Thought For The Day

There's atheism and then there's Atheism.

Mere atheism is simply disbelief in the divine and as such is not a holy cause to which all other actions are subordinated, nor is it a affirmative virtue which cancels out all other personal faults. Whereas Atheism with the big "A" takes what is otherwise a simple philosophical position and blows it up into an illusion of positive virtue.

Atheism with a big "A" allows dull and ordinary people to feel and pose as if they were somehow superior to the mass of humanity. Atheism with a big "A" also provides reactionary garbage such as the Marxists a means to pose as some kind of progressive vanguard when in fact they are simply putting a philosophical polish on the neolithic practice of beating up and killing people and taking their stuff.

As a mere atheist all I have to say to the big "A" professional Athiests is, "go home, grow up, and get a life!"

Um...

I keep thinking that the thirty year old movie ZARDOZ would be a neat metaphor for certain aspects of the present political and cultural situation.

Thought For The Day

Political power must be limited or else it'll overwhelm us.

Opinion

What do I think of Prince Andrew?

Everyone must be held accountable, regardless of their social rank.

Motivation

Two Requests

Under no circumstances do I want the American Atheist symbol on my headstone and I want the following read at my funeral:

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.

The Agnostics Prayer by Roger Zelazny from Creatures of Light and Darkness in 1969.

Punishing a man for an act he didn't commit is unjust.  Imprisoning a man for speaking the truth is tyrannical.  Disarming the citizens, who're the sovereign authority of the nation, is treason.  To say anything more would require the extensive use of barracks language.

Birthday

Someone was born in a barn.

 So what's Christmas?

It's commonly held to be the celebration of a birth.

But there’s something more to Christmas and it's the idea that God would come to us as a person to speak to us as people.  No priests as intermediaries or a light show miracle--just a conversation on a personal basis.

Some Christians don’t understand this.

Motivation

Motivation

Motivation

Motivation

Question And Answer

What can I say about Michael Bloomberg?

Rope, lamp post, asshole, some assembly required.

Opinion

 If there was an Objectivist that ran for president, I would vote for him or her.

Opinion

There are some folks who believe that the Second Amendment applies only to smoothbore, single shot, muzzle loading, weapons.

Okay.

All mortars presently in service qualify.

Something I Wrote For The Resister

DIANA: Mangled Soul, Mangled Body

     Everyone Dies, not everyone learns how to live.
     The late Princess Diana didn't really seek her own destruction, she wanted very much to live and be a good person.  She sought happiness in her life, but didn't know what a human life really was.  She desperately required moral knowledge, what life was and how to live it.  What she was taught as a child was close to pure poison.
     Her parents sent Diana to a boarding school, the Church of England's equivalent of a Dewey camp.  Here she was pounded with the doctrines that selflessness was the moral ideal, that sacrifice and obedience were virtues, that independent judgement was evil, and that her mind was impotent to deal with material existence.  Her mind thus mangled, she was sent out to live a mangled life.
     Diana sacrificed fifteen years of her life to a sniveling piece of hominid debris and sacrificed her children to a barbaric tradition.  She sought guidance from psychics and astrologers and sacrificed her dignity campaigning for various "child hugger" groups.  Finally, she sacrificed her physical existence to the whims of a third world savage.
     All Diana had to do to avoid the aforementioned horrors was simply to say: "No, this is wrong, I won't do it."  To do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards, and for her to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement.  It is not enough to know that there is an alternative to a particular course of action, one must know that the alternative is morally correct.

Something I Found On YouTube

Link To Youtube.

Opinion

Criticism is a moral necessary.  Without criticism there can't be any correction.

Opinion

Revolutions happen because the political (a.k.a. ruling) class does something stupid.

Opinions

Nothing's too insane for those who value power.

I'm stuck next to the neighbor from Hell in apartment 2312.  My neighbor's taking advantage of the fact I can't vocally complain.

Thought Of The Day

There are some people who'll think that we'll say that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Of course we will.