Comments by Diacanu

Comment #163506 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:39 pm

SRWB-

God is fraidy scared to come to Earth to write a book, and do a book tour.

Some crazy fundamentalist atheist might kill him with a Babelfish.

602. Flea of the week

Comment #163504 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:30 pm

Oh, and my last post reminds me.

Has anyone read the rebuttals to "The Age Of Reason"?

I can't seem to find them at my local bookstore.

Oh, that's right, they were Thomas Paine fleas, and died forgotten, as history's losers.

603. Flea of the week

Comment #163497 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Oh, I forgot the fourth option.

That these flea books will convert atheists into christians in droves.

*Roars with laughter*

Puh-lease!

Their only hope there, is fence sitters who were won over by the God Delusion, but are still weak minded enough to be won back.
But, anyone with any sort of brain who's read TGD wouldn't be won back by their shitty arguments, because clearly either none of these authors have read the book, or they read it with blinders on, and ignored vast swaths of it.

So, who is/are the market for these books?
Clearly, people who haven't read TGD in the first place.
Much like the authors.

Probably white haired old grannies buying them for a grandchild to try to nip rebellion in the bud.
"Saving their souls", y'know.

Course, as any kid will tell you, books are a sucky present.
Kids want fucking TOYS, man!
An X-Box game, or a new kind of super-soaker!

Shit, they'll probably hose their flea book with the super-soaker!

And good for them!

A shame that all those nickels will trickle into the pockets of flea authors though.

604. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163474 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:49 am

And this goes out to everyone who came/comes here from the "Expelled", site.

You have all been duped by the worst and lowliest sort of carnival barkers out there.

By trolling this place, you are doing the work of, and thus being exploited by, sheisters and shmendricks.

If/when you ever snap to reality, and realize this, you will first be agonizingly ashamed, and then righteously pissed off.

When you get to that state, we'll be roughly on the same page, and then we can properly converse.

Until then, you're a zombie minion, so expect me to play rough.

605. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163459 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:27 am

cordura95-

I didn't say that the unaswered questions made me say God did it. I just said that it made me start investigating on my own

And your "investigations", ended with "Goddidit".
Despite there being no positive evidence for God's existence.

Sorry, mealy mouthed parsing won't help you out here.
You're not a former president.

606. Flea of the week

Comment #163454 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:20 am

Will Richard Dawkins' atheism grip millions â€" fade â€" or stir lingering doubts?

Will it fade??

Well, only if all of us suddenly turned into christians somehow.
That's not gonna fucking happen.

OR, if we all "got bored with the fad", and shut the fuck up.
Well, that's not going to fucking happen either.
Atheism ain't like a trendy diet, or a style of dress.
You either think there's a God, or you don't.
And once you know there isn't, and you find yourself surrounded by those who not only do, but want to fuck up your society over the proposition, well, it becomes rather impossible to shut the fuck up about it.
So, keep dreaming about that one, religites.

Option three, is if we all fucking DIED.
Well, go ahead and try, assholes.
I'm sure another genocide will look good on religion's resume.
Religion would be committing mass suicide as everyone got fed up once and for all.
Go ahead and try that one, fuckers.

607. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163448 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 11:09 am

cordura5-

I was like you,

Oh, and this may seem a minor point to niggle on, but I've heard it often enough it's started to grate at me.

Would you so-called ex-atheists please stop spouting this catchphrase?

You were NEVER like me.

Trust me.

If you were like me, you'd be an atheist and stay one.

I could give my life story to hammer home point by point why someone like you has nothing in common with me, but it boils down to I want to know the truth even if that truth burns, even if it roasted my fucking hand right the fuck off.
I despise lies that badly.
I'll take a red hot poker in my palm over a security blanket.
That seperates people like me from people like you by motherfucking light years.

Like me?
You fucking wish.
You fucking wish.
You fucking, fucking, WISH.
If one of my thoughts floated into your weak little head for but a minute, it'd KILL you!
My smallest thought would splatter your tiny mind onto the nearest wall.
Like me?
Keep dreaming.
Keep fucking dreaming.

Spare me the meaningless cliches.
Oh, that's right, that's all religion has anymore.

608. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163429 by Diacanu on April 18, 2008 at 10:46 am

cordura5-

It raised too many unanswered questions about Darwin's theory

So to you, the very presence of unanswered questions requires one to plug the gaps with "Goddidit!!"?

Explain the logic of that one, would you?

If you were alone in your house, and you left the room, and then came back, and a picture had fallen off the wall, or a vase were tipped over, would you jump right to "Goddidit!!"?

If not, why not?

Try applying that answer to the creation of the universe problem.

609. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162966 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Goldy-

...sheer utter total mentally gobshiteful fuckwittery...

Well, that's politics for you.
:P

610. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162894 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Goldy-

It is so breathtakingly simple a concept I can't see where the problem lies...

Politics.

The maco-micro evolution divide exists only as a debate wedge dreamed up by creationists.

It's another gap to stuff God/Jesus into with a plunger.

611. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162534 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 3:47 am

Egomaniac-

How do you know they threw their lives away, even if it was a lie? What if pursuing that lie that they believed in made their lives more fulfilled?

Well then, if reality is up for grabs, than surely any lie will do?

612. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162523 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 3:34 am

Egomaniac-

where is the meaning in your existence?

Why do religionists think they're owed one?

Make your own damned meaning.
Write a book, paint a painting, have some kids, do some volunteer work, invent a gadget, bake some pies.

How horrible it would be if our meaning were all the same, and came down from on high.
What slavery.
What indignity.
Yet people beg for this very thing.
How morbid.

613. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162498 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 3:11 am

Egomaniac-

Whether it is so or isn't so (which nobody can know for certain), it gives meaning to people's existences nonetheless.

If it is not so, then those people threw their lives away on a lie.

Quite the opposite of meaning, IMHO.

I'd rather seek the truth, than wrap myself in the security blanket of easy answers.

614. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162485 by Diacanu on April 17, 2008 at 2:54 am

Egomaniac-

The notion of a continued existence after death, along with the idea that the manner in which one's life has been lived will influence the level of quality of said existence adds meaning to many people's lives.

The idea that people will be reunited with loved ones who have passed on adds great meaning to people's lives.

Lovely bits of wish thinking, but wishing doesn't make them so.

615. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162348 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Screw conspiracy theories, I'm taking his FCOS posts at face value.

He's just an emotionally unstable dude.
I hope he feels better someday, and puts away the religious smack needle.

But for now, I advise everyone to deprive him of the chaos he wants.

Let's speak of this no more.
I regret bringing it up.

616. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162336 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Radesq-

I haven't read what all the fuss is about Richard Morgan. I take it from the posts above that he has been posting under various guises - and has supposedly been seduced by the dark side of the force?

Until further data comes in to say otherwise, that's about the size of it.

617. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162329 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Of course, there's the other possibility that RM was a DR double-agent all along.

If that were the case, then DR has gone beyond contemptable, and is my outright enemy.

618. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162323 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Cartomancer-

I have a sneaking suspicion our friend Richard Morgan might be playing that dastard Robertson for all he's worth. Sounds too good to be true to my cynical ears...

If that were the case, it'd've been nice if he'd let some of us in on the joke via PM or something, rather than spinning a web of deciet with sock puppet trolls.

619. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162319 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Frankus1122-

Truth is truth. No?

I think he's clearly embraced the "there are other kinds of truth", argument.

*Sad head shake*

Oh, boy....

620. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162308 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 2:38 pm

Quetzalcoatl-

Ahh.

Hmnh. Wow...

621. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162305 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 2:35 pm

So, how long ago did RM's falling off the wagon happen?

I take it this is old news, and I missed the link to the shenanagins?
I had to go Google that shit.

Had to swallow back a burped up glob of vomit as I read it too.
"There is no conflict", between "relgious reality", and "scientific reality"?
Um..WHAT??!!?
Have we been shouting at a wall for the past year or so??

*Facepalm*
*Grumble*
Someone should PM me when this sort of thing goes down, I can't be in every thread.

622. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162293 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 2:14 pm

*Comes back from reading Richard Morgan's re-conversion story posts on the FCOS site*

Wow...wow....that's just...wow...

*Head shake*

He just couldn't let go of the drug needle.
That sad and simple.

