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Thinking Freely: Overrated By Some
Some of you know there was a bit of an incident a couple of nights ago between myself and another outspoken Atheist, who also promotes herself as a Humanist. This happened on Twitter, in the public stream. It was highly … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agonsticism, atheism, atheist, bullshit, freethought, humanism, humanist, intolerance, rational, secularism, secularist, thinking, twitter
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Moments of Implausibility (i)
Abraham and Isaac went for a walk. The moral of the story is, don’t let your dad walk drunk. Continue reading
Your God is an Ass & You Argue Poorly
This isn’t a new argument from the atheist standpoint, but this is the exact problem with every abrahamic religion: your God is NOT “Love”. Your God is not even nice. Your God, according to your own Holy Books, is an insensitive, insecure, vituperative ass, wholly and exclusively interested in exactly one thing: the undying devotion and ego-massaging of vast numbers of human beings. Continue reading
Tuesday Morning Rambling
Tune in this Sunday to the ThinkAtheist.com Weekend Podcast hosted by yours truly. Since it’s Labor Day weekend, I fully expect drunken discourse on virtually any topic under the sun, but the theme for the night is traditionalism. Continue reading
Twitter: sincerity versus being ourselves.
there is an element to social networking that some of us refer to as “the pretendy”. in essence, “the pretendy” is the fact that we never really know how much pretense lies behind what we place behind our online personas. not that total honesty is necessary or required, but when it comes to judging the quality of our interactions, “the pretendy” works from both directions and obfuscates things. i simply encourage you to give that some consideration. Continue reading
xtian-bashing. beneficial or shooting ourselves in the foot?
in preparation for turning this site over to something that suits me a bit better, i have begun toying with some mini-vlogging over at twitcam.com.
This series of vlogs is about how atheists conduct ourselves on Twitter. Not that i think i need to tell anyone what to do, but because i’m a patttern-recognition guy, and i see certain patterns that lead to certain thoughts. i’m simply sharing those thoughts. Continue reading
unslavishly unenslaved
Yes, “unenslaved” is a metaphor. I have no delusions, illusions, or conclusions that the type of “slavery” I refer to when using this metaphor in any remote way correlates to the various forms of tribal, racial, and societal forms of … Continue reading
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Tagged atheist, deconversion, delusion, mental slavery, religion, theism
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How Sciolism Defeats Discourse
The following was originally posted at the otherwhirled and Mock, Paper, Scissors on April 7, 2007 in support of the original Blogswarm Against Theocracy. This short series of posts is still pertinent today, I believe. Sit back, grab a beer … Continue reading
about the unenslaved
greetings. i am Synthaetica. i have blogged in many places, under at least a few names, to the point where i felt enslaved by the practice of blogging. my participation in such places was sporadic at best, and those places … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-theocracy, atheism, atheist, blogging, introduction, religion, theocracy, writing
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