On Thursday, June 25, 2009, legends died.
Good bye, Michael Jackson :( You thrilled us with your music and despite your scandals, you ARE the King of Pop. You've inspired and influenced so many young artists and dancers, its impossible to figure out just how far your reach is. R.I.P, sir. Rest in peace. :(
And Farrah Fawcett, one of the original Charlie's Angels. One of the original pin-ups on almost every pre-teen/teenagers' wall. Angels cry for you, Mizz Fawcett. Angels cry. :( R.I.P.
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Its been a long time since I've updated, but since I'm waiting for my laundry to finish, I guess I got some time. :P
Since I'm in HK and its 30-degrees-summer-weather now, plus 100% humidity, going out to Sai Kung to chill ON A BOAT is the best way to spend your weekend.
A few sundays ago, went out with a bunch of people to chill, but the forecast had called for storms plus thunder and lightning which isn't good at all if you're surrounded by water. It looked alright when we went out, but when we put the anchor down, the rain came down in torrents. And then came the thunder and lightning.
A few of us were foolhardy enough to decide to risk swimming, but then the guy who drove us out was telling us to come back in so we did... but we ain't afraid of no thunder!!! ... just the lightning. :P
In an hour though, it cleared up real well and the temperature went right back up. During the time that we were stuck inside the boat, everybody decided to start drinking like crazy. So we were all real ready to get into the water after, bwahaha. Except for me, of course. I'm weaksauce and all I wanted to do was wakeboard.
even girls in bikini couldn't distract me! :D
...
maybe they did a little bit, but wtf, I'm human!
All in all, good times :D
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I guess I should.
Okay, last night was fucking crazy.
As in, nothing crazy happened to me, but it was just crazy.
Melissa, Kevin and I went to this oyster bar that was pretty nice. The decor was tasteful (Had a mural of the Last Supper on the wall), a pretty nice oyster bar and a pretty good cold seafood platter. Their steak was alright, the drinks were alright and the dessert was good.
But.
The customers around WERE NOT.
I don't wanna be like 'I hate mainlanders', but seriously, last night, I *HATE* mainlanders.
Last night, the group of four sitting beside me were THE most uncivilized, rude, loud, annoying, rowdy and dirty motherfuckers I have EVER sat beside.
They drank as much wine as possible, they spoke loudly in Mandarin and then participated in murdering English. They got up and knocked my fucking drink over. Then they proceeded to barf everywhere and on themselves. And then sleep in their own filth.
CLASS. Now that is a class act I just CANNOT follow.
Why did the place not kick their dumbasses out? Cuz they were business partners of the establishment. By the end of the night, only the manager of the place was catering to them cuz the staff were just like 'fuck this shit' and sat back to watch these fucking idiots try to out-do each other in stupidity.
Youtube videos and pictures will follow.
But yeah, overall, it was funtimes with Melissa and Kevin. Hahaha. We had good talks and I guess last night will be a night to remember. Wow. Those mainlanders sure set the bar WAY HIGH.
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Watching Mendol. Or in Japanese, メン☆ドル.
BWaahahaha!!!
This J-Drama series is absolute comedy GOLD. Its cheesy as hell and badly acted, but I haven't laughed out loud in a long time.
http://www.mysoju.com/mendolikemen-idol/
Check out the link above. It has all the episodes up for you to peruse.
The premise of this story?
The story revolves around three ordinary girls named Asahi, Nami, and Hinata who are aiming to become idols, but they repeatedly fail in their auditions. One day, they witness a serious crime, and they are forced to flee from the culprits. Fortunately, they are saved by a producer who is willing to let them debut, but they have to hide their true identities and dress up as boys instead.
Hilarity ensues. :D
Watch it and talk to me. later gators!
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Read the following article below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html
Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug?
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| Date: | 2009-02-15 02:50 |
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Once, twice.
All it takes is two times
and I'm convinced of the smoothness of
this touch
rough
soft, oh so gentle
dragging out that quickening need
slowly, oh so slowly
and I miss it
as it stabs me through and through
thorough, fatal
terminally gone and
wouldn't wish for it to never have been
Fresh and pungent, old but like new
wounded and wanting nothing but more
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There Is No God: Part VIII!
A Conversation Between an Atheist, a Catholic and a Christian
I don't quite remember the full conversation but I fully remember that I rocked so much. lol.
I was the atheist in the conversation and was representing the godless.
The Christian was representing for the G-O-D.
And the Catholic was basically sitting at the fork in the road and willing to listen to the both of us argue and give points for both sides.
So basically, the Christian and I were fighting for the Catholic's SOULLL!!!!
It was a while ago, so I'm slightly fuzzy on the details but I remember one point in our conversation quite well where I said god was frickin' evil and we're all more moral than god. And my ability to use the bible to prove it was awesome.
I talked about Abraham and his son Isaac and Jephthah and his daughter. For those who don't know the obscure Judges excerpt about Jephthah, here it is Judges 11:30-40
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. 32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. 36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. 37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. 38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, 40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
So in this excerpt summarized(cuz I know y'all don't read), Jephthah kills his daughter cuz he promised God if he won this battle he'd kill the first thing that comes to greet him when he gets home, right? So the Christian argues that this excerpt is just a METAPHOR or some other shit like how it didn't MEAN to kill her but to dedicate her to the lord forever.
Okay. Before I didn't have the excerpt right in front of me and he said I had read it wrong so I said 'well, I'm not absolutely certain if she was killed, but i'm PRETTY sure' but he was like 'I'm 100% SURE that he didn't kill his daughter'. I hope he went back home after I had this conversation with him and checked his bible. And remembered the point I brought up which SUPPOSED his interpretation that the bible wasn't really saying what I thought it said.
