Comments by Diacanu

1601. Fleabytes

Comment #135400 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 11:04 pm

Steve Zara-

I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with a lust for power and glory. But it has to be based on merit.

Oh, that reminds me, how'd you like the stories I sent ya?

1602. Fleabytes

Comment #135346 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 9:12 pm

Scratch the Bibleman clip, here's how David really sees himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTqWi8BhvU

1603. Dispatches: Holy Offensive

Comment #135320 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 8:27 pm

BranbySpears-

Why do Brits even pretend they have freedom of speech?

Well, they don't, but I don't rub it in their faces.

For one, I still love them for producing Monty Python and Douglas Adams, and for another, it's not like I can muster up any fuckin' patriotism to shore up any teasing with anyway.

1604. Fleabytes

Comment #135290 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Steve Zara-

Thanks Diacanu!

Don't mention it!
*Evil smirk*

1605. Fleabytes

Comment #135287 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Weaselman!!

He was just a bug eyed pork faced below-average balding fuck, but then a book of bronze aged fairy tales fell on his head, and destroyed his reasoning cortexes, and endowed him with the powers of obscurantist bullshittery, now he is...

Weaselmaaaan!! Weaselmaa-aaan!!!

1606. Fleabytes

Comment #135282 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 7:25 pm

Weaselman!!

Then, it can be sung to the Bibleman themesong as we read his posts.

Spoonful of sugar to help the bullshit go down, y'know...

1607. Fleabytes

Comment #135279 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 7:22 pm

How about Kap'n Slimy, and his superpet/sextoy, The Greased Eel?

1608. Fleabytes

Comment #135273 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 7:16 pm

Brian-

Hmm, I've been mentally addressing him as "the greased eel", for some time now...

1609. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #135268 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 7:11 pm

Steve, I see you have your thermoptic camouflage deployed again.

What gives?

Section 9 has you after the Puppetmaster?

Or, is it the Laughing Man this time?

1610. Fleabytes

Comment #135252 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:54 pm

Brian English-

I can see him in his red lycra body suit with blue undies outside and a black mask ala lone ranger. And a big cross on the chest of course. Like any good crusader.*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTpLaw1C364

1611. Fleabytes

Comment #135247 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Brian English-

Heh, before you posted, I was gonna add on that he'll likely take the comparison to the Hulk as a compliment.

Of course, to do so, he'd be completely bypassing that the analogy in this case means the bullets are logic, and the thick bulletproof hunk of green mindless muscle is his brain...

1612. Fleabytes

Comment #135242 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:42 pm

Brian English-

All the questions/choices in the board game would need to be black and white. No possibility of deferring views being equivalid of course.

Lol!!

1613. Fleabytes

Comment #135240 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Brian English-

Insults probably have no affect on him.

Yeah, like how bullets don't work on the Hulk, but the soldiers keep shooting him anyway.

Y'gotta try *shrug*.

1614. Fleabytes

Comment #135238 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:35 pm

Brian English-

...avenging believer land.

Hmm, that'd make a good parody boardgame.

It'd have to be about as basic and retarded as Candyland to fit the target audience too.

1615. Fleabytes

Comment #135228 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Goldy-

...his idea of heaven.

That of course, being the Wayland Smithers of the cosmic Monty Burns for a googleplexillion years.

1616. Fleabytes

Comment #135224 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:19 pm

Brian English-

...we are probably supporting his belief..

Y'know what?
Fuck him.
*Shrug*

1617. Fleabytes

Comment #135219 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:13 pm

Brian English-

Which is where the dehumanizing aspect comes in.

If we attack his precious beliefs, no harm done from our perspective, they're imaginary crap.

He believes that shit, he thinks we're going to Hell, and he couldn't give a shit.
His self-righteousness matters more to him.

Either he's dehumanized us as lifeless video game targets out of the gate, or he's monstrous.

I mean, if he can see us as human beings with feelings, families, dreams, etc, and still want us to roast...yikes...

1618. Fleabytes

Comment #135212 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 6:08 pm

Frankus1122-

You are a bad man.

