Happy Freakin' Holidays, Goddammit!

And so this is Christmas...

Hope all of you are looking forward to a better New Year

(Insert additional platitudes here)

Hey, if we satanic demonic hateful fuckwad liberals are at war with it, we're not very good at war. It's eating the calendar alive.

Another year of Fox News Libel against us, another year of right-wing Christians convinced that we're the evil ones, all while they're doing all the hating.

Another year of Obamaphobia on the right.

HE'S STILL BLACK!!!

Yes, the gift of Christianity is self-righteousness and Pride. How nice.

Hey, whatever... we will all go back to our lives, secure in the knowledge that a sub-culture of shallow idiots will still hate us with all their hearts and souls for the crime of not wanting the whole world to stay the same forever.

On the right the leaders will continue to fill the minds of the shallow with hatred and fear, because without that it all would crumble and they might realize that we're just fucking human beings, too.

Can't have that, now can we?

Oh well... have a happy!

To my Christian brethren out there, be careful what you wish for. After all, without us to hate you might realize that you've been played for fools by desperate, evil men who only seek power over you to get your vote and your money.

I'd love to see you realize that. That would be so sweet. The expression on your faces would be priceless.

Ahh, I can dream, can't I?

The Ring of Truth

I love Pope Francis. Yes, I know, I'm the one that always raves against religion in general and Christianity in particular, but I love this man. He may have his flaws, and I'm sure that he does, but he is one man that has a lot of things right where other religious people have it wrong, and he's not afraid to tell them.

It's about humility. It's about serving others, not yourself. It's about love.

Newsflash! It's not the easy path.

So here's one thing that the new Pope said recently that I *wish* that I'd thought of saying years ago to some of the Christians that have visited here in years past, or just out there in the world in general. I wish I'd thought of posting it to message boards and News Blogs and such.

It's so simple, and so obvious, that I truly think that it might actually get through to some of them.

The exact quote is this:

"If one has the answers to all the questions, that is the proof that God is not with him"

I am stunned by the brilliance of that sentence.

I only wish that it might get through to some of them. To some of those who call themselves Christians and yet somehow have lost their way, have stumbled, have become blinded to the best part of the message.

Can you not hear the ring of truth in it? Are ye deaf as well as blind?


"If one has the answers to all the questions, that is the proof that God is not with him"

Hello.

Hello everybody, or whoever is left out there that still 'tunes in' every now and then.

It's been a lot of fun, and you apparently can live in the past, can't you?

My interests lie elsewhere, but some of them are still here.

It's been a good run, so why stop it now.? I love you all, so why say goodbye.?

Brian.

Goodbye.

Goodby everybody, or whoever is left out there that still 'tunes in' every now and then.

It's been a lot of fun, but you can't live in the past, can you?

My interests lie elsewhere, and I have limited time now anyhow.

It's been a good run. I love you all.

Brian.

Today's Infuriating Story

Today's Infuriating Story:

Right-wing Christian: Liberals are the real theocrats because they want to help the poor

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/16/right-wing-christian-liberals-are-the-real-theocrats-because-they-want-to-help-the-poor/

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What The Fuck?
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Excerpts:

“What is that saying?” Perkins said. “Is that saying then that the government has a responsibility to care for the poor? That’s not what the Scripture says.”

He said The Bible makes clear that individual Christians were expected to care for the needy, but not the government.

“As Christians, we’re responsible for the policies of this government because it’s us,” Perkins said.




Another Family Research Council official said last month that there was “nothing more Christian” than cutting millions of food stamp recipients off of public assistance.

Perkins said Jesus never asked the Roman government occupying Israel during his lifetime to help care for the poor using tax money, which he’d instructed his followers to willingly give up.

“He never said to Rome, to the Romans, ‘Hey, you guys need to make sure that you’re taking out of one person’s pocket to put into another,’” Perkins said.


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-Yes, of course, Jesus totally approved of the Romans and the way they treated the poor. Tacit approval. Of course it was. Of course he did. Why, if he had had a chance to change it, to somehow make the Roman government more loving to the poor, perhaps even eliminating starvation in the whole area, he would have totally passed on it. Not his job. Doesn't relate. Very different. Apples and oranges.

They will go to any lengths to deny what they have allowed themselves to become, which is nothing less than their own worst fear. They, more than anyone else, are the "Anti-Christ."