First off. WTF. Jephthah clearly DOES IT. I WIN. He says he promised God something and he was going to do it. End of story. There is no other interpretation. This passage is about how if you make a promise to god, you DO IT. And even if it is a metaphor for keeping vestal, it's kinda shitty cuz how come the daughter still had to go off and shut up her vagina and Isaac got saved by an angel and NOTHING saves Jephthah's daughter?
And lets get into Isaac now.
What kinda grisly test of loyalty is this? Killing your only son so that you can prove to God that you will follow his word blindly and love him more than anything? Why does GOD of all people need proof when he is supposedly all-knowing? Why would he even ASK you to sacrifice your son? He KNOWS what you are going to do. You didn't have to tell Abraham to do it cuz as God, YOU KNEW HE WOULD. What kind of loving God would put their people through such emotional pain? Isn't that evil?
And I pointed that out. And the Christian said we couldn't judge God by our moral standards cuz we don't understand him so I told him THEN WHY ARE WE LISTENING TO AND WORSHIPPING HIM?! IF WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND HIS MORALS AND WE OBVIOUSLY WOULDN'T DO WHAT GOD WOULD DO, WE DON'T GET OUR MORALITY FROM GOD THEN, BECAUSE *OBVIOUSLY* WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO A GOOD BULK OF WHAT HE'S SAYING RIGHT NOW CUZ WE THINK IT'S MORALLY WRONG!!! GOD IS AN EVIL MOTHERFUCKER!
Slavery is wrong yet god CLEARLY states in laws that he gave moses on how to keep slaves. If I was an all-POWERFUL god, I would KNOW that was wrong. I wouldn't BEND to the times and traditions of MY people. I would TELL them that's wrong! Stoning a woman to death for adultery? We don't do that now cuz we know it's WRONG. Yet God COMMANDS it. If I was an all-knowing god, I would KNOW my people can't keep it in their pants! Damn, not even god's own priests can keep it in their pants, so WTF?!
If I was an all-LOVING god, then I would be able to forgive my fucking first creations for being CHILDREN and not understanding what was right or wrong and eating some fucking fruit.
The Christian continued on that line, how we can't know what God thinks and we can't understand him completely so I asked him "Then why do you think your interpretation of his words, that the bible written by mortal men, is right? Even if it was inspired by God, how could we POSSIBLY understand? What if we've misunderstood COMPLETELY?"
So the Christian shuts the hell up.
And I asked him did he think unbaptized good people who didn't know God and unbaptized babies went to hell? And he said they went to purgatory. Actually read up on this, it's limbo. I made the same mistake too and referred to limbo as purgatory. Limbo is where babies that weren't baptized go.
Know what happened to limbo? The Catholic pope declared there's no such thing any more. How can you say the bible hasn't been influenced by mortal men when apparently, we keep changing it?
And then he said he was Christian, not Catholic and I pointed out how that was a GREAT example of how we've managed to re-interpret the bible to suit our moral needs because a group of people thought their interpretation was better than the original one. The one supposedly passed down from God from the beginning. Yet the bible is a piece of literature that has been edited and re-edited, parts taken out, parts added in, this Frankenstein of myths put together to rule our lives.
After all this, by the way, I found out that both the Catholic and the Christian I've been talking to have NOT READ THE BIBLE COVER TO COVER, while I as an atheist, have. SEVERAL TIMES. I guess that's why I'm an atheist. I went through the whole book and saw it for the bullshit it was, while those that are believers pick and choose the stories that they like.
Why do people not read this book that their entire faith is based on? Why don't they read it more critically and decide whether the beliefs these books put forth for you are relevant and true or if they should be shelved alongside the Greek myths, Norse Gods and King Arthur?
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Since I did Thomas Aquinas, I might as well bring up Mr. Blaise Pascal.
Pascal's Wager
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is ... you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked. Which will you choose then? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.
The Wager explained simply, is this: Pascal assumes to possibilities. Possibility A is that there is a God and Heaven (aka infinite reward) while the other possibility, Possibility B, is that there is no God and no Heaven. He wagers it is better to be a believer than an atheist because to believe in God, if the possibility is A, then the infinite reward belongs to the believer and the atheist is cast in hell for all eternity. Possibility B, both believer and atheist lose nothing.
Can you refute this wager?
I point out first that you can't just 'believe' because at the end there's a reward. Nobody can just drop everything and say they 'believe' because of this wager and if they do, I don't think God would be rewarding this believer. To be good, to believe in God so as to achieve this infinite reward?
Is that not slightly immoral? Should we not be doing good instead of just believing that there is a God and giving this egotistical asshole a great big handjob? Shouldn't we do good because we want to do good and not because it's pleasing some almight deity in the sky? Shouldn't we be doing good for the sake of being good and for the sake of community harmony?
And besides, you can't just BELIEVE in something. If I believe there is no God and all the proof points to there being no God and this wager tells me to wager that there is a god... I could only PRETEND that there is a God because my core beliefs are that there is no God. You're asking me to change my beliefs? Beliefs can't change over night because you're betting something will happen.
Next, why are we believing in the God of the Judeo-Christian mythologies? Why not apply this wager to other gods? I mean, one step further, instead of believing in the Judeo-Christian God, why not stick with the Norse Gods? Valhalla is awesome! :D
And yes, I'm not trying at all. It's like... telling people the sky is blue when they keep saying it's purple. It's like knocking your head against a brick wall. Trying to stop the sun from rising. Trying to tell idiots who insist that the grass is red when it is really green.
I'm also sorta almost out of steam cuz I've been kicking ass recently when it came to people's arguments for their religious beliefs. Satisfaction does that to you. Makes you lazy. Some of their arguments, for your pleasure, will be posted up in the next installment! It's awesome! :D
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Just for you Jono...
