Logical? Who?

Is god logical? Of course not! That was a rhetorical question. I suppose everyone knows about the story of Creationism? No, I don't mind giving you the gist of it. Source: Wikipedia

First day: Light is created. ("Let there be light.") This light is not the sun or stars, as these are created later. It is described by some as a primordial light. The light is divided from the darkness, and called good by God. The statement in verse 8 that there was evening and there was morning is often cited as the reason that the Jewish day starts at sunset.

Second day: The firmament of Heaven is created. The waters above it is separated from the waters below.

Third day: Land is created, separated from the waters, and named. The water is also named. Grass, herbs and fruit-bearing trees are created.

Fourth day: Lights are made in the firmament of Heaven, to appear regularly, aiding time-keeping. Two particularly large lights are made, the lesser one the Moon and the greater one the Sun.

Fifth day: Air and sea creatures are created, including "great sea-monsters". They are commanded to be fruitful and multiply.

Sixth day: Land animals are created, and God calls them good. Man and woman are created in God's image. They are told to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." Humans and animals are given plants to eat. The totality of creation is described by God as "very good".

Now, I'm trying to be perfectly logical here, Creationism just doesn't make sense. Here are a few points that defy high school science.

• God created light and separated light from darkness and day from night on the first day. However, he didn't make the sun (ie. those little things that produce light) until the fourth day.
• Plants were made on the 3rd day, before the sun were made to drive photosynthesis.

Clearly God wasn't very big on logic or science for that matter. See, the wonderful, best-selling book that we call "the bible" fails to mention anything about the Earth being round or the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around. At least we humans heeded his message of "be fruitful and multiply", there are only a few billion of us sinful creatures on this
On the other hand, the Bible has a lot to say about everything else, like sex, oral sex, hand job, and some strictly 18+ stuff.

Oral

I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
-- Song of Solomon 2:3

Hand job

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
-- Song of Solomon 5:4

No comment stuff

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
-- Ezekiel 23:20

I guess God was serious about "be fruitful and multiply", else, sex wouldn't be mentioned so much in the bible. For a full list of Genesis reference to sex click here.

a parody

Found this parody to James Blunt's "beautiful". Guess what? You can actually sing this with the music too.

Hat tip to life after coffee for this.

“My Cubicle”
By: Morning Sidekick
Parody on “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt

My job is stupid my day’s a bore,
Inside this office from eight to four
Nothin’ ever happens my life is pretty bland,
Pretending that I’m working, pray I don’t get canned.

My Cubicle, My cubicle
It’s One of Sixty two
It’s my small space in a crowded place
Just a six-by-six board booth
And I hate it that’s the truth

When I give a sigh as the boss walks by,
no one ever talks to me or looks me in the eye.
And I really should work but instead I just sit here and surf the Internet.

In My Cubicle, My cubicle
It doesn’t have a view.
It’s my small space in a crowded place
I sit in side there too.
And sometimes I sit here nude.

pretty wack

This article appears in the Australian a while back

Zoo lion kills man who invokes God

By correspondents in Kiev

June 05, 2006

A MAN shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on today.

"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.

"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."

The incident, yesterday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers are kept in an "animal island" protected by thick concrete blocks.

So what does this prove?

• God doesn't exist. [Well duh! Of course he doesn't exist. Or else he would have saved that crazy dude's life. However, God might have considered this crazy dude's action as suicide hence he wouldn't care to save a suicidal and crazy dude's life.]
  
• Lion likes to eat human.
  
• The crazy guy is either an extremely crazy Christian or an extremely devoted Atheist. I mean devoted to the cause of proving that God doesn't exist. But then again, if he was an atheist, god would have hated his gut hence he wouldn't have saved him. At least that guy can die knowing that he has proven that either god doesn't exist or god isn't merciful
  

