Comments by Diacanu

2151. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #118323 by Diacanu on January 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Blacknad-

Diacanu,

On Feb the first you can get it for free in PDF.

Then how did you read it?

A paper copy I assume?

What, you lack the skill to read something off of paper, and retain it for the seconds it takes to aim your eyes at the screen to type?

2152. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #118316 by Diacanu on January 30, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Blacknad-

Vox destroys Dawkins' best arguments.

Post an example.

2153. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #118310 by Diacanu on January 30, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Blacknad-

Slap up an excerpt for me.

Y'know a core killer argument.

Surely it doesn't take a whole chapter to set one up.

You won't be violating anything since it's free anyway.

C'mon, just a couple paragraphs.
Ones that really got your fists pumping in the air.

2154. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117647 by Diacanu on January 29, 2008 at 9:38 am

Well, I betcha Richard Dawkins is really pissed how far off topic we've gotten now.

;)

2155. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117365 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Heh, Penn Gillette was spot on when he pronounced "new age", to rhyme with "sewage".
B-)

2156. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117339 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Paula Kirby-

Whereas with this wishy-washy, New Agey, "it depends what you mean by truth" pseudo-philosophy, there is just NOTHING other than a woolly-minded, soppy-headed determination to see the universe as something it isn't. Hardly anyone's been actively brainwashed into believing this stuff. No one's heart has soared at the sight of New Age architecture. No one has wiped away a tear at the magnificence of New Age music. Yet all around the world otherwise intelligent people are actively turning to it, and choosing to fill their heads with intellectual candy floss. And there's just no excuse!

*Big hug, forehead smooch*

2157. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117289 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 2:07 pm

epeeist-

You had to read him fairly carefully to realise that his stuff had significant holes in it.

Really? It only took a skim for me.

2158. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117269 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Paula-

Ayep, I called it, didn't I?

2159. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117242 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 12:51 pm

*Groooaan*

Is this yet another post-modern tearing down of the pillars of reality to shove God into a jury-rigged gap?

These are always so eye glazing.

Wake me when it's over.

2160. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117145 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 10:30 am

al-rawandi-

I am an ordained minister. Sent in over the internet, paid my 5 dollars, Universal Life Church. I can legally marry people. I thought about officiating gay marriages, but none of my gay friends wanted to get married.

Hmmm....5 dollars you say...*strokes beard mischeviously*....

2161. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117139 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 10:26 am

omega369-

No, no. I think you are misunderstanding me. I mean, Christianity (like all other religions) must have been started by a human.

With you so far...

This human *may* have been called Jesus/Joshua/Yehoshua, or it could have just been a nickname given to this guy then or after time.

Okay, neither of these necessarily follow from the first assertion.

That it MUST have been a human doesn't mean it MUST have been one of those two choices.

It's just as probable that he was a fictional character entirely dreamed up by the leaders of the Jesus cult, like Moroni by Joseph Smith.

2162. A Letter From Hell

Comment #117129 by Diacanu on January 28, 2008 at 10:09 am

omega369-

The only thing you need to believe to be a Christian is the existence of life, love and energy and the fact that there may have been a person/man (or group) called Jesus (or similar) who promoted a very social and very peaceful way of living.

Well, that'd make most people, including a good chunk of us christians.

But, we ain't.

2163. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116844 by Diacanu on January 27, 2008 at 3:16 pm

lindsaymright-

The idea behind it is that for those of us who have a relationship with Christ, we should not conceal it.

If sick behavior like terrorizing children is what a "relationship with christ", leads one to, then by all means, expose it to the world for public inspection.
Sick abuse in relationships thrives on concealment.
Reveal away.

2164. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116837 by Diacanu on January 27, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Paula-

You see, I really do exist. ;-)

And have a very kissable little pixie face.
:)

2165. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116832 by Diacanu on January 27, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Paula-

Oh, and what Double Bass Atheist said.

2166. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116829 by Diacanu on January 27, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Hmm, someone physically tormenting you, and saying "I love you", at the same time...isn't that pretty much the mentality of a fucking wife beater?

Oh, that's right, it's okay when God does it.
Everything's okay when God does it, or says you can do it.
Genocide, infanticide, rape, you name it.

Gosh, God is so peechy keen.