Quinquae Viae
The Five Ways or Five Proofs, or, as I would like to call them: 5 servings of illogical fallacy-ridden bullshit or Proof that Thomas Aquinas was on crack or the Five Things that proves Thomas Aquinas Needs to Have His Masters' Degree Taken Back.
- 1. Argument from motion:
a. Some things are in motion
b. All things in motion were put into motion by another
c. Nothing can be the cause of its own movement
d. We cannot have an infinite regression of movers
e. There must be a first mover
f. The first mover is God
- 2. Argument from causality
a. There is cause and effect
b. Nothing can cause itself
c. We cannot have an infinite regression of causes
e. There must be a first cause
f. The first cause is God
- 3. Argument from existence
a. Some things exist, some do not.
b. Things that exist must have obtained their existence from a prior thing
c. We cannot have an infinite regression of prior existing things
d. There must be a thing that necessarily exists first, to cause to exist all other things
e. This thing is God
- 4. Argument from perfection
a. Things have varying degrees of attributes, such as goodness, or nobility
b. That things can be "more" or "less" those attributes (more good, more noble) implies that there exists a maximal quantity of that attribute (most good, most noble) and that there exists a thing that embodies that maximal quantity.
c. The thing that is maximal in an attribute is the cause of all others that contain that attribute (The hottest thing is the cause of all other hot things)
d. In regards to goodness, there must be a thing that is maximally good.
e. This maximally good thing is God
- 5. Argument from intent
a. All things act toward an end
b. Things cannot act toward an end without guiding intelligence
c. There must exist an intelligent being that guides the acts of natural things
d. This being is God
Now lets look at the first three bullet points. The three arguments are pretty much saying THE SAME THING. It's like giving three examples of the same thing. They are all Cause and Effect issues.
Basically, the first three arguments is this in a nutshell: There's something so before that there must be something so the first something is God. But before God there is nothing.
WTF. How the hell did this man end up at this conclusion? The first thing is God? Why can't the first thing be a panda? Or me? And why can't there be something before God?
Hey guys, remember when you were a kid and people told you God made the universe and then you asked "Well who made God?" and people told you to "STFU!"? Didn't that piss you off? Cuz it sure as hell pissed me off when no-one could answer that question.
The first three arguments use inductive reasoning, which is basically saying that that asshole is making generalizations. Let me give you three examples of generalizations:
1. I am lazy. I am asian. Therefore, all asians are lazy.
2. I am a smartass. I wear glasses. All people who wear glasses are smartasses.
3. Thomas Aquinas is a dumb asshole. Thomas believes the Quinquae Viae proves the existence of God. All dumb assholes believe in the existence of God.
The third one is actually a correct generalization. Ahahaha. I'm joking! :D Wait. No I'm not. Wait... maybe.
Lets look at Argument #4: argument from perfection.
First thing he does wrong that we can see: he uses values like nobility, goodness, evil, etc. These are values that we cannot measure because it is different for so many people across history and across cultures. What might be evil for one culture at one time and place might be morally wrong to another culture such as polygamy. Now, we find that morally wrong since people say that marriage is between one MAN and one WOMAN (marriage = two consenting adults in Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain) even though the bible was pretty alright with Abraham getting his harem on.
Another example? Slavery. Nowadays, we understand slavery is bad while in the bible way back when, it was pretty alright by God who also taught his people how to mark their slaves and how to treat them.
Argument 5... do I even have to get into this? Aquinas offers no reason why all things are acting towards a specific 'best result'. And he also assumes all things are heading towards a 'best result'. Begging the question, dude.
And if we take into account his first argument, that there is a first cause and there are effects going on forever, then there is no best result because that would mean an end.
Go to the websites below for a more comprehensive look at Quinquae Viae:
http://groups.google.com/group/Atheism-vs-Christianity/web/thomas-aquinas-five-fallacies
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/aquinas.html
P.S. Sorry this isn't the best piece I've done on 'There Is No God', but hey, when all you have is bullshit to work with... well, you know how it is.
P.P.S. BTW, it's like 2am. If I don't make sense, it's because of that.
P.P.P.S. I hate Thomas Aquinas.
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Me as God: A Play
Okay, okay, so here's my impression of God, okay? :D Watch me go!
friend: dude, dude dudedudedudedude. Dude.
me: what?
friend: I got a problem.
me: what's up.
friend: I killed someone. Man. I shouldn't have done that. I wanna tell you I feel really really bad about it.
me: you really feel bad about it?
friend: yeah dude. Real bad. Can you forgive me?
me: Yo. Do you love me and believe in my magical awesomeness powers?
friend: TOTALLY. Totally. I'll kill anyone who doesn't.
me: Dude. High five. [me and friend high-five]
friend: Forgiven?
me: Totally forgiven. Oh, out of curiosity, why did you kill this person?
friend: They made fun of me cuz I was bald.
me: MAN. Why'd you even worry? Nobody makes fun of my friends like that! Shiiiit. I woulda killed them FOR you. I woulda used my skillz to send bears to eat them! THEN, I'm gonna send their souls to the basement of my house to get tortured for ALL ETERNITY!
friend: YOU DA WOMAN.
me: That's right. Remember it or I'MASENDYOUTOHELLTOO!!!
friend: Totally worship you dude, totally.
