Religion, theism of any type requires a religion, has to have doctrine to be a religion. Another word for doctrine is dogma, though that requires it to be unquestionable like Christian or Islam.
Many religions have a simple doctrine, a few basic rules of live and let be one must follow to be allowed to hang with the club. But those ones also update their doctrine to accommodate new information and it's always up for debate.
These few good religions are called pagan or heathen now, and the followers are usually the best deluded people I have met. Delusion on it's own is dangerous if the doctrine that enforces it endorses dangerous behavior, pagans lack dangerous doctrine and thus, like us gamers, only want short escapes from reality.
This is not, in any way, moderate. Both the pagan and gamers are extremists, you either do it or you do not, there is no in between. Pagans will likely understand this better than anyone, in spite of many being far too tolerant of the other religions.
Your religion is your doctrine, and so it is what you should be judged by, what laws you keep in that doctrine are laws you agree can apply when your delusion so commands it. You thought I was going to point out all the bad things the followers do, didn't you?
What the followers do is not important, what they claim they obey is. If they claim that on part does not apply today, that means it did apply before and can apply again, they are saying that they agree with that law.
Claiming it's allegory only makes it worse, since a scientific method is not applied to determine what is allegory, everyone can interpret it mean whatever they want, and change that meaning for any reason they so choose. This is, in itself, dangerous behavior.
So the choice is not who doesn't actually hurt people versus those who do, it's if your doctrine claims you can hurt people for any reason. All religious people are extremists, because they all claim to follow a doctrine.
Us gamers can be pretty religious about gaming too, but lacking a doctrine it is not an actual religion.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Don't Go Vegan, Go Synthetic
Vegan and vegetarian are a noble way to live, sadly my body cannot handle that much fiber. But I am against cruelty, and I can't stand the facf that because of a medical issue, I have to endorse an industry that I oppose.
This is not a single entity problem, many factors are involved in why we don't have manufactured, imitation, meats and bugs available. One is simply oppression of science by the farming industries by using tactics like fear against modern GMO and fear against synthetic chemicals.
But the subversive influence is from religion and the sense of entitlement and superiority religion gives us. This is something most humans are unwilling to discard, even when they shed the delusion of a god.
Almost a year ago they finally announced that we will be able to print meat, by assembling cells using machines. A few of us got really excited about no longer having to kill other animals for food, but the majority treated this as if it was the beginning of some bad apocalypse story.
Printed food means no more killing, no more danger, healthier humans, and better lives for everyone. It also means the end of farming, hunting, and other organic industries.
Modern GMO producers are happy about going out of business for this, feeding everyone without the risk is their goal. Those who oppose manufactured, synthetic, imitation products because they could no longer justify killing are all companies that claim that all natural and "organic" is safer, healthier, and better without presenting any evidence of this.
If synthetic means no longer destroying the only world we have for food, then nothing is healthier.
This is not a single entity problem, many factors are involved in why we don't have manufactured, imitation, meats and bugs available. One is simply oppression of science by the farming industries by using tactics like fear against modern GMO and fear against synthetic chemicals.
But the subversive influence is from religion and the sense of entitlement and superiority religion gives us. This is something most humans are unwilling to discard, even when they shed the delusion of a god.
Almost a year ago they finally announced that we will be able to print meat, by assembling cells using machines. A few of us got really excited about no longer having to kill other animals for food, but the majority treated this as if it was the beginning of some bad apocalypse story.
Printed food means no more killing, no more danger, healthier humans, and better lives for everyone. It also means the end of farming, hunting, and other organic industries.
Modern GMO producers are happy about going out of business for this, feeding everyone without the risk is their goal. Those who oppose manufactured, synthetic, imitation products because they could no longer justify killing are all companies that claim that all natural and "organic" is safer, healthier, and better without presenting any evidence of this.
If synthetic means no longer destroying the only world we have for food, then nothing is healthier.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Being Polite Is Not Honest
Mincing words can be fun in a friendly debate with a linguist, note the qualifier. Many people think that just because they grew up using a language, that they're experts on said language.
Online this is often called "the grammar Nazi" but this is only one of many examples available. Often the ones I am talking about are those who think they're brilliant but when they are corrected by someone, they have to avoid admitting they were wrong.
When corrected there are two possible responses that don't make you look like a moron, auto correct (including swipe typing on the phone) is a valid excuse, or you can look like a genius and just say "oh, thanks for the correction." I prefer the latter, but my phone does seem to have a mind of it's own and I don't like to lie.