And what's this shit about us not being a "caring community",??
We were always nice to him.
I was, anyway.
I mean, what more did he want, for us to e-mail him kitten photos all day?
WTF??

*Sigh* well, I wish him well anyway.

Aparently, he thinks RD.net sucks now, so what else is there to say?

623. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162279 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 1:45 pm

al-rawandi-

Leave for a few days man, and the world turns upside down.

Holy shit, I guess so!

After all he went through, his whole traumatic de-conversion story, and seeing what a manipulative twat Robertson is???

I'm stunned numb.

Wow.

624. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162272 by Diacanu on April 16, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Wait, hold on a minute, did I hear right?
Richard Morgan turned into a Jesus freak?

625. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161792 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Frankus1122-

To regular posters here: Please play nice.

Hey now, you'll note I didn't drop a sigle F-bomb in my reply to him.

626. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161777 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 4:40 pm

bringingithome4u-

Are both avenues of scientific thought treated equally in discourse...

Intelligent design isn't even an avenue of science.

It's merely a twisting of existing evidence to support the christian creation story, nothing more.

It has no evidence, and it has no predictive power.
ID proponants have no ID experiments one can perform.

If you'll dig through this thread, you'll see experts in evolution have already more thorougly dismantled ID better than I ever could.

So, this whole victim tack ID is trying to play is just politics.

It's akin to flat-earthers claiming foul against the big mean round-earth establishmnet.

So no, there is no "conspiracy", anymore than gravity is a "conspiracy", to not let crackpots with anti-gravity potions get a look into the classroom.

It's a total bunk position.

627. Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

Comment #161770 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 4:30 pm

*Head pat*
Yes, Bonzai, you are a unique little snowflake.
Calm down, you catty/angsty little thing.
Shhh....
Shh...

*Rocks Bonzai*
Biiilo baaaaby, biiiiiloo baaaaby, biiiiloo baaaaby, bilo baby boyyy.

628. Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

Comment #161757 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 4:05 pm

The only living person I hero worship is George Carlin.

Everyone else on my list is fucking dead. :(

629. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161752 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 3:54 pm

This Dawkins-as-atheist-pope shit is getting fucking tedious.
It's one of those memes that doesn't want to die.

The religiot mind can't fathom respecting someone, and not in turn worshipping them.

Well, that, and the religiot mind is also accustomed to picking a lie, and saying it often enough it becomes truth to them, and everyone as stupid as them.
You get a lot of that shit on FoxNews too.

Anyway, Richard's a nice guy, I really dug TGD, I dug/dig his youtube videos, that's what lured me here, to find more of them, and I dig the community here, that's why I stayed.

But, I don't worship the guy, and hell, I'm not even a full blown fanny-fan.
The only book of his I have is TGD.
If I were a Dawkins junkie, you'd think I'd have his whole canon, and would've devoured it all by now.

The moment he starts issuing pope-like edicts, or advocates for the sort of eugenic trash christians keep accusing atheism of leading to, you can damn well bet I'd oppose him.
Safe to say, I think all of us would.
But, the probability of the situation coming up is vanishingly small.

Anyway, I use this place for the board.
Everywhere else I've tried is full of fuckin' idiots.
Heh, the women are great too.
All cuties, and best of all, anti-bimbos, every single one.
No bimbos post here.
That alone makes this place a fucking oasis.
No neo-cons, no biblethumpers, no bimbos.
And no leaders.
We all just hang out.
The religiot mind can't fathom that either it seems.

630. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161739 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 3:09 pm

SPQR83-

Why are a lot of you lauding this man

What man?

The man with the power?

The power of voodoo?

Who do?

You do!

Remind me of a man!

What man?

The man with the power!

631. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161605 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Okay, why is everything suddenly in boldface?
Who broke the code?

632. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161599 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 12:43 pm

navyjake95-

..how I began to change, from the inside-out,

That feeling like you're one with the universe, and you can almost feel the rumbling of the planets rotating and revolving as you stare up into the stars and the moon, and that you're the fragment of this cosmic consciousness, and elevated above normal reality?

I've felt it before.

The summer I went from almost total mental vegetable, to reading "The Age Of Reason", the Dune sextology, "Slaughterhouse Five" "Watchmen", and perpetually listened to "St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and "OK Computer".

