Torturing of other animals continually shows up, yet so few people are willing to do anything to stop it because of the reason for this torture. Most religions, like the Abrahamic ones, enforce an arrogance in humanity that allows them to justify harming the other animals by denying the fact that humans are animals.
This denial creates a huge divide between our species and the other animals so wide that it allows for the destruction of even our own. The result of losing diversity, polluting the environs, and slaughtering those who demonstrate intelligence is that we doom ourselves, we destroy the very things we need for survival.
This is not the only damage done by the delusion of religion and god claims, but this is the most pressing damage we need to address. We have to stop the rapid loss of life caused by our decisions made based on this religious idea that we are superior, separated, and protected by imaginary friends called gods.
The reality is more humbling, we must admit we are animals first, then admit we are part of a bigger system that is not segregated from us, we are stardust. This humility is impossible for Christians and Islamic people to ever understand, much less live by, yet their own actions demonstrate how much of the reptile brain still remains.
While other apes are moving further from the tendencies of reptile arrogance and self destruction, the vast majority of our population still clings to that violent and egocentric attitude. Reptiles are not the best option, this is why most of them have gone extinct naturally, and by their own hands.
So we continue the reptile tradition of self destruction enforced by arrogance and egocentrism which is not common to other mammals, if cretins understood this fact they could actually use it as a case against evolution, but then they'd admit to being reptiles in the same breath. The irony of denying evolution thickens to a point that it now requires a diamond tipped drill to cut through.
The only way we could possibly survive the next century is to destroy religion, utterly wipe it out, save the few pagan traditions which are at least humble enough to admit we need the planet to live on. One can never trust life and death in the hands of those who believe death is not the end, never trust the claims of one so arrogant as to think our species is nor connected to the rest.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Religion - A Delusion By Any Other Name is Still Delusion
The only consistency of religious people is a total lack of comprehension of the difference between fact and fiction. This is even seen in the very few religious people smart enough to understand the scientific method and why it works, think about it though, they don't apply said method to the thing which they use to define their life the most.
I will grant those few intelligent religious people one thing, they know they have no evidence supporting their god claims. Many pagans go one step further and just admit it's a placebo for them, which is the most honest thing a theist could ever say.
But let's focus in the intellectually retarded people who claim to know their god exists and then never once present evidence. One of my friends in Twitter calls then Tortucans, apt but the reference is obscure, I prefer to just call them what they are, deluded.
The nature of delusion was clouded by centuries of psychiatric mumbo jumbo, but modern psychology has managed to unravel the evidence and find the truth on the matter. Psychiatrists do not like the facts on this because they cannot use it as an excuse to abuse patients and kill perfectly healthy people anymore, to them I say fuck you, you are wrong, deal with it.
The simplest definition of delusion is a belief that opposes demonstrable reality, but this definition is for to broad and ends up including optical illusions as well. Optical illusions are not delusion, they are momentary and cannot be avoided, delusion can be permanent and is usually avoidable.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people choose delusion over fact, because delusion is simple and comforting, like a pacifier to an ape infant. So a more accurate definition in the simplistic vernacular that even someone as idiotic as a cretin can understand is: an explanation of reality that opposes or denies demonstrable facts or empirical evidence.
The god delusion is the perfect example, let's choose one of the over 3,000 god delusions to demonstrate, Athena is a perfect choice for this demonstration. When a person is indoctrinated, the delusion is not inherent but the resistance to said delusion is decreased drastically.
In her heyday, when the majority believed she was the greatest of the gods, Athena was given credit for emotions. Today we understand emotions so well we can actually control them using refined chemical compounds called medicine.
Back then the children were constantly told that no one can understand emotions because it would upset Athena, and thus you should just accept them and stop asking questions. They did just that, and for a century no one ever thought to find a way to help those plagued with uncontrollable emotional responses that made them dangerous to society.
Along comes a new god, more popular because he encouraged humans to seek answers, as long as they were subjugate to him and not Athena. So the kids were told not to question that god but to question all the others instead.
The result is doubt for what anyone said but those who claimed to hear this god, the new delusion of the century. The trick of this is that it made the people no longer accept the Athena claims, but kept them blind to the new claims, and when they got to the age of reason this was habit.
This habit of not questioning something that clearly is untrue is called delusion, the loss of the Athena delusion allowed the medical class to eventually find medicines to help calm emotional responses, but the new god that took her place was given credit for lightning and thus people stopped looking for ways to harness that power. The ultimate cost of the god delusions.
Now we have discarded both of those and began studying electricity, chemical compounds, even the forces of nature, because those delusions no longer plague us. A new set of delusions does plague us, ones which threaten our medical advances by discouraging study into biological sciences necessary for further advancement.
To make this worse, this delusion is still packaged by people who do not suffer the delusion and sold to those they know are gullible enough to buy it, we call those snake oil salesmen preachers. We call the gullible sods too stupid to question the preachers theists.
But to get these deluded people help we must destroy the barrier they claim as freedom or tolerance by ridicule and mockery, until religion is no longer protected or given special privilege our species will always be oppressed by it. This delusion is not easy to break through either, science has gotten so much evidence and collected so many facts as to appear scary to the deluded fools.
Religion continues to offer an excuse for the comforts of egocentrism, arrogance, and even crimes against the universe. Religion also offers easy responses to complex problems, and these responses appear to be answers but do not truly offer anything useful.
Those who claim that this is just a placebo, also known as "moderates," are infected by the delusion as well and displaying cognitive dissonance in such responses. Moderate atheists are just enabler, moderate religious people do not actually exist because they still follow that horrible doctrine.
This is why I give special consideration for pagans, you will never hear one pagan use the no true Scotsman fallacy or claim there are moderates, because they learned their lesson and ditched the delusion and the horrible doctrines while admitting that others could exist who still follow the bad ideas. The reason for this difference is that pagans admit everything must change for it to be perfect.
