Saturday, May 24, 2008

The anthropomorphic personification of retardation part deux



Yokeup is set in his ways. The older you get the harder it is to accept new ideas and views. This is true neurologically because of the pruning of neurons that happens with age. Combine this with his indoctrination as a child into his religion and you have a seriously deluded individual divorced from reality on a basic level. His opinion are not his own. He did not come to them through examining the evidence and using critical thinking. He doesn't use logically coherent arguments. He doesn't care about logic, evidence, reason, empiricism or science. He only cares about "faith", what does faith even mean? To me it is just believing what you were told, just because. Just because. Just because you emotionally need too. It is the most childish epistemology you could ever have. He believes because what he believes is so wrapped up in his psychology, in his emotions, that to change his beliefs now would totally shatter his psyche. He would probably require serious medication. The fundamental problem is that he just doesn't care about reality. His methods of knowing things are ancient scriptures (which he doesn't read in the original translation), his religious leaders and his own malfunctioning neocortex. It is scary. He is beyond logic and evidence. Beyond hope. Beyond help. He has drank the religious cool aid and has never stopped. It is sad.

Something good that may come of his videos is that he will probably turn more people to atheism than even the bible.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Debunking evidence deniers (9/11 truthers)

Pwning a Creotard

Monday, May 19, 2008

Legendary LuLzGaSm



I used to watch this TV show when I was a kid. This intro brought back so many memories. Guess what, it's still AWESOME.

SAW BOSS

WHEELED WARRIORS!

LIGHTNING STRIKES ! ! !

Too many lulz to control.

I want my own lightning league. Who wants to join me?

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Stupid Design

I watched for the first time about two years ago. Neil deGrasse Tyson gives up some great examples of STUPID DESIGN.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Phase variation or poetry

In my microbial genetics exam today I was supposed to write an essay regarding phase variation but I got a cognitive block half way through and wrote this nice poem below by Octavio Paz. Do you think I will get any marks for it?

Brotherhood Homage to Claudius Ptolemy

I am a man: little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.

This is a lesson to you all. If you don't want to be stuck writing poetry in a science exam then do your fucking homework. Study when you have time and don't procrastinate all week and then cram at the last minute. Even if you get away with it. Most of the time.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan




















From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest.

But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, ever king and peasant, every young couple in love, every moth and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar,” every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan, Chapter 1, A Pale Blue Dot

Previous Pale Blue Dot Post

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Expelled Exposed - LIVE

Expelled Exposed

NCSE's counter-site to the hideous little propaganda film, Expelled

Ben Stein's trying to popularize intelligent design-style creationism by claiming that this "brave new theory" has been "censored" from academia, because it's "controversial" and "new."

Let's get one thing straight. Intelligent design is *creationism*, with a fancy new name. It's being tossed out of schools because it's religion, not science, and Stein's movie is just the latest in a series of plans to trump up an imagined scientific controversy. Please take the chance to learn more from the resources linked below, or by asking questions on the discussion board.

Help educate the public about science. Don't let a loud-mouthed, deluded, has-been actor pretend to be a "rational" voice for the community.

Oppose Ben Stein's schlockumentary, however you choose: correct friends & family who start to fall into the ID trap, write editorials, write or contribute to blogs, hand out fliers, contact movie critics & educate them, or lead debates on campus.

Expelled Exposed

Pharnygula

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