What doesn't 'work' for me.
1. I don't like to fight a metaphor with a metaphor. Either you know what your describing or you don't. It's okay to theorize, but don't try to describe something using something else unless there are absolute commonalities. Worst example: Trying to define your 'god' using actual physical objects for an example. "god is the wind, ever changing but always there." Give me a break. By the way, some might consider that to be blasphemy since your god made the wind, right?
2. Human beings that derive pleasure from self-pity. I'll spend all of two try's to make someone feel better about themselves. If they persist in their self-deprecation then so be it. Perhaps they need to have someone tell them what is REALLY WRONG with them.
3. Delusions are also a problem. Just because you think that you're good doesn't make it so. Everyone needs a little help with this. lol.
4. Hindrance to scientific research. Science and its associated fields are the reason that I am writing this and you are reading it.
5. If there is something that strikes a 'moral' chord within you then look at it from the other side. If you don't stand to benefit then perhaps someone else will. If no one can benefit from it (such as religion), in your objective observation, then you have an obligation to say something. Otherwise, shut the fuck up. You're not helping humanity by holding to your morals, whatever they may be. Examine each situation for its ethical value instead of its moral turpitude.
6. People who are content with their positions in society are a liability to it. If you have no motivation to improve the quality of your existence then by all means please end it. This is not an authorization for suicide, but consider it my endorsement for ending your pitiful life. If you can't see a future no matter what then don't be around to hold it back. Five minutes from now you might find a reason to live so don't blow it by missing a chance to help yourself and the world.
7. Funerals and cemeteries are made to store dead bodies and allow the living to worship dead relatives. I am told that funerals are for the living to say 'Goodbye' to the dead. This is fundamentally stupid. They're dead. If you're religious then you say that the 'spirit' has left to go to 'heaven' or 'hell'. So what the fuck would the dead person care what you did with their body? They're either happy or tortured. If you don't believe in an afterlife then you also understand that once the tissue is dead then so is the person. $5,000 for a cheap funeral is absolutely obnoxious. That money would best be used for the living or the not born yet.
8. Traditional thinking. Holding onto ceremonies or rituals that have no practical purpose other than to remind people what happened. The preservation of places for remembrance need only be a plaque. Civil war re-enactments are supposed to remind people of the horrors of war and how awful that era must have been. However, they seem to have the opposite effect upon the unwashed masses of the south. Inevitably, there is some asshole that is convinced that 'The south will rise again.' Newsflash: You lost. Get a new schtick. Quit spending your money on 100 year old guns and buy some shoes for your kids, fuckwad. Yes, I know. The holocaust was awful. People died 61+ years ago. It's still time to bulldoze Auschwitz and build a factory or farm there or HEY even a laboratory to study the FUTURE.
9. Uninformed celebrity opinions that just seem to be around to promote the celebrity instead of the cause. Pick one. If you've made it this far into this blog without screaming 'Asshole!' then obviously you are objective enough to see the meaning.
10. PEOPLE THAT USE THEIR CHILDREN TO PROMOTE THEIR IDEOLOGY OR POLITICS. If I had a dime for everytime I witnessed this atrocious behavior then I would own a television station to speak against it. If your arguments don't hold enough merit on their own then using a child to promote your agenda with 'cuteness' shows it. If my children do something with me then it is their idea. I don't give them scripts. My son participated with me during the war on easter. If he could use the camera then it would have been me in those pictures. Now, every time I look at the pics, I feel like a jerk. Anyone that has USED their kids to promote should feel this way already unless it was the kid's idea.
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"3. Delusions are also a
"3. Delusions are also a problem. Just because you think that you're good doesn't make it so. Everyone needs a little help with this. lol."
I don't think much about what you wrote, I kinda think most of them were right ESPECIALLY numbers 9 and 10, however others might not so, that applies to you too
#3 was my 'disclaimer'. lol.
#3 was my 'disclaimer'. lol. It's a take on another of my favorite reminder phrases: 'Just because you're better than someone else doesn't make you good.' I have my delusions of superiority and inferiority. I try to step back and analyze them. Some people persist in their own dream state of self.
