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Jehovahs Calling

Musing on a visit from the JWs the other morning and one of the most stupid things I’ve ever heard

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Tax Exemption for Religions Sucks

Unless they are offering secular, no-strings-attached charity to everyone regardless of ethnicity, sexuality, age, gender, religion (or lack thereof). Otherwise NO WAY.

This ‘ministry’ is an Australian scam. One of the guy’s ‘inspirations’ is Benny Hinn. Nuff said. I don’t believe for a moment that this douche is doing anything other than ham acting. If he’s for real, he’s a sick, sick man.

Link to the full video on Fireitup’s Youtube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/fireitupministries#p/u/6/vPzDfq1Lf_g

Link to its webpage http://www.fireitup.com.au/

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Nephy's Day Out

Couldn’t do a song this weekend cos I got me a dose of the flu. So what better thing to do instead than have a bit of fun with the Nephiferous.

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Do not stand at my grave and weep

When I heard this recently I thought it was a lovely piece of music that would be appropriate to a secular/atheist funeral or memorial ceremony. While we don’t await life after death, we know that our atoms return to the universe from whence they came. This gives me some sense of eternal being, if not in the conscious sense. I’ll take stardust over heaven every time

This is sung by Libera.

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

I am a thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glint on snow

I am the sunlight on ripened grain

I am the gentle gentle autumn rain

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

When you awake in the morning hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight

I am the soft soft starlight,

starlight at night

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there

I do not sleep

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Psycho TrainWreck Nephy

A mash up of Neph’s response to his demolition by Rhymemaiden1. I notice he didn’t tackle the White Cliffs of Dover, Claire!! Okay. Must stop making Nephy videos for a while. Enjoy this little miscellany of stuff.

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End of the World

A message to anyone who is frightened by biblical or other ‘end times’ prophecy: please don’t be. If you’re scared, talk to someone who can explain to you why ‘supernatural’ prophecy is bunkum.

Link to sites about many failed prophecies (failed prophecies are the only kind…)

http://www.abhota.info/end4.htm

http://www.2think.org/hundredsheep/skeptic/predictions.shtml

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

And a debunking of 2012…

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091106-2012-end-of-world-myths.html

Lyrics

Why haven’t Christians been raptured?

Why hasn’t Jesus returned

Don’t they know, that he’s way overdue

Has Armageddon been adjourned?

Since human beings got religion

They’ve been awaiting Doomsday

Thousands of times it has come,and it’s gone

There’s always been a slight delay

They wake up in the morning and they wonder

Why the Apocalypse didn’t start.

They heard their god’s voice, in their scripture of choice

And though it’s all been blown apart

First come their feeble excuses

Then they’ll create some more strife

Why do they wait for the end of the world?

Because they do not have a life.

They wake up in the morning and they wonder

Why the Apocalypse didn’t start.

They heard their god’s voice, in their scripture of choice

And though it’s all been blown apart

First come their feeble excuses

Then they’ll create some more strife

Why do they wait for the end of the world?

Because they do not have a life.

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Shame, Fundy, SHAME!

Source: http://www.stufffundieslike.com

Original video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31bZulDew4

/>What am I going to do? Well, I’m going to email Bob Jones University and tell them they’re a disgrace (cc to Rand Hummell) and I will also inform the child protection department in the vicinity of BJU (BJ – haha) that this man is NOT FIT to be a child-counsellor (or keep pets etc). Yeah I know – nothing will come of it… or will it !? We’ll see. Any replies I may get will make good LOLing, if nothing else.

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Hummel Responds

The post from the ‘Bob Jones University Survivors’ Facebook page is here: I included it in my email to Hummel. I hope it will get through to him.

The facebook extract follows:

On the Abuse Issue:

NEVER, EVER, NEVER tell a girl not to be angry or bitter or ask for forgiveness when she is confronting the issues in her life surrounding abuse. This is the #1 RULE in counseling abuse victims. But because BJU does not have a REAL counseling program they don’t know this is 100% WRONG and destroys a persons life. And for the record, an angry victim is NOT the same as an alcoholic or a drug addict. Just the fact that he used that together in this illustration is HEINOUS!

An abuse victim was a vulnerable CHILD who was manipulated by a SICK adult.