Yes, I and Richard Dawkins have been saying this.

1619. Fleabytes

Comment #135192 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 5:12 pm

MaxD-

I think this line by Harris is taken entirely out of context

Such is Clearthinker's MO, and indeed entire agenda.

1620. Fleabytes

Comment #135138 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 3:11 pm

mikejswalker-

....you're being ironic, right?

...cuz if you're not...WTF planet have you been living on??

1621. Fleabytes

Comment #135129 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 2:58 pm

*BROOOOOOOOOMMPPPPPTTTT!!!*

Ahhhh....

1622. Fleabytes

Comment #135122 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Frankus112-

Religion provides comfort in this way I think.

Not to me.

It always felt creepy to let others think for me.

I only let it happen when I was a really, really, little kid, because when you're that little, you're at everyone's fucking mercy, and even then, there was this sensation of my identity being slurped away, and I knew before I had the vocabulary to convey it, that I wanted to flee from that sensation as much as possible.

1623. Fleabytes

Comment #135099 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Oh, did DR ever answer post 1348?

I didn't see it in there...

1624. Fleabytes

Comment #135091 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Scottishgeologist-

(and a few 'tards as well...)

Hey! :(

1625. Fleabytes

Comment #135079 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 2:05 pm

I gotta agree with what Al-Rawandi said in post 1610.

Becoming an atheist has given me (Palpatine voice) UUUNLIIIMITEED POOOWEERRRR!!!!!

1626. Fleabytes

Comment #135012 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Ah, I'm finally to the end of it.

DAMN, people!!

Well, David, I see you avoided my big long post that brought up the point, and ignored it the couple times Al-Rawandi asked, so I'll pose the question again, and see if it sticks.

If us poor atheists are going to Hell, how could you live with holding out salvation to us?

Doesn't seem to say much for your character.

1627. Fleabytes

Comment #134997 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Clearthinker-

How? Are they real? Are they just made up? Do they depend on who rules at any one particular time? How do you know they even exist? Do they exist? Prove it. From an atheist perspective.

Well, first of all, everything Al-Rawandi said in post 1430.

Second, your own code of "absolute morality", is made up, since the Bible is imaginary.

1628. Fleabytes

Comment #134542 by Diacanu on February 28, 2008 at 1:10 am

scottishgeologist-

1) The eternal torment of the wicked will be a matter of no grief to the redeemed.
2)The torment of the wicked will be a matter of joy to the redeemed
3)The reason why the redeemed will rejoice at the condemnation of the wicked.

Hey, David/Clearthinker, what say you?
Are thoughts like that how you got yourself through the tedious slog of typing The Dawkins Letters?

1629. Fleabytes

Comment #134358 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Hmm...Slayer.

Gotta go with Slayer for blowing the theist gunk out of my ears.

1630. Fleabytes

Comment #134351 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Peacebeaponme-

You've hit on a really interesting point there. Sometimes an atheist can act like a smug wanker, or enjoy ridiculing stupid theist claims. The total effect of this is (as the atheist sees it) nothing more than putting a theist nose out of joint. It may not be the most sophisticated or politically adept move, but does no significant harm.

However, for a theist to act in such a way, they are not only trying to wind the atheist up but (in their mind) actually saying "Fuck you, go to hell" and truly beliving that to be the consequence.

This seems somewhat less than charitable.

Its also an act of extreme malevolence that is more extreme than any atheist could manage.

Quoted to agree, and bump it to the next page.

I'm saluting that one.

Hell, I'm headbanging to that one like a metal tune.

1631. Fleabytes

Comment #134345 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Brian English-

I'm a Mike too!
:)

1632. Fleabytes

Comment #134240 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 12:52 pm

I'm forced to ask myself, if I truly thought that atheism was a harm to the world, how would I behave?

What level of bad behavior would I be able to justify?

Would I, say, act an ass on an atheist message board?

Would I be a slimy, quote mining, misrepresenting, manipulative, smarmy, condescending, douchebag to atheists?

