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Some Favs From the Philosophy of Ambiguity

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:11:17 GMT

clipped by: celestialdancer

Clip Source: www.amazingjokes.com

2. ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA, FLOOR.

3. ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION.

8. IF A DEAF CHILD SIGNS SWEAR WORDS, DOES HIS MOTHER WASH HIS HANDS WITH SOAP?

9. IF SOMEONE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES THREATENS TO KILL HIMSELF, IS IT CONSIDERED A HOSTAGE SITUATION?

14. WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?

16. IF A TURTLE DOESN'T HAVE A SHELL, IS HE HOMELESS OR NAKED?

18. IF THE POLICE ARREST A MIME, DO THEY TELL HIM HE HAS THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT?

25. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR?

26. IF ONE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMER DROWNS, DO THE REST DROWN TOO?

28. IF YOU TRY TO FAIL, AND SUCCEED, WHICH HAVE YOU DONE?

29. WHOSE CRUEL IDEA WAS IT FOR THE WORD 'LISP' TO HAVE 'S' IN IT?

30. WHY ARE HEMORRHOIDS CALLED "HEMORRHOIDS" INSTEAD OF "ASSTEROIDS"?

31. WHY IS IT CALLED TOURIST SEASON IF WE CAN'T SHOOT AT THEM?

33. IF YOU SPIN AN ORIENTAL PERSON IN A CIRCLE THREE TIMES, DO THEY

BECOME DISORIENTED?

34. CAN AN ATHEIST GET INSURANCE AGAINST ACTS OF GOD

The secularist case against ''Atheism 3.0''

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:15:55 GMT

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Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

A new, milder "Atheism 3.0" is on the market, teaching a more forgiving attitude towards faith. Bruce Sheiman, author of An Atheist Defends Religion, maintains that humanity is better off with it than without it. Although a recent Religion News Service classifies me and my book The Secular Conscience among the 3.0s, I have to say that I'm not all that happy with the taxonomy.

For me, the interesting thought is not so much that God does not exist, it is that he need not exist. The pertinent question is not whether we are we better off with or without religion, but whether religion matters quite as much as either answer would have us suppose. To take this stance is neither to correct atheism nor to reject religion. It is to change the subject to secularism.

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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/the_secularist_case_against_atheism_30.html

Tags: beliefs

This is NOT the WORLD I KNOW!!!!

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:58:09 GMT

clipped by: mountainpalm
clipper's remarks: The 12-foot-long ads had a blue background and three-foot-high white letters that proclaimed, "You don't have to believe in god to be a moral or ethical person."

Spokeswoman Jane Everhart said American society was increasingly accepting of atheists and says President Obama even mentioned "nonbelievers" in his inaugural speech.

Clip Source: abclocal.go.com

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Ads promoting atheism will be going up in New York City subway stations.

The monthlong ad campaign begins next Monday in a dozen Manhattan stations.

It features the slogan, "A Million New Yorkers Are Good Without God. Are You?"

The campaign is being coordinated by the umbrella organization Coalition of Reason. It cost $25,000 and was funded by an anonymous donor.

The coalition has placed similar billboards in the Dallas area and West Virginia. Another group ran ads in Chicago and in the Indiana cities of Bloomington and South Bend.

In July, another group, New York City Atheists, ran a similar but unrelated campaign on city buses.

One estimate puts the number of New York City atheists at about one million.

Best god In Show - NOFX

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:54:33 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: Great song

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

I think I like this band, NOFX.

Tags: atheism, religion, music

Iraqis Shocked as Atheism Creeps

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:33:19 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: "Doubters" would probably be a better term. Too much suffering if superstitions won't help.

Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

BAGHDAD – Although their number remains insignificant and most of them hid their identity, the fact that some people are leaving Islam and becoming atheists is a troubling news in conservative Iraq.

“I was surprised a couple of weeks ago when my son told me that his colleague at college told him that his father had become an atheist,” Sheik Abdul-Rassoul al-Rabia’a, a religion teacher at Baghdad University, told IslamOnline.net.

Not only did the father abandon his Muslim faith, he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.

Linking that to the non-stop violence plaguing the country since the 2003 US invasion, some Iraqis are becoming atheists.

Most of them have had personal incidents involving either themselves or close relatives.

“Iraq is a land without God or any other kind of major protective superior form,” claims one atheist who declined to be named fearing reprisal.

