Douglas Adams
October 21, 2007
Practice Beastiality, God Wants You To!
October 21, 2007
Well, it’s either that or he was just plain stupid. Remember the story of creation? Of course you do! I bet you don’t quite remember this part though. Please open your Bibles to Genesis, Chapter 2 and starting with the 18th verse:
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
So, God knew that the animals needed partners of the opposite sex, but not Adam. Clearly God thought for sure that Adam would find a “help meet” for Adam amongst the animals. When that didn’t work, God rolled his eyes at the pickiness of Adam, anesthetized him, performed an invasive surgery to remove a rib (which he could have simply made) and created a woman for him. Wow. Riveting.
Knowledge, Get Some
October 19, 2007
It amazes me how little most (I said MOST, Aaron, not all) Christians know about the history of their belief system. Few know how tumultuous and blood-thirsty it was (and is, in some cases) and how it came to be the “powerhouse” that it is today. The rest of this post is in response to a comment received on this post. Read more
Busload of Faith
October 19, 2007
You can’t depend on your family
You can’t depend on your friends
You can’t depend on a beginning
You can’t depend on an end
You can’t depend on intelligence
Ooohhh, you can’t depend on god
You can only depend on one thing
You need a busload of faith to get by, watch, baby
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You need a busload of faith to get by
You can depend on the worst always happening
You can depend on a murderer’s drive
You can bet that if he rapes somebody
There’ll be no trouble having a child
You can bet that if she aborts it
Pro-lifers will attack her with rage
You can depend on the worst always happening
You need a busload of faith to get by, yeah
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by, baby
Busload of faith to get by
You can’t depend on the goodly hearted
The goodly hearted made lamp-shades and soap
You can’t depend on the sacrament
No father, no holy ghost
You can’t depend on any churches
Unless there’s real estate you want to buy
You can’t depend on a lot of things
You need a busload of faith to get by, woh
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You can’t depend on no miracle
You can’t depend on the air
You can’t depend on a wise man
You can’t find ’em because they’re not there
You can depend on cruelty
Crudity of thought and sound
You can depend on the worst always happening
You need a busload of faith to get by, ha
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Lyrics by Lou Reed.
Submission From a Christian Viewer
October 18, 2007
The following is an unedited submission from a Christian viewer. I encourage your comments as she will be looking to respond to them. I will have my own response tomorrow, as it is getting late. Read more
Pornsaints
October 18, 2007
pornsaints.org is an artistic approach to porn,
a pornographic approach to art,
a pornoartistic approach to religion.
http://www.pornsaints.org/
What is a Pornsaint?
“We will call Pornsaint whoever attains sanctity through pornography”
“…the pornsaint dwells in the house of the saints, but got there traveling a different way, and came in knocking at another door. If the saint, in a way, obtained the absolute by clambering up on God (any God), the pornsaint obtained it climbing over man. His way doesn’t go through renouncing the world of man in favor of the world of God, but through the utmost simultaneous participation in opposite aspects of the human world…”
How to be more like Jesus
October 17, 2007
This is my blood, drink it - this is my body, eat it
October 16, 2007
Peaceful Quotes From the Qur’an
October 16, 2007
Such a harmonious, peaceful set of scriptures. How absolutely tolerant! Please, where do I sign up? Read more
Monkey See, Monkey Do.
October 16, 2007
I just stumbled on This joke today.
8 monkeys are in a room. There is a ladder in the room, and at the top of the ladder is a bunch of bananas. The monkeys are fed adequate but unappetizing food.
For the first week, any time a monkey climbs the ladder, a nozzle drenches all the monkeys in icy cold water. Soon, any time a monkey starts to climb the ladder, all the other monkeys beat him senseless to avoid being punished.
One monkey is removed, and another takes his place. Not knowing about the ice water punishment, he approaches the ladder. All the other monkeys beat him senseless. Every time he gets near the ladder, they all gang up on him.
A second monkey is replaced. Same thing. The first replacement monkey joins in the beating.
A third is replaced. A fourth. Eventually all the original monkeys are replaced. The new 8 monkeys have never experienced the ice water punishment, yet any time any of them approaches the ladder, the rest of them gang up on him and beat him senseless.
I’m reminded of another story. A woman is teaching her daughter how to cook a roast. She cuts a small portion off each end of the roast, and the daughter asks her why. The woman replies “I don’t know, but my mother always cut the ends off her roast, so I do it. The daughter calls up her grandmother, and asks her why she always cut the ends off the roasts. Grandmother replies “I don’t know, my mother always did it”. The next time Daughter visits great-grandma in the nursing home, she asks why she cut the ends off the roasts. Great-Grandma replies “Because my pan wasn’t large enough to cook a whole one.”
These two concepts are dogma. They are memes. The behavior outlined in these tales poses a significant danger to an intellectual society.
Let’s add some ideas to the monkey problem. Now we have a ladder leading to one bunch, and a rope leading to another. One group of monkeys is punished any time they go up the ladder, the other is punished any time they go up the rope.
Take one monkey from the first group and put him in the second. Initially, he will try to fight any monkey going up the ladder, and the rest of the monkeys will punish him for going up the rope. For awhile, at least. Eventually, he’ll learn the new rules and conform to his new society.
What about when you put all 16 monkeys in a room with a rope and a ladder?
Chaos. An “Us vs Them” mentality develops. Each group continues to reinforce its own dogma. Peace only exists when no monkey tries to get a banana.
How many parallels to historic human behavior can you find?
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