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Here's my list of the Modern Right-Wing Christian Sacraments...

-Egotism
-Authoritarianism
-Deception (including self-deception)
-False Pride/Hubris
-Projection
-Hatred
-Fear
-Judgmentalism
-Schadenfreude
-Anti-Intellectualism
-Love of Money (Mammon)
-Hypocrisy
-Detachment from Reality
-Contempt for the less fortunate

I bet we can think of a few more, too.

Just ranting a bit, 'scuse me...

It would seem that the republican facade is cracking a tiny bit. It still might not stave off the debt ceiling debacle, but it's something. The problem seems to be rather obvious; that the far right Tea Party ideologues control Congress, and as long as the "centrist" (as if!) Republicans allow themselves to be intimidated by that unsavory crowd, we will continue to slide toward financial oblivion and finally, into it.

Somehow, for some reason, I have little hope. And I actually think that as bad a it assuredly would be to slide past that deadline, it might be the only thing that might wake this country up at least a little. A good, hard slap across the ego.

It would be fitting that the "American Exceptionalism" crowd, the people that insist that we're NUMBER ONE in everything, were held responsible for our ultimate fall from grace down to the point where we are forced to realize the depth of our egotistical folly.

It would be *worth it* to get rid of this cancer.

I want to watch them burn, watch their ship go down, watch them reel in the collision of their denial of reality, with actual uncaring reality. Is that how I should feel? Not sure. I don't like to hate anything, but is it truly wrong to hate hatred itself? I suppose that it must be, that all hatred, no matter how seemingly noble, begets more hatred in one form or another. However that abstract knowledge doesn't seem to lessen the amount of bile that rises in my throat whenever I think of what they are, and what they wish to do to the country. Their egotism nauseates me.

It all comes back to religion, of course. Where it does not corrupt directly, it softens the soil for the planing of future behavior patterns that all lead once again back to belief. It makes people *pliable* and weak minded.

It is truly a kind of informational virus that propagates itself in a most prolific manner. A kind of emotional Ebola.

Oh, and I laugh at the hopeful sots that actually believed that twenty (or whatever number) of congressional republicans would vote for a clean C.R. Shame one them for being such gullible fools. What a fumbling bunch of idiots. Saps. Those GOP scoundrels always say whatever they feel that is in their best interests with whomever they happen to be talking to. Might as well believe Charles Manson saying "Oh, don't worry if you let me out, I'll be good..."

Continuation...

More comments on the previous post "The Lord's Prayer"

Talking about duality and emotional-intuitive mind versus intellectual-logical mind.

My ying just went yang. Did you hear it?

The Lords Prayer Condemns Most Christians To Hell

The Lord's Prayer
(traditional)

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.



Hello my droogies!

I was contemplating The Lord's Prayer for some reason, not even sure why exactly, when I noticed a clause in it that literally condemns most of today's Christians to eternal torment.

It's in these two lines:

"And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us."

As we forgive them that trespass against us?

Let that sink in a minute.

This establishes an equivalency between Christians being able to forgive their enemies, and said Christians getting into Heaven!

Do today's Christians (or yesterday's Christians, for that matter) generally tend to forgive those that trespass against them?

Well, the very Forgiveness of The Lord depends on whether they do or not!

I don't know why I've never seen this before.

What is the Forgiveness of The Lord? What does that mean?

Not damning them to hell, that's what it means!

So those Christians that actually forgive the people that hurt them or insult them are the ones that get to go to Heaven.

Those that don't, don't!

Let's see now, the entire Tea Party?
Damned for all time.

Pat Robertson?
Damned.

Anti-Gay Christians?
Hellbound, the lot of them.

Logically, there's no way out of it.

Forgiveness of your enemies = Your own eventual forgiveness after you die.

This is no easy path, but hey, Jesus never said that it was. I mean, shit, you have to find it in your heart to forgive Bin Ladin.

Holy Fucking Shit, that's a LOT of damned Christians!

A few of them will make it, the ones that walk the Jesus walk. The rest, roast.

Too bad the latter dominate the airwaves, and get all the press.

Almost makes me wish their silly fairy tale was real. Imagine the looks on their faces when they realize what disqualified them for Paradise?

(Now I'm indulging in Good, Old-Fashioned Christian Schadenfreude!)