Tags: religion

Overheard in comments

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:28:21 GMT

clipped by: strider72
clipper's remarks: As an atheist, this amused me.

Clip Source: munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com

Amen, Marko!
(or whatever the atheist equivalent is)

“By the power of Grayskull.”

(Some atheists prefer “Wonder Twin powers, activate”, but we consider them heretics.)

Tags: humor, religion, atheism

The Rise of Atheism in America [INFOGRAPHIC]

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:36:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A large graphic - may be easier to view at the source site: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0910/what-we-believe/flat.html

Or try the "Interactive viewer" link at the top of the clip.

Clip Source: awesome.good.is

Interactive viewer | Raw image

Tags: atheism, atheists, united states, america

Always A Busy Signal?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:51:18 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: movies.nytimes.com

Did you hear the one about the guy who lived in the land of Uz, who was perfect and upright and feared God? His name was Job. In the new movie version, “A Serious Man,” some details have been changed.

At work, Larry specializes in topics like Schrödinger’s Paradox and the Heisenberg Principle — complex and esoteric ideas that can be summarized by the layman, more or less, as “God knows.” Because we can’t. Though if he does, he isn’t saying much.

The story is at once hilarious and horrific, its significance both self-evident and opaque.

So a question put before the congregation by “A Serious Man” is whether it makes the case for atheism or looks at the world from a divine point of view

Are the Coens mocking God, playing God or taking his side in a rigged cosmic game? What’s the difference?

THE BRZEZINSKI/OBAMA AXIS

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:01:59 GMT

clipped by: nuttyriv3r

Clip Source: www.newswithviews.com

Brzezinski views history through the lens of Marxism, which, despite its atheism, has much in common with Islam. Both Communism and Islam are universalistic ideologies that reject the idea of the nation-state. Both do not regard adherence to treaties between nations as obligatory. Both Communism and Islam are militaristic and expansionist creeds that do not recognize international borders. Brzezinski’s globalism is evident in Jimmy Carter. Under Brzezinski’s influence, Carter lowered the defense budget and pursued a soft line toward the Soviet Union. Obama is pursuing a very soft line toward Islam.

As a crypto-Marxist, Brzezinski deplores the nation-state. His book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, declares that “With the splitting and eclipse of Christianity man began to worship a new deity: the nation. The nation became a mystical object claiming man’s love and loyalty. The nation-state along with the doctrine of national sovereignty fragmented humanity

Tags: foreign policy, geostrategy, global government, marxism, secularist, trilateral commission, zbigniew brzezinski

Religious Definitions of "Shit Happens"

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:27:02 GMT

clipped by: celestialdancer
clipper's remarks: The rest is here:
AGNOSTIC ----------- Maybe shit happens, maybe it doesn't.
STOICISM ----------- So shit happens ... I can take it.
PAGANISM ----------- Shit is a part of the Goddess too.
SCIENTOLOGY -------- Join a course and you'll know why shit happens.
RASTAFARIANISM ----- Let's smoke this shit and see what happens.
LAOTSEISM ---------- The shit that can be described is not the absolute shit.
OSHOISM ------------ If you don't see shit in my eyes, in my gesture and in my silence, you will never find it in my words.
BYRONKATIESM ------- What would you be without that shit?
BACHISM ------------ If you give a few drops of this shit in a bottle and take it four times daily, you are able to better bear all the other shit.
YOGANANDAISM ------- Always concentrate on the shit on the top of your head.
RUMIISM ------------ Love that shit.
FREUDISM ----------- Let's talk about your shit since childhood.
PAPAJISM ----------- There is no shit.
SATSANGISM --------- Damned, why don

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TAOISM ------------- Shit Happens.
BUDDHISM ----------- Shit happening is an illusion
CONFUCIANISM ------- Confucius says, "Shit happens".
ZEN ---------------- What is the sound of shit happening?
ADVAITA ------------ To whom does this shit happen?
ISLAM -------------- Shit happening is the will of Allah.
CATHOLICISM -------- If shit happens, you deserve it.
PROTESTANTISM ------ Let shit happen to someone else.
ORTHODOX ----------- Our shit is very special.
JUDAISM ------------ Why does this shit always happen to us?
JEHOVAH'S WITNESS --- Let us in and we'll tell you why shit happens.
CALVINISM ---------- Shit happens because you don't work hard enough.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE -- If shit happens, pray and it will go away.
MORMONISM ---------- If shit happens ... Fuck it!
HINDUISM ----------- This shit has happened before.
HARE KRISHNA ------- Shit Happens, Shit Happens, Shit Shit, Happens Happens.
ATHEISM ------------ Shit happens for no reason at all.

