tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56233583157093279702024-03-13T11:05:46.635-07:00SoroboruLight hearted commentary on the Ouroboros that is modern society...Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623358315709327970.post-86678406089560307092009-12-27T06:59:00.000-08:002009-12-27T08:35:05.259-08:00The Princess & the Racist Frog<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Racism in 8 Simple Steps Sponsored by a Frog Princess</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1)</span></span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">When the Disney Powerhouse FINALLY creates an animated movie with an African-American Princess… be sure to bitch and moan about it being too little too late.</span></span></span></span></span></span></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ie Jennifer </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Daniels of BET denounced, “a movie like</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><em><span style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom- border-left- border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; font-style: normal; color:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The F</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">rog Princess</span></span></span></span></em><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, with its touching tale of a po' Black chile (sic) being rescued from the Big Black Voodoo Daddy by a great White hope in the pre-Civil Rights Movement South not only offensive and ignorant of history, but highly insensitive as well.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2) Blanket all characters lighter skinned than the Allstate Insurance guy as 'white'. After all, nothing says diversity like eliminating the spectrum of color. (Except for Michael Jackson: he gets to stay 'black' because he is super awesome and white people can't have him!)</span></span></span></span></p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_i2jvS1T4leopOuamrO-Zi2C8LyZm5KVAcb7vaHS_9NfbZgNkQcQRveA2hMtcv2_oxoRT2f_phjcEE8VdvRYmXeZhMpE4HKBrXG6LuvAex7a7-7E7EWYVrmyr1rawwboHaQ2njJZcZlQ/s320/esmeralda" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419940127226429746" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; line-height: 31px; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3)</span></span></span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Erase from your mind any and ALL animated humanoid Disney characters that aren’t pretty pretty white people. There can be no further mention of Princess Jasmine, Mogli (from the Jungle Book), Mulan, the Seven Dwarves, Esmeralda (from the Hunchback of Notre Dame or for that matter Quasimodo, duh…), Pocahontas, or Ariel (pretty pale but still, a mermaid.)</span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">4) Assert that not only this one but ALL fairy tales are racist</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> How much more racist can you get than turning that poor black princess-to-be into a green frog?! Sleeping Beauty was cursed why? Snow White was persecuted why? Cinderella was abused why? Isn’t it obvious? They were all black. You just didn’t know it because they weren't black ENOUGH. (See Number 2) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">5) Chant over and over “The children deserve more!”. Don’t the young girls and gay boys of color in our world today deserve a cartoon crusader? Shouldn’t they all have a cartoon that looks just like them to teach them how to abandon their goals and dreams and wait patiently for a real black man to come rescue them from their plight?</span></span></span></span></span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"></span></span></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">6) Whatever you do, do not mention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His crazy message of “...I have a dream [blah blah] not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character...” will only dull the racist sword you wield. The only way to stay racist is to talk about race, race, race, race, race! </span></span></span></span></span></span></h1><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMZHPcbNEcRbjRHYU7eRZCfYQTpxZh2TXjkSQQpLsPIslh1vdwV2sjjK2mhf9s8UepGRewcDmPFU3Vqdbb8RLMOoXyoQNKntXk3kHonc5MXSQOOdHNQ2r921sD0Xsh5ZJWyRKF_3fA-E/s200/smile" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 185px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419936420999328098" /><h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In fact do not acknowledge ANY positive commentary from ANYONE involved in the production or Disney in general. Take for example the Princess herself: "We walk around being black every day, and nobody talks about it," noted Anika Noni Rose, who supplies the voice of lead Princess Tiana. "So, I suggest you follow your instinct and let it be nothing to be talked about." No no that just won’t do.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 23.25pt; "><span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">7)</span></span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Don’t discuss the content of Princess Tiana’s character at all (Remember number 6). She’s a workaholic obsessed with opening her own restaurant to fulfill her and her dead father’s mutual dream. What the hell kind of example is that to set? </span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">8) Never and I mean NEVER recognize (or admit it if you do) that you are up in arms about a cartoon. Without historically inaccurate fairy tale cartoons how could we raise our children properly? If you don't find this 'film' an oppressive outrage, shame on you...</span></span></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">--Drakeyula</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></o:p></p>Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623358315709327970.post-4610764312153697972008-07-10T14:28:00.000-07:002008-07-12T08:03:13.666-07:00You Call That Driving??<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HTyguCn2z4cs4Eylk39wFYNaiLjKrrX7k6XAipTYbQpD4dLMoAF_y5hNY4hsfiteSbGZFUggwXgEdiCPwS9ltVft8jRljEDmMMMTYMAHsbpSi8VRSw3z4000KxgNjG0ylNKAkaheDMw/s1600-h/Picture+14.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HTyguCn2z4cs4Eylk39wFYNaiLjKrrX7k6XAipTYbQpD4dLMoAF_y5hNY4hsfiteSbGZFUggwXgEdiCPwS9ltVft8jRljEDmMMMTYMAHsbpSi8VRSw3z4000KxgNjG0ylNKAkaheDMw/s320/Picture+14.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221500698045049778" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" >Where have all the drivers gone? More and more I find myself traveling amongst a breed of fumbling beginner level vehicle operators; operators so far from "drivers" they are barely <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">recognizable</span> behind the wheel. So what do we, the "drivers" do? We make a list; the list below...