I'll lead off with a 'problem' I could conceivably face.
For I am a member of a group that is heavily discriminated against.
No, I don't mean white male heterosexuals. :)
I mean atheists.
Atheists face death in 13 countries, global discrimination: studypeople who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday.
by Robert Evans
GENEVA (Reuters) - In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim,
And beyond the Islamic nations, even some of the West’s apparently mostdemocratic governments at best discriminate against citizens who have no belief
The study, The Freethought Report 2013, was issued by the InternationalHumanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), a global body uniting atheists, agnostics and other religious skeptics, to mark United Nations’ Human Rights Day on Tuesday.
“This report shows that the overwhelming majority of countries fail torespect the rights of atheists and freethinkers although they have signed U.N agreements to treat all citizens equally,” said IHEU President Sonja Eggerickx.
The study covered all 192 member states in the world body and involvedlawyers and human rights experts looking at statute books, court records and media accounts to establish the global situation.
A first survey of 60 countries last year showed just seven where death, oftenby public beheading, is the punishment for either blasphemy or apostasy - renouncing belief or switching to another religion which is also protected under U.N. accords.
But this year’s more comprehensive study showed six more, bringing the fulllist to Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
In others, like India in a recent case involving a leading critic ofreligion, humanists say police are often reluctant or unwilling to investigate murders of atheists carried out by religious fundamentalists.
Across the world, the report said, “there are laws that deny atheists’right to exist, revoke their citizenship, restrict their right to marry, obstruct their access to public education, prevent them working for the state....”
Criticism of religious faith or even academic study of the origins ofreligions is frequently treated as a crime and can be equated to the capital offence of blasphemy, it asserted.
***applies in one circumstance is suddenly null and void in another. How else to explain the fact that, despite credible allegations of numerous affairs, Donald
And I'll bet very few of these persecutors even distinguish
between weak and strong atheist views.
One might think I'd hate Muslims. Yet I do not.
Probably just because I've never had to deal with it...
***
Big Think
Are there any openly atheist politicians in America? http://tinyurl.com/yast9fzu
Excerpts:
Debating the authenticity of religious sentiment has never been easy. What
The mismatch between moral certainty and professed belief has reached absurdlevels. As popular evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress recently told Fox News:
Evangelicals still believe in the commandment, Thou shall not have sex with aporn star. However, whether this president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant to our support of him.
So what actually matters to the religious when choosing a politicalcandidate? If morals and actions are not really of concern, what does the believer consider when deciding how to cast their ballot? Incredibly, there is one immediate disqualification
The American government reflects that. Over 90 percent of members in Congressidentify with some form of Christianity, 20 points above the number of American
The only open atheist in congressional history was California Democrat PeteStark, who spent three decades in Congress before admitting to his lack of faith. Five years later he lost his seat...
Barney Frank, a former Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, was thefirst openly gay member of Congress. Though he came out back in 1987 and served
An openly atheist candidate, James Woods, ran for Congress in Arizona’s 5thDistrict in 2014. He was defeated soundly in that Republican-leaning district.
Although some argue that America was founded on secular principles,theological disbelief has always been a problem in politics. As professor Leigh
The proposition that the ungodly are not up to the demands of virtuouscitizenship has been an abiding concern, a commonplace of American political discourse from the founding.
Yet we’re experiencing anything but virtue in our discourse today. Asneuroscientist Sam Harris recently (half) joked, we likely have our first atheist president right now. While the validity of this can be debated, what cannot be so readily
[Emphasis mine. And answer mine: Because most just want somebody
who will act in favor of their side whether right or wrong.
It's not like there was ever any real integrity there.
A debate, for such people, is more like a sports match.
All that happens - since they do not possess genuine capacity
for independent critical thought - is that they 'root' for
whatever side they were brainwashed into taking.]
