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Potholer54 does his usual service of disentangling the stupid vomited up by christians in their quest to win ultimate happy heaven land. Neutron stars, gentle readers, do not as postulated by the Yob in this video, sing the praises of god in any way shape or form. It being 2013, one would think that this sort of craptacular thinking would be out of style.
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September 1, 2013 at 6:42 am
Notes To Ponder
I’m vomiting now, thanks a lot. Oh wait a second – let me inspect the bile for a message from God. I haven’t heard from him since the letter t floated to the top of my Alpha Bits –
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September 1, 2013 at 8:25 am
The Arbourist
@NtP
Lol. :)
People invest so much into magic and delusion. Imagine if they just used it to help people instead of baffling their brains with bullshite.
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September 1, 2013 at 10:28 am
Laura Cole
“I don’t want to go crazy here”. Oops.
This is ludicrous, thanks for posting it
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September 1, 2013 at 1:10 pm
The Arbourist
@Laura Cole
Everyone once and awhile you come across some media that expresses a thought so clearly that you have to share. The Sunday Disservice exists to demonstrate the inherent toxicity of organized religion and the results once adults decide to ignore their critical faculties.
Thanks for stopping by to comment. :)
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September 2, 2013 at 2:25 pm
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[…] The DWR Sunday Disservice Music of the Spheres | Dead Wild .Potholer54 does his usual service of disentangling the stupid vomited up by christians in their quest to win ultimate happy heaven land. Neutron stars, gentle readers, do not as postulated by the Yob in this video, sing the. […]
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September 4, 2013 at 7:09 am
Reneta Scian
I was recently having a discussion with someone about religion, mainly nature of religion itself… I don’t know how pertinent it is to this, but I thought I’d share it because it was partly inspired by this and other posts you’ve made here. Its about how religious people attack atheist or anyone their personal deity has a bent against. The reason I bring this up I guess is because some people don’t seem to understand the problem of religion, either because it seems comical, or because not all religious people are zealots. The other post that inspired this blurb was one about Christians condemning people for being believing otherwise, for behaviors considered sins which are of no actual moral consequence, et cetera, ad nauseam. Some people just seem to just have “misunderestimated”, as Bush would put it, just how dangerous religion really is. So here goes:
“I believe in personal freedoms. That means freedom over your own thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. But I feel that at some point humans will have to stop being so superstitious. Religion isn’t the answer to finding higher meaning, higher beings, or even a creator of everything if there is such things. I also believe that it will be impossible for spirituality to ever disappear from the human race. I feel it’s as integral to us as anything is, at least in modern humans. I share the perspective that it’s not peoples thoughts or beliefs, but the position that one’s knowledge, logic, or morality is unassailable or perfect followed with profound desire to act upon those fallacies even if it harms others. That’s something I find deplorable and unconscionable. I believe it’s acceptable to have your own thoughts and theories, but wrong to claim they’re correct without proof, especially if they fly in the face of significant counter evidence and/or cause harm to others.
All humans should be allowed to pick their own opiate, but not at the expense of another. Religion by it’s nature, not belief, is the part I am wholly against. I hold certain beliefs, propensities, and dreams which I take as being wholly irrational; all taken from knowing what it means to be human, and understanding reality. Understanding that doesn’t necessarily prevent one from dreaming, having beliefs or an imagination. And we may and will likely find that aspects of the universe are completely different from what we expected. The universe is absurd, but that doesn’t make it untrue. The part I feel all people should shed is the irrational behavior associated with the fear of the unknown, to learn to embrace it, and to not need to congregate around organizations built on myths and fallacy in order to bear the immensity which is “The Universe”, the one in which we all live and share.
I long for people to stop judging, condemning and killing each other on the basis of unfounded, unproven ideas and beliefs, to stop the condemnation of human nature as being something evil that we should deny without regard to moral relevancy, and to stop needing mythology to be moral beings. We have the knowledge and skills we need to be moral beings and to do great things without a God, or Holy Books. Myths like the Story of Babylon (and others) in The Bible are perfect examples of the fear instilled and created by religion towards the capacity mankind has when people come to together to share ideas, resources, language, commerce and the burden of accomplishing great things. The story speaks to the emotions of those who fear that man doesn’t, or hasn’t needed a God to move literal and figurative mountains. The fear of letting go of our comfortable fairytales.
It’s a story from a terrified human being who was demonizing an entire civilization because of their own superstitions, and hatred towards Progressivism over the fear of change brings and the insecurity that comes with not knowing all the answers. It takes recognizing that all the texts that exist were written by humans and not supernatural beings we can’t even prove existed, to include holy texts. It’s the same battle being waged today by the dominant world religions; by ideas that seek to use traditions, myths, and deities to hold civilization and progress hostage. I could really write a very long exegesis of the logical fallacies that are used to keep the ideas of Organized Religion alive. Considering what we know, there is no body of religious beliefs that supports its own aggressive proliferation, which demonizes differing natures, minorities, opinions, knowledge and/or progress, or introduces fallacies to our understanding of ourselves and morality that should be condoned in a civil society.
While all people are and should be free to their own thoughts and beliefs, they are not equally free to act upon those against that similar rights of others. Human social progress isn’t perfect, and every society has it’s dark spots. From Babylon to the Roman Empire to the Modern Nations of the World, everyone of them has their flaws (some worse or better off than others). Humans aren’t perfect, therefore no human civilization will be totally perfect therefore we can only strive to be the best we can. To be able to recognize both our talents, strengths and achievements as well as our shortfalls and failures as a species. The civilizations we build out of our cooperative action, common needs/goals, and fidelity to methods that produce the best results will always build a better world than religion could ever imagine. Remember, any medicine can become a poison. It’s the pursuit of our mutual betterment, not entrapment within our archaic traditions that brings us closer to our ideal society, quality of life, morality and maximum potential.
At least that is how I feel, but there is more reasons and evidence to see it that way than my own personal perspective. That’s the fascinating thing about science. It gives us something concrete, over something abstract and subjective, and it overrules our irrational ideals, emotions and superstitions. A progressive society that improves itself along the way is the only reliable course towards our survival. It’s the only course that has demonstrated consistent results towards that goal. One day our star will make our planet uninhabitable, and later it will obliterate most of the contents of our solar system. We’ll either grow, improve ourselves, and leave this orb or we will perish with it (perhaps even long before it does). Progress is fundamentally derived from our instinct to survive, and only through it can we conquer all obstacles and all illness, perhaps even death itself. While religion might have helped us form the first societies, it’s long outgrown it’s usefulness and it seeks to hinder our further growth.”
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September 5, 2013 at 11:59 pm
Notes To Ponder
Imagine our world if we never heard mention of God ever again :)
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September 8, 2013 at 8:11 am
The Arbourist
@Reneta
If society doesn’t implode first from the exploitative capitalism model we’ve adopted, we may progress past the quaint religious beliefs that are presently fouling the waters.
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September 8, 2013 at 8:14 am
Reneta Scian
Agreed. We can’t take the ropes off our legs while we have tape over our eyes.
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