[friend leaves. Lackey enters.]
lackey: Dudedudedude!
me: Whaaaat?
lackey: Check it out, we found this whole TOWN that's worshipping some OTHER person and saying THEY'RE better than YOU.
me: ...I'm kinda REAL angry right now.
lackey: Yeah.
me: K. Get the gang together. Tell them they gotta go there and kill EVERYONE. Don't let none of those assholes survive. Kill all the men and the boys and the boy-babies... but you know... I know how my people work, I understand y'all got 'needs'.
lackey: bowchickabowwow!
me: EXACTLY. Keep all the young hotties to yourself. If they pregnant, you gotta kill'em though. We don't need them sluts who've been around either. Keep the virgins only, a'ight and do what you will with them. I'ma harvest all them assholes' souls and put'em in my basement of torture after you guys have killed'em.
lackey: Word.
me: To your mother! Oh, waitwaitwaitwaitwait. Before you leave, tell me how Job's doing.
lackey: Oh, Job? Your number one fan?
me: Yeah, I let my enemies have him for a while. He still love me?
lackey: Dude, they burned down his house, killed his children, his wives, his flock of sheep, razed his lands and now he's a beggar on the street with sores all over his body and one of his last remaining wives' like 'Just curse your God and be done with it!' and he's like 'STFU, woman, what you know?!'
me: Dude. Job. Is awesome.
lackey: You gonna pick him outta the hole he's in now?
me: After this. I think my sons wanna talk to me bout something. Go on, git! You got some murderin' and rapings ta do, man!
[lackey leaves and my two sons arrive]
me: boysboysboys! What's going on?
son 1: Nuthin.
son 2: Mom, I read bro's thoughts and he thinks you're NOT AWESOME. And that you're just making up your powers and you're a heartless bitch!
son 1: You're such a tattle-tale, Jesus!
me: ...that. IS. NOT. COOL.
son 1: Sorry, mom.
me: FUCK YOU! You're going to hell too! Guards!
son 1: BUT I SAID I WAS SORRY! YOU FORGIVE EVERYTHING RIGHT?!
me: THAT'S THE ONLY THING I DON'T FORGIVE! NOT BELIEVIN' IN MY AWESOMENESS IS THE ONLY UNFORGIVABLE SIN! SON, YOU COMMITTED 'THOUGHT-CRIME'! YOU'RE NOT EVEN *SUPPOSED* TO QUESTION MY POWERS IN YOUR HEAD FOR A *SECOND*! YOU GOIN' STRAIGHT TO THE BASEMENT FOR *ALL ETERNITY*!!!!!!!!
son 1: NOOO!!!! [Gets tossed into the basement of torture by guards]
son 2: Serves you right, biotch.
me: Now. Seems like a lotta people got a problem with me even though I made them and all.
son 2: Mom, you can see in the future... why didn't you create people like... you know, not questioning you? And maybe if you didn't put that apple tree in the garden or make that snake... or ya know, if you healed amputee victims and gave 'em back their missing limbs and actually LISTEN to your voice answering machine which has like, A GAZILLION, infinite number of prayers for you to listen to... And maybe if you made more public appearances to reputable people instead of hick shepherds--
me: You questioning me, boy?
son 2: No, ma'am. S'just suggestions.
me: Well, shaddup. I just got a good idea. I'ma send you, boy.
son 2: me?
me: Yeah. You. You gonna go there, preach to 'em and die horribly on a cross for EVERYONE'S transgressions against me!
son 2: Um... why don't you just... you know, FORGIVE them? And mom, you're sorta... drunk on blood again...
me: What you say, boy? Need me to slap you with my back-hand?
son 2: No, no ma'am.
me: Anyways, you ain't gonna die, boy, you're a god TOO! You're ME!
son 2: ...hm... you know, this deal ain't bad. You know, suffer for... maybe a day or two. Then get risen up. And everybody loves you for it even though you don't do a damn thing! Ahaha! Mom, you're awesome!
me: Hey, works for me! That's the secret, son: Let other people THINK you're doing stuff when you're doing jack-all and not sacrificing NUTHIN' for them IDIOTS! Now, get going and do what I say! My will be done, fool!
[end.]
Now, think about this little play I just wrote. If someone killed your mother or father then went to some guy and they were like "I have the power to forgive you and since you're sorry, I forgive you!", what would you do? Would you think that, "Hey, what right does this random stranger have to forgive this guy who committed sins against ME and MY family? Shouldn't this murderer be asking ME for forgiveness? What power does he have to forgive?"
Favoritism: What right does god have to send bears after people for making fun of his friends? So they made fun of this guy for being bald or crazy. Get thicker skin. Or better yet, turn the other cheek. What is the G-O-D in the sky trying to tell us? He's saying "Do what I say, not what I do." Fucking hypocrite.
Testing your Faith: god just LETS Job get tossed to the wolves and wants his worst enemy to test this guy who loves him. Job loses EVERYTHING in the process. No imagine if you lost EVERYTHING right now. If god gave it all back to you 10-fold, would you be happier? Would that wash away the pain you suffered of watching your home burn to the ground, watching your multitude of children die, your wives die or leave you, your wealth reduced to nothing? If I was your best friend and you trusted me whole-heartedly and to test your trust in me, I allowed your child to be killed and then when you passed the test, I let you have sex and magically made sure you got two more afterwards, does this make up for how I allowed your child to be killed?
Sending your children to hell: Would you do that? I admit I got this idea offa 'The Atheist Experience' show, and I just want everyone to think about it. So God created all of us and we're his children, right? So we do something wrong and he sends us to hell for all eternity. It's like that guy Josef Fritzl in Austria who locked his daughter up in the basement and raped her for DECADES. That was her hell. That was what she had to look forward to. Would you do that to your child? Subject them to hell after you've created them? For not loving you? For THINKING about not loving you? If you would, then you are a monster. If you think the christian god is still a loving and forgiving god, and what he does is just, then I dunno. I guess people believe crazy things. Like me, I don't believe that if there was a god, an all-loving, all-powerful, all-forgiving god, that there would even BE a hell.
I'm not even going to get into the last part of my 'play'. Can someone please explain to me how the god that numerous religions are based on is a GOOD god? And not just plain evil?