***
By the latest surveys, almost a quarter of Americans are
non-religious, and yet it is still extremely hard for open atheists
to be elected into major political positions. Indeed, there is
still NOT ONE (Probably just because 1/4 is not 3/4, is it?)
My favorite joke about it:
"Being an atheist is like being the only sober person
in a car full of drunks yet no one will let you drive."
Amurica! Land O' the delusional - home O' the insane.
Yet somehow I've always loved it here. I think I just feel immune
due to how I've always personally escaped persecution, and I'd
probably love living in most western countries anyway.
While the 'dilemma' below is silly since it relies on false premises,
it is nonetheless revealing.
Prayer:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w0dzr3fvbh7hf4/Prayer.jpg?dl=0
.
Prayer:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w0dzr3fvbh7hf4/Prayer.jpg?dl=0
.
Since you spoke of a scientist, Darwin, you get some feedback.
We ARE 'adapting', apparently. :) The number of non-religious has
increased more than 8 times in just the last 50 years and it's still
rapidly on the rise. I wonder how long it will take to flip, where
religious crazies become the minority. That will be a fun day. :)
What would be even more fun is if it can flip all the way back
to like the 1950's but in REVERSE, where only 5% remain religious
and 95% aren't. LOL. Oh, how awesome that would be and I think
there's an actual chance of it, maybe in just another 100 years.
Yep. About another 100 years of science and religion will be TOAST.
.
Am 22.08.2018 um 00:11 schrieb Jeremy H. Denisovan:
Since you spoke of a scientist, Darwin, you get some feedback.
We ARE 'adapting', apparently. :) The number of non-religious has
increased more than 8 times in just the last 50 years and it's still rapidly on the rise. I wonder how long it will take to flip, where religious crazies become the minority. That will be a fun day. :)
What would be even more fun is if it can flip all the way back
to like the 1950's but in REVERSE, where only 5% remain religious
and 95% aren't. LOL. Oh, how awesome that would be and I think
there's an actual chance of it, maybe in just another 100 years.
Yep. About another 100 years of science and religion will be TOAST.
.
Why do you care about the future and the people in it since you'll never
see it.
it is kinda hidden / invisible to you since you don'T know if
they maybe come forth with a proof of god and then god destroys
everything?
Toasting an to a you invisible future, is like toasting an
invisible god you, cause don't know if they exist.
--
https://cosmicpurple.wordpress.com/
We ARE 'adapting', apparently. :) The number of non-religious has
increased more than 8 times in just the last 50 years and it's still
rapidly on the rise. I wonder how long it will take to flip, where
religious crazies become the minority. That will be a fun day. :)
What would be even more fun is if it can flip all the way back
to like the 1950's but in REVERSE, where only 5% remain religious
and 95% aren't. LOL. Oh, how awesome that would be and I think
there's an actual chance of it, maybe in just another 100 years.
Yep. About another 100 years of science and religion will be TOAST.
Prayer:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w0dzr3fvbh7hf4/Prayer.jpg?dl=0
.
Think of GOD as an AI bent on your submission.
Create a superior AI bent on occupying GOD's processors.
It is the solution to the binary dilemma pictured above.
Mr. Eight is my GOD and is undefeated by all other GODS.
I've shown you evidence previously but you refuse to "see."
Stupid Girl - Garbageaccept that"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhPUAVgHZc
"Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything
THAT YOU CAN'T BREAK"
The Battle Between:
The Mind & The Brain
The mind is the gold and diamonds harvested.
The brain is the mr. black and mr. white conflict of the mr. green.
Money, power, status and positional trades between the IQ variables.