I will grant those few intelligent religious people one thing, they know they have no evidence supporting their god claims. Many pagans go one step further and just admit it's a placebo for them, which is the most honest thing a theist could ever say.
But let's focus in the intellectually retarded people who claim to know their god exists and then never once present evidence. One of my friends in Twitter calls then Tortucans, apt but the reference is obscure, I prefer to just call them what they are, deluded.
The nature of delusion was clouded by centuries of psychiatric mumbo jumbo, but modern psychology has managed to unravel the evidence and find the truth on the matter. Psychiatrists do not like the facts on this because they cannot use it as an excuse to abuse patients and kill perfectly healthy people anymore, to them I say fuck you, you are wrong, deal with it.
The simplest definition of delusion is a belief that opposes demonstrable reality, but this definition is for to broad and ends up including optical illusions as well. Optical illusions are not delusion, they are momentary and cannot be avoided, delusion can be permanent and is usually avoidable.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people choose delusion over fact, because delusion is simple and comforting, like a pacifier to an ape infant. So a more accurate definition in the simplistic vernacular that even someone as idiotic as a cretin can understand is: an explanation of reality that opposes or denies demonstrable facts or empirical evidence.
The god delusion is the perfect example, let's choose one of the over 3,000 god delusions to demonstrate, Athena is a perfect choice for this demonstration. When a person is indoctrinated, the delusion is not inherent but the resistance to said delusion is decreased drastically.
In her heyday, when the majority believed she was the greatest of the gods, Athena was given credit for emotions. Today we understand emotions so well we can actually control them using refined chemical compounds called medicine.
Back then the children were constantly told that no one can understand emotions because it would upset Athena, and thus you should just accept them and stop asking questions. They did just that, and for a century no one ever thought to find a way to help those plagued with uncontrollable emotional responses that made them dangerous to society.
Along comes a new god, more popular because he encouraged humans to seek answers, as long as they were subjugate to him and not Athena. So the kids were told not to question that god but to question all the others instead.
The result is doubt for what anyone said but those who claimed to hear this god, the new delusion of the century. The trick of this is that it made the people no longer accept the Athena claims, but kept them blind to the new claims, and when they got to the age of reason this was habit.
This habit of not questioning something that clearly is untrue is called delusion, the loss of the Athena delusion allowed the medical class to eventually find medicines to help calm emotional responses, but the new god that took her place was given credit for lightning and thus people stopped looking for ways to harness that power. The ultimate cost of the god delusions.
Now we have discarded both of those and began studying electricity, chemical compounds, even the forces of nature, because those delusions no longer plague us. A new set of delusions does plague us, ones which threaten our medical advances by discouraging study into biological sciences necessary for further advancement.
To make this worse, this delusion is still packaged by people who do not suffer the delusion and sold to those they know are gullible enough to buy it, we call those snake oil salesmen preachers. We call the gullible sods too stupid to question the preachers theists.
But to get these deluded people help we must destroy the barrier they claim as freedom or tolerance by ridicule and mockery, until religion is no longer protected or given special privilege our species will always be oppressed by it. This delusion is not easy to break through either, science has gotten so much evidence and collected so many facts as to appear scary to the deluded fools.
Religion continues to offer an excuse for the comforts of egocentrism, arrogance, and even crimes against the universe. Religion also offers easy responses to complex problems, and these responses appear to be answers but do not truly offer anything useful.
Those who claim that this is just a placebo, also known as "moderates," are infected by the delusion as well and displaying cognitive dissonance in such responses. Moderate atheists are just enabler, moderate religious people do not actually exist because they still follow that horrible doctrine.
This is why I give special consideration for pagans, you will never hear one pagan use the no true Scotsman fallacy or claim there are moderates, because they learned their lesson and ditched the delusion and the horrible doctrines while admitting that others could exist who still follow the bad ideas. The reason for this difference is that pagans admit everything must change for it to be perfect.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Gender Equality - Why Transgender Got it Right
Gender is considered a "touchy" subject by those who are really ignorant on the sciences involved. So let's open with the fact that bothers the ignorant morons the most: gender is entirely unnecessary and arbitrary, in other words, gender is subjective.
First the sexism, females did not evolve to be better or worse in the brain, while the hormones appear to have an effect on the brain's structure, this is not primarily genetic. Hormones vary depending on foods consumed, environment, even emotion.
High emotions absorb more of the chemicals that are associated with the female of the species, resulting in the body needing to produce more to maintain the balance it has determined best. Each individual will have a perfect balance for them, as determined by trial and error in the brain until the brain feels comfortable.
As we grow up our brain constantly tests reality around us, the result is that it can adapt to the environment which it resides in, and the way the brain communicates this to the other organs is by adjusting the hormone mixture, sort of a word soup. Our species is becoming more adapted to sedentary life, and more dependent on the brain, thus we are seeing an increase in hormones responsible for these, hormones incorrectly associated with females.
The result is a lower metabolism, needing less fats and proteins to survive, and a greater need for chemicals like caffeine to increase the brain's activity without ingesting too much fat. Many media outlets misread that, or spin it, to make it sound like coffee has been determined to be healthy, or some other nonsense.
The reality is that caffeine has been seen to be effective in helping us to adapt to our new environments better. Fat is not bad, neither is cholesterol, we just need less of it because our muscles are less important and thus need less fuel.
But fat is still necessary, and people who's bodies store it well have the greatest value to us because we still need builders. So stop reading the media crap about science.
As you can see, hormones are not associated so much with gender as you are told, though it does determine how the body starts to build it's first cells, but this is still not gender dependent. The hormones "fed" to the developing organism do affect it's development and determine the initial balance, thus hormones have the reverse effect in the womb.
This is why the bearer of the developing organism has very chaotic hormone levels during the pregnancy, which becomes more stable each time as the body loses it's ability to change the balance with age and stress. Now the reason doctors once thought there was a genetic imperative for this, the chromosomes that determine the reproductive organs.