<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" >Print this out and distribute it generously. Paint it on bathroom stalls. Carve it into park benches. Announce it over loudspeakers. Print it on T-shirts. Do ANYTHING you can to get this message out!! </span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >10 Tips For a Better You (in the car at least)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Remember that the vehicle you are operating is not a phone booth. It's okay to talk to people while driving, but first ask yourself this simple question: Is the person I'm talking to in the car with me? If you answer yes, then carry on.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. Remember that the vehicle you are operating is not a typewriter or a personal computer. True, your vehicle may have an internal computer, but that does not authorize you to type or 'text' messages to others while attempting to DRIVE.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3. Unless the bumper stickers on the vehicle in front of you are INCREDIBLY INTERESTING, you should drive a few FEET behind other vehicles. Hint: feet are bigger than inches. You never know when the "driver" in front of you will forget they aren't operating a phone booth. STAY BACK!</span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4. Removing less incredible bumper stickers and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">paraphernalia</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from the rear of your car may decrease other "drivers" urges to shrink their following distance from feet to inches. Christian slogans and imagery, </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ie</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "Real Men Love Jesus" stickers would be my first suggestion for removal. SAFETY FIRST!</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" >5. When there is a turn lane and you would like to turn, steer your vehicle into this lane. It's easy! I mean would you rather 'drive' across 2 lanes or one? If you get in the turn lane, that's one less lane for you to 'drive' through. I know this may be confusing at first, but with a little practice you may notice those horn toots of annoyance tapering off.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" >6. When you hear the aforementioned horn toots of annoyance, they usually indicate YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING WRONG. Oops! You didn't read the tips carefully or maybe you forgot one or two. That's okay. What's not okay is yelling and/or offering vulgar hand gestures in rebuttal. You were honked at because you're an idiot. If you reply, that only proves the point. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" >7. Think of driving like being in a parade. Everyone is eager to get to the judges stand. But at the same time, everyone wants their float to look it's best when they get there. Be courteous to the other floats in the parade. Don't cut in line, and don't let 6 other floats in front of you either. It's not fair to the floats behind you. Also, keep up with the rest of the parade. If you go too slow or stop for too many spectators, all the judges will go home before you get there. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" >8. If your stereo vibrates your windows, or your trunk, or your hood, or the streetlights, or the trees, TURN IT DOWN. Honestly, most of the people watching the parade would rather hear the marching band.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" >9. Choose your vehicle accessories wisely. The only thing announcing you're trashy more loudly than your stereo is your Cherry bomb muffler. Other screaming announcements of your trashiness are airbrushing, confederate flags, spoilers, rims, windshield decals, and naked lady mudflaps. Remember tip #7: driving is <span style="font-style: italic;">LIKE</span> being in a parade. You aren't actually driving a showboat. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:lucida grande;" >10. small men prefer BIG TRUCKS. Be wary of both.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Drakeyula</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /></span></span></span></span>Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623358315709327970.post-91235331185805534052008-01-10T06:32:00.000-08:002008-07-12T07:58:50.267-07:00Investigative Journalism Reveals Celebrities & Politicians May Indeed Be Human!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheC5cgkw_1BOv1vCR2f0QR6aw75GI78P1Zah2GTm7Shab_lqTQC5eo7RR95JdpJh549sSOJGr1MH1bkpmZ1WVAl5HHg7-cEVVFfwGvEBUIoyb_ou3QDVrl8wRo5hPYbwmomghttbL4mH8/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheC5cgkw_1BOv1vCR2f0QR6aw75GI78P1Zah2GTm7Shab_lqTQC5eo7RR95JdpJh549sSOJGr1MH1bkpmZ1WVAl5HHg7-cEVVFfwGvEBUIoyb_ou3QDVrl8wRo5hPYbwmomghttbL4mH8/s320/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153858278543025378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">THIS IS AN ALL POINTDEXTER BULLETIN TO SCIENTISTS EVERYWHERE:</span> Of late, domestic and foreign media have been gathering evidence supporting the notion that Hilary Clinton, among others, may indeed NOT be a robot from outer space sent to distract us whilst we are slowly and slyly domesticated and trained to serve </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >deep space alien species of superior intellect</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">hastily</span> making their way to earth.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Recent 'actions' by current Presidential <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">pre</span>-candidate Hilary Clinton have so closely mimicked human emotion, that many speculate she may indeed be one of us! Further investigation by well respected media outlets everywhere has uncovered numerous clips of similar 'emotional' footage of political public figures. This has many scratching their heads in shock. The scientific community has known for many years the </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" >devastating</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > effect of celebrity mayhem on society. The gentle public is but a kitten distracted by Britney Spears' shiny trinkets of baldness and custody battles. Such distractions prompted the re-release of model A-L Gore<span style="font-size:130%;">1</span> (short for algorithm--aren't we jocular?!) into public office to champion environmentalism, thereby cooling Earth and reducing the desires of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >deep space alien species' of superior intellect</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > to relocate here.</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >More research must be done in order to conclude conclusively, whether or not these so-called politicians are robot or human. If robot, we must invest in new detection devices and </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" >processes</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >, as well as mass public notification systems. If proven human, then we as a species must examine ourselves deeply, in order to preserve our place on this planet...</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Thank you and good Vigilance from the kind folks at </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Dume</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > Scientific Research Network Co. 