I was born with no roots, a child of the earth. I have no natural affiliation to any race, creed, colour or geographical location. I bear no label or stamp on me to denote ownership. My DNA says only; member of the human race; no religious, political or social emblems encoded. I owe allegiance to none but those whom I choose. My freedom is my own to do with as I wish.
Crispy Sea - 2005
Crispy Sea is NOT currently affiliated with any Government or Military organisation
Epicurus 341-271 BC
Why should I fear death? If I am then death is not. If death is then I am not. Why should I fear that which can not exist when I do?
Is God willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is god able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is god both willing and able? Then whence cometh evil? Is god neither able or willing? Then why call him god?
Charles Darwin 1809-1882 AD (Christian)
Science has nothing to do with Christ, except insofar as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence. For myself, I do not believe that there ever has been any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
All those deluded enough to believe in a god, should be allowed no social responsibility. The deluded are akin with the deranged, the lunatic, the demented; they should now be viewed as unfortunate, we should pity them,
but stop letting them make the decisions.
You wouldn't elect someone who professes a believe in the Easter Bunny, would you?
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This post was indirectly instigated by Jeanete and inspired by the nauseatingly numerous theists' comments across, sadly, many forums, but most recently by Jo's Oct 24th comment on her own sodahead.com blog I have some questions for people who believe in evolution. The comment reads -
"Absolutely! Even after all these comments, I still feel that total belief in evolution, no creation, takes a whole lot more imagination than a belief in God the creator!" link
Well!! A veritable lesson in how to state the obvious, but this is not directed at Jo as I said, (there's a point specifically for you Jo at the end of this blog), but rather at what I consider to be the poor thinking that seems to be a consequence of faith.
Be honest, we have all heard the religious do this; they seem quite often to be confused about which things are complicated and which are easy, what is obvious and what is not.
I'll try to illustrate -
EASY
It seems to me that to be convinced of god most people only have to be told "there is one and you'd better watch out if you're naughty" I use that phraseology because most are brainwashed at a time when the god notion is easily embeded - as children. It's simply a matter of not considering any alternatives from that point - you just continue to do what you were told to do as a child and follow whichever dogma your innocence was force fed.
So, relatively easy to achieve belief in a God
DIFFICULT
Conversely it seems, to be convinced of evolution one has to study hard for a good number of years, collecting the multivarious components of evidence which point to a reasonable conclusion that evolution is the true mechanisn for the arrival of life on earth. Some very big words are involved, one must comprehend data and listen to lectures, one is required to sit numerous exceedingly difficult exam; and all whilst living under the socially perpetuated perspective that for what you're studying you will be condemned to an eternity of torment - a difficulty which is much more intense for any previously 'devout/faithful' biologist - Acceptance that because the evidence leads to evolution as the conclusion, the individual's lifetime experience via the pervasive social and government backed GOD indoctination must be wrong. The pre-indoctrinated must then spend countless years not only self deprogramming, eventually, hopefully, expunging religious feelings/guilt/doubt completely from the conscious mind but also question the reasons behind government backing of the lie!
Those who comprehend the facts of evolution know it MEANS there is no god, however not all those who comprehend are capable of breaking the programming, and others are not strong enough to stand without the (false) hope of a heavenly visit with long mouldy relatives.
In the face of such adversity, it seems to me, an infinitely more difficult achievment for an individual to become convinced of evolution.
So yes, one could say it takes more imagination to believe in evolution, but it only takes imagination if you incapable of learning the facts. Learn the facts and you don't need any imagination, it's suddenly blatantly obvious. Whereas with a god figure, one can ONLY imagine - there are no facts to present!
As a tentative conclusion (which it never is with this bloody topic!) if the religious have that much trouble comprehending the more "Black and White" parameters of "Easy" and "Difficult", it's understandable that the more subtle concepts of "MORE LIKELY" and "LESS LIKELY" are less easily grasped.
MORE LIKELY
Random event forms the universe
LESS LIKELY
A full formed god pops into existance fully equipped with more knowledge, understanding and powers than any other being has since been able to come close to achieving
I wonder, if you dissected a religious persons brain, if you would find synaptic connections that showed the person also thought black was white, right was left, up was down etc. lol.
With this in mind fellow warriors of reason step forth
but tread carefully, they are not right you know!
Really, I mean it, beware - that much delusion in one place
can only be dangerous!
Check this
(I think it's how we got them!) Humanity and Religion - Recipe for Disaster?
To Jo specifically:-
Your comment proclaims it takes MORE imagination to believe in evolution. As the presence of the word MORE infers that a measurable amount of imagination is REQUIRED to achieve belief in a god, your comment suggests that even you, as a staunch believer(I hope that's not offensive), have an understanding that the god you believe in is imaginary, or did you merely mean to suggest that one must imagine a god before one can believe in it?
This is one of the Too many questions
PEACE
Crispy
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The best communications are often, THREE WORDS OR LESS
OR ONE OR MORE FINGERS!
Just read this article on Christian Science Monitor. It bangs on about the Pew report like it's news! Like it's telling us something new! Now fair enough, a reports come out and magazines and the like do reports on them, so ok, but...