These chromosomes have no direct effect on the hormones produced, the hormones are determined by which genes in the hormone producing cells are turned on. The genitals, collection of reproductive organs on apes and most mammals, were once thought to be so important that any modification to them would profoundly impact the organism.
Which is hypocritical, because we modified other species in irreversible ways but refuse to allow our own species to do the same. Just pure hypocrisy and egocentrism, no wonder why the USA is most notorious for this.
It does alter the hormone presence a lot, gametes are made of the cells that produce some key hormones, specifically testosterone and estrogen which are integral in emotional stability. Us humans can take medications to stabilize or even alter these, but we do not even offer other species thus basic right when we remove their gametes.
The loss of the genitals has no other ill effect, we know this as a fact, and sexism and bigotry is so rampant in the medical industry that doctors will allow women to have their gametes and even the rest of the genitalia to be removed, but say it's bad for males or transgendered to ask for the same thing. It's because male parts are considered sacred to the medical industry while women are thought to be disposable sex dolls and incubators.
You're welcome, medical assholes, nothing stays secret with me for long.
The reality of the matter is that we need the females to be kept untarnished far more than the male parts, and by not allowing transgendered to modify themselves accordingly you only increase the chance of our genes propagating in the entire population. So why does it all seem important?
Because society sucks, the most popular ideas are almost never the best ideas, and often cause far more harm to the entire species than the least popular ideas could. So stop being dicks, because you are the root of all our problems.
First the sexism, females did not evolve to be better or worse in the brain, while the hormones appear to have an effect on the brain's structure, this is not primarily genetic. Hormones vary depending on foods consumed, environment, even emotion.
High emotions absorb more of the chemicals that are associated with the female of the species, resulting in the body needing to produce more to maintain the balance it has determined best. Each individual will have a perfect balance for them, as determined by trial and error in the brain until the brain feels comfortable.
As we grow up our brain constantly tests reality around us, the result is that it can adapt to the environment which it resides in, and the way the brain communicates this to the other organs is by adjusting the hormone mixture, sort of a word soup. Our species is becoming more adapted to sedentary life, and more dependent on the brain, thus we are seeing an increase in hormones responsible for these, hormones incorrectly associated with females.
The result is a lower metabolism, needing less fats and proteins to survive, and a greater need for chemicals like caffeine to increase the brain's activity without ingesting too much fat. Many media outlets misread that, or spin it, to make it sound like coffee has been determined to be healthy, or some other nonsense.
The reality is that caffeine has been seen to be effective in helping us to adapt to our new environments better. Fat is not bad, neither is cholesterol, we just need less of it because our muscles are less important and thus need less fuel.
But fat is still necessary, and people who's bodies store it well have the greatest value to us because we still need builders. So stop reading the media crap about science.
As you can see, hormones are not associated so much with gender as you are told, though it does determine how the body starts to build it's first cells, but this is still not gender dependent. The hormones "fed" to the developing organism do affect it's development and determine the initial balance, thus hormones have the reverse effect in the womb.
This is why the bearer of the developing organism has very chaotic hormone levels during the pregnancy, which becomes more stable each time as the body loses it's ability to change the balance with age and stress. Now the reason doctors once thought there was a genetic imperative for this, the chromosomes that determine the reproductive organs.
These chromosomes have no direct effect on the hormones produced, the hormones are determined by which genes in the hormone producing cells are turned on. The genitals, collection of reproductive organs on apes and most mammals, were once thought to be so important that any modification to them would profoundly impact the organism.
Which is hypocritical, because we modified other species in irreversible ways but refuse to allow our own species to do the same. Just pure hypocrisy and egocentrism, no wonder why the USA is most notorious for this.
It does alter the hormone presence a lot, gametes are made of the cells that produce some key hormones, specifically testosterone and estrogen which are integral in emotional stability. Us humans can take medications to stabilize or even alter these, but we do not even offer other species thus basic right when we remove their gametes.
The loss of the genitals has no other ill effect, we know this as a fact, and sexism and bigotry is so rampant in the medical industry that doctors will allow women to have their gametes and even the rest of the genitalia to be removed, but say it's bad for males or transgendered to ask for the same thing. It's because male parts are considered sacred to the medical industry while women are thought to be disposable sex dolls and incubators.
You're welcome, medical assholes, nothing stays secret with me for long.
The reality of the matter is that we need the females to be kept untarnished far more than the male parts, and by not allowing transgendered to modify themselves accordingly you only increase the chance of our genes propagating in the entire population. So why does it all seem important?
Because society sucks, the most popular ideas are almost never the best ideas, and often cause far more harm to the entire species than the least popular ideas could. So stop being dicks, because you are the root of all our problems.
Media Lies - A Plea to End Ignorance Forever
"Is that a fact, or did you hear it on FOX News?" Sadly, thus phrase works for almost all media, I say almost only because I don't have the time (or stomach) to go through all the media.
When the Twin Towers were destroyed by religious people fighting over their imaginary friend I heard about it on the street before the news even aired it. Homeless people in Seattle knew before the news stations even knew what they were suppose to say to the public.
That alone is sad, then Charlie Hebdo thing happened and news media did not say anything about their own being shot for at least a week. It was all over the web the second it happened.
Nostalgic morons will tell you that this has not always been true, they're wrong. One musician said it best, the media are nothing more than trolls disguised as professionals (paraphrased Akira the Don: Don't Feed the Trolls).
There is a method to their madness that we have never truly understood until the advent of social media, when news came at us in real time and world wide. Our information overload phase is long past, so why do people still buy into media's trolling?
The answer is something that makes me sad to publish, considering we have had 20+ years to break the cycle. Religion is part of the cause, but the bigger impact is the reason people buy into religion still, that feeling of belonging to an exclusive club that knows something no one else knows.
