Freethinker's corner

Fictional bedtime stories entertain children. Some provide comforting stories to allow untroubled sleep. Others, like those in the Bible present visions of horror, producing macabre nightmares that could last a lifetime.

The stories presented in the Bible and instilled in youth by merciless repetition remain imprinted on individuals for the rest of their lives and are capable of prompting nonsensical behavior until the day they die.

In some cases these stories produce a kind of paralysis, wherein individuals, instead of taking necessary actions to help another, sit hands clasped together and speak to a non-existent entity. In other cases the stories produce individuals who are capable of causing calamity to visit a great number of others.

The Bible, generated solely by a primitive culture, is outdated, and until abandoned, will continue to cause the violence which permeated the primitive culture from which it came.

A high number of people are incapable of seeing the fiction and instead see truth. Until this book, the Bible, is routinely taught as being fiction, people will continue to be duped by it’s empty promises and visions.

                                                   (081221)

Whenever perchance an encounter with believers in christianity occurs inevitably they utilize the same worn out arguments which have indisputably been destroyed by reason.

Unless such encounters occur in person I will no longer engage in them. It is fruitless to argue with those who have been mentally compromised by religious dogma. They are helpless to see the truth as they have been blinded by the myth.

This site is for the purposes of debating subtleties of various issues. This site is not for debating those who have been compromised by religious dogma.

                                        (081220)

Yes, it’s true. A murderer that accepts Jesus changes.

Instead of just a murderer he becomes a liar as well.

Quite a change.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/213737/december-11-2008/the-word—the-unbearable-lightness-of-supreme-being

Human emotions are perplexing. Anger, hatred, happiness, depression, sadness are all predictors of mood, and possibly future actions.

Anger and hatred are very negative, along with depression and sadness, these emotions are very detrimental for health, mental and physical.

So why do these negative emotions exist? Why do they cause even more damage, when suppressed?

Might these emotions be considered aberrations in evolution, mutations which have no beneficial effect? Beneficial and detrimental mutations help to drive the evolution of creatures. If a physical change results in an advantage to a creature’s survival it multiplies and prospers, if not, it does not, or does not as well as it might have.

Anger has caused many acts of violence, hatred, an extension of anger, even more, in premeditated ways.

It might be considered that anger and hatred caused creatures to oppose one another which led to those less fit, to die. Are these then to be considered tools of evolution?

Then what of happiness? Maybe happiness evolved only when it was necessary for creatures to gather into groups for mutual survival. Then cooperation was facilitated by happier moods. Smiling, happiness, could be said to display the mood of satisfaction with the state of affairs at the moment.

(Human Behavior Observation: 081214)

Yesterday, December 8, 2008 I witnessed a fine example of fused thinking, a mind already made up, and inflexible. The Host was going to have Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom from Religion Foundation on as a short term guest. Before Annie’s appearance he repeatedly lamented the sign the FFRF had posted in the Capitol building of Washington. (Washington State I presume)

How, he lamented, could someone put up such a devastating sign at this season of seasons? How could anyone so crassly denigrate someone’s belief system? How could someone be so insensitive to others? This set the tone of the interview.

Miss Gaylor did nevertheless appear, which is more than I could have done if so insulted. A very gutsy lady, indeed.

(human behavior observation: 081209)