1. Many Americans Say Other Faiths Can Lead to Eternal Life

Comment #303951 by Reg on December 19, 2008 at 9:07 pm

Comment #303943 by Eshto

I sympathise none the less and wish you all the happiness that a loving relationship has to offer.

You seem to be certain to a flaw when assessing the honesty of crazies like Old fart Fred Phelps, as I feel it is very likely, though well hidden behind the pious façade, that felching is his primary source of salt.

Perhaps you should tell the grandmother that you will not be putting flowers on her grave but will regularly fertilise those placed by others.

Reg.

2. Many Americans Say Other Faiths Can Lead to Eternal Life

Comment #303938 by Reg on December 19, 2008 at 7:28 pm

"Click here to continue reading:"

Fuck no, I only get one life.

Reg.

3. Report urges timetable for human mission to Mars

Comment #302298 by Reg on December 16, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Comment #302207 by righton

“Shouldn't we be spending money on something else? I think biomedical research is much more important than putting a person on Mars. I really don't see why it would be good to send a person to mars considering the costs.”

But that would mean no space exploration until biomedical research has brought about a cure for every unwell person alive, indefinitely.

Comment #302224 by RightWingAtheist

“I am not sure what actual benefit there is in sending humans to Mars. I was hoping that Obama, hate him as I do, would dump Bush's useless and expensive human missions and move forward with improved robotic probes.”

I have read somewhere (cannot remember where); something along the lines of, One Five year old child could discover more on mars in ten minutes than a robotic probe could in ten years. And I would have to agree, Not that I am suggesting we send children. The things we do here on Earth we do too often as members of our tribes/countries, whereas when working off world we have reasons to work as United Earthlings. For me that’s reason enough and of course the many technological advances made that make such endeavours possible often have more important uses here at home. Necessity is the mother of invention, so let’s manufacture necessities.

I am not sure what actual benefit there is in football, boxing, soap operas, country & western music, Noel Edmunds, Austria, or gambling but they all cost a lot. Should we suspend them all? Well! Noel Edmunds yes, obviously, I would even buy the rope.

Also, is it Obama that you hate, or Bush?

Comment #302276 by aquilacane

Let’s just send President Bush, without life support, within the next three years and dock his account for the costs. Everybody wins.

Reg.

4. Faith Equals Fertility

Comment #302231 by Reg on December 16, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Comment #302150 by Styrer

“That's the worst (and longest) chat-up line I've ever heard in my life.

Take out a few of the big words and you might get a shag.”

Which words would you like removed? And you forgot to tell Carto where you would like to meet for this shag ;)


Reg.

5. Faith Equals Fertility

Comment #302133 by Reg on December 16, 2008 at 3:17 pm

A god would be faced with an ultimate dilemma. If he created an entity of the opposite gender, so he could get his rocks off, he would no longer be the god as he would then have an equal. Now! As all gods seem to be control freaks he wouldn’t want that, so he would have only one other option; create lesser, very horny beings in his image and masturbate while watching.

It is very improbable that god is nothing more than a voyeur watching his f***ing flock, and hence the increased birth-rate amongst his sheep. I think it would follow that when his sheep have starved to death through overpopulation or become extinct through general disregard for pornographic studio/Earth, he just presses Rewind and Play.

Genesis = Lights, Camera a---nd Action.

Of course, first he would have created god-sized tissue paper and maybe the banana.

Reg.

6. Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Comment #301645 by Reg on December 15, 2008 at 9:23 am

Comment #301454 by Goldy

My cussing lexicon was vastly expanded through having owned a Morris Marina.
It was thankfully stolen and after a few weeks the police arrived, clearly trying not to laugh, to tell me they had found it in the fucking marina :-)

I still have my old 1975 Triumph Trident T160v (with the BSA rocket 3 fishtail pipes, cozz I like the look)which I must reassemble, when I get the time.

Reg

7. Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Comment #301430 by Reg on December 14, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Comment #301428 by steveroot


“Please. It was in the Garden of Eden, when Adam heard the serpent whistle at Eve.”

In Serpentes I think its pronounced Therpent.