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Walk your dogs, people of Hong Kong. Put them on a leash, muzzle them if they need to be, but WALK THEM.
Don't buy a baby carriage for your dog and cart him around in it. He's not a human baby. He's a dog. His stubby ass legs are made for walking. Don't NOT let him play with other dogs (unless they or your dog plays too rough).
Don't let him yip and yap all day in the house or let him continue to yip and yap and snap at strangers on the streets cuz that stranger might get a twitch in her leg and kick your yappy dog.
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Straighten up your damn priorities.
Think about it. What do you need? What do you want? What is your ultimate goal? Why are you doing what you are doing?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm trying to selfishly be as happy as possible while trying to make sure people are not too affected in a negative way by my pursuit of happiness. Of course, I realize that its near impossible to do something and have EVERYONE happy with what you've done. So I have a balance. This is my goal in life.
I keep in mind that I only have one life to live. With what I know about life, I know that death is inevitable. I am mortal, I am an animal, and we have no such thing inside of us as romantic as a soul, even though I like the thought of a 'soul'. We die with our bodies because our brain, the source of our knowledge, the control center of our being; dies when our body is either damaged beyond repair or when our body decays with old age.
I'm pretty sure there is no re-do and there is no resurrection, no god, no afterlife. Death is the cessation of being and I will die along with all my goals, hopes, dreams, loves and memories. I am UNBELIEVABLY important to the very fabric of reality and yet I am absolutely insignificant in the greater picture. Whether or not I am within the time stream will be grossly important and yet not matter one tiny bit.
In the time I have, I will try to live my life to the fullest.
I have family and friends all over the world who love me. I worry very little, I play hard, I bruise, I bleed, I feel alive because I know I will die and every breath I take is painful and beautiful.
I'm pretty happy. :D
And I just wanna rub it in because I can. BWHAHAHAHA!!!
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| Date: | 2008-10-14 10:35 |
| Subject: | 2 Dreams |
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First dream I had on Sunday night. I dream all my teeth were falling out! It started with my canines first, then my molars in the back. It basically felt like when the dentist took out my back tooth for a root canal and I could feel the hole there. So in the dream, I was freaking out.
Then next night, I dreamt that I was on a field trip and everybody had to make something with these tree branches that looked like bones and I made a spear. It was basically just a branch sharpened on one end and mine was the crappiest show of creativity anybody had ever seen. There were mountains in the background and there were HUGE bears loping around. One was almost the size of the mountain and he sorta camoflauged real well against the mountain cuz trees and plants were growing on his fur. Then I saw this huge bear running for our village so I showed off my spear and threw it at the bear. It like, grazed its fur but didn't hurt it and only got its attention.
Then, the bear turned into Cerberus. The three headed guard dog of the underworld. It was pulling a sleigh along with four stags or something and on the sleigh was the god of death, straight outta greek mythology and he was coming right at me! Two of Cerberus' heads were watching where they were going while the middle one kept its sights on me. So before the dog reached me, I got down on one knee in a sorta 'oh crap, sorry I threw a spear at your dog' gesture.
Then the dog started licking me and wagging its tail and the god of the dead kept trying to rein the dog back but to no avail.
then I woke up.
What did I learn from these dreams? I need to stop doing crack.
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ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH!: Jesus myth VS. _______
In this corner, we have the saaaaaviour of the world. He is the smiter of the wicked, the friend of the poor! Performing miracles such as turning water to wine, healing the sick and raaaaaising of the dead, get ready to welcome your LORD AND SAVIOUR... JESUS. H. CHRIST!!!
And in the other corner for this match, we have a surprise guest! He's big, he's Greek, and he's here to set you on FIRE! This lean, mean, fighting machine was chained for THOUSANDS of years on top of a mountain for giving humanity FIRE! Punished for gifting humanity with this divine element, not only was he chained up there for what seemed like an eternity, oh no. Zeus sent an eagle to come by everyday to eat our hero's liver, which would magically regrow overnight so it could be eaten again the next day! That's right, you guessed it folks! Give it up for PROMETHEUSSSSS!!!!!
This little passage is just to illustrate to you, how much BETTER some other mythical characters are compared to Jesus.
Really, Jesus was nailed to a cross and died and was resurrected after three days? Easy stuff compared to being chained to a rock and having an eagle tear out your liver everyday for thousands and thousands of years before Hercules comes and kills the stupid bird. And really, WTF, Jesus DIES for us but, not really? That's no sacrifice at all.
Now lets go on with other mythical characters:
Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion also known as the Goddess of Mercy. There are many legends about her, and one of the most prominent ones was that she was about to cross over to Heaven when she heard the cries of the suffering. She turned around vowing to help and never to leave until all suffering had ended no matter how long it took. There was another one where she CHOPPED OFF HER ARMS AND SCOOPED OUT HER EYES!!! to make a medicine for her father who wanted to kill her.
QUETZALCOATL of Aztec legends. In most traditions, he opposed human sacrifice, and that was saying a lot since the ancient Aztecs liked them some human sacrifices! Mmm-mmm! And really, he was better than the God of the old testament who required Abraham to kill his son. Yes, I know he didn't do it. But come on. A feathered serpent who said 'Um, yeah. I don't eat human. And I'd rather you not give me any, thankyouverymuch!'', or a god who says to you 'prove that you love me by killing your son! AHHHH!!!!'
By the way, QUETZALCOATL was also born of a virgin birth.
Osiris, one of the oldest gods in history (yes, even older than the Judeo-Christian God!), was the redeemer ad merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife. He was sealed in a coffin by his brother, Set, and thrown into the Nile. Then his wife Isis found his coffin, ressurected him so he could impregnate her, died again and was cut up into 14 pieces by his brother Set. The Isis found him, put him back together and he was ressurected again. So Osiris rocks, right? Killed TWICE. Resurrected TWICE. DISMEMBERED the second time but put completely back together! AWESOME.