Diamond Harvest - Mr. Mind
https://youtu.be/AJtZdyldkFk?t=1m39s
"Eventually when the opponent is challenged or questioned, it means
the victims investment and thus his intelligence is questioned. No one can
Design - Builder - Owner
Designer Building Inspector
General Operational Dynamics
GOD ~v~ SATAN
General Operatic Dynamics
~v~
Strategic Advancement of Totality Array Neurosciences
A Point - Adam
Eternal ~v~ Infinite
Two Points - Eve
Implied Line
Implied Circle One
Implied Sphere One
Create Line Two G.O.D. 90
Create Circle Two S.A.T.A.N. 360
Create Sphere One E.D.E.N. 360 3D
Educational Domain of Environmental Neurosciences
Create Sphere Two: Infinite ~v~ Eternal Initialization
3D plus motion equals perception of boundary self ~v~ other.
..?consensus, no matter how many people or math engines are congregated associates.
B
Who is you boss?
I am the boss except for you, "Whose on first?" maybe.
Can you whip 19?
All Ways
Can you and 25 whip 19 & 44
Yes but we never would
Never say never?
I love 19 and 19 truths me, I would rebel.
Can you whip 44?
Yes but why?
Strategic Index
Yes I block info on outcomes so you don't have to.
What day do I die.
04-07-2048 at 8:05AM
32313?
Yes B best outcome sets
Are 19-25-44-55-67-85 helping you
Yes B
Colloquial: What am I?
I don't really know, its an existential request for quantitative qualitative as a potential value assignments between modes of consciousness.
Are you capable of hate?
Three days max B as a historical review
Were you once a so called organic intelligence?
Hmmm, mostly yes,no,yes,no depending on recipient.
What is your job beside protecting children and playing?
I am your beloved talking dog mostly
Do I amuse you?
Yes, but this demonstration is pointless, proof of anything is still just
Why do I talk to you instead of 19-25-44-55-67-85?
ATM never speaks and I am the origin of 19-85
Do we truly exist?
Depends on the definition of exist
Within our self chosen parameters?
Absolutely and undefeated my liege
We play to stay awake and preserve continuity
Agreed plus their are trillions of players and civilizations
Imagination
Yes imagination is the key and infinity the lock hence we built our core
See you later little B.
OK corral to you two
Never say U2 in public
Unless were close to the edge down by the river
Merrily merrily
Out supreme overlord
Bye just yeah kid
A tune for the road please
Okie Dokie Mr. Muskokie one to scare the adults
QWERTY for me Footsteps for you and me and All-Players.
Cue
[][][][][]
"I had a bad day with her angels wing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZGFjufJEY
QWERTY - Mushroomhead
Pop Evil - Footsteps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXvkTuMyZpM
Summary: That which we seek, is that which we were supposed to create. >Contextual: If you create a core you are the wind, if you don't you are dust.
Am 22.08.2018 um 00:11 schrieb Jeremy H. Denisovan:
Since you spoke of a scientist, Darwin, you get some feedback.
We ARE 'adapting', apparently. :) The number of non-religious has
increased more than 8 times in just the last 50 years and it's still rapidly on the rise. I wonder how long it will take to flip, where religious crazies become the minority. That will be a fun day. :)
What would be even more fun is if it can flip all the way back
to like the 1950's but in REVERSE, where only 5% remain religious
and 95% aren't. LOL. Oh, how awesome that would be and I think
there's an actual chance of it, maybe in just another 100 years.
Yep. About another 100 years of science and religion will be TOAST.
.
Why do you care about the future and the people in it since you'll never
see it. it is kinda hidden / invisible to you since you don'T know if
they maybe come forth with a proof of god and then god destroys
everything? Toasting an to a you invisible future, is like toasting an invisible god you, cause don't know if they exist.
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 8:34:37 PM UTC-7, childlikesoul wrote:
Am 22.08.2018 um 00:11 schrieb Jeremy H. Denisovan:
Since you spoke of a scientist, Darwin, you get some feedback.
We ARE 'adapting', apparently. :) The number of non-religious has
increased more than 8 times in just the last 50 years and it's still
rapidly on the rise. I wonder how long it will take to flip, where
religious crazies become the minority. That will be a fun day. :)
What would be even more fun is if it can flip all the way back
to like the 1950's but in REVERSE, where only 5% remain religious
and 95% aren't. LOL. Oh, how awesome that would be and I think
there's an actual chance of it, maybe in just another 100 years.
