It is often pointed out that "today's animal abuser is tomorrow's serial killer" by us animal rights activists, but many still ignore the impact religious doctrine has on this phenomenon. Continuing on my "why there are no true moderates in religion" line of discussion.
For a human to bring harm to any other living thing they must believe themselves to be different from that which they kill, such as not being an animal in spite of being the very definition of what an animal is. This allows them to ignore their empathy, conscience, the very things that make them mammals.
In essence, religion makes one behave like reptiles, we should have evolved beyond such behaviors. For this reason, today's believer is ultimately tomorrow's serial killer.
Once a person believes they are in any way better than anything else without earning such a title, they no longer worry about destroying it. This is why religious people must oppose any efforts to protect the environment, defend other animals, even deny our inherent and proven connection to the other animals.
Many will claim this is only the fundamentalists, but then ignore the fact that the ones they claim to be moderates are following the same doctrine, and prone to the same violent responses when their doctrine is challenged. When something need interpreting it is no longer objective, nor fact, and all interpretations become just as valid.
This opens the gateway for the religious preachers, their leaders, to change the interpretation when it suits them, and then convince the followers to do anything they want. We see this every day, in all countries that give religion special status.
To become more specific I will focus on the one I know best, the bible followers. Putting aside the hundreds of different versions and thousands of different "interpretations," the book was written to be contradictory as a tool to control the mindless masses it produces.
The scam of the bible is, itself, a wonderful example of how human thoughts can be manipulated when the human is prevented access to any information that contradicts it. The oldest snake oil claim is "anyone who denies my words is merely a tool for the opposition," a phrase reworded many times in all religious texts that claim absolutes.
A quick side note, the pagan religions rarely claim absolutes so I do acknowledge that some religious beliefs are nit founded on the delusion of an absolute. Please do not consider yourselves the same as Christian, Islam, or even Judaism. Judaism is one that's quiet but still a possible threat, which is why most Jewish people, like me, no longer follow it.
The doctrine of the absolute claims contain many verses discouraging the exploration of reality, thus allowing the leader to supplant whatever reality they wish into the masses. Then the doctrine commands that the followers breed more, and indoctrinate their offspring, thus increasing the number of mindless slaves to the religious leaders.
See, the one way to actually break this cycle of indoctrination is for us atheists to accept responsibility, for the religious leaders are our bad apples. Religious leaders are the atheists who consider the masses so stupid that they can be manipulated with something so obviously a scam.
Eventually the religious followers will see it, the more we remind them that their leaders think they are fools enough to fall for their scam, a scam created by atheists to allow atheists to manipulate the masses, a scam called religion. Reminding them of this fact will push them to begin to break the indoctrination, because it is the last realization of any atheist.
I first noticed this fact when I was really young, about 10 years of age. When the religious leaders of the church first discovered I was asking questions that shattered the doctrine they took me aside and filled my time with teaching instead of learning it.
I was about 8 years of age when they first began to prepare me for helping them to manipulate the flock of sheep, to prepare these sheep for whatever slaughter they wished. After a couple years I began to see what was truly going on, behind the curtains, where even the elders of the church were not allowed, but they allowed me there.
My mother thought it was some calling from their god, the leaders told her that, and she was so very proud in spite of the fact that even if this was true, she had nothing to do with it. It was my deductive reasoning that conquered all indoctrination, making it impossible for them to convince me that snakes talked, even as a metaphor. But it was my empathy and conscience that prevented me from accepting this chance to rule.
It also had a bit to do with the misogyny, a thing I could not support even before transitioning. Males were the ones in charge, because women were too kind to spread the indoctrination and scam, if they had not denied the genetic cause of being transgendered they'd have realized I was more woman than their own wives.
So I bided my time, pretending to lead while actually empowering the other youth, my mother bought it, and only a few of those youth still believe that religious nonsense because of my efforts. Yes, it is us who are ultimately destroying religion, the ones Christians attack and deny exist, as we hide among you to avoid your wrath and violence.
Now some preachers who are cishet have also joined the effort to destroy the hold religion has, I shall not name them, nor shall I say which churches they reside over, but their efforts are noted by me. Today is the greatest day to be alive, for it is always a step forward.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015
The Fallacies and Follies of Religion
The reality of a situation often escapes our senses, a fact that religious people only mention when trying to support the result of this fact. The ironies of religion are so numerous that one could spend decades listing, I wish to detail a few of them here.
The first one is the age of the universe, often religious people claim it's a few thousand years, and act as if this is a really long time. Even when Christians admit the Genesis account is made up they often say a day for the god could be "a thousand years," again thinking this is a long time.
They also fail to grasp what eternity means, citing that their god's idea of paradise is worshiping it "for all eternity." To understand what eternity is though, you must also understand what time actually is.
Time is an effect or force of existing, so it only applies to that which exists in a universe or reality like ours, outside of this time will be very different. However, the definition of eternity will apply to realities that do not even have a force of time.
Consider for a moment what that implies, reality defines time but time does not define eternity, in the same way that humans define math but math does not define infinity. So to grasp what eternity means to a being who is under the influence of our reality we must use what we call imagination, and once you understand the nature of time you realize how frightening eternity is.
Existing forever would destroy the sanity of a time bound mind, especially if that existence only includes one repetitive and mindless task. In essence, even in a paradise we would eventually beg to no longer exist.
It is said that by 2030 we will have conquered death, an unheard of claim until we applied scientific knowledge to it. This means we will have the option of living forever, for eternity, until this reality ceases to be.
But most will last maybe 500 years then switch off, allowing oblivion to claim them, if only out of boredom. Our minds are incapable of existing forever by nature of being bound to time, specifically linear time.
