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  • Live and Let Live … June 30, 2014

    Ego has stood in the way of truth on many occasions. Sometimes people have an idea in their heads and no matter the fact that there are many possibilities, they only consider one. Richard Dawkins is one such.

    I have often remarked that though religion is absolutely a false doctrine, containing little truth, and because of its age of fabrication, is totally irrelevant, nevertheless there are people who cannot exist without it. Richard Dawkins believes such an assertion is condescending. I believe he simply is ignoring reality to promote his own beliefs.

    The concept of an individual existing whose mental bearings are unstable without a stabilizing mechanism seems beyond Dawkins scope. In some ways you wonder if maybe he  has lost his ability to emphasize with his fellow human beings. Nothing is cut and dried in reality. There are always grays. That is a frequent claim of atheists when referring to morality. There are grays, I think, where belief is concerned as well.

    Some people have mental states that require belief to hold the fabric of their minds in place. If the glue is withdrawn these people often end up discarding all morality and becoming depraved. They simply do not have the strength, the wherewithal, to be a decent human being without it. Others, not immersed in religious doctrine and raised in comparative secular settings, have a different kind of glue and easily maintain themselves as decent productive human beings.

    In final analysis, what I am saying is this…

    Those individuals who have been raised from toddler on to believe could end up as inhuman wrecks should the glue of religion be quickly removed. Under proper tutorage they might leave religion properly and establish a mental glue which works well. Not every atheist is qualified to perform this task. A lot of times the atheist simply rips the Christian a new one, delivers a devastating blow, then walks off leaving the believer lying on the ground, vulnerable and bleeding. I know, I’ve done that.

    As long as the believer is doing no harm and is not actively spreading the contagion I would urge non-believers just to leave them alone unless you know what you are doing.

     

  • Gynosympathy, Gynocentric June 23, 2014

    Society has always shown extraordinary sympathy towards women. A woman can commit the same heinous illegal act, from child abuse, to rape, and a judge, either male or female, will grant the most lenient sentence, if any sentence is applied at all.

    The recent incident in Nigeria, the Boko Haram, butchered 29 (some reports vary on the number) boys, hacking them to death and burning them alive, then kidnapped girls, 200 (reports vary on number), but what do we hear of on the news? The kidnapping of the girls, without so much as a mention of the slaughter of the boys. Western media went so far as to attempt to make the kidnapping into a feminist, women’s rights issue.

    There are many examples of the double standard that is applied between males and females. In TV, movies, and in print the double standard is easily seen.

    If a woman commits a sexual act with a minor male, he is often depicted as being “lucky”. She usually receives a very lenient sentence, if any at all. A man commits a sexual act with a minor female, no matter how willing, and it’s rape. His name is publicized, his reputation immediately ruined, even if the incident was only something conjured up in the girl’s mind. If found guilty his sentence is noticeably more harsh than a woman’s.

    The public accepts this gynocentricity without reaction. Recently Hillary Clinton said that when men are killed in war the main people who suffer are the wife and children. What about the man that was killed, Hillary?

    One night I was watching an episode of the old Adam-12 series. A woman had just shot her husband to death and then rushed out of her residence firing her gun at will. If a man had killed his wife and done that he would have been full of lead before the echo from his first shot had died out. Instead, the police, treated the woman with delicacy. They hid behind their police car ducking round after round while another officer surreptitiously worked his way around behind her, and disarmed her. They seemed to have great sympathy for the woman. The man? Well, he’s dead, who cares.

  • Accept Responsibility

      GREAT QUOTATIONS

    “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    GREAT QUOTATIONS

    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  • Feminism is Male Hatred …. June 16, 2014

    Feminism is male hatred. Many feminists deny this, yet, since every single basis for feminism has been proven a lie and feminism continues it can only have one goal: Supremacy. The intention is to form a matriarchal government.

