My 1000 word Rant
It is a wonderful, is it not?
I am sure that people appreciate wonderful days but I do not. Days should not be ‘wonderful’ they should be sunny, cloudy or rainy but never wonderful. So keep your ‘wonderful days’ to yourself. I am incensed and bitter about the word ‘wonderful.’ Actually I am more bitter than incensed. I do not even like incense. Smell the whole place up and all.
You know I also angry about people who are angry. That may seem a tad hypocritical of me but damn it all I am also angry about people interfering with my right to hypocritical. I find that the height of hypocrisy is to deny people the right to hypocrisy.
Kevin. Kevin! KEVIN07!!! Bhaa Humbug. Give another recession I need the money.
Hey Messiah Obama you suck. Now come and get me. Maybe you can send Bush Administration torturers that you just gave amnesty to. I am soooo scared. Seriously I am.
How is my word count so far?
I wuv you Dawkins. I weely weely Wuv you. I just want to cry.
Dear Damo:
You smell and you have no friends and that proves my point.
Signed Snickering Fule
Dear Mr Fule,
Now that just hurts
Signed Damo
Dear damo buddy chum pal guy,
U c^nt write eether. I think you needs lessens frum mee n howto doit.
Dear Fule’
Why thank you I will now sign up for lessons and a lobotomy to match you level of intelligence.
Love Damo
Dear Damo,
Your just mean.
Dear Fule,
You are
Dear Damo,
You are and no returns.
Dear Fule,
We you have one this round but the war will be mine. Bahahaha!
Love Damo
We are such ordinary creatures if you think about it. 279 words and still going.
Dear Damo,
Why doust thou torment me thus?
Signed Richard Dawkins
Dear Richard,
Wow is it really you? I never thought that I was so important as to be thorn in your side. I am terribly sorry for the posts I wrote about you and the whole not agreeing with you thing. The letter bomb was actually a joke that went bad. Sorry about your butler. And the damage to your fan mail. I know your treasure that.
Actually it not my fault that I am so bitter and twisted. I blame my parents. You see, when I was a kid may parents let me see Frankenstein. I was so frightened that to this day mad scientists scare me shitless. Can you ever find in your robotic heart to forgive me.
Damo
Dear Damo,
By the power of almighty science and reason I Richard Dawkins for….
(Please insert Coin to Continue Game)
Well that was fun.
458 words.
Dear Holden and Ford,
I am sending the same letter to both of you because are both as bad as each other. Why do your cars always look the same?
Love Damo
Dear Damo,
As the design engineers for both Holden and Ford we resent you insinuation that my designs two are like each other. Look at where the cup holders are, Look at the cup holders. I hope that clears up any confusion that you have.
Signed Bananas in Pajamas.
Ps: Are you thinking what I am thinking B1?
548 Words. Man this ranting stuff is hard. I need a rest. But no I must persist it what they Muppets would expect of me.
My offensive picture is much less offensive than your offensive picture.
No it isn’t.
Yes it is.
No it isn’t
Yes it is!
NO IT IS NOT! Just have a closer look and you will see that it offends a much narrower demographic.
Ah, but yours more graphic in its presentation.
No it isn’t
Yes it is
Hey John Howard. Has Bush invited you back to ranch since you lost the last election? He hasn’t? That’s a shame.
651 Words: Man it is hard ranting on like this. So many words and so little anger to fill them with. Must con..tin..ue….
Reading the News on Line for more reason to be angry.
Some guy in a dark suit killed another guy in a dark suit. I blame the Churches for this. It is a rather complicated conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. The Vatican assassins in league with the Protocols of Zionist and the CommieNazis have been working together with the aliens to bring about the death of this one crucial man. The fact that the dead was bonking the other guys wife has nothing to with it. That is the exception that proves the rule. The fact that man said, “I killed him because he was bonking my wife,” only show that he was brainwashed. The bonking is a red herring.
Instead we have this cover up that involves arms shipments and drug smuggling that goes back to King Solomon’s mines where we discover that King Solomon was actually a female. This terrible truth has been covered up for thousands if not millions of years in order to oppress women everywhere.
You may ask: How did she grow the beard? And wouldn’t one of his wife’s notice that he was missing something in the masculine department. The answer is no, because back then people did not talk about sex much and so they did not know. Also the beard was glued on.
899 Words: I am almost there. Very, very tired but we are past the point of no return. Maintaining a rant is hard. So who else can I tar whilst I aimlessly waving the tar brush about?
You are losing your temper.
No you are your temper
No I am not.
No you are and no returns.
No. You are and no returns infinity plus one.
Oh go suck a dummy.
I said no returns.
So kill me with you mind powers.
Okay I will.
When?
I already have.
But I am not dead.
Yes you are.
No I’m not.
Yes you are and no returns.
All Done 1008 words.