Religious freedom not the rule for majority of world: Pew report
Nearly 70 percent of the world’s population lives in countries with “high" or "very high” religious restriction – that’s the finding of a first-of-its-kind Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey. It notes that some of the strictest countries in the world are also the most populous. But no nation is fully free of religious restriction, it adds...
The article concludes with...
...Are you surprised at the high levels of religious restriction around the globe?
Does this go some way to explaining the religious mindset? This is the Christian Science Monitor! Someone there must be of a decent rate of intelligence, the editior must at least have some sort of qualification or experience.
How is it nobody noticed that the question can only have one answer?
...Are you surprised at the high levels of religious restriction around the globe?
Er,
NO
Not surprised at all
Religions function by being a set of rules, which corral and control their devotees' personal life choices!
By definition religions
are
100% RESTRICTIVE.
If there is religion in a country,
there is restriction -
It's the nature of the beast!!
Also, whilst we're here, the title "The Christian Science Monitor" Smacks of Oxymoron to me, does it you? Or does it just smack of nonsense?
Surely, as Science is Science, the phrase "Christian Science" can only have one of three meanings:-
The publication covers topics that are specifically to do with the science of being a Christian
or
Christians need a special department of science that is different to real science (but if it's different to actual science is it real?)
or
Christians need the facts massaged into a form that won't upset their chocolate box view of the universe.
I suggest that only the first meaning could be considered a valid reason for the title and as, I believe, there are no observable physiological changes to the human body which could be claimed to be caused by religious affiliation (circumcision excepted) even that meaning is irrelevant.
Purpose of Christian Science Monitor? Dubious?
This is one of the Too many questions
PEACE
Crispy
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"No no sir, I cannot afford to help you to buy
the tablet that you NEED to save your life
because my focus is on destroying life
and I need to buy some new bullets."
Is America too focussed on destroying life to consider helping to save it?
The Church of England's top Cleric - A very confused Cassock?
Dr Williams told The Daily Telegraph: “The trouble with a lot of Government initiatives about faith is that they assume it is a problem, it’s an eccentricity, it’s practised by oddities, foreigners and minorities.
“The effect is to de-normalise faith, to intensify the perception that faith is not part of our bloodstream. And, you know, in great swaths of the country that’s how it is.”
Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the former Bishop of Urban Life. He said: “He’s absolutely on the ball. Religion is seen as being a problem because of the connection between radical Islam and terrorism that has tainted all religions.
What you have failed to notice my dear ArchBish is that the opinion, of which you've suddenly become aware, is the right one - people of faith ARE oddballs.
They gather together with others who are also of the opinion that the human body has an undetectable part.
They think that their wailing and caterwauling to, and about, him is actually pleasing that God, but because the God they are told to worship can never be fulfilled or surprised...
They think that because they believe in their fairy story to the point of defensive obsession, they have the right to be treated as reasonable human beings, but they are no more than scared children so...
A simple conflation then
(Probabbly the only kind of conflation available to the Government, or the ArchBish for that matter!)
brings us to the same conclusion as the beardy ArchBish
Well! Yet another apology by high up Catholics about their previous ommissions of conscience.
How very very big of them!
Irish Catholic church apologises for abuse by priests
Cardinal Brady said children's welfare was now a priority
The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said he is deeply sorry and ashamed about the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests.
Cardinal Sean Brady also apologised for the way the Church covered up the abuse, which happened in Dublin...
...Cardinal Brady's words were echoed by the current Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, who said he offered "to each and every survivor, my apology, my sorrow and my shame for what happened to them".
One thing is for sure, if this current crop of Cardinals in Papa Joe's paedo factory knew about the kiddie fiddlers within it's ranks, then previous Cardinals also knew.
If the Cardinals have always known, then all the Popes must also have known!
I'm no lawyer, but doesn't that make them all COMPLICIT?
"...The Catholic Church should surely be providing all the victims of its minions, however much psychological counselling they need.
Until the Catholic Church properly holds up its hands and provides funding for their victims counselling expenses there's no Catholic on the planet who can even see the moral high ground, let alone stand on it.
For donkeys years,
the Christian church has raised merry hell,
about what you can hear,
if you play rock and roll backwards. Well check out the Pope!
The original advert for their christmas fund raising drive is below. If you want a copy click the link below it. Hey, I'm all for freedom of speech.
Ironic though isn't it! Christmas,
the time when they
(Me little Papal Pal and his Paedo Production line)
say everybody is supposed to have the spirit of giving,
but the head honcho of that miserable band of the guilty, "Papa Rapa"
is raking in cash from his minions
hypocritical hand over greedy fist!
This is exactly the sort of occasion when one must ask
Why am I collecting alms from the poor?,
has my love for Sexy Lingere
become an addiction that's way out of control?
This is one of the Too many questions
PEACE
Crispy
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Entirely aware that the freedoms I so fully enjoy were paid for with the blood of my ancestors, I offer grateful thanks to the fallen for the sacrifices they and their families have made, and the utmost respect to those who kept and keep us free at the cost of their own future
Proportion
And we thank those sons sent to mud,
they serve us well providing memory of proportion.
so that when those things which, from time to time arise,
where one time friends, must become unallied.
we see that war is not the answer, not the option.
until the memory fades and learn again we must
through wholesale slaughter of younghest and dearest
that war is not the answer
and we should not get it all out of proportion.