2167. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116415 by Diacanu on January 26, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Deepthought-

If there is a way that an atheist could be positive about everthing on the site then they would be allowed on. Then they wouldn't be atheists.

Exactly.

The end game they want is for us to shut up and go away.

*Shrug* no, christians, sorry.

2168. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116224 by Diacanu on January 25, 2008 at 9:58 pm

Double Bass Atheist-

Hmm....well, in the short term, how about sending the kid who sent it to your kid videos from GodIsImaginary.com?

2169. Loneliness Breeds Belief in Supernatural

Comment #116182 by Diacanu on January 25, 2008 at 6:34 pm

Hmm...I went through my brief deism phase during/after a particularly dejected and alienated period.....

2170. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115998 by Diacanu on January 25, 2008 at 8:33 am

JasonG-

ROFL!!

"I'm afraid of you didn't go before you left, you're not going to enjoy yourself...but that is the point...".

2171. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115840 by Diacanu on January 24, 2008 at 10:42 pm

It didn't scare me at face value, but I did get chicken skin over the fear and guilt they were clearly drying to lay down, and that part creeped me the fuck out.
This shit's a fuckin' disease.

2172. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115832 by Diacanu on January 24, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Tch, sheesh. Keep shooting yourselves in the foot with this nasty creepy evil crap, christians.
Makes our work easier.

2173. The New Theology

Comment #115803 by Diacanu on January 24, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Kierkegaard407-

Your mother wears army boots, and you smell.

:)

2174. US scientists close to creating artificial life: study

Comment #115781 by Diacanu on January 24, 2008 at 7:08 pm

*Poofy hair, labcoat, goggles, forearm length purple rubber gloves*

POOOWWEERRRRRR!!!!!!!!

2175. The real danger in Darwin is not evolution, but racism

Comment #115217 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 6:53 pm

GSP-

Why are you allowed to cherry-pick and I am not?

That's easy.

The Bible allegedly comes from the creator of the universe. That's serious fucking business.

Cherry pick the book of the creator of the universe?
What arrogance!
What temerity!

2176. The real danger in Darwin is not evolution, but racism

Comment #115198 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Jenin-

Furthermore, even if the theory of evolution did somehow promote racism (which I don't think it does) this has nothing to do with its truth value.

This goes to something I've repeatedly observed in theists.

They really do think you can just pick reality like a TV channel.

That if indeed, Darwinism equaled racism, and was true, the unpleasantness of that truth would justify living in a pleasant fiction, even KNOWING that's what you were doing.

Course, even if Darwinism did point to racist claims were true, there are countless philosophical/moral reasons not to give in to the hate and abuse aspects of racism without needing recourse to outright delusion.

2177. The real danger in Darwin is not evolution, but racism

Comment #115172 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 5:34 pm

These shitty little articles, and shitty little books from the apologist crowd are just going to get weaselier, and nastier aren't they?

Good.
They'll shoot themselves in the foot.
Let 'em.

Let them blow a big stink cloud in the air that everyone can smell, especially their flock.

2178. The real danger in Darwin is not evolution, but racism

Comment #115154 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 5:11 pm

I got to the sixth paragraph and stopped.

Is it worth trudging forward, or is it the same old bullshit?

2179. Death Sentence for Afghan Student

Comment #115145 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 4:57 pm

robotaholic-

How can anyone be so hateful as to demand someone's death.

A culture sunk into a "lord of the flies", state, with laws and a God to back it up.

Like witch trials.
Their primal dark side wants to kill anyway, but they have bullshit and a community to back it up.

2180. Death Sentence for Afghan Student

Comment #115141 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 4:47 pm

And the moral of the story, avoid any country ending in "-stan", like it was made of plutonium soaked in super-AIDS.

2181. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

Comment #115078 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 2:01 pm

PJG-

I think it is the same answer as the pork one regarding pre-refrigeration.... shellfish can be a bit dodgy.

Yeah, but all that doesn't really wash, because there's a lot of poisonous plants and shit, why isn't every single dodgy food made "unclean", in the bible?

2182. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

Comment #115074 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Chew on this, muzzies!! RAWK!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYwNWHZuT0

2183. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

Comment #115046 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 1:12 pm

al-rawandi-

What the hell is the deal with religion and pigs?

