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"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!"

: Name: beepbeepitsme; Location: Australia

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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The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism

"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 (1792BCEâ€“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.â€ - 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 Ã la religion ce que lâ€™astrologie est Ã lâ€™astronomie, la fille trÃ¨s folle dâ€™une mÃ¨re trÃ¨s sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjuguÃ© 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 seasonsâ€™ 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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Friday, October 20, 2006

"Christianity's Flying Circus"

From: - Stardust Musings and Thoughts for the Freethinker

Song by Genesis - Sung by Phil Collins

Lyrics

You see the face on the tv screen
Coming at you every sunday

See that face on the billboard

That man is me

On the cover of the magazine

There's no question why I'm smiling

You buy a piece of paradise

You buy a piece of me

I'll get you everything you wanted

I'll get you everything you need

Don't need to believe in hereafter

Just believe in me

Cos jesus he knows me

And he knows Im right

I've been talking to jesus all my life

Oh yes he knows me

And he knows Im right

And he's been telling me

Everything is alright

I believe in the family

With my ever loving wife beside me

But she don't know about my girlfriend

Or the man I met last night

Do you believe in god

Cos that's what I'm selling

And if you wanna get to heaven

I'll see you right

You won't even have to leave your house

Or get outta your chair

You don't even have to touch that dial

Cos I'm everywhere

And jesus he knows me

And he knows I'm right

I've been talking to jesus all my life

Oh yes he knows me

And he knows I'm right

Well he's been telling me

Everything's gonna be alright

Won't find me practising what I'm preaching

Won't find me making no sacrifice

But I can get you a pocketful of miracles

If you promise to be good, try to be nice

God will take good care of you

Just do as I say, don't do as I do

I'm counting my blessings,

I've found true happiness

Cos I'm getting richer, day by day

You can find me in the phone book,

Just call my toll free number

You can do it anyway you want

Just do it right away

There'll be no doubt in your mind

You'll believe everything I'm saying

If you wanna get closer to him

Get on your knees and start paying

Cos jesus he knows me

And he knows I'm right

I've been talking to jesus all my life

Oh yes he knows me

And he knows I'm right

Well he's been telling me

Everything's gonna be alright, alright

Jesus he knows me

Jesus he knows me, you know...

"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them."-- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 14, 1991

~*~

And I guess that means that I don't have to be nice to you either.

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10 Comments:

Anonymous said...: There was some serious hair-do's in that lot. Good to see Benny's toned his down a bit these days. I'm surprised he didn't cause more injuries than he "cured" with the number he's sporting in that video. I liked his jacket trick too. There's no doubt, he's definately the best stage hypnotis...er, sorry... evangelist and faith healer working today...:); 20/10/06 5:19 pm
beepbeepitsme said...: RE ted:

I figure all those people with back injuries can come back next week and be miraculously healed...; 20/10/06 6:20 pm
Anonymous said...: Only if they contribute to the collection plate though...; 20/10/06 7:21 pm
Daniel said...: Gee, Beep. Because I can't get broadband, trying to access all these videos or tapes is out of the question (takes an hour and a half to load each one).

Do you think if I have enough faith in John Howard or Sol, I might eventually get broadband and heal my knowledge deficit? Cheers.; 21/10/06 11:57 am
Stardust said...: Mass hysteria can make people do the stupidest things. It's similar to the screaming and fainting girls in the 60s when the Beatles came to America. People behave this same way at concerts and soccer matches, and other events. The lemmings just follow the first lemming ...and then you have everybody doing it.

Love the "collage" at the top. Did you find that somewhere or put it together yourself?; 21/10/06 3:04 pm
Anonymous said...: I'm sure Phil never had that much hair. But the original is almost as good...:)

Off topic or maybe not, but El Diablo Pt II is up if you're still interested...; 21/10/06 4:29 pm
beepbeepitsme said...: RE: stardust

Yeah, the collage is a manipulation of a couple of images.

RE: ted

Thanks for the heads up on "el diablo 2."

RE: daniel

I know. Dialup is a mongrel. I put up with it for years.; 21/10/06 8:01 pm
Anonymous said...: Very true of many of the TV preachers here in America. You won't find me defending them at all.

Daniel; 24/10/06 4:08 am
beepbeepitsme said...: The TV preachers are christians. They are just an example of sinful christians.; 31/10/06 1:00 pm
beepbeepitsme said...: The TV preachers are christians. They are just an example of sinful christians.; 31/10/06 1:00 pm

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Friday, October 20, 2006

"Christianity's Flying Circus"

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