Consider this analogy: to a domestic feline 20 years, one fifth the lifespan of a human today, is an eternity. Yesterday 100 years to a human is an eternity, our observation of time is relative and so we cannot fathom eternal in any way, so to claim we know something is eternal is to lie.
An entire industry is dedicated to the fact that we cannot trust what we see, hear, or even feel. Our brains have this rather useful habit of trying to make sense of the world around us, but because of this we can fool it by presenting it with something which is nonsensical.
Religious leaders have historically used this same habit to sell their snake oil, because even concepts are affected by this habit. So how do you determine which is fact and illusion?
Religious people just go by what feels good, in other words, they fall for the illusion without ever questioning it. Enter the greatest tool invented by humans, science.
Science offers us a method of testing something to determine if it is fact or illusion, we can even use this in our everyday lives. The tests results are the key, should too many results differ then we know it's illusion.
The part often ignored by religious people is that the results must not differ, the claims are inconsequential to this. Touch a table and your hand cannot pass through, you don't truly know it's solid until you witness many hands being stopped as well, that is the scientific method.
The result is the same no matter who tests it, not matter who sees the results, no matter what the claim ever was, you can verify the results. If one person claims their hand passed through but did not do the test publicly you can reasonably ignore their claim, they did not present the results for public scrutiny.
Religious leaders are claiming their hands passed through the table while never showing anyone that they even tried the test. Religious followers often call this faith, but religious faith is only delusion.
Some pagan religions do leave their findings for public scrutiny and many will even change their beliefs to match reality, but none of their modern doctrine call for indoctrination, war, or death to those who oppose them. This is the best of both worlds, and one which can be tolerated, the alternative is to live as the Amish, apart from the rest of the world.
Denying humans are apes, the most heinous of fallacious dismissals of all. The deluded people will deny that we are apes because of the arrogance, if we admit we are animals then we must recognize that all other animals are our equals.
Often they say we would act like animals if we were yet they call for needless wars and torturing of their own, other animals don't, so how are we really better than the other animals, the beasts who only kill for necessity and instinctual drives, or us who have the ability to behave rationally but instead promote and spread violence and fear simply for the sake of violence and fear.
Another aspect of animals that we deny is unconditional love, anyone who cares for a domestic animal can tell you that humans know nothing of how to give love unconditionally. Unconditional means precisely that, not a single condition is required to be doted on in love, neither behavior, appearance, nor reciprocal love is required if the love is unconditional.
Religious people demand there always be conditions to love, either you must love them back, or the imaginary friends they call gods. Many even require you not "be" a certain way, like homosexual or black.
No cat I have ever met has had conditions to their love, even abused domestic animals will show love for the abuser, there is no condition to their love. But to demand that we love something or be tortured forever is conditional love, no matter how you try to justify it.
It appears I have some regular readers now, I would like to extend a quick thank you. You are the reason I have begun writing more lately, may logic and reason continue to guide your lives.
The first one is the age of the universe, often religious people claim it's a few thousand years, and act as if this is a really long time. Even when Christians admit the Genesis account is made up they often say a day for the god could be "a thousand years," again thinking this is a long time.
They also fail to grasp what eternity means, citing that their god's idea of paradise is worshiping it "for all eternity." To understand what eternity is though, you must also understand what time actually is.
Time is an effect or force of existing, so it only applies to that which exists in a universe or reality like ours, outside of this time will be very different. However, the definition of eternity will apply to realities that do not even have a force of time.
Consider for a moment what that implies, reality defines time but time does not define eternity, in the same way that humans define math but math does not define infinity. So to grasp what eternity means to a being who is under the influence of our reality we must use what we call imagination, and once you understand the nature of time you realize how frightening eternity is.
Existing forever would destroy the sanity of a time bound mind, especially if that existence only includes one repetitive and mindless task. In essence, even in a paradise we would eventually beg to no longer exist.
It is said that by 2030 we will have conquered death, an unheard of claim until we applied scientific knowledge to it. This means we will have the option of living forever, for eternity, until this reality ceases to be.
But most will last maybe 500 years then switch off, allowing oblivion to claim them, if only out of boredom. Our minds are incapable of existing forever by nature of being bound to time, specifically linear time.
Consider this analogy: to a domestic feline 20 years, one fifth the lifespan of a human today, is an eternity. Yesterday 100 years to a human is an eternity, our observation of time is relative and so we cannot fathom eternal in any way, so to claim we know something is eternal is to lie.
An entire industry is dedicated to the fact that we cannot trust what we see, hear, or even feel. Our brains have this rather useful habit of trying to make sense of the world around us, but because of this we can fool it by presenting it with something which is nonsensical.
Religious leaders have historically used this same habit to sell their snake oil, because even concepts are affected by this habit. So how do you determine which is fact and illusion?
Religious people just go by what feels good, in other words, they fall for the illusion without ever questioning it. Enter the greatest tool invented by humans, science.
Science offers us a method of testing something to determine if it is fact or illusion, we can even use this in our everyday lives. The tests results are the key, should too many results differ then we know it's illusion.
The part often ignored by religious people is that the results must not differ, the claims are inconsequential to this. Touch a table and your hand cannot pass through, you don't truly know it's solid until you witness many hands being stopped as well, that is the scientific method.
The result is the same no matter who tests it, not matter who sees the results, no matter what the claim ever was, you can verify the results. If one person claims their hand passed through but did not do the test publicly you can reasonably ignore their claim, they did not present the results for public scrutiny.
Religious leaders are claiming their hands passed through the table while never showing anyone that they even tried the test. Religious followers often call this faith, but religious faith is only delusion.
