By my own confession I am but empty sound: kenophon

...and therefore to be avoided, shun by people of the book

or people who pretend to follow the book

or people who follow the book ARBITRARILY as most do

pick here and choose there as I see fit or like it

I am common unhallowed and vulgar

there we go since you people are definitely NOT Christians 

by any remote meaning of the term, 

you are now arbitrary people of the book

so go ahead and judge me arbitrarily 

as your so called master told you NOT TO DO.

I am quite certain that a Supreme Being not invented by fallible idiots will be kind to me if there is such a Being, one who knows the hearts and the minds.

It would seem that most white washed hypocrites seem to forget that attribute.

confusing light with the forgotten darkness of their own hearts.

sometimes I like to leave the original Greek, especially when it is words we do understand in English

Act 17:18  Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Act 17:18  Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this spermologue, this word seeder say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange demons: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

1Ti 6:20  O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

1Ti 6:20  O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and kenophonia, empty sounds , and antitheses of pseudonymous knowledge

profane  = accessible, lawful to be trodden, unhallowed, common, public place

2Ti 2:16  But shun profane and vaine bablings, for they will increase vnto more vngodlinesse.

Which also strongly suggests that I am not to be placarded, harassed, threatened, burned at the stake or killed 

by self-righteous batshit crazy morons either

your own god says stay the fuck away from me you morons. FOAD!

these are not my rules so I can babble all I want I am free and don't give me your sad and inbred retarded "have fun in hell"  you hateful bunch of hypocrites since your own god you never listen to says I do not rejoice in the death of a sinner at LEAST TWICE.

Eze 18:32  For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Eze 33:11  Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

And you want to choose and pick abominations well pick them all not only one of them.

there are at least 176 of them

A lobster is an ABOMINATION.

Lev 11:10  And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

Lev 11:11  They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

Every graven plastic plaster gold or wood idolatrous image is an ABOMINATION!

Deu 7:25  The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

and so many more..that choosing and picking on gays is really looking for a speck with a beam in your self-righteous, holier than thou, hypocritical inbred eye.

Mat 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Mat 5:19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

And also don't forget to get rid of all of your riches for that is a constant order and reminder no ifs or buts.

Jas 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

~YES! YOU! YOU!YOU! NOT THEM! YOU!~
YOU are whosoever! YOU are guilty of all.

Luk 18:10  Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

Luk 18:11  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Luk 18:12  I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Luk 18:13  And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

Luk 18:14  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Yep your master was totally right and he was talking to YOU! YOU! YOU!

Mat 23:4  For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Mat 23:5  But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

Mat 23:6  And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Mat 23:7  And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Mat 23:8  But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

Mat 23:9  And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Mat 23:10  Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

Mat 23:11  But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Rick Warren and Obama, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson all the same.

Mat 23:13  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Mat 23:14  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Mat 23:16  Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Mat 23:17  Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Mat 23:18  And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

Mat 23:19  Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Mat 23:20  Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

Mat 23:21  And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

Mat 23:22  And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

Mat 23:23  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Mat 23:24  Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Mat 23:25  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Mat 23:26  Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Mat 23:27  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Mat 23:28  Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Mat 23:29  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Mat 23:30  And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Mat 23:31  Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Mat 23:32  Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Mat 23:33  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Mat 23:34  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

Mat 23:35  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Mat 23:36  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Mat 23:37  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Mat 23:38  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Mat 23:39  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Hypocrites! Hypocrites! Hypocrites! Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
blind guides,

 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within
ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves!

Plea Bargains and Interests

The latest additions on my list of Words I Hate.

 Game theory has been used to analyze the plea bargaining decision.  

Game Theory FFS! 

GAME FUCKING THEORY vs JUSTICE!

what does game theory have to do with justice at all?

The theoretical work based on the prisoner's dilemma is one reason that, in many countries, plea bargaining is forbidden

Two men are arrested, but the police do not possess enough information for a conviction. Following the separation of the two men, the police offer both a similar deal—if one testifies against his partner (defects/betrays), and the other remains silent (cooperates/assists), the betrayer goes free and the cooperator receives the full one-year sentence. If both remain silent, both are sentenced to only one month in jail for a minor charge. If each 'rats out' the other, each receives a three-month sentence. Each prisoner must choose either to betray or remain silent; the decision of each is kept quiet. What should they do?

