oops

"And then Jesus came down,
From heaven above,
To speak to the masses,

And he said,
"You've got it all wrong,
My birthday's not now,
It's actually roughly in April,
Now you've missed 2009,
Birthdays of mine,
I'm sick and tired of it,
Seriously,
Your God wants you to pay up.""

Distraction

I was going to make a post about the progress of the war on Christmas, particularly in light of the uncovering of AFA uncovering the EAC's subversive shops...

But I got distracted by the EAC's pledge of allegiance

"As an evil atheist, I promise to perpetuate the conspiracy of biological evolution, to suppress the evidence for the existence of an omnipotent god, and to further the cause of Satanism. I will abuse any authority I may come to have by openly promoting the irrational faith of evolution as scientific fact and theory. In addition, I vow to take every opportunity to conceal the more than ample evidence for the existence of god. Finally, I will ridicule the church, the clergy and all those freethinking parishioners who have seen past the hoax of evolution, by characterising them as mindless sheep who are deluded and weak. In all facets of life, whether spoken, written, or believed, I will uphold this oath. For I am not just an evil atheist, but a humble servant of Satan."

I sign willingly

Second attempt: failed

I meant to write something about the last re:action, most likely built around the prejudices "maybe their meta-narrative isn't Jesus. Maybe their 'big-story' is about themselves' subtly built up.

But alas, I didn't quite remember enough of it to do so and it would up slipping out of my mind.

Yesterday I intended to at least remember something that I could write about* and once again I failed. This irritates me somewhat more than last time since the speaker mentioned a few things that would be quite interesting to examine, particularly concerning achievements**

Ah well, not that it really matters much, though I think I will type what I do remember, though it isn't much.....WTF?!

The college has blocked access to the SAB.

Reason: intolerance.

And yet Bible Gateway works. And BG contains the KJV, which is all the SAB is.

So highlighting parts of a book which tell you to shun and not have relationships with those who don't believe the same as you and pointing out that this is intolernt is intolerant yet the original text isn't?

GTFO of my internet


*Since it's nicer to be told how great you did in person I figured it would be better to tell Evee how awesome the musical side of it was when I had her with me. Although since I am discussing it, I can't help but bring it up again. It was good, you had people clapping and dancing-ish by the end of it, plus more Nazi salutes than last time (that I counted). You don't get that unless people are having a good time

**and his double back on himself from downplaying acheivments and the desire to earn them with what he'd acheived when discussing his dying friend. Though there isn't much meat on that and is worth little more than this passing reference I am giving it at the moment

In the mind

Very amusing

Periodic table

I am nothing, I have nothing. No skill, no ability...nothing I can point to as something that sets me apart. Just another drone, another cog in the machine. Destined forever to be spectacularly average.

I look around and I see you all, doing things which your good at. Having something which you can point to as a vindication for your existence. A certificate on the wall, a notch on your belt.

Me? Pathetic, paltry. Nothing I can excel at, nothing I can do even remotley well. My personal statement is empty, my CV: void. A wall empty, a life wasted.

Funny isn't it. Finding out there's no afterlife, that existence ends at death; it doesn't bother me at all. I'm not fazed by the discovery that there is no purpose to anything. But the notion I am nothign specail?

My insides implode

And it's true. There isn't even a hint of skill in my body. My evenings are wasted fannying around the internet or revising (read: procrastinising revising).

I can't do anything.

Maybe that's why so much of what I do involves kids. If I hang around with those puny beings then I can actually be better than them at something.

Somehow I can empathise with BR even more in this state, like it counts for anything. Like. It. Fucking. Matters.
"Oh yeah, I can understand some random band"

"Better off dead, yeah, better than this.
Take it away 'cuz there's nothing to miss"

EDIT:
I just got took a survey. One of the questions was "what are your hobbys?"
I know people who could write a ton
I had to put "none"

All alone

alt.atheism is full of trolls

Youtube has suspended me

MG's "Argument for the Existance of God" has been dead for a while....

Haven't had a decent discussion on the subject in ages

Write da feem tune

Recently on AL (a spin-off of MG, if you will) the topic of users "theme tunes" came up

Both me & TLW tried to claim I want to Conquer the World as our theme tune. Of course, since it's meant to be unique to the individual then both having the same one sort of defeats the point of it.

To counter this, I suggested he has Still Alive due to his rather disturbing fascination with all things Portal (he even has a copy of the song in Japanese!).

He countered by suggesting Atheist Peace for me, due to how MG assisted in his de-conversion from Christianity (and rather better than some people I might add). I pointed out that since I hadn't joined by that point then it wouldn't fit as one specifically for me and in turn countered with Shattered Faith to represent his....shattered faith....

He didn't like this allowing me to slip in with "So you don't like Shattered Faith? Well then have some Faith"

This upset him some more and the topic degenerated into throwing insulting songs at each other.

