Tero's Atheist Ramblings

[Tero]

When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones;

I guess you can't take just one egg either.

[Tero]

Evngelicals occupy my neighborhood megaplex movie theater. Just sundays.
http://synergychurch.tv/thrive-church-i ... ing-lives/

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Evngelicals occupy my neighborhood megaplex movie theater. Just sundays.
http://synergychurch.tv/thrive-church-i ... ing-lives/

So we should nuke it. Just on Sundays.

[Tero]

The logical outcome of true atheism is nihilism. Since the universe will eventually wither away to nothing, ultimately anything that we do will not even be forgotten, because there will be no one to even forget. Every sonnette, every war, every revolution, every act of heroism or treachery will ultimately come to the same meaningless end.

No one I know lives out these premises. The most die-hard atheist suspends his disbelief in order to function.

Either the atheist is living a fantasy by acting as if life has meaning, or atheism itself is absurd.

there are 3200 responses
http://www.amazon.com/forum/religion/re ... IJK1XZXX2P

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Either [silly statement] OR [sillier statement].


Me likey!

[Tero]

the pope running the show at Council of Nicea

link

[Tero]

I was close, in October. I only got the state wrong.
http://teroreport.blogspot.com/2011/10/ ... beral.html

[Tero]

Jesus wars
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006176 ... d_asin_lnk

[Tero]

I'm on the road so pics this time
http://teroreport.blogspot.com/2012/04/ ... t.html?m=1

[Tero]

Amputees give fundie troll detention
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forum ... cseen.html

[Tero]

Sophie wrote:
"Why do you talk physics, if you do not understand it? Check the
definition of Schwarzschild radius. Hint: it is not the radius of the
black hole. "
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I never liked talking basic sciences. I preferred engineering over
physics, medicine over biology, studied the four and did graduate work
in all of them, but stupid sciences never appealed to me.

Counting the atoms of the universe the way you did is an exercise is
vanity. I never understood why someone studies biology yet smokes
cigarettes, or studies physics yet could not bleed the automobile
brake system.

Mohammed at amazon

MO is our resident skeptic of really odd variety. He got fired from teaching math, the only thing he, as an engineer, seems to understand.

[Tero]

Quote from Amazon discussion:
One of my favorite memories is of a coworker who wandered into an
irreverent discussion of who would win in a brawl: Yahweh or Allah. He
got rather huffy, telling us that There Is Only One God. Out of idle
curiosity, I asked: "Then why does the Ten Commandments have that 'You
will have no other God before Me' bit?" He paused, and said: "Well,
that was from the Old Testament times when there were other gods. The
New Testament did away with all of that."

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Quote from Amazon discussion:
One of my favorite memories is of a coworker who wandered into an
irreverent discussion of who would win in a brawl: Yahweh or Allah. He
got rather huffy, telling us that There Is Only One God. Out of idle
curiosity, I asked: "Then why does the Ten Commandments have that 'You
will have no other God before Me' bit?" He paused, and said: "Well,
that was from the Old Testament times when there were other gods. The
New Testament did away with all of that."

"I will not change one jot or tittle of the laws." J. H. Christ. If Jesus said the OT rules apply, who is this schmuck to say otherwise.

[Ronja]

Quote from Amazon discussion:
One of my favorite memories is of a coworker who wandered into an
irreverent discussion of who would win in a brawl: Yahweh or Allah. He
got rather huffy, telling us that There Is Only One God. Out of idle
curiosity, I asked: "Then why does the Ten Commandments have that 'You
will have no other God before Me' bit?" He paused, and said: "Well,
that was from the Old Testament times when there were other gods. The
New Testament did away with all of that."

"I will not change one jot or tittle of the laws." J. H. Christ. If Jesus said the OT rules apply, who is this schmuck to say otherwise.

It is amusing to repeatedly observe how much deeper and more analyzed knowledge many atheists have of the "sacred" texts and their possible interpretations than many (usually the most loudmouth) self-identified xians. And because of my Lutheran background, it also irks me that even people calling themselves Lutheran (and being serious about it) often have not done their first and foremost religious duty: to study and understand the babble, as Luther explicitly and strongly recommended.

[Tero]

I can usually talk religion stuff freely in Finland. Except at our exchange student's house where the mom is spiritual. Heidi's sister is one of these "help the needy" types and is studying to be a minister. Why couldn't she just become a nurse? Maybe the pay is better?

We like the family a lot, it's just a subject to avoid, not hard to do.