Because that damned "LOAD MORE" comments button is so invisible!

More room for comments... sorry that the "LOAD MORE" button is not easy to see. It is very confusing.

Continued commentary on the previous post, "THE BEST OF ME."

The Best Of Me (Saint Brian Quotes Over The Years)

Believers believe and thinkers think; however the aforementioned believers always believe that they are the real thinkers, and that the actual thinkers are the real believers. So which one are you?

To accuse another of not possessing morality due to the fact that they do not believe in the same things as you do, is absolutely an immoral act that injures the other person involved and proves you the immoral one.

I had a God-Shaped Hole in my heart once. I managed to fill it with cookies.

Mankind looked around, and science was born from what they saw. Religion was born from what they did not see.

Beliefs are thoughts that the ego fell in love with.

The best answer to an ignorant, self-important Christian is and always has been a lion.

You can lead a Christian to water, but if he doesn't believe that it’s water he'll die of thirst. Or maybe he'll just fuck the horse.

It is self-evident that the insane are willing to resort to things that the sane cannot even consider nor sometimes even imagine. Therefore they always have the element of surprise.

Telling someone that they’re entitled to their own beliefs but not their own facts presupposes that they have the ability to tell the difference.

The truly proud man believeth himself to be humble, but the truly humble man knoweth himself to be proud.

The culture that we are raised in as Americans is completely saturated with Christian conditioning. It's so pervasive that literally, if you can't see it, you’re a victim of it.

The 'halcyon days of yore' are a perpetual illusion that revisits itself upon each succeeding generation. In reality, yesteryear sucked, and sucked more in direct proportion to how long ago said yesteryear was.

When what you believe in is a fantasy there's always a defense for your belief, since you're not constrained by the rules of logic and reason when making one.

Common wisdom is never reliably true and rarely actually wisdom. For instance, common wisdom in some circles is that people are like lemmings, however even that is wrong. Lemmings don't jump off cliffs unless pushed by Walt Disney, but people can be talked into just about anything including jumping off a cliff. So we're more like how Disney portrayed the lemmings, than how the lemmings actually are.

Christians don't listen to their own God. Only love can conquer hatred. That's the gist of it. So you don't blindly hate those who blindly hate you. That way goes on forever. Showing basic respect and as much love as is possible to show for them in return for their hatred, is the only thing that produces results, ever. The nobility of it captures minds, a few at a time. Everybody wants to be respected and loved. The problem is, it takes a long time, perhaps generations, for that love to overcome the pent-up hatred of centuries, and few people seem to have the patience to give it a chance. Even though Jesus would have approved, I'm quite sure.

Nowadays if Jesus came back and didn't let anyone know who he was, the religious right would label him a total pussy hippy dirtbag wino who hung out with far too many men for their comfort.

If only wishes were fishes I could feed the multitudes better than Jesus Christ Himself.

Jesus Christ is good enough to hide an awful lot of evil in a man.

The Modern Christian Credo: 'Since we're definitely going to heaven, let's start looking down on people now just for practice...'

You know, what you know, isn't really what you know. What you know is what you think you know but it's not what you know. What you know is what you believe you know. And that's not knowing anything at all. You claim to know, but what you do not know and only believe that you know is that you do not truly know. And knowing that, I can also know that what you actually know is not anything worth knowing.

Informed feelings can be far more accurate than unfeeling logic. Never discount the power of intuition.

"The oddity
is that the sanity
of humanity
is in short commodity"

All truth is possibly false. All things should never be given more than 99.9999 percent chance of even existing.
But there is truth, and there is truth. All being relative as it is, there is the most likely true and the highly unlikely to be true, and many people find the two indistinguishable.

Denial is not just a standard Christian mental state you know. It also sounds a lot like a river in Egypt.

Ark Ark?
What's there?
Just another proof that the Bible is a joke.

Beliefs are terrible things, since they're very often wrong, and even when they're right the world goes and changes on them and they never, ever adjust to that cold, hard fact.

The word ‘faith’ should be an expletive that is not proper to say in polite company.

You too can have the peace that passeth all understanding, as long as you are sufficiently lacking in understanding.

Those who are not intelligent cannot see virtue in intellect, and therefore spurn it instinctively.

You underestimate your inability to not reason incorrectly.

The religious man has no trouble believing the ridiculous and only wonders why he's so much better at it than everybody else is. This he takes as a sign from God.