One example of when I, a person who takes etymology of language very serious, makes a mistake is in the difference between effect and affect. I have to look those up every time or just guess.
I use to be the same with too and to, but eventually I got my brain rewired to use those correctly. I get corrected on the affect/effect error often, and my response is always "thanks for the correction" or "yes, you idiot, I do confuse those a lot, you could have just told me without making yourself look like a moron."
You see, the idiot is the one that assumes they are smarter because they have one good habit the other person does not. It takes more intelligence and humility to admit you made a mistake, don't know, or to offer someone a nudge when you spot a mistake.
Stupidity is the notion that being corrected is insulting, or the notion that you must be insulting when correcting an inconsequential mistake. Being told you're acting stupid when you are is never an insult, if you're a creationist then everything you say about science is stupid, you should know this by now.
The reason we often just come out and call you stupid is because you deluded freaks constantly call us evil and stupid for wanting to learn. You are deluded, and your delusion prevents you from admitting that you're completely clueless.
Honesty demands that we do not sugar coat mistakes, but that does not mean it has to be included with attempts to insult your identity, family, or friends. When you are acting like an idiot, it's better to be informed of it than to think being an idiot makes you look smart, because you know we'll laugh at you, whether in front of you or behind your back.
If you prefer not to know everyone is laughing at you, then perhaps the delusion of religion is perfect for you, but don't expect to be allowed to make decisions for yourself or anyone else.
Online this is often called "the grammar Nazi" but this is only one of many examples available. Often the ones I am talking about are those who think they're brilliant but when they are corrected by someone, they have to avoid admitting they were wrong.
When corrected there are two possible responses that don't make you look like a moron, auto correct (including swipe typing on the phone) is a valid excuse, or you can look like a genius and just say "oh, thanks for the correction." I prefer the latter, but my phone does seem to have a mind of it's own and I don't like to lie.
One example of when I, a person who takes etymology of language very serious, makes a mistake is in the difference between effect and affect. I have to look those up every time or just guess.
I use to be the same with too and to, but eventually I got my brain rewired to use those correctly. I get corrected on the affect/effect error often, and my response is always "thanks for the correction" or "yes, you idiot, I do confuse those a lot, you could have just told me without making yourself look like a moron."
You see, the idiot is the one that assumes they are smarter because they have one good habit the other person does not. It takes more intelligence and humility to admit you made a mistake, don't know, or to offer someone a nudge when you spot a mistake.
Stupidity is the notion that being corrected is insulting, or the notion that you must be insulting when correcting an inconsequential mistake. Being told you're acting stupid when you are is never an insult, if you're a creationist then everything you say about science is stupid, you should know this by now.
The reason we often just come out and call you stupid is because you deluded freaks constantly call us evil and stupid for wanting to learn. You are deluded, and your delusion prevents you from admitting that you're completely clueless.
Honesty demands that we do not sugar coat mistakes, but that does not mean it has to be included with attempts to insult your identity, family, or friends. When you are acting like an idiot, it's better to be informed of it than to think being an idiot makes you look smart, because you know we'll laugh at you, whether in front of you or behind your back.
If you prefer not to know everyone is laughing at you, then perhaps the delusion of religion is perfect for you, but don't expect to be allowed to make decisions for yourself or anyone else.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Unchanging Gods Are Impossible
Lately I have been noticing irony more than ever, like my blog post about popularity being bad is unpopular, and the irony of how religion purports that unchanging is a good thing while changing to suit the whims of it's leaders.
This idea of unchanging, something that is never improved, being some sort of quality of perfection is so blatantly wrong it makes me wonder if any humans are worth keeping around when I hear religious people say "I have this book that has not changed for hundreds of years." Physics experts will confirm that everything is in a constant state of change in the universe, even the laws we created to describe it.
I can just picture many morons still trying to say that any perfect being must be unchanging, which is literally impossible. The simple act of existing is, in itself, change. One must pass through time to exist, and time is the fundamental force of change.
For something to exist outside of time it must not exist at all, because for any particles to exist they must be in a constant state of change, or movement. Movement of any sort is change, so for something to be active it must change.
Thought is absolute change, so to think of creating something you have to change. Every idea must develop from nothing, and settle into an ever improving form. That is unavoidable, nothing that thinks can avoid change.
Exertion of will is also change, it is the manifestation of change. So for a god to do anything it must change, and thus we know that the "unchanging god" claims are all lies, we can dismiss these even if they present evidence.
