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Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Feminism is not your expectation. — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:55:24 +0000

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By: RadFemHedonist

RadFemHedonist — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:36:00 +0000

I’m an materialist reductionist strong atheist strong adeist and individualist, individualism is great. Simply, I am a born person, with full individual rights, I’ll enjoy doing stuff I have a right to do (like masturbating and eating chocolate and watching TV) I will ensure that mine and everyone else’s rights are recognised under law, I will try and help people out and enjoy music and art and literature, I will educate myself, I will spend time with my friends (homosapien and other animal species), I will focus on my art, animating the ectasies of human experience, I will not have children because I do not want them, I will exercise my right to abortion should I become pregnant, I will never violate the rights of others, I will have an enjoyable life.

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:00:09 +0000

I had a kitchen contractor who was certain that God helped her win free concert tickets by being the third caller on ClearChannel radio contests, he cared just that much that she be able to enjoy her leisure time without having to pay for it. Later on that same God would take a mild dislike to a couple of homos organizing a parade in New Orleans so heâ€™d sink the whole city.

By: hedonistic

hedonistic — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:52:28 +0000

the participants in this thread may be amused by what a friend sent to me the other day:

http://hedonisticpleasureseeker.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/sunday-school/

By: saltyC

saltyC — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:03:56 +0000

Hedonistic, I too invoke ancestor spirits to explain amazingly fortuitous events, it makes much more sense than yahweh.

Twisty, what’s even more mysterious is god spared the homo-est parts of New Orleans: the Bywater and Algiers, whose property value doubled or tripled after the storm.

By: hedonistic

hedonistic — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:47:43 +0000

Mar Iguana, I attribute those kinds of mysterious happenings to ancestor spririts, because who else in the spirit world would give a shit about my personal outcomes? I figure they’re either ancestor spirits or prankster gremlins (laugh).

By: shannon

shannon — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:12:33 +0000

Darleen,

I did not say that singing “Jesus Loves Me” is child abuse. My child sings “Jesus Loves Me.” I did not say religious teaching is child abuse. I said teaching CREATIONISM [and menat to imply in schools, as science]is child abuse. Oh person in the “judiciary” I am an educator and I think willfull miseducation very certainly OUGHT to be perceived by our society as abusive. Just like separate and unequal education of Black children in public schools ought to be perceived that way. Because it is. It’s also against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to deny children education.

Please to not “inflate” my language to stretch it to cover “Jesus Loves Me.” Don’t they have a word for that in the judiciary business?

By: Branjor

Branjor — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:54:13 +0000

How about this? The reason for your existence is to LIVE.

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:57:56 +0000

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

–From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)

I’ve had one too many unexplainable, “impossible” things happen to me in my very own, little personal life to believe there is no mystery involved in human existence.

That men have exploited metaphysics for their own sick power mongering by establishing woman-hating religions with their psycho, upstart, arbitrary old man gods is the ultimate evil of ignorance worship.

Here’s the mystery: The reason for your existence is to figure out the reason for your existence, knowing that, ultimately, you never can.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:05:55 +0000

‘Human mystery” my eye. Humans aren’t any more mysterious than a box of dirt. The only mystery is that we don’t commit suicide more often given that we clearly can’t cope with how utterly irrlevant we are. Hypotheses that we are not irrelevant cannot be proven, so we have to make up these elaborate systems whereby its OK to ditch common sense and rationality and just out and out lie, out of the blue, that there is a humanoid male deity in charge of everything and he loves me best. Last night on NPR I heard an interview with Mormon convert Gladys Knight (ex The Pips) who says she prays like the dickens before every show so God will help her hit her high notes. I had a kitchen contractor who was certain that God helped her win free concert tickets by being the third caller on ClearChannel radio contests, he cared just that much that she be able to enjoy her leisure time without having to pay for it. Later on that same God would take a mild dislike to a couple of homos organizing a parade in New Orleans so he’d sink the whole city. Or was that a different God? How many gods are there? Come ON.