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https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/nervous-laughter
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran explored this idea in his book “A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.” He proposes that laughter first appeared in human history as a way to indicate to those around us that whatever was making us laugh wasn’t a threat or worth worrying about.
So we’re essentially reassuring ourselves that whatever’s making us uncomfortable isn’t that big a deal when we laugh at an uncomfortable situation.
#ThisIsIslam
I had a dream where a bunch of grey long-snouted creatures were gathered around this other creature, who was their creator, and were chanting “give us the wisdom of not knowing death” over and over again in a cheerful sing-song tone. They wanted their creator to make it so that they wouldn’t know about death/know that they will die, believing this would free them or enlighten them, or make them wiser.
Cemetery extension, Jesi, Leonardo Ricci, 1984-1994
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Why bother with empathy and compassion for humans when you can lick the hand of your imaginary sky master?
No, it’s because they, like everyone else, have the aforementioned faculty of compassion and know right from wrong, in spite of the fact that atheists can’t quite square the whole concept with the idea that we’re basically an aggregate of chemical reactions. In point of fact, Christians, like atheists, have zero hope of getting into Heaven through good deeds. That’s why we need Christ.
It’s shameful to have to inform a dedicated atheist blog of matters that basic to the Christian faith, but the fact that I am reblogging this on my Death Note blog because OP was a coward and blocked me on main may have something to do with it.
atheists can’t quite square the whole concept (compassion and know right from wrong) with the idea that we’re basically an aggregate of chemical reactions
This is the most self-damning thing theists ever say. It’s an admission they are a violent animal on an invisible leash and they can’t be trusted without that leash. If you don’t know why you should bother being compassionate, considerate or moral without the eye of your imaginary space wizard keeping you in check around the clock, then you’re not a compassionate, considerate or moral person.
Indeed, this would mean you are, by definition, a psychopath.
We’ve studied morality, compassion and right and wrong, and its development as part of our own evolution at length. Are you making ignorant statements because you’re unaware of this? Or because your manipulative preacher taught you this along with their other lies? Or because you haven’t figured out how to use Google? Regardless, it only speaks to your lack of education, but nothing at all about atheists.
Perhaps you should find out about these studies before you make such ignorant and bizarre confessions about your inability to figure out right from wrong without an imaginary sky daddy.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humans-became-moral-beings-80976434/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-biology/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2864937/
Animals show compassion and morality. We know how and we know why. That they can figure it out without a god and you can’t just makes you a frightening individual who needs to sequester yourself away from society.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97944783
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/03/chimpanzees_and_empathy/campus.html
https://www.livescience.com/26245-chimps-value-fairness.html
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/drunk-bees/
https://www.livescience.com/24802-animals-have-morals-book.html
https://www.livescience.com/18906-chimpanzee-police-aggression.html
Morality precedes religion. Pretending it originates from religion is blatantly dishonest.
To the extent that in the U.S., increased religiosity is correlated to increased crime, rather than decreased crime.
Atheists are less likely to conduct worldwide institutionalised pedophilia rings without remorse or guilt than the Catholics, less likely to conduct institutionalised sexual assault coverups than Evangelical Xtians, and don’t have the luxury of an imaginary friend to both authorize and absolve any deed imaginable, no questions asked. Making your lectures about “right and wrong” sickeningly ironic.
Unlike you, atheists don’t get to fob all their atrocious deed off onto “Jesus” and skip away, knowing this life is just the doormat anyway, cos you’re going to heaven. Atheists have to actually deal with the consequences of their action, don’t have imaginary friends to offload their mistakes onto, and have to actually learn and improve themselves. You do not. You’ve got “Jesus”, the unlimited “Get Out of Responsibility Free” card. We saw the Catholic Church do exactly this with its epidemic of pedophiles.
It’s shameful that you support a belief system whereby anyone who doesn’t believe in your god is automatically condemned to being set on fire for eternity, no matter how good they might be, while any believer who commits atrocities and appalling acts of immorality is given a free pass by unquestioned, repercussions-free forgiveness. This means you can be as immoral and evil as you like, and still get into heaven. While good atheists will burn.