Some pagan religions do leave their findings for public scrutiny and many will even change their beliefs to match reality, but none of their modern doctrine call for indoctrination, war, or death to those who oppose them. This is the best of both worlds, and one which can be tolerated, the alternative is to live as the Amish, apart from the rest of the world.
Denying humans are apes, the most heinous of fallacious dismissals of all. The deluded people will deny that we are apes because of the arrogance, if we admit we are animals then we must recognize that all other animals are our equals.
Often they say we would act like animals if we were yet they call for needless wars and torturing of their own, other animals don't, so how are we really better than the other animals, the beasts who only kill for necessity and instinctual drives, or us who have the ability to behave rationally but instead promote and spread violence and fear simply for the sake of violence and fear.
Another aspect of animals that we deny is unconditional love, anyone who cares for a domestic animal can tell you that humans know nothing of how to give love unconditionally. Unconditional means precisely that, not a single condition is required to be doted on in love, neither behavior, appearance, nor reciprocal love is required if the love is unconditional.
Religious people demand there always be conditions to love, either you must love them back, or the imaginary friends they call gods. Many even require you not "be" a certain way, like homosexual or black.
No cat I have ever met has had conditions to their love, even abused domestic animals will show love for the abuser, there is no condition to their love. But to demand that we love something or be tortured forever is conditional love, no matter how you try to justify it.
It appears I have some regular readers now, I would like to extend a quick thank you. You are the reason I have begun writing more lately, may logic and reason continue to guide your lives.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Transgendered Allies - A Call to Arms for the USA
A short while ago I wrote a blog post about how those we stood for vanish when transgendered people are attacked, often they join the attackers. The posting of the brought out some unlikely allies, people who have nothing to gain by transgendered equality.
If this is the trend in the world today, we have not moved ahead much. Progress is not made by offering special privileges, but by offering equality, gay and black rights are special privileges if they ignore the transgendered, Asians, etc.
This we see, black kids attacking and killing transgendered being heralded as heroes by the media, gay people refusing to acknowledge transgendered people with respect. So who are these allies I speak of?
The very people the gay and black folks are being oppressed by: straight white people, and Mexicans. The irony is so very thick in this revelation that I find it too difficult to swallow.
These are people who are standing with the transgendered against their own privilege, against their own class of people, to admit that how we are treated by their own is bad. They offer help, but most of all, they offer a simple and effective "I'm sorry."
By standing with us they prove that the stereotypes their own often cling to are completely wrong, these stereotypes were created and enforced by psychiatrists, only psychology works to dispel this. Ah, the connection is made.
The huge difference between the cishet who stand with us and the others is the scientific mind, they think in ways that remove the need for stereotypes. Suddenly they realize one simple truth, us being who we are has no more impact on their lives than someone who gets a nipple pierced or a tattoo of Elvis on their bum.
In reality, changing one's gender is no different than having silicon implanted into your body to shape it, technically the gender change is safer and can even prevent future illnesses caused by the presence of gametes. So why do psychiatrists claim transgendered people are insane?
The phrase is "status quo." Psychiatrists, unlike psychologists, have used the population as test subjects in mad scientists like experiments since the occupation came into existence, who better to experiment on than those they have convinced others are insane?
The results of their experiments are the deaths of millions of people, which they used stereotypes to convince others that these people are better off being dead. Enter the group who cannot be stereotyped, the transgendered.
Historically, transgendered people have always been revered, even among the most violent cultures, though also left to the gutter at the same time. we have been the untouchable minority of history, until psychiatry came along. Psychiatrists saw us as the biggest threat to their power, we demonstrated that no living thing can ever be expected to fit into a box.
So they worked hard to convince their pool of test subjects that we were more insane than anyone else, which opposes everything we have learned since. Scientifically speaking, transgendered is simply another gender which cannot manifest in the mammalian genome, due to the fact that our genes only produce a binary gender system.
This creates a huge gray area which cannot be expressed by any one gender trait, so the organism must find a balance between the two genders that best serves to make it comfortable. We call thus gray are transgendered, and like black holes, the term is maintained even though it's highly inaccurate based on what we have learned.
The notion of gender disphoria is wrong, an incorrect label created by the nonscientific cadre called psychiatry as a way of claiming we were insane, psychology admits that no such unifying label can ever be applied to the collective differences included in transgendered. So now we have a huge problem, in the USA people still cling to the power hungry, mad scientist mentality, of the sadistic cadre called psychiatry, and largely ignore the scientific field of academia called psychology.
So the psychologists do what the can to help the transgendered, they allow us the protection of disability, using many of the effects of social oppression to justify it by labeling us as depressed, antisocial, etc. just so we can at least stay out of society and in the safety of our own homes. But this has a price, one which I will no longer pay, of being hidden.
The heart of psychologists is in the right place, they offer us a means of remaining hidden and therefore safer from the oppressive majority, but this has resulted in it being more dangerous for us to venture or even participate in society. So now we begin to speak out, seeing many of our brothers and sisters being slaughtered and ridiculed by the majority just for being unique has fueled our resolve.
We are now seeing a huge group of allies, true allies, who have the power to severely hurt the majority of society while remaining safely Anonymous. Yes, our greatest ally and a group many of us now belong to has demonstrated the ability to destroy society by removing the very tools we created for it is a true ally to the transgendered.
So I offer this call to arms, disband all psychiatric powers, replace them with the scientifically based psychology, and stop oppressing the transgendered people. We are watching now, USA, your move.
If this is the trend in the world today, we have not moved ahead much. Progress is not made by offering special privileges, but by offering equality, gay and black rights are special privileges if they ignore the transgendered, Asians, etc.
