"Begin at the beginning,and go on till you come to the end: then stop." (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1896)
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", if you do not have a Babel Fish in your ear this blog will be completely unintelligible to you and will read something like this: "boggle, google, snoggle, slurp, slurp, dingleberry to the power of 10". Fortunately, those who have had the Babel Fish inserted in their ear, will understood this blog perfectly. If you are familiar with this technology, you will know that the Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation. It excretes energy in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said; or in this case, what was read. The Babel Fish, thanks to scientific research, reverses the problem defined by its namesake in the Tower of Babel, where a deity was supposedly inspired to confuse the human race by making them unable to understand each other.
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"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat." - Sir Julian Huxley
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax; Of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot; And whether pigs have wings." - Lewis Carroll
"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Alexander Pope
"The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal." Ann Oakley
"Some treat their longing for God as proof of His existence." Mason Cooley"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man 'after his own image', and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him." Johann Most
"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words." Mason Cooley
"My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have a vote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling." Septima Clark
"Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it." Tom Flynn
"If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion—I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape." Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Give the right man a solar myth, and he'll confute the sun therewith." James Russell Lowell
"Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone. Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon. Show me slowly what I only know the limits of. Dance me to the end of love." Leonard Cohen
"If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination." Mary Daly
"If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish." Robert Green Ingersoll
"In other words (so to speak): not two and also not not two." Magellan's Log V
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." W.H. Auden
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been." Jim Bishop
"To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth." Spyridon Marinatos
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed." Thomas Henry Huxley
"The place has changed but little since Diana received the homage of her worshippers in the sacred grove. The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough." Sir James George Frazer
"Babylonian king (1792BCE–1750BCE) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria." The American Heritage
"We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility." Hermann Hesse
"Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?" Mason Cooley
"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare." Harriet Martineau
"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun." Thomas Paine
"Zoroaster was thus the first to teach the doctrines of an individual judgment, Heaven and Hell, the future resurrection of the body, the general Last Judgment, and life everlasting for the reunited soul and body. These doctrines were to become familiar articles of faith to much of mankind, through borrowings by Judaism, Christianity and Islam; yet it is in Zoroastrianism itself that they have their fullest logical coherence.†- Mary Boyce
"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it." William Lamb Melbourne
"With reason one can travel the world over; without it it is hard to move an inch." Chinese proverb.
"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching." Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born. C. John Sommerville
""La superstition est à la religion ce que l’astrologie est à l’astronomie, la fille très folle d’une mère très sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjugué toute la terre." Voltaire
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." Havelock Ellis
"It (myth) expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one." Ann Oakley
"Starry, starry night. Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze, reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue." Don McLean
"NOT from the stars do I my judgment pluck, and yet methinks I have astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality..." William Shakespeare
"Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void." Epicurus
"Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy." Hannes Alfven
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I am an atheist living in the USA. I am surrounded by dangerous people who believe that they do the will of invisible, mysterious, all powerful beings. They believe in devils, angels, hell, heaven, and gods. They thank god for good things that happen and take the blame for all bad things that happen. They think that I am the crazy one. My name is Paul Maybury Jr.
I am an atheist. I don't know how interesting my blog is . . . I just started it a few weeks ago. But I'd be happy to be on the blogroll.
rightofreason.blogspot.com
Idiot/Savant said,
August 28, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Might as well add me in the atheist category…
Asher said,
August 28, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Yeah, feel free to add me as an atheist
Beep, I am definately an atheist (and also, in some senses of the term, an agnostic), so to sure.
Jan Haugland • 8/27/06
Please count me as an atheist! There are far too few of us in the U.S. as it is, so I'm happy to be counted on your blogroll. I figure that after we come to terms with the myth of America, we might be ready to tackle the absurdity of believing in a God. Time will tell.
I'm the Executive Exchequer of Chocolate at Baylor University's Inherently Unofficial Atheists and Agnostics Society, so count me in!
Hi Beep!
I'd love to be on your new blogroll. Please put me down under atheist. I'm assuming that belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Holy Sauce doesn't count.Eh?
I'm an atheist and I'd love to be included on your list. I am certainly open to proof and am willing to change my mind, but the way things stand at the moment, I don't see me becoming one with Christ, Allah, Krishna or anyone else anytime soon.
Thanks!
An atheist. Thank god.
Carnap used to say that when a normal person asked, he would say he was an atheist, but when a philosopher asked, he would say he was an agnostic.
Count me in as an atheist.
Count me in as atheist/agnostic.
Rose
Weak atheist.
Add me to your blogroll of free thinkers.
I am an atheist. I do not believe in the existence of gods or goddesses or any supernatural entities.
Beep,
I am an intransigent atheist, so feel free to count me in. I too live in the USA and, as Paul Maybury, Jr., said of himself above, I am surrounded by potentially dangerous people who believe they are in contact with invisible magic beings who "see" and "know" more than they do. Christians think of themselves as fishers of men's souls. Think of me as one fish that got away.