He could raise the pitch a whole octave by blocking his arsehole.

Twust in me, Reg

8. Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Comment #301423 by Reg on December 14, 2008 at 7:35 pm

Comment #301413 by Apeseed


"woman who communicated with her husband using the Silbo Gomero, a whistled language. She said she could pretty much say anything she wanted using it. Really impressive."

Does she do this with a foreign accent?

Reg.

9. Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Comment #301420 by Reg on December 14, 2008 at 7:21 pm

When in secondary school I had a science teacher Jack Bailey, who had an extreme sibilance when speaking. Of course he was called Whistling Jack.

Which raises the possibility that such a flaw could have been the very first Human whistle. Unintended, but noted (pun not intended) and used to convey a tune or a signal.

Now I can’t help whistling the tune Serendipity (John Martyn) to myself. Am I trying to emulate him though?

Reg.

10. Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Comment #301415 by Reg on December 14, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Comment #301410 by Goldy


Swearing to whom?

Reg.

11. Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Comment #301407 by Reg on December 14, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Having lived amongst Homo sapiens most of my life and yet still failing to understand most of them to a satisfactory degree, I feel a little uncomfortable stating that the person that wrote this piece has missed a biggy with the following -

“Bonnie appears to whistle for the sake of making a sound rather than to receive a food reward or some other incentive”.

We as humans have surely throughout our evolutionary history, especially when young, favoured certain members of the group/tribe, not necessarily the parent, because of their greater social skills, hunting abilities or other advantageous attribute. These are then advanced in the mind of the inferior youth to imprimer, (a word from Marvin Minsky’s -The Emotion Machine) or roll model or Guru, someone worth emulating.

Bonnie, having learned this ability from a caretaker, could be enjoying emulating someone she perceives as a superior group member, as someone more able and so worth learning from. The ability to identify and copy through emulation, the more learned, must have been selected for due to the advantages gained. Not just whistling for the sake of making a sound. After all, the caretaker does bring the grub, something I’m sure she would like to be able to do herself and pass on to those that choose her as imprimer.

I hope I am getting across what I am trying to say, but if not I will add that Bonnie is method acting, hoping to acquire all the subtleties or all the attributes of the imprimer by emulating the caretakers whole character. Be the Caretaker Bonnie!

(Sober) Reg.

12. Vatican tightens in vitro opposition

Comment #301173 by Reg on December 13, 2008 at 9:06 pm

I remember in, I think, the eighties when the church was speaking out against surrogate mothers. They failed to see the irony, as their whole religion began with Myth Mary, (no I do not write with a lisp, just bad grammar) yahwehs chosen surrogate mum. As I understand it Mary was inseminated by an angel, who, with great slight of hand and one of yahwehs used condoms caught her off guard (unless of course she was just not quick enough getting off a guard) . This was so she could give birth to himself (and a ghost!), but not via the birth canal. It must have all started with an almighty fart that followed through.

History would have written her a much better part,
If she’d only been wise and ignited that fart.
Yahweh and the ghost would end in green flame,
And for all monotheism the end of the game.

Swan Vesta where were you when we needed you most,
Without you we’ve suffered they should have been toast.
For the sake of some sulphur, saltpetre and stick
We’ve had to endure that imaginary prick.

(An inebriated) Reg.

13. Hunting new Earths and the edge of the universe

Comment #297781 by Reg on December 5, 2008 at 7:31 pm

Comment #297769 by NewEnglandBob

“I get my photons to clean up after themselves”

I hope you are using positive operand conditioning. You wouldn’t want them to go over to the dark side.


But seriously, we are so fortunate living at such an incredible time.

14. Atheism/Agnosticism Plus Compassion Equals Humanism

Comment #284162 by Reg on November 14, 2008 at 1:58 pm

I watched the video yesterday and as person with fully functioning mirror neurons, who finds no reason, sense, logic or need for imaginary deities, it left me feeling once again an outsider. To restrict this effort to the Abrahamic religions is a blatant and shameful contradiction to the main theme of the message. Karen Armstrong proves here that her religious studies have not only left her blinkered it has also fused the vertebrae of her damn neck.