    For the radical feminists to do this it will take some time. It is in progress, however, in schools, in society, as men are criminalized, denigrated, and even feminized. Eventually society will be conditioned, is already mostly so, to see men as bumbling idiots, incompetents, who cannot chew gum and walk at the same time. Society as a whole will come to accept that a matriarchal government, with men subjugated to lesser status, is the only solution.

    “This can’t happen?” “When has this ever happened in history?” There is a first time for everything. Indeed, it may not be the first time. As Rome began its fall, women were ascending to power, men were leaving power.

    Whenever men resist this march toward matriarchy they are met with immediate chastisement, criticism, whining, and crying. Men are loathe to resist women in any case, and easily become submissive in the face of humiliating rhetoric. How society ever came to believe women were more moral than men, I will never know. They are just as capable of evil, perhaps more inclined, than men. Ever hear of the old saying that concludes “… a woman scorned”? It exists for a reason.

    I have heard women, and some hapless men, say that society would be better off if women were in charge. There have been societies where women have been in charge and they were every bit as war-like and immoral as any society men were in charge of.

    Feminism has done nothing for women. It was never meant to. Its goal was always power, power for the radical feminists that are in charge.

  • Atheism, What Does It Mean? … June 9, 2014

    Atheism: (from thefreedictionary.com)

    1. Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.

    2. The doctrine that there is no God or gods.

    Although I disagree with #2 above, that is, that there is any doctrine involved in atheism, the other is the essence of the meaning that I observe. There is no set of principles by which atheism is observed.

    Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods. This does not include any other beliefs or personal preferences. This has no bearing on an individuals opinions or views concerning anything other than non-belief.

    Being an atheist does not mean observing a set of views based on expectations of anyone whatsoever. It does not mean:

    • … acceptance or support of feminist viewpoints
    • … acceptance of “abortion on demand”
    • … an individual desires the end of all religion
    • … that an individual becomes an instant liberal
    • … anything other than non-belief

    It seems that a number, perhaps the majority, of atheists assume that to be an atheist you must observe and support the sexist and discriminatory set of views presented by feminism. It means no such thing. Yet, I have observed, most atheists parrot the talking points, the lies, of feminist doctrine. All of the reasons for the existence of feminism have been invalidated resulting in the conclusion that it now exists solely for the reason of garnering special privileges and considerations for women that are undeserved and that mock their stated goal of equality. If equality were their goal feminism would have disbanded years ago.

    Abortion on demand cheapens life, making it disposable. This cannot be denied. It brings abortion into the realm of a contraceptive.

    It is admitted that some people cannot live day to day relying solely on themselves. They need the crutch of religion to live day to day. For these weak individuals religion should remain available. However, religion should never be in control of government.

    There are many conservative principles that can be held by atheists. Views on abortion as well as a myriad of other concerns are not written anywhere as a requirement of non-belief. There are, after all, liberal Christians. Why not conservative atheists?

    All atheism means is: Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods, and nothing more. Whatever else a person believes or has opinions upon are unique to that individual. To deny this is to curtail freedom of thought. Make no assumptions.

  • Feminism is a Hate Group … June 2, 2014

    “When some of the most prominent feminists and famous women make openly hateful anti-male statements, and the mainstream feminist organizations say and do nothing to distance themselves from such public statements, then it’s clear that the hatred of men has an accepted place in mainstream feminism”

    Feminism has never been about equality ever since the “first wave”. (Even the first wave had questionable reason for existence) Feminism has always been about supremacy since the “second wave” on. It isn’t even about supremacy of women, it is about supremacy of radical feminists.

    These radical feminists, the leaders of feminism, abhor their womanhood, abhor feminine behavior, and abhor masculine behavior. These whiners and complainers have wiggled their way into places of power through continuous false accusations and lies.

    Now, through total control of universities of learning, they intend to force their view of the way things should be upon an unsuspecting public. The public has been fooled into actual thinking the feminists thrust for power is a struggle for equality. Atheists especially have bought into the lies and have for many years now parroted the talking points which eventually will bring the feminists to total power. Through “shaming techniques” feminists have silenced many critics. These whiners, who could not succeed without their cloak of “victimhood” are close to a social victory. Mothers have abandoned families, fathers have fled, children have suffered, all as a result of feminist ideology. The tipping point of no return may have already occurred. Women acting like men, men acting like docile puppies, all of this is prevalent as this is being written.

