Missives From the Reality-Based World
Kurt Vonnegut, in Cat’s Cradle, wrote of the world’s end. It came through a bizarre molecular structure, a “new” way for water to freeze at room temperature, melting only at about 114 or so degrees Fahrenheit. A crystal of this Ice-Nine fell into the sea, followed by what he described as The Great Ah-Whoom, the sound made […]
I had a boyfriend who was bashed, before I knew him. He was beaten with a bat and left for dead in a Dumpster. His skull was fractured in the attack, his jaw and teeth were badly damaged, and he lost a testicle. He was found and taken to an ER. A few more hours and he would have been scooped […]
Commenting on the institutional lunacy of the Bush administration got me thinking. I still can’t imagine any reason they’d be pressing so hard for useless wars on so many fronts — unless they sincerely believed that their behavior was going to facilitate their mythical Armageddon, followed by an equally-foolish “rapture”. But if you look around the […]
A man responsible for intellectually retarding hundreds of thousands — if not tens of millions — of people from all around the world is getting ready to die. Unfortunately he’s not checking out fast enough and is busily legacizing himself in the form of a “museum” and “library” that was designed by an amusement-park firm. No, […]
Ken Ham’s Creation Museum is holding its grand opening on Memorial Day — 28 May 2007 — amid much hoopla, hype and general stupidity on the part of dozens of gullible “journalists” and tens of thousands of slack-jawed ignorami. As part of the festivities, PZ suggested putting together an anti-Ken blogabration. My entry follows the […]
What is it that separates superstition from belief? What makes the difference between myth and faith? To me, it’s a question of duration and quantity. The longer a superstition persists, the more akin to belief it becomes; the more people who believe in a myth, the closer to religion or faith it is. The biggest reason an Israelite accepts JHVH […]
02 May 2007 at 21:26
Warren
Advertising Matters, One Thousand Words, Reality Trumps 'God', You Must be F***ing Kidding
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Contrast these two images and ask yourself about the value of intellect and rationalism versus “gut” feeling. The first is an editorial cartoon. The second is another, of a different kind. Both come from My [Confined] Space. That’s Einstein, bottom center, in the latter image. Which seems more believable?
01 May 2007 at 08:06
Warren
General Foolishness, One Thousand Words, Reality Trumps 'God'
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The Chick mockery that began last week and was most recently done yesterday concludes here, at least for now. As a professed atheist I’m sometimes confronted with a question that strikes me as being, on the face of it, silly: Why do you hate God? I don’t hate God. I just don’t believe there is one. I don’t hate unicorns, or […]
Jack Chick mocked yet again, continuing #2, beginning with #1. One of the eternal questions faced by religion, philosophy and science is where did it all come from? This is a damned good question and should occupy any thinking person’s mind from time to time. It’s one of those queries that may well never be answered, because […]
The Jack Chick sendup started there and continues here. I find it striking that right-wingers seem to define the entire world in terms of religion; I’ve been accused more than once of making science my “religion”. The notion is foolish in the extreme, of course; religion relies on inerrancy, received Truth and unreasoning appeal to authority. […]
Jack Chick is famous to fundamentalist Christians for creating a library of incredibly narrow-minded tracts which present an almost Jihadist view of right-wing ultra-fundamentalist Christianity. Everything’s there including paranoia that God will cast you into hell at the drop of a hat; the complete Caucasian-ness of God, Jesus and angels; and of course gargoyle-like aspects on anyone […]
A host of idiots has come crawling to light after the tragedy of Virgina Tech,* most of them making the fatuous claim that some kind of lack of religiosity is the cause of death for 32 humans and one psycho gunman. Pam notes that the most recent in this list is Chuck Norris, who is […]
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