101. Diary of a Deserter

Comment #46441 by LeeLeeOne on May 31, 2007 at 8:26 am

Brian, how eloquent, insightful, and, as many have said, brave. Thank you for your blog, for your time and effort. Blogging is wonderfully therapeutic, helping to clarify self-issues, and hopefully at least 99.99% of the time, to gain support. I join with all others (who also have so eloquently stated their support) in wishing you well in your journey.

102. A Look at Regent University

Comment #46260 by LeeLeeOne on May 30, 2007 at 5:26 pm

For those persons of all christian and non-christian beliefs, including those of us who are atheists, we ALL need to be afraid... very afraid. This video is jaw dropping, stomach churning, and mind boggling. Obviously these graduates, these teachers, these administrators were never taught, "Life is best lived in moderation, too much of a good thing will kill you." And... "You'd better watch what you wish for, you just might get it." Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Constitution of the United States?

103. Hitchens and Prager Debate

Comment #46092 by LeeLeeOne on May 30, 2007 at 7:30 am

Mr. Prager put forth a lot of nonsensical "questions", and dammed if you do, dammed if you don't scenarios. I find this line of questioning by xtians to be quite tiresome. This particular debate was really no debate at all... sigh

104. Christopher Hitchens at Politics and Prose

Comment #45957 by LeeLeeOne on May 29, 2007 at 7:51 pm

All authors, all speakers, all TEACHERS speak the same speech. Repetition is how you educate the masses. This is probably one of the most liberal introductions, for a smaller group, I have seen for an author in a long time. I fully embrace his US citizenship, not because he is an anti-theist, an atheist, like myself, but because I was born and raised in this US, and it is nice to see we are importing the educated instead of merely exporting our best and our brightest. It is nice to see that we have someone who lives in a country to may still be able to see the first amendment hold true to him as he continues to educate the masses.

105. The Dawkins delusion

Comment #45956 by LeeLeeOne on May 29, 2007 at 7:33 pm

Ahhh, evolution at its best! Does anyone realize that "evolving" from a fundie/xtian to an atheist requires a bit of anti-theism? We all know the phrase - build it, they will come. Well, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, PZ Meyers, etc. (we all know their names), are building (educating the masses) a foundation for rational thought that was started eons ago. The ignorant human race may one day be an educated human race. But as we all know, evolution takes ... time .... education may take more time than the human race has currently been on this planet. (baby steps, baby steps) We need to keep the evolution going, to fight the good fight, to understand those who wish to remain moderate but, if you are not one of them, if you are more of an anti-theist, do something! Actions speak louder than words; case in point for Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, PZ Meyers, Penn & Teller, Christopher Hitchens, etc.... They've proven this and are educating the masses.

106. Dawkins' Christmas card list

Comment #45952 by LeeLeeOne on May 29, 2007 at 7:12 pm

To comments #45915 and #45928:
You must have recently received your newest UU World Magazine. As a volunteer of office services for a local UU, I have found the vast majority are, like myself, atheists who really are just simply great people seeking to educate themselves! Understanding (which may or may not lead to tolerance), which requires self-education of past history and current events (and so much more - maturity is hard work), are some of the most popular topics for discussion. Mr. Sam Harris and Dr. Richard Dawkins, have undoubtedly and quite obviously encountered, through their writings and lectures, that ignorance plagues us all (esp. as Mr. Harris discovered in the above-noted discussion). Encourage continued education in your UU chapters; education from grammar/middle school until death is the key to unlock the gates to true freedom for all people; a freedom of religion.

107. Prayer can improve physical health

Comment #43800 by LeeLeeOne on May 22, 2007 at 5:16 pm

Human nature, survival, and hope for a cure... this study proves one thing only. That a human who has the ability to reason ends up being quite unreasonable when faced with the possibility of finality, the end, no more, nada, nothing. Physiologically, meditation of any type (such as those in yoga, mantras, any religion, etc.) does what? It puts a person in an artificial state of sleep, a state where science has proven more than once where the body's self-healing mechanism kicks in. Physiologically - oxygenation improves, blood pressure reduces, blood sugar more efficiently utilized, etc.

And a medical community, organization, membership has NOT figured this out? I wonder seriously if this is the true opinion of the majority of the scientifically educated on Australia or if it is a few who just happen to have the privilege of the loudest (money) voices... hmmmm?

108. For the God Question, a Biological Perspective

Comment #43796 by LeeLeeOne on May 22, 2007 at 5:08 pm

Reply to konquererz: (i'm a bit off main topic)

We are ALL born atheist. You, like all others of the human species have been an atheist since birth. Eventually an adult atheist establishes themselves in maturity, self-responsibility, self-discovery, self-education, and nondelusional, rational thinking once they are able to comprehend all aspects of human personality set before them. From my own personal understanding, a person who has faith in a supernatural has not even begun the lifelong journey of education, maturity, flexibility, comprehension, and adaptability. From what I understand, lifelong faith in any supernatural (theism) automatically closes doors because they accept the currently unexplainable without even trying to seek the answers to the very questions that they pose.

RESPONSE TO mjwemdee
It is not surprising. From what I have learned from the information proffered in "Beyond Reason 2006", any form of Arabic progression was basically stifled once religion set it's ugly foot as a doorstop to the education of its people.

