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An anti-western documentary, allegedly leaked to a South Korean tourist by agents of the North posing as defectors has emerged and been translated to English. And god is it scary just how right they have all of it, down to the letter.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/stephen-hawking-science-makes-god-unnecessary/story?id=11571150#.UeBny7sqoUU
It has too much to offer them.
The only aspect I am worried about is that LinkedIn will turn into another pathetic social media site where someone who sits 2 desks away from you gets all offended because you didn't accept their friend request.
For myself, LinkedIn is nothing but a professional networking site where people can actually find jobs... or future jobs... connections... and the validity of someone's worth is not dictated on the fact that they accepted someone's "friend" request...
I also happen to live/work in China, and am absolutely grateful this website is not blocked... but the moment someone turns LinkedIn into a personal forum of demonstrating against certain political/religious views, and thusly get's this site blocked in China, I will forever resent that individual.
In keeping with the trend of one of the blogs I follow ( http://metalatheist.tumblr.com ) I have to post the link to this band with the hopes of learning more about them. (another great band I discovered via the internet is 7th Nemesis from France)
I am a metal head through and through. (Side note.. Metallica will play Shanghai sometime soon, but I will not go. I refuse to enable the posers that show up, as they don't truly understand, but yet think "wow, so cool, Metallica played here and I was there, but I own NONE of their albums") {Side side note.. Metallica lost their edge after Master of Puppets. Beyond that they are posers themselves}
Maybe it is just me, but, the older I get, the music has to be heavier and faster, and the less I can understand the lyrics when the guy is growling them at me, the better. I listen to music entirely as a release and entertainment. If there's a message, it's beyond me. If I want messages, I'll read the news, or books.
Ok... Tumblr is making it very difficult for me to reblog something on my original dashboard onto this blog... so... I will continue to post on that blog.
The reason being, I almost absolutely hate to reblog someone else's blog. You blogged it, 'twas your work, if I reblog it, then I reckon I am no better than a lot of today's "DJ' types... claiming someone else's hard work as my own... (Thanks Henry Rollins... "DJ's re just record player players")
However... having said that... I have just read a very brilliant response to an article and must reblog it...
http://skepticalavenger.tumblr.com/post/54601021255/azukara-skepticalavenger-z-a-z-z-e-r-s
However, it is reblogged on my original Tumblr account, because I haven't figured Tumblr out yet....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A mother and father who prayed instead of seeking medical help as their daughter died were properly convicted of homicide, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that dramatically limits legal immunity for parents who turn to God rather than science to heal their children.
Why in the world would there even be a "prayer-healing-provision" in the first place?
Another sad aspect of the case is that someone voted the stupid way...
"The court ruled 6-1 that the state's immunity provisions for prayer treatment parents protect them from child abuse charges but nothing else"
A book called Proof of Heaven is bound to provoke eye rolls, but its author, Eben Alexander, had space in a Newsweek story and on shows like of Fox & Friends to detail his claims. Read into those endorsements — and nearly 15 million copies sold — whatever you will, but in a big new Esquire feature, Luke Dittrich pokes large holes in Alexander's story, bringing into question the author's qualification as a neurosurgeon (which is supposed to legitimize his claim) and the accuracy of his best-selling journey.
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse.
Tumblr is a load of shit in a sense. There's gotta be better "blogs" out there (that aren't blocked in China, where I happen to be).
One clicks on something on their dashboard and there's "3 notes"... how does one leave a proper note?!?!?!?! All there are are "likes" and "soandso reblogged this"... bullshit... How can one leave a comment to a particular post? (I am logged in, so that argument won't wash)
I would very much like to comment without having to "beg" the keeper of the blog to "promote" my blog just to gain followers so they can read my point of view.
Anyway, the post I would like to comment on is from Atheist Republic regarding a quote from Sam Harris regarding Islam but I can't do anything except either "like" it or "reblog" it?. What a load of crap....