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TM 2008 All rights reserved but yours.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span>Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623358315709327970.post-40153084150960771492007-09-06T08:12:00.001-07:002007-09-06T12:46:33.397-07:00Rob Zombie's 'Halloween' Thrills Janitors Everywhere!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5Ervac1-AeeP6xgUr5LK4aXqvSOA8R-eG9CrasLakX4Y8rgNCAsL-loqunNuRtfB5syJThfnW2-50XAXnzl4urvArZPy0zM11W_pLw7fp7d-eVFDcW17dZfnDvM_kAESuEHK2vg8v3c/s1600-h/Picture+16.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc5Ervac1-AeeP6xgUr5LK4aXqvSOA8R-eG9CrasLakX4Y8rgNCAsL-loqunNuRtfB5syJThfnW2-50XAXnzl4urvArZPy0zM11W_pLw7fp7d-eVFDcW17dZfnDvM_kAESuEHK2vg8v3c/s320/Picture+16.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107179807386292354" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">When a horror movie sends that creepy crawl down my spine and makes me lift my feet off the floor, it's because I fear what's under the couch, not because I don't want guts on my shoes!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If at any point during this film, my feet were lifted, it was a gut reaction to keep the popcorn down. Or, to use my knees as a resting place for my bored sleepy skull. I am not against blood and gore in movies, but if that's all the movie has to offer..... BORING! Rob Zombie's 're-imagining' of Halloween is as dull as your Grandpa's slide show of his trip to the golf museum.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">Why didn't it work?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"When a villain or a scary character becomes so familiar, so popular, he loses the mystery, so how's he going to be scary?" Zombie asks. Forgive me if I laugh!!! WHOA!!!!! Blood is scary? Demystification is scary? Nudity is so gosh darn scary?! And that dialogue!! YIKES!!!!!! Long haired ugly people like you see on 'Cops' are scary!? Sorry, but if Dateline NBC ran a story called 'The Making of a Psychopath' I sure as hell wouldn't PAY to see it!! Let's get the side by side: Orange is Carpenter/Hill, blue for Zombie.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><br />A clean cut suburban kid snapping </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A slowly evolving depraved result of circumstance</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Michael running a muck on the public </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">Michael alone in an asylum making paper mache</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">An entire asylums' patients roaming free </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A single LARGE patient killing his way out</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Grabbing a mask at random to blend </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">Making mask after mask to 'hide your ugly'</span><br />A sneaky, calculating, lurking planner </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A thoughtless brute of a killing machine</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A killer with unexplained determination </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A killer with endless emotion-filled back story</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A small faceless killer stalking in daylight </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">An over sized ogre hiding in the dark</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A few choice and necessary killings </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A bloody imagination-free slaughter fest</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A frantic tense fearful doctor </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A friendly hippy-like father figure<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Laurie being a geeky outsider survivor </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">Laurie being a secretless popular wimpy survivor<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">An open ended continuing terror </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">.....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">A brain blasting delivery of final justice</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As previously witnessed, Zombie lacks the capacity to create (or re-imagine) </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">true horror</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The last time someone attempted to explain Michael Myers was the laughable Halloween 6. Even that, however, would have made an interesting story if it hadn't been edited to death due to Donald Pleasance passing away. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rob Zombie says he "tried to make 'Halloween' as different as possible in look, feel, style" from the original 1978 film. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mission accomplished!</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The original is a rare gem that was masterfully executed by Carpenter and Hill to leave us in a nausea free state of boot-shaking terror; while Zombie's is a boring, bland, predictable regurgitation that could have been made without the name Michael Myers attached to it at all. But then, why would anyone want to see that either?! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Conclusion: This excuse for a movie is a bloody waste of time! (Literally)<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">-Drakeyula<br /><br /></span><br /></span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" ><br /></span></span>Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623358315709327970.post-28638564891587561582007-09-05T06:57:00.000-07:002008-07-12T07:58:15.611-07:00Until Theists Prove god Exists Atheists Rest Easy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIPiiqh5GAD5emqzTPcZv4pVGzx5yukVeTOelHKhXFdSuCW5Eqw8lcylzV1U6oRINEkVW2EnwS0EHj60391TsQsWhpzdYA2sGlwS_z7NDJEHbDitdV2H_6qOsYeIcgyPMmTI82rDqIpmQ/s1600-h/Picture+18.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIPiiqh5GAD5emqzTPcZv4pVGzx5yukVeTOelHKhXFdSuCW5Eqw8lcylzV1U6oRINEkVW2EnwS0EHj60391TsQsWhpzdYA2sGlwS_z7NDJEHbDitdV2H_6qOsYeIcgyPMmTI82rDqIpmQ/s320/Picture+18.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107182672129478834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"> Do theists you've encountered present to you the same questions and exclamations again & again & again? How did we get here? Prove god doesn't exist! Why can't humans create something from nothing? I'm not a monkey! Blah blah blah.... Well now here's 5 handy dandy topics to quite them. It's now up to the theists to prove something themselves or leave us alone to our truth. Atheists everywhere rest easy!<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />The following excerpts have been paraphrased. I have highlighted certain content which summarizes the point I'm illustrating. Links are provided if you'd like to read the full writings and I encourage you to do so. I do not take credit for</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="font-size:78%;"> anything appearing here other than what is in red & blue and have put forth my best effort to credit each source accurately.