Tags: humour, relgious definitions of shit happens

Comic - Preaching to the Converted.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:23:50 GMT

clipped by: The Infowarrior

Clip Source: www.rationalresponders.com

Tags: religion, atheism, doctor who, lol, fun, satire, comic, funny, rational responders, savior

Atheists:

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:44:30 GMT

clipped by: The Infowarrior
clipper's remarks: Winning since 33ad

Clip Source: www.dailyawesome.com

Tags: epicurus, 33ad, philosophy, satire, religion, atheism, lol, fun, funny, history

An atheist sings the praises of Creation

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:23:06 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The Charles Darwin biopic Creation contains one of the most robust defences of atheism and agnosticism ever to appear in a mainstream film

From the Book of Genesis to Haydn's great oratorio, the concept of "creation" is inextricably linked to the whole "built-world-in-six-days-then-
had-a-nap" shebang. For this and countless other reasons, John Collee's resplendent cinematic homage to Charles Darwin will doubtless ruffle the made-in-a-day feathers of evolution deniers around the world – if, as currently seems unlikely, it can find a US distributor.

Inevitably, Darwin's story has been narrativised, tightened and passed through a dullness filter to Hollywoodify it (no reference to his work The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms here)

However, even Darwin pedants should see this as a timely, compelling and essential reminder of his brain-boggling contribution to our understanding of the world

one of the most robust defences of atheism and agnosticism ever

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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Bibles by Victoria Jackson

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:01:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Born Aug. 2,1959 in Miami, Florida, Victoria was raised in a Bible-believing, piano-playing, gymnastic home with no TV. Her dad was a gym coach, so she competed in gymnastics from ages 5-18.

Cheerleader.. homecoming queen.. attended Florida Bible College; received a gymnastic scholarship to Furman University, attended Auburn University one year, and ended up in Hollywood, CA via summer stock in Alabama, where she met Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman) who promptly put her in his night club act and sent her a one-way ticket to the show-biz capital.

Following her 20 appearances with Johnny Carson, she starred in many movies and TV shows, most notably six seasons on "Saturday Night Live."

It's a shame SNL has ruined their show. There was a time when it catered to all audiences.

Clip Source: bighollywood.breitbart.com

by Victoria Jackson

Liberalism is Communism is Atheism

This is not a Liberal crowd. Liberals would not approve of Bibles being read in public. They took them out of the schools and are trying to get “In God We Trust” and “One Nation Under God” taken off of our money, and out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Communists do not allow Bibles. When I was a child, my Dad was writing a check to an organization that smuggled Bibles into Russia. I said, “Why do they have to sneak Bibles?” Dad said, “They’re Communist.”

Atheists do not like Bibles.

The reason Liberals-Communists-Atheists don’t like Bibles is because they do not want the competition. “No man can serve two masters…” Matthew 6:24 You cannot worship God and the State. You must choose one.

I heard my mouth saying, “I always took my freedom for granted. My freedom to worship.

This is the next thing Obama is going to try to take away from us.

All decisions and most political issues all come down to whether you are FOR GOD or AGAINST GOD.

Tags: victoria jackson, bibles, liberals, communists

Telegraph: A nightmare for Richard Dawkins

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:44:02 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk

A nightmare for Richard Dawkins: statistics show that atheists are a dying breed

Data is rare in this area, but what they do have suggests that atheists are a dying breed. Austria is the only country which records the religious belief of parents but their figure, of 0.85 children per atheist woman, is far below replacement rate (2.1) and below even the most barren European country’s average rate, which is about 1.2. And since most people inherit their parents’ political and religious world views, this is bad news for Team Dawkins.

Personally I find the New Atheists’ anti-Christian aggression tedious: criticising people for their privately-held religious beliefs shows a lack of class and maturity, and besides which this sudden outpouring of bile against Christianity seems clearly motivated by a secret fear of another Abrahamic religion.

Tags: atheism, atheists who worship athor god of logic