This we see, black kids attacking and killing transgendered being heralded as heroes by the media, gay people refusing to acknowledge transgendered people with respect. So who are these allies I speak of?
The very people the gay and black folks are being oppressed by: straight white people, and Mexicans. The irony is so very thick in this revelation that I find it too difficult to swallow.
These are people who are standing with the transgendered against their own privilege, against their own class of people, to admit that how we are treated by their own is bad. They offer help, but most of all, they offer a simple and effective "I'm sorry."
By standing with us they prove that the stereotypes their own often cling to are completely wrong, these stereotypes were created and enforced by psychiatrists, only psychology works to dispel this. Ah, the connection is made.
The huge difference between the cishet who stand with us and the others is the scientific mind, they think in ways that remove the need for stereotypes. Suddenly they realize one simple truth, us being who we are has no more impact on their lives than someone who gets a nipple pierced or a tattoo of Elvis on their bum.
In reality, changing one's gender is no different than having silicon implanted into your body to shape it, technically the gender change is safer and can even prevent future illnesses caused by the presence of gametes. So why do psychiatrists claim transgendered people are insane?
The phrase is "status quo." Psychiatrists, unlike psychologists, have used the population as test subjects in mad scientists like experiments since the occupation came into existence, who better to experiment on than those they have convinced others are insane?
The results of their experiments are the deaths of millions of people, which they used stereotypes to convince others that these people are better off being dead. Enter the group who cannot be stereotyped, the transgendered.
Historically, transgendered people have always been revered, even among the most violent cultures, though also left to the gutter at the same time. we have been the untouchable minority of history, until psychiatry came along. Psychiatrists saw us as the biggest threat to their power, we demonstrated that no living thing can ever be expected to fit into a box.
So they worked hard to convince their pool of test subjects that we were more insane than anyone else, which opposes everything we have learned since. Scientifically speaking, transgendered is simply another gender which cannot manifest in the mammalian genome, due to the fact that our genes only produce a binary gender system.
This creates a huge gray area which cannot be expressed by any one gender trait, so the organism must find a balance between the two genders that best serves to make it comfortable. We call thus gray are transgendered, and like black holes, the term is maintained even though it's highly inaccurate based on what we have learned.
The notion of gender disphoria is wrong, an incorrect label created by the nonscientific cadre called psychiatry as a way of claiming we were insane, psychology admits that no such unifying label can ever be applied to the collective differences included in transgendered. So now we have a huge problem, in the USA people still cling to the power hungry, mad scientist mentality, of the sadistic cadre called psychiatry, and largely ignore the scientific field of academia called psychology.
So the psychologists do what the can to help the transgendered, they allow us the protection of disability, using many of the effects of social oppression to justify it by labeling us as depressed, antisocial, etc. just so we can at least stay out of society and in the safety of our own homes. But this has a price, one which I will no longer pay, of being hidden.
The heart of psychologists is in the right place, they offer us a means of remaining hidden and therefore safer from the oppressive majority, but this has resulted in it being more dangerous for us to venture or even participate in society. So now we begin to speak out, seeing many of our brothers and sisters being slaughtered and ridiculed by the majority just for being unique has fueled our resolve.
We are now seeing a huge group of allies, true allies, who have the power to severely hurt the majority of society while remaining safely Anonymous. Yes, our greatest ally and a group many of us now belong to has demonstrated the ability to destroy society by removing the very tools we created for it is a true ally to the transgendered.
So I offer this call to arms, disband all psychiatric powers, replace them with the scientifically based psychology, and stop oppressing the transgendered people. We are watching now, USA, your move.
Islam is Humbug - So are the Other Gods.
Typically I do not focus on one particular religion or god, for none are innocent of horrible doctrine. However, the Abrahamic ones are the most offensive today, and they continue to kill because their imaginary god is so weak that it needs it's mortal followers to kill, torture, and oppress for it.
This includes the cults of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, they all worship the same war god and claim to follow nearly identical doctrine. All the doctrines of these cults are sadistic, violent, misogynistic, and insults to the species.
The sad tact is that the vast majority of followers of these doctrines either know little about their doctrine, or they lie about it to manipulate people into accepting their claims. The tip off is when they ask you to accept their claims without questioning it, they call it faith, the actual label is gullibility.
The god of Islam is so weak, such a whiny little brat, that the believers have to do all it's work for it. If this god truly existed it should be able to fend for itself, if it is worthy of anyone's worship, but instead it must demand the mortals carry out it's demands.
The Christian god is no different, as Christians in the USA demonstrate constantly. It is almost as if neither of these beliefs are accurate, or perhaps this particular god does not actually exist, like Thor and Bast, this god of Abraham is nothing more than myths of deluded old men in a time that we thought the universe revolved around us.
Judaism is much like the others but remains quiet and to itself, much like the only tolerable cult of Christianity called the Amish. The others are in a sad frenzy trying to prove their god exists while ultimately demonstrating that their god does not exist except in their own minds.
Insulting Islam is suppose to be a death sentence, but the god they follow seems oddly absent when insults are made and it's followers have to carry out this sentence instead. Making it impossible to believe that this god even exists, if it is unwilling to defend itself, or it is such a weak little rodent that the claws of human intelligence can shred it should it make it's presence known.
The Christian and Judaic god is weak against iron chariots, the Islam god is weak against humor. The more we think on this, the more likely these gods died a long time ago, dead of old age because they were nothing more than power hungry men that figured out how to take advantage of the deluded minds of timid and inconsequential men.
As I look outside I see the damage done by religion, men clinging to women as if they are property, women moving out of the way to allow the males to pass unhindered. Children afraid to speak up when they know their parents are wrong, nature trampled and banned from the city as if it has no value or is worth less than our species.