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><br />1. THE THEIST HAS THE BURDEN OF PROOF....</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />From review By Eric C. Welch (Forreston, Illinois USA) of </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> by George H. Smith (Author)</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Smith is unapologetically atheist; belief in God for Smith is simply unreasonable and irrational. Asked to prove the nonexistence of God, Smith's answer is simply that one cannot prove a negative and that <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">the person who asserts the existence of something bears the burden of proof.</span> He asserts that to believe in faith or to rely on faith is to "defy and abandon the judgment of one's mind. Faith conflicts with reason. It cannot give you knowledge; it can only delude you into believing that you know more than you really do. Faith is intellectually dishonest, and it should be rejected by every person of integrity.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Ayn-Rand-Other-Heresies/dp/0879755776</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> The first method is known as onus probandi, i.e., the onus (or</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">burden) of proof. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">This principle states that the burden of proof falls</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >on the person who affirms the truth of a proposition, such as "God</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">exists."</span> If the theist claims to know that God exists, then we have the</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">cognitive right—indeed, the responsibility—to ask this person how</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">he acquired this knowledge and why we should take him seriously. If</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">the theist fails to meet his burden of proof, atheism is left standing by</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">default as the only rational alternative.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Why Atheism?. Contributors: George H. Smith - author. Publisher: Prometheus Books. </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Link: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99211704</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> People who Make Paranormal Claims Must Prove Those Claims</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> It is the claimant who has the burden of proof —<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> the person who asserts that certain psychic phenomena are real is the one who should be presenting the primary evidence and arguments in support of what they allege. If they do not, then there is no rational reason to believe them.</span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> James Randi has offered an illuminating example which illustrates how and why it is the claimants of psychic phenomena who must make the first step with regards to evidence. He presents a thought experiment in which we imagine that we test to see if reindeer can fly, thus perhaps disproving the possible reality of Santa Claus as traditionally portrayed. We can take one thousand reindeer up atop a tall building and begin pushing them off, one by one, to see if any of them fly. They would, presumably, all fail — does this then disprove the possibility of flying reindeer? </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Burden of Proof and Fraud</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">From Austin Cline,</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">Your Guide to Agnosticism / Atheism.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://atheism.about.com/od/parapsychology/a/fraud.htm</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />*****</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> "...religious people say aha! you can't prove there's no god, we win, we win... So let me ask these same religious people a question: ...all the people who believe in one god, can you prove that there isn't more than one god? ...<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">to prove than no other god exists, you've got the same burden of proof that atheists have</span>."</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Proving that God exists</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfXeIROynM4</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><br />2. IT'S ALL SPECULATION ANYWAY, REALLY...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> If they [theists] are unwilling to explain the existence of their deity, then they have no business demanding of you [atheists] to explain the existence of the Universe.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> This is the bottom line: the rest of this is simply pondering along the same lines.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Universe exists, this we know. Beyond that is only speculation.</span> There may be a vast super-universe, amidst which ours is but a brief bubble (and there is nothing currently known in science to rule this out as a possibility). Then again, our Universe may be the whole banana within a vast Space. But to "see" much further than what we can currently see may require a particle accelerator the size of the orbit of Jupiter -- <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">we don't know yet</span>.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Your claims remain within the realm of demonstrable fact: "The Universe exists, and beyond this is mere speculation."</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Their claims go beyond the realm of fact: "The Universe exists, and it was created by a deity."</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Oh, really, now! Demonstrate to me the existence of your Deity without resorting to the existence of the Universe as part of your demonstration! Demonstrate to me the existence of your Deity independent of the existence of the Universe! In other words, explain the cause of your Deity rather than the effect of your Deity!</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />You demand that I explain to you the cause of the Universe but are unwilling to even entertain the cause of your explanation!</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> They don't really know whether or not their claim is truthful. So why assert it as truth? Why not simply admit that it's speculation and stop trying to sell on what you don't even know? Why do you expect us to believe what you tell us when you don't really believe it yourselves?