Ok, because I'm an attention-whore, I cut and pasted this blog that I posted a couple nights ago on MySpace. Will anyone read it? I don't know. You tell me. Here it is:

Even though I've been openly Atheist for the past decade, I decided it was time to go public, by which I mean, posting it up on YouTube. I'm participating in the Rational Response Squad's "Blasphemy Challenge", where they send you a free movie if you say "I deny the Holy Spirit" and post it on YouTube. I've watched the movie, and I thought it was well-intentioned but poorly executed, deteriorating into one ex-Catholic using the medium to exorcise his own personal childhood demons. I felt it asked the wrong questions. Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether or not Jesus actually existed. Yes, it's always good to point out how most of the key events of Jesus' life were "borrowed" from other contemporary or past mythologies and try to educate people so they see that the mythos of Christianity is heavily influenced by everything else that came before it (and since). But trying to bash people over the head with "Religion dumb! Jesus not exist!" doesn't really make an honest attempt at dialogue that might sway hearts and minds.

I have spent the last few hours reading varies debates on diffrent sites - some asserting that Darwinism is faith based and that people need to see this.

It dawned on me - I am not a scientist - I have only basic knowledge of science and I am not inteligant enough ( or is it that I dont have enough time ) to fully grasp many of the concepts.

It also was countered with - I have never read the bible - why - well because it boores the hell out of me and I think its a waste of time.

If I were to assert at this moment - I believe evoltion is a valid scientific therory - I would indeed be making this statement of faith - because I have never read it - I have never educated myself on this subject more than reading cliff notes are getting the gist of it. Or just listening to some one else tell me.

Alright so possibly a blog to introduce myself.

I am not an athiest but I am also not sure I am a christian any more. So I am caught some where in the middle. So I guess you could say I am agnostic ( I had to look that up ).

I had long ago decided organized religian was a bad thing. I had long ago decided that the bible was not to be taken littrally but as a guide line. Mind you I had never read the bible. I had however read the little children version front to back. The one full of great stories of moral high ground. I always questioned that was in my nature.

I came from a religiouse house hold but my parents were by no means model citizens. My dad would go out drinking and doing drugs friday night and saturday night and beat up my mom and then sunday we went to church. The older I got the more rediculouse this seemed. One day our pastor was arrested for molesting a child. I think that might have been the day I decided organized religian wasnt for me.

Tonight 9 pm est on the Rational Response Squad: Hip Hop atheism We'll be joined by MrGAWN, CapnAwesome, and Syqnys. We'll complete the show with a song from our newest member, Greydon Square. Fans of hip hop wont want to miss this one! Join us in the webcam room with Sapient and other RRS members.

The concept of plausibility is not new. The concept dates back to the Ancient Greeks; the idea can be found in Aristotle’s Topica (Rescher, 1976, Preface). Plausible reasoning is used in evaluating hypothetical reasoning, scientific reasoning and even inductive reasoning. However, it will be argued that when applied to paradox resolution, it rests upon a fundamental misunderstanding of what a paradox is. It must be granted that the plausibility theory succeeds in providing us with a method for resolving a wide variety of paradoxes. However, in resolving the paradoxes, it over-looks the essential nature of paradoxes.

I apologize for the tables not coming through and for the Greek symbols not coming through. Hopefully this essay still makes sense.

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In 1950, Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher, both employees of the Rand Corporation, formulated an interesting problem for Game Theory: the Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). While this dilemma is abstract in it‘s very nature, it has far reaching real world implications. Flood is quoted in Poundstone (1993) as saying: “…I never foresaw the tremendous impact that this idea would have on science and society, although Dresher and I did think that our result was of considerable importance…” (p. 117). Since this paradox has implications for a wide array of fields, it is imperative that it be resolved. As we shall see, the problem ultimately comes down to the theory of utility one subscribes to. The Prisoner’s Dilemma boils down to two primary solutions: the egoist solution and the altruist solution. It will be shown that the egoist solution is self-defeating, while the altruist solution offers us the best possible payout.

I saw this article from pro-Life Philippines. It has something to do on how an 8 year old kid explains God. Well, for believers this article is kind of cute, but for critical analysis, it’s quite dangerous.

In the article the kid said “If you don’t believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can’t go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He’s around you when you’re scared in the dark or when you can’t swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.”

Well how nice, but does that make a kid too dependent and does that make him too irresponsible?

It’s funny how people rely on blatant propaganda to insist something. Some even have to twist facts in order to inject to dull minds their dull ideas. Just as example, a Catholic friend of mine handed me this article from a certain Fr. Roy Cimagala. I think it’s some kind of propaganda against communism. Come on, does Cimagala have to inject atheism in his show? Or maybe, just maybe, Cimagala doesn’t even know what he’s talking about.

So let’s see what he’s up to.

According to this Cimalaga,

This weekend, the Jehovah's Witnesses were out in my neighborhood, full force. The problem, I live in a private neighborhood, where it clearly says "No Solicitations" at all entrances.

So, I had my boyfriend, a former JW himself go out and distract them while I called security to have them removed.