"And barefoot in the shallow creek, I grabbed some stones from underneath."

[greygirlbeast]

Yes, I am an atheist. No, I do not believe in the soul...or any other "spirit" inhabiting the human body. Consciousness = mind = the function of the brain. Period. No breath of god/s. Meatbags that have evolved a degree of self-awareness, which can only be considered "higher" relative to other meatbags (say gorillas, or frogs, or sea cucumbers

Comments

[witchchild]

All I can say to this is YAY BARNACLES.

And I do need to drag myself to the beach this summer. Never did last year. Poo.

[greygirlbeast]

All I can say to this is YAY BARNACLES.

Barnacles are amongst the coolest of all crustaceans.

[oldfossil59]

I wish the religious public would realize just how much of their "hard earned" money is pissed away on an institution that sucks them dry- All for an imagined afterlife salvation. While bigger churches are built, evangelists drive around in Mercedes and BMWs, live in grotesque excessive mansions, as more and more people slip through the cracks, without proper meals and healthcare. I get whipped into a frenzy with the "self-righteous multitudes"- I better stop now before the top of my head comes off again.

I know birthdays can be dreadful, but here's early wishes for a splendid day Thursday. You deserve to be cherished.

[greygirlbeast]

Yeah. The fact that religious organizations are tax free, while, say, novelists and painters are taxed for their self-expression, is rather sickening. We could go a long way towards paying off the national debt by taxing organized religion.

[opalblack]

Atheist pagan isn't so hard to understand. Though I am one, so it *would* make sense to me. I've intermittently attempted to believe in things, I'm just not very good at it. It's all just stories, and we can tell ourselves stories about things that are true, or we can lie. Sure, we need the stories, but I don't believe that we need faith, or that we "need to believe in something" that's just vile propaganda. Stories make sense out of data, they shouldn't be shoehorned into replacing it.

These days, I just don't talk to God-botherers. It wastes my time and annoys the pig.

Sadly my idiot housemate is a creationist and has told me, despite knowing that I've studied evolutionary biology at university, that there's no evidence for evolution and it's just my opinion & as valid as hers. Jegus fuck I have to get out of there before I beat her about the face and head with Stephen Jay Gould.

[greygirlbeast]

It's all just stories, and we can tell ourselves stories about things that are true, or we can lie.

Well said.

I say beat here with Gould....

[opalblack]

I think his femur would make a satisfying dent in her skull, if not in her belligerent idiocy.

[satireknight]

Personally I have yet to see evidence that we DON'T need to believe in something. My grandmother is a devout atheist, but instead she puts her fervent, fanatical belief in… politicians. Yeah, I love ticking her off about that.

[martianmooncrab]

that I was hell bound if I didn't change

but thats just the flip side of the heaven thingie.. sigh.. they dont get it..

I just refer them to the movie, Erik the Viking, and walk away.

nice pictures, we had 14 days of sunlight, and now its back to grey skies and rain.

[greygirlbeast]

I just refer them to the movie, Erik the Viking, and walk away.

That works.

[greygirlbeast]

I'm glad that Spooky brought the camera along though the pictures are lovely.

Yerp. It was good to salvage something from the loss.