let's talk about bullshit

I'm not sure you know this but here's one conspiracy that's been going on for a while. We are surrounded by bullshit. Now there are people who do it as a full-time job, and there are people who do it as a hobby. Why, look at this blog. More than half of the stuff 3vil g3nius's been yapping on and on about is bullshit if you come to think about it.
Now I've done some major bullshitting gig in the past, like that time I was in an interview for uni course. That was my biggest bullshitting gig ever. Before that I'd never realised that I was a perfectionist. Yeah, that was a lame and unoriginal answer for the question "what do you think is your drawback?". That was a hard question, you can't make yourself look bad and good at the same time without being lame and unoriginal. And I'm far from being a perfectionist. I'm more of the let's-do-a-fast-half-ass-attempt-and-get-out-of-here type. However, I'm not such a big star at bullshitting. Proof? I flunked that interview. Guess I wasn't convincing enough.
So why do we bullshit so much? Why? Well, the popular answer is probably money. In my case, I wanted to get into a good course so I can earn a lot of money hence the bullshitting. Why do people sell themselves in job interviews by bullshitting? Job = money = food on the table. Why do politician bullshitting so much? I don't know, probably money and power and who knows what else?
My next question is what is the difference between a bullshitter and a liar. Aren't they the same? They all twist the truth in one way or another. However, bullshitter sounds cooler than liar I suppose. I found the answer to that question in an essay by Harry Frankfurt. According to Frankfurt, the liar knows and cares about the truth and deliberately sets out to mislead instead of telling the truth. The bullshitter, on the other hand, doesn't care about the truth and only seek to impress.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

So I guess that makes me a bullshitter. Now why do I feel both good and bad about this? Good because I don't twist the truth in order to mislead. Bad because I did twist the truth that I don't care about to impress. At least I can console myself with the fact that I am a bad bullshitter.
I would also want to point out that I have never bullshitted about being an atheist or about my views on religions in general and Christianity in particular.

Breaking news

Here's what just in

Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible and loosely translated reads:
'All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental'.

Only there's no such news. Aren't you disappointed? Wouldn't it be fun if one day we find out that the Holy Bible is just fiction and we've been worshipping a fictitous character for over 2000 years? Yeah, that'll be fun.

christmas comes early?

Did anyone feel like Christmas come early while watching the Portugal-Netherlands match. Yellow and red cards were practically flying everywhere and that made me feel like the whole damn match was a big fat christmas tree. Come on, was there any player who didn't receive at least a yellow card. That match saw 4 red cards. I've never seen 4 red cards in one match before. And how many yellow cards were there? I think there were about 20 yellow cards!
England should be laughing right now, even though Portugal won, they're gonna lose for sure to England due to a third of the main players having to sit on the bench.

rant

So I've disappeared from this blog for a few days. It's no big deal. I was in yet another marathon session of Dark Angel. Oh, how I love the holiday. Anyway, it's time for another of my atheist rants, so if someone found  my rants offending please don't read any further.
First off, I must say that God does not exist. Full stop. Can I prove that he doesn't exist. No. Can anyone prove that he does? No. So what's wrong with not agreeing with everyone else? What's wrong in not believing in what I think is a made up fairy tales for adult? There, I've said it, god is a made up fairy tale character, a figment of some person's imagination, a mass delusion.

So why then is there life on Earth and not on Mars you might ask. Well, that is the result of a rare coincedence when our planet was just lucky enough to be not too close and not too far away from the sun. So strictly speaking, if the sun hadn't been there, there wouldn't be any life on Earth at all. We should really go worship the Sun, the sun deserves that a lot. Let's all convert to pagan and be natural.
I'm sure not many people will that what I said seriously so I won't hold my breath for anyone converting to pagan. In the mean time, here's something for you to consider.

• Why can't we wait until we get to Heaven to worship God?
• What is the purpose of prayer? What can a finite being on Earth possibly tell an omnipotent, omniscient deity that he doesn't know already?
• If God has a plan for you, and his plan cannot be thwarted, do you really have a free will?