It is also the same reason people buy into conspiracies and meaningless fads like organic or homeopathy. It's a genetic imperative to belong to a small group, we are not really a social species on a large scale.
Our species is group oriented only within very tight limits, if the group gets too big we start to go insane. At least that's nature's prerogative, we should have adapted past that a long time ago and if we don't we will destroy ourselves.
Admittedly, allowing the species to destroy itself has a pleasant ring to it and I have been reluctant to offer this warning in the past, but then I lose all my cool technology, medicines that keep me alive, and Starbucks. The fact of the matter is that we must cut back our population growth, and we must manage it reasonably.
We must also stop pushing people to be social in person, online you can easily shut off the overflow of attention and manage your groups better. But most importantly we must adapt to the global community so these scams and religions will die off on their own, when you no longer need made up answers the groups based on those will die on their own.
This also means you must turn off the news, all of it, and listen to the global community instead. In the 80s we were lucky if we got a snowstorm warning more than 5 minutes before the power died because if it, and that was only if you were tuned into a newscast or media program at that time.
Online we often get messages and even notifications and phone calls hours before the snow falls, directly from the actual weather stations the weather reporters use. The big difference is that it's not censored, filtered, rerouted, or reworded like all media is.
The government regulates media, all of it except social media and private forums. This has many problems, one is that all information must be filtered by the regulatory agency first, that same agency is trying to force the internet to abide by it's rules.
Enter hacktivists, Anonymous is the biggest group and is made up of more than just script kiddies, though script kiddies are employed to launch attacks. If you want the truth about Anonymous, you will never find it.
This particular group is not run by a single power, but only a single idea, all life is equal and no one can control information. Because of this no organization is ever needed, everyone knows their goal and the missions are easy to spot.
The really funny thing about Anonymous, then back on topic, it's made up of all the people who you made fun of in school. Maybe you should be wary of who you mock now.
Anyhow, the need to belong to an exclusive club is the lure of media, and of trolls, it is what they use to draw in an audience. Another example of why you do not except news for facts, a cable channel that claims to air scientific programs aired one on how mermaids were possible.
First of all, no, mermaids are not possible because the skin cells are an all or nothing effect of genetics. You cannot have half an animal with cold blooded skin and the other half with the brownish skin of a warm blooded organism, one of the skins will die.
The chemicals responsible for making hair or scales would effect the entire organism or not be present, not half and half. The chemicals are one or the other, mixing both would have a completely different effect.
Another such "scientific" program tried to state that flying, fire breathing, dragons were possible. Anyone who knows about reptiles would laugh so hard at this claim they'd probably have a heart attack.
Flying reptiles are not unlikely, but at that size they'd have to be eating every minute of the day just to fly for a few minutes at a time unless they were on Luna, it's why birds got smaller. So no, dragons are not possible, and fire breathing anything is laughable beyond sanity.
There is so much wonder and splendor in the real world, in reality, that to believe something just because it sounds cool in a headline is ludicrous. To accept something as fact just because it's easy is lunacy.
The chemical reactions involved in life and the universe are so fabulous, so wonderfully simple and elegant in their chaos. The forces of nature interacting offer us a ballet of such poetry that each atomic twitch, each vibration, every electron's movement is one grande story of reality.
The way in which hydrogen bonds to oxygen to form H2O makes you so happy to be a part of a universe in such a profound way, for we are the universe trying to understand and improve itself. We are reality's manifestation, the hands used to perfect it's chaotic and self destructive universe, we are one of the species capable of bringing actual order to the universe.
Instead we squander our talents, we give into our base instincts and kill each other over fears of the unknown, we deny the very reality that needs us to help bring order to the universe. We slaughter each other over mythology, and let others die out of greed or ignorance.
So here's a challenge to the entire species, use the tool we created for testing reality and learn how reality itself works, stop anthropomorphizing everything, and stop being so damned egocentric. We must prove ourselves worthy before we can ever claim to be better.
When the Twin Towers were destroyed by religious people fighting over their imaginary friend I heard about it on the street before the news even aired it. Homeless people in Seattle knew before the news stations even knew what they were suppose to say to the public.
That alone is sad, then Charlie Hebdo thing happened and news media did not say anything about their own being shot for at least a week. It was all over the web the second it happened.
Nostalgic morons will tell you that this has not always been true, they're wrong. One musician said it best, the media are nothing more than trolls disguised as professionals (paraphrased Akira the Don: Don't Feed the Trolls).
There is a method to their madness that we have never truly understood until the advent of social media, when news came at us in real time and world wide. Our information overload phase is long past, so why do people still buy into media's trolling?
The answer is something that makes me sad to publish, considering we have had 20+ years to break the cycle. Religion is part of the cause, but the bigger impact is the reason people buy into religion still, that feeling of belonging to an exclusive club that knows something no one else knows.
It is also the same reason people buy into conspiracies and meaningless fads like organic or homeopathy. It's a genetic imperative to belong to a small group, we are not really a social species on a large scale.
Our species is group oriented only within very tight limits, if the group gets too big we start to go insane. At least that's nature's prerogative, we should have adapted past that a long time ago and if we don't we will destroy ourselves.
Admittedly, allowing the species to destroy itself has a pleasant ring to it and I have been reluctant to offer this warning in the past, but then I lose all my cool technology, medicines that keep me alive, and Starbucks. The fact of the matter is that we must cut back our population growth, and we must manage it reasonably.
We must also stop pushing people to be social in person, online you can easily shut off the overflow of attention and manage your groups better. But most importantly we must adapt to the global community so these scams and religions will die off on their own, when you no longer need made up answers the groups based on those will die on their own.
This also means you must turn off the news, all of it, and listen to the global community instead. In the 80s we were lucky if we got a snowstorm warning more than 5 minutes before the power died because if it, and that was only if you were tuned into a newscast or media program at that time.