My blog is Incinerating Presuppositionalism.
Regards,
Dawson
Sure, why not? I'm somewhere between an atheist and an agnostic. But I don't care much for either title. Both words assume some abnormality in what would be default position in any other field of thought. I am not an amermaidist just because there is no evidence for mermaids.
you can add my blathering blog http://occamsedge.blogspot.com/
Somewhere between agnostic and atheist
Semantically, there is no content difference between “In the beginning, God said “let there be light” and “from the singularity (the Big Bang) the universe exploded in a burst of energy”.
There is a diametrically opposite world view between the two statements.
For my simple mind the major difference can be stated thusly; The first statement implies explicit knowledge that is handed down from on high, unalterable, unquestionable and non falsifiable. The second implies questioning, wondering and experimentation – and the ability to discard theories that do not adhere to observation and measurement.
As an engineer, I can not look at what little of the universe I’m able to perceive without awe and wonder at how well it all works – however, as a curiosity driven homo sap I also can’t resist poking and teasing with the miniscule tools at my disposal at some the more accessible bits, in my case the electromagnetic spectrum, - I’m still playing with the two slit problem with Schrödinger's cat.
I'm happy to join this Merry Band.......
I'm an atheist- I sometimes post about atheist related things...
http://thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul.wordpress.com/
(Also a Douglas Adams fan)
I really dislike labels. Mainly because I have spent way too much time trying to find any suitable ones to fit me. I don't think I am an atheist, but I wouldn't really fall into the agnostic category unless your definitely is that no matter what happens life, I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe there is a "Heaven", maybe there is darkness and dirt, maybe you come back as an "eyeball" or maybe it's the aliens. So, if that qualifies me, I would be honored to be added to your blog roll. How's that for an excruciatingly long answer to a simple question?
A Rational Being - Atheist
I'm an atheist. My blog doesn't have much at all to do with my atheism, however.
Sure, why not.
I, most definitely and proudly, am an atheist. :-) Please count me in. Thank you.
You either believe in a god or gods, or you don't believe. I don't believe. I am an atheist person
. Do I have knowledge about the existence or non-existence of the supernatural? I do. I am an atheist person.
How am I defined? I am an individualist. I am Alleee.
Agnostic. Defiantly so.
Although, I sometimes wish that I was an apatheist again - so much easier.
Hi!
I consider myself to be an "agnostic animist." I have no need for gods of any form, but think the other species we share this world with are worth trying to communicate with (however we might do that) b/c they can teach us things. Definitely skeptical & pro-science, so count me in.
Http://chiliasmchronicles.blogspot.com
I consider myself an atheist and an ignostic. I live in Baltimore, surrounded by Baptists and other emotionally stunted humans. My website is mostly concerned with the religious loons taking over, so I guess that counts as an atheist blog. Do I make the cut?
Representing a whole lot of atheists and agnostics in the Toronto area.
Yeah, I am, but I also amn't impressed when atheists are rude about preaching any more than when religious people try to instruct me on why their views are superior. I care more about whether people are annoying than why.
I'm an atheist, unless believing in the FSM counts...
I'm in too. I'm kind of inbetween atheist and agnostic, but probably more atheist.
I may already be there, but please include The Galloping Beaver
I'm a (mostly) strong atheist, blogging at http://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com
Didn't my last comment come through?
Anyway, I like to think of myself as a "Secular Humanist" like one of my favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut. But I wouldn't be shocked if there actually is some type of diety. I guess that makes me an agnostic.
I conside rmyself an atheist.
count me in!!!
http://killtheafterlife.blogspot.com
and also:
http://goosetheantithesis.blogspot.com
thanx!
I am an ATHEIST and proud of it! Religion of any kind divides us, as does nationalism and capitalism.
We the people have to reclaim our world from the madmen who are running the world and us!
I'm an atheist of the "I haven't heard a good definition or seen good evidence" kind. Now quit with the comment spam. ;)
Yes, Beep Beep. I am an atheist and agnostic too. Not exactly a warrior on this cause. As a matter of fact, I have other war here in my city against corruption e in favor of democracy and citizenship.
But you may include me in your new blog rolling.
Cheers
Count me as one of the godless assholes.
I will gladly sign on! I guess I would consider myself an agnostic. I believe there is something out there that influenced this world at one point but not sure what yet.
Still working on it! I do know the bible is full of inconsistencies and misconstrued facts and asserstions!
These perverted funamentalist have screwed us all up. It will get a lot worse. We have unbridled religiosity on both sides of this so called war on terror and that spells serious trouble. I blog on http://www.anaveragepatriot.com
Hi. Please add me as an atheist. Thanks.