</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> As Abraham Lincoln said,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >"It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" > Abraham Lincoln -- chiding the editor</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> of a Springfield, Illinois, newspaper</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Mind-Boggling Claim: </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">God Always Existed; </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Needed No Creator - </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Cyrus</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Positive Atheism Magazine" </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> March 17, 2004 4:36 PM</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Link: http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8354.htm</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">(In other words, theists </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">belief</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"> in a supreme being as creator is not </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">proof</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"> of it. And no, ancient second hand writings are not proof, because those stories are written by believers.)</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Subject: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Bible Has Two Creation Stories</span> A close reading of the first few chapters of...</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">A close reading of the first few chapters of the Bible reveals not one, but two different -- and contradictory -- stories of creation.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.skepticfiles.org/atheist/bible3do.htm</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><br />(Not to mention the how many other religions throughout the history of mankind, all with varying creation stories, ie</span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:times new roman;" >Babylonian, African, Korean, Japanese, Navajo, Norse, Comanche, Chinese, Chelan, Pima, Mayan, Miwok, Salish, Aboriginal, Hopi, Tahitian, Yokut, Egyptian, Micmac, Romanian, Mongol, Assyrian, Maori, Jewish, Aztec, Digueno, Apache, Dakota, Hungarian, Iroquois, Inuit, Huron, Hawaiian... they all differ so <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">how do you rationally accept one single creation story as fact?</span>)</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Big Bang had to be theorized for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">we live in a ‘linear’ world where everything has to have a beginning</span> and an end. The previous Steady State theory suggested the universe is eternal and renews itself.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">This is no good, philosophically, for our tastes. It smacks too much of eastern philosophy, and a cyclic world where everything goes in cycles of existence. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">This cyclic world was replaced, in the west</span>, by Genesis, and we’ve needed beginnings and ends ever since.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> We are all, it seems, still closet Christians.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />SCIENCE EXPERIENCES BIG CRUNCH by </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Anthony North, July 2007</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Link: http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/tag/space/</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />*****</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Incontrovertible evidence of intelligent creation is not incontrovertible evidence of the existence of your God -- or anyone elses, for that matter. </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> So, the universe was made. What does this tell us about who or what made it? Nothing. What can we infer about his, her, its, or their nature? Zip. What moral guidance does it give us? None. What purpose does creation serve? Unknown. Why did he/she/it/they make the universe? No answer.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> In other words, proof of a creator leaves us back at ground zero. Actually, it leaves us back at ground negative-infinity -- because <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">while science might not know all the answers, it posits that the answers *are* *knowable*. In a created universe, nothing can be known. Ever.</span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />Faith is meaningless, because it reduces to subjective perception. Every argument for the existence of the Christian God applies equally well to all the other gods imagined by all the men who have ever lived, and all the infinite gods yet to be imagined by all the men yet to come. With science, a baseline of objective evidence can be established;with faith, it all comes down to feelings. In a scientific universe, the basis of 'the good society' can be deduced, reasoned, argued, debated. In a creationist universe, it ends up as whims and whips. Morality and ethics become the province of priests, not philosphers. Which priests? The ones with the burliest soldiers. All ethics, all morality, all concept of right and wrong collapse to the rule of the loudest preacher with the largest army -- and there can be no argument. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">A universe run by the principles of faith is a universe in which two disputants cannot even agree that a yardstick exists, much less on how to use it to measure things. </span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />A Created Universe Would Not be Proof of God</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> The Ethical Spectacle May 2000 www.spectacle.org</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.spectacle.org/0500/lizard.html</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><br />3. REASON VS FAITH</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />Occam's razor: This is often paraphrased as "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the right one</span>," or alternately, "we should not assert that what we do not have some proof for." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> "No plurality should be assumed unless it can be proved (a) by reason, or (b) by experience, or (c) by some infallible authority"</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor#Religion</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> In order to avoid the problem of the Universe being an uncaused cause some say that god has always existed and has therefore never been created: It therefore needs no cause. But I find this is an argument that can be used in conjunction with big bang theory to prove, again, that god is not likely to exist as a first cause. Because according to some Big Bang theories there has been an infinite number of cycles of Big Bang / Big Crunch (where the Universe ends in a big black hole after contracting) and that the Universe has existed forever. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">If it is possible for something to exist forever and not need a cause then it is likely to be the Universe, not God</span>, and once again we can theorize that this is likely to be true because there would be no reason for god if it was true that something could exist with no cause.