The theoretical conclusion of PD is one reason why, in many countries, plea bargaining is forbidden. Often, precisely the PD scenario applies: it is in the interest of both suspects to confess and testify against the other prisoner/suspect, even if each is innocent of the alleged crime.

The prisoner's dilemma is a canonical example of a game, analyzed in game theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interest to do so.

WTF happened to the interest of truth and justice and fairness and all that is right?

Buried under a mother lode of Ca$h to start with.

Sgt. Wuterich and OJ are but the tip of the iceberg in this mother pile of shit justice.

Here is that unholy word, "Intere$t$"
again so often heard today usually right next to American,
American Intere$t$ - also usually equivalent to
Blood and murders 

with not one care for the sanctity of life.

I mean in a jungle there is no sanctity of life really but among the human species it is somewhat foolishly expected, even desired.

What is it with the Bohemian Dreaming crap anyway?

Truth, Justice, Beauty, Love 

and all other impossible Dreams?

Why does one keep expecting the unexpectable, hoping for the "unhopable"?

They do say that madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

We are but monkeys with higher delusions that's all:

 
Dreams to be busted, 

Truths to be annihilated, 

Hopes to be crushed 

Thirst (for justice) to just die from

and Visions to be blinded by.

In game theory, Nash equilibrium (named after John Forbes Nash, who proposed it) is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only his own strategy 

So basically we get our "concept" of "justice" from a paranoid schizophrenic coldly playing with numbers.  

The same maths that were applied here too

Way to go Human Race!

Faiths, Beliefs, and Mythologies

Born in 1955 in a catholic bastion of Quebec just before the quiet revolution and before the Vatican II was a very very interesting time.  I remember the eeriness of May as the month of Mary with its lilac smell and clouds of dandelions seeds floating in the air like magic.  Me dressed in a nice black robe with 200 small buttons and a sparkling white starched surplus as we called it, the enchanting smell of church incense that I would inhale hungrily like a euphoric drug to my memory.  Choir Boy at 5 or 6, up before dawn and great friend with the "bedeau" who unlocked the church door for me at 5 AM.  Memorised my Confiteor and all my Dominus Vobiscums et Spiriti Tuos. Loved the sound of Tantum  Ergo too.

Then Vatican II, the quiet revolution and the approaching adolescence kind of muddled everything for a long time.  Searched for answers, dropped out of school, started to work, started to drink and a long descent into drugs of all kinds.  Four to five years of lucky survivals and near death experiences and a little bit of help from 2 ladies: Fate and Fortune.

Within those five years my search for answers included many books of the red collection from the French editor J'ai lu. I remember a lot of Lobsang Rampa and Bridey Murphy and Edgar Cayce among others.

Then at the young age of 21, a strange and memorable experience.  

An encounter with a protestant, evangelical, fundamentalist POV that changed my life an awful lot for a long time still influencing me to this day.  That dementing 2 months though ended me up in a very funny place that ALSO would affect my life tremendously to this day.

15 years and many crossroads later I came out of this strange cult a changed man like one comes out of jail or a mental institution.

The religious leftovers lingered on for quite some time on and off, mixed with unknown and countless episodes of manias and mainly depressions.

The religious aspects remained for a short time after my great move to the end of the world where I got baptised for the FOURTH time.

Now in the last five years or so and probably much more so since my heart surgery, Feb 16th 2005, I have been "sinking" (some would say) into atheism and almost nihilism, or as I prefer to call it agnosticism still, some would also say RETURNING to atheism.

The past 2 years of meandering, questioning and screaming for answers should be quite obvious in my blogs even though I have a feeling this blog comes out stronger than I really am.  The bottom line might say that I am still seeking, even wishing and hoping too.

I would certainly like to think that it is not all over Mr. Rover when the fat lady sings that something somehow keeps going beside my progeniture but that might only be some primitive narcissistic urge like a survival instinct beyond survival. 

 I would also like that something somehow hereafter to be GOOOOOODDDDDD, in fact much better than good, more than sublime: a literal out of this world experience that would blow my no more existing mind off.

But looking at the world, at religion and its mass hysteria I can't help but wonder.