Technology wasted in the hands of those who just search for kitty videos and claims made by their leaders so they don't have to think for themselves. People still watch television or listen to the radio for news, this is simply asking to be spoonfed lies and garbage.
Change is resisted because of the religious mindset, a mindset that plagues many atheists in this country as well. Science is leant an ear only when it does not suggest any change, or the change is comforting.
This is all because of religious parents being allowed to indoctrinate the children, and religion being given a special exception to every law. An atheist must justify our actions with sound logic and evidence, while a religious person is allowed to hate, bully, even kill in almost all countries simply because it's their belief.
This privilege must no longer be tolerated, if you cannot present a clear and definitive danger then you cannot excuse killing anything, even the animals that are not human. If the words do not incite hate or are said in jest, then you have no cause for persecution of the one who penned them.
You have a right to be offended, you do not have a right to harm those who offend you, and it is time we enforce the right to offend across the globe. So pen those jokes, post those offensive ideas, make a mockery of the delusions we call religions until everyone knows it is not acceptable to be deluded.
This includes the cults of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, they all worship the same war god and claim to follow nearly identical doctrine. All the doctrines of these cults are sadistic, violent, misogynistic, and insults to the species.
The sad tact is that the vast majority of followers of these doctrines either know little about their doctrine, or they lie about it to manipulate people into accepting their claims. The tip off is when they ask you to accept their claims without questioning it, they call it faith, the actual label is gullibility.
The god of Islam is so weak, such a whiny little brat, that the believers have to do all it's work for it. If this god truly existed it should be able to fend for itself, if it is worthy of anyone's worship, but instead it must demand the mortals carry out it's demands.
The Christian god is no different, as Christians in the USA demonstrate constantly. It is almost as if neither of these beliefs are accurate, or perhaps this particular god does not actually exist, like Thor and Bast, this god of Abraham is nothing more than myths of deluded old men in a time that we thought the universe revolved around us.
Judaism is much like the others but remains quiet and to itself, much like the only tolerable cult of Christianity called the Amish. The others are in a sad frenzy trying to prove their god exists while ultimately demonstrating that their god does not exist except in their own minds.
Insulting Islam is suppose to be a death sentence, but the god they follow seems oddly absent when insults are made and it's followers have to carry out this sentence instead. Making it impossible to believe that this god even exists, if it is unwilling to defend itself, or it is such a weak little rodent that the claws of human intelligence can shred it should it make it's presence known.
The Christian and Judaic god is weak against iron chariots, the Islam god is weak against humor. The more we think on this, the more likely these gods died a long time ago, dead of old age because they were nothing more than power hungry men that figured out how to take advantage of the deluded minds of timid and inconsequential men.
As I look outside I see the damage done by religion, men clinging to women as if they are property, women moving out of the way to allow the males to pass unhindered. Children afraid to speak up when they know their parents are wrong, nature trampled and banned from the city as if it has no value or is worth less than our species.
Technology wasted in the hands of those who just search for kitty videos and claims made by their leaders so they don't have to think for themselves. People still watch television or listen to the radio for news, this is simply asking to be spoonfed lies and garbage.
Change is resisted because of the religious mindset, a mindset that plagues many atheists in this country as well. Science is leant an ear only when it does not suggest any change, or the change is comforting.
This is all because of religious parents being allowed to indoctrinate the children, and religion being given a special exception to every law. An atheist must justify our actions with sound logic and evidence, while a religious person is allowed to hate, bully, even kill in almost all countries simply because it's their belief.
This privilege must no longer be tolerated, if you cannot present a clear and definitive danger then you cannot excuse killing anything, even the animals that are not human. If the words do not incite hate or are said in jest, then you have no cause for persecution of the one who penned them.
You have a right to be offended, you do not have a right to harm those who offend you, and it is time we enforce the right to offend across the globe. So pen those jokes, post those offensive ideas, make a mockery of the delusions we call religions until everyone knows it is not acceptable to be deluded.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Blasphemy is Our Duty and Your Cure
The stories of people outraged over blasphemy in the USA are laughable, and more frightening than those of the Middle East. Freedom to worship what you want does not give you the freedom to place ideas ahead of lives, especially human lives.
But this is what we see more often than not in the USA still, and the law prosecutes those who blaspheme or mock religion as if they bombed an abortion clinic, but bombing an abortion clinic is treated like it's okay because it was his beliefs. The double standard is dangerous and will cause our country to fall behind even the Middle East in morals and ethics.
Many will attempt to call this a slippery slope fallacy, but we have seen it happen many times already. When ideas are given more value than human lives countries fall into chaos and war, innocent people are put to death without even breaking the insane blasphemy laws, and the land is taken over by religious gangs spreading their myths with violence and fear.
Here's the deal, all of you deluded enough to believe the myths told in books written thousands of years ago, if what you claim is truth truly had any value, it would be the inevitable outcome of any human logic. This means you would not have to teach it, especially indoctrinate children, nor spread it by force.
The very fact you have to protect your weak god with the use of force is undeniable proof your religion is nothing more than mythology and bad poetry. If your god were not weak, then you'd have nothing to fear when we deny the claim you make of him existing.
The irony of you creating laws to enforce arbitrary rules in the name of your god is evidence that either you don't know a god, or one does not even exist. The difference between an atheist and a theist is this: an atheist must justify our morals, religious people are never called to do that but they are the ones who would put a child to death just for insulting their doctrine or god.
The meat of this issue is that religious people prove their gods don't exist by their own actions, how they vote or why they attack others. They have no justification for their arbitrary rules, and when pressed they always point to the very books they never actually read, which is also a set of arbitrary claims.