I ask for help all of the time in controlling my 'wrath' towards others that I perceive as 'lesser' than human. If you catch me being too 'mean' then let me know.
So help me. Support or rip apart each one by number. If we reach one that we can't agree upon then we will dismiss it from the conversation.
Throw some in. We'll leave the vegetarian thing in the other thread.
I see 'eudora' in your picture. Greek for 'good gift', right?. I would have to agree that you are.
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I hope what i wrote didn't
I hope what i wrote didn't sound mean though.
Is that really what it means? They're one of my favorite bands, I'll have to tell them that's what it means
they'll love it
"7. Funerals and cemeteries
"7. Funerals and cemeteries are made to store dead bodies and allow the living to worship dead relatives. I am told that funerals are for the living to say 'Goodbye' to the dead. This is fundamentally stupid. They're dead. If you're religious then you say that the 'spirit' has left to go to 'heaven' or 'hell'. So what the fuck would the dead person care what you did with their body? They're either happy or tortured. If you don't believe in an afterlife then you also understand that once the tissue is dead then so is the person. $5,000 for a cheap funeral is absolutely obnoxious. That money would best be used for the living or the not born yet."
Well look at it this way, funerals have been around for hundreds of years and we human beings have changed a lot, it's just something that must be done.
It's like god, something you have to believe in, something that's forced into you quietly, get it? Funerals won't die soon or anything.
I don't think they were always around to just say goodbye. For example in the 1600's or so, one thing they did at funerals was shoot/stab a person if they thought that person was a vampire so that they would have a good "afterlife" and obv people back then were very religious in that... way.
they didn't want the person to come back to life and suck their blood.
Now, we know better than to believe that would actually happen, but we don't how funerals are connected with that stuff so we throw that shit out and keep the funeral without knowing why we're having a funeral
idk
If I'm allowed to continue I
If I'm allowed to continue I have something else to say.
The 'deathknell stab' was
The 'deathknell stab' was actually begun because the dead sometimes sit up and blood pours from the mouth. Stabbing the dead individual gives another place for the blood and gases to exit.
I agree that it(funerals/death worship) won't go away anytime soon. However, the practice is irrational and illogical.
Even after theism is 'dead' funerals will perpetuate themselves through the 'comfort' factor.
Have you ever had to 'sit up with the dead'? I had to sit with my great-grandmother(step) along with two of my cousins. We had to stay awake all night in case she wasn't really dead and to give her 'spirit' comfort on its transition. She loved us very much. I was 10. I had bad dreams for a month despite the fact that by then I already discounted the existence of a 'soul'. Technically, the images of my great-grandmother 'haunted' me.
Of course you may continue, elegy. No one should ever need permission to speak their mind especially among this crowd of great minds(excluding the random theist. lol.)
I eagerly await more from you.
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oh then wikipedia sucks
oh then wikipedia sucks
Funerals are stupid too, when I die I don't want people to celebrate me being dead :S that's sick and wrong and I bet most people would just come for the food, but what can we do.
That's disgusting
with her corpse? That's so sickkkkkkkk
Darth Josher, thank you for
Darth Josher, thank you for this anti-idiocy manifesto. i shall henceforth assemble my bloodthirsty cronies, and begin our clandestine march of random exhumations and corpse desecrations.
Darth Josh, we speak your name.
Fear out
Fear is the mindkiller.
Fear, You're crazy. Cool,
Fear,
You're crazy. Cool, but still crazy.
elegy,
Watching the development of religions is akin to watching the development of the folklore and traditions. They're all myths. However, I find more facts and reality-based reasons for the folklore and traditions. lol
Vampires, or some form, can be found in every culture. Decomposition follows a natural course that is affected by environmental conditions. The myth surrounding vampires comes from this first few days dead.
1. Hair and fingernails continue to grow.
2. The gums recede from the teeth and turn black.
3. Pallor from blood loss/coagulation
All of these are your 'run of the mill' descriptions for a vampire.
I have an acquaintance at the University of Kentucky that took years of taphonomy, biology, and now genetics. Basically, she knows how everything in the world lives, produces, and decomposes. She's like Yellow#5 with bigger breasts and smaller hips. lol. For the most part Yellow is easier to read though.
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lmao
lmao