My comment would be thus...
"As unfortunate as it seems... the Muslims (at least the semi extreme to fully extreme, according to what myself, being in the West, is exposed to, do take their teachings seriously. One could argue that there are not so "fanatical" believers in Islam, which brings up the question again... one only believes the "good"?) so one cannot comment negatively without fear of real and actual reprisal, which could lead to actual physical harm. This also leads me to believe that anyone that follows the "christian" faith is nothing but a soft, semi-believing pathetic excuse. If the "christians" followed their "book" as fanatically, I bet many of them would convert to either another religion, i.e. Islam, or, become non believers themselves because the punishments certainly do not fit the "crimes".
Maybe I am misinformed, naive, or, in my "enlightenment" as I recently understood that I am an Atheist, a little too enthusiastic to fully understand that which I believe, or better yet, not believe.....
Also, my understanding of "blog", which derives from "web" (i.e. Internet) and "log" (i.e. Journal, or for all the geeks, myself included "Captain's log") are that we express our thoughts, and folks are not open to comment, whether they be negative or positive, doesn't matter. If someone disagrees, wouldn't one want to know why? Isn't that the basis of a good debate?
Maybe I just don't understand Tumblr and why it was "invented". Or, maybe it is just that... "blogs" were "invented" so people to could express their views, and regardless of whether anyone else thinks the same or otherwise, so what? This is my view, so STFU, you have no power, and/or, I don't giva a rat's ass what you think.
I have all of 2 followers now... one is very recent... (thanks Also, there is no god and the other is some guy that runs an animation studio in Italy that owes me a ton of money.. like he'll read anything on here)
If one was to pray to god to help one find a way to pay one's rent, wouldn't it be easier to just ask god to pay it?
Think the landlord will understand when he/she doesn't receive it? Would the landlord accept the argument "it's god's way" when the prayer isn't answered?
Nah... I didn't think so either.
Just finished going through another cool Tumbr blog Rational Atheism
Clarification (in a sense)
I mean no offense to anyone that considers themselves an "Atheist" when I posted that I too am one, "until a better term comes up". What I mean is that I do believe that no-one but myself is responsible for how I live my life. I will not succumb to "peer pressure", and I will definitely not succumb to "religious" pressure, or sociological pressure.
I will, in the sense of true Atheists, be dumbfounded that anyone can, and will continue to believe that something written in one book so many years ago, or was passed down from one generation to the next, will base their whole existence on such, without questioning "Why?", however, at the same time, I will not bash them, nor call them names...It is entirely up to them to deny themselves the true pleasures of living in the now.
Really.....
I had just finished reading the entire Science is a candle in the dark Tumblr Blog and have since decided what I had suspected for a very long time. I am an Atheist (at least until a "better" term comes along)
I recently ran across this news article on Yahoo! (I know, I know... not the best news source in the world)
Man Sues Over License Plate
and got to reading the comments. There are a lot of comments that are just plain ridiculous, and some thought out ones. One that got me into starting this blog said this...
So instead of completely relying on what I am told, and therefore accepting that as truth, and then not exploring it for myself, I decided to check the claim of the State and Church separation debate.
The Constitution of the United States of America
"Article. VI.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
Being a free thinker, I have come to the conclusion that by having it not being spelled out exactly as "The State and the Church shall therefore and forever more be separate", but instead having it is spelled out as, "but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." seems like justification enough to have filed the lawsuit.
There is a legal grounding for this suit to be filed, whether or not one agrees with the motivations of the one filing the suit. I would bet the Court would even argue that that is a good enough argument to support a petition to the government to change "IN GOD WE TRUST" back to "E PLURIBUS UNUM" on anything Government related and also get the "Pledge of Allegiance" reverted back to its pre 1954 version, minus "one nation under God", since it says right there in the Constitution that "no religious Test shall ever be required", which translates to the Church (regardless of denimation!) has NOTHING to do with governing the USA.