Taking A Few Deep Breaths
This is my first blog post since the “Digg Effect” effectively made my site slower than the inner workings of Ray Comfort’s brain. I managed to get over 3,400 votes on Digg, which I think is pretty impressive given the content, and I really must thank everyone who took the time to read the quotes, vote, and leave a nice comment. According to FeedBurner, the people who handle my RSS feeds, I have 622 subscribers now. Hello whoever you are!
If you are new here, you might wish to read the interview that I did for The Atheist Spot. It will at least tell you who I am, why I’m blogging, and what I do when I’m not being caught off-guard by a Digg Effect at 4am.
I didn’t really have much planned to write about today other than on the subject of forums. The blog has its own forum which handles general chat as well as our book club. If you wish to join our book club then you should find all the information on that page. At the start of each month, we vote for a book we want to read the next month (giving people a load of time to get the book). We then discuss the book in an IRC channel, followed by a forum discussion for those who couldn’t make the live discussion.
The book for September is “Biblical Nonsense” by Dr. Jason Long.
I have also just re-launched an atheist orientated forum after some initial mess-ups with the ownership of its predecessor. The new forums has started off well since most of the users of the old one were behind the move. These forums can be found at: http://atheistforums.org
Anyway, now that I have a larger audience I’d better start thinking of stuff to write. Damn you Digg! Making me do some actual work for once! Grrrr….
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1) I see no value AT ALL in the waste of any more time spent reading any flavor of their bible or books about that bible ( nor reading whichever book a cult or a sect is using as a foundation). There is enough intelligent literature around that is worth reading and that does look at the very root of the problems which is == “!! Children brainwashed and warped mentally by idiotic parents and clueless ?educators? ”
2) I personally value the works of
Alice MILLER (en.wikipedia.org/wikiAlice_Miller_(psychologist))
Mrs. Meyers & Briggs (MBTI)
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator)
Ivan ILLICH (Deschooling society)
Paul Feyerabend (Against method - Killing time …)
and more …
because they can cure the cult diseases by pointing at the causes of such abuses.
3) If you waste valuable time and energy on “biblish crap” your atheism becomes another kind of hobbyism - the “holy” books are all worthless sales material.
4) Theres is NO single god or cult in my context and there never will be because I hated any form of authority or direction from day ONE.
I have dropped my interests in wine because it too has been turned into a brainless cult ruled by a greedy group of “priests” and “gurus”. The greed of all “religions” is not only based on fake gods : now they try to catch your balls and your brains by trying to have children, actors, gadgets, any crap idolized by the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR !FLOCK EFFECT - LEMMINGS. CROWDS …..
JUST ONE SINGLE SAME REASON FOR ALL OF THEM. MONEY ! THEY WANT YOURS !!!
5) Trust PEER2PEER or anarchy BUT NEVER EVER believe or pray.
Zol666taN
27 Aug 08 at 12:20 pm (GMT)
[...] this month, the book is “Biblical Nonsense” and we are abandoning the live discussion due to lack of interest. At the end of the month, [...]
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