in which I do nothing

I must say the last 2 days were the most relaxing days for the past month. Nothing to worry about, no crisis to attend to, nothing's wrong with the world except for the North Korean trying to nuke the US with some long-range missiles and every other nations jump in to condemn North Korea. Seriously, the US should have known that those North Korean hate the US's gut and would prepare to kick its ass anytime. Imagine what it would be like if the North Korean team up with Al Quaeda?
Ok, back to my selfish, relaxing world. I've re-discover the joy of doing nothing. Well, not exactly doing nothing because I was still breathing, eating and well producing excrement. I had nothing to do and the TV became my best friend again. Somehow my sister managed to borrow the first few seasons of Buffy and Dark Angel and we did this Buffy and Dark Angel marathon from 8 am to 5 pm. That was heaven! Oops, there is no heaven I forgot. I believe, when you die, you'll just die. Your body stop functioning, no more action potential in any of your cells and conciousness just went out like you turn off a light. You don't become ghost to haunt the living, you don't go to a higher plane, ie heaven or hell. You just die. I believe that. There is no proof for that of course but that sounds logical to my brain. More logical than some omnipotent guy with a "master plan" for my life who put me here on earth so that I can do good in order to be reunite with him in heaven. Oh, I would also like to point out that god isn't very merciful. Why else would he put people in eternal damnation? If he's merciful he wouldn't do that. And if he's omnipotent at all he would already know how people will turn out, ie. good or bad, before he makes them. So why does he make bad people? God just doesn't make sense!
Ok, I've been rambling a bit but hopefully that makes sense right?
I've finally had enough with soccer. Or rather with those commentators on SBS. I am sick of people commentating before the match, during the match, at half-time, and at the end of the match. Not to mention a day after the match. I'm more focused on who wins and who loses. Isn't that what's this whole tournament about? Who cares about set pieces and scoring first will put you in the lead? Of course scoring first will put you in the lead what the heck else would it put you in? the back? Commentators are those who get paid for stating the absolutely obvious.

in which I am fine

I might not appear to be fine but actually I am fine. I'm not running-around-wind-in-my-hair-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music fine but I'm fine.
Thanks for worrying.
Oh, by the way, that one was a quote from the short lived Ms. Calendar.

in which I've finally gone to my local library after 1 month

So I've got only one exam left. One. And it's calculus. That means I can start relaxing now.
As soon as the word relaxing came to my mind, the word library came next. I haven't been to the library in a month maybe even longer. So I went and borrowed a stack of books for the holiday. Bring on the holiday!
I woke up today to the news that Australia lost to Brazil. Why wasn't I surprised? I said last post that at best they're gonna draw. So I was right after all. I'm pretty sure Australia's gonna go to the next round. They're gonna draw with Croatia. I'm gonna stay up and watch the match on Friday for a change.

in which I reflect on the events of the past week a week too late

I have only 2 more exams. After this week I'll shred all my notes into tiny pieces and burn them and then scatter the ash into the toilet. That's how much I love my notes and my exams.
So after one week of crazy cramming and stressing, I've missed out on a few important thing. Well, actually there's only one important event last week. Australia won! I'm glad I watched the replay and not the live match. I watched the last 10 minutes only. Kind of cheating but I didn't really have time. So Australia's got its first win EVER at a World Cup final. That win is making the fans here a bit overconfident. Here, now, there's talk about how Australia's gonna kick Brazil's ass on Monday. I mean, be realistic people! We might have won Japan but Brazil is not just another Japan. The best I think that Australia's gonna do on Monday is a draw.

To another matter. Yesterday I was on the weirdest bus ride ever! Imagine this, on the bus there were a Bruce Willis look-alike, a Jack Black look-alike, only he was blonde, 3 anorexic girls who looked like they could eat 3 cows and still look anorexic and guess who they looked like? Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton minus the lap dogs of course and last but not least 3 big strapping guys who looked like chimpanzees and laughed like hyenas and who would probably have the IQ equivalence of a cow. Talking about weirdos.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, on the bus there was this extremely evil person who pretended that there weren't anybody around. Talking about weird!

how to stress out stress

Considering that I'm in the middle of my exam period and I've been subjected to some very stressful incident like the trains don't run on time and having to sit an exam on a holiday and not to mention that I actually hypnotized myself to forget about the damn exams the week before the exams. But that's another story.
So I've been stressed. What can I do? Here's some advice from someone who's been there and done that.