Which still leaves me with the problem of not having a theme tune.....I must ponder this some more

Happy Birthday

Today (or yesterday, not sure which one as I was informed of this by an American in another time zone, though if it was yesterday: epic double anniversary coincidence) is the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Creationists are celebrating with their usual ignorance and general total misunderstanding of modern biology.

Evilutionists are celebrating with parties and laughter. Which is all scientists ever do really.

Ok, that last link was unrelated, I just love it.

24th

1 month

This is good

'nuff said

People

The world is divided into two types of people.

Those who buy turn away in Disgust at No Russian

Those who click "replay"

I am the latter. Or I would be if I cba.

Over the limit

"Better off Dead" by Bad Religion is the new song on my playlist

If I'm singing to myself or humming then that's probably what it is

Expect a few references in the upcoming days.

Unfortunatley this brings the overall song count on my playlist to 44 when I want it to be 42.

BECAUSE I AM A DOUGLAS ADAMS SHEEP!

Escapism

I thought by growing my hair long I could escape it.

Become myself, escape your mental association

Escape the cries and the cheers, the laughs and the jeers

But no

For today I could hear; the first time in a year

"Hey Mclovin"

Fuck life

You'd think I'd have given enough to finally get something out of this existence.

I had some nice prizes all lined up. Some little, some large, all mine.

I set it out like dominoes. A single flick and life would be good.

But my flick just had to knock it the wrong way.....

Pure brilliance

It's 3 years old but the AOL search logs are still amusing

Some are rude, some are disturbing and some will make you say WTF! aloud (I especially like "Do niggas have x-ray vision")

But all are funny. Mostly.

Pet peeve #765

People referring to "New Moon" as "Twilight"

If I here "Twilight comes out on the 20th" one more time someone will die

¬

I know what it means now!

a=b
c=¬b
Therefore
c=¬a

Elephants are grey
Bill is pink
Therefore
Bill is not an elephant

Because we all know there are no pink elephants....

D'oh

It's you!

People are generally afraid of thinking. It's tough and it hurts and there are no answers that can be arrived at easily.

It's why horoscopes and religions are popular. They provide the easy answers handed to you on plate. No thought process required. Being able to turn a brain fart or a newspaper chart into a metabelief allows for life to just be so much easier.

As much as I hate to jump onto the conspiracy nut bandwagon and talk about how we're all sheeple there is a degree of truth to it.

People will believe in stuff because it provides an easy answer or makes them feel good. They won't be aware that they are making this decision for those reasons but that doesn't change the fact that those reasons are still behind it.

There are often other reasons. Authority or tradition being other key ones. The revereance afforded to those in power allows them to exercise a strong influence on what we think. Whether the scientist or the Rabbi; we will be more inclined to believe if it comes from on high.

But that point still stands that critical thinking is a tough thing and as such people are more inclined to turn and hide in the comfort zone.

People will believe the nice story over the hard truth and the easy answers over the thought process. I know I do a lot.

tl;dr?

Dear God

I am rather addicted to this song at the moment

I do dislike the whole middle section of about 1:25 onwards (goes good again at about 1:49; am unsure of how I feel about the strings). I would be content if the way it does the intro went the whole way through.

Which in fairness, it does! Other than 1:25-1:49 it goes pretty good.

How racist are you?

Click for tests

I showed little or no automatic preference between European Americans and African Americans

I showed little or no automatic preference between Thin people and Fat people

Christianity & Islam > Buddhism > Judaism

Delicious creation

The problem of evil; restaurant style
Yum

ch-ch-ch-changes

I don't think my behaviour has changed in the past 10 years

I've just become more adept at hiding it from others.

*sigh*

As much as I hate to say this, but:
Succesful troll is succesful

I'm gullible, I assume that people tell the truth. But between Poes law and YAB-esque trolls a part of me thinks I should change that.
Doubt all you say, think all is a lie.

But then I risk not trusting anyone, which would not be good.

20 Fun facts

Courtesy of Adroit
1)All babies are color blind when they are born
2)Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day
3)Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
4)From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet.
5)Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.
6)Cat urine glows under a black-light.
7)The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
8)A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour
9)Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
10)Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana
11)Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
12)Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
13)A rat can fall from a five story building without injury
14)A rat and a horse cannot vomit.
15)If you sneeze too hard,it may cause your chest to rupture. But if you hold back your sneeze by force,it may cause one of your blood vessels to break.
16)A lighter was invented earlier than a matchstick.
17)Right-handers live an average of 9 more years than left-handers.
18)Lice can jump over a distance 350 times longer than their bodies,equivalent to a human jumping over the length of a football stadium.
19)“Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick” is one of the hardest sentences to pronounce in the English language
20) A catapillar has over 2000 muscles.