There is no answer in any book.  They are way too human and outright stupid at times.
Hell! Someone might as well call Shakespeare canonical with all its drama and passions and utter stupidity. In fact much wisdom can be found too in good old Shakes I am sure and some sort of hermeneutical interpretation as well.

There is no empirical proof of anything.
Who said one's death is NOT empirical to begin with.

There is no rational proof since reason is not such a big deal in this temporal matter.

Proof of the contrary seems to be more evident considering the utter stupidity of all the religious rationalisation that goes out there.  One would almost want our utter stupidity to die with us and our memories to be at the level of a monkey's memories.

If there was a way (a truth and a life) I would certainly like to find it.

for the longest time I believed in

I am THE way THE truth and THE life 

but I now realised he never TALKED with me and WALKED with me 

as all those misleading emotional hymns like to PRETEND

...just as I am and all that Jazz

...those he "ABIDES' with are usually fucking deluded psychos 

so wherewithal  is young man supposed to go?

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free
Yeah Right Still waiiiiiiiitinnnnnng!

Blessed are those who thirst for righteousness ...the waiting game again...the problem with the things not seen you see is that they are almost always psychotic...might as well say blessed are the schizos for they shall see gods, and hear them too.

So undisputable Fact number one is this world is fucked, weird, crazy and demented.

Undisputable Fact number two 

this world has no fucking idea, not a single clue that it IS
fucked, weird, crazy and demented.

All other facts are also fucked, weird, crazy and demented.

Therefore 42 is definitely not the answer.  :)

Summary

           1) this world is fucked, weird, crazy and demented.

           2) this world has no fucking idea, not a single clue that it IS
                fucked, weird, crazy and demented.

          3) all other facts are also fucked, weird, crazy and demented.

∴      42 is definitely not the answer. 

Let us Reason or When the Sick are Sickening

Come now  and let us reason together

says YHWH

Yeah! Sure! Right! Come ON! Let US reason! Let's go. Show your face and let's talk.

What are YOU waiting for?

Lost your tongue or something?

Where ARE Ya? Woohoo? Anybody home?

Hullo Hullo Hullo? Is there Anybody in there?

Just nod if you can hear me.

Is there anyone at HOME?

If ye be willing and obedient ???? yeah easy to say when you're God and all good and all loving and such but the fact is that we ARE NOT OBEDIENT to God. We OBEY MEN AND THEIR CRUEL WHIMSICAL rules: Each using fallacies and manipulation techniques, some sort of religious spy war holding a big invisible stick they pretend to possess. 

The whole thing is mind boggling.  Where IS that big God and why can't he talk to us and why does he keep using hopeless triple assholes to do his dirty work?

So now you see willingness and obedience have been a little bit cauterised since no man on earth and I mean no man deserves it and has certainly not earned it.

The same goes with parents too, respect is earned and deserved not beaten into you or some other cruel treatment or betrayal of your unholy choice.

But countless parents do not deserve respect and honour and what not and killing or hurting the child is just an ugly threat of self righteous religious ignorant chauvinistic hypocrites. 
Same goes with wives and husbands relationship to all of you medieval cavemen out there. 
Such a poor excuse to blame god for your own ugliness.

Plus I would add that a parent does not have the right to impose his lies on you.

Before you throw the book at me you should first do what it says and throw it at yourselves blind guides and hypocrites with beams in your eyes the size of a concrete stadium.

How can anyone pretend to be loving while preaching an angry god and taking this holy wrath on themselves is beyond me. 
Hypocrites, Hypocrites and Hypocrites and the worst kind of sinners at that too.

I'll tell you what the sin against the Spirit/Wind is,

the sin against the spirit/wind is SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS:

to lift your holy hypocritical nose on others and pretend that you are so much better than them because somehow you saw the fucking light, the light that allows you to think you are better than whores and publicans.  Quite simple indeed you are UNSAVABLE because you don't know or acknowledge that you are fucking SICK. You are totally unaware of it therefore there is no salvation or doctor or saviour that can help you, you are too good for them. You are FUCKED for life, Cursed forever.

They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

My old story:  a fool who is a fool and knows he is a fool is a lesser fool than a fool who is a fool and doesn't know he is a fool. 