Essentially, nothing can remain unchanging and exist or act, not in this universe or any other.
This idea of unchanging, something that is never improved, being some sort of quality of perfection is so blatantly wrong it makes me wonder if any humans are worth keeping around when I hear religious people say "I have this book that has not changed for hundreds of years." Physics experts will confirm that everything is in a constant state of change in the universe, even the laws we created to describe it.
I can just picture many morons still trying to say that any perfect being must be unchanging, which is literally impossible. The simple act of existing is, in itself, change. One must pass through time to exist, and time is the fundamental force of change.
For something to exist outside of time it must not exist at all, because for any particles to exist they must be in a constant state of change, or movement. Movement of any sort is change, so for something to be active it must change.
Thought is absolute change, so to think of creating something you have to change. Every idea must develop from nothing, and settle into an ever improving form. That is unavoidable, nothing that thinks can avoid change.
Exertion of will is also change, it is the manifestation of change. So for a god to do anything it must change, and thus we know that the "unchanging god" claims are all lies, we can dismiss these even if they present evidence.
Essentially, nothing can remain unchanging and exist or act, not in this universe or any other.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Popularity is Inherently Wrong
The folly of popularity is that it is wrong more often than correct. Ideas that were most popular have almost always proven to be really bad ideas, such as slavery, sexism, superstition, and gods.
One well known example is the Earth being flat, an idea that was extremely popular even though it was not difficult to see that it was wrong. In spite of these basic observations we could have made, people were tortured to death by religious people simply for pointing out the possibility of the idea being wrong.
They were killed because they opposed the popular idea, not because they were wrong or even threatening. Today we still see this folly of humanity, from denying gay marriage to racism in the USA, denying science in place of simple and stupid mythology.
Even the concept of a "creator" or god is a popular idea that is just plain wrong. So it has been demonstrated by all of history that popularity has no inherent effect on ideas, it cannot be used to determine which is correct. However, based on human behavior, all popular ideas should be suspect and placed under the most strick scrutiny before they are excepted.
So to those idiots who are so proud of being popular, remember that you are probably wrong because you enjoy being popular. I have alwasy been popular, I have also always hated it because I have been forced to scrutinize all my decisions.
But to think on it, maybe that's why I am correct more often than not.
One well known example is the Earth being flat, an idea that was extremely popular even though it was not difficult to see that it was wrong. In spite of these basic observations we could have made, people were tortured to death by religious people simply for pointing out the possibility of the idea being wrong.
They were killed because they opposed the popular idea, not because they were wrong or even threatening. Today we still see this folly of humanity, from denying gay marriage to racism in the USA, denying science in place of simple and stupid mythology.
Even the concept of a "creator" or god is a popular idea that is just plain wrong. So it has been demonstrated by all of history that popularity has no inherent effect on ideas, it cannot be used to determine which is correct. However, based on human behavior, all popular ideas should be suspect and placed under the most strick scrutiny before they are excepted.
So to those idiots who are so proud of being popular, remember that you are probably wrong because you enjoy being popular. I have alwasy been popular, I have also always hated it because I have been forced to scrutinize all my decisions.
But to think on it, maybe that's why I am correct more often than not.
Comforts Are Bad
Why did I buy that bag of potato chips when I know I hate potato chips now? The answer to this riddle is the same reason intelligent people can be fooled into the god delusion as easily as the idiots who never questioned it from birth.
To understand it we must look at a basic human need, comfort. Each organism will seek our comfort, either through familiarity or habit.
Because of this inherent need, intelligent organisms become prone to following the crowd, or even doing something they don't actually enjoy just for that comfort. The comfort is not actual comfort, it is a neurological redundancy that the organic brain uses as a baseline for all thought.
The benefit is that the brain has a method of determining if something is a potential threat to the colony, the drawback is that this baseline is established early in life and it is very difficult to change it.
Unlike popular belief, habits are just as difficult to break as drug addictions, because they are the psychological baseline used by the brain to define reality. This makes us susceptible to the delusions we call gods.
Due to the clustering of the species into social groups, our brain will see the group as a comfort, and thus it will use the group as a baseline for reality. Religion was so cleverly designed by the con artists that it offers a strong feeling of group while also opposing such things, allowing the con artists known as preachers to change it at will.
So pity the poor fools who fall for this, and try to retrain your brain to avoid the comforts that are dangerous for your own sake. Potato chips are the most inane of such habits, there are many that can cause serious harm.
