tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223399192024-03-07T19:40:06.843+01:00Babble, bullshit, blasphemy and being.Freedom of speech, freedom from faith.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-13748252625753704732008-03-21T11:19:00.001+01:002008-03-21T11:20:34.545+01:00Spontaneous OrderchooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-2014924173464715812008-01-26T17:05:00.000+01:002008-01-26T17:10:06.496+01:00Anonymous vs ScientologyIn follow up to my last post, here is the latest message from Anonymous in their fight against Scientology. This time it is directed at the media.If you didn't see the first message, here it is:I wish them success. If they achieve anything then I hope we can encourage them to go after the Vatican, a bigger bunch of cheating bastards you will not find.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-17326454947236216632008-01-24T12:37:00.001+01:002008-01-24T13:48:46.289+01:00ScientologyWith all the fuss over Tom Cruise's leaked babble and hacking group Anonymous declaring war on Scientology, here's some Scientology stuff for your interest.First the Panorama documentary on Scientology - rather damning and worth a look: Then you can download the Secret Scientology Documents that Anonymous have "liberated".Enjoy and spread.Update:The docs are a bit hard to download from the link chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-73160469934322891262008-01-08T22:43:00.000+01:002008-01-08T22:45:18.545+01:00Long time no writeThere are only so many hours one can legitimately describe as rewarding when repeatedly undertaking any action. That which is at first worthwhile does not always remain so. For example, the self-pleasuring caresses of enthusiastic masturbation can be both invigorating and satisfying. However, keep it up for too long and one soon starts to feel a bit of a wanker and nothing more.Another example, chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-85107362008913473302007-11-12T21:51:00.001+01:002007-11-12T22:10:32.498+01:00All goJust thought I'd add a quick note about what I'm up to and why I've not been replying to comments. I've spent a few days in England. I returned back home to Spain just in time for my birthday and went out for dinner with my new girlfriend. It was all very nice. To my complete surprise some friends turned up at the end of the meal with a huge space cake, which meant things then turned into a partychooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-90740312533019969842007-10-30T14:40:00.000+01:002007-10-30T14:42:15.446+01:00Coming out to you familyIt's not something I personally had that much of a problem with, but it's difficult for some.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-41177375480386302952007-10-26T18:39:00.000+02:002007-10-26T19:17:59.896+02:00Christianity Explained(Text copied from this amusing image)Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that's present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.Unrelated videochooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-9650211880095458152007-10-19T15:33:00.000+02:002007-10-19T15:34:34.324+02:00Might is not right.One of the biggest issues I have with the pious faithful is the hypocritical claims they make about how good they are for worshiping their gods. Although I've mentioned it before, including recently, I think this point deserves more attention. One deconversion I achieved was because I highlighted that according to a friend's beliefs, I will burn for all eternity in hell. She thought of me to be achooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-34545298019882207822007-10-16T20:15:00.000+02:002007-10-18T00:48:01.330+02:00Skeptic Love TagPreviously I've written a little about love before in a post called Lost. If you've read that post you may have noticed that I'm somewhat of a cynic and can't ignore the statistics when it comes to claiming how special someone is. Despite being a cynic and a relatively critical thinker I am not imune to emotion. Even though I was once described as the "closest thing to a vulcan in the atheist chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-2866650974574775742007-10-16T14:09:00.001+02:002007-10-16T19:27:29.899+02:00Hitler was a ChristianTo be honest I'm tired of all the times I've had to discuss the claim that Hitler was an atheist when the evidence that he was in fact a Christian is overwhelming. There is argument to be made that Hitler was no fan of organised religion, but even this is put on uncertain ground as there is a strong case the quotes upon which that assertion is made were forged by Bormann, the anti-Catholic editorchooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-29903157833284496152007-10-16T14:00:00.000+02:002007-10-16T14:02:29.685+02:005000 Years of Religion in 90 secondsBehold, the flash map of 5000 years of religious expansion in 90 seconds.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-76813704480411277332007-10-16T13:28:00.000+02:002007-10-16T13:30:16.865+02:00On Atheist AngerGreta Christina provides a nice summary of Why atheists are angry and why that's a good thing.It's well worth a read as it provide a clear summary of some important reasons.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-34251506933347390982007-10-16T02:01:00.000+02:002007-10-16T02:09:45.335+02:00Catholics protesting Children's film.Austin over at About.com has written a fantastic article criticising the Catholics protesting "The Golden Compass", a film based on Philip Pullman's award-winning book of the same name. Why? Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series promotes an atheistic view, but it's fine for them to indoctrinate children through ritual, fear and dedicated faith schools funded by taxes.Go and read it.