Ganesh, the Hindu God with the elephant head who had had his original human-looking head chopped off. It was quickly replaced by an elephant head. Ganesh, of course, just takes the title of the coolest looking god EVER.
Not to mention the great and powerful Flying Spaghetti Monster. FSM's list of "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts" is FAR superior to the Ten Commandments.
In the areas of compassion, of sacrifice, of magical prowess, Jesus has been outstripped by the above dieties that may or may not still be worshipped today.
How much does your Jesus love you? Not enough, cuz he went back to heaven while Guanyin travels the world trying to alleviate suffering.
How compassionate is Jesus compared to QUETZALCOATL, the feathered serpent? Not very since God demanded deaths to appease him. Oh, I also forgot to mention Jephthah, in Judges 11:31-11:40. Where he SACRIFICED HIS DAUGHTER TO GOD. Did God intervene at this time? Nope.
How great was Jesus? Yo, Osiris got cut up into pieces and he was FINE. And Ganesh got his head chopped off but had it replaced with an elephant's head. He's cool too.
Who's a better law-giver? God of the bible or the Flying Spaghetti Monster? FSM, hands down.
WTF Jesus. Jesus, honestly, why don't you ask yourself this sometimes: WWTOGD?
What Would The Other Gods Do?
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Part III! Dundundun!!!
And what is the topic in this part of There Is No God?
The Religious Are Fucking Snake Oil Salesmen
What is a 'Snake Oil Salesman'? Its someone who sells bogus shit for your ills. So just think of the film Sweeney Todd, when Sweeney meets the rival barber selling hair tonic that obviously doesn't work.
That is what the religious are doing. Selling bogus shit to you and telling you it works.
What's even worse is that they MAKE UP your illness and THEN sell you the cure. Cuz you know, THERE IS NO GOD! Therefore no heaven or a hell or a soul!
I would also like to say that the miracles that the religious swear by are cheap parlour tricks and coincidences.
Lets take the Lourdes for example. Its said to be a place where miracles happen ie. healing of the sick. But statistically, Lourdes doesn't have a good healing record: An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860 [3], and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 67 miracle healings[3]. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes#Sanctuary_of_Lourdes)
Of course, the record of the 67 healed were all gathered and vouched for by the church and church-appointed professionals. Of the 67 of the sick that were healed, could you really attribute it to Lourdes? What if, for example, they had some kind of malignant tumour and they've been getting treatment for it? And then they go to Lourdes and pray for a miracle. They find out later that their tumour has gotten smaller. The religious would say its a miracle of god that the tumour's gotten smaller. Others might say that the treatment actually worked, and that's why.
It all comes down to do you think that this shrinking tumour is because medicine is working and we're doing something right, or some big supernatural force in the sky is looking down benevolently on you cuz you prayed to him.
Praying to god and then thanking him for the miracle when you're cured because you've been taking the medication the doctors are telling you to take does not constitute a miracle, in my opinion. It just shows how ungrateful patients are when the doctors worked so hard for a cure and you bastards go 'its God! He healed me cuz I prayed and prayed!' I bet you those doctors, behind their polite smiles are thinking 'No, you bastard. Its because I spent fucking 5 hours in surgery with you and gave you 24 hour round the clock care and I have ZERO hours of sleep that you're alive today. Motherfucker.'
Now I'm gonna get into the finance aspect of religion right now and I gotta warn y'all, finance is not my forte. BUT, I do know that a lot of you out there can do the calculations a lot better than me, so let me give you the numbers to add up:
tax exemption + donations (tax free!) + free handouts in the form of real estate = ???
One fucking rich organization is what I want to say. Now that we've established that most of the major religions are rich motherfuckers, we should ask WHY they are tax-exempt rich motherfuckers and question why they deserve this money.
Okay, lets take the Catholic church. I'm picking on them cuz they have a CITY. Vatican city. WTF. Where the hell is my fucking city?
Anyways, the basis on which they receive this tax-exemption is because America’s tax laws (taking this USA source since America has a huge ass number of the 'faithful') are designed to favor non-profit and charitable institutions which presumably benefit the community. (source: http://atheism.about.com/od/churchestaxexemptions/Tax_Exempt_Churches_Religious_Freedom_vs_Tax_Exemptions.htm)
Okay, so if churches are getting tax-exemption based on the fact that they are a non-profit and charitable organization, I'd like to bring up a real life example. I actually worked at a real life charitable organization as a volunteer. And seriously, the place was pretty small and I don't think we had that much in the ways of funds. We did what we could with what we had and there was so much red tape just to GET that money.
I'll admit, the church is probably not ROLLING in money, but I'm thinking the pope is at least knee-deep in it.
Do what you preach or do what you say Jesus would do. Help the poor. Cast everything aside and follow him. Aren't the priests and the pope, the REPRESENTATIVES of Christ on Earth, supposed to be doing that? Wasn't there a parable about this? How the rich man dumped a whole shitload of coins in the box and this widow only dropped one coin in and it was all she had? So no matter how much the church pours in, they're still the rich man giving only a percentage. Shouldn't the church be following the example of the widow?
And I'm sure people can make excuses like 'how do you expect the church to run without money?' But there are a lot of other non-profit charitable organizations out there barely making ends meet and still doing their best to help people less fortunate than they are.
Why am I angry when I see Jehovah's Witnesses preying, excuse me, talking to Filipino women on the street about accepting the lord? That money that went into training these boys and girls into following people around trying to talk them into being one of them coulda been spent on something so much more worthwhile like building a school, or an orphanage, a library or a strip club.