The surest way to maintain a following in anything, anywhere on this planet, is to keep your captives enslaved to ignorance.

Education, and only education, is TRUE freedom.

109. Mysteries to Behold in the Dark Down Deep: Seadevils and Species Unknown

Comment #43791 by LeeLeeOne on May 22, 2007 at 4:46 pm

Another scientific discovery of such wonder! As such odd creatures are destined to give us the gagful of fodder for play, I beg to question, (I am sure most scientists of ALL disciplines would agree) what further discoveries await us with these odd creatures in this rather odd environment? What use of the body formation? What use of the bodies' chemicals? What use of the digestive system? What use of the available energy (food) sources and how to assimilate to be able to utilize? etc., etc., etc. WHAT CAN WE LEARN?! Love science... (wish I could understand more of it myself) - perhaps one of these creatures would yield a "smart" chemical to reconfigure this brain of mine. (tee hee hee)

110. Cult leader sparks Sikh riots with 'guru' stunt

Comment #43506 by LeeLeeOne on May 21, 2007 at 9:02 pm

And the uneducated (violent, reactionary, slavery) will always be just that... uneducated. Unless, we keep "spreading" the science, and reason, and maturity. (baby steps in evolution?)

111. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #43505 by LeeLeeOne on May 21, 2007 at 8:59 pm

Why should someone like Falwell's family enjoy any moment of reconcilliation (a moment of peace)? They promoted this man's inhumanity to man, they supported this man's inhumanity to man, they lived with and agreed with his ideals!

Why should anyone give this man's family a moment of peace?

Because we are human, and we do not condone inhumane treatment

OKAY, the 5 seconds are up!

Anything in memory of Jerry Falwell's life should be nothing less than harsh criticism! AND this includes the family and his friends who supported his any of his "ideals."

112. Scientists Draw Link Between Morality And Brain's Wiring

Comment #43502 by LeeLeeOne on May 21, 2007 at 8:50 pm

People, this is science! Something that can be studied, criticized, scrutinized, improved upon! This is science, REAL life. Can you imagine how far my neighbor's child would have gone? without the accident that injured the very brain portion this article talks about?! This neighbor's child was a child prodigy, but an accident took all natural abilities from this child. Not only leaving the family devastated but eventually leaving the local hospital, EMS, and religious community in debt for services rendered - thousands of dollars in services, and these same caregivers questioning, emotionally drained, and no clear understanding of "traumatic brain injury" because there is no seriously funded research! A branch of science that needs to be funded and researched: stroke, brain tumor, brain aneurysm, concussion, cephalic anoxia...

113. The Ethics of Hell

Comment #42814 by LeeLeeOne on May 19, 2007 at 8:29 pm

Simply, succinctly, clearly stated.

This is as good as it gets people!

Don't WASTE your life! Take care of yourself and take care of your planet and ALL that is on it.

If you need to ask "Why?" or if you seek the answer to "Why?", perhaps you should look in a mirror, and I mean REALLY look.

114. Freethinking Ruins All Things

Comment #42704 by LeeLeeOne on May 19, 2007 at 5:19 am

Man, men, he, him, his... the last time I checked, there was more than one gender on this planet! Talk about closed-mindedness. The author, Daniel Larison, did not have a mother? Perhaps we as the other gender (woman, women, she, her, hers) are lucky to be kept out of this man's diatribe.

Atheists are supposedly devoid of appreciating "...great Western art and literature...", huh? So all of the wonderful and beautiful ancient architecture and art and literature (including song and spoken word) of the Native population in the north and south American continents cannot be appreciated by anyone because it was not borne from a xtian god?

This author proves that his very own xtian belief keeps him in the exact same state of ignorance and inability to appreciate any form of ancient culture that he loudly proclaims where atheism keeps us.

Such a small and ignorant person... getting trapped in their own circular reasoning. But, sigh, this is what a belief in a supernatural does for a person.

115. Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans

Comment #38992 by LeeLeeOne on May 9, 2007 at 5:39 pm

Aaron SF: actually the shrub you are talking about is called "busheytheocytist myassizmymindicum". They proved this particular shrub to have mutant genes, they had started a couple of thousands of years ago when the bibliocannotthinkformyself virus spread, but some ill-informed, uneducated "volunteers" (republicunda grossmisinformidus) voted to reconstitute the shrub's DNA in their laboratory (blatantlyfixedorus registrationis votefraudist).

116. Intellectual Diversity or Intellectual Insult?

Comment #38989 by LeeLeeOne on May 9, 2007 at 5:27 pm

"Neal of the ACTA countered that view. She noted that the legislation offers a variety of ways for colleges to make reports, so no one way is necessarily a requirement. "The legislation does not dictate what the institutions must do or say. It respects institutional autonomy since it's entirely up to the institution to decide what and how to report," Neal said."


BS! BS! AND MORE BS!

This is how it starts... be afraid, very afraid. These public institutions, given supplemental funding - direct or indirect - are governed by humans. These human governances in a number of institutions have proven, on more than one occasion, to have their "personal" ideals outlined in their university legislative tenants more often than their obligations to students attending a secular educational system, a public college or university.

This is as bad as renaming "creationism" as "Intelligent Design."

I smell a rat - and it's not a legitimately funded, unbiased lab rat either!