An edit

Disclaimer retracted

Sorrow

There are people who have been through worse than me, have had more to complain about than me.

I have no right to bitch, not when there are those who've had worse

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Slovakia!

Bola to dlha cesta
Dostat sa odtial sem
Bol to dlhy cas
Ale moj cas je koneche blizko
A ja mozem citit emenu
Vo vetve prave teraz
Wie nie je v mojej ceste
A nejdu ma uzviac drzat
Vie, uz ma ne bu du drzat

Lebo mam vieru srdca
Idem tam, Kam ma srdce t'aha
Mam vieru verit
Ze mozem robit cokol'vek
Mam silu duse
A nickto ma nesputa ani nezlomi
Mozem dosiahnut akukolvek hviezdu
Mam vieru
Mam vieru
Vieru srdca

Humanity

We are an inherrently selfish species. It's not our fault and since it's a part of us, it's not all bad. We can't help it

However, despite these negative origins we have accomplished so much more. We have progressed beyond this primal roots.

We are bad but we aren't worse.

That is what gives me hope for the future. That we can be a little less worse as time continues

Friendship

Friendship for the sake of conversion?

It seems to me that being friendly with somebody just to bring them round to your way of thinking is a bad thing.

I can understand how being nice and polite can help convey a point, but if the person in question is reasonable then a logical sentence should easily be formed that can convince them. No heart-string pulling, friendly worming required. Surely having to resort to that undermines the validity of your point. If it can only be carried on the back on a friendly emotional appeal then it can't be that strong. The conversion itself is therefore carried out based on faulty reasoning as it comes loaded with this emotional baggage so is not really a conversion.

It also treats the person as a statistic. You aren't being friendly with them for who they are and....oh by the way X. The friendship is a means to an end, a tool in the hands of the convertor. They don't really care about them on a personal level otherwise they wouldn't be doing it this way. The conversion would be coincidental if they were truly friends.

Friendship for the sake of conversion is not a true friendship and not a true conversion

(this does not cover coincidental conversion whereby the friendship just happens to be)

The laws of MG

"1. The Inverse Law of TLW. This law states that what ever TLW says is automatically reflected back upon him, and turned against him. The only exception is when a staff member agrees with TLW, in which case invoke Law of MG #2.
2. The Staff Members are Gods. This law is self-explanatory, and has no exceptions.
Addendum A: This is to clarify which Gods the Staff members of MG are. Neo is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, DL is (naturally) Shogōki, I am Morgoth, Kovu is any number of nature Gods, Erior is Mendel, and Doc is Darwin.
3. The Never Give DL an Opportunity Law. He will take it, and use it against you. Due to law #2, this law has no exceptions."

That's me!

Imagination

Whenever I think of you
I open my arms in anticipation

When they close on nothing
I am disappoint

ANUS!

You probably can't see it but this reads as "until your last boss would say anus." We got this whilst trying to translate an Italian comprehension task for homework. Either Martin just developed a weird sense of humour or we just broke the google

Proof of creationism

A recent e-mail to AE

"Im emailing because I dont know where else to ask. I am agnostic (leaning towards atheism) but there is one thing which baffles me, which seriously seems like a product of creationism - the female orgasm.

It has literally no purpose in our survival as a species, its sole purpose is to give the woman pleasure. Why would it exist?"

I could answer this....but I'm just going to revel in the lulz

The DANGER of celebrating Halloween

Everyone survive ok? I've just been informed that halloween is in fact rather dangerous.

See, the root of the word Halloween is 'hallowed day' (who'd of thunk it), but this means that it's a day set apart for service. But then,"whose service is it set apart for? The answer to that question is very easy—Lucifer's!"

Now, you've gotta be careful with this Lucifer character as "everything God has, the devil has a counterfeit [of]"

Even a holy day. Pagan tree festival = Pagan death festival! It all makes sense now!

Of course, it's not just the devil you've gotta watch out for. They've got an entire trinity as well. On the streets last night, did anybody see "the Luciferian Spirit (the false father); the Antichrist Spirit (the false holy spirit); and the Spirit of Belial (the false son)[?]"

No? You thought you escaped, didn't you? But the devil reaches far and wide. That chocolate bar in your hand; that "has been dedicated and prayed over by witches."

See, they got you after all. The only possible escape is to "not buy candy during the Halloween season." A month without candy or ETERNAL DAMNATION!
Your choice.

Not only candy, but "Demons are loosed...when nice church folk lay out their pumpkins on the church lawn" as the "bringing [eath's] fruits, nuts and herbs" are "acts of [devil] worship."

Chocolate, pumkins and an unholy trinity. See how dangerous this is. I am sorry for not warning you earlier, you could've been killed....or worse....much worse

Soooo much worse. There are a variety of activities occurring during Halloween, each more terrible than the last. Did any of you fall victim to/participate in (:P):
"

• Sex with demons
• Orgies between animals and humans
• Animal and human sacrifices
• Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
• Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
• Revel nights
• Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
• Release of "time-released" curses against the innocent and the ignorant."