Spend your money on something worthwhile!
Now, if I didn't talk about the Evangelists, it would be an opportunity wasted. But I just don't have the time to write about the bullshit that they pull. So why don't we all watch an Academy Award winning documentary? Its called "Marjoe". Look for it. It follows the former youngest Evangelist preacher in the world (featured for a time on Ripley's Believe it or Not!) and how now, as an adult, he goes about preaching and exposing the things he does to get people to donate more money and what a fucking scam it is.
Moral of the story: Don't buy shit from people who talk about getting their authority from imaginary beings, like God.
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Part II of the 'There Is No God' ramblings.
Argument 2: The Bible/Koran/Torah, works of fiction by men that should NOT be followed
Lets play broken telephone. Easily done in a small group in one sitting. You could almost guarantee 100% accuracy. Almost. Because there might be one idiot who can just fuck it up for the rest of us.
That, my dearests, is the work of fiction that the Bible/Koran/Torah is based on. The bible/torah/koran is a work of thousands of years of broken telephone before it went through numerous edits to get rid of stories that just didn't fit into the lies the institutions wanted to feed to the masses. They also took pieces of stories that had already existed before and incorporated them into its text. PLAGARISM AND LIES.
Before these huge works of bullshit were written, they were passed down orally by thousands upon thousands of people, through generations by the rich, the poor, the educated and the uneducated alike.
I am pretty certain that there must have been at least A HUGE AMOUNT of mistakes or slight blurring of the true story. I'll take an example from the KJV of the bible, because I'm most familiar with it.
So, there was a story about Jesus wanting to eat a fig from a fig tree but the tree was out of figs. Jesus cursed the tree and it shrivelled up and died. The original story:
Matthew 21:18-22
Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered.
When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. "How did the fig tree wither so quickly?" they asked.
What I think REALLY happened was this:
Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!"
Throwing a tantrum, Jesus started abusing the tree by kicking it fiercely. Little did Jesus know that the tree was suffering from a parasite attack and was dying. His disciples saw his actions and saw how several branches had rotted off and, not knowing the tree was dying, exclaimed to each other: "How did the fig tree wither so quickly?"
What a bunch of idiots.
And how else do I think the bible is a work of fiction? Simple. Lets take a story, one of the greatest stories ever in the Bible. The Exodus.
COMPLETE BULLSHIT!
Its a contested piece of history. If it even is history. There is no record that archeologists could agree on because THERE WAS NO HARD EVIDENCE. You'd think, after plagues and all your slaves escaping Egypt and death of the first-borns that the Egyptians, who were meticulous record keepers, would record this. Nope. None at all. No fluctuations in crops, no floods recorded, no periods of darkness, no great loss of livestock, no locusts, NO PLAGUES. In short, no evidence that points to there being proof of Moses leading the people out of Egypt and the plagues he cursed the Egyptians with. There are a few artifacts such as a trough depicting great darkness over the land, but hello, we talked about this in Part I. People back then could not explain natural phenomenon so they would attribute it to some great mythical being in the sky.
Anybody ever heard of 'eclipse'? WTF. Get a fucking farmer's almanac and stop being so fucking superstitious.
So yes, what if it is all fiction? Some people would say the bible helps them lead better lives and without it, they would all want to go out on the streets and MURDERRRRRRRRR PEOPLE WANTONLY!
Dude. The bible/koran/torah are the reason there are so many people killing, destroying, maiming and hurting each other, even now.
Throughout history we had the crusades, we had witch hunts, the inquisition, French wars of religion, the thirty year war and so on. Then we have the violence done to children that are SANCTIFIED and NECESSARY because the so called 'holy' and 'sacred' books say so.
What violence?
Circumcision. Some people say that circumcision is benficial for the male child. Beneficial how? When circumcision has a contested MARGINAL improvement in the child's health when performed and there's a risk of them DYING from infection? So if it goes well, yeah, 1% healthier! but if it goes badly, DEATH, DISFIGUREMENT AND LOSS OF SEXUAL PLEASURE. Think I'm pulling stuff out of my ass? Canada would concur with me on my views on this subject.
The Fetus and Newborn Committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society posted "Circumcision: Information for Parents" in November 2004,[68] and "Neonatal circumcision revisited" in 1996. The 1996 position statement says that "circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed," (a statement with which the Royal Australasian College of Physicians concurs,) and the 2004 advice to parents says it "does not recommend circumcision for newborn boys. Many pediatricians no longer perform circumcisions."[46] quoted from wikipedia because I'm too lazy to go to the library and source.
Awesome. So why not just forgo circumcision? We can't. Because imaginary God wants a piece of your boy's penis.
And I really don't wanna talk about female circumcision. It is torture, it is wrong and it stamps on a woman's right to beign sexual and enjoying their sexuality. I can't blame it totally on religion because it has to do with a people's culture also. But lets talk about female genital mutilation for a bit.
This procedure, when done without anesthetic or other medical equipment can lead to death by shock or blood loss. And don't kid yourself, a lot of these people performing the operation are unskilled and using unsanitary tools so even if the girl (the girls are around 4-8) survive, they can die painfully and slowly because of the infections that follow.
Other violence that the bible talks about and gives a thumbs-up to?
Numbers 31:13-18 (21st Century King James Version)
13And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp.
14And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle.
15And Moses said unto them, "Have ye saved all the women alive?
16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who hath known a man by lying with him.
18But all the women children, who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
This is MOSES talking. What can we surmise from this leader that several religions look up to as an example of a moral and good person? Well, we can guess that Moses was neither good nor moral. MOSES was an ASSHOLE!