I haven’t been so pissed off since Van the man did a duet with Cliff (the fucktard) Richard.

Reg

15. Darwin still causing waves after 150 years

Comment #188709 by Reg on June 4, 2008 at 12:05 pm

JLD
http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Dummies-Math-Science/dp/0470117737. Nothing implied, honestly.

Reg.

16. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166294 by Reg on April 23, 2008 at 5:14 am

Comment #166253 by irate_atheist


Perhaps he's been swallowed by a whale. Jonah 2.0

17. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163881 by Reg on April 19, 2008 at 8:41 am

Comment #163870 by Frankus1122

That looks like a great site, cheers for the link. If you have more good Science links, please post them.

A question for the visiting creotards - Do angels shit before they land?

18. In search of the God particle

Comment #157702 by Reg on April 9, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Rod the farmer. This seems to be a hoax. Yu gorra larf


http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/viewthread/6525/

19. The books that inspire me

Comment #157581 by Reg on April 9, 2008 at 9:42 am

The links provided don't work. Is anyone else having the same problem.

20. In search of the God particle

Comment #157553 by Reg on April 9, 2008 at 8:57 am

Comment #157533 by rod-the-farmer


"Oh, no......a lawsuit has been filed to prevent the Large Hadron Collider from starting up."


You might think that the laws of nature would insist on one sphincter per person, but no, there far more arseholes out there than brains.

21. Fleabytes

Comment #157531 by Reg on April 9, 2008 at 8:33 am

This is saddening; I feel a genuine sympathy for RM and hope he can find a group that can satiate is needs. Yet, is it possible that revenge is the motive? If this proves to be the case, then it is professional help that this gentle man should be seeking.

Perhaps after a little feigned "love bombing" he will regain his trust in the godless, and return.

I wish RM all the best.

22. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #157471 by Reg on April 9, 2008 at 6:18 am

Witnessing these childlike worldviews from so called adults (fucktards) just makes me feel like a crewmember of the Holoship, from Red Dwarf.

Reg.

23. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #156981 by Reg on April 8, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Shocking! The majority of our species is absolutely barking mad. So, Adolf was just an innocent puppet (and hence a victim) of the Great Horned One. I like others find this depressing. This institutional ignorance, in all its guises, puts such a drag on our desperately needed advancement, both moral and intellectual. It is a great shame that sooooo many have been damaged, Stockholm syndrome for the people, or maybe the intellectual Black Death. I'm OK, I've inoculated myself with MMR (much more reason).

24. Dispatches: Holy Offensive

Comment #135111 by Reg on February 28, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Comment #135076 by Colwyn Abernathy on February 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm


It's like they WANT us to poke fun at them! Oh, the potential for gags


How about, the service is delayed this morning, as the scripture has overslept. It will be with us as soon as it's finished its fag (cigarette) and cup of tea.

Or a Daily Star headline, SCRIPTURE CAUGHT SLEEPING WITH FIESTA MAGAZINE.

25. Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning

Comment #132394 by Reg on February 24, 2008 at 5:37 pm

The Ekpyrotic model by Paul J. Steinhardt can be found at http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/npr/.


Fascinating, yes, but this is not so new. The last paragraph may satisfy all here.

26. Morality and the 'new atheism'

Comment #119882 by Reg on February 1, 2008 at 12:47 am

Comment #119675 by Greyman


"Interesting experiment indeed! I wonder if anyone has done something similar with chimps?"


I’m sure they will, but I being an Atheist, then want to see it kicked in the testicles.


Reg

27. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Comment #119160 by Reg on January 31, 2008 at 11:08 am

Signed the petition and written a page of vitriol to my MP. If our government allows this murder to go ahead then they had just as well piss on every coffin of every British, Canadian and American soldier that has died fighting in that backward country.

28. Happy Birthday Josh Timonen!

Comment #119058 by Reg on January 31, 2008 at 9:37 am

Happy birthday Josh, and happy birthday to me also (started my fiftieth journey around the sun this morning). Keep up the fine work.

