Be prepared! That’s the Boy Scout’s marching song
Be prepared! Though your moral stance is wrong—
Be prepared to hide the fact that you are gay
Let our antiquated stands lead you astray… [Read more…]
Be prepared! That’s the Boy Scout’s marching song
Be prepared! Though your moral stance is wrong—
Be prepared to hide the fact that you are gay
Let our antiquated stands lead you astray… [Read more…]
This video was not what I expected, but I loved it. Via New Black Man (in exile), and via John F. Felix on Twitter. Video after the jump: [Read more…]
The concept of God is beyond comprehension—
Beyond understanding by arrogant Man—
Since atheists miss His transcendent dimension,
I’ll share it with you (because, somehow, I can): [Read more…]
Yay, a milestone! The first pic of a Cuttlefish sticker on the car of a reader! Thanks, niftyatheist!
I wonder if I will ever see one on the car in front of me in traffic.
Pic, after the jump: [Read more…]
That’s right, I’m withdrawing my support for Fred Karger and throwing my support to Mittens Romney*! I’ve even written him a campaign song… after the jump: [Read more…]
I can simulate my pleasure
I can simulate my pain
I can simulate the whole shebang, and still not go insane
I can simulate my husband
I can simulate my wife
I can simulate my children, and the others in my life
I can simulate a sunset
I can simulate a kiss
I can simulate the dog I had, and really really miss
I can simulate the ocean
I can simulate a stream
I can simulate a forest, or an autumn, or a dream
I can simulate perfection
I can simulate the good
Which is strange, because the real me can’t imagine why I would.
Context over here, somewhere. In a nutshell, it’s singularity stuff. rant follows: [Read more…]
They’re calling us “closed minded”, cos we say we don’t expect
Any evidence for god to come along
Their sycophants agree with them, or did last time I checked,
But their use of “open-mindedness” is wrong
The odds are very small that there is evidence to find
That would make a non-believer come around
What they ought to ask, instead, is “will a Dawkins change his mind
When the evidence he asks for has been found?”
Context, after the jump: [Read more…]
My religion’s “not believing”
Cos I don’t believe in god
As religions go, I have to say
That mine’s a little odd
Since I don’t believe in Odin
And I don’t believe in Thor
Is that one, or two, religions?
Cos, you see, I’ve got some more!
See, I don’t believe in Isis
Or Athena, or Nabu,
And I wonder if the Christians
Have these same religions too
Do they all deny Apollo?
Do they not believe in Kon?
Are these multiple religions?
Is it one, and mine alone?
There are thousands of religions—
Some are young, and some are old
My religion is the disbelief
In all of them, I’m told.
I’ve no synagogue, nor chapel
No cathedral, mosque, nor church
So it’s clear you’ll find my holy places
Everywhere you search
“Non-belief” is my religion,
And it’s just like theirs, you see…
(Could you pretty-please explain it?
Cos it makes no sense to me!)
Along the lines of “it takes more faith to be an atheist”, I also see the odd construction of “not believing in god is a religion, too”–which raises the question of whether, say, Christians are actually polytheists, because they “do believe” in Yahweh, and “don’t believe” (which, by their* argument, is a form of belief) in, say, Bahloo. Or Novensides. Or Mextli. Or Pangu.
It must take terrible effort to actively disbelieve in so many gods. And yet, by this strange logic, every one of us has the same number of religions–either believing or not-believing in thousands of deities.
Or maybe the whole notion is just silly.
There are atheists and theists
If you listen to the hype
Those who follow a religion
And the other, godless type
If you look a little closer,
It’s a little more complex;
There are major, true religions
And some minor cultish sects… [Read more…]
EvolveFISH’s Gavin sends a pic of the actual Cuttlefish sticker–alongside one of their more traditional designs, for a sense of scale. On their site, I very much preferred the black sticker; seeing the white one here, I am wavering.
Pic after the jump: [Read more…]