Matthew 12:31-32 King James Version (KJV)
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
The “salvation” your god offers is the life-preserver it dangles over everyone it already shoved into the pool. The circumstances, outcomes and criteria it is wholly responsible for establishing in the first place. The reprieve offered by the mobster by “choosing” to pay the protection money rather than be shot in the head. “Jesus” is the “unless” when your extorting mafia boss-god threatens to break my legs.
Delivered through the immoral act of vicarious redemption. Scapegoating. Whereby you convince yourself you are no longer responsible for something by mystically pretending to transfer your accountability to a blood sacrifice. Brushing off your misdeeds onto someone else and declaring yourself no longer at fault or responsible. Onto someone who has already died. Meaning you get unlimited use, and you can just shuck off your guilt and never need to be better. No consequences.
This is what your own belief system - the same one that condones slavery, commands people to be stoned to death, and sanctions war and murder against those who are different, and yes, in the New Testament - amounts to.
You seem to at least be aware of the Xtian doctrine of punishing good people who simply honestly could not delude themselves into believing, while rewarding serial killers like Jeffery Dahmer. But think this is a good thing, rather than an appallingly immoral concept concocted by a villainous, immoral deity.
If you don’t sin, Jesus died for nothing.
Fortunately, there is no verifiable evidence that either the “god” or “Jesus” characters in the fable exist at all. Nor the “heaven” or “hell” of the story. Any more than Coruscant or Chapek 9 exist. Both “heaven” and “hell” destinations being equally appalling anyway - eternity in church spent worshipping an needy, imperfect “god” character, or eternity of being on fire.
Can’t I just be dead?
Long post, lots of graphics, Tumblr will no doubt take it to be a comprehensive rebuttal no matter what I say. But the three super-basic points of Christian dogma overlooked here are: 1) The moral law is engraved on EVERY human heart. 2) Faith without works is dead. 3) Heaven and hell look like carrot and stick from the atheist perspective, but once you’re a Christian, saying “you love God just because it gets you into Heaven” is like accusing me of telling my fiance I love him just ‘cause I want to marry him.
1. You mean like how the Hellenic law of Zeus is engraved on EVERY human heart, along with the Nordic law of Odin and the African law of Mbombo? You were born with the knowledge of Quetzalcoatl in your heart, but you refuse to acknowledge it. See how ridiculous bullshit like that works? I can keep going if you like. I’ve got a list of several hundred gods, all of whom can be claimed to reside on everybody’s heart, with equal validity to yours.
It’s particularly weird considering your god got angry at Adam and Eve for eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Which was the Original Sin. So your god is engraving on everyone’s hearts the exact thing that humanity is being punished for, for all generations to come. You’ve never actually thought about any of these silly myths, have you?
You made a declaration of fact. So prove it. Prove it using verifiable evidence that cannot be used by another religion to prove their god. Or are you just dishonestly crediting thousands of years of human evolution and moral and social development blindly to…. which god is it again? Jealous, the bible god? You still refuse to actually look up anything about the evolution of human morality, compassion and socialisation, don’t you? Deliberate, morbid ignorance, especially born out of fear, is not a good colour on anyone. It leads to blatant, patently nonsensical and laughably stupid assertions such as the one you just made.
You don’t know why secular morality exists and can’t figure out why people would ever be nice to each other without a slave-master looking over their shoulder, couldn’t think of anything else, couldn’t be bothered looking it up, so you outright invented something. Literally, an argument from your own deliberate ignorance. Your desire to sustain a lie for fear of it being revealed.