The biggest egomaniacs always see themselves as being modest, along with every other good thing. It's inconceivable to them that they're really shallow and self-centered. That's why they are.

-Atheist: The nature of ignorance is such that the person who is ignorant cannot possibly know it and will reflexively assume that it is not they who are ignorant but the person who is informing them of their ignorance. This is the basic nature of true ignorance. True ignorance is believing that one is not ignorant, and thus not bothering to learn new things. The truly ignorant are too ignorant to ever know that they are ignorant. If they could know such a thing, they wouldn't be ignorant in the first place.
-Christian: Are you calling me ignorant? I'm not ignorant, *you're* ignorant!

Religion is most like a computer virus for brains. It comes complete with instructions for development and propagation of the virus, and code that prevents the person from deleting it or noticing that it doesn't conform to reality. It is orchestrated, organized, and officially sanctioned psychosis, made easily digestible and palatable to the masses.

Everyone was wrong about everything in the past, so why would any sane person not at least seriously question a bronze-age belief system? Why is that forbidden?

Learn to think before you learn to believe, or you’ll soon believe that you don’t have to think.

It's easy to win an argument with a Christian, since they are based in beliefs rather than thoughts, faith rather than reason, fantasy rather than fact. The hard part is getting them to see that they've lost the argument, for the same reasons.

If you cannot feel the pain of a stranger, it cannot be said that you truly love anyone but yourself.

If any hypothetical belief system dislikes science, which is without a doubt the best method of finding the truth about reality that we have ever come up with, the next question is naturally "What do they have to fear from the truth?"

Fear of God is a barrier to real morality, not a path to it.

Wanting to be right so bad that you come to actually believe that you are right, is not the same thing as actually being right. If you can't tell the difference, you're hopelessly lost, and no one can help you anymore.

The Doofus Cat Project

Donate Now to the Doofus Cat Project! We have assembled a team of Feline Geneticists at the cutting edge of their field, along with Cat Breeders and Molecular Biologists and top experts in various disciplines including Animal Husbandry and Feline Kinesthesiology as well as various Proud Proponents of Proper Paw Placement, in order to tackle one of the longest-standing challenges in Human History. Yes, I am sure that you already know what I am referring to here. Finally, after millenia of living side-by-side with representatives of the genus Felis and more specifically the species Cattus which serve by our long-standing mutual co-habitation to constantly remind us of our utter comparative physical incompetence with their constant displays of inspired acrobatic genius and stunning super-human (but sadly not super-cat) physical co-ordination and speed, we are taking advantage of the Miracle of Modern Science to tackle this seemingly-unresolvable and insurmountable dillema: We love our cats, but not their effete and utterly snobbish level of physical competence. Therefore, the ultimate long-term goal of the Doofus Cat Project is, in simple terms, to finally breed the agility out of the kitty. We will initially select only the very most un-coordinated cats, the clumsiest kittens, and the most wrong-footed felines that can be found in the entire country as our base breeding stock, with additional genetic manipulation being intermittantly done at the molecular level, along with the introduction of additional non-species genetic material (pug) to finally, once and for all eliminate the cat's ability to make us feel clumsy and slow. In as little as five to seven years we would expect results varying from initial examples of feline stumbling, to eventually, actual instances of tripping over their own feet and subsequent face-planting. No longer must we witness some incredibly accurate jump of comparative Olympian proportions; no, instead we will be able to enjoy repeated failed feline attempts to even attain enough vertical height to land successfully on a typical kitchen chair without sliding into the waste basket. We will someday soon, with the Miracle of Modern Genetic Science and your kind donations to and participation in this Dream, be able to feel secure in the knowledge that our cats will, instead of constantly humiliating us with their ninja-esque displays of their annoying physical abilities, provide us with hours and hours of endless side-splitting entertainment merely in their many failed attempts to successfully eat out of a dish. To think! Within your own lifetime you can live to see cats everywhere experiencing the sensation of "falling down," "running headfirst into walls," and even "accidentally jumping into the toilet in the hopes that it was a lower chair than the one in the kitchen near the waste basket." So donate now to the Doofus Cat Project, and become a part of History!

Continuation...