?

Afraid yet? Well you shouldn't be. Come join me and "utterly destroy the deeds of this season"

"If you or your family members have opened the door to any curses that are released during the demonic fall festivals, renounce them and repent. I already have. Then declare with me: "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!""



THE WHOLE ARTICLE.
I cannot take responsibility for any brain implosions incurred by reading this
(PS. The comments are very amusing)

Jesus loves the little Zygotes

Heard it on the Non-Prophets, it's from the old Dial-an-Atheist service in Ohio


Jesus loves the little zygotes
all the zygotes of the world.
Jesus loves them until they're born
then abandons them forlorn.
Jesus loves the little zygotes 'til they're born.

Jesus loves the little children
all the children of the world.
Jesus gives them heart defects
measles, mumps, and ringwormed necks.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Jesus lets their parents beat them,
bruise their bodies black and blue.
Jesus gives them birth defects,
scurvy, ticks, and palette clefts.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Jesus gives the children cancer.
Earaches, lice, and scabies too.
Bowel obstructions, altered lips,
blighted brains and twisted hips.
Extra chromosomes to help them when they pray.

Hallelujah.

Jesus gives the children acne.
AIDS and leprosy galore.
Germs and worms of every kind.
Things to make the children blind.
But he cannot give them smallpox anymore.

Scientists and unbelievers
wiped the pox right off the earth.
Jesus still gives gifts to kids,
broken nose and burnt eyelids.
But he cannot give them smallpox anymore.

Counting the seconds

2 days was bad

3 is worse

It's 4 until Wednesday.

Leaf on the wind

Epic scene is epic

(sucky quality aside)

All your base

A blog comment! I felt so special :ira: (dammit, MG smilies don't work here....hang on...there we go: )


So where was I....oh yeah, blog comment.

It was on the definitions I was thinking up whilst sitting in the car; focusing on:

"Love: a hormonal imbalance stemming from and resulting in extreme infatuation with another individual. Other effects can include impaired cognitive abilities and general elation"

To which the respondent responded

"Your definitin of love pretty much says it all regarding how out of touch you are with reality."

I find this claim that I am out of touch with reality very amusing, given that it is coming from somebody who recently made a post in which it was set out that atheist, therefore naturalist.

Writing a dictionary

3 hours in a car does this to you. Writing your own dictionary.

Respect: An alteration in behaviour or attitude towards an individual or object to demonstrate appreciation of sacrifices undertaken by the individual or object.

Ethics: arbitrary standards of right and wrong which are treated as though they are not.

Love: a hormonal imbalance stemming from and resulting in extreme infatuation with another individual. Other effects can include impaired cognitive abilities and general elation*

Worship: Willing slavery and exultation under the pretence that the individual being worshipped has done something to earn the participants respect

Cathedrals: Pretty but ultimately futile. Reminders of humanities creativity, even in delusion.

Circumcision: GBH

*FYI this is not a bad thing

Making sense for 2000 years

"spitting out kids doesn't make God happy. he'd rather you do not have sex a praise God. if you can't control the sex desires most people can't he wants you to get marred. sadly these condemned men don't have any wisdom about themselves. child abuse happens everywhere, God let humans make their own choice. like these humans did on this video. not much different than child abusers. God did not say preach but, don't marry. catholic says that, not christian. idiots quit breeding sucky instead."

Global warming

Ethics allow a co-operative society to function, benefiting humanity as a whole as a society can do better than the individual.

However it would be more beneficial to society, and therefore to the individual, by not continuing on our current course of environmental Armageddon.

By seeking an equality with nature I can continue my misanthropy

Hey Jack get back, in fact, don't do that

Not indecisive
Just afraid
Don't want to do it wrong

My first time

Here follows the account of my first physical threat I've ever had, ever! I feel so special

(FYI Peter = the forum admin)

Fleshie:

Laugh all you like - you live in your own little fantasy world where you are the self-important king. I live in the real world where I DO have a respectable amount of authority. Do please let me know if ever you should visit Eastern Canada. You can willingly step onto MY dojo floor where I will break your nose, peter (the word peter also means PENIS here in North America) and then give you a swift kick in your arse when you fall down. Just because you deserve it so very very much.

That's the mental image that gives me loads of amusement. Simply because I know it will happen so very fast. To you, penis. I mean, peter.

Me:

Oh, penis jokes now?

You can almost smell the intellect.

...

Smells like fish

Fleshie:

Image
You're invited too, smartass. See that right fist? It's hungry for making smug little self-satisfied grins vanish very quick.

Me:

Funditard 101: Threats constitute valid logical sentances

Fleshie:

Care to test that, wiseass?I've been playing with my wavemaster a lot more recently
Image

Me:

When I first saw that I thought it might be an anal intruder.