I like Christopher Hitchens's cheeky suggestion that the ancient creeps who wrote this stuff had a knee-jerk aversion to eating what they'd been fucking.

B-)

2184. This Week's Flea

Comment #114957 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 9:24 am

Goldy-

Given the odd nature of this god ADH likes to worship (and who, it appears, is ADH himself),

Y'know, I think this is why people flip the fuck out on God's behalf when you criticize religion.

They credit God with the good parts of themselves, so hand their humanity over to him, so when you attack God, to them, you're attacking their own human dignity.

It's set up so the person takes the bullet for their imaginary friend, and thus immunizes religion against criticism unless you don't mind being rude.

Diabolical stuff, religion.
You gotta wonder if the architects knew what they were doing, or stumbled into it like a kind of evolution.

2185. This Week's Flea

Comment #114952 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 9:08 am

Yep, it's Santa for adults.

2186. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114942 by Diacanu on January 23, 2008 at 8:29 am

Peacebeaponme-

..and wouldn't want him (Pat Condell)behind a lectern against D'Souza or Francis Collins.

Well, no ones clamouring for that, so don't worry.

He'd be good on Bill Maher though.

But then, so would I *dream cloud* ahhhh.

2187. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114787 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 7:57 pm

Pieter-

Ok, time to clear up some nonsense about Dr. Paul here...

Augh, fer chrissakes....*fast foreward*

2188. This Week's Flea

Comment #114751 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 5:47 pm

If introspection is guided by the divine, then all books, including The God Delusion are divinely inspired!!

Wow, God's message through the prophet Dawkins is that he doesn't exist!!

Now THAT'S a neat fuckin' trick!!

2189. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114740 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Radesq-

I don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere -- but rest in peace Heath Ledger. He will appear as the Joker in the upcoming Dark Knight film but he died today at the age of 28. The batboy mourns this loss.

What Steve said. :(

2190. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114738 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 4:37 pm

Steve Zara-

But it sure isn't publishing learned papers.

Doesn't have to be.

From Merriam Webster.

1 a: of or relating to the intellect or its use

b: developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience : rational

c: requiring use of the intellect

2 a: given to study, reflection, and speculation

b: engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect

2191. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114708 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Steve Zara-

Well, yes, but that is hardly intellectual, is it?

I dunno, the monkeys who write SNL couldn't have done it.

Sorry. I may be being fussy,

Well....you are.

If Harris and Dennett are the standard, then where does that leave the rest of us?

2192. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114701 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Wait'll they get a load of me.
*Joker grin*

2193. This Week's Flea

Comment #114586 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:40 pm

ADH-

But you've got the wrong end of the stick.

Big assumptions there.
You a mind reader now?
You seen my life beginning to end?
Thought that was your God's province.

2194. This Week's Flea

Comment #114582 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:36 pm

ADH-

we fall short of what God requires of us.

We're created sick, and commanded to be well.

Like I said, he's an asshole.

2195. This Week's Flea

Comment #114580 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:35 pm

ADH-

it brings pain to him

An omnipotent being would experience no emotions, because he's already seen everything happen, possesses all knowledge, and has no needs since he can wish everything up, but would have no desire to do so, because he's already seen himself do so, and knows how it'll turn out.

2196. This Week's Flea

Comment #114576 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:31 pm

ADH-

It's essentially God's revelation of His character

He's an asshole and a bully.

Next.

2197. This Week's Flea

Comment #114565 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:19 pm

Shit, that was a christmas carol, am I kicked out of the club?

2198. This Week's Flea

Comment #114563 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:16 pm

This week's flea of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Following yonder star

...what, is my brain the only one that makes that connection?

Well, that ditty will be stuck in your head now too.

Enjoy. :P

2199. This Week's Flea

Comment #114560 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 12:09 pm

al-rawandi-

Ah, can't remember now which culture did bone throwing.

Might've been Vikings.

2200. This Week's Flea

Comment #114496 by Diacanu on January 22, 2008 at 10:09 am

Steve Zara-

I am attempting to investigate that. I think the reasoning will involve the idea that the cherry picking is based on God's guidance. I think I have already established from ADH that with this supposed guidance you can, in principle locate the right customs, practises and attitudes from any appropriate book.

Shit, you can save all the reading, and use a Oija board, or a Crown Royal bag of chicken bones.