It is bloody hard work ranting. I wonder why people do it.
No they don’t and no returns.
Is Atheism Dead?
Every so often one of the noisy ones pops their head up and starts making a ruckus. There is a small war of words about faith versus reason, a few insults are flung about and noses are positioned to look down upon those who do not agree. Yet this noise does not necessarily transfer into actual results or conversions to any new cause. Instead it has become little more than a noisy minority jostling for reins of power because they claim that their version of logic is better. In some cases it may be masked in the umbrella term of ‘Secularism’ or ‘Humanism’ but such words are too vague to offer any explanation of what they actually stand for. Yet for some this mindset self proclaimed logical superiority is enough for them to demand that others must be totally excluded from decision making. Thus one group has usurped absolute power by assertion that they stand on a better logical foundation.
The problem with such self declared logical superiority is that it cannot be proven without resorting to circular arguments like: Because they are of this mindset they are logically superior and because they are logically superior their mindset must be correct. The arguer is continually using one conclusion to prove the other and then uses the reverse to prove original. Hence when some claims logical superiority due to being an atheist they fail to establish why it should be seen as a logically more superior position. If they then demand absolute proof to disprove a negative then they are again using their logical standards to judge a situation. ‘Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’ Also if people insist on using their own personal measuring sticks we can never know what absolute proof is meant to be. Thus all conclusions become purely subjective if no standards can be agreed to and no amount of snotty superiority will ever change that ugly fact.
Despite the loud pronouncements that the end of the Bush era will herald a new age of ‘Secular Humanism‘ (whatever version that is these days) there is no evidence of this. You would expect that if a great resurgence in atheism was coming that it would have put its own house in order just as it did 75 to 100 years ago. Back then we had the Atheism riding the popular wave of the enlightenment to associate itself with. We had the Fabian Society dominated by H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and a whole collection of who’s who of socialism in England. We had Karl Marx and Lenin building support for their versions of the socialist revolution on mainland Europe. Earlier Nietzsche was running about claiming that God was finally dead in his own vitriolic style. The ideological momentum existed mostly because Communist Manifesto laid out the principles, reasoning and theory of an atheist utopia. Lenin produced the how-to documents and put them into practice. From another angle of socialism Hitler made the next logic choice after choosing to become an atheist he tried to mystify and sanctify it in layers neo-paganism. Yet despite all the noise and activity about an atheist utopia every single one of these organizations has either adjusted to accommodate the religious demographic or have collapsed into upon themselves.
The turning point for communism as the vogue was when it collapsed across Europe in the early nineteen nineties. Yet knowing that it could never eradicate religion was evident as far back as when Stalin came to power. In order to defeat the Nazis he had to ease up on the criminalization of religion and so that he could unite the nation with appeals to patriotism. Had he not done this then the majority Russian Orthodox Christians would never have willing gone to fight the Germans. China also tried to wipe religion from the face of its country in its cultural revolution. Yet later it was forced to accept that it was impossible to do so openly and decided to firstly protect religious freedom in their laws but continue to oppress them in private. In Tibet they attempted to set up a rival Dalia Lama in order to win deceive Buddhists into supporting their programs. Also in recent years they have entered into rough negotiation with the Vatican over the issue of religious freedom. These seem like anecdotes but they do point to evidence of the limitations of the atheist utopian ideal. They failed to do a head count on who was in favor of their ideological wet dreams. And as such they had to quickly negotiate or lose any hope of remaining in power.
What is different today from that era of post enlightenment is that there is no great ideology to follow. There is no twenty first century equivalent of Communism or popular fascism like Nazism. There are no real intellectual movements or sociological direction being pointed to. Utopia is no longer being held up as something possible and has become almost a point of apology. There is nothing new that atheism has to offer. It was all tried long ago and now it is over. Even neo-liberalism fails to produce any direction but has instead become little more than a bandwagon for a set of minority causes. Disenfranchised minorities may have a voice but they are not going to shift the world to match everything that they want. There is always a chance that they ask for something that the rest of the world cannot give.
We are left at the beginning of the new millennium with a handful of noisy atheists who have offered no viable alternative to what they wish to eliminate. We have little more than a post-modernist nightmare where everything is in flux and nothing makes sense. We have plenty of people moving the deckchairs on the Titanic but no one willing to navigate a safe path. This is a high minded mental posture but it will never put food on the table. Past ideologies were smart enough to work that the promise of full stomach was crucial to their success. Without a real direction there is no reason for people to give their hope to. Without hope there is nothing.
It is perhaps understandable that some fundamentalist atheists make loud noises from time to time with provocative half truths and warped logic. They are, after so many years of being centre stage, the side show of the future. The world that once supported them has moved on and is now looking for another cheap thrill. Who knows what that will be.