1. Find you lucky charm and bring it to the exam. Ok, before you point out the paradox of an atheist being superstitious I'm gonna ask you a question: have you heard of the placebo effect? Lucky charms or objects or underwear can be very effective for that. If you believe that luck is on your side then you might actually be more confident in yourself. If you don't have a lucky charm or anything lucky, just grab a pen or anything that's small in front of you and look at it the way you look into your boyfriend/girlfriend 's eyes and say this "I dub thee my lucky [insert object's name] and you shall bring me luck".

2. Don't think about the exam. Try to forget it if you can. Don't forget it completely though.

3. If none of those works I suppose you can try this stress reduction technique. Hat tip to Cinthia @ the life a belly dancer wannabe.

I'm back

But the exams aren't finished yet. The fat lady won't sing until the end of next week.
I'm back to rant about my extremely bad beginning of the day. The thing is, the today is the Queen's birthday. Public holiday in Victoria. I didn't know that! I mean that I know there's day called Queen's birthday and I got a day off every year for that. But this year, due to my delusional state and the ensuing dash to cram stuff in my head for my exams, I forgot.
So there I was, happy as a lark going to the train station to catch a train. When I reached the station, the train had already gone. 4 minutes before it was supposed to be there! So I cursed Connex [silently] and worried my head, together with all the stuff I crammed in, off. Then my mum pointed out that today is the Queen's birthday and the train runs on Sundays' schedule. In the end, she had to drive me to Caulfield to sit my exam.
There. Isn't that bad? Isn't it? Why do I have to sit an exam on a holiday. Why do trains run on Sundays' schedule on holiday? Why oh why?

now is a good time to panic

Yes, after 5 days of kidding myself that the exams don't exist, I've finally put a stop to my delusion and start... panicking.
Man, I'm screwed.
I'll be back in 2 weeks. Hopefully

Bible babble

Luke 14:26
Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

Therefore to be a disciple, you have to hate everyone and everything including life itself. Am I reading the bible or some terrorist groups' manual?

Isaiah 13:13-16
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
on the day of his fierce anger.
Like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with no one to gather them,
all will turn to their own people,
and all will flee to their own lands.
Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
Their infants will be dashed to pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered,
and their wives ravished.

Let's praise the Lord because he's soooo merciful

Deut 22:13-21
Suppose a man marries a woman, but after going in to her, he dislikes her and makes up charges against her, slandering her by saying, 'I married this woman; but when I lay with her, I did not find evidence of her virginity.' The father of the young woman and her mother shall then submit the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. The father of the young woman shall say to the elders: 'I gave my daughter in marriage to this man but he dislikes her; now he has made up charges against her, saying, "I did not find evidence of your daughter's virginity." But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' Then they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town. The elders of that town shall take the man and punish him; they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver (which they shall give to the young woman's father) because he has slandered a virgin of Israel. She shall remain his wife; he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

If, however, this charge is true, that evidence of the young woman's virginity was not found, then they shall bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father's house and the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a disgraceful act in Israel by prostituting herself in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

And let's praise the Lord for his word is fair, for men only.

Tim 2:11-12
Let a woman* learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman* to teach or to have authority over a man;* she is to keep silent.

The Lord is also a male chauvinist

Lev 20:13
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.

And a homophobe to top it all

Ex 21:20-21
When a slave-owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives for a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner's property

Who promotes slavery and cruelty towards slaves

Deut 25:11-12
If men get into a fight with one another, and the wife of one intervenes to rescue her husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals, you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

Seems like the Bible has a rule for everything. If your wife stop a fight to save your ass by grabbing the other man's genitals, she shall have her hand cut off. What if she grabs somewhere else? Is there a rule for that?

