Lilly Ledbetter Act H.R. 2831

Contact your senator and ask them to support H.R. 2831. It needs to be done in the next 3 days.

H.R. 2831 would allow a woman (or man) to sue the company they work for anytime if the company
is paying them less due to their gender. The current limit is 180 days, so if you discover you were getting fucked by your bosses 180 days after they start, you have no rights. That is the current law.

H.R. 2831 changes that.

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Anonymous is a group of former members of the Church of Scientology. The Church of Scientology raises a lot of concerns. Anonymous does much to protect and defend former members from the harassment that the Church of Scientology exposes its members to.

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 While still preachy and just as ridiculous, this new style of evangelizing of JC's Girls, is at least more pleasing to the eye than the likes of Pat Robertson and his kind. Heather Veitch is "a former stripper that reaches out to women working in the sex industry with the unconditional love of Jesus Christ." She has a website called JC's girls where she goes out in Vegas trying to save the souls of people on the street, hookers, strippers, and others associated with the sex industry. She does this with her friend, "Annie Lobért Hookers for Jesus in a joint media project entitled, “Saving Sex City.” They have been hitting the streets of Las Vegas to share their love of Jesus with everyone."

I really wonder what this movie is like? Do they actually reach people and draw them into their church on a regular basis? Here is a bit of their street evangelism.

Premise: There is a deliberate agency managing an elaborate reward/punishment system according to its own standards for behavior.

When the travel of news through a community is slow, and its travel across communities nonexistent, a mystic class could maintain this story in the context of empirical reality without conflict. Did your neighbor lose a few head of cattle? It's because he upset the gods somehow. It's not even necessary that the subject of the story exist, since the flow of information is congested, and standards of plausibility indeterminate.

But as information begins to flow more readily, and natural and scientific precedents sculpt a culture's perception of reality, ideas that no longer appear to describe reality are more likely to be recognized as such. The dilemma then becomes how a mystic can reconcile his notions about the world -- of divine justice, etc. -- with a growing probabalistic model that is casting his view under suspicion.

Take the conflicting conceptual space the idea occupies, and posit it as an actual space. Better yet, make it a place from which you don't generally expect to hear reports back from.

I think I feel about this guy the way that Marx felt about Hegel. The way Nietzche felt about Wittingstein. The way Sartre felt about Kierkegaad. The way Trotsky felt about Marx. The way Lacan felt about Freud. I love this guy:

Liars and Other Nuisances

I haven't done this for a while. Just tell everyone about my day. Thats usually because its boring. But not the last two days. Not at all.

Since I have decided to think of myself as a eupraxsopher I have found a new boldness for coping with the things that I believe perpetuate delusion and ignorance in our society.

So this blog entry is about how eupraxsophy has caused me some adventures.

Yesterday I went to take my O-Chem lab 2 final. They always make us fuck around forever before the exam. They do this to examine the lab equipment, make us clean it, and charge us for damage. Fair enough.

This nice looking african american woman, in my class, kept striking conversation with me.

I was reading Paul Kurtz's The Transcendental Temptation and she kept asking me how I could read something like that when it wasn't assigned for a class.

I get this a lot from my peers.

I got it when I was reading Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan. All I can think, is why would you major in science if you don't think its fun to learn about science.

They major in it because they expect to become MDs. This worries me, and keeps me up at night.

This lovely young lady, eventually mentioned God. She did so when I said I read Kurtz, because he argues that nature is awe inspiring.

Her response was, "Thats because God made it."

I said how do we know it was God and not a giant spaghetti noodle.

Well its been a year now since I first started writing with the intent to publish a book.  In that year a lot of good has happened.  As many of you now know, I have been submitting my book for review with the hopes of getting published by an academic press.  This good fortune has been brought about with the help of a friend, and it has allowed me to refocus my book from the original 22 chapters down to 10, significantly shortening the amount of research and time I would have otherwise needed.  Initially I was expecting my book to pass around 600-700 pages.  Now we're looking at a length closer to 300 including notes, bibliography and appendices. 

I've been watching the Secular Islam Summit on the CFI YouTube channel. I watch almost only YouTube, I am such a child of the internet I watch the Horror Movie the Lawnmower Man, and when he says, "I am God here!" I felt it in my G-spot. Well enough about the internet.

Back to the CFI Secular Islam Summit.

So I learned a lot of things, and had a lot of challenging things watching these videos. For those of you who are not my Facebook readers, there will be one of the sessions posted underneath.

Some of things I heard that I totally agree with are that the Prophet Muhammad was not holy.

That pre-islamic arab and persian history are plenty to be proud of and should be embraced by arabs and persians as part of their cultural heritage.

It seems there is more to be admired in Xerxes than Mohammed. Indeed.

I love arabs and persians. I have found myself to have a fetish for these people. I feel so at home around arabs and persians, even as loudmouthed and blasphemous as I am. I yearn to see freedom from religion and freedom of religion in these people's lands.

May they shine as brightly as a thousand suns.

I have also agreed with the common thread of all the speakers that it would behoove the west to support secular education in the Middle East.

I heard lovely Q'ranic scholarship, which made me remember fondly my Islamic experiment.

I also heard calls for the Islamic practice of Ijtihad or islamic scholarship. Critical study of the Q'ran and Hadith in academia but with ecclissiastical consequence.