Given that this is fleshie, I still think it might be

It explains a lot

*FACEPALM*

Insulting, palaeontology fail, racist, straw-manned, ignorant, brainwashed, smash-your-head-0n-the-desk-idiotic, coma-inducing, lying Christian love

"Dinosaurs have been found in Russia where it was to cold for lizards"
*punches screen*

"I don't remember seeing a big meteor coming along and killing everyone"
Because if you did you'd be dead!

I am tempted to call poe.

Just in case he isn't here is DTAs response

WAYLTRN?

A WAYLTRN post. That's "what are you listening to right now" for the uninitiated.

Basically stick your music player on shuffle and type down the first 5 songs that come up, plus your favourite line from them.

(I've got my BR playlist going so they'll prob. all be by them)

Mediocrity - Bad Religion - Punk Rock
"Stories from our childhood condition us to think that beauty is a basic human trait,
But how do they reconcile with daily realities like poverty, dominence and rape?"

New Dark Ages - Bad Religion - Punk Rock
"Because we're animals; with golden rules"

Before You Die - Bad Religion - Punk Rock
"When you bite the dust was it for purpose or for trust?
You'll never relive it
So think before you die"

Materialist - Bad Religion - Punk Rock
"The process of belief is an elixar for the weak
I must confess at times I indulge it on the sneak
But generally my outlook is not so bleak"

That Spells DNA - Jonathan Coulton - Pop rock (?)
"If it says GTCACGACAGG
Then you shouldn't eat shrimp or nuts"

I encourage you all to do a WAYLTRN post. Hearing peoples favourite lines can be ver interesting,

I'll have a go

Matt said that nobody [of the non Jesusophile nature (if you are consider this whole post written in red and unless you're feeling rather self-flaggelating you might want to skip it)] could sit through this song

I took that challenge

I won that challenge

It inspired me to write another verse as an epilogue

"Jesus took the wheel
Then I ploughed right into a field
Now not even Tacitus can reveal
'Cuz I know that he ain't real
And my kids wound up as veal
Sliced like a baby seal
Now next time I decide to kneel
It won't be for fervent zeal
As no matter what I feel
Jesus didn't take the wheel"

I like it

My world is like plaster; crumbling under pressure from the blaster

Why is it that people will become automatically embarrassed over facts that are revealed about them by someone else?

They may be perfectly willing to tell others those facts themselves, they might even be about to.

But if it isn't coming straight from their lips then they don't like it.

Is it because they feel that they have possession over themselves? Perhaps they desire to be in control. Maybe they just feel betrayed.

But why?

It's because we create a façade amongst our little clique to ensure we are accepted. We mould it via the control of information.

Loose control, you loose the façade

Loose the façade and nobody will like you in any way at all, ever.

At least, that's what we think. We trick ourselves to believe it.

The reality of who we are conflicts with the social norms we have generated and so we convince ourselves that the reality of who we are is something nobody will like.

everyone's begging for an answer

"Don't tell me about the answer,
'cause then another one will come along soon,
I don't believe you have the answer,
I've got ideas too,
But if you've got enough naivete,
And you've got conviction,
Then the answer is perfect for you"

It all depends what this is referring to. As a general rule it is bad as you wind up in the position of denying progress based on the hypothetical improvements that have yet to come.
Did we do nothing we Newton's mechnaics because Einstein's would come along later? Nope.
Should we stop using Einstein's as a better one may be around the bend? Nope.

Whilst it does accurately convey the constant improving nature of human knowledge, to deny the exploitation of current knowledge based on the possibility of having some better knowledge is just plain silly.

Though it does accurately reflect the sceptical nature you should have of some of the "answers" that we are presented with. Astrotheology, 'the secret' etc. are a dime a dozen and perhaps should be treated like this song suggests.

To summarise: an accurate description of advancing human knowledge that could lead to the culling of human progress if applied to liberally, but in the right amounts helps weed out bad ideas.

But then the question arises; what makes a bad idea?

That really depends on each idea, but a good 'yardstick' is whether it requires faith for you to accept it as true.

Of course, this may upset some people, particularly those of a religious nature.

But this is merely because of a misunderstanding. "Faith" is the state of belief where you have no evidence, proof or justification for that belief. Most religionists have a justification, some proof or evidence of their chosen belief.

Of course, nowadays faith has been equated to religious belief to the extent that it is one and the same. I do not use it in this context. When I refer to faith I do so as when you have a belief with no evidence at all, rather than when you have a belief in a religion.

So by the old definition, which I use now, most religious types are excluded.

In fact, almost everything is excluded.

But not everything. Some ideas still require you to pause your evidentiary standards.

Some require the old style faith

Those are the bad ideas

There's always one.....