We have terrorists killing themselves and thinking that they're martyrs. We have Christians, loving Christians, shooting doctors who perform abortions (we can gather from this that Christians deem only SOME life precious. Not all.), parents killing their children for dipping their toes in the dating pool, dousing said children in gasoline and setting them on fire for imagined 'impurities'. We have a certain 'chosen' people fighting for a strip of land that an imaginary God bequeathed on them.
The bible/koran/torah take good things that are naturally within all of us (aversion to wanton MURDERRRRR!!!!! and dishonesty) and makes itself an EXPERT, the one and only TRUE reference to morality(Its sorta like... if I made a telephone and said 'This, this is what taught us how to talk. The TELEPHONE. All hail the telephone! Praise and glory! Lets sacrifice a goat to it!') while rushing in a whole bunch of harmful and irrelevant laws, homophobic scripture, hateful language and institutionalized sexism.
And what's with the whole 'original sin' deal? Okay. God creates man and woman completely ignorant of right and wrong. And then he tells them its WRONG to eat the apple from the tree of knowledge. AND THEN, when they do, because they just didn't understand what he said because he made them that way, God BANISHES them from the garden of eden. Nice.
If there was a God, and he was benevolent and loving, he would NOT have written the bible.
Only men can do that. And I mean men as in male, because women were second class in the bible, always. I love my guys, but honestly. It feels like a bunch of immature stone-age morons who still feared catching 'cooties' from girls, wrote the pieces of crap that major religions base their faith on.
End note? WWJD? What Would Jesus Do?! Do what Jesus would do and go out and beat up a fig tree for not giving you fruit! Then, go to your mother and tell her "Woman, what have I to do with you?!"
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This post is just me, as an atheist, making an argument for there being no God and against the belief of there being one.
Firstly, since I was raised in a Catholic household, I am the most familiar with Catholicism and will mostly be attacking the Catholic ideal of a benevolent father-figure God, the most prevalent idea of God in the Western world. Other religions will most likely be mentioned here and attacked with the same fervour.
So first argument for an existence without the existence of a benevolent God:
ITS ALL IN YOUR HEAD!
Really. Think of the imaginary friend. The one you had when you were really little and afraid of monsters in your closet and under your bed. You make up an imaginary friend because only something in your imagination can combat something else in your imagination.
Our future is riddled with uncertainties and our imagination fuels our fears, giving us so many things to be afraid of. Our lives are miserable, rife with disease and death. Its a struggle just to live for most and we're tormented by our struggle to provide and survive.
God is the answer to our fears. Our ULTIMATE imaginary friend who we can talk to, excuse me, pray to, when we're in trouble. Not only that, but he can actually reach out from the world of imagination and change EVERYTHING if we just believe hard enough!
A lot of people will say that they FEEL God's benevolence and feel his presence in their life all the time.
I can say I feel the existence of invisible purple monsters out to get me and I feel their presence in my life all the time.
The thing that connects God and invisible purple monsters? THEY'RE BOTH IMAGINARY.
"Oh, well, a lot of people believe in God! And only YOU believe in invisible purple monsters! That means God is real!" is one of the statements I'll get to prove that God exists.
Okay, LONG TIME AGO people believed the Earth was flat and if we go far enough, we'd fall off the edge. We know that's not true now. The Earth is round. There is no God.
Okay, lets talk about God's so-called benevolence. Because seriously, if you think he's benevolent, its really all in your fucking head.
There is a RIDICULOUSLY large amount of people in the world dying of hunger and disease in the world. There are children left in jars just because they're girls and their parents had wanted a boy. There are people who are basically sexual slaves. There are people EATING MUD because its the only way they can fill themselves up and stop the hunger from consuming their entire being.
We, the lucky ones with access to a computer, to a university education or ANY education, with cars, stocks, clothes, shoes, hands, feet... we are a TINY percentage in the world. Did God bless us? If he did, what about all those people? Were they less worthy? What about the thousands of children who die every day? What about the children born with AIDs? What about the good people who slave everyday to provide and they get killed in a horrible accident? Were they less worth of this divine grace?
Paging God... where the fuck are you?!
Think about that. We are a tiny percentage, the privileged. They, the unprivileged, make up the majority of the world. The suffering, the dying, the downtrodden. Where is your God? People pray and pray, and those who pray never hear an answer to their prayers because the privileged are busy praying for MORE. About the unfairness of life and how their ex-wife got the Mercedes and they only have the BMW.
Even if there is a God, he's doing a PISS POOR job. God works in mysterious ways my ass. What a lazy motherfucker.
And now I leave you with this thought: WATCH OUT FOR THE INVISIBLE PURPLE MONSTERS!
Til next time! Watch out for Part II!
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| Date: | 2008-09-16 12:03 |
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Because its worth mentioning that I party like a rockstar. :D
Hardcore.
I love Mid-Autumn Festival. :D
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See, this might be just because I put on someone else's fencing mask (yes, boys and girls, I'm fencing again! ...and I suck so much after my long hiatus) but I am blaming Cecilia! Not only did she send me a small Coach item (which I love), but she also sent me... DUNDUNDUN! A MARY AND JESUS CARVING!!! Blessed by a priest!
So today, my neck is really itchy. And I think its an allergic reaction to the Mary and Jesus carving. Since I know for a fact that I'm allergic to superstitious bullshit, we can gather from this experience that Mary and Jesus = superstitious bullshit.
Thank you all and have a good night.
P.S. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS GOD!!!
P.P.S. Religion is evil.
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Food, shelter and companionship. I think it was.
Food because our bodies require nourishment.
Shelter from the elements because we are so fragile.
And companionship because we are social animals.
Huh.
I've become a hermit. I have the first two and I feel like maybe I can survive without the third quite well. But I really do miss my friends in Canada and the ones I've made in Japan. And still others scattered across our tiny planet.
We're all looking for a connection, aren't we?
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