Many mental illnesses are closely related to (and strangely freakishly twisted by) religiosity.

Psychos and Schizos are often beyond help because they hear the voices and they believe the voices and YOU don't understand because you don't hear "Them".  Passive-Aggressive are probably in that lot too.

Passive-Aggressive go back a long long time:

Pro 30:11  There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Pro 30:12  There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Pro 30:13  There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Pro 30:14  There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

They condemn themselves with their own words. Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.

You're gonna hate me BUT

You're gonna say I'm crazy BUT

I don't want to offend you BUT...

BUT BUT BUT I WILL! I WILL SHOVE MY OPINION DOWN YOUR FUCKING THROAT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, WHETHER IT IS RUDE CRUEL OR OFFENSIVE OR NOT,  AND YOU WILL GET IT WITH A SMILE AND A NOT SO CHARMING IGNORANCE WHILE I PRETEND TO BE INNOCENT and ACT LIKE A DRAMA QUEEN TRYING TO CLAIM THAT OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE THE PROBLEM AND NOT READY TO RECEIVE MY UNINVITED AND UNWELCOMED ENLIGHTENMENT!~ AND IF YOU THROW MY VERY WORDS BACK AT ME WITH THE FULL CONTEXT I WILL GET HUFFED AND PUFFED AND ALL OFFENDED AND SAY THAT MY OWN WORDS (WITH CONTEXT) WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.  SO DON'T TRY FUCKING WINNING WITH ME NOW.

Don't we all know someone like that now?

abrasive negativist – including sadistic features

Social undermining is the opposite of social support. For example, in the context of the workplace, it refers to intentional offenses aimed at destroying another's favorable reputation, their ability to accomplish their work, or their ability to build and maintain positive relationships.^[1]

You want quote the fucking book at me? 
Come on! 
Fuck with the best, Die with the rest.

I can quote the fucking book too and my quoting is just as good is not much better and much more informed and IN CONTEXT than yours. For one thing it is a generally fucked up genocidal murderous book at best even though it does have its good parts but if most assholes who quote it would live by it, there would be (thank fuck for that) very few assholes left as they would all stone and burn each other to death like holy Juda wanting to burn the whore who bore his child the great great great... grand mother of Jesus. 

And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar;

And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth;

and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

Funny how Matthew insists on only mentioning the whores and pagan females in Jesus lineage.

Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isa 1:19  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Isa 1:20  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.   

Paraphrase:

Do as I tell you to do or else

 I WILL FUCK YOU UP BIG TIME MOTHERFUCKER.

make that a very LONNNNNNNNG TIME NOW.

Used today by religion and politics and cops and soldiers and teachers EVERYWHERE.

I am so tired of hearing the sword this and the sword that.

What is the obsession with these religious nuts and the fucking sword?

Don't they know that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword?

When why does an all powerful, omnipotent might god need a sword or an idiot with it?

Can't he just open the ground up? send a bolt of lightning? take our breath away (that HE GIVES apparently) give us a heart attack with his voice from heaven thundering I TOLD YOU SO MOFO? Why use an ignorant moron with a piece of steel in his hand doing what some greedy bastard is telling him to do? Why? Why? Why?

It would be so fucking easy for him to glorify himself and make us shit our pants and bow down and worship? 


But Nooooooooooooooo! 


Some MORON always has to do his work  and then

some MORON has to claim his work too 
like some redneck assholes claiming that
the Japanese Tsunami is GOD's payback for Pearl Harbour??? 
DUH FUCKING DUH! 
What will be your payback then for Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dryden and what not? 

There is a pattern here: Pearl Harbour- 911:

"enemy" kills 3,000

USA pays back 100 times all the time it kills 300,000

here take that

and if you pay us back the same with 30,000,000 
well we will just kill 3,000,000,000 of yours 
ooops wait something is wrong here?

It would seem to me that the expression:

Power Corrupts and 
ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY

does not apply to the Almighty all POWERful YHWH

Moses could not handle it. 
He hit the motherfucking rock twice and that was the end of him.

That's it! No Promised Land for you Buster. You did it all but sorry you miss the mark with that one mistake. In fact you're lucky I didn't kill you earlier when you did not mutilate your male child. 