Performance Enhancing Drug testing for Artists
Drug cheats really have an unfair advantage over the rest of us in sport. It is really frustrating to go to a gym and see some Jim with bulging veins on his torso and sometime on his face. The Olympian who has the world record in the bag just next to his nasal delivery treatment is a fraud. The cyclist who can do all his business on his bike but can only urinate crystallized testosterone is making it hard for the rest of us. Some say that urinating crystals would be enough punishment but not sporting governing bodies. They have drug testing to stamp out the drug cheats and help create a level playing field. This is a good thing and stops the unfair advantage but what about the Arts?
For too long artists have been using performance enhancing drugs to make art easier.
Let’s face it, a lot of people want to be artists but they cannot compete with the drug cheats in the industry. These drug cheats have been able boost the performance of their creative juices by adding a few juices to their diet. They snort the snort; sniff the sniff, inject the fluid and take the pills to the easy path of creativity. So whilst some struggling artist is sitting for hours with a blank piece of paper, these drug cheats are high as a kite seeing flashing colours with their kaleidoscope eyes. It is unfair and should stop. It is wrong for the Beatles to come up with The Walrus when everyone else has to struggle four walls and their ugly mothers. Why should Puff the Magic Dragon not have to slowing come to life in the eighties rather than through accelerated process of ‘Little Jacky Paper’. Pink Floyd? Don’t get me started on how they should not be allowed to compete on a level playing field.
It is easy to ignore but think about all those young kids with no artistic talent and don’t use performance enhancing drugs. They must spend hour stealing ideas and rearranging them to look new, only to blow out of the water by Dali’s melting clocks. If he was tested today I bet his bones would have more LSD than you find on the street. It is not fair that we must listen for the hidden meaning in ‘Stair Way to Heaven’ when some poor kid is struggling with his 30 minute long folk ballad for Australian Idol.
So how do we do this? How do stamp out the creative drug cheats?
First we need a testing regime that is serious about it. No more of this: ‘Man are you stoned?’ crap, we need action. We must first start with the suspicious artists and go on from there. If someone is producing Doof, Doof check them for the Choof, Choof.
If some is paints like a child check to see if drugs have been applied.
If the cartoon elephant ever turns pink I suspect the artist is on the drink.
It is a very simple and soon we can have a drug free Artistic regime.
Read Your Headline, skipped the text and Decided to blast you.
Dear Myapologetics,
Might I say that you out done you self this time. Upon reviewing all the headlines that exist on the front page I noticed you still insist upon being wrong. I did not read the body of your post and decided instead to skip to the bottom and give a piece of my mind.
Dear Myapologatics,
I find that you use of images to make a point to be incorrect. I did the survey in Green Left Weekly on how to asses who is a reactionary and guess what? You are one.
Dear Myapologetics,
Hypocrite. There I said it and so it must be true.
Dear Myapologetics,
By mentioning torture and Gitmo in the same sentence you have shown yourself to be a terrorist supporter. I will now call you a traitor to the Free World and treat you as such. You will be laughing on the other side of your face when your Muslim friends decide to blow you up or crash a plane into your twin towers.
Dear Myapologetics,
Having read your response to another person and having not bothered to read you original post I am in excellent position to call you a misogynist dog.
Dear Myapologetics,
Don’t you realise that there is no such thing as truth anymore and that good and evil are just childish terms. My hero Mad Fred told me that you are the enemy of everything superior. He also said that you should be purified from the Earth to make way for the ‘Overman’. Not the ‘Superman’ as it is often misquoted but the ‘Overman.’ So do everyone a favour and do not make another comment.
Dear Myapologetics,
I have not read 1984 or Brave New World so I am in excellent position of accusing you of trying to create those worlds. As such we feel that you must be eliminated and removed from the Internet with a barrage of banal point and wobbly logic that make perfect sense after consuming Magic Mushrooms.
Dear Myapologetics,
A future based upon pure science will eliminate the rights of parents to impose their evil and repressive teachings upon child. Instead we will have control of what your children are allowed to learn and we will force them to do what we say. Bahahahaha!
P.s: I am not evil because there is no such thing as good or evil.
Dear Myapologetics,
Let me just throw some expletives at you and if you respond then I am going to fling the ultimate defence at you that you are the ‘Though Police.’ Yes I did look up quotes from 1984 on WIKI and that is better than reading the book. Don’t you realise that ‘Thoughcrime’ is evil and you have no right to offer an opinion that differs from what is considered Progressive by me?
Dear Myapologetics,
You are an oppressive person for not totally agreeing with me on this important subject. Your views are directly responsible for the millions of women who die every day. I hope you rot in Hell, even though it does not exist.
Dear Myapologetics,
Hehehe. You’re a poo poo pants.