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Big Bang models describe the creation of all the dimensions of space including time itself, so that to ask "what happened before the big bang?" is meaningless in the same way as asking "what was god doing before it created time?". </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />God did not create the Universe</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> God doesn't need a cause because it has existed forever</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />By Vexen Crabtree, 2002 Aug 23</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/universe.html#Cause</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><br />(To put it simply, a supernatural creator as an origin explanation is more complex than the big bang or evolutionary theories, and therefor is unlikely to be accurate.)<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />*****</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" ><br />Obviously religions are a good example of faith, since many actually preach the virtue of faith. If you say you can't understand why God would let innocent people die, or children get abused, or anything else, they say you're not supposed to understand. You're supposed to just believe. Just take it on faith. Believe without reason, without evidence, and without understanding.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" > Reason and faith are completely incompatible. Faith is the destroyer of reason. It takes particular ideas and divorces them from reality and from reason. If you accept something on faith, you are essentially saying that you will take it off of the table with regards to reason, and treat it how you feel like treating it. Wherever faith goes, reason is pushed out.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Objectivism 101 </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Reason vs. Faith </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Lectures Home </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://objectivism101.com/Lectures/Lecture15.shtml</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:times new roman;" ><br />(Faith in a god is what tells theists humanity is not of scientific origin.)</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />*****</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Imagine for moment that you have been falsely accused of a crime - murder. You are completely innocent and before a jury with your life in the balance. Your defense attorney points out to the jury that there is not one shred of physical evidence against you. There are hundreds of witnesses who can swear that you were not near the victim at the time of the crime. There is a mountain of physical evidence to back up your defense. Yet 85% of your neighbors and townsfolk believe that you are guilty.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Meet An Atheist </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Tuesday, November 01, 2005 </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Reason vs. Faith</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.meetanatheist.com/2005/11/reason-vs-faith.html</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:times new roman;" ></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-family:times new roman;" ><br />(The articles goes on to describe how frightening <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">faithful</span> masses can be.)</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Conservative activist Beverly LaHaye, a biblical literalist who is president of Concerned Women for America, puts the matter directly: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?"</span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> ...Once this one thread is pulled from the fabric of religious belief, perhaps the whole will become unraveled, with grave social consequences. Without the strictures and traditions imposed by a religion that promises to punish sinners, the moral controls that moderate our base desires will lose their validity, leading ultimately to moral chaos. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ironically, today many modern conservatives fervently agree with Karl Marx that religion is "the opium of the people"; they add a heartfelt, "Thank God!" </span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Another prominent neoconservative, Leon Kass, author of Toward a More Natural Science (1985), and a member of the University of Chicago's prestigious Committee on Social Thought, also believes that evolutionary theory poses a threat to social order: "[T]he creationists and their fundamentalist patrons...sense that orthodox evolutionary theory cannot support any notions we might have regarding human dignity or man's special place in the whole. And they see that Western moral teaching, so closely tied to Scripture, is also in peril if any major part of Scripture can be shown to be false."</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Origin of the Specious, </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Why do neoconservatives doubt Darwin? by </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Ronald Bailey | July 1997 </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Link: http://www.reason.com/news/show/30329.html</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />(Nothing like a little faith to get your <span style="font-style: italic;">stake </span>burning!)</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><br />4. SCIENTISTS ARE CLOSING IN ON IT</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />As a matter of historical curiosity, this new turning of neocon eyes toward heaven comes just as Pope John Paul II has officially recognized that "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">the theory of evolution is more than an hypothesis</span>." Indeed, it comes as evolutionary thinking itself is shedding considerable light on an array of questions and problems, from brain growth to the development of immune systems, from sociobiology to economics, from ecology to software design. Such <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">research is yielding anti-designer results</span>. F.A. Hayek long ago recognized the phenomenon of "spontaneous order" and described how it arose in markets, families, and other social institutions. Now, ingenious computer models are confirming Hayek's insights. It is increasingly obvious that social systems, from commerce to language, evolve and adapt without the need for top-down planning and organization. Order in markets is generated through processes analogous to Darwinian natural selection in biology. In other words, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">we can indeed have apparent design without a designer</span>; the world is demonstrably brimming with just such phenomena.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />Among those working on the origins question is biologist and Nobel laureate Christian De Duve, who has outlined a theory of how life might have arisen. He dubs his theory the "<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">thioester-iron world</span>," after the chemicals he thinks could have reacted together to create "protometabolisms" that could evolve. He admits his theory is very speculative, but believes that one day biologists may find traces of the prior existence of these protometabolisms in the biochemistry of contemporary organisms.