I try and I try and I try and I keep trying but I find a whimsical impossible God so hard to fathom, to comprehend. Are you sure he is a male? :)

Genocide stories and incest and pettiness and conniving between wives and servants and this is how it all started? Well FUCK ME.  Hardening of hearts whatever the fuck that is and 400 years of slavery and magic tricks just to show off? Who's your daddy now eh?

And that "Chosen" nation and now its children that lost all sense and purpose since the days of Constantine and now are trying to flog a dead horse and revive a stinking corpse full of worms and with no life and spirit left in him whatsoever.  A corpse divided in a thousand putrefied pieces.

Yet there are a few pearls in this stinking pile of shit book just like there are in any other wanna be canon I suppose but the stench is unbearable, the blood thirst and ignorance and Germinal riots and foaming at the mouth.  Totally Sick.

Isa 1:21  How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Isa 1:22  Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

Isa 1:23  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Job 15:2  Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 15:3  Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Job 11:2  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 11:3  Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Again LOST in Translation, the word "Vain" here is RUACH in Hebrew the same word translated 227 times in the OT as Spirit and the rest of the 379 times altogether it is translated Wind(s) (93) and breath 27 also blast, air, storm, whirlwind and some more on this line so basically HOT AIR, SHIT STORM and breath so without interpretation of biased men the verse could either read

Should a wise man utter spiritual knowledge?

Or all the other verses could also read the wind of god , the breath of god the holy wind or holy breath if you prefer and then one can still say that there is no life without spirit since we all know there is no life without AIR, without breath and it could also be said that

ALL "SPIRITUAL" things are hot air, east wind, shit storm and nothing really but breath and a mix of oxygen and nitrogen that keeps an awful lot of animal beings alive.

That is an awful lot of fights and deaths and blood over something that is free to all, well so far.

Bottom line there is NO REASONING whatsoever with most humans but even less with religious maniacs as for reasoning with god it sure seems like a long monologue so far.

Take what you want and leave what you don't need.

Globalisation is Cauterisation.

Globalisation is Cauterisation of our Conscience

or what is left of it anyway.

We need a cauterisation of our tender conscience to buy an Xbox or a pair of Nike or a hundred other things that already clutter our house and our life.  

One can't simply asks a thousand questions
(and more importantly get the right answer)
every time one buys anything down to your Friday arvo fish and chips. 

Enough said just look around you now and start counting and maybe feeling and more importantly QUESTIONING.

Ironically enough the Thayer Greek Lexicon defines kauteriazo as

" To MARK by BRANDING"

Just Do It! :) What good little cattle you are!

Searing is sometimes necessary to stop the bleeding but bleeding in the first place is not a good start or a good state.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/xbox-workers-threaten-mass-suicide-report-20120111-1pudj.html

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/nike-supplier-to-pay-us1-million-to-shortchanged-workers-20120113-1py4p.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176727/

1Ti 4:2  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

They are all gone astray

A point skeptics often make is that

when talking about new or alternative therapies that are not supported by good clinical trial evidence is that lower-level evidence, such as theoretical justifications, anecdotes, and pre-clinical research like in vitro studies and animal model testing, can only be suggestive, never reliable proof of safety or efficacy. 

A point I often make is that

so-called legit science is not any better. How many times have we heard of falsified, bent, twisted, bought and sold clinical trials done over and over again and chosen and picked to get the answer Big Money WANTS to get?

It is exactly the same between theists, atheists and antitheists.  I highly respect a man like Hume or Sagan who although very intelligent has the humility to admit that ( and it is more than often the only admission available in anything and everything) we don't know enough.  More than often this admission will come from a professed atheist or at least agnostic.  Believers are usually either too emotional, too ignorant and too proud to admit doubts and questions of any kind or that they might be wrong and entirely deluded.

On a side note, speaking of names and epithets and little ganging of all sorts why don't we ever hear of masculinists? :) To defend us from the extreme right over bearing feminists, to restore some sort of balance? Ducks and runs now.

Exhausting indeed to check out everybody's POV.  I guess the only guru I will ever have from now on is myself and even then that guru is not very reliable I tell you.  But they all go astray, all of them. To paraphrase the KJV here, they all are corrupt, all, they all have done shit works, there is not one that does any good. None understand fuck all. They have all gone their own way, taken the wrong turn. 

