Jul

21

One River, Many Wells

July 21, 2010 by Brandon | Leave a Comment

All religions are not the same. All religions do not lead down the same path, or achieve the same goal. You may notice that there are some similarities that many religions share with each other, but make no mistake, one of those similarities is divisiveness.

For whatever the reason, I’ve been thinking about people who seem to think that all religions are a path to the same end. It’s called pluralism. It might be because the Dalai Lama recently said on his 75th birthday that all religions basically preach the same message.

How horribly untrue this is. The fact of the matter is the similar concepts that religions sometimes share and get right, ideas of compassion and love, are not ideals exclusive to religion, but to human nature. And that is why religions also happen to contain those messages. One only needs to delve under the thin veneer that religions coat themselves in to discover the darker, deleterious truth.

Personally, I think that those who subscribe to this pluralistic ideal are simply people who are afraid to be wrong. Perhaps they think that this is the correct answer to Pascal’s Wager. If they think any path is the correct path, then they’re certainly hedging their bet. The only problem is that they aren’t taking into consideration that nearly every religion, especially the major world religions, go to great lengths to describe how everyone but themselves are wrong, and that they are the one true path. Heck, they can’t even agree amongst themselves most of the time. There are an estimated 38,000 unique denominations of Christianity alone. Which one is right? Which ever one you belong to, and the others are all wrong.

So let’s be realistic. The idea that there many wells, but one river is silly. People either think this in a vain attempt to win a false cosmic gamble, or they’re just pretentious, conceded pricks who think that they sound deep and meaningful when puking up this nonsense.

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Jun

28

Atheist Billboard Defaced

June 28, 2010 by Brandon | 3 Comments

We’re fast approaching the end of the month and I haven’t had any posts yet for June. Since the opening of this site, I’ve at least managed to have one post every month, so now is as good a time as any to put something up to continue that.

Today’s story comes from North Carolina, where a group called the Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics recently placed a billboard on Billy Graham Parkway. The billboard, which can be seen here, states, “One Nation, Indivisible,” which is fairly innocent. If I would pass it on the highway myself, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought, that is if I didn’t notice the web address in the bottom corner.

Of course, something is missing from the phrase, something added during the Cold War… Luckily, some people were kind enough to add the missing words via a can of spray paint. “Under God.”

Things like this always make me wonder how insecure religious people think their god is. Is the Christian god that egotistical that he needs his minions to vandalize a billboard? A billboard which didn’t even say anything negative about him, to boot. If I were the timeless creator of all things, I think I might let the small things such as that slide. But that’s just me.

Things like this remind me of something Ghandi said. “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Except I’d probably disagree with him on liking Christ, too. Let’s face it, the guy gave some really bad advice.

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May

25

Intergalactic Towel Day

May 25, 2010 by Brandon | 2 Comments

In honor of this most important day of the year, I present the following video.

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May

21

The Precipice of a New Era

May 21, 2010 by Brandon | 4 Comments

God just got a little bit more useless as scientists have announced a stunning, and long anticipated breakthrough. Artificial life.

That may not mean to some what it technically means. No, scientists did not breed some Frankensteinian creature in lab. Instead, they pieced together some DNA to make a synthetic gene sequence, then used it to create a synthetic chromosome, which they then inserted into a host cell. The host cell took that genetic information and began to replicate, creating millions of copies.

Doesn’t sound like much, but trust me, we stand on the precipice of a new era with this discovery. Some people are concerned that we’ve overstepped our boundaries, and again we hear the cries of “Playing God.” But there is no God to play. We do as we will, and true, we must do so cautiously, but we are facing a future where synthetic cells can be created to produce vaccines, to eat cancer, and even create biofuels.

Detractors claim that in the hands of terrorists and the military, deadly new bioweapons can be created using this technology. But let’s face it, we’ve been in the business of killing each other ever since two tribes of sapiens existed. With or without this, we’re going to continue to kill each other through whatever means possible. We might as well surge forward with our technology and glean what benefits we can from it.

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What is Fractal Wrongness?

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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