2. We agree on that - faith is worthless, only works matter at all. There is no idea, no matter how abominable, hateful or absurd - from racial superiority to flat Earth, to the efficacy of bleach drinking - that cannot be held solely due to “faith” alone. Every other religion has faith you’re wrong and they’re right. The people who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks had LOTS of “faith”. This means “faith” supports “false” beliefs exactly as much as “true” beliefs, making it a worthless determiner of truth. Especially since studies (by Xtian organisations) confimed that intercessory prayer is indistinguishable from pure chance, confirming prayer is worthless. So, yes, get up and do something helpful. Like the many secular and humanist charities and organisations do.
http://godlessmom.com/9-secular-organizations-give-holiday-season/
https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/volunteers
3. No, heaven and hell both look like hell from an atheist perspective. Either a lake of lava (hell-hell) or eternity as a slave in Celestial North Korea (heaven-hell) under a dictatorial regime. Since “heaven” is “perfect” and “eternal” then nothing you do matters. Nothing ever changes. It doesn’t need you, and you can’t make a difference. Since there’s no “evil”, then there is also no “free will”. Right? Unless the malevolent god simply refused to make our reality with free will but without evil, rather than couldn’t.
You’re doped up into a stupor of manufactured “bliss” and spend eternity stroking the narcissistic ego of your imperfect, flawed god.
Revelation 7:15 King James Version (KJV)
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
Day and night. Unending church. Forever. Enslaved to its unquenchable thirst for validation.
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/01/10-reasons-christian-heaven-would-actually-be-hell/
Zeus and Odin don’t have moral laws. But Plato does, and the old Norse did as well. Twisted, yes, good heavens. Have you read Plato’s Republic? But they were there, and, if they are strictly the products of evolution, you still favor the good tendencies we’ve inherited over the evil ones. Curious, that. As to concrete proof… well, I’m certain you’ve been directed to the proofs of the Resurrection about a bajillion times over the course of running this blog. A bajillionth-and-first won’t change your mind, I’m sure, but here’s the cue to your followers to look into that.
Over the course of this argument, Heaven has been a candy-stick for gullible saps and also a never-ending drudge. God has been non-existent, but also someone to despise. Good works are bad when a Christian does them to get into heaven (which they do not), but a Christian who believes in the Atonement is free to be a serial killer, but also if Christianity KEEPS someone from being a serial killer, then that’s terrible because it’s not Authentic, and I mean there is no consistency or underlying theme here except Down With The Christian God. Get a grip.
Seriously? You’re just going to lean back on ignorance again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Noble_Virtues
https://mirrorofisis.freeyellow.com/id342.html (ripped off for the Ten Commandments)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forseti
https://www.godchecker.com/greek-mythology/ZEUS/ (literally the god of Law and Justice)
Meanwhile, your god didn’t know slavery and rape were wrong, outlining how to do the former properly, and regarding the latter as a property matter.
Do I have to post the elephant pic again? What about it is difficult for you to grasp about moral attributes being beneficial to a species? Just because you aren’t?
There are no proofs of a resurrection. There’s only fables in the same book that proposed the idea at all. A story that says 500 people witnessed it in the same book as the one that invented the idea in the first place is just continuity. There’s no verification, no confirmation. Name the people. We have more people who have witnessed Bigfoot. And we have names.
The same book that gives 4 different, incompatible hearsay versions of the tomb scene in the Synoptic Gospels.
Ah, the resurrection, the critical point on which Xtianity itself is dependent. That nobody thought to mention in any of the earliest bibles, and was regarded as spurious even in the 15th and 16 centuries.
What we do have is knowledge that the crucifixion itself was historically inaccurate, due to it being written decades after the supposed events took place by people who did not know Roman custom or law (just as they did not know Jewish custom when inventing the culturally and historically inaccurate Cleansing of the Temple scene).
Aren’t you the people who bleat “CONTEXT!!!!”? Let me explain it in simple, easily understood terms:
You = Xtian. You thinky heaven = good, candy cane. You be good. Maybe get in. Description of heaven = horrible. You not know this. Still thinky = good. Never thought through what would actually be like. Oops. You still want nasty heaven. Me not want. Me not know why you want.
You thinky bible make you good. You not have any other way be good. You not see giant logic hole mean you be evil, still reward. Cause you use bible make you good, not have any other way. Circle logic.