They are ALL ABSOLUTELY FULL OF SHIT, ALL OF 'EM. 

None of  'em doeth good, no, not one 
and especially those who called themselves my people.
Those who don't are not any better.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Psa 14:2  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

Psa 14:3  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

I was beginning to like some of Hitchens  works and words but then again he was all over the place, left, right and centre and extreme left and extreme right too so he was BOUND to have it right somewhere at some time for a millisecond.  He was deadly wrong on war of course and sucking up to the powers that be at one time and full of himself too but aren't we all? He and I and You and Me and All of us. Dawkins never really got in my boat either, 50 pages of him is all I could handle, he wasn't going anywhere, wasn't proving anything and basically is just afraid that his wife will kick him out if he believes, quite some intellectuals we have in the 21st century I tell you.  Speaking of here is another mind blowing "POLL" just to prove that humans polls are just that, HUMAN! Frail and irrational and emotional and twisted and corrupted and cheated and bought and as always absolutely full of shit. I mean look at this!!! FFS!

If this is the best man can produce we are in deep deep shit.

Maybe pigs and monkeys should have a list too.

C'est la vie say the old folks it goes to show you never can tell.

If only I'd listen to myself now!
I wouldn't be here with my own bullshit
annoying the hell out of everyone else's bullshit right? :)

and the wife says I've been telling HIM that for 11 years now :)

Sufficient unto the day is the bullshit thereof.

Is a choice made out of sheer ignorance still a choice?

Is a choice deeply engrained in our genetics still a choice?

Do we really make ALL of our so-called "choices"?

I DON'T THINK SO.

As far as I am concerned, Sartre is full of shit, Atheists are full of shit, Believers are so full of shit and I am the chief of the full of shit myself.  It only gets sad when our fullofshitness literally kills people when we are so full of our fullofshitness that we established ourselves judge, jury and executioner too. Because bottom line we are ALL little judges and juries we are all little fucking Napoleons and Popes and Final Authority on any subject.

My final authority says that if there is a God he can come down and talk to me.  He is Big and Strong and OmniOmniOm he can defend himself.  All them holy books and hermeneutics are nothing but bullshit from bullshitters.  Puny men trying to explain, excuse, execute a Humongous God's needs and words. He created the fucking world he can take care of himself. What pride and hubris to think that he would leave a fucking monkey to do his mighty work.  There are billions of bullshitters out there and all of them more righteous or self-righteous rather than his neighbour/brother.

Religion definitely is an invention of power freaks and I hate to admit that Nietzsche was unto something when he said that it was all about power.

It would seem to me that for someone to establish himself as a guru/messiah of any kind he would have to in part at least to walk the walk not only talk the talk. 

Why do I expect my messiah now to be a non-smoker, moderate drinker, non self-destructive AND SKINNY punk? Because I was trained that way?

Why would I expect a nutrition guru to die at 80 something from a surfing accident and not from a heart attack at 40?

Anyway I love Politics and Philosophy and Mythology and Religion talk and thoughts and I also love some science but in all matters bullshit and bullshitters are and will always remain and my job in life is to stir that shit for the sheer fun and pleasure of it and force a few to THINK beyond their intellectual capacities or just to think period.

What else can one do? There will never be an answer ever on this planet and our only personal answer in death and death alone so in the meanwhile let's raise the questions and eat and drink and be somewhat merry, as merry as an eagle surrounded by turkeys can be. If it won't be merry at least it is not ready to be out of food and ammos anytime soon anyway.

It is some sort of madness and hubris of my own I suppose to see the world around me and shake my head in despair in my vain search for intelligent life down here.  I walk in a shopping centre and all I see mostly is cattle, sheep without a shepherd some would say but that shepherd only wants to milk you, profit from you and then kill you and eat you.  Who wants to be a sheep or a cow or a pig anyway? how about one of the 50 billion chicken that get slaughtered every year (315 million this year alone and we're ONLY Jan 5th). Do they need a shepherd too or just a chicken man or some large corporation?

That's all for now folks. Sufficient unto the day is the bullshit thereof.