Online we often get messages and even notifications and phone calls hours before the snow falls, directly from the actual weather stations the weather reporters use. The big difference is that it's not censored, filtered, rerouted, or reworded like all media is.
The government regulates media, all of it except social media and private forums. This has many problems, one is that all information must be filtered by the regulatory agency first, that same agency is trying to force the internet to abide by it's rules.
Enter hacktivists, Anonymous is the biggest group and is made up of more than just script kiddies, though script kiddies are employed to launch attacks. If you want the truth about Anonymous, you will never find it.
This particular group is not run by a single power, but only a single idea, all life is equal and no one can control information. Because of this no organization is ever needed, everyone knows their goal and the missions are easy to spot.
The really funny thing about Anonymous, then back on topic, it's made up of all the people who you made fun of in school. Maybe you should be wary of who you mock now.
Anyhow, the need to belong to an exclusive club is the lure of media, and of trolls, it is what they use to draw in an audience. Another example of why you do not except news for facts, a cable channel that claims to air scientific programs aired one on how mermaids were possible.
First of all, no, mermaids are not possible because the skin cells are an all or nothing effect of genetics. You cannot have half an animal with cold blooded skin and the other half with the brownish skin of a warm blooded organism, one of the skins will die.
The chemicals responsible for making hair or scales would effect the entire organism or not be present, not half and half. The chemicals are one or the other, mixing both would have a completely different effect.
Another such "scientific" program tried to state that flying, fire breathing, dragons were possible. Anyone who knows about reptiles would laugh so hard at this claim they'd probably have a heart attack.
Flying reptiles are not unlikely, but at that size they'd have to be eating every minute of the day just to fly for a few minutes at a time unless they were on Luna, it's why birds got smaller. So no, dragons are not possible, and fire breathing anything is laughable beyond sanity.
There is so much wonder and splendor in the real world, in reality, that to believe something just because it sounds cool in a headline is ludicrous. To accept something as fact just because it's easy is lunacy.
The chemical reactions involved in life and the universe are so fabulous, so wonderfully simple and elegant in their chaos. The forces of nature interacting offer us a ballet of such poetry that each atomic twitch, each vibration, every electron's movement is one grande story of reality.
The way in which hydrogen bonds to oxygen to form H2O makes you so happy to be a part of a universe in such a profound way, for we are the universe trying to understand and improve itself. We are reality's manifestation, the hands used to perfect it's chaotic and self destructive universe, we are one of the species capable of bringing actual order to the universe.
Instead we squander our talents, we give into our base instincts and kill each other over fears of the unknown, we deny the very reality that needs us to help bring order to the universe. We slaughter each other over mythology, and let others die out of greed or ignorance.
So here's a challenge to the entire species, use the tool we created for testing reality and learn how reality itself works, stop anthropomorphizing everything, and stop being so damned egocentric. We must prove ourselves worthy before we can ever claim to be better.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The Folly of the Afterlife - No Delusion is Harmless
The most wonderful discovery made by science is the very thing that Christians in the USA are most opposed, the fact that we are all connected in the most profound ways. From the particles that make up your body to your DNA, everything is part of a great chemical reaction called the universe, and we are all an integral part of this.
The reason they deny this is because it removes the necessity of a god, ironically it does not remove the possibility. This frightens them because Christians, like the other Abrahamic religions, are invested in a life after death, so they have given up trying to make this one better in the false hope of a reward after death.
Having invested nothing in this life, anything that makes a life after this one less likely (especially the one they believe in) makes them realize just how much of this life they have wasted preparing for something they don't even know exists. We call this type of denial cognitive dissonance, but to make it easier to understand it is better described as a fear of wasting your life on a false hope.
The notion of a life after this one is not without merit, back when we did not have the time and resources to improve our lot it kept us from giving up. But it is inherently dangerous, as we can see with all religions who claim there is one.
First, if you waste this life investing in a future that may not happen you are wasting the one thing you know you have, this life is real, you know it's real, but anything beyond is only speculation. So you are wasting your real life on a speculation, one of thousands such speculations have been made and only a few actually demand investment anyway.
As horrible as this is, it's not even the worst problem with believing in a life after, suicidal encouragement is the worst part. Not content with this life, one who believes there is a "better" life after will be more willing to end this one, to hurry to the better life based on nothing more than speculation and wishful thinking.
This is where atheists or reality based religions differ. We have no choice but to invest our efforts in improving our lot for this life, it is all we know we have.
Religious people will often demonstrate their complete lack of rationality and logic at this notion, saying crimes are the inevitable result of not having a promise of an after life, they also display their sociopathic and psychotic personality traits with these claims as they need eternal reward to not kill, rape, steal, or torture other people.
Yet humans are not the only life on this planet, nor are we the most important, so even religion does not prevent these people from harming us all. Enter the "no afterlife" world view, because we need no reward to invest in our future.
Humanists have figured out one important fact, we will eventually conquer death, but to be there for that you either have to be such a good person that enough people want you back, or you have to help society get there faster. This is a true eternal reward, a second chance that we know will happen someday, likely in my own lifetime now.
But this is not even the best reason to be a good person, the main reason is that when you hurt others you ultimately increase the chances of you being hurt back, the inverse is also true, the more you help the higher the chances of you being helped in return. Many people call this karma, but the real name for it is herd immunity.
While herd immunity is often cited for vaccines, it applies to everything and encompasses the entirety of the world, even the other animals. We need other animals, even the plants, to survive as a species.
This means we must take care of the entire planet and do as little damage to it, lest we drive ourselves extinct for the arrogance of thinking that we are special and rewarded for believing instead of actually being good.
The reason they deny this is because it removes the necessity of a god, ironically it does not remove the possibility. This frightens them because Christians, like the other Abrahamic religions, are invested in a life after death, so they have given up trying to make this one better in the false hope of a reward after death.
