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Philosopher Jean Baudrillard

This realistic image ... does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same time making an aesthetic and commercial, perfectly immoral use and abuse of this misery. Images that actually testify, behind their pretended "objectivity", of a deep denial of the real, and of an equal denial of the image - assigned to present what does not even want to be represented, assigned to the rape of the real by burglary.

(From The Violence of the Image, 2003)

#cultural theory #an image lies a thousand words

Philosopher Herbert Marcuse

The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

(Recalled by Judith Butler)

#delegitimisation #delegitimization #mechanism

Writer Bertolt Brecht

Someone asked Mister K. if there is a God. Mister K. said: "I advise you to ask yourself if your behaviour would turn out differently based on my answer. If it won't turn out differently, we could drop this question. If it will turn out differently, I can at least help you by telling you that you have already made a choice: You need a God."

(From Geschichten vom Herrn K.: Die Frage, ob es einen Gott gibt)

#atheism #philosophy #proof for God #proof of God #religion #agnosticism

Did someone just say gay rights? As in: rights for gays???

I have nothing against people per se. My best friends are some.

(From Blumfeld: Penismonolog, 1992)

#xenophobia #Distelmeyer

Fuck with me, I'm German.

Ok, here's the deal: As I see it, Godwin's law is threatening to be proven right on atheism page. May I quote [Godwin]?--Thanks. So Godwin's law says:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.

Recently, I have observed a dramatic increase of comparisons of this kind. Please take this opportunity to throw any stuff at me that you have heard about Nazis or Hitler. I'm here for you. Let's prove Godwin wrong together, ok? 'Cause we can do better than that.

Heidi

#Nazis #Hitler #Godwin's law

For the past three days now, I have been talking to the first bunch of creationists that I've met in my entire life.

Here's what I made out of it.

#creationism #literality #right #wrong #moral #ethics

Here's something I felt I had to make more clearer. (Regarding a discussion on atheism page.)

Guys: You can't take the Bible literally. And Zeitgeist is conspiracy theory.

Heidi

I just started reading this book by Jon Ronson when it hit me right in the face.

One thing you quickly learn about them is that they really don't like to be called extremists. In fact they often tell me that we are the real extremists. They say that the Western liberal cosmopolitan establishment is itself a fanatical, depraved belief system. I like it when they say this because it makes me feel as if I have a belief system.

(From THEM. Adventures With Extremists, 2001.) Heidi

Chief Otetani of Seneca tribe

Brother,... If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? (Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?)

(From We also have a religion, 1805)

Fun fact: Otetani was friends with George Washington. Another fact though: During the war that was going on with Britain, Otetani supported the American Revolution, even though the immigration of more and more white people, and the new sicknesses they brought with them from Europe slowly killed around 90% of his native brothers and sisters all over the continent.

Just to be clear--90% as in this: Where there had been 2 million before, there were 200,000 left in the end. Historians aren't sure about how many native people had lived in America before it was "discovered". Some even guess that it had been 45 million of them (that would mean by their account that 450,000 survived those times).

I'm not an American, nor have I ever set foot in the US. Nonetheless, I felt sick about myself when I found out about this. Heidi

#religion #tradition #power

Anti-text from #self

Dear conspiracy theory! I know you're on to something way too important, so I don't want to bother you much. Just a though: While you're busy finding out what may, would, or couldn't have been the case in some major issues; take into account that there are problems in this world that no one's disagreeing on, and that we could actually need your help to solve them now.

Heidi

#conspiracy theory #gettin' it done #common sense

Q&A pt. 8

Q: Can't you see that atheism is based on beliefs similar to religion?

A: I do. I believe in this: Be respectful, be empathic, be fair, be honest, be patient. Granted: I may sound just like some of your prophets there.

I also sound a little like some people who are way older than your prophets, and these people would be Antique philosophers. People who, for all we know, wrote it down first. Religious tenets always stem from an earlier society's common sense.

All religion has done in those old days was formulating guidelines that had been considered as an epoch's best interest. (An epoch that is now long gone.)

So maybe I sound just like your prophet in a way. In another way, though, you prophet has lost a couple more words that these. And some of these words even you consider as outdated. Still, they sound just like your prophet's words sound like.

Atheism is free to not stick to any book by all means. We're free to look for our society's new interests. Much unlike your religion.

Heidi

#atheism #religion #moral #commandments #new testament #christianity #sermon

Do you like yourself some awesome Nietzsche from time to time?

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

(From The Antichrist, 1888.)

#christianity #ethics #moral #reality #religion #philosophy

F4ith Ton3s have joined tumblr now!

Make and contribute your own Ton3s, find out about new Ton3s, and share at your convenience. Let's promote those gals! They earned it.

Heidi

#The F4ith Ton3s

PEOPLE OF EARTH! WE BR1NG Y0U TH3 F41TH T0N35!

Panos of atheism page found us this wonderful record cover that seriously is not satire at all. I know: Why haven't The Faith Tones gone down in history yet? They should! Let us offer them all the help they could get.

So: Here's my first thoughts, plus a picture that you can use at your convenience.

Find more F4ith Ton3s and add your own on http://faithtones.tumblr.com/

#The Faith Tones #christianity #weird record covers that should go down in history #F4ith Ton3s

Q&A pt.7 (Flowchart Edition)

Q: Aren't you one of these people who keep quoting Richard Dawkins all the time?

A: Let me rephrase your question:

Do I have a hero? - No. But I don't mind if people do. Are there people I cherish? - Yes. Do I think they're outstanding? - Depends. Why is it that I don't have a hero? - Personal choice:

No God, no idols: I lay no whole overall trust in anyone apart from myself. Or, let me rephrase myself here: As for equal things to those which Dawkins did, I trust that you can do them, too.

Heidi

#agnosticism #atheism #heroes #higher power #we can do it!

Dear ladies and gentlemen, meet Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach:

Religion has no particular content of its own. Even the emotions of fear and dread had their temples in Rome. The Christians, too, hypostatised their mental states into beings and qualities of things, their dominant emotions into powers dominating the world. In short, they hypostatised the qualities of their being – whether known or unknown to them – into self-subsisting beings.

(From Essence of Christianity, 1843.)

What are your thoughts on this guy?

Heidi

#christianity #domination #hypostasis #projection #religion #philosophy

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