Over the past few days I've been getting messages, saying that my cover is blown, exposed to the light of public scrutiny.
People have been suggesting that Crispy Sea and Congressman Dennis Kucinich are actually one and the same, pointing as evidence to a statement the congressman made a few days ago. And, on first inspection, I can see how so many made the assumption.
This is what he said...
Washington, Nov 6 -
Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:
Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer’s money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive.
People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street.
Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US.
The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a Republican version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies... When we were promised change, we weren’t thinking that we give a dollar and get back two cents.”
And this is from my blog post from the 16th August...
Look at it this way - your tax dollars are currently being spent in the millions killing foreigners for free, wouldn't you feel better about yourselves if those dollars were instead (or additionally) being spent saving lives of your families and friends?
Surely, to remain on the side of good, one must be seen to be spending as much on saving the good guys, as you do slaughtering the bad guys.
just because a conclusion is within easy leap,
doesn't mean one should jump straight to it
Congressman Kucinich is NOT the human on the inside of my batman suit. There's categorically no truth in it. No matter what you've heard, Crispy Sea is NOT the alter-ego of congressman Kucinich. As I've stated before,
Crispy Sea is NOT currently affiliated
with any Government or Military organisation.
"Do you think they swallowed it Dennis?"
"Shhh! stupid, they're still reading!"
"Oh....Oops.. err... err... you didn't here that!"
This is one of the Too many questions
PEACE
Crispy
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Just read a passionate post by Hemant Mehta on Friendly atheist about the dismissed “In God We Trust” Lawsuit in which he makes three significant points.
"I’m no lawyer… but how is that phrase not an endorsement of religion over non-religion? (Not only that, you know the phrase refers to the Christian god…)"
"How is that phrase not Christian? How is it not a violation of church/state separation? How is it not a violation of the Establishment Clause?"
"The judge was wrong, plain and simple.
I have nothing really to add, the words "In God We Trust" are clearly the state endorsment of a god. There presence clearly makes religious belief seem more acceptable, and provides all religon with a greater significance and respectability.
It seems to me also that the judge was clearly wrong and, given this post (United States of Atheism) and this post (US 1st amendment - contradictory?), it looks to me, admittedly a non-us citizen, like the founding fathers would be clearly against his judgment aswell.
Finally, If you'll excuse a topical plug -
As the USA is arguably the most capitalist country in the world,
would it not be more apt for the money's motto to be
Another bloody idiot, slap bang in the middle of self delusion, deliberately not noticing his pet theory is just an attempt to explain away the truths discovered through his own education! Another bloody believer desperately clinging to the forlorn hope of post-death existence!
Sad.
"There are near-death experiences, and that is thousands of people who have been very close to death, they have been declared clinically dead or in some cases no brain function, and they report all over the world a surprisingly uniform experience."
Dinesh D'Souza, author of "Life after death: The evidence" Proof of 'Life After Death' Thursday, November 05, 2009
This is a rush transcript from Fox News "On the Record".
This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
It seems to me that the author has missed the obvious here.
Is it just me, or are these post-death experiences going to be similar in nature because the world's post-death myths have global similarities? They are all human post-death experiences after all.
If you read the article, this dude seems a bit thick, I don't think he is, but his answers, and thereby one would assume the book he's plugging, seem beside even his own point!
Comparing an altzheimers sufferers brain to the dying brain of a previously healthy individual seems not merely irrelevant but nonsensical!
With rational barrel bottom scraping of this caliber on display in 'promo' interviews, it's probably a book to avoid! but if you want to find out for yourself it's Here
However, if you want to find out what really happens when you die go HERE
Thanks to Mattcinci's Tweeting for highlighting this nutball.
This is one of the Too many questions
PEACE
Crispy
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Angkor was the site of several Khmer Empire capitals in what is now northwest Cambodia from the 9th to the 15th century CE. Home to a number of architectural masterpieces, the complex contains about 1,000 temples. At one time, the surrounding settlement was roughly the size of the modern city of Los Angeles, CA, making it the largest pre-industrial complex of its kind. Its principal temple, Angkor Wat, is the largest religious structure in the world. What is its layout believed to represent? 
Visually similar to nuclear mushroom clouds, eruption columns are massive plumes of hot ash produced during explosive volcanic eruptions. In extreme cases, eruption columns may rise over 25 miles (40 km), penetrating the stratosphere and causing short-term climate change, like the drop in global temperature that followed the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. It is believed that the largest eruptions can cause up to several degrees of global cooling and may be responsible for what phenomena?
Fabricated or induced illness (FII), originally and more commonly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, involves a caregiver feigning or inducing an illness in another person, usually to gain control over the victim as well as to elicit attention or sympathy from others. The caregiver is usually a parent, guardian, or spouse, and the victim is usually a vulnerable child or adult. Is FII listed as a recognized mental disorder in the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
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