So the irreligious atheists must ask for empirical evidence, and to date not one bit of evidence has been provided for any of the religious books. I challenge you to find some and present it for scrutiny.
Taking things on faith is admitting you don't know but just want to accept the claims to belong to a majority. The greatest thing about having a brain is that we can scrutinize everything to determine what is real, and what is just a shadow playing tricks on our mind.
Now people from the 80s and earlier are still naive and ignorant enough to forget that each generation knows more than the previous ones, we ride the shoulders of our elders to rise above their mistakes. So they complain about youth in the USA today being irreverent and unbehaved.
Let me remind you of what we did for entertainment in the 80s:
● My friends once got bored during Christmas and went through the neighborhood moving all the lawn decorations onto the roofs of every house, without the owner's knowledge. Nativity, cross, and Santa were all hanging out on the roofs of those who dared to make the neighborhood tacky with their manufactured crap.
● My brother, a few friends, and I snuck out in the middle of the night. After a rousing game of "hide/run from the cops" we decided to rip up all the temporary lines on the road, they were repaving and used reflective tape until they could paint it. We then made a huge peace sign in the middle of the neighborhood with them. It was even in the news, though no one knew it was us.
● Walking home from work was always risky, when I was 17. The gangs of the area made moving through the streets a life or death situation, and work was on the other side of several territories. I was accosted many times before I moved, simply for walking on their street.
● Downtown Seattle was worse when I was young. Many times you'd be mugged in broad daylight and no one helped because they feared becoming a victim themselves. In contrast to seeing even disabled and poor people today standing with the victim.
● Tucson was always overrun with weed smokers, I know, I was one of them. The cops could never catch us with evidence because we smoked it all up before they figured out we were high as kites. My friends there would regale me with tales of how the Wild West was still unlawful until the 90s. Even after the 90s we were certainly criminals, we just duked it out in video games instead of gunfire on the streets.
● Almost no one under 30 knew that an atom was made of smaller particles when I was growing up, and we also did not understand how chemicals reacted to DNA to produce the effect we call life. Today children in grade school are writing scientific papers, developing new technologies, and advancing our species beyond my generation's dreams.
So no, your religion does not deserve respect at all, and your delusions should be reason for treatment instead of a qualification for government office. But there is an easy and rather enjoyable cure for the delusion called god, learn the scientific method and apply it to everything in your life, you will see that learning this one tool will change your outlook for the better.
But this is what we see more often than not in the USA still, and the law prosecutes those who blaspheme or mock religion as if they bombed an abortion clinic, but bombing an abortion clinic is treated like it's okay because it was his beliefs. The double standard is dangerous and will cause our country to fall behind even the Middle East in morals and ethics.
Many will attempt to call this a slippery slope fallacy, but we have seen it happen many times already. When ideas are given more value than human lives countries fall into chaos and war, innocent people are put to death without even breaking the insane blasphemy laws, and the land is taken over by religious gangs spreading their myths with violence and fear.
Here's the deal, all of you deluded enough to believe the myths told in books written thousands of years ago, if what you claim is truth truly had any value, it would be the inevitable outcome of any human logic. This means you would not have to teach it, especially indoctrinate children, nor spread it by force.
The very fact you have to protect your weak god with the use of force is undeniable proof your religion is nothing more than mythology and bad poetry. If your god were not weak, then you'd have nothing to fear when we deny the claim you make of him existing.
The irony of you creating laws to enforce arbitrary rules in the name of your god is evidence that either you don't know a god, or one does not even exist. The difference between an atheist and a theist is this: an atheist must justify our morals, religious people are never called to do that but they are the ones who would put a child to death just for insulting their doctrine or god.
The meat of this issue is that religious people prove their gods don't exist by their own actions, how they vote or why they attack others. They have no justification for their arbitrary rules, and when pressed they always point to the very books they never actually read, which is also a set of arbitrary claims.
So the irreligious atheists must ask for empirical evidence, and to date not one bit of evidence has been provided for any of the religious books. I challenge you to find some and present it for scrutiny.
Taking things on faith is admitting you don't know but just want to accept the claims to belong to a majority. The greatest thing about having a brain is that we can scrutinize everything to determine what is real, and what is just a shadow playing tricks on our mind.
Now people from the 80s and earlier are still naive and ignorant enough to forget that each generation knows more than the previous ones, we ride the shoulders of our elders to rise above their mistakes. So they complain about youth in the USA today being irreverent and unbehaved.
Let me remind you of what we did for entertainment in the 80s:
● My friends once got bored during Christmas and went through the neighborhood moving all the lawn decorations onto the roofs of every house, without the owner's knowledge. Nativity, cross, and Santa were all hanging out on the roofs of those who dared to make the neighborhood tacky with their manufactured crap.
● My brother, a few friends, and I snuck out in the middle of the night. After a rousing game of "hide/run from the cops" we decided to rip up all the temporary lines on the road, they were repaving and used reflective tape until they could paint it. We then made a huge peace sign in the middle of the neighborhood with them. It was even in the news, though no one knew it was us.
● Walking home from work was always risky, when I was 17. The gangs of the area made moving through the streets a life or death situation, and work was on the other side of several territories. I was accosted many times before I moved, simply for walking on their street.
● Downtown Seattle was worse when I was young. Many times you'd be mugged in broad daylight and no one helped because they feared becoming a victim themselves. In contrast to seeing even disabled and poor people today standing with the victim.
● Tucson was always overrun with weed smokers, I know, I was one of them. The cops could never catch us with evidence because we smoked it all up before they figured out we were high as kites. My friends there would regale me with tales of how the Wild West was still unlawful until the 90s. Even after the 90s we were certainly criminals, we just duked it out in video games instead of gunfire on the streets.