Having invested nothing in this life, anything that makes a life after this one less likely (especially the one they believe in) makes them realize just how much of this life they have wasted preparing for something they don't even know exists. We call this type of denial cognitive dissonance, but to make it easier to understand it is better described as a fear of wasting your life on a false hope.
The notion of a life after this one is not without merit, back when we did not have the time and resources to improve our lot it kept us from giving up. But it is inherently dangerous, as we can see with all religions who claim there is one.
First, if you waste this life investing in a future that may not happen you are wasting the one thing you know you have, this life is real, you know it's real, but anything beyond is only speculation. So you are wasting your real life on a speculation, one of thousands such speculations have been made and only a few actually demand investment anyway.
As horrible as this is, it's not even the worst problem with believing in a life after, suicidal encouragement is the worst part. Not content with this life, one who believes there is a "better" life after will be more willing to end this one, to hurry to the better life based on nothing more than speculation and wishful thinking.
This is where atheists or reality based religions differ. We have no choice but to invest our efforts in improving our lot for this life, it is all we know we have.
Religious people will often demonstrate their complete lack of rationality and logic at this notion, saying crimes are the inevitable result of not having a promise of an after life, they also display their sociopathic and psychotic personality traits with these claims as they need eternal reward to not kill, rape, steal, or torture other people.
Yet humans are not the only life on this planet, nor are we the most important, so even religion does not prevent these people from harming us all. Enter the "no afterlife" world view, because we need no reward to invest in our future.
Humanists have figured out one important fact, we will eventually conquer death, but to be there for that you either have to be such a good person that enough people want you back, or you have to help society get there faster. This is a true eternal reward, a second chance that we know will happen someday, likely in my own lifetime now.
But this is not even the best reason to be a good person, the main reason is that when you hurt others you ultimately increase the chances of you being hurt back, the inverse is also true, the more you help the higher the chances of you being helped in return. Many people call this karma, but the real name for it is herd immunity.
While herd immunity is often cited for vaccines, it applies to everything and encompasses the entirety of the world, even the other animals. We need other animals, even the plants, to survive as a species.
This means we must take care of the entire planet and do as little damage to it, lest we drive ourselves extinct for the arrogance of thinking that we are special and rewarded for believing instead of actually being good.
The Good Religion - Witches, More Correctly, Wicca
"Everybody loves kittes." This statement, while inane and wishful thinking, is completely false because it is tautology. Yet almost all religious claims are this statement, only the wording changes.
This is one of the the absolute proofs that religion is inherently wrong, an actual "gotcha" point which could be made against any religion. But not religious claims are dangerous, many can be inane or inconsequential, one such example are the Wiccan claims.
For that matter, let's look at the Wiccan claims exclusively for this post just because I need one decent religion mentioned in my blog. Wiccan believe in something like "and it harm none, do what thou wilt."
This phrase, thus one law, is much like the Golden rule, but unlike other religions, this is actually part of every Wiccan teaching and anything that opposes it is never considered true to Wiccan beliefs. Wicca is only one of the many pagan religions, and one that has a pretty solid doctrine.
The difference between a Wiccan saying "that's not Wiccan" and Christians saying "that's not Christian" is that the entire Wiccan doctrine is "and it harm none, do what thou wilt." Christians have a doctrine that contradicts itself and requires interpretation, while the Wiccan doctrine is pretty clear and easy to remember, the wording often changes but it's always clear.
Comparing Wiccan to Islam is no contest, the Quran is just badly written poetry with no inherent meaning other than "kill everyone who opposes this book." Wicca would never kill you for dismissing their claims, or even for opposing them.
There's the rule they live by in action, the modern Wicca have never been recorded doing anything as horrible as any of the other religions, and many of them love science more than us atheists. Most Wicca do not even claim any god as fact or adopt a deistic view of the universe, this makes them pretty damned cool.
A Wicca would never deny reality in place of their fanciful stories and mythology, and they will not get angry when you point out that their stories are mythology. This is because of their mindset, a pretty awesome and empowering idea that our lives are gifts given, and to squander this life or cause harm to others is to invite disaster.
Ironically they are so very close to reality with this idea that no sane person could ever deny it as fact. We pollute our planet and destroy the other animals, Wicca believe we are all connected, even the other animals.
Still more beliefs that fit reality, Wicca believe that our actions impact the entire world, if you deny that this is true then you are a danger to everything. The result is that most Wicca are very Earth friendly, doing everything they can to help everything, even people of other religions who treat Wicca with death and torture.
To forgive is divine, according to one religion that believes in eternal punishment, Wicca actually live by this and often allow slights to go without much more than an apology, often not even that is needed for them for forgive. Their only flaw is that they often forget as well, which invites more abuse, allowing the offender another opportunity to bring them harm.
Now the crux of it, I can safely state with all honesty that no Wicca will oppose anything I have written about them in this article, though some may say that what I wrote about the other religions is bad. This demonstrates why Wicca, and many other pagan religions, are safe from my anti-theistic wrath, they actually want peace on Earth now.
There is a "although" in here, in the past the religions that Wicca used to build their modern doctrine were not so nice, many were warmongering savages just like the Abrahamic religions. The difference is that they removed all that from their doctrine and even adopted a new name for themselves, based on an old word meaning "witch."
It is this drastic change in their beliefs that made them superior to the other religions, and the fact that they don't deny their dark and horrible past. Like scientists, they learned from their mistakes and corrected their behavior, and their doctrine, something the Abrahamic religions fail to do even after 100+ years of atrocities committed because of their doctrine.
So I say this to my atheists, mock the Wiccan doctrine for laughs, know that at they won't be shooting or beheading us for it, most often they will laugh with us as we laugh with them for jokes at our expense. This is what a good delusion looks like, oh wait, the final blow to Abrahamic religions, Wicca are not delusional.