More room to type, I guess. I mean, I'm not very interested in blogging here anymore, to be frank. I love to talk to all of you, but lately my interestes lie elsewhere. What spare time I have is mostly focused on my inner world lately, and blogging about it on my other blog, "A WORLD OUT OF MIND," devoted to my Salvia Divinorum experimentation. Sorry, I know most of you couldn't be less interested in that. I'll be around, so feel free to talk... and Pboy, I'm still depressed about your bird. Talk to you later.. -St. B PS: I remember Jerry telling me that I was unhappy because I wasn't writing about my passion, or something like that. He may have been right; this is more fun, and the christians depress the living fuck out of me. I still 'do battle' from time to time on Huffington Post, but less and less. My skull is metaphorically dented all over from trying to get through their brick wall of idiocy, and after all these years trying I'm pretty certain that it can't be done. PPS: Pliny, you being my most scientifically-minded critic here, I wonder what you think of my latest post on the other blog. You too Pboy. It has progressed a great deal since last we spoke about it, the SD thing I mean. Getting objective third-party results on a consistant basis. I value your criticism and your grounding influence. I swear that I'm not 'losing it' in any way. I suppose that the testimony of the person in question that may be 'losing it' has little value, but I haven't changed. My visions have, however. Love all of you people... take care... I'll be around, floating in the ether or something like that.

Punitive God Makes Ya Crazy

"Many people find comfort in religious faith, but a provocative new study links certain beliefs with emotional problems. The study, published April 10 in the Journal of Religion & Health, showed that people who believe in an angry, vengeful god are more likely to suffer from social anxiety, paranoia, obsessional thinking, and compulsions." >>> Isn't this kind of obvious? Does it really take a study to establish this? It seems rather obvious to me. What this article calls a "Punitive God" is virtually identical to what I call "coercive morality." People that believe in or are drawn to that kind of belief, either are already sick or will soon become so, since it confuses love with hatred, good with evil, and morality with immorality, and it does so with the imprimatur of the Deity, so you'd better fucking damn well listen and believe every fucking last word of it scumbag, or your're screwed forever, sitting in a fiery hellscape with demons playing tictactoe on your taint with razor blades, all because you didn't believe that God loves you more than you can imagine. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/religion-mental-health-angry-god-brain_n_3097025.html?utm_hp_ref=science

Bringing A Knife To A Gun Fight

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/lone-star-stabbing-texas-community-college_n_3045991.html Lone Star Stabbing: Suspect Arrested After Texas Community College Attack CYPRESS, Texas — A student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people before being subdued and arrested, authorities said. The attack about 11:20 a.m. on the Lone Star Community College System's campus in Cypress sent at least 12 people to area hospitals, including four people taken by helicopter, according to Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department spokesman Robert Rasa. He said several people refused treatment at the scene and all the wounds were consistent with stabbing... (more) READ THE COMMENTS SECTION Many, many people saying that "Now Obama will ask for knife control" and so forth, ignoring how this proves our side of the argument, because if it had been an AR-15 with extended clip we wouldn't be reading about 14 wounded; more likely forty dead. They make no sense whatsoever, and don't even seem to try.

WTF Is The "Naked Communist?"

I was arguing with a right-wing nutbag on Huffington Post yesterday and he threw this at me: 25. "Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy". 26. "Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting homosexuality, obscenity, and pornography in books, magazines, motion pictures, and TV." The lefist social engineering machine is working well. -His comment. So I dispute that anybody on the left would ever write such a thing, and he insisted that "a leftist wrote it, and it's in the Congressional Record!" So I looked it up. The Naked Communist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Naked Communist is a book written in 1958 by conservative United States author and faith-based political theorist Cleon Skousen.[1] The book posits and seeks to describe a geopolitical strategy by which the Marxist–Leninist Soviet Union was attempting to overcome and control all the governments of the world that were not members of the Communist bloc. At the time that the book was published, during the Cold War, fear of communism was common among people in non-communist nations. The list of communist goals contained in the book was read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Congressman Albert S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida, on January 10, 1963.[2] The following is the list of Communist goals contained in The Naked Communist:[2] (Note: there is no such list in the original edition of the book.) U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. Do away with all loyalty oaths. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Gain control of all student newspapers. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." Control art critics and directors of art museums. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch." Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity, masturbation and easy divorce. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. Internationalize the Panama Canal. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike. WTF???????????????????????????????????? They're still believing sixties propaganda!

