Raging on #44 - The commenting revolution.

This was a brilliant comment on the last post I did that was good enough for it's own post! You can read the original post here.

Religion - the accepted insanity. 

By SB

I can not, and will not ever be able to comprehend what some people can justify as "right". If you can murder, discriminate and hurt others in the name of an imaginary man who created the world and himself, then you must be smoking crack. It will never be clear to we atheists, what can possibly make somebody believe a nonsense story about walking on water or a story about a man who lived in a whale. Honestly? And to use this story to justify immoral acts, and to 'kick out' somebody who tried to make a stand..... What can we say? What can we do, when a large fraction of the world is delusional?


If you call yourself a Christian how can you say that you don't tolerate prejudice, hate, inequality, when the very foundations of christianity (the bible) features so many incidents including these elements?

I dont understand it. But I do however, understand, that when people such as Peter Kennedy are "kicked out" they must be doing something good (see the SMH story HERE) There is NO evidence for religion, but you can't talk to some of these people when their minds are so corrupted because they won't see reasoning - and that's a fact!


I'm not going to try and change your opinion, because there will simply be no changing mine.

Thanks.

SB

Angry Rant #44: So you want to be a good person?

Dismissed because he promoted "Equality" and the Church can't have that! 

Go!

You might have seen that story that went buzzing around a little earlier today about that Catholic Priest, Father Peter Kennedy who was dismissed from the church back in 2009 for among other things, feeling that men and women should be equal. The other things include, calling the story of Jesus a "fable" and blessing same-sex marriage.

So here is person who believes that everyone, no matter what sex you are or race, says people should be equal. So why do other idiot Christians like Fred Nile (Christian Version of muslim extremist) get away with saying that Islam is immoral when their own religion does the same thing? Then, they cut those out of the picture that say otherwise?

I wonder how much longer it will take for these people to finally wake up to themselves and truly see the world through their own eyes and not distorted by the words of some misogynistic, contradictory, anti-democratic story written by a bunch of power-hungry men who wanted more control.

Kennedy makes a pretty valid point however - if God is some all powerful being, can do everything and knows how we think, then why did he CHOOSE not to save the lives of innocent children? If all life is sacred, then why did he allow kids to be shot up and left to bleed to death under his so called control?

If you believe in God and believe that some "all powerful being" controls your life, then you, just to put it bluntly, are a fool. Your mind has been played with - seeing the world to you must be like trying to focus on your hand underwater - I feel sorry for you - and I stand by this.

Any group, person, being or whatever other collective that promotes inequality and violence in return for "salvation" is morally wrong. Religion in all of its many shapes and forms is just simply wrong. You want to be good person? Become an atheist and treat everyone with respect and equality that they deserve.

...and lets not forget that Anders Behring Breivik, the man who murdered 76 people over the weekend in Norway was also a Christian and did it because hates Islam.


Here's a little parting quote from Max Born to get you thinking (Kudos to MC): 

   "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all evil in this world"

Try and change my opinion - I dare you just to have go.

Dont believe the lies add spin.

JM

Angry Rant #43: We can't swim today, the water's too wet.

With the anti-smoking lobby’s jumping for joy over their recent victories in the smoking industry and the failure that will be the plain packaging, a  “voluntary industry scheme” by the Alcohol industry will from now on put warning labels on their products.

What company in their right mind would try to actively discourage you from consuming their product? They’re trying to make people drink healthier? That’s what it’s being spun as it’s not in any way trying to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed in this country because that would be impossible. If anything, it will encourage younger people to drink.

Hmmmmmm

The keyword that keeps hitting me in the face is “voluntary”. I mean who is sucking whose dick here?  What possible motives would the alcohol industry in Australia have behind such a venture, because the labels will only affect local beers, so your binge of Coronas with lemon at the end of the month will be untouched. It’s interesting to note also that when it comes to the topic of smoking, there have been no studies proving that warning labels actually stop people from doing it. In fact, it has encouraged cheaper, more toxic cigarette imports to be sold in the country because it’s easier to produce the plain packaging. According to a study released by Deloitte, 1 in 12 cigarettes is a cheap import and isn’t subject to the strict guidelines that we have here. When it comes to the warning label on alcohol itself, what person would even read it? And why? It can’t possibly be targeted at adults because it won’t stop us from drinking and it can’t be targeted at children because they don’t read anything! It’s failure in its most pure form.

As opposed to pure WIN.

Perhaps the dictatorship that runs this country is to blame. Anti-smoking lobbies “pressured” the government into the new cigarette laws, but who’s to say that it wasn’t a push from some fascist Nazi? What if this push is being backed by some power behind the curtain? There’s already a filter in place on our internet that stops us viewing whatever websites the government CHOOSES and doesn’t tell us what they are - Google “Australian Internet Filter” and see how many results you get that are relevant.