To understand it we must look at a basic human need, comfort. Each organism will seek our comfort, either through familiarity or habit.
Because of this inherent need, intelligent organisms become prone to following the crowd, or even doing something they don't actually enjoy just for that comfort. The comfort is not actual comfort, it is a neurological redundancy that the organic brain uses as a baseline for all thought.
The benefit is that the brain has a method of determining if something is a potential threat to the colony, the drawback is that this baseline is established early in life and it is very difficult to change it.
Unlike popular belief, habits are just as difficult to break as drug addictions, because they are the psychological baseline used by the brain to define reality. This makes us susceptible to the delusions we call gods.
Due to the clustering of the species into social groups, our brain will see the group as a comfort, and thus it will use the group as a baseline for reality. Religion was so cleverly designed by the con artists that it offers a strong feeling of group while also opposing such things, allowing the con artists known as preachers to change it at will.
So pity the poor fools who fall for this, and try to retrain your brain to avoid the comforts that are dangerous for your own sake. Potato chips are the most inane of such habits, there are many that can cause serious harm.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
White Privilege Kills Kids
Racism is one thing we were told was gone before we had the internet. Today they can no longer lie to us and I am in awe at just how bad it really is.
I have always had mostly white friends, the few black people I have spent time with were always so wonderful and … well, like me. We listened to the same music, usually Stone Temple Pilots or Nirvana was the common link.
We loved the same art, manga and anime, beautiful since 1970 something. We even at at the same places, Jack in the Box tacos, hell yeah.
Our mannerisms and language were almost indistinguishable, though some had accents from the regions they grew up like New York or Arizona. Our only difference was that they had darker skin, and mine was dependent on the amount of sun I was exposed to.
Until recently I had never considered how lucky I was to have these friendships, but now I know they were lucky to have lived long enough in this country to have come into my life. This frightens me, considering how many really cool and awesome friendships I have missed just because some idiot with a power trip and a gun shot them for having a different color of something.
People who are racist are killing others for cosmetic differences, no different than killing someone for not having blond hair. Being able to see this problem has also opened my eyes to the stark contrast, what is often called "white privilege."
This does, in fact, happen all the time. I was once a casual marijuana smoker, we just called it pot, and enjoyed joints after work while watching lame television shows or keeping our security guard friend company during his night shift.
When we were intercepted by police they would confiscate the pot then let us go with a warning, every single time. Then I hear from people I know in other regions, thanks to the internet, who I forget have brown to black skin complaining about the cops harassing them.
It would have been better if the cops had harassed me when I was a pot smoker than to discover this discrepancy. These racists are killing children just because the kids were born with one chromosome different.
These kids are humans, people, one of us hairless apes no less valuable than any other. I am ashamed to say that most white people are not even worthy of being part of any kingdom of life, the other animals only kill out of necessity.
I have always had mostly white friends, the few black people I have spent time with were always so wonderful and … well, like me. We listened to the same music, usually Stone Temple Pilots or Nirvana was the common link.
We loved the same art, manga and anime, beautiful since 1970 something. We even at at the same places, Jack in the Box tacos, hell yeah.
Our mannerisms and language were almost indistinguishable, though some had accents from the regions they grew up like New York or Arizona. Our only difference was that they had darker skin, and mine was dependent on the amount of sun I was exposed to.
Until recently I had never considered how lucky I was to have these friendships, but now I know they were lucky to have lived long enough in this country to have come into my life. This frightens me, considering how many really cool and awesome friendships I have missed just because some idiot with a power trip and a gun shot them for having a different color of something.
People who are racist are killing others for cosmetic differences, no different than killing someone for not having blond hair. Being able to see this problem has also opened my eyes to the stark contrast, what is often called "white privilege."
This does, in fact, happen all the time. I was once a casual marijuana smoker, we just called it pot, and enjoyed joints after work while watching lame television shows or keeping our security guard friend company during his night shift.
When we were intercepted by police they would confiscate the pot then let us go with a warning, every single time. Then I hear from people I know in other regions, thanks to the internet, who I forget have brown to black skin complaining about the cops harassing them.
It would have been better if the cops had harassed me when I was a pot smoker than to discover this discrepancy. These racists are killing children just because the kids were born with one chromosome different.
These kids are humans, people, one of us hairless apes no less valuable than any other. I am ashamed to say that most white people are not even worthy of being part of any kingdom of life, the other animals only kill out of necessity.
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