Ex 35:2
For six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

A bit harsh I suppose, capital punishment for working and not wasting time worshipping some imaginary god!

friendly links

A totally unoriginal idea of mine. I think I ripped it off some guy. He called it "mercy links" I call it "friendly links". "Mercy" seems a bit stuck-up for me, not that I'm thinking that guy who invented "mercy links" is a stuck up or anything. So here goes some links, totally unrelated to anything. I found some of these by pressing "next blog".
Mike Antonucci - the guy who put a link to my blog on his blog. All thanks to my stint at digging up the dirt on the Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown.
English diary - this one I came across by chance. A diary of sort by some girl, I think, and it's in English. What more do you want? By the way, it's in, sometimes, strange English. I think the girl's doing ESL or something.
The life of a belly dancer wanna-be - what more can I say? The blog name says it all. Extremely funny though.
Cut on the bias - in words of the author: " God, evil and about half of everything in between." So that's about everything hey?
What happened to my country? - I think the answer to that question is George Bush but then that's a general answer for many questions these days. A blog on America politics.
Acts of Gord - an extremely funny website. By the way, this Gord has nothing to do with Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disease.
So that's it for this edition of "friendly links" I'll be back with more links after my exams.

interesting...

I was watching Sunrise on channel 7 this morning and they had this interview with a MP from ACT about a civil union legislation the ACT passed to recognise gay unions. As it turned out, the Howard government aren't very happy about that particular legislation saying that it was against some federal marriage act. However, the legislation was for "civil union" not marriage so Mr. Howard couldn't do a thing. What's got my attention to this piece of news was that the MP that was interviewed posed a very interesting question. He asked what would Mr. Howard feel if one of his children is gay and their partner was in hospital due to some freak accident. Gay partners aren't recognised as family members hence they aren't allowed to visit in hospital. I find this particular question very very funny. I know exactly what John Howard would do. He would be jumping up and down, throwing that particular child of his overboard and disowning him/her on the spot, granted that they survive being thrown overboard. Everybody knows that John Howard agrees with George Bush on everything including gay marriage.
One thing I find particularly strange is that Kim Beazley aren't jumping up and down supporting this ACT legislation. Beazley rarely agrees with Howard on anything and when he rarely does, he does it grudgingly. That's the job for the opposition leader I suppose. Oppose. Disagree with everything for the sake of disagreeing. I think Beazley are just as homophobic as Howard but he can't allow himself to be seen agreeing with Howard on anything. What does Beazley say about this ACT legislation? He says he'll have a look at it before saying anything.
Links to the story:
ACT to fight overturning civil unions
Howard defends gay marriage veto

To another matter concerning Mr. Howard. He had appointed former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski the head of his nuclear taskforce. Amazingly enough Ziggy is a nuclear physicist so he might very well qualify for that job. However, one particular question sprung to my mind, what the hell did a nuclear physicist have to do with Telstra? You don't need to be nuclear scientist to run Telstra! You need to have some degree in business! No wonder Telstra is doing great!
Link: Nuke inquiry considers coal tax

I forgot yesterday was the supposedly evil day being the 6th day of the 6th month of the 6th year of the new millenium and all. And the day of the US release of the Omen. Damn, how can I be truevil if I forget that occasion? That's like a once in millenium occasion. Anyhow, Satanists didn't miss it, they celebrated with rock concert and the various Christian groups didn't miss it either, they warded their souls with prayers. Meanwhile, the rest of the world either go see the movie or just go on with their lives. No great apocalypse came people. We are still alive and kicking.
However, 666 theories spread on the internet like wild fire. Apparently a woman who was turning 66 on 06/06/06 was born weighing 6 pounds 6 ounce on June 6. That's a lot of 6's that woman should be worshiped by Satanists. Oh, according the the practice of gematria, the practice of assigning numerical values to letters, "www" is equivalent to 666. How many "www" do you type a day?
Link: 6-6-6 theories spread on Net

one more funny link

I found this joke from www.2laugh.com, warning: no kids allow here.

Meeting Santa

A beautiful innocent young lady wants to meet Santa Claus so she puts on a robe and stays up late on Christmas Eve. Santa arrives, climbs down
the chimney, and begins filling the socks. He is about to leave when the girl, who happens to be a gorgeous redhead, says in a sexy voice, "Oh Santa, please stay. Keep the chill away."

Santa replies, "HO HO HO, Gotta go, gotta go, Gotta get the presents to the children, you know."

The girl drops the robe to reveal a sexy bra and panties and says in an even sexier voice, "Oh Santa, don't run a mile; just stay for a while..."