We live in a society that is ripping itself a part through censorship and fear. A walk through Sydney will show you this with its many, many security cameras at every intersection tracking our every move and watching people latch onto their bags when they pass a group of “Muslims” because they think they’re going to blow you up or beat you up an take all of your belongings.

It’s mostly due to constant media and political spin, it seems that we are not able to care for ourselves so someone must do it for us. Someone must tell us that speeding is dangerous so revenue raising and accident-causing cameras can be installed. Someone has to tell us sitting down, breathing or simply existing will give us cancer and that apparently thinking too much can actually give you wrinkles.

Ahe ha! Ahe ha! 

So what does the future hold for this country controlled by power-hungry elites who are only focused on their own personal gain? Your guess is as good as mine - maybe blogs like this will be taken down and the people behind the prosecuted for their beliefs.

Don’t believe the lies and spin.

JM

Angry Rant #42: Default! Default! Default!

So who is your preferred Prime Minister?

That's the big question that's been going around today and has been answered by yet another pole.  Abbott the Idiot Christian or the pigeon-like, backstabbing Julia bitch-face?

And the results are in - if you don't know, I've added the picture of the winner below.

Although Julia had knife handy, it wasn't enough
to stop the rampaging Christian

Preferred Prime Minister? What were these people smoking? And WHO the hell were they? What types of people voted? Were they people who shamelessly supported the liberal party? That's the only way something as awful as this could actually happen.


"The Survey" is never a true representation of what people think. A select group of people can not truly express the viewpoint of an entire nation.


Take this analogy for example: You have a box full of 50 blue marbles and 50 red marbles. You ask 3 people to each pull 10 marbles out. By freak chance, 30 red marbles are pulled out - so does this mean that the box only contains red marbles? Of course not - it just means that none of the blue marbles where chosen.

WAIT!! I LOST COUNT!

Whenever I see a news poll or a survey that works in the same way, I can't help but scrutinize how the result came to be. You never hear of the type of person who voted or what their current situation is, or under what conditions they voted in. I don't believe that Australian's prefer Tony Abbott as Prime Minister.

Who's to say they didn't just keep refreshing the browser?
Maybe that select group of people just hate him less and wouldn't necessarily vote for him compared TO the pigeon lady, but no, stupid mainstream media seems to think that Australians prefer Tony Abbott as Prime Minister.



I didn't vote in that poll, did you? 

Although I'd vote in this one.

What's even worse is the kind of influence a poll like this (not the girls above you pervert) can have. If people think that Abbott and the Liberals will win the next election because everyone A.K.A  that "tiny group of people in the poll" says so, what's to stop them? That's exactly what happened with the NSW State Elections - people hated on the Kristina Keneally and Labor Party and people just listened and voted (not that that was a bad thing, but I'm just using it to illustrate my point).

What kind of Democracy offers you only two real options when voting?

Don't believe the lies and spin

JM

Angry Rant #41: Next stop, North Korea.

So it's done. Telstra and Optus, the two largest Telcos in Australia will start blanketing us in censorship next month. Firstly starting with Child Pornography, then will probably escalate to censor such things such as euthanasia and abortion because our extremist Christian leaders feel that because they believe in God, they feel it up to them to tell the masses what's good and what's bad - in fact, they think it's their God-given right to tell us how to think.

Censorship in Australia WILL NOT WORK.

How can these people, who aren't even elected by the masses, get into power and start spitting ideas around like this? The fuck head in question is this prick:

Stephen Conroy - One person I'd be happy to hear that he died from heart failure.

The internet "filter" and the censorship minister in charge are trying to prevent Children from accessing what he feels is "unwanted" on the internet. That's his view. He thinks that we are all children and that we need someone to take care of our internet privileges. He seems to think that all Australians are sadistic psychos who watch violent films and are addicted to child porn.

If you're not insulted by this, then something is wrong with you.

The elephant in the room here that isn't being discussed is the fact that Stephen Conroy is a Christian. A devout, Roman Catholic, I-believe-in-Jesus-and-everything-else-that-the-misogynistic-hated-filled-bible tells-me, Christian.

...And let's not forget, they called this GOOD Friday. 

Lets get one thing straight. I don't give care what you believe in. I couldn't less. I means so little to me that I even find it even hard to write. Believe in Jesus, believe in God, or Buddha, or Mohammed or little green aliens who came down and gave power to humanity - whatever you want. Just keep that shit yourselves.

We have seen what happens when religious people get into power - just look at Iran. These religious fascists get control of things, in the case, the entire internet, and can block things that they and their archaic religion don't believe in or whatever isn't in their best interests.

When it comes to the censor itself, it's an even greater fail than he is. I've been running about my soon-to-be censored internet, getting the opinions of tech gurus and I've gathered the following points:

1. The filter will block URLs only and not websites - change the URL and the site becomes free to view.
2. We won't know what's being filtered (unless someone from Hungry Beast goes undercover.)
3. The criteria for which websites will be compared to, will also be kept a secret.
4. Discussions about P2P filtering is also under way
5. Internet speed will plummet.
6. Telstra, Optus and two major ISPs (most likely TPG and iiNet) will start the roll out so this will effect essentially everyone and there is nothing at this stage that can be done to stop them from doing it.