Dear Myapologetics,
We Rationalists have renamed ourselves the Progressives so that Reactionaries like you know what you are up against. You cannot stop progress, and because we have the name Progressives we must therefore stand for Progress. We are also upset at you trashing of the name Rationalists because despite their mass murderous tendencies (and acts) they were really nice people. I guess you must be happy now that have Lenin crying.
Dear Myapologetics,
‘Imagine… ‘ And that proves my whole argument.
Dear Myapologetics,
I have collected some inappropriate and out of context quotes that proves whatever it is I trying to prove. By putting the ‘quotation’ marks around the words and telling everyone what they mean I am in total control of the future. A future where people like you will not exist. Just think about it, in a thousand years you will not exist. Then I will laugh.
Dear Myapologetics,
We the undersigned have decided to set up a Human Rights Commission to look into possible violations of the Human Rights that say should be defended against the likes of you. As a group of people who have seen injustices from the School Yard to the other School Yard we certainly have the life experience to understand what ‘true’ suffering is. We have decided that anyone who steps out of line is going to face the wrath of our Hall of Justice. There you be hauled before us gagged and made listen to heart breaking stories of some fat kid who was called fat once and how we said that he was only chubby, thus making us heroic in our own eyes. You will hear stories of triumph over adversity like our letter to the editor that was published. (Thankyou Green Left Weekly.) Then you too will understand after an intensive re education that you mind be like putty for us to mould in a new Metrosexual manner.
Dear Myapologetics,
I have your baby pictures. Pay up or else.
P.s: I am not a pervert. I am liberated.
Dear Myapologetics,
Thoughtcrime. I said first so I get to own the word.
Justice: I said it first so I own that word too.
Intelligence: I own that word also.
Science: Mine too.
Logic: I own it.
Ps: I am perfectly sane.
2 plus 2 Equals 5
Having decided that I am in fact not God after all, I have decided to sort out why such an illustrious role was never given to me. Why can’t I walk on water? Why can’t slip through walls? Why do I always have a remainder on long division? There are mysteries in life that offer no answer and none so great as why I have no control over other people.
Not that I crave such things but it would be nice to once in a while have it. Even on the domestic scale it would be much simpler. “Hey son, did you sweep the floor?” Obviously he did not otherwise I would not ask rhetorically. The answer is one of why the floor does not need sweeping or an emphatic “I was about to.” Either the answer was no. Why is this game played out every night? Why can’t the floor magically sweep itself? It would be nice to be God and have that kind of power over someone whereby the expected is done without question but sadly I do not. QED. I must not be God. Damn reality really sucks.
Why is it also so difficult to get a basic understanding between people about what I say is correct and what they say is correct? Are we both correct? Can two exclusive opposites ever be correct at the same time? In logic circuits the answer is simple: if 5 volts equals a logical 1 then all else must follow. The logic 1 becomes the basis of either being present or not being present thus a logic 0. You have to love binary for its simplicity in showing maths. Brain cells are also logic circuits but the whole brain is never always logical. Why is it so?
A mess of fluid and tissue that is so complicated that no one can fully understand. Even if they could lay out a map of all the circuits what would they really understand? That this logical circuit makes this finger move? Or would they understand who moves the finger and why? Even today we can look at the brain of a person and be unable to point to where that person is exactly. Where is the mind? The consciousness? Where is the actual person that this physical body carries around with it? Is it in the brain or floating a few centimetres above the head?
Without the mind the body is but an empty shell that cannot function beyond automation. The heart pumps, the lungs breath and bowels rumble even when we sleep. Yet the mind exists to drive the machine that carries it. The mind that does not follow the orders of the body so much as the body does its bidding: speaks its words and eats that extra piece of cake.
When trying to convince someone of the validity of a proposal we are not trying to convince the body. We are trying to convince the mind that is not our own. A mind that is free of us and not attached to any physical circuitry that we share.
The mind can exist as if it is not part of the body from time to time: In dreams, fantasies and hallucinations. It can believe in this false reality if the dream is vivid enough. It can, if it wants too, be free of the notion of the circuitry of its physical host. To the mind the millions of interconnecting neurons that cause a finger to move does not matter. What matters is the mind ordered the finger to move and it did move. It does not need to care how. Just move or don’t move, that is all.
‘Freedom’ is a word that gets over used sometimes, just like the word ‘choice’. How far can we be free and how free are our choices? Are we so free that we can say that 2 plus 2 does not equal 4? The mind does not care if it has never required maths just as it does not care how the finger moves. Yet when projected beyond the normal limits, what would happen if the mind kept on believing that 2 plus 2 equals 5. To the mind it would not matter until it hit an anomaly. Where is my change from the shop? Why can’t I pay the bills? How come the plane I designed crashed?
The mind may feel it is free to do what it chooses to do but there will always be consequences.
2 plus 2 really does equal 5 so long as we are willing to deal with the consequences of such a delusion.