This is one of the the absolute proofs that religion is inherently wrong, an actual "gotcha" point which could be made against any religion. But not religious claims are dangerous, many can be inane or inconsequential, one such example are the Wiccan claims.
For that matter, let's look at the Wiccan claims exclusively for this post just because I need one decent religion mentioned in my blog. Wiccan believe in something like "and it harm none, do what thou wilt."
This phrase, thus one law, is much like the Golden rule, but unlike other religions, this is actually part of every Wiccan teaching and anything that opposes it is never considered true to Wiccan beliefs. Wicca is only one of the many pagan religions, and one that has a pretty solid doctrine.
The difference between a Wiccan saying "that's not Wiccan" and Christians saying "that's not Christian" is that the entire Wiccan doctrine is "and it harm none, do what thou wilt." Christians have a doctrine that contradicts itself and requires interpretation, while the Wiccan doctrine is pretty clear and easy to remember, the wording often changes but it's always clear.
Comparing Wiccan to Islam is no contest, the Quran is just badly written poetry with no inherent meaning other than "kill everyone who opposes this book." Wicca would never kill you for dismissing their claims, or even for opposing them.
There's the rule they live by in action, the modern Wicca have never been recorded doing anything as horrible as any of the other religions, and many of them love science more than us atheists. Most Wicca do not even claim any god as fact or adopt a deistic view of the universe, this makes them pretty damned cool.
A Wicca would never deny reality in place of their fanciful stories and mythology, and they will not get angry when you point out that their stories are mythology. This is because of their mindset, a pretty awesome and empowering idea that our lives are gifts given, and to squander this life or cause harm to others is to invite disaster.
Ironically they are so very close to reality with this idea that no sane person could ever deny it as fact. We pollute our planet and destroy the other animals, Wicca believe we are all connected, even the other animals.
Still more beliefs that fit reality, Wicca believe that our actions impact the entire world, if you deny that this is true then you are a danger to everything. The result is that most Wicca are very Earth friendly, doing everything they can to help everything, even people of other religions who treat Wicca with death and torture.
To forgive is divine, according to one religion that believes in eternal punishment, Wicca actually live by this and often allow slights to go without much more than an apology, often not even that is needed for them for forgive. Their only flaw is that they often forget as well, which invites more abuse, allowing the offender another opportunity to bring them harm.
Now the crux of it, I can safely state with all honesty that no Wicca will oppose anything I have written about them in this article, though some may say that what I wrote about the other religions is bad. This demonstrates why Wicca, and many other pagan religions, are safe from my anti-theistic wrath, they actually want peace on Earth now.
There is a "although" in here, in the past the religions that Wicca used to build their modern doctrine were not so nice, many were warmongering savages just like the Abrahamic religions. The difference is that they removed all that from their doctrine and even adopted a new name for themselves, based on an old word meaning "witch."
It is this drastic change in their beliefs that made them superior to the other religions, and the fact that they don't deny their dark and horrible past. Like scientists, they learned from their mistakes and corrected their behavior, and their doctrine, something the Abrahamic religions fail to do even after 100+ years of atrocities committed because of their doctrine.
So I say this to my atheists, mock the Wiccan doctrine for laughs, know that at they won't be shooting or beheading us for it, most often they will laugh with us as we laugh with them for jokes at our expense. This is what a good delusion looks like, oh wait, the final blow to Abrahamic religions, Wicca are not delusional.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Organic Foods - The New Religion of Lies
Those who fall for the scam called "organic foods" are just a new religious cult. Many times they display cognitive dissonance and often refuse to even acknowledge the science behind their claims, often referring to the old religious canard of "everything proves it."
So here I am, detailing the follies of the scam for all to read, and to verify if you have the courage. I only accept scientific papers as evidence, and this always invokes violence from religious people of all types, even the people naive enough to fall for the organic scam.
The reason is simple, scientific papers offer evidence that can be verified and detailed explanations of the tests performed to verify said evidence, nothing else ever presents these things and thus nothing else is valid. So if you ever want to try to debate something about reality with me, be prepared or look a fool stumbling through your collections of baseless assertions.
Back to the topic at hand. Any biologist can inform you that natural selection makes mistakes, and our form of selection called cross breeding makes even more mistakes.
The reason is simple, natural selection chooses based on what can fit within a niche best, or the fitness of a organism. This means anything that has minimal impact on the fitness will not be selected against or for, and will often be retained in the species even if it poses a long term threat.
Human driven selection, used in the past for almost all our foods, is jot based on what makes a species more fit but what makes it more aesthetically appealing. For food this means flavor and texture only, a small amount of appearance influences it but not much.
Because of thus we have produced a lot of weeds while trying to get some plants to be edible, weeds are an invasive species capable of destroying entire environs. These archaic methods are what is labeled "organic," and yet the scam here is that all living organisms are organic.
An organic chemical is merely a chemical produced and fundamental to living organisms, cyanide is one such chemical, so is ascorbic acid. Minerals are inorganic, utilized by organisms but not produces by them, for example.
So the scam is to arrest the word and redefine it in a way that causes people to avoid the cold hard truth, "organic foods" are supporting the status quo that results in people starving to death and farmers being allowed to gouge the customers. This archaic method results in thousands of tons of food to be wasted, because the aesthetic is not up to par and the farmer wants a yacht.
The modern methods replacing cross breeding are planned, with the environment, safety, and how edible it is in mind. This produces safer foods with higher yields, thus lower prices and fewer children starving to death without having to destroy all the natural environs for space to grow it.
The drawback is the same as cross breeding, only with a much lower risk, we must control the spread of the resulting organisms to prevent them from destroying more than the land needed for foods. But the higher yield results in less land needed for to feed our species, our species is still growing out of control as well.
So now we enter the biggest threat of the old methods, the reason many scientists have pushed to refine our genetic manipulations and RNA mapping, and why us environmentalists should be supporting modern science instead of the outdated and dangerous methods of old. The amount of space for crops is making our species unsustainable, resulting in the total destruction of the organisms we need to continue our own existence.