Would I write a shitty little book full of the same slimy smarm as my posts?

What would I do?

Well, it occurs to me, that if I truly thought souls were at stake, I would have to try to maximize the good I thought I could do.

So, I would try save as many souls as I could.
So, I'd have to go for the sure thing, and try to save as many christian souls as I could, because banging my head against the wall with atheists could end up being a dangerous waste of my time.

Now, IF I thought atheism was harmful, and IF I had persuaded myself it was okay to be an asshole for Jesus, I suppose to protect fellow christians from atheism, I guess I'd try to scare them away from it by trying to make atheism look as bad as I could.

But see, that's where being an asshole would have to be the vital ingredient.

Cuz see, I don't think I could exploit people that way.
To use people I thought were going to Hell as tools like that.
To interact with them like they were people, while simultaneously knowing they were going to fall into the pit of fire.
That would really get to me.
My conscience would be all sorts of fucked up.
I'd have trouble looking in the mirror each morning.

I suppose, to disconnect myself from my conscience, I'd have to dehumanize those people.
I'd have to see them like monsters in a video game.

And I suppose the way I'd have to do that, is swallow the whole Stalin hook good and deep.

Yeah, I guess I'd have less trouble being a slimy quote mining asshole to people if I mentally projected little Stalins and Satans onto them.

And hey, it's for Jesus!

And it's to save blue haired old ladies and sick little girls!

Who couldn't get behind that!?

Why, it's as pure as Superman!

Clean as a fucking whistle!

...EXCEPT...

To swallow all of that, I'd have to have the solipsism to assume I was the big important sheep herder of the flock who was called to do all this.

AND...

To swallow THAT, I'd've had to have swallowed hook line and sinker, the bronze age fairy tales my parents foisted onto me, and THEN gone on to waste my life on a career based around them.

..yeah, way too many hurdles to jump over.

I always asked too many questions to not see them coming up the road.

I just can't get inside David's head, and see it his way.
It's like a whole other planet, one with sulfuric acid for air.
I can't even go their with a spacesuit.

1633. Fleabytes

Comment #133956 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 4:08 am

Tyler Durden-

...the old testament?? The OLD testament??

The raping of the motherfucking Midianites old testament??
The Abraham almost fucking kills Isaac old testament?
The Job old testament??

You gotta be fucking shitting me, he said that??

Wow, David, I'm trying, and trying, and not finding anything at all to like about you...

1634. Fleabytes

Comment #133953 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 3:59 am

Clearthinker-

"in a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason to it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference' Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker.

You cited that quote in your bonehead video, and your deliberate and almost salivating misunderstanding of it grated at me then too.

He means the UNIVERSE doesn't care.
WE do.

Good and evil come from us.

Does a tsunami give a fuck about the people it kills?
Nope.
And it wasn't sent because of homosexuals, or girls taking their tops off at Marti Gras.

I find theories like that far more petty and offensive then that sometimes storms just happen.

But, maybe you find that sort of thing heartwarming, and transcendent, I dunno.

1635. Fleabytes

Comment #133878 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 2:00 am

Oh, and David, to restate a point someone else here made, if YOU can't manage to find meaning or purpose in a godless universe, that's YOUR personal fucking malfunction.

The rest of us get on fine.

1636. Fleabytes

Comment #133866 by Diacanu on February 27, 2008 at 1:51 am

Clearthinker-

It revolves around Jesus Christ.

Evidence, please.

I live in the real world where these things matter to real people.

By "these things", I assume you mean the false solace I spoke of.

I'm sure The Elysian Fields and Vallhalla consoled people, but it didn't make them real.

1637. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133848 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Fuck, sorry.

What was I fucking thinking?

Fucketty-fucketty-foo!

1638. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133847 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Hey, everyone, let's have a little informal vote here, if an aspiring Stalin came along, would you follow or oppose him?

Count me down for oppose.

1639. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133841 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Steve-

Sorry, it's just the level of loony shit you have to believe to buy into the whole "scientists are twisting the evidence, and evolution is a worldview", theory is such...agh!!