Whenever a transition occurs in your little social club you most likely wind up with new members.
This is fine and dandy as you get new friends and meet new people.
But sometimes you wind up with one...

One who really wants to be a part and so somehow finds out an inane tidbit about your group or their history and then constantly refers to it.

They'll bring up this anecdote every few sentences just to show that they know, that they should belong.

It gets really annoying, but surely, should you not be flattered that somebody is going to these lengths to be accepted? To dig through your discourse and find out this random piece of inanity? That you matter so much that they'd do this just to belong?

Ostensibly perhaps. You obviously matter to them and should be grateful.

But really?

Should you be happy that they keep drilling home this single point every 30 seconds in an effort to belong?

No.

Because if they really wanted to be in then they'd do so through their own merits, creating their own anecdotes.

And they wouldn't irritate you.

Everyone is begging for an answer

Some pondering was prompted by a particularly weird personal statement in which the Big Bang Theory (BBT) could be cited as proof of a Supreme Being (SB)

The fact is it could.

It could also be cited as proof of the universe being built on top of a turtle on top of a turtle etc.

The simple fact is that we don't know enough about the BBT to say anything except a description of it.

The universe used to be very hot and dense. Since then it has expanded and cooled

Beyond that we can't say anything. We simply don't know. Pre-BB could be mutliverse, string theory, quantum fart, SB or turtles all the way down.

We just don't know and anyone who claims they do is wrong.

It might sound bad to be exclaiming our lack of knowledge, but at least is honest. We don't have all the answers and admitting we don't know rather than making some up is the first step towards finding them

Amirite?

IMA IN UR EMOTIONS STEALING UR HAPPY

It was a very good weekend. Most enjoyable, despite having no right to be so; what with psychology, business, biology, TOK and extended essay coming up.

But it fought against the gloom and came through with flying colours. It was the calm before the storm if you will.

So a few thanks to those who made it possible.
Evangeline for some EPIC bench sitting and a scarf! And the promise of peace on earth, but that's more of an after thought
Dario for a spontanous history lesson and some though provoking bus waiting on Friday (still counts as the weekend)
Uganda for a.......pallitable movie recommendation and humouring me with my constant firefly quoting. Plus a suprisingly lengthy conversation.

I hope it was enjoyable for ya'all also.

If not ha! Your happy. It is mine now.

A misanthropic anthrapoid with nothing to do

(Do what you want)

I can place a statistical value on human life.

I can think of how it is good for them to live.

I know the benefits their survival imbues upon both me and civilisation

And yet at anything deeper than this objective level I really could not care whether people live or die.

Outside of my little 'friendship group,' despite knowing how it is beneficial for you to survive, I couldn't really care whether you do or do not.

Am I a bad person?

Pet Peve #331

When your reading a book and using the dust jacket folds as a book mark, there is a point about halfway through where you aren't sure whether to use the left or right fold as the book mark.

I passed this point with Dawkins "The Greatest Show on Earth" last night. It really irritated me.

In the end I had to count the pages and divide by 2 to find out which fold I was closer to.

I am doing maths where it is not needed. I could just gauge the distance with my eyes. Do a rough estimation.

But no....I worked it out.

I did maths

I feel unclean

Don't look at me; no I ain't one

(yeah....it's a prodigal son reference; what of it?)

Sometimes I feel like a third wheel.
Someone on the side, not really in it.
Just there for the entertainment value.
People aren't themselves around me.
And I can't be myself around them since I am too busy fulfilling my job as comic relief.
As the diversion, distraction.
The one who is there just because.

But when that doesn't happen.
When I am the one talked too.
I can feel out of my depth.
Thrown in the deep end.

I am stuck between two worlds.

I only hope I can carve out my own

Hey you with the pretty face....

(Adam J. Benton would like to point out that if you don't get the title reference then it is ELO fail)

An optimistic sky?

The sky has no intelligence or sentience. It cannot be optimistic or negative, nor have any mood or opinion as it is an object - inanimate and dead.

When it rains on you your anger does nothing; it does not care how you feel as 'it' cannot. It just is and your machinations have no bearing on it.

When you view the sky as nice or not, all you are doing is projecting your own aesthetic interpretation of reality upon that which you see.

You like what you see but what you see does not express this liking in any real way. The pleasing aspect of this sky is not something which is tangible. You cannot hold beauty in a jar.

Your mood is set by some presupposition of what reality is and just looking at the world can make you feel happy or sad when all that is really happening is that your projecting your deep emotions onto the blank canvas that is the world.

It does not feel, it does not think and it does not care. All that matters here is you.

You are that which assigns the world that is laid out in front of you purpose. You are the thinking, feeling, hurting creature at the centre of it all.

But do not fear, for I am there too.

Wait.....what!?