This us caused by our population growth, something which almost no one wishes to become responsible for, so we need to reduce the space we use for necessities, like food. Enter modern genetic modification methods, we can plan the genetic changes so as to produce a food source that fills our needs while avoiding the dangerous mutations caused by cross breeding, we reduce the risk.
Ultimately, the result is that these modern GMOs are easier to control, not prone to as many errors, and less likely to infect the wild species with any of the traits we introduce to the RNA. But this not a concern of those selling "organic foods," they care nothing about safety nor the environment, they only care about profit.
Now the irony of the "organic food" scam, they target only one company that uses modern methods, because they cannot create a believable fallacy about the others to frighten the gullible morons. Monsanto once accepted a government contract to produce a population pacification chemical, the first version of pepper spray.
The result was what is called agent orange, which did precisely what the government wanted and helped to win a war, time was of the essence so further development was not possible and Monsanto did not want to make weapons so they dropped it once the government was satisfied. The same way we got the hydrogen and nuclear bombs, as well as super glue.
So they make people afraid of them by using a causation fallacy, they made a weapon and thus all their products are inherently weapons. This fallacy easily drives the ignorant masses into paranoia, making it easy for them to buy into the opposing scam, to even produce laws to offer the scamming businesses compulsory profits.
This will cause our species more illness, suffering, and the destruction of more wildlife, pollution, and eventually mass extinction. All because some companies want to be able to set their own prices at the expense of their own species.
It is not using old methods that kept our species alive, not at any time in history did our old methods ever prove to be better than the ones we had most recently developed. From refinement of medications to the invention of digital computers, the newer technologies and methods have always proven to be better for us, and better for the world we need to live on.
So here I am, detailing the follies of the scam for all to read, and to verify if you have the courage. I only accept scientific papers as evidence, and this always invokes violence from religious people of all types, even the people naive enough to fall for the organic scam.
The reason is simple, scientific papers offer evidence that can be verified and detailed explanations of the tests performed to verify said evidence, nothing else ever presents these things and thus nothing else is valid. So if you ever want to try to debate something about reality with me, be prepared or look a fool stumbling through your collections of baseless assertions.
Back to the topic at hand. Any biologist can inform you that natural selection makes mistakes, and our form of selection called cross breeding makes even more mistakes.
The reason is simple, natural selection chooses based on what can fit within a niche best, or the fitness of a organism. This means anything that has minimal impact on the fitness will not be selected against or for, and will often be retained in the species even if it poses a long term threat.
Human driven selection, used in the past for almost all our foods, is jot based on what makes a species more fit but what makes it more aesthetically appealing. For food this means flavor and texture only, a small amount of appearance influences it but not much.
Because of thus we have produced a lot of weeds while trying to get some plants to be edible, weeds are an invasive species capable of destroying entire environs. These archaic methods are what is labeled "organic," and yet the scam here is that all living organisms are organic.
An organic chemical is merely a chemical produced and fundamental to living organisms, cyanide is one such chemical, so is ascorbic acid. Minerals are inorganic, utilized by organisms but not produces by them, for example.
So the scam is to arrest the word and redefine it in a way that causes people to avoid the cold hard truth, "organic foods" are supporting the status quo that results in people starving to death and farmers being allowed to gouge the customers. This archaic method results in thousands of tons of food to be wasted, because the aesthetic is not up to par and the farmer wants a yacht.
The modern methods replacing cross breeding are planned, with the environment, safety, and how edible it is in mind. This produces safer foods with higher yields, thus lower prices and fewer children starving to death without having to destroy all the natural environs for space to grow it.
The drawback is the same as cross breeding, only with a much lower risk, we must control the spread of the resulting organisms to prevent them from destroying more than the land needed for foods. But the higher yield results in less land needed for to feed our species, our species is still growing out of control as well.
So now we enter the biggest threat of the old methods, the reason many scientists have pushed to refine our genetic manipulations and RNA mapping, and why us environmentalists should be supporting modern science instead of the outdated and dangerous methods of old. The amount of space for crops is making our species unsustainable, resulting in the total destruction of the organisms we need to continue our own existence.
This us caused by our population growth, something which almost no one wishes to become responsible for, so we need to reduce the space we use for necessities, like food. Enter modern genetic modification methods, we can plan the genetic changes so as to produce a food source that fills our needs while avoiding the dangerous mutations caused by cross breeding, we reduce the risk.
Ultimately, the result is that these modern GMOs are easier to control, not prone to as many errors, and less likely to infect the wild species with any of the traits we introduce to the RNA. But this not a concern of those selling "organic foods," they care nothing about safety nor the environment, they only care about profit.
Now the irony of the "organic food" scam, they target only one company that uses modern methods, because they cannot create a believable fallacy about the others to frighten the gullible morons. Monsanto once accepted a government contract to produce a population pacification chemical, the first version of pepper spray.
The result was what is called agent orange, which did precisely what the government wanted and helped to win a war, time was of the essence so further development was not possible and Monsanto did not want to make weapons so they dropped it once the government was satisfied. The same way we got the hydrogen and nuclear bombs, as well as super glue.
So they make people afraid of them by using a causation fallacy, they made a weapon and thus all their products are inherently weapons. This fallacy easily drives the ignorant masses into paranoia, making it easy for them to buy into the opposing scam, to even produce laws to offer the scamming businesses compulsory profits.
This will cause our species more illness, suffering, and the destruction of more wildlife, pollution, and eventually mass extinction. All because some companies want to be able to set their own prices at the expense of their own species.
It is not using old methods that kept our species alive, not at any time in history did our old methods ever prove to be better than the ones we had most recently developed. From refinement of medications to the invention of digital computers, the newer technologies and methods have always proven to be better for us, and better for the world we need to live on.
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