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />Another promising approach is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">complexity theory</span>. Scientists at the Santa Fe Institute argue that life is practically the inevitable result of the laws of physics and chemistry. According to Stuart Kauffman, life bootstrapped itself into existence through autocatalytic sets of chemicals that were in the primordial soup. Kauffman postulates that if a chemical soup has enough different types of compounds, they will begin to act in metabolic ways and be able to reproduce and evolve. (See "Who Ordered That?" February 1996.)</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> In fact, a German scientist, Günter Wächtershäuser, has recently published a paper in Science magazine describing his efforts to uncover such plausible protometabolisms. He has found <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">an open-ended chemical cycle that produces an active form</span> of acetic acid, thought to mirror an ancient metabolic pathway in bacteria. Such a protometabolism, he argues, could have existed billions of years ago on metal sulfide surfaces found at hot deep ocean vents, and could have been one of the first steps in the evolution of life.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Origin of the Specious, </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Why do neoconservatives doubt Darwin?</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Ronald Bailey | July 1997 </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.reason.com/news/show/30329.html</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><br /><br />5. HAVE IT YOUR WAY THEISTS.... HERE'S SOME OTHER THEORIES</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">uncertainty principle</span> implies that particles can come into existence for short periods of time even when there is not enough energy to create them. In effect, they are created from uncertainties in energy. One could say that they briefly "borrow" the energy required for their creation, and then, a short time later, they pay the "debt" back and disappear again. Since these particles do not have a permanent existence, they are called virtual particles. <span style="font-family:times new roman;">(</span>Morris, Richard. 1990. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Edges of Science</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing."</span> Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(</span>Morris, Richard. 1990. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Edges of Science</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><br />There are something like ten million million million million million million million million million million million million million million (1 with eighty zeroes after it) particles in the region of the universe that we can observe. Where did they all come from? The answer is that, in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">quantum theory</span>, particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs. But that just raises the question of where the energy came from. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero</span>. The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter is all attracting itself by gravity. Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart, because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together. Thus, in a sense, the gravitational field has negative energy. In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. So the total energy of the universe is zero. <span style="font-family:times new roman;">(</span>Hawking, Steven. 1988. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A Brief History of Time</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Once our minds accept the mutability of matter and the new idea of the vacuum, we can speculate on the origin of the biggest thing we know - the universe. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Maybe the universe itself sprang into existence out of nothingness - a gigantic vacuum fluctuation which we know today as the big bang. Remarkably, the laws of modern physics allow for this possibility.</span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Creation ex nihilo - Without God (1997) </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">By Mark I. Vuletic</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Link: http://www.holysmoke.org/cretins/creation.htm</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />*****</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Parmenides realized over 2,500 years ago that anything that involves a logical contradiction cannot exist. We know that there are no married bachelors, no square circles, and no largest number because these notions are self-contradictory. They violate the most fundamental law of logic-the law of noncontradiction-which says that nothing can both have a property and lack it at the same time. So one way to prove a universal negative is to show that the notion of a thing is inconsistent. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">To prove that God does not exist, then, one only has to demonstrate that the concept of God is inconsistent.</span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />God is a theoretical entity that is postulated by theists to explain various phenomena, such as the origin of the universe, the design of the universe, and the origin of living things. Modern science, however, can explain all of these phenomena without postulating the existence of God. In the words of Laplace, science has no need of that hypothesis. By demonstrating that God is not needed to explain anything, science has proven that there is no more reason to believe in the existence of God than to believe in the existence of phlogiston, the luminiferous ether, or Vulcan. This may explain why more than 90% of the world's top scientists disbelieve or doubt the existence of God. </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />Scientists prefer natural explanations to supernatural ones, not because of any metaphysical bias on their part, but because natural explanations produce more understanding than supernatural ones. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">As Plato realized, to say that God did it is not to explain anything, but simply to offer an excuse for not having an explanation.</span></span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Supernatural explanations are inherently inferior to natural ones because they do not meet the criteria of adequacy as well. For example, they are usually less simple because they assume the existence of at least one additional type of entity. They usually have less scope because they don't explain how the phenomena in question are produced and thus they raise more questions than they answer. They are usually less conservative because they imply that certain natural laws have been violated. And they are usually less fruitful because they don't make any novel predictions</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br /><br />What if there was no plausible natural explanation for some phenomena? Would that justify the claim that god caused it? No, for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">our inability to provide a natural explanation may simply be due to our ignorance of the operative natural forces</span>. Many phenomena that were once attributed to supernatural beings such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and disease can now be explained in purely natural terms. As St. Augustine realized, apparent miracles are not contrary to nature but contrary to our knowledge of nature.