It's brain chemicals, man.

Shit, I can almost turn 'em on like a switch if I think of the right things, and/or the weather is just right.

It's just a high, don't fall into it.
It's not invisible spooks.

633. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161561 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 12:09 pm

MaxD-

But I don't think much of the concept of purity as the religious often understand it.

Nor do I.

It's a concept that's poisoned human thought and discourse for millenia.

The only way one could reasonably achieve the religious concept of "purity", is to be broken down into a beam of light, and projected into a prism polished atom-perfect with a powerful electron beam.

Well, fuck that, morality is for people, not prisms.

Trying to echieve that is how we got all this loathing for the flesh, loathing of sex, flagellents, puritans, suicide bombers, the whole fucking mess.

Aspiring to the transcendant at the expense of bodily and/or emotional health is nothing less than lunacy.
And given that there's no such thing as spirits to begin with, it's ONLY at the expense of emotional health.

No, "purity", is right up there with Hell for my least favorite religious notions.

Sticks in my craw.
I really don't dig it.

634. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161531 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 11:25 am

al-rawandi-

I smell something funny.

It's that special potpurri brew of bullshit and batshit the religiots love to light up for company.

635. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161529 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 11:21 am

strength-

You really think an omniscient all-seeing Gawd would be fooled by G-d and @sshole?

He can supposedly read your fucking MIND, he'd see "God", and "asshole", in there!

Sweet fancy Moses, is religion fucking stupid!!

636. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161517 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 11:06 am

EDIT-
Screw it, Al beat me to it.

637. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161510 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 11:00 am

strength-

disrespecting the G-d of the Jews is worse than disrespecting the Jews!

Oh, fuck you, that's exactly the same shit the fucking terrorists say.
You've pissed me off now.

Your fucking God gets so offended, let HIM deal with me, you arrogant little ignoramus.

Hey, Yahweh, you're a fucking cunt, and a closet queer, and you probably lapped up all the leftover jism of sodom and Gommhorah.

Come and get me, you sick son of a bitch!!

Come awwwn, let's rawwwk!!!

See? Nothing.
If he's out there, he doesn't give a shit.

638. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161497 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 10:53 am

strength-

Let me clarify Max, you can be an internet atheist thug all you want, but if you want to talk about G-d droppings to my face, I will bust you in your shyte. Point blank.

Your God must be an incredible pussy if he needs twats like you to be his cadre of bodyguards.

639. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161493 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 10:50 am

strength-

Why in the world would you care HOW I spell the name of a fictitious deity?

It's an idiotic superstition, and I have every right to ridicule it.

Your lack of tolerance...

Oh, blow it out your ass.
When will you religiots lose the martyr routine?
No one's dragging you behind a truck, or hanging you from an oak tree.
And as for the implications of "bigotry", religion isn't like skin color or ethnicity, it's a conscious choice you make as an adult.
Either to convert, or to keep the superstitions of your parents into adulthood.
If we can't go after people's beliefs, then let's stop having political debates then.
Bye bye democracy.
Sorry, but religion did NOTHING to deserve the special protection it gets.
The free ride is over.
Deal with it.

640. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161484 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 10:40 am

navyjake-

You are obviously one to be confronted.

Oh, what, are you gonna book a plane ticket, and go kick his ass?

Or, are you and your prayer buddies gonna will a Carebear stare at him by hugging the monitor?

641. Victims: Pope Benedict Protects Accused Pedophile Bishops

Comment #161476 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 10:32 am

michabo-

If any country leaders had a spine, they would charge the Catholic Church as a criminal organization with conspiracy to commit child abuse.

Holy shit, I was just going to post almost those exact words!!

642. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #161471 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 10:28 am

Bonzai-

I think he did say he is a philosophy professor,

Ouch, those poor fucking students.

643. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161464 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 10:19 am

Rule of thumb, if it doesn't fall under the category of causing someone harm, and is still a "sin", then it's bullshit superstitious mind control, and nothing more.

How does typing "GOD", cause anyone harm?
I mean real broken arm harm, not "step on a crack..", bullshit.

