrong with the world: women combating sexism with sexism and blacks fighting racism with racism, among many other examples of hypocrisy of the likes - because fire extinguishes fire, of course. "Your ancestors mistreated mine! Watch out, Cracker Jack honky bitch!" And of course it's wrong to say "Nigger!" back. There's really nothing a whitie can respond with, actually - like, what, apologize for my ancestors? This isn't the Bible; I can't be fucked to apologize for something I didn't do.

I seriously doubt that'll blow my mind away.
But it's okay for blacks to toss it around and women to hit men, so white dudes are getting chewed out for shit our ancestors did both ways. I don't care about the privilege to use "Nigger" in front of a black person; it's one word my social vocabulary can survive without. What bothers me is when a white person who clearly isn't racist puts the word out in harmless context, and suddenly every black friend of his shits him out in assorted chunks of white meat in the women's wall-mount latrines (because women have penises) while Deyquan can shout it along 8 Mile where nobody has a 9th mile to give about it.

That's because everyone knows blacks aren't being racist when they use it. Context, context. Am I racist for using the word in this article? No, I wouldn't use it to anyone's face, but we all know that instantly makes me a pussy. More profiling, more fun! I'm sexist and racist for my ancestors and a pussy for being peaceful. Because violence is good - until you hit a woman, but even if you haven't, you're the reason your grandfather hit his wife Luann.

So if you asked me, the top picture's sexism 'justified' behind a front of historic abuse. Incensed women protest for equal rights, then claim their gender has an unspoken immunity to male aggression - which doesn't work vice versa. This, and the frequent "All men are full of shit!" and it's obvious to me this is no different than blacks administering 'equal rights' by returning the racial hatred against a generation of white folk who had no involvement with their families' previous racial conflicts. It's happened to me before, I know what this is.

There's also religion. I know the most about Christianity, so I pick bones with the rib-woman concept of Eve while Adam, a man, is a full-bodied individual. I won't ignore other religions' misogynistic implications though, like polygamy and male dominance, and my girlfriend's Nepali Hindu family. Her father claims men are perfectly pure while women 'stain like ink on a white sheet', where everyone knows the 'wrong' they do because they're so 'easily dirtied'. This is the sort of thing I'm talking about. (I like to argue their culture's men aren't so 'easily dirtied' because they're already full of shit.)

Women don't have it quite as easy as men. I'll admit it. I know it's much easier in the U.S. but it can still be kinda bothersome to know your gender's the poster child for sex as a whole. The bullshit comes full-circle in more rings than the Olympics logo: Porn, religion, mainstream rap music, and public sexualism are just four of them. It's extended into football and alcohol, both being objects of male interest, so naturally women are used with both to grab men's attention easier. Marketing sex is perfectly fine in my eyes, until it starts unhealthy trends - then we've opened the gateway to imbalanced treatment toward a group of people. In this case, the audience most targeted, affected or produced by sexualized ads seem to be the misogynistic ones. Reminds me of a recent American Apparel ad featuring gay couples kissing, which I had to smile at, because the influence is positive: accepting gays as they are.

Surely you've noticed the criticism the average American male shares for the shape of a woman's body, demanding hourglass figures with fake tits and the whole deal. Well, word to women: Only the fake dudes want a fake woman. So be proud of that body and don't let the assholes convince you the nice ones don't exist. But don't act like bitches to every one of us too; that just creates more assholes out of otherwise nice guys. Likewise, you assholes need to let up on the women, 'cause you're helping increase the population of bitches. A vicious cycle... another full circle, another ring.

Here's a conflict of maturity: I laugh at discriminatory jokes, because I take'm as jokes. But some people think they're actually serious, and either get offended or follow by example. That's what bothers me about these 'jokes' now... I can't be sure who's being affected in what ways anymore. It's sad. I'm concerned that after enough people claim, "It's just a joke, I'm just kidding," everyone will use that as a grounds for discriminatory treatment. It only looks innocent on the surface.

Because women are nothing more than the rib of a man.
If you doubt it's a realistic prediction, have a look at religion using innocent excuses for all the shit they do and believe. They just say their loving God told them to do it. "Our righteous, fair Lord God commands you to treat women second to men."  The bad part is, you can't reason with them by asking why, because they'll pull the God-works-in-mysterious-ways card, and, "True faith doesn't ask why." So it's horrible the Nazis never questioned their duties, but it's alright to unquestioningly kill others for some fundamentalist wolrdview, like Nazism wasn't something similar to that. "Our all-loving, all-forgiving, righteous and fair Lord God says Muslims and Hindus are idolators; that's why we killed them. It was for a good cause! Don't they get it?" Yeah: You might deserve to fucking die if you aren't sorry for it. But instead, we should all be sorry for Adam and Eve eating the Forbidden Fruit even though we didn't do it, right?... Just like blaming all men for women's past conflicts, and all whites for Jim Crow. I didn't do that shit. You can't fix what isn't broken, so blame the people perpetuating that bullshit, not me.

Sitting on blame and just pointing fingers won't solve anything by itself though. Back to fire vs. fire, blacks beating the shit out of the problematic whites will only prove those whites are right when they 'niggrify' blacks as violent, unintelligent people. Remember Martin Luther King Jr? He nailed it. And then he proved he was right when he succeeded. Same with Rosa Parks, and she was a woman, man, she had it twice as bad.

I get it. Only pussies drink Budweiser.
But some people are fixated on everyone in a certain gender, or color, culture, etc. being all the same. I don't shed a tear of sympathy for anyone looking at it that way. I'll hit a black woman if in defense for myself or another. I'll also hit a white male to defend a black woman. I'm more likely to go off on a white dude than a black woman, to kinda honest. But if I'm expected to let myself get beat to shit and be taken advantage of because I'm a white dude myself... well... maybe I'm the one who should be protesting instead.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

You shouldn't have to fear God.