● Almost no one under 30 knew that an atom was made of smaller particles when I was growing up, and we also did not understand how chemicals reacted to DNA to produce the effect we call life. Today children in grade school are writing scientific papers, developing new technologies, and advancing our species beyond my generation's dreams.
So no, your religion does not deserve respect at all, and your delusions should be reason for treatment instead of a qualification for government office. But there is an easy and rather enjoyable cure for the delusion called god, learn the scientific method and apply it to everything in your life, you will see that learning this one tool will change your outlook for the better.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Leelah Alcorn - Her Murderous Parents
It has come to my attention that the USA is still stuck in 1800 … BC, especially for transgendered people. Consider this: you can have synthetic silicone injected into your breasts, a deadly virus injected into your face, and poisonous inks injected into any surface without even a single psychiatric evaluation; but to do the planet a favor and have your genitals removed or modified requires not only two full psychiatric evaluations and 1,000 times the cost of the procedure in funds, but also 10 years of living in the most dangerous environment with no safety, no protections, and no respect.
That's just the requirement for the surgery, society here has no respect for the transgender, when they realize you are one. I am considered 100% passable by the medical industry and supporters, even after getting to know me it is impossible to tell I am transgendered without seeing me nude, or seeing my birth certificate.
This produces a very hostile and dangerous situation, not only do my own alienate me without knowing it, I cannot take the chance of making any local friends lest they find out and kill me, which is legal in the USA in all states except California. Even in California the law is useless to the person who is dead, they were erased from the planet just because society is unwilling to accept some very basic facts.
The first fact is this: we exist. Get over it, deal with your own insecurities and stop taking them out on us.
Second fact: we have no choice, but you do. It takes a conscious effort to hate someone, and we have a genetic predisposition to be us, one which is largely ignored and misunderstood by all but real biologists.
Third fact: your comfort is no more important than ours, stop pretending like you are the center of the universe. We all have to live on this over populated world because straight cis breeders won't take responsibility for their own actions, yet we are the one being blamed for doing the world and our own species a favor by reducing the chances of increasing that population beyond the breaking point. Don't blame us for your stupidity.
Fourth fact: removing or modifying the genitals not only has health benefits, it is a billion times safer than a tattoo. Not that tattoos are wrong, some are awesome, but put some damned perspective into your head for once.
Fifth fact: it costs the public more to care for transgendered people for one year prior to surgery than the surgery costs. You pay for it, in all cases, because your hatred of us is what makes us unable to find jobs. You could hire us for actual jobs, instead of ridiculing us after you discover what we are. You were our friend for years before I told you, nothing changed except you.
There's the biggest problem, cishet change their perspective of us when they find out, even though there was no chance they'd get into a sexual relationship. They suddenly invent some slight that never truly existed, only because of their invented fear of the unknown.
The fact you could not tell is not because we lied, it's because we are the gender you mistook us for. You lie to yourself when you say otherwise, you are the one pretending to care about people but place such shallow conditions on your friendship and love, you are the reason we die horrible deaths.
The term cognitive dissonance comes to mind, because we shatter your idiotic and invented notions of what reality is so you become violent to defend your fantasy world, and we pay the price for you being unable to deal with reality. This is your fault, not ours.
We owe no one anything, for we do no harm to anyone else and often seek safe medical help but end up becoming the toys of a cruel psychiatrist for our efforts. Psychiatrists who are given legal rights to kill their patients under the false pretense of science.
This is your fault, cishet, because you made us then turn your back on us just because we are different from what you thought you were making. Ironically this is not the end of our problems.
Almost all transgendered people have fought for gay rights, against racism, for animal rights, and even for women rights. But the only ones who stand with us when we really need it are not the ones we fought for, the small percentage of cishet who are intelligent and/or caring.
We get harassed and publicly executed by black folks, gay people turn their backs when we ask for help, women deny we exist, and the animals that are not human have no power to change us. Which makes it almost everyone's fault that the transgendered are slaughtered in horrible ways, slaughtered even in the USA.
So when you try to sleep at night, know this, one transgendered person in the USA is being tortured to death somewhere because you don't care.
That's just the requirement for the surgery, society here has no respect for the transgender, when they realize you are one. I am considered 100% passable by the medical industry and supporters, even after getting to know me it is impossible to tell I am transgendered without seeing me nude, or seeing my birth certificate.
This produces a very hostile and dangerous situation, not only do my own alienate me without knowing it, I cannot take the chance of making any local friends lest they find out and kill me, which is legal in the USA in all states except California. Even in California the law is useless to the person who is dead, they were erased from the planet just because society is unwilling to accept some very basic facts.
The first fact is this: we exist. Get over it, deal with your own insecurities and stop taking them out on us.
Second fact: we have no choice, but you do. It takes a conscious effort to hate someone, and we have a genetic predisposition to be us, one which is largely ignored and misunderstood by all but real biologists.
Third fact: your comfort is no more important than ours, stop pretending like you are the center of the universe. We all have to live on this over populated world because straight cis breeders won't take responsibility for their own actions, yet we are the one being blamed for doing the world and our own species a favor by reducing the chances of increasing that population beyond the breaking point. Don't blame us for your stupidity.
Fourth fact: removing or modifying the genitals not only has health benefits, it is a billion times safer than a tattoo. Not that tattoos are wrong, some are awesome, but put some damned perspective into your head for once.
Fifth fact: it costs the public more to care for transgendered people for one year prior to surgery than the surgery costs. You pay for it, in all cases, because your hatred of us is what makes us unable to find jobs. You could hire us for actual jobs, instead of ridiculing us after you discover what we are. You were our friend for years before I told you, nothing changed except you.