I put this to some wingnuts on D'souza's blog, and they all ran away from it.
They didn't even bother making "gotta take back video tapes", excuses.

Well, it wasn't about the "GOD", thing, but the superstitious bullshit sins in general.

644. Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

Comment #161449 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 9:59 am

Bonzai-

I watched two of these videos and was bored out of my skull by the mutual admiration and pomposity.

Yes, yes, alright already, you say shit like this almost every time a video like this comes up.

Don't click on them anymore, they just make your black oily blood boil.

Play outside.
Chase a rainbow, and try to get its Skittles.

645. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161438 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 9:46 am

strength-

Hello, Ben Stein, welcome to the site.

Liked you in Duckman.

In "Expelled", and the Nixon administration, not so much.

646. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161415 by Diacanu on April 15, 2008 at 9:20 am

Enlightenme-

Pragmatism.

In my heart I'd be a Socialist, but too many lazy people will use you.

In my head I'd be a capitalist, but too many greedy people will buy fukoff great yauchts & learjets without 'giving something back in'.

Yeah, sounds good, I'll go with that.

647. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161130 by Diacanu on April 14, 2008 at 9:40 pm

Radesq-

Libertarian arguments always seem to boil down to -- "I really can't understand why you all think I'm nuts...must be something wrong with you."

Maybe there is something wrong with me.
Maybe it is me.
Maybe I'm fucking nuts.

All I know, is every time I've tried to hold onto a political ism, it took too much denial and compartmentalization to be able to ignore the fucking horror.

After being burnt like that too often, I had to let them all fall away to be able to sleep at night.

But I seem to find myself on the bitchy side of 99.999999% of the human population by adopting this view.

Maybe being in that cut-off, alienated, disconnected place is where fucking insanity lives.

But, if embracing any old bullshit is the cure, I may as well be fucking religious again, and that ain't gonna happen.

648. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161113 by Diacanu on April 14, 2008 at 8:25 pm

FightingFalcon-

It is clearly written by someone who has never experienced a country that doesn't believe in Capitalism.

I believe I made it quite clear, that despite its flaws, it serves us in the here and now, and shouldn't be thrown right out.

But only because of the human effort and will behind it, and not just because it's magic somehow.

But will we be capitalist in the year 3000?
I don't see it.
Either we will have evolved into something more robust and adaptive for us to become an extra-solar civilization, or the earth will be a big polluted lifeless ball of shit.

649. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161109 by Diacanu on April 14, 2008 at 8:15 pm

Okay, apparently I need to clarify.

I believe I established at the outset that I meant only political/economic isms.

And no, my views don't equal "anything goes".

If "anything goes", I wouldn't be objecting to isms in the first place.

My objection is to rigid ideologue thinking that rejects certain solutions to problems because they have a certain label, and are therefore "eeeevaaall!!", while at the same time, ignoring the wrong done by one's own chosen ism, because well, the label, and nothing more.

Plus, I also pointed out in various spots certain isms that have calcified and no longer serve us.

So, even by my standard, some are beyond the pale, and just need throwing out.

But, the ideologue mind prevents this.
These bad ideas hang on and gum up the works with their dried carcasses.

So, what do I think should be thrown ut?
Capitalism?
No, I didn't say that.
I pointed out various spots where it's preferable to some worse ideas.
Course, someday, it probably will dry out and need to be abandoned.
Like, in the distant future when neutrino-powered nano-builders create everything we need, and give us medicines that make us immortal.
No room for capital in that society.

But see, a dogmatic mindset would seek to hold us back from that world.
And currently, I think it does.
People want their dumb personal power.
Fuck 'em.

But, for the time being, we'll need a method of of exchange, and whatever is being exchanged, and how, will still resemble capitalism, so let's just keep capitalism.

But, doesn't mean let's not try to improve things.

If a socialist idea helps things, let's use it, and not get hung up on labels.

The balance between those two isms will always have to be tinkered with as our society evolves though.
I'm not for one winning out over the other.
My eye isn't on the ism, it's on the advancement and survival of the species.

I don't happen to think rigid dogmatism to the current batch of isms is going to do that.

Or, maybe I'm naive, and pure free-market capitalism, or socialism will run us into the ground, and our species is doomed.