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 #31: America? Fuck yeah!

Yes, after hearing about it so much today, I felt the need to get my rant on but in a more "filter out all the crap and get down into the real gritty side of things" kind of way. Like millions of other people today, I decided to take an extra long lunch to watch President Obama's "in your fucking face anti-war hippies" speech. I felt a little worried knowing that the US can just send in a special forces team and kill anyone, but I mean its Bin Laden right? We got him!?! Right??

Fuck Yeah!

If the reports are correct and nobody is pulling our dicks, then Bin Laden is very much dead, perhaps he even ended up looking like Hitler in Inglorious Basterds after he took a face-full of bullets.

But I got thinking, even though he was an islamic-extremist, psychotic nut-job, he wasn't prepared to die for his cause - why do you think he's been running and hiding all this time and vlogging when he can get the chance? The ones that US should be targeting are the ones who aren't afraid to die....

...and then we get the news that a 12-year-old boy in Afghanistan (click for story) blew himself up today, killing four people and wounding 12. If there was ever a person to be afraid it would have to be someone who is willing to kill themselves and everyone around them just to make some point. Bin Laden was nothing more than a coward who brainwashed people into killing themselves for some "just cause" based on....wait for it...

So with Bin Laden dead and all of America cheering because they finally received justice, I'll ask this one question - If 500 terrorists escaped from a prison in Southern Afghanistan last week and one extremist terrorist was killed this week, how many terrorists do you have left?

Seriously - 500 of them escaped. It actually made me laugh. Click here to read the story...

If Bin Laden was really killed by US troops how is being told to "be vigilant", in case of retaliation, actually winning? It's like shooting the Sheriff and partying, but a little voice in your head tells you to watch out for the Deputy.

"That was one very interesting analogy Angry Ranter."  

Well, I guess one dead Bin Laden is better than one alive one, but there's still a whole network of terrorists there who are just as influential - think of it like Steve Jobs and Apple. Sure he's the face of Apple, but the mastermind behind it all? Is he the one programming your Iphone or other apple related products? No. There's a whole team of people there doing all that for him. If Steve Jobs died today, I can guarantee you that the Iphone 36 will be released, as planned, next year.

But unfortunately there is one problem - there are no pictures/video footage of Bin Laden or of his "out to sea" burial, so is Obama just trying to get re-elected as The President after the "you weren't born here" assertion by Donald Trump or has he just had enough of the fighting and wanted a relevant excuse to leave? If so, then why does this guy, who tweeted the whole event, saying otherwise?

Sohaib Athar - check out his tweets here.

He's an IT consultant who happened to be around at the time when the Helicopters landed in Abbottobad and he tweeted that one of the helicopters was shot down - a far cry from Obama's "no Americans were hurt in the operation" spiel - and now he has 20,000 plus followers. 

Something smells fishy.

That's right little dude.

Let us wait until this plays out a little more. Everything is still a little bit hazy.

Don't believe the lies and spin. 

JM

Angry Rant #30: Will + Kate + News = Ugh.

If I was to ever marry Beyonce, I would personally make sure that the names of our children will be so utterly different from Will and Kate that it's scary.

Yeah, even Kang or Kudos would suffice.

Of course, I'm talking about the "royal wedding" bullshit that has latched itself onto commercial television much like the proverbial plague - or perhaps it's the other way around - perhaps typical mainstream commercial news stations, as awful as they are, have latched onto this wedding because of the sheer "glamour". I'm here asking "why"?

...and why Mars Bars now have caramel in them.

Like many things throughout history, if you give something enough time, it can essentially morph from something overly negtive into something overtly positive - take for example this wedding. A royal wedding.

Now take out ALL of the "glamour" and think about what it stands for. None of those people who are so called "royal" got into power because they were good people and wanted to change society - no! They were born into it. They were born with a silverspoon in their mouth. The powers during the time of King/Queen rule heavily taxed the people under their reign because they had more money, more power and had "God" behind them. So, somewhere along the line someone in this "royal" family was a big fucking bully who used scare tactics and capital punishment to get their way. It was also a system heavily based around "God" and how he supposedly chose them to rule. So not only does this prove that religion is a farce, but proves that it was used as a tool by the powerful to oppress the weak. You speak out of turn or look the wrong way - you were very publicly taken away and killed. If you were a peasant, you hated the monarchy.

Fast-forward to today and look at what we get? Swarms of media coverage, people lining the streets to catch a glimpse of the couple as they drive past in William's inherited '58 Bentley. People wave their flags as if they're proud that these people are better off than they are! This literally makes my fucking head spin.