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Given the inherent inferiority of supernatural explanations and the incompleteness of our knowledge, theists would be justified in offering a supernatural explanation for a phenomenon only if they could prove that it is in principle impossible to provide a natural explanation of it. In other words, to undermine the scientific proof for the non-existence of god, theists have to prove an unrestricted negative, namely, that no natural explanation of a phenomenon will be found. And that, I believe, is an unrestricted negative that no theist will ever be able to prove.<br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Can Science Prove that God Does Not Exist? </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">by Theodore Schick, Jr.</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Inquiry magazine, Volume 21, Number 1.</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Link: http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/schick_21_1.htmL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(Just because we don't have the answer, does not make the answer mystical.)</span></span></span></span></span><br /></span><br />*****<br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"Religion is based...mainly upon fear...fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.... My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race." </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Philosopher Bertrand Russell, </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Religion is Mental Illness</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" ><br /><br />SEE ALSO</span><br /><br />Web:<br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismmyths/a/faith.htm</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />PART II: NightLine Debate- Does God Exist? (1 of 5) [ See also parts 2-5]</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waVL35Vxnx0&mode=related&search=</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />The Atheist Jew</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, THE ORIGIN OF LIFE MADE EASY </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/2007/07/origin-of-life-made-easy.html</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />Christians don't use circular logic!!!</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl9ldtRFigw&mode=related&search=</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Books:</span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Any Ayn Rand book</span>, <span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Bible (It contradicts itself enough to prove its fictional.),</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">The Origin of Species, </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A Brief History of Time,</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;">Atheism, Morality, and Meaning</span>, <span style="font-family:times new roman;">Atheism: A Philosophical Justification</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, Atheism: The Case Against God</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" ><br /><br />I could spend the rest of my life compiling arguments for and against god, creation, evolution, etc. etc. etc. That would be a very boring and meaningless life for me. Faith and reason are opposites, so for every argument on the side of atheism, there will always be an opposing argument based on religious faith. I trust that science will eventually explain concretely our origins. This trust is not, as some would argue, comparable to faith because I do not have to suspend logic, reason, observation, or rationality to know that science can and has explained things. The nature of science is to prove and disprove hypotheses. Thereby, I do not have the burden of proving god does not exist. Scientists will do that for me. </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >And there you have it.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><br />-Drakeyula</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span> <span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span> </div>Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623358315709327970.post-81181001345455049512007-08-13T08:46:00.000-07:002008-07-12T07:57:49.993-07:00Resident Evil??<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP4afJuvaXe8_tp58vK2w9wOCXY6fmuzhzw0-zHxiGo9qNUJK9f337Oa2edvgU91PRrGCsNOf7c7zpeh6fjuFGAOAMTQ7xFng0xtMP7ut7EBo_iWrpSl6w2YC_mLauhIvtna4puC2ULU/s1600-h/Picture+11.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP4afJuvaXe8_tp58vK2w9wOCXY6fmuzhzw0-zHxiGo9qNUJK9f337Oa2edvgU91PRrGCsNOf7c7zpeh6fjuFGAOAMTQ7xFng0xtMP7ut7EBo_iWrpSl6w2YC_mLauhIvtna4puC2ULU/s320/Picture+11.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107183685741760706" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">RESIDENT EVIL IS A GAME ABOUT KILLING ZOMBIES, NOT KILLING PEOPLE</span>!<br />The images in the game are not a reflection of anything real or historical. </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The images are not meant to invoke hate, except maybe towards the <span style="font-style: italic;">fictitious</span> zombies. After all, w</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">e are not meant to be zombie coddlers. Zombie Coddling would probably be detrimental to a characters health, and overall not a very exciting game...<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In case you haven't heard, Kym Platt and others have labeled Resident Evil 5 as anti-black/racist. Oh Kym, poor dear, you don't even realize that viewing the world through such a tiny parameter as race makes <span style="font-style: italic;">YOU</span> a racist. Did we learn nothing from Ludacris' character in the movie Crash? He saw the whole world as racist and anti-black and then nearly ended up selling a van load of asians into slavery himself! Ah, the ouroboros and its infinite hunger!<br /><br />The more we polarize ourselves as one race or another, the more racism and hate we breed. You can take pride in your racial identity without the paranoid schizophrenic 'they're out to get me' sickness. I meet people every day of every color that do.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In conclusion, killing zombies of any color bears no reflection on how we feel towards the living</span>.<br /><br />Drakeyula<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Image from http://www.worth1000.com/entries/113500/113841lQTP_w.jpg</span><br /></span>Gen Cleverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958115830685002923noreply@blogger.com0