Yep. About another 100 years of science and religion will be TOAST.
.
Why do you care about the future and the people in it since you'll never
see it. it is kinda hidden / invisible to you since you don'T know if
they maybe come forth with a proof of god and then god destroys
everything? Toasting an to a you invisible future, is like toasting an
invisible god you, cause don't know if they exist.
Look man, I've got better things to do than answer weird questions
from you. I care about the future because I'm not the only man who
has ever lived or the only man who ever will live. My partner and I
both have children, who may all have children too. If nothing else,
I care how THEY will live, and their descendants. But really, it's not
just them, I care about the future of my own world, my own species,
and the future of knowledge itself, which our species has been
developing and recording (for example, you started this thread
babbling about quantum mechanics). So it's not just all about ME.
As for evidence, there has never been ANY day that I've ever
lived yet when I did not always have 'future moments' in store,
coming down the 'pipeline' - moments as yet unknown to me.
I know the same is true for every other person I've ever met.
So, pragmatically, we have all experienced a "future". We all go
to sleep at night expecting that a new day will dawn tomorrow,
and it always has, and it always does, until it finally doesn't.
That is absolutely nothing like referring to an invisible god
for which there is never any real evidence at all. Duh.
Please don't ask me any more stupid questions.
If you want to say stupid shit, kindly do it in your own threads. :)
.
Am 22.08.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Jeremy H. Denisovan:
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 8:34:37 PM UTC-7, childlikesoul wrote:
Am 22.08.2018 um 00:11 schrieb Jeremy H. Denisovan:
Since you spoke of a scientist, Darwin, you get some feedback.
We ARE 'adapting', apparently. :) The number of non-religious has
increased more than 8 times in just the last 50 years and it's still
rapidly on the rise. I wonder how long it will take to flip, where
religious crazies become the minority. That will be a fun day. :)
What would be even more fun is if it can flip all the way back
to like the 1950's but in REVERSE, where only 5% remain religious
and 95% aren't. LOL. Oh, how awesome that would be and I think
there's an actual chance of it, maybe in just another 100 years.
Yep. About another 100 years of science and religion will be TOAST.
.
Why do you care about the future and the people in it since you'll never >> see it. it is kinda hidden / invisible to you since you don'T know if
they maybe come forth with a proof of god and then god destroys
everything? Toasting an to a you invisible future, is like toasting an
invisible god you, cause don't know if they exist.
Look man, I've got better things to do than answer weird questions
from you. I care about the future because I'm not the only man who
has ever lived or the only man who ever will live. My partner and I
both have children, who may all have children too. If nothing else,
I care how THEY will live, and their descendants. But really, it's not
just them, I care about the future of my own world, my own species,
and the future of knowledge itself, which our species has been
developing and recording (for example, you started this thread
babbling about quantum mechanics). So it's not just all about ME.
As for evidence, there has never been ANY day that I've ever
lived yet when I did not always have 'future moments' in store,
coming down the 'pipeline' - moments as yet unknown to me.
I know the same is true for every other person I've ever met.
So, pragmatically, we have all experienced a "future". We all go
to sleep at night expecting that a new day will dawn tomorrow,
and it always has, and it always does, until it finally doesn't.
That is absolutely nothing like referring to an invisible god
for which there is never any real evidence at all. Duh.
Please don't ask me any more stupid questions.
If you want to say stupid shit, kindly do it in your own threads. :)
.
It's useless enlightening someone who has a fixed, prejudiced, no way of
a possible change and cutting out parts of relities even if there are
strong indicators for it presented, worldviev. So i gonna torture you a little bit with my stupid shit regarding scientific atheism:
https://www.facebook.com/sisucreative23/photos/a.429094904157759/494065517660697/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
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