Bradford likes to sabotage my tumblr and tell people I'm born-again, but it's ok because I have many pictures of his baby maker.
July 2010
KARMA IS A BITCH?
If “karma is a bitch” then please explain why it allows wicked people to constantly get away with monstrous atrocities while seemingly punishing those who are just, innocent and helpless? If petty, personal misfortune befalls you, instead of muttering under your breath that “karma is a bitch,” would it not make more sense to resign to the fact that, according to karma, you MUST have done something previously to warrant such cosmic punishment? Or is karma just a convenient one way street that benefits you by reprimanding those who have slighted you, but that doesn’t really apply in your own case? Please explain in further detail this mysterious force that you claim governs universal justice.
Or…wouldn’t it just be easier to say that we live in a cold, amoral universe in which we are less than a speck of dust? Instead of belittling the grandeur of the cosmos and insulting your fellow primates by suggesting that there is ultimate justice in the form of some bullshit, hokey, watered-down mystical force, why not just be honest with yourself and others? The people who broke into your car are probably going to get away with it. Rapists and murderers will go free. Churches and religion will continue to burn civilization to the ground, one pillar at a time. Stop relying on the universe or your sky-daddy to fix it for you. Stand up for earthly justice yourself, because if humans don’t, nothing will.
“That’s not what religion is! Religion isn’t about being open to other people’s ideas. Religion is about saying “This is my idea, I’m right and, at best, people who haven’t got that idea should try and adopt it and, at worst, we should send a crusade against them to try and kill them!”
—David Mitchell on the inclusive and religiously vague nature of The Heaven and Earth Show
"thebible started following you"
um…
“If you take out the word “fascism” from any history of the 1920’s and 30’s, any decent history, and replace it with the words “the Catholic right-wing,” you don’t need to change anything. Fascism is just another name for the extreme right-wing forces of the Roman Catholic Church. That’s true whether it’s Portugal, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Italy…and all these regimes and movements had a specific concordance with the Vatican. You may not say that fascism is a secular or atheist movement. Not if you don’t want to do a great violence to history.”
—Christopher Hitchens
“So if your wife is pregnant and you know it’s not [by] you, the only alternative is that it’s the holy spirit?”
—Christopher Hitchens
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
—Albert Einstein
“Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.”
—Victor Hugo
I'M SORRY, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY "EUPHORIA" IS LISTED UNDER "ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS."
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“The plain fact is that religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people - by irrationalists - by those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.”
—Bill Maher
“The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.”
—Robert Heinlein
I happen to love both of them. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and AIU are two of the most brilliant records I own.
I WILL GUARD MY WALKING ON THIN ICE 7” WITH MY LIFE.
DID YOU KNOW: Courtney once referred to herself in a Vanity Fair interview (I think it was in 1992) as "Yoko Love" ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL YES IT IS.
Sometimes I think I would like to go into her body just once so I can be on whatever drug(s) she is (“not”) on at any given moment so I can have an excuse to throw compacts at Madonna, but I doubt that any mere mortal would last more than five minutes in her earthly shell. But maybe it would be the most glorious (less than) five minutes of my life?
Wait, who needs an excuse to throw shit at Madonna?
“People hate her, they really do. Did you know that to Yoko someone is a verb in America? It is something that boys say if they’re hanging out with you too much and they’re going to school or they have a band. It’s almost a myth that’s used to suppress women. Y’know, ‘You’re gonna Yoko me. You’re gonna destroy me.’ And this woman put up with racial inequality from Fleet Street, she put up with being accused of breaking up the best band in the world, she put up with people’s idea that she castrated this man and then, worst of all, she had her best friend, her husband, the person she lived for, die in her arms in front of a fortress that she’d hidden herself in for 20 years. And I just feel that the world media should apologise to her because she handled it with so much dignity.”
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Courtney Love on Yoko Ono, 1993 (via ifighttheonesthatfightme)
how many followers/friends will i lose once i reveal that i hate the beatles and love yoko ono? i don’t care. you like the beatles, I DON’T WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU ANYWAY.
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is “designed with you in mind” or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
—Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
“Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
—Henry Mencken
“Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man…who has no gills.”
—Ambrose Bierce
Glenn Beck worships the wrong god?
When Christopher Hitchens, my favorite outspoken author, activist and anti-theist, was diagnosed with throat cancer recently, religious believers everywhere laughed hysterically and exclaimed that it was a punishment from their god and that this will surely cause him to sheepishly convert before his earthly end. Now the insane racist and conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck, a devout man of god (well, a Mormon anyway), has stated that he may go blind from macular dystrophy within a year. I would never wish physical harm or pain on (most) people, but I’m dying to see how the faithful explain their god’s seemingly indiscriminate method of “punishment” for believer and non-believer alike.
“Rush Limbaugh goes deaf and Glenn Beck goes blind. And people still think the Lord is too clumsy to channel his vindictiveness to pull off a nuanced metaphor!”
—Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian
“New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying “You either love me or you hate me”. There’s actually a third option: We don’t give a shit about you.”
—Bill Maher (via fuckyeahbillmaher) (via schbank) (via cocknbull)
“It is a profound irony to see religious people praising themselves for their humility while essentially making claims about cosmology, and physics, and astronomy, and geology, and biology, and paleontology, and just dozens of specific sciences that no scientist could make. Every religious person who takes the Genesis account of creation seriously… is essentially saying to somebody like Stephen Hawking, ‘Stephen, you’re a smart guy, and I see you’ve got a lot of equations over there, but you don’t know enough about cosmology, because God did this in six days and He rested on the seventh.’”
—Sam Harris (via cocknbull)
people, you can confuse
Adult.
ADULT. - People you can confuse
“Kelly Osbourne’s puppy dies.”
—Breaking news, according to The Huffington Post
“You can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results. That should be the standard in journalism.”
—Julian Assange
“In fact, [Thomas] Jefferson was born under the old calendar on the 2nd of April, 1743 and had to change his birthday to the 13th when the historic Gregorian calendar date shift was ordained. Both dates appear on his memorial obelisk at Charlottesville. I’ve often wondered what the racketeers of the zodiac did when everybody had to change birthdays and many people had to change their sign. No doubt they managed to adjust suavely enough.”
—Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
—Christopher Hitchens
Gloomy Sunday
Diamanda Galas
DIAMANDA GALÁS - GLOOMY SUNDAY
SERIOUSLY.
Why is Sunday so soul-crushingly depressing? How does one turn the idea of a single 24 hour period into one collective, unwarranted anxiety trigger? Xanax was made for Sundays.
Ring the Living Bell
Melanie Safka
melanie - ring the living bell