(second atemmpt) As I think I'm in a transitional status, please consider me AGNOSTIC. (I think there are too many things I just don't know)
And as many had talked about their context, I must say I'm surrounded of many mystical people who believes in ghosts, green people, spirits, misteriuos energies,... and all combined with the catholic
atheist
I am neither Atheist nor Agnostic. I am Pagan, complete with gods, goddesses, and mythologies.
I don't "believe in" the gods and goddesses -- I am the gods and goddesses.
And unlike most folks with religious leanings, I'm fully aware that my mythologies are just that -- myths made up over the course of time (probably in the long cold winters when there wasn't much else to do) to keep mankind from freaking out over the self-aware fact that he is mortal and will someday die.
I'm not quite sure how you're gonna categorize me on this, but I'm looking forward to exploring the blogroll!
Atheist here.
biomesblog.typepad.com
Atheist.
http://goldbricker.blogspot.com/
Sign me up Beep. Atheist.
Hmm - does an apatheist count?
Okay-dokey, I see people that I know here. Atheism in the belly, fire in my eyes. No gods, no masters, no clown cars. Nyuh-uhh.
an agnostic-christian. thinking about it hurts.
atheist
http://seeforyourself.blogspot.com/
Became an atheist 35 years ago at the age of 18. I was told, over and over, that the day would come when I "return to Christ". I have had numerous trials in my 53 years that could have led me fall on my knees and pray - if there were even the tiniest thought in the back of my brain that there were some higher power out there capable of delivering me from my anguish. But I am so thoroughly convinced that no such thing exists, that regardless of my pain there was absolutely no reason to waste a moment of my time with it. For better or worse, this is all I have. I'm not going to make up a "happy ending" to comfort me in my rapidly passing years. I'll die rational, if nothing else.
Add me.
www.evolutionarymiddleman.blogspot.com
I am a self-avowed, practising athiest. After 35 or more years, I'm pretty good at it, too.
Ok bearcastle, welcome to the new blogroll :)
Why yes, yes I am.
I'm in the process of switching to Wordpress, and I don't want to make that blog public until it's reasonably attractive, but if you could quickly shoot an email to dietcoupon (at) hotmail (dot) com I'll give you that URL to add to the blogroll as soon as I can!
Big atheist here. Although, my blog is mostly about me also being a big homo. But yeah, atheist.
I'd like to be included if you allow Zionist Atheists.
Add me too. I'm an atheist as well. :)
Please include me. Should we be posting our URLs? Otherwise you'll have to go through all the links to get them, and as you're already up to 64, and counting, that could take up valuable blogging time. Mine is www.deaconbarry.blogspot.com
This is a great idea, and a valuable resource.
Atheists are for the Devil. I mean no disrespect by that. I think almost everything is for the Devil. I think I might have a problem.
Hi beepbeep,
Thanks for all your comments on my blog--and for the most recent one luring me here.
Yes, I consider myself an atheist and would appreciate a link in your blogroll.
This comment thread is already a valuable resource for finding some interesting blogs I didn't know before!
Take care everyone.
http://sportinlife.blogspot.com
I am not prepared to give up a "secular world view". I have quite a few reasons for this, but I am not sure I will go into them at this stage.
There are forces of dominionism happening from 2 very politically active sides, that of christian dominionism and islamic dominionism. I don't want to live in a theocracy. I enjoy the fruits and benefits of a secular, liberal society.
Dominionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism
I'm Atheist. Add me, please.
Beep,
I've been away and busy doing other stuff and I've managed to miss this one. I'd like to be included as well, if that's ok...
Ohhhhh, you may, indeed, add my lill' blog to your list of Atheist Blogs.
Stay on Groovin' (DNA Jungle) Safari,
TOR Hershman
agnostic. great blog BTW
my podcasting co-host and I are both atheistic. we try to keep our science podcast out of the realm of religious criticism and stick to the stories of the week, but hey, pro scienec is pro freethought, am i wrong?
Hi! Can I play, too? I am definitely one of the godless. But have yet to commit acts of terrorism, genocide, or other crimes against humanity. Go figure!
please add me. strong atheist.
Sorry this took so long, but you can count us all as atheists.
Always considered myself an atheist...brought up that way.
Some atheists claim I'm not an atheist or that I should call myself an agnostic because I do believe that there are NATURAL forces at work that we may not be able to measure with current technology; just think back to before we knew anything about quantum physics if you don't get how I can think that.
However, I don't believe in any sort of deity putting these forces in order...call me what you will, but I guess I'd consider myself an open-minded, non-theistic skeptic! :)
You are making the common mistake of assuming that one cannot be both. Atheism is a position of belief while agnosicism refers to knowledge. As an atheist, I do not believe in the existence of gods. As an agnostic, I hold the view that it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of gods. In other words, even if gods did exist, it would be impossible to prove it. Therefore, I am an agnostic atheist...I do not believe in the existence of any gods but I don't believe it is possible to prove (or to know) that gods do not exist.
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