You thinky god = “real”. You act like god = “real”. No evidence for god but you thinky = “real”. God = evil like Sauron = evil. But you thinky real and worship. Even though genocidal and murderous. Torture people for “test”. Like Jigsaw Killer. Fictional, but you thinky real.
You = believer = no reason to be good. You = on leash. Me = glad you on leash, but why you need to be on leash? Is sad. Why you not be good without leash? What wrong with you?
Bible say good deed irrelevant to heaven. Xtian not know. Preacher sell good deed = heaven. Xtian never read. Xtian do good deed for heaven.
You really can’t grasp any of this? I’m dealing with you and your beliefs on your terms, dealing with your fiction from within its own fictional realm, pointing out the flaws in the story, and that the supposed-protagonist is actually written as an antagonist, while explaining my view from outside it and why I don’t want to be part of it. You’re literally selling the idea that Xtianity = morality, and you objected to the idea that atheists could do good without fear of divine reprisals, nor desire for a divine carrot. The only missing part is that Xtians live in pathological ignorance of their own mythology and doctrine, and, like you, won’t recognize that your god’s system is immoral (terrible people get “rewarded” with “heaven” - Xtian idea of a “reward”, certainly not mine, good people get “punished” with "hell”) when it’s pointed out to them. Because, as you’ve made perfectly clear, you cannot and will not acknowledge that your own secular, human, imperfect morality far exceeds that of your imaginary, evil god.
The most shameful thing of all is that you defend the abominable, immoral, reprehensible myth that is your slave-master god. You sacrifice your own humanity and your own morality in defence of this monster, this travesty against decency. That you think it’s there, with no justification aside from a crusty book of stolen myths. And that you think it’s a “good” thing.
You’re basically a member of a shitty fandom, and think everyone else is cosplaying part of it. You can’t grasp that I can criticise the in-universe material and also still tell my own story. That the god character can both be despicable and fictional. Like Sauron. Only more blood-lusty and with less consistent characterisation. Somehow it’s all about you, though, right? You can’t even temporarily set aside your god and consider your beliefs objectively or intellectually honestly. I guess because without your god you’d kill and eat all the pets and babies in a five block radius, due to your leash coming off.
Your own opening salvo was that atheists can’t square the concept of right and wrong, without a god. And yet, here we are. You’ve already agreed that being good doesn’t actually help Xtians in any way, Xtianity-wise; in your own words, regarding good deeds leading to heaven (which I agree, since I pointed it out in the first place with the quote from Matthew): “which they do not”. So, your confusion is really centred around the fact that Xtians have literally no Xtianity-specific reason to be good people, and only a secular, human reason to be good. That neither the bible nor Xtianity itself facilitates moral behaviour, and indeed, like all humanity’s imaginary higher powers, justifies immoral acts in the name of those powers.
It’s super-weird and super-arrogant that you can’t figure this out or resolve it. Perhaps the problem is that it’s just starting to dawn on you that all the stuff you’ve been fed about morality, Xtianity, believers and atheists is lies. You just finished off on a low-note in the end by descending into rambling incoherently, trying to shore up your cognitive dissonance with some blatant dishonesty and strawmanning.
I think I’m done with you. There’s no hope of anything worthwhile to be achieved by continuing to interact with you and your deliberate ignorance. You’ve already admitted you don’t have any sense of morality of your own, only a set of rules imposed by your celestial leash-holder from above (which are, by definition, subjective, by your god’s fiat), and continue to spout long-debunked fallacies. I hope you learn empathy and compassion soon, before it’s too late. Or at least seek treatment for your psychopathy, so others don’t have to suffer for your flaws.
And maybe find a second book to read. Or, perhaps finish reading the first one.
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Mediglyphics
This shit’s infuriating
Oh, this is a type of shorthand!
There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.
As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.
Let’s break one of the words down:
Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?
Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.
Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.
So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.
Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!
Isn’t language amazing~?
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