    Some feminists claim they do not hate men while claiming men are oppressing women. I have never known someone who did not hate their oppressor.

     

  • I Want An Audience With the Author! ….. May 26, 2014

    Here I sit, inactive. I have been told I have no free will. What will happen is predestined. So, having given up the futility of making the decisions of what it is to do next, I await the predestined actions that must occur next since I am but a leaf pushed by the wind of destiny. I continue to have thoughts, however, I suppose in violation of the law that there is no free will, of what I might be doing instead of sitting here waiting for my predestined actions to occur. Seems rather boring sitting waiting, but then, predictably predictable, as we all are, you knew ahead of time that I would be bored sitting here waiting, waiting, for my body, motivated by some predestined orders, thought of ahead of the question, to spring me into action. I imagine eventually some chemical release somewhere in my head will prompt my body, over which I have no control, no free will, causing me to rise and seek sustenance. There are so many different variables involved in moving through that space we call existence. Whatever made me think that my puny brain could handle so many computations, computations necessary to navigate my frame around so many obstacles while also breathing, also seeing, hearing, thinking predestined thoughts. It must be then that we are simply actors on some stage, perhaps more like puppets at the end of strings. Destiny controlling the strings. Who then writes the program for destiny? Is it written in whole, or does it manufacture itself a few moments ahead of actuality? Can it be influenced? If so, by whom, as no one can manage to come up with something new since there is no free will. Have atheists proven God’s existence by claiming free will’s non-existence, or have they dis-proven it. Who is writing the damn play?

  • Freethinker … May 19, 2014

    free·think·er (frē′thĭng′kər)

    n. One who has rejected authority and dogma, especially in religious thinking, in favor of rational inquiry and speculation.

    objectivity – judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

    Total objectivity is impossible. Therefore, would it not be true also that totally free-thinking is also impossible?

    In favor of rational inquiry and speculation? I have heard many a theologian claim to engage in rational thinking. If rational inquiry and speculation is carried out via subjective perspectives does it really qualify as freethinking? A human mind, I think, is incapable of maintaining an objective perspective for more than a brief time. Prejudices, upbringing, many factors, tend to squash results that are not desired. Subjective thinking might be the normal state for all humans despite grandiose claims to the contrary.

    How can your mind be free then?

    The human mind is influenced by emotions, yes, feelings. This fact seems to omit the possibility of objective thought by itself. Is it then only those who lack compassion that are capable of free-thinking? I would think that if someone existed who lacked all emotions, that of compassion, greed, anger, hate, love, etc., they would be the only person capable of free-thinking, totally unfettered. A stinking robot then? A persona-less computer?

    I like to think of myself as a freethinker. Of late, I have changed my mind, in the face of new evidence, about a great many things. Is this then the mark of a freethinker, merely the ability to change one’s mind?

    I can at least state, I think, from my recent experience, that not all atheists are freethinkers. Theists have so many mental cobwebs I cannot imagine them hardly able to think at all, much less freely, at least where their faith is concerned. When I first declared my atheism I naively imagined all atheists, all non-believers, as freethinkers as well. Now, I think that actual freethinkers are in scant supply. Everyone has a hidden agenda. Every ideology can be co-opted, twisted, to immoral purpose. The best intentions often do not end that way.

    I am sure I must have some hidden motive for presenting this post. Perhaps that motive is to get everyone to consider that their minds might not be so free after all. Maybe I am trying to get back at someone who has treated me badly? I hope that isn’t so. I would caution atheists, though, since I am one, not to criticize someone so harshly for being closed-minded until you are sure your mind is not locked up too.

  • Morality Is Not Disposable…. May 12, 2014

    religious delusion