29. Dawkins is third most prolific internet Briton

Comment #117687 by Reg on January 29, 2008 at 11:32 am

Nice one Doc. It is also good to see Stephen Wolfram on the list.

30. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111648 by Reg on January 15, 2008 at 9:58 am

The religious argue that one should carry out such deeds for personal profit, namely, eternal life. A true hero is one that is willing to risk what they know to be their one and only life, for the freedom of others. George, I truly thank you both for your courage and for your great contribution to reason. Compared to you, I'm just one cell of a maggot's arse hair, Fight on Brother George, fight the gooder fight.


Steve.

31. My Road to Atheism, What Took Me So Long and The Aftermath

Comment #47478 by Reg on June 4, 2007 at 4:21 pm

16. Comment #47473 by MIND_REBEL on June 4, 2007 at 4:07 pm


Mind Rebel, you left out a very important W in your last sentence, I hope.

32. TB and the Question of Evolution

Comment #46774 by Reg on June 1, 2007 at 2:06 pm

Oops sorry, I left out - or herself.

33. TB and the Question of Evolution

Comment #46771 by Reg on June 1, 2007 at 2:02 pm

It is more than likely that the guard is himself an anti-evolutionist.

34. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #46502 by Reg on May 31, 2007 at 1:43 pm

The part that did it for me was fifty minutes in, when Richard's tenacity, superior debating skills and of course being armed with truths, had the man flummoxed. Darwin's rottweiler had the rag and Christ's Yorkshire terrier had yapped itself into a state of exhaustion, wishing it could crawl up its own arse. Whereas The Hitch gives a verbal bitch slapping, a Richard Dawkins onslaught is the verbal equivalence of ripping out the theist heart and watching its last beats. I don't feel that I would ever want to see Richard debate that imbecile again as he has proven himself not up to the task, that's him finished. What a team the musketeers are, they give me hope and make me glad to live in these times.


Sun comes up, sun goes down.

35. Adult breast-feeding sucks, authorities say

Comment #44747 by Reg on May 25, 2007 at 8:48 am

Could even help me giving up smoking. Or maybe not, I'd still end up with a twenty a day habit.

36. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #43523 by Reg on May 21, 2007 at 10:25 pm

Hannity, "Your being mean" ha! what a moron, he would definitely stand a chance in a Barney Rubble thinkalike contest. But against the Hitch, no no�

37. Four arrested in Iraq 'honor killing'

Comment #42991 by Reg on May 20, 2007 at 8:38 am

CJ - Sickening, unjustifiable and utterly evil behaviour.


I second that.


Murder a sister for loving. And a bloodthirsty community that's more than willing to assist. I would like to ask the moderates, where was your omnipotent, omnipresent god? Mysterious doesn't cut it.

38. Goodness without Godliness

Comment #42886 by Reg on May 20, 2007 at 4:15 am

It seems that the sense of humour goes the same way as thier rationality. I think even the humerous suggestion that I had been mistaken for the big J was blasphemous. But I must say the whole situation seems crazy to me. The guy I'm talking about seems to be willing to live a lie, church every sunday for the whole duration. The power of lust oops! love.

39. Goodness without Godliness

Comment #42875 by Reg on May 20, 2007 at 3:43 am

Bitbutter - (posting here because the artcle doesnt accept commets). That's maybe because the last big one killed the dinosaurs. lol


Agnostisism

A long time atheist friend and ally met a lovely Christian lass and he, being unable to cope with being single for any length of time, proposed and married. He has asked me to keep silent about his lack of belief and I agreed, on condition that he sold me his Fender guitar amplifier at a very reasonable price. On the first of numerous visits to the new home, her eldest son of about eight years (There are two young sons from her first marriage) looked at me with my long hair and goatee beard and asked "Mam, is that Jesus?" to which I, thinking myself very witty answered, "No, but your not the first to make that mistake". Well lovely Leslie didn't feel that such a blasphemous utterance should modulate her lad's tympanic membranes and to my surprise, with the gentleness of a club bouncer, dragged the inquisitive innocent into another room. On my last visit, which was by invitation, I found myself cornered by the family priest. Being aware of my atheism (no doubt through the confessional) he seemed to behave as though it was to his shame if he couldn't convince me of my blatant error, much to the annoyance of others there that were indicating, in a variety of imaginative ways, that his holy attention was required. The conversation ended with his holiness whose voice had by now risen to sermon level stating that it would not be such an issue if I was merely agnostic, but I was prepared with the retort, "Only a fool would try to sit on an imaginary fence". I am now banned from the marital home and me mate now visits me (and he gets to hear his old amp) at my home for the sane.

40. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41274 by Reg on May 15, 2007 at 6:51 pm

I have ranked this article excellent. LOL

41. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41271 by Reg on May 15, 2007 at 6:41 pm

Above ground is now a better place. A question for RD, Can maggots puke?

42. The Creation Museum: Prepare to believe

Comment #41214 by Reg on May 15, 2007 at 4:20 pm

A tour there would be a laugh a minute, America's greatest comedy show. I have to agree with Katherine as this could attract so much ridicule.

43. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41198 by Reg on May 15, 2007 at 3:54 pm

The angels will come for him soon. I've seen them, they look just like worms.

44. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41188 by Reg on May 15, 2007 at 3:34 pm

I cannot understand why he had such a problem with lesbians, I think every good man should have at least two of them.

45. World's most prominent atheist takes on the Biblical God (and other topics)

Comment #39310 by Reg on May 10, 2007 at 9:50 am

I always try to be kind, but I would punch that woman.Lol.

46. Welsh Hindus fight to save Shambo the sacred bull

Comment #39278 by Reg on May 10, 2007 at 8:50 am

The local veterinarian can easily remove their secondary source of bullshit. The primary source will only be eradicated by educating their children. Have you signed the petition to ban Faith schools?

47. Fortune-telling no longer in the cards in Philly

Comment #38999 by Reg on May 9, 2007 at 5:55 pm

Call me a cynic, but I think this action was more likely taken because it was unchristian rather than a third-degree misdemeanour. I hope I am wrong and they are intent on stamping out the fraudulent evangelists (excuse the tautology) too.

48. A Split Emerges as Conservatives Discuss Darwin

Comment #38047 by Reg on May 6, 2007 at 8:26 pm

Cherry picking from the missunderstanding of science. Come on Richard Branson, hurry up. I want to get off this crazy planet.

49. Atheists go on the political offensive in God-fearing US

Comment #38045 by Reg on May 6, 2007 at 8:02 pm

Regarding - 3. Comment #37982 by Bizarro Dawkins on May 6, 2007 at 2:56 pm


I think can explain your stomach churning. Perhaps deep within your damaged mind you are beginning to realise how much you disgrace the race, or even that your descendants will look back at you and your ilk with both a sense of shear guilt and crippling embarrassment. To be 10 miles from a church can be significant in other ways, one being that if you drive to the place of the deluded fascists you could pull the fucking paedophile priest off the choirboy. Even if you're too late for his first, you could impede his second coming. What I cannot fathom is why you feel the need to post your drivel on this site; after all there are thousands of godfreak sites crying out for your feeble submissive mind. Is it all that pent up sexual frustration bubbling to the surface? Look just go and tell your mother the truth, that you are a rampant homosexual (I have no gripe with this activity but to keep it a secret must for those with the inclination be a great problem) unable to contain the strain, that while you have been portraying yourself as the perfect christian, you have in fact, over the years swallowed more bone than a lamagier. And then of course pray to empty space for forgiveness. Now that's vitriol.


Anyway, I just wanted to know if someone here could tell me when it was that Bush senior voiced this discriminating, vile opinion.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots."
Was it while it was still the president?

50. Pope abolishes limbo

Comment #34028 by Reg on April 23, 2007 at 4:40 am

Just a little more evolution is needed; maybe Ratty (GeneMachine, I like the "Ratty" tag) could convince his moronic flock that the many factors that they have considered ... give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that all wasted, sacred sperm (or the souls of sperm) are given direct access to heaven when found to be trapped in condoms and are hence, in effect, ejaculated directly through the gates keyhole. Although heaven would become a little stickier, Aids could become history.