I'm a non-religious spiritualist. I'm not involved in any institutional belief including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.

                                                                                                                                                      



It's wrong for the sinful, imperfect creations of a 'perfect' God to hit their children for refusing to return their love, but it's okay for an infinitely patient, benevolent, forgiving and loving God to burn his 'beloved children' for eternity for the same reason.

This is obviously an allusion to Christianity and related beliefs. I mention that because that's where the idea of 'fearing God' sprang up.

So to those people, I go on to ask if, in any healthy relationship with anyone they love - anyone - they feel there should be fear. That goes for parents, children, siblings, friends, best friends, soul mates, brothers-in-arms, and any other kind of relationship established on the grounds of trust, open hearts, freely giving, and unconditional love, all in the best interest to protect and ensure the best for those subject to said feelings.

When they say "No," case dismissed. I've nothing to argue. But when I get a "Yes," it bothers me profusely. So I ask "Why?" I always get a conglomerate of responses adding up to something like, "You should fear God the way you fear authority, like you feared your parents as a child. Fear is necessary to protect you, because they know what they're doing and don't expect you to interfere. Just as fear is necessary to survive in the wilderness, to run from threats."

I understand where someone's coming from with this. But I've noticed it's usually carried on the minds of those raised under harsh parenting, where hitting a child was justified on, "Because I love you." And being children, we don't usually question what we're told. So we come up with things like this steam-pressed onto our mental chalkboard into adulthood, where the dogma's recycled on the children of those adults. "That's how my parents raised me, so that's how it should be, and my own children won't have it any other way." I would know, my girlfriend's parents came up under Hindu culture and that's a rule of parenting where they're from: strike fear into your children to ease the parenting process. (Rather than lovingly guide them and treat them with the respect you're expected to treat anyone else.) Notice, they're Hindu. Striking fear into one's children is acceptable because their gods do the same. As with Christianity, "God does it, so as a godly parent, I shall follow by example." Notice the ties to religion. Goes full-circle back to fearing God originating with religion. It passes down through children via parenting through fear hosted onto the belief systems which are drilled into childrens' minds before they're of age to question it. These are the same people who've garnered impossible magnitudes of bloodshed through religious wars in name of fearing a 'loving' God. Because bloodshed resultant of outright denial of others' perspectives is loving, right?

I've been through all the mills online arguing with the dogmatic, whether theistic or not. Yes, even atheists have had this problem, and it's usually rooted on mainstream science and the idea of survival; "In nature, fear is naturally used to avoid harm. Thus, to avoid harm to my child, I raise him under fear. I raise him to fear the world, and I moreover raise him to fear me, because if he doesn't listen to me, I'll give him something to be afraid of." Because that's more intelligent than raising your child to calmly focus, maintain self-control, and rationally analyze the best solution to avoiding a potentially dangerous situation. Right?

If fear is designed to avoid harm by means of running from said threat or retaliating against it, why should I fear God? How can I become closer to a God whom I'm expected to run from or retaliate against?... Or does God intend to harm me? "He will, if you don't fear Him." But why? "Don't ask questions, you'll burn in Hell. Surely you're afraid of that!"

We don't need to be afraid to avoid harm when we can rationally react to dangerous situations instead. We don't even need fear to react impulsively. We don't need fear at all, period. Ever. Fear's saved people, granted. So has pure coincidence. So has embracing lies. So have so many other systems of thought which a thinking human knows isn't right. How many times has fear killed people who reacted on fearful impulse instead of steadfast, rational quickness? Panicking, crashing into things, self-injury hand-in-hand with collateral damage, stabbing oneself into that sharp outcropping their adrenaline-clouded mind didn't process, or falling off that ravine that wasn't there, or running in front of a moving vehicle that seemed stationary in the only instance you consciously noticed it... These instances don't save people, man.

Getting verbally and mentally defensive with someone results of fear. This causes problems in peoples' relationships, the physical catastrophes in the previous paragraph just happening on a mental level. Running from your problems by avoiding the person who 'threatened' you. Angrily and/or hatefully making impulsive remarks and outlashes from those dark emotions which you wouldn't've said in your rational mind. "I hate you!" when, you actually love them. "I wish I'd never met you! Never speak to me again!" when, you wouldn't know what to do without them. "Fuck you!" when you've nothing more constructive to say.

It's this understanding of fear which is why I feel fear can never be used as grounds for love. Fear is weakness... as I see it. And I believe that's how it truly is. I believe fear's the root of all evil, including the 'sin' religious individuals dread.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

"It's not religion, it's a way of life."



I often hear religious people claim they don't follow a religion, but a 'way of life'. They seem to use this to shed the negative connotation associated with the term 'religion' which in their minds makes their belief more justified.

But see, it's called religion because that's what it is - religion. Could we say doctors are practitioners of a 'way of life'? Sure. But we'd have a hard time understanding what way of life they follow if we didn't assign a word to describe that, which is why we called them 'doctors'. Otherwise, I might as well claim I'm not a member of the human race, I'm simply a member of a 'way of life'. Obama doesn't work for the government, he's just leading a 'way of life'. I don't believe in unconditional love, I just engage in a 'way of life'. They're all 'ways of life'. They all just have words associated with each to make them more identifiable; language is communication and lexemes are the constituents. We identify the definition of religion with the word 'religion'.

A way of life? Yes, it can be. It's still religion.