...Like this guy's spinny-top thing

One thing that has changed, however, is who we hate. We still hate the power, but just a democratic version which is something I find very ironic. Now with all it's flaws, a democratic government is one I would prefer to live under compared to a god-fearing hierarchical system of control. Just think about all the things that I've talked about here and imagine what would have happened if I was this outspoken during the middle ages?

I would have been a head of the competition.

So. When you flick the TV on tonight and you see this royal wedding and awful shows like Today and Sunrise are plugging the living fuck out of it, just think to yourself "these people don't deserve this so why do they get to live in old castle with a price tag beyond any real number when according to Bono a child dies in Africa from starvation every time he snaps his fingers?"

Then stop fucking clicking!!

Might just avoid commercial television until all this crap is over...or until we hear about the next earthquake that supposedly has occurred because a bunch of Mayans a few thousand years ago said so... but mostly because they thought that drawing up a calendar for 6000 years was heaps of time to do stuff until they had to draw up the next one.  

Don't believe the lies and spin.

JM

Angry Rant #29: It's Eggs-traordinary

It's Easter! Better open your wallets kids!

No...seriously...open your damn wallet up and purchase an obscene amount of chocolate to point where you won't eat it until the same time next year because that's what big business wants you to do. But somehow this all ties into that Jesus fairytale that somehow always seems to appear in the news this time of the year.

Now from the perspective of a person who doesn't use or need religion I find this "Happy Easter" saying that I've been hearing over the past few days somewhat strange - Strange as in about 60% of the Australian population in the 2006 census, described themselves as Christian and for them being happy on a day when their messiah was brutally tortured seems strange. Of course I'm not taking into account how he supposedly "rose from the dead" because well... Christians still believe he was brutally tortured and somehow symbolically drinking his blood and eating him is their way of making it all better.

So why do Christians wish me a "Happy Easter" and why do people who aren't religious wish me a "Happy Easter" too? What the hell?

But here's a couple of questions for you - what does a symbolically cannibalistic group of people who munch on their saviour every Sunday with a Pope who was part of the Hitler Youth have to do with fluffy little bunnies?

Pictured: A fluffy and adorable little bunny

What do fluffy little bunnies have to do with dairy products?

And why am I being spoon fed this garbage about purchasing copious amounts of food that's saturated in sugar in a country deemed the fatest in the world with the leading cause of death being heart disease?

It's pretty obvious that the big players like Woolworths and Coles have just tapped into a thought stream here - that being when it's Easter, people HAVE to buy chocolate, pork, steak, potatoes, alcohol, petrol, bread, ham platters, fruit platters, milk, soy milk, tea, coffee, biscuits, nicely cut cubes of cheese, overly-expensive gluten-free foods, hot cross buns, disposible plates, and even cake that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine if you're into that sort of thing.

I hope Ethan was grateful. 

Hopefully, you've noticed where I'm coming from.

But after we've finished being 'good little consumers' this week, we jump straight into ANZAC Day where we honour our fallen soldiers by drinking ourselves blind and gambling - and don't forget all those other times throughout the year when the most cynical of us see things like Christmas and even something like Mother's Day used as another opportunity to empty our wallets because it has become a social norm and to challenge this wouldn't be expected or taken on lightly by mainstream society - The Daily Telegraph practically lives off that shit. 

But it end, it just comes down to you, reader. The social norm is something that is never challenged because if you do, you end up being ridiculed by people you know - and if you're known by the media - then the same thing happens on a much larger scale. People just sit back and watch the world around them buzz by without stopping for a second and asking themselves "what's that about?" (DD) and running scared when something changes.

Oh your God... he's going up the down escalator! 

If you want to waste money on a corporate holiday or celebrate old tales of misogyny, then buy all means, have yourself a great Easter. But if you looking to stand back for once and just look at situation from a different perspective, you might just find a much better alternative.

I started reading some real philosophical history by Epicurus and looked everywhere for this picture so I hope you enjoy it! 

Don't believe the lies and spin.

Angry Rant #25 and a 1/2: It's just a tribute.

Sitting on this over-cluttered train everyday exposes many people to different forms of music. I hear everthing from the lastest failings of some r&b/hip hop douchebag all the way to the likes of Zep and Priest.

No Snoopy Doopy Dog here.

However my problem lies with those that listen to r&b...loudly, on their phones...almost as if they are proclaiming to the world "Hey! I like r&b and everyone on this train should listen to it too"

Unfortunatley, listening to hip hip makes about as much sense as this picture does...

Or maybe this one too....

But yes, just keeping it brief till I've finished writing #26.

Don't believe the lies and spin.