Posts that don't deserve threads, Volume I.

[psychodiva]

America's true history

From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”—including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while it is true that the vast majority of early-generation Americans were Christian, the pitched battles between various Protestant sects and, more explosively, between Protestants and Catholics, present an unavoidable contradiction to the widely held notion that America is a “Christian nation.”

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...#ixzz12WhKL08D

[Sternwallow]

Ellanoor wrote

I kinda feel out of place on this board, but I like this thread.

A few nights ago, I found myself sitting next to one of my sisters listening to really good Arabic music and watching some arab ladies get down. Just minutes before, they had walked in, in full ninja gear, and were now shaking their hips in outfits that would make Snookie envious. She nodded over at a beautiful Banglasdeshi girl and said "Look at her...she is such a good Muslim! Every single one of them in that family, so devout, from the boys to the girls, the grandmother down. And they all are so successful and educated. How? How do they do it?" There was such longing in her voice that echoed what I had desired for so many years myself that I couldn't really respond. It put me in a weird funk the rest of the night, just very disturbed. I couldn't shake it off and it wasn't until well into the morning that I thought of replacing Allah with Santa Claus. Then it became comical. All the time I spent trying to increase my 'imaan' I was really trying to find ways to kill that part of me that refused to accept bullshit as an answer. Religion is really addictive, comedy is the antidote.

Right! Ridicule and satire and irreverence are all effective tools for breaking the hold that religion has on so many otherwise good people.

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MaleficVTwin wrote

Isn't 'religious historian' another term for 'creative liar'?

More like a compiler of other people's lies.

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calpurnpiso wrote

I think there should be another program to respond to God in America and called:

Schizophrenia-like disorder, Christ-Psychosis, the plague that is eroding the brain of children in America today. The Psychosis nobody seems to see.

Good idea. I wish you well on such an undertaking.

[calpurnpiso]

Sternwallow wrote

Good idea. I wish you well on such an undertaking.

Gratias tibi ago ( thanks ) but unfortunately 80% of Americans are touched by my postulated ( give it any name you want) Christ-psychosis, so this would be an extremely difficult task. It would be our only salvation from this GdBelief insanity that could make us extinct. For this reason I persist that faith ought to be classified as another waco disorder similar to the nuts in mental institutions thought mild by comparison unless it becomes full blown.

As an educated atheist you know very well how insane those folks are. Here is a 2005 world map of Religious Followers ( FaithPsychotics IMHO). I didn't know in ChristPsychosis infected South America there was a sane nation, Uruguay.
I like to get an update on this map & see if there is any hope.


As you can see we atheists are in the extreme extreme minority, & those who see religious insanity as a mental disorder are in the extremely extreme minority of minorities..*sigh*..at least Bill Maher sees religion as a neurological disorder too at least he is famous.

Undertaking is not the word, if I only could enroll Bill Gates..the Vatican, City of Nuts Jerusalem & Mecca would have to sell their wares to defend agains the onslaught of reason & reality accompanied by neurologists that I'd bring.

Close the Gates, Calp is coming wanting to transform our cities, palaces into Sanatoriums & museums...

[psychodiva]

calpurnpiso wrote

my postulated ( give it any name you want)

crap? that's a good name for it- can I get a second on that?

[Sternwallow]

psychodiva wrote

crap? that's a good name for it- can I get a second on that?

Yes, take a whole minute!

[psychodiva]

[psychodiva]

Mendelbrot died

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psychodiva wrote

Mendelbrot died

He will be sorely missed. His work energized thousands of computer artists and scientists.

Thanks to his work on diminishing intervals, we can miss him by arbitrarily close approximations, but miss him, we must.

[Sternwallow]

Here is a theological proposition that you all might appreciate.

http://c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.racks...39473.zoom.gif

[MaleficVTwin]

Fuck, this woman is dense.

O'Donnell displays her ignorance of Constitutional Law

The only thing about this article that I liked was its mention that she trails badly in the polls. She is a teabaggers wet dream though.

[Smellyoldgit]

Jay-Zeus!! Irish police investigate wallaby party death claim

Claims that marsupial was let loose among partygoers at Dublin hotel prompt complaints from animal welfare campaigners

[nkb]

MaleficVTwin wrote

Fuck, this woman is dense.

O'Donnell displays her ignorance of Constitutional Law

I like how they backpedaled after the debate, claiming that she was simply saying that the phrase is not mentioned in the Constitution (no shit!).

Of course, how do you explain all her other comments that followed that contradict that this was her intent?

MaleficVTwin wrote

The only thing about this article that I liked was its mention that she trails badly in the polls.

I sincerely hope this is the case for all the teabaggers that won the Republican nominations: enough rightwingnut backing to win the GOP, but too extreme to win the election.

MaleficVTwin wrote

She is a teabaggers wet dream though.

You mean, stupid, ignorant, and easily manipulated?

[Davin]

nkb wrote

You mean, stupid, ignorant, and easily manipulated?

Also, it looks similar to a woman.