Foaming At The Ass/The Art of Stupid (Rant-O-Rama)

..........."Go away! Go to your own planet. You even took our rainbow away. What is a child supposed to think when they look at it? Dykes & Homo's? Whoever opened up that first closet really opened up Pandora's Box. Look at Phoneywood where people take this situation. Half of them are half a fag and the rest die of AIDS! Oh cry me a river. A man's private's belong in a woman. Not another man's butt. Women? What were you afraid of in life? No excuse. Disgusting! Not normal being's. What is normal? Not what your sect is doing. So all of you can get on the Big Ship Lollipop and enjoy your weirdness while your ship takes you away from the normal people in life. There you can print in your schoolbooks it is normal where you live. As for us, again, GO AWAY!!!!!!"............. Anti-Gay Marriage Rant on comment boards at Huffington Post... There's just so much to love in here! I especially like the 'rainbows' part... Poor Judy Garland can never get back to Oz now! And let's never forget, a man's privates belong in a woman! Why, in my opinion, he should never take them out!

Pope-A-Dope

Habemos Papam! We have a new pope, and this one's just wonderful. Anti-Gay, anti-Woman, anti-liberal-priest-who-he-might-have-helped-kill... Another old man in a dress... at least he chose a sexually ambiguous name... someday maybe he'll be Saint Francis the Sissy. Well, my kid's diaper needs changing... Habemos Poopoo!

The Past Is Still Real

Here's a puzzle that I want you all to consider:

(at least, I find it puzzling, or at least worthy of consideration and much thought...)

I've read Brian Greene's two books, and looked around a bit more, and from what I've read (feel free to help me out here and research this yourself; I'm open to correction) quantum physicists seem to mostly believe that the past is real, as real as the present is. That's what the math indicates, and they don't seem to have too much of a problem with it.

Can I humbly ask you to digest that for a minute?

Can that be true?  Can you accept that to be true?  What does it mean if that is true?

If the past is as real as the present, even if we can never go back in time and visit the past, it means that in our personal pasts, all the things we remember about our pasts (plus all the things we don't remember) are still "out there" hanging in space as it were, being REAL.

If the past is real, as real as the present is, then our personal pasts are still real.

Pick a memory, say your favorite one, if one such exists.

Somewhere "out there" you are living that moment. Now. (Your "now," in that moment)

That first kiss?  You're still kissing it.

I'm being serious here.

Think about it.

What this means is that, if you could remember the past *perfectly,* then you would not be able to differentiate that perfect memory of the past, from the present.  It would all blend.

The fault lies not in reality, but in our memories.  If our memories were perfect, we would experience both the past and the present, as the *now.*

This is what the statement "The past is still real, as real as the present" means.  These are the implications.

If the past is all real, all still real, all still as real as the present is, then take the total mass of this universe, and multiply it by every moment, every microsecond, every Planck Time micromeasure of time, and *all of that, taken together, exists NOW.*

If the past is all real, as real as the present, if you really think about it, and then think some more, and then really, REALLY think about it...

The only logical conclusion is that all of reality is thought.  Consciousness.  For nothing that we consider *real* could possibly be so malleable, versatile, and re-creatable over and over again, from microsecond to microsecond, as to produce a reality in which all moments, all micro-moments, every single thing that ever has happened, co-exists somehow in some universal "now." Only undifferentiated pure consciousness could possibly accomplish something like that. 

Saint Brian has spoken.   

Just more room to type...

See above. 


The running subjects seem to be of course the amazing density of the typical right-wing christian, and the behavior of photons. 

Both of which defy all reason.

Gunnilingus

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9787261/Deport-Piers-Morgan-petition-creator-Alex-Jones-in-pro-gun-CNN-rant-at-British-presenter.html

Alex Jones Gun Rant at Piers Morgan

This is an amazing video.  We rarely get to see the raw unbalanced emotion of the extreme right wing on display like this.  It reveals much about their side of the argument.  It's about them believing that a few assault rifles will protect them from the US Armed Forces.  As if!  They think they're in "The Bourne Legacy!"

Rarely do the demented display the fact that they're demented so openly and without care. 

It's really something to watch.  I especially love the raw flow of righteous indignation and searing anger.  I was waiting for his head to just pop like an overfilled water balloon.  If only mouth-foaming were an Olympic sport!