Hey, Shmeezer, did we go to the moon?

How about Kennedy?
Still alive on an island with Elvis?

1640. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133837 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 11:18 pm

Myah!! Myah!! Nice hat, see!! Myah!!

1641. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133833 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Myah!!

EDIT-
*Snicker* I'm not being too helpful, am I?
Sorry.

1642. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133826 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 11:02 pm

Shmeezers-

..based on a worldview.

Yeah, you got us.

We want to destroy "traditional values", and tear apart conventional families, and have children not raised, but put in barrels, and fed with a hose up their asshole until they're 8, which is when we think people become human, then, at 18, you'll be forced to marry a man.

You'll go to the atheist church, and pray to a big test tube full of bubbling green shit, and then perform S&M sodomy with your dudewife.

But just former christians will have to do this.
Especially the extra homophobic ones.

But now you've foiled our evil scheme.

You and your pesky talking dog!

And we woulda got away with it too!!

Myah! Myah, see!!

1643. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133820 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 10:21 pm

Shmeezer-

Oh, fuck convincing you anymore, I have to hear more about this evil conspiracy all the scientists of the world are in on.

So, what's the endgame, are materialists merely deluded, or is there a secret cabal that know there's a God, and want to win souls for Satan?

Are the Jews part of it?

Can't have a good conspiracy without some Jews.

*Pulls out bucket of popcorn*

1644. Fleabytes

Comment #133769 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Oh man, I watched the other David Robertson video.

What a slug.

"It's not that I think all atheists are capable of becoming Stalin, it's that those sorts of people embraced that worldview, and THAT'S why it needs to be fought".

Okay, so, because there's some theoretical imaginary Stalin 2.0 out there, all atheism everywhere has to be opposed.

Wow, fuckin' paranoid much?

And again, there's that hatred of humanity.

You ALL have to live in repression and ignorance, because I'm scared of what YOU'D do with more freedom.

Yep, keep everyone superstitious and retarded, that'll make the world all snuggly and safe.

Typical argument of the oppressor.
There was the same shit from the royalist side during the American revolution.

"Oh, we love you, we're just looking out for you, blah, blah, blah..".

Humans can look out for each other just fine without some condescending self-appointed daddy figure, and his disgusting toadies supervising.

...*sigh* okay, Styrer, I'm done.

1645. Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence

Comment #133733 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Igor-

I bet any two religious people who claim to "know" that god exists would have very different pictures of what they actually mean by "god" if you really ask them in detail

Which is why RD made it clear in TGD which God he was speaking of, because he admits that if someone says "God is energy", or "God is love", then he can't touch them.

1646. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133727 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Styrer-

Drug doping is different - the 'best' only available to those with money on the hip.

If you want the purity of the game, go to local games.

Big league sports are all about the green.

1647. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133723 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 3:45 pm

ThoughtsOnCommonToad-

Can anyone give a coherent reason why drug doping is against the rules?

Hmm...none I can think of.

An athlete sees his body as a tool, and doping is giving you a better tool.

Who else in any profession wouldn't want the best tools?

Sure, there's the "using steroids is like being normal in the special olympics", argument, but that's only if you see athleticism as some fort of sacred field of honor, or some crap.

I don't.

I say once Budweiser starts smearing its corporate feces on whatever your endeavor is, and people start gambling on it, the jig is pretty much up for the whole honor and morality tapdance.

1648. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133685 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Steve-
Sorry for mumbling over you...*forehead smack*

That's awsome! *thumbs up*
Post pics when he gets back!

1649. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133684 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 2:17 pm

Myself-

Give me the option to put plugs into my head, and just be a mind, I'd take it.

No, scratch that, I'd miss food and masturbation.

Geez, that's pretty much all that ties me to this plane.
How messed up is that?

1650. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133682 by Diacanu on February 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm

As for all this athletic bragging, well, nothing to add here, I'm a sedentary bookwormy nerd, and I like being a sedentary bookwormy nerd.

Give me the option to put plugs into my head, and just be a mind, I'd take it.