Everything is Perfect

"Everything is perfect with all its flaws."

I saw that written as a painting in a café in Lawrence, KS. I wanted to take a picture, but after I was done playing Angry Birds and drinking my 20 oz. hot chocolate I just left.

I always forget. Perfectly flawed. Fuck.

Information is Beautiful

An interesting website with many great data visualization.

For example a Left- vs. Right-Wing comparison.

Known by the company we keep.

"The 18 countries known to have conducted executions in 2009 were: Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, the United States, Vietnam and Yemen."

There are like 2 countries that I feel stand out from this list as "probably shouldn't be on there." Not that any country should be on this list.

Am I right in observing that the United States are the only predominantly Christian country on this list?

source

What do Satanists enjoy?

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Virginia, write it for me.

"I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."

Thanks.

Just some random mutation... oh wait, no!

Favorite Quote of the Week

"Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars."
- Kafka

I wish I had the patience and self-discipline to do this every week. But I don't, so I am not even going to try. But maybe I will. Probably not.

If we all pull together...

... maybe we can:

Restore Stephen - fucking - Baldwin!


Because he talks about god, give him money!
He filed for bankruptcy because secular-monkey-ass Hollywood made him be 2 1/2 million dollhairs in debt.


Also... he has a Hannah Montana Tattoo on his left shoulder and thus might need 2 1/2 million $ + a Tattoo removal. 
(I couldn't make this shit up if I tried really hard AND/OR had Stephen Baldwin's drug-dealer)

God's Latest Press Release

INNER DISK, ANDROMEDA GALAXY—Thanking the spiral-shaped celestial body for its 6.8 billion years of tireless service, Our Lord and Divine Creator announced Thursday His "very difficult decision" to close down the Andromeda galaxy for good. "Nobody ever wants to have to do something like this, but operating Andromeda on a daily basis has grown impractical and I can't in good conscience keep it going," God said of the incomprehensibly massive nebula, which is home to more than 1 trillion stars and an untold number of planetary objects. "So much has changed since I brought it into being, and to be honest, it's just not working out the way I'd hoped." A spokesman for the Supreme Being issued an apology to Andromeda's 750 quadrillion resident life-forms, who as of midnight Eastern Time on May 15 will cease to exist.

source: http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-shuts-down-andromeda-galaxy,17335/

Critique of Dawkins, rebuttal

The theologian John F. Haught strongly criticizes the "new atheism"-movement of Dawkins et cetera. All his main points seem to look at the perception of faith that Haught claims the new atheism-movement to have; a clear-cut rejection of all faith and ignorance towards their own hypotheses based on faith.

I claim this to be false and a distortion of what the new atheism actually proposes. To be a thinker at all, one has to realize that thinking basically begins with faith or the concept of “I know that I don’t know anything.” The faith that new atheism rejects is not the faith in science, thought, or knowledge but rather only the faith in a God. 

I really do not understand what Haught (or most truly in-depth religious people that are not part of the extremist/fundamentalist agenda) means when he talks about self-surrender, being carried away, or another dimension of reality. I wish – particularly for the sake of argument – that I would understand his concept of the faith of new-age theologians. Maybe someone here (Blogger/Facebook) can explain? 

Due to my lack of understanding of this form of religious faith I am only left with pointing out that science does not claim that the multiverse is finite. Haught claims that atheism is a narrow corridor without the grand themes of infinity and divinity religion seems to "possess." Science actually has to conceive of the concept of infinity, as many math equations proof. To reduce the realm of atheistic views to a “squeezing” into a small frame of two dimensions is an incorrect, ignorant, and quite frankly a fairly arrogant proposal by Haught that lacks just as much tolerance and open-mindedness as he claims the new atheism to be lacking.




Above is a slightly edited part of a homework I just finished. It made me so riled up, I just had to share on my diary/Bloggidy-Diggidy (even if no one else understands what I am writing about OR what I am mad about). :)