There's the biggest problem, cishet change their perspective of us when they find out, even though there was no chance they'd get into a sexual relationship. They suddenly invent some slight that never truly existed, only because of their invented fear of the unknown.
The fact you could not tell is not because we lied, it's because we are the gender you mistook us for. You lie to yourself when you say otherwise, you are the one pretending to care about people but place such shallow conditions on your friendship and love, you are the reason we die horrible deaths.
The term cognitive dissonance comes to mind, because we shatter your idiotic and invented notions of what reality is so you become violent to defend your fantasy world, and we pay the price for you being unable to deal with reality. This is your fault, not ours.
We owe no one anything, for we do no harm to anyone else and often seek safe medical help but end up becoming the toys of a cruel psychiatrist for our efforts. Psychiatrists who are given legal rights to kill their patients under the false pretense of science.
This is your fault, cishet, because you made us then turn your back on us just because we are different from what you thought you were making. Ironically this is not the end of our problems.
Almost all transgendered people have fought for gay rights, against racism, for animal rights, and even for women rights. But the only ones who stand with us when we really need it are not the ones we fought for, the small percentage of cishet who are intelligent and/or caring.
We get harassed and publicly executed by black folks, gay people turn their backs when we ask for help, women deny we exist, and the animals that are not human have no power to change us. Which makes it almost everyone's fault that the transgendered are slaughtered in horrible ways, slaughtered even in the USA.
So when you try to sleep at night, know this, one transgendered person in the USA is being tortured to death somewhere because you don't care.
Everything Rides On This New Year
Privacy is one of those things every older person, or younger person who is not a critical thinker, seems to actually believe exists. But like any of the gods claimed to exist, privacy is a myth.
The reason is less obvious than the fact, it has to do with our social need to belong. This social trait, selected because a single organism is more likely to survive if the species knows as much about it as possible.
The problem is that the human species has become spoiled by the illusion offered by our manufactured caves, walls we build between us and the rest of the world. Eventually these walls are built in our own minds as well, the mind always reflects the world around it.
This creates an illusion of privacy, while we ultimately share everything when we think there is anonymity. This illusion is shattered by the internet, now we see just how much of our lives is truly public knowledge, and it frightens many people.
The intelligent people just enjoy riding the wave of reason and accept these facts as revelations granted by it. These are the people I want to address today; I know, talking about the silver lining is not my usual style. But hey, it's New Year's Eve.
When you realize that privacy is an illusion you will see that every detail of our lives is public knowledge, because we shared it with them. It requires no spying, snooping, breaking into computer servers, because we posted that information somewhere or filled out a questionnaire somewhere else.
Today kids are less obsessed with the illusion of privacy, they grow up no longer wasting energy worrying about such things and embracing the reason why we should not worry about it. By sharing our life, our details, the real us, we ultimately offer a way for other humans to know what we need and one of them may be able to actually help.
Islands are eventually swallowed by the sea, but a continent will last for a very long time and always leave traces of it's existence. For this reason we need to bind together, those who embrace reality, to stand against the ocean of deluded human minds who fear losing what they never truly had, the ones that want to hide behind delusion and mythology.
The effect of this discarding of illusions, delusions, and childish fairytales is that we all live longer. When an advance made by one who accepts reality is made, it benefits us all, no matter the age of the one who develops this advance.
For this reason alone we now stand firm against the destruction of childrens' brains, done by religious parents. The cure for death may reside in a brain lost in a fog of delusion, worshiping death only because their parents made them too afraid of reality.
We would all benefit from such a cure, so use this new tool called the internet to find those poor children and protect them from the delusion called god. The last thing the older generations can offer in return for what children are advancing today is a chance to advance even more.
The reason is less obvious than the fact, it has to do with our social need to belong. This social trait, selected because a single organism is more likely to survive if the species knows as much about it as possible.
The problem is that the human species has become spoiled by the illusion offered by our manufactured caves, walls we build between us and the rest of the world. Eventually these walls are built in our own minds as well, the mind always reflects the world around it.
This creates an illusion of privacy, while we ultimately share everything when we think there is anonymity. This illusion is shattered by the internet, now we see just how much of our lives is truly public knowledge, and it frightens many people.
The intelligent people just enjoy riding the wave of reason and accept these facts as revelations granted by it. These are the people I want to address today; I know, talking about the silver lining is not my usual style. But hey, it's New Year's Eve.
When you realize that privacy is an illusion you will see that every detail of our lives is public knowledge, because we shared it with them. It requires no spying, snooping, breaking into computer servers, because we posted that information somewhere or filled out a questionnaire somewhere else.
Today kids are less obsessed with the illusion of privacy, they grow up no longer wasting energy worrying about such things and embracing the reason why we should not worry about it. By sharing our life, our details, the real us, we ultimately offer a way for other humans to know what we need and one of them may be able to actually help.
Islands are eventually swallowed by the sea, but a continent will last for a very long time and always leave traces of it's existence. For this reason we need to bind together, those who embrace reality, to stand against the ocean of deluded human minds who fear losing what they never truly had, the ones that want to hide behind delusion and mythology.
The effect of this discarding of illusions, delusions, and childish fairytales is that we all live longer. When an advance made by one who accepts reality is made, it benefits us all, no matter the age of the one who develops this advance.
For this reason alone we now stand firm against the destruction of childrens' brains, done by religious parents. The cure for death may reside in a brain lost in a fog of delusion, worshiping death only because their parents made them too afraid of reality.
We would all benefit from such a cure, so use this new tool called the internet to find those poor children and protect them from the delusion called god. The last thing the older generations can offer in return for what children are advancing today is a chance to advance even more.
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