The FIRST responses an abuse victim will have when they come to terms with their abuse is rage, fear, anger, pain, wrath, etc. THIS emotion must COME OUT and be accepted and encouraged. YES! encouraged. And the person needs months, years, sometimes decades to work through this emotion. You cannot start a watch and say, “Ready, Set, Go. Now be happy and forgive.” It just doesn’t work that way.

People who have never been severely abused have NO IDEA what it is like. The abuse alters a child’s personality, their life drive and commitments, and it changes them from the inside out.

I like to say it like this:

“A normal, non-abused child spends their life seeing the rose bushes and loves the beautiful colors, the wonderful smell and revels in the wonderful intricacies of God’s creation. But the abused child spends their life seeing the thorns and the weeds along the edges of the rose garden.”

Abuse alters a person from head to toe. And if you are not a PROFESSIONAL (a TRUE professional) on this issue, you SHOULD NOT be COUNSELING someone about this! THIS is as serious as cancer, or a brain tumor, or a clogged artery. There is not an easy 1-2-3 answer to this very complex problem.

Rand is OFF, OFF, OFF and I KNOW from personal experience his statements are RUINING people’s lives!

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I'm a fundy.avi

I tried to pass you on the street

But you wouldn’t let me through

Didn’t know I was bound for hell

Until I met you

In the main I was sane

But my IQ down the drain

When you made me feel

Yeah, you made me feel

Dirty and doomed

[Chorus:]

I’m a fundy

Saved for the very first time

I’m a fundy

Put your bible

Next to mine

Gonna give you all my income

My brain is shrinking fast

Now I know the Bible’s true

My need to think has passed

All my worldly goods I’ll sell

All my scientific books as well

Cos you showed me how

Yeah, you showed me how

They would send me to hell

[chorus]

Oooh, oooh, oooh

You’re so cool, you’re a tool

Of the Lord and I am your fool

‘Cause you shower me

Yeah, you shower me

With your biblical drool

[chorus]

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Granny's Ghost and other impediments to friendship.avi

I’ve lost two friends now, partly because I made the mistake of trying to apply Occam’s Razor to their claims of paranormal experiences and/or my attitudes to religion and the supernatural. Mentioned in the poem are claims they and other people in my family/of my acquaintance have made to me. Sometimes I can keep quiet, others…. sigh!

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UFC 164: Frank Mir and Josh Barnett Media Tour Recap

Heavyweights Frank Mir and Josh Barnett interview with various Wisconsin media outlets in preparation for their fight at UFC 164 in Milwaukee.

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Religion will one day reach its end

A bit of folk music

How many myths must a christian believe before the reality dawns? /> How many mullahs must cry god is great before the shackles are torn?

How many children will be fed on lies from the instant they’re born

Can’t answer my friend, but on this I depend

religion will one day reach its end.

How many young men will die in the name of something that doesn’t exist

How many women will be terrorised by the thumping of dogmatic fists

When will religions be made to pay tax and will their presence be missed

Can’t answer my friend, but on this I depend

religion will one day reach its end.

How many many hymns will the organists play before the last one is sung?

How many misguided parents will spoil the childhoods and lives of their young

How many bibles korans talmuds gitas will one day into shredders be flung?

Can’t answer my friend, but on this I depend

Religion will one day reach its end.

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If I only had a god

With many thanks to Larry Wallberg for the idea and the bulk of the lyrics. Larry’s excellent blog is at http://myoldky.wordpress.com/

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UFC 164: Official Weigh-In

Watch the UFC 164 weigh-in live from Milwaukee on Friday, August 30, at 5PM/2PM ET/PT.

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UFC 164: Fight Club Q&A with Cormier and Faber

Watch the UFC Fight Club Q&A with heavyweight Daniel Cormier and bantamweight Urijah Faber on Friday, August 30 at 3PM/12PM ET/PT.

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Thoughts on the Moon Hoax Conspiracy

By Madeleine (my daughter).

As Carl Sagan wrote, ‘Skeptical scrutiny is the means, both in science and religion, in which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.’

Check out GreaterApe’s videos debunking the Moon Hoax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGYIprzQv0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7vf4fO1Gw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7vf4fO1Gw

The wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories

The Moon Myths Mythbusters Episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS2FSevBqbA&feature=fvsr

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Mad(eleine) about God

Some musings on how we might deal with God’s crimes against humanity these days: and he’d be getting off lightly. />

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