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson is a journalist for the Courier Mail in Brisbane who raged about the censorship here. In the last piece of the article she uses the term "slippery slope" in regards to the filter being implemented - meaning there is a possibility for it to slide in the general direction of China. Obviously, this if far off, but now that the hard part for them is over, they can censor whatever they want, whenever they can, without anyone ever having to know!

Australia - now a part of the Totalitarian society.

I also found another piece written by Duncan Riley from The Inquisitr that's well worth the read and goes into much more detail, which you can check out here.

Democracy? I'd spit in the face of any politician who thinks this is democratic.
Fuck this government and fuck their money-driven Christian views 

Viva la revolution.

Don't believe the lies and spin. 

JM

Angry Rant #40: Someone's all shaken up...

I had a conversation with someone close to me a few days ago that really got me thinking. It was about the recent earthquake in Christchurch which happened a couple of days ago, in fact it was two small 4.5 and 5 magnitude quakes. The conversation was pretty minimal, but the words that were used by that person were these ones "...something's happening."

Read it again. Something's happening.

OH SHIT!

Actually, what happened was an earthquake in a part of the world that always has earthquakes. Continental and Oceanic plates caress each other until one has had enough and punches the other brutally in the face. This is what happened when the big one hit Christchurch in February and it happened with the Japanese Quake and Tsunami, with Haiti, with Chile or anywhere else on this planet where people live in these hot zones, and someone now thinks we're all going to die because the extreme natural disasters keep on occurring.

Just in this month of June alone, there has been 53 recorded earthquakes with a magnitude of 3 and up. That's 14 single earthquakes just this week and 954 earthquakes since the start of this year.

Years gone by, it has been exactly the same.

So, "something's happening" is it? Is it? What is it?

The sky...

Under out feet isn't solid mass - currents of molten rock continually move and spin causing the relatively thin tectonic plates to shift and volcanoes to unleash their rage - that's what happened with Mt Vesuvius and with Krakatoa and they went crazy hundreds of fucking years ago and killed everyone.

So what's changed significantly enough for someone to say that "something's happening"? Two things:

1. Population growth
2. A mainstream media that feeds off fear.
3. Christian Extremists/2012 bullshit

Now of course, the end of the world hasn't just been predicted by these two groups, but every other religious group on this planet that is hellbent on seeing it be destroyed.  When I talk about mainstream media, I'm sure that if there was a camera crew and some wanker that looked like Peter Overton present when Mt Vesuvius blew it's face off, no doubt that they would use it to spread fear and anxiety and churn out "End of the World" nonsense faster than you can say 'money'.

I also couldn't help but notice the slight religious connotation that the "...something's happening" line had. So are you trying to say that God is behind it? Is he going to punish us for all our sins? I guess it's tough to argue with someone who believes that Noah built an ark and recused two of every animal...

Ha! Two of every animal....

Don't believe the lies and spin.
JM

Angry Rant #39: Shock, Horror.

Top news story of the week - "Dedicated Soldier, Husband and Father, dies fighting for his mates in a country that he shouldn't be in fighting for a cause that I don't even think he knows about after being told that if he doesn't, we'll be left screwed when we get invaded by North Korea."

Royally Screwed.

It's a different view, I'll give you that much, but it's not a view that's ever discussed. Wayne Swan even came out in the statement to the media and said "we're staying", in reference to the death of another soldier - but they died because they were told to go and fight. The Government are the ones who promote joining the army as something that is noble and patriotic when really it's just giving people a license to kill anything wearing a Turban so that the big older brother, *cough* THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA *cough* will keep us on their good side.

As terrible as war is, death is something that naturally comes with it. You can't have a war without someone dying - it's illogical - unless it's a flame war. Those are brutally non-lethal and rob you of your dignity.

Why do I get the sense that people feel surprised by the death of another soldier? The toll for US troops who have died exceeds our number of 29 by a little over 1200. If anything, the Australian troops are lucky there haven't been more. I usually hear this response though - "they're on a peace keeping mission" a.k.a the nice way to say we're killing people, but because we're better equipped with our enemy, we shouldn't expect our soldiers to die.

Peace keeping mission eh?

Peace Keeping - now with added Machine Guns!

If you're a soldier, in a war where thousands of people are being killed, and bullets flying around everywhere and IEDs at every intersection, someone will, unfortunately, eventually bite the bullet.

If Australian soldiers are still there in following months and our awful full of shit Prime Minister is seen "crying because of it" sit back and think that the solider died because YOU sent them there and YOU used manipulative recruitment tactics to make said solider join and fight for your mysterious cause.

More lies, more spin... *sigh*

JM