Some random messages I encountered whilst surfing the interwebs today:

"i have one statement and one question. if god has to have a beginning, then why doesn't space? if you think hard enough, you wont even believe you exist."

I have no idea what just happened. Some random message making less sense than the usual tubery.
Trying to think about how it would make me think I didn't exist involved so many mental contortions my head hurts.

"Hello!I'm from Asia China"

As opposed to what? Regular China?

"I'm very happy to see many foreign players are playing this old game,because in my country there's little pepole are playing now~~~~~~Depresseding~~~~~~"

The Chinese: getting depressed for random reasons since 1949

So I should be doing apathy now?

Oh, and this

I'm on to you....

(Somewhat recycled from a previous discussion since I seek to put as little effort for the most awesome into these posts as possible)

When somebody (notably those who are not male :P) complains about some aspect of their person what they really desire is to have that part of their personage complimented.

By inducing some sort of 'guilt' (for want of a better word) they hope to gain this from those who overhear their complaining.

Of course, this can put those around them at in a difficult position occasionally, as this compliment can come with added baggage.

So what winds up happens is the observing party can only offer a prudish disagreement with the complaint, leaving both dissatisfied.

So I propose that we sweep aside all this complicated crap and simply provide each other with little niceties, no strings attached.
This will revolutionise social interaction and make the world happier.

So ask and ye shall have.

xkcd poops on a variation of my idea (click for bigger):

I am the music man pt 2

My new musical goal in life is to be able to play this song

It seems pretty easy, even gives you the chords, so I should be able to do it.

Look what I can do

Boredom during english resulted in the rediscovery of googlefights.

Here are some of my favourite results:

1 Good thing Vs Another
(Clearly everyone on the internet already has a girlfriend. Or the internet)

1 Magic man Vs Another
(I think we should have some sort of spin-off in which they duel)

1 Bad thing Vs Another
(at least you can run away from babies. But an STD will follow you)

1 Good friend Vs Another
(google is the only way to place a value on this much awesome)

Desire Vs Mercy
(I guess I will obey the google. Irritatingly)

1 Awesome guy Vs 1 not so Awesome guy
(guess which one is which)

Racism Vs MOAR Racism
(BOO! Terrified of me yet? No!? How about now?)

I am the music man

Appearing to the right of this post should be a little music bar.

Click it to hear some gangsta tunage!

It's not set to autoplay, MySpace taught me that much, so you have to click it yourself.

It's also on shuffle, so you get a new song each time ^^

I won't deny I'm inclined to isolate

(Adam J. Benton was contemplating titling this "Han Xuan" (sp?) which is pinyin for "phatic." However, in order to continue the 'tradition' of naming posts after references he decided with this title so as to refer to Dearly Beloved. He would also like to inform his readership that he has started making these 'notes from the editor' in the 3rd person to make it seem more professional)


As I sat in lunch today it seemed to stretch out before me. I was with friends, but just couldn't partake in it. When somebody tried to talk to me I just couldn't hold conversation. Others seemed to manage it but I just couldn't.

I began to think I just wasn't very good at, having those old feelings of inadequacy. I thought back to yesterday and waiting in the bus-stop with those long periods of silence when I couldn't think of anything to say. I thought of the day before when a similar thing happened out the back of Touchwood.

I began to suspect I sucked at being social. To an extent it is true, I do have a slight inclination to isolate, though I suspect it's me being overly-critical again.

This feeling wasn't helped by the fact that the little sojourn into Solihull with Tham wound up being just phatic talk. She was glum, needed cheering up. In fact, the purpose of this little trip was to cheer her up.

And all I could talk about was the most inane stuff. Whilst I enjoyed it and I offer many thanks to her I couldn't help feeling that she needed better, that she should have better....that she deserved better.

But I guess sometimes you just need company; and she did seem to perk up towards the end. Maybe it wasn't quite as bad a social fail as I thought, though I am starting to get worried about shifting the focus towards me. Don't bother, she should have it. Go make Tham feel great as she deserves it for being so awesome all that time; whilst I go and find solace in the fact that I do want to be social.

As though intent counts for much.

Just Alerting You

xkcd knows.

I want this on a t-shirt

Stephen Gately

50p says today someone else died today.

Somebody who did a damn slight more for humanity than what he did; perhaps he developed a drug which saved lives or maybe he worked for charity.

And he won't be in the papers, won't be mentioned and we won't know.



Maybe I'm being a bit blunt, but sometimes to make a point the best way is to be blunt
I'm not trying to suggest that he shouldn't be remembered, but that people are perhaps elevating to a status above which he should be.

Dillahunty Vs. God

I wouldn't call Matt Dillahunty a hero as I find it odd to refer to living people as heroes.

It's almost like the larger-than-life image you have of them is neutered by the fact that they're still human at the moment, with human foibles.

But I don't want Matt do die. Let's label him as a 'role-model,' though he is probably a poor one.