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-38243112835338684922007-10-13T20:37:00.000+02:002007-10-13T21:41:34.833+02:00Coincidence happensI just clicked the Wikipedia Random Article link for the first time ever. To my surprise it showed me an article about St. Ann's Well Gardens, Hove. Why should this surprise me? Well, out of all the approximately 5.3 million articles on Wikipedia, the article above just happens to be about a garden that I used to live right next to. That's an amazing coincidence right?Wrong! Let's chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-72349676294551178112007-10-13T15:43:00.000+02:002007-10-13T21:25:54.416+02:00Footballism: The world's biggest religion.Inspired by reading Tommy's post on sports, The Really Deep Questions, I've decided to say a little about my own views on the religion of football.I grew up in England. English people, everybody else on the planet assures me, love football. Americans call the phenomena soccer, which often results in English people calling the American people "twats". Sports, it appears, can be divisive.Football, chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-2011638589551960522007-10-13T11:59:00.000+02:002007-10-13T12:23:07.421+02:00The Jehovah's Cometh BackIn the past I've had some visits from the Jehovah's Witnesses. I blogged the last visit back in April, titled An Interesting talk with the Jehovah's Witnesses. To cut that longer story short, I gave them a rather strong but friendly introduction to why their beliefs are nonsense and the two very pleasant ladies promised to send reinforcements. Reinforcements just arrived! Yippee!Now, even more chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-57801332633242516512007-10-12T16:48:00.000+02:002007-10-12T16:55:01.179+02:00Of cowards and collaboratorsI am not now and I have never been a violent man. Despite this I have had many fights in my life, starting from when I got sent to a quality school in a different town to the squalid ghetto-like scum pit I grew up in. Upon returning from school I was abused on a daily basis and situations sometimes turned violent. This used to make me quite scared, although every time I seemed to come off betterchooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-26669051860425948782007-10-11T01:34:00.000+02:002007-10-11T02:16:36.365+02:00Searching for God in the BrainThe October issue of Scientific American has an article titled Searching for God in the Brain. I'll be honest and admit that I haven't read it yet and so I cannot comment on whether there is anything new in there, but no doubt it will be interesting reading and hopefully it will be a little more careful than some things they have published in the past: ;)"That the automobile has practically chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-64749201898331894652007-10-11T00:40:00.000+02:002007-10-11T01:23:19.237+02:00A brief update on the ultimate answerIn writing up the ultimate answer I have been thinking intensely on the criticisms and questions that will be raised. By education I am a physicist, but honestly that was a long time ago. I am rusty.I'm finding it extremely heavy going but I have yet to find a fault with this solution. I have been going through everything from entropy to M-Theory, trying to find fault with what I am thinking or chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-65470244793642809212007-10-08T11:38:00.000+02:002007-10-08T11:47:48.998+02:00Soul fairyOk, a quick one.Plenty of people tell their kids that when their teeth fall out that they should bury them under their pillow and that the tooth fairy will come at night and take the tooth away.As the kds grow up they grasp the fact that the tooth fairy doesn't come at all and that the universe has no special rules for the death of teeth and what happens to them thereafter.Plenty of people tell chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-41339976659014106362007-10-04T14:51:00.000+02:002007-10-04T14:53:34.395+02:00Pondering the Veggie-Matrix.The veggie-matrix is simply a term I'm coining to relate a great idea to something everyone is already familiar with. It is essentially the matrix but without the meat components. The conscious beings exist only inside, no plugged-in fleshy body required.A very strong case has been made that in all probability we exist within such a system and that we are in fact simulated beings. This case is chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-88674951706092903742007-10-03T21:34:00.000+02:002007-10-03T21:56:01.388+02:00The ultimate answer.If you've been here before you may have noticed that I've been unusually quiet. I've not been posting comments on other people's blogs and I've not been doing much in the way of posting here. If truth be told, which it always should be, neither have I been reading much in the way of other blogs. There is a reason for this.Shortly before my holidays I hit on an idea - one I'd been trying to hit onchooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-87193791926278460822007-09-26T21:10:00.000+02:002007-09-26T22:36:27.255+02:00John Rambo & Saint FrancisThat is one violent preview. Oh, and religious too.The prayer we hear recited is none other than that widely attributed to 13th Century Francis of Assisi, commonly referred to as The Prayer of Saint Francis - the very same Francis who used to lecture to birds, advising them to praise god. He's also reputed, by the gullible, to have negotiated a peace between the peasants of the city Gubbio and a chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-70269937482682472572007-09-06T16:15:00.000+02:002007-09-06T16:16:23.554+02:00Lessons of HistorychooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22339919.post-56663456431531652392007-09-05T01:29:00.001+02:002007-09-05T01:30:14.969+02:00Holiday Snaps CIMG1370 Originally uploaded by choosedoubt Thought I'd share a snap taken on my recent holiday. This is a sunset in Ibiza. I'll be watching a few more of them over the weekend and next week.chooseDoubthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892003265288803666noreply@blogger.com0