Santa begins to sweat but replies, "HO HO HO, Gotta go, Gotta go. Gotta get the presents to the children, you know."

The girl takes off her bra and says, "Oh Santa... Please... Stay." Santa wipes his brow but replies, "HO HO HO, Gotta go, Gotta go, gotta get the presents to the children, you know."

She loses the panties and says, "Oh Santa... Please... Stay...."

Santa, with sweat pouring off his brow, says, "HEY HEY HEY, Gotta stay, Gotta stay, Can't get up the chimney with my willy this way!!!"

P.U.S.H revisited

I found a link for an acronym search engine. A neat thing to have I suppose, from now on I won't have to wonder what the heck some acronyms mean.
Remember my post last month on the acronym PUSH? Anyway, I run that acronym through the engine and got this.

Hardly surprising at all. However, the search for WWJD returns some unexpected results

Do Christians who wear wristbands with the acronym WWJD knows that it also stands for "what would judas do"? I suppose they don't. Or else we wouldn't see any of those bloody wristbands.

Something to brighten up your day

How's this joke for funny then:
Why shouldn't you write with a blunt pencil? Because it's pointless.
Isn't that funny? Am I funny?
If you haven't found me funny so far, I can't do anything about that. However, I came across this extremely funny atheist site. It has a collection of very funny comics. Here's the link: http://www.freethunk.net/comics.htm
While you're there, check out Bible science man and sarcastic intent. I've never laughed so hard in my life.
Here's a little something from the site. Hope you find it funnier than my lame joke.

my religion

I found this comic strip at bligbi.com while trying to forget the approaching madness season ie. exams.

So it's got me thinking. Did I get into another religion when trying to get out of believing any religion at all? So like any confused person, I turned to the internet to help me and I found this:

“Theism” is defined as the “belief in a god or gods.” The term “theism” is sometimes used to designate the belief in a particular kind of god—the personal god of monotheism—but as used throughout this book, “theism” signifies the belief in any god or number of gods. The prefix “a” means “without,” so the term “a-theism” literally means “without theism,” or without belief in a god or gods. Atheism, therefore, is the absence of theistic belief. One who does not believe in the existence of a god or supernatural being is properly designated as an atheist.

Atheism is sometimes defined as “the belief that there is no God of any kind,”[1] or the claim that a god cannot exist. While these are categories of atheism, they do not exhaust the meaning of atheism—and they are somewhat misleading with respect to the basic nature of atheism. Atheism, in its basic form, is not a belief: it is the absence of belief. An atheist is not primarily a person who believes that a god does not exist; rather, he does not believe in the existence of a god.

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[1] John Hick, Philosophy of Religion (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963), p. 4.

So did that excerp from Atheism - A case against God by George H. Smith confuse you? It took me a while to understand that 2 paragraphs. Apparently, there's a difference between "believing that a god doesn't exist" and "not believing in the existence of a god".
In the end, I didn't get myself into another religion, thank god for that, I've gotta stop that habit of mine

exams, aren't you excited?

I know everyone's is extremely excited about exams, just like I am.
By the way, I'm being extremely sarcastic.
I was just being on the internet doing nothing, trying to forget about the "excitement" of the approaching exams when this window popped up out of nowhere. It's from a page called Pills library. And it's about the top 100 drugs probably from America. Anyway, the drug that tops the list is Anamine. That got me thinking alright. This Pillslibrary.com smells fishy. What kind of organisation would advertise itself through pop-up windows apart from all the porn websites?
So I clicked on the Anamine link. No wonder why it's the most popular drug. Anamine is the chewable tablet for Pseudoephedrine which is the starting material for the syntesis of Amphetamines.
Weird. This is the first time ever I've applied what I learned from uni to real life. Who says first year uni is totally useless? It's only about 90% so.
Still on the topic of exams, here's something to cheer you people who have to sit exams up:
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he will never be disappointed
My point is, don't expect anything. This worked great for me last year.

who's an anime fan?

I stumbled across the best blog ever. Not really a blog though. More like a links hub for several anime series. There're Ghost in a Shell stand alone complex 1st gig and Noir to name a few. All free downloads. Interested? Here's the link
animebaka