Matt was raised a fundamentalist Christian, but began to fall away from his faith during his time in the navy. With a devout family, he was encouraged to return to the fold and sought to join the ministry.

He wanted to show the atheists how they were wrong and take them back into the flock, so as part of his preparation he studied various atheist arguments and the counter-apologetics to refute them.

But they didn't quite satisfy them.

He began to ask more questions and eventually found himself coming to the realisation that he didn't believe in God. He hid this from his parents, who would be appalled and went 'in the closet' as he was living in fundamentalist Texas.

Until he saw an episode of the atheist experience.
He began watching and rung in.
Within 41 days he was co-hosting.
By the end of the year he was the host.
Soon he was president of the Atheist Community of Austin.
Now he is a legend (link contains God being sliced up with a big sword)

He continues to host the Atheist Experience and Non-Prophets, both of which I am huge fans of.

Demotivator

The other day I was told that I was a rather good 'motivator'
(those weren't the exact words but will do for the purposes of this post (I may or may not be skeptical of the truth of this claim, for reasons I may or may not explain later; but that too will also be ignored for the purposes of this post))

(seemingly random theme: check)

What followed was a bit of introspection, as I had been curious before as to why somebody (*cough* D.G. *cough*) kept returning for 'motivation' and why I continued to provide it.

(Extrapolation: check)

I think it all boils down to some of the rather large feelings of inadequacy I get. I keep thinking that I suck at everything; that everyone is better than me. This is probably true.

As such when somebody has something which I do not and yet they deny this for whatever reason, I get rather frustrated. I try to convince them that they do have it because they do.

In other words, they have something I want and yet the deny this; making them seem ungrateful, which irritates me as I wish I had this ability that they posses. So I try to convince them they do have it.

(depressing self criticism: check)

. . .

Now I just need vampires...

. . .

TWILIGHT SUCKS

We'll have peace on earth and global communion

I looked around my little blogroll today.

I see Darren wallowing in his depressing melodrama.
I see Evee finding some underlying theme to her day and extrapolating it out to reflect upon herself.

And I see Aiman falling head over heels over vampires. (skip to about 8:30)

Then I look back and see mine; with the last post attempting to read the world of strife and the previous posts trying to get into the head of bloggers.

Methinks I'm setting my sights to high. Perhaps I should do something akin to the others.

Expect a negative, introspective post with added vampires soon.

(The title is a reference to I Want To Conquer The World, linked to somewhere above. Some of the links may not be suitable for those easily offended (but by now it's probably too late, suckas!))

Lost in space

In an admittedly vain attempt to convince Darren to have a different outlook on humanities progress we watched 'Pale Blue Dot'

It was an abject failure for that purpose as he spent most of the time wondering "which continent is Africa?" (FYI Africa =/= South America)

But whilst watching it I had one of those epiphanies. You know, the flash of understanding where you finally figure out life, the universe and everything but before you can put it into words it dissipates.

I did manage to put this one into words, but then realised it was something I already knew. But here goes:

"We are both on this planet, this speck. Trapped on the edges of the galaxy we have to share our rock. You may not like my ideology, my beliefs, my race, my religion, my party, my country or even me, but we are still on this dot as it hurtles through the void. War only provides temporary reprieve.

Permanent improvement can only come from teamwork and it is better, by any standard, if we work together rather than apart. Our machinations against each other are futile, but our co-operation can change the very face of much more than our home.

We are an extra-terrestrial race now, not because of war or strife, but through our co-operative society. To be a part of this greatness requires that we sacrifice pieces of our existence, but in return, we gain a whole lot more"

(postscript: Reading back over it I realised that the cheese is great in this one. Well screw it, began made of chedder doesn't invalidate my point. TEAM WORK FTW)

A QI observation

Our English teacher reminds me somewhat of Stephen Fry, despite being a woman.

They have the same eyebrow/eye/nose combination.

Though our English lessons are not QI unfortunately

So they have the internet on computers now

So I've gone at got one of those 'blog' things.

Why?

Boredom mostly; I find myself staring at long lunch hours with nothing but FSTDT, MG & DARREN to keep me entertained.

Their novelty value does not last too long.


But I could do many things to keep me entertained; like leaving the computer room and going into the common room where are living beings. I keep telling myself I should, but. . . .



I think the reason I, and so many others, choose to blog is because we hope for some twisted love, some acceptance. By laying down our lives bare in front of you we hope others will acknowledge it.

Like diaries.

I remember when they were all the rage, back in year 6. They were paraded around, the size of the padlock shown off and dire warnings of "do not read" issued. But they were all left on desks, half open.

It's like we want somebody to read our thoughts and go "well done, you win at life"

Well, life is a bitch.

(I hope to be less abstract in the future, just spent a lot of time dwelling when I should've been doing biology)