Mood music.

Isaacnoroncaasi left a comment on Paul Martin's It Happened that he couldn't understand the words and he wished somebody would write them down. I had been thinking the same thing for a while. I was going to do it but kept putting it off, but then it happened.

It took about 20 listens but I think I got pretty close, this is my best guess. Having worked out the lyrics, it really is pretty sinister. I'm sure some of the people I argue with on YouTube would call this 'rape apologetics', while I would prefer to call it a cautionary tale. He calls himself an 'total slum' so I don't think he is really glamorizing the situation whatever it might be. If you are looking for misogyny, go look at Mick Jagger's lyrics. I have also written the lyrics for I'm not what you are by Jason Merrick because I feel this fits with the theme. Both songs are snarling and angry... rather far from peace, love and flower-power.


Paul Martin-It Happened


I made it clear, that you should stay away,
from me, but I should see a day,
that a time would come, heartaches strong,
the total slum, of what I am.

In deference to, your young age,
I warned you then, I'd take advantage,
then you got too close, you get burnt,
and that your honour, would be in tatters,

You didn't listen,
You know it happened,
you know, you know, you know, you know it happened.

Now your childhood is gone, forever,
What's done is done, and never,
we had a chance, to dance the dance,
to choose a path, of who'll you'll be,

You didn't listen,
You know it happened,
you know, you know, you know, you know it happened.



Jason Merrick & The Finders - I'm Not What You Are

Don't turn your nose up when I your away,
Don't think I don't know what your laughing whispers say,
Why do you think you're so much better than I,
When the life you live is only just a lie.

You want a big house, and to drive a fast car,
You're strictly bourgeois, in society you'll go far,
but to me you're a no-one,in this love forsaken world,
your heart is filled with selfishness,and your mind is so curled,
you're not a real person, and I'm not what you are.

No, no, no, no, aghhh!

You can't understand that your meaning of life,
Your ideals are distorted, for you there's no strife,
As long as you have money there is no pain,
To you a precious love is only just a game,

You can step on someone and not think twice,
As long as your goals reached, well, then it's alright,
You can pretend for others you feel despair,
But deep down inside you don't really care.
You're not a real person, and I'm not what you are.

No, no, I can never be what you are, get away. aghhh!

No, no, no, aghhh! Get away!

Sacred

Atheism disscussion in Second Life.

Following a chat with people near and dear to me about religion... here are some sources which put iron in my words.

Firstly, why bother? Angry at god?
No, if I get angry it is because religion kills people, religious people make decisions which effect me, and you. If I'm angry, I have good reason, not nearly as much reason as many of the people I know in SL should have.
The list of things to be angry about starts at 6:00


Why Are You Atheists So Angry? Greta Christina Skepticon 4


As for the idea that Jesus was angel who was believed in by some pre-Christian Jews... Richard Carrier mentions it here [16:07]. Unfortunately he cites his own book for the citations-- which i don't have. And I have not been able to find any reference to it elsewhere. In fact it is usually said that Philo of Alexandria never mentions Jesus. So I'd would love to see some discussion between scholars about this. But If Carrier says it, there is probably a discussion to be had.

Richard Carrier: The Historicity of Jesus

As for Hitler and the Nazis, Christians used to be scared of the occult, so they labeled him an oculist. Now they are terrified of Atheists so they call him an Atheist. It is indisputable he was Catholic. The writings of Martin Luther obviously had more impact that folkish paganism.  
Hitler: The Atheist

By the way, Christians are also blaming Nazism on Darwin and Evolution. But in Hitler's own words he seems to have been against Evolution and a proponent of Intelligent Design.


As for nasty stuff in the bible, there is no end of it in the Old Testament, but what would Jesus do?

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

So... until heaven and earth disappear, until the rapture, old testament law stands, every pen-stroke of it...

...that includes the hating on gays, rules on masturbation, prohibition on shell fish and pork, prohibition on wearing mixed fabrics, rules on slavery, idol worship, etc.

Are we sure? I mean is that what he meant? Even the nasty stuff about stoning children to death?

You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.

And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'"

But surely Jesus loves all the little children... If I was going to start a religion, the first rule I would put in would be the protection of children!

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Oh, I see. We are supposed to abandon our children. How silly of me. This is probably because whoever made up this nonsense thought that the world was about to end.

“Don't imagine that I came to bring peace on earth! No, rather a sword lf you love your father, mother, sister, brother, more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.“ 

Sounds abusive to me. But then the new testament is infinitely worse than any of the rape and slaughter of the old testament.  It introduces an entirely new concept, the idea that the only way to find salvation is blind unquestioning devotion to Jesus, the ONLY alternative to this is eternal torture. I'm not sure I could really condone torture under any circumstances, but for eternity? Not much of a choice is it.

Fred Phelps and his family are doing it right. They know and understand the bible, they don't just cherry-pick the bits they like, or that suit them. Their views are entirely consistent with what the bible actually says. The reason they seem bat-shit crazy is that the bible is a bat-shit crazy book of hateful bad ideas.

Talk to me about biblical morality? This is a set of rules that say that rapists have to marry their victims, and you can be stoned to death for picking up sticks on the wrong day.

It is a book where Jesus has tantrums and murders fig trees for being out of season and where god sends bears to kill children. A book of talking donkeys in a flat world with a metal sky. Fairy stories which have no place being used as a standard by which to judge modern life.



Okay, slightly less relevant, here is a 'quick and dirty' overview of the historicity of Jesus which mentions Jesus of Pandera, who I think could have been an attempt to make a mythical Jesus human in order to kill him as a heretic.

David Fitzgerald ~ Examining he Existence of Jesus

...and professor Hector Avolos (Starts at 2:35) continued here
Hector Avalos: How Archeology Killed Biblical History



  And Dr. Robert Price

U R GAY!

When

English to American dictionary

Pants = Underpants
Trousers = Pants
Waist coat = Vest
Vest = Tank top
Tank top = Sweater vest
Jumper = Sweater
Jersey = Sweater

Dummy = Pacifier
Nappy = Diaper
Fags = Cigarettes
Bin = Trash Can

Chips = Home cooked fries
French fries = Fries
Crisps = Chips

These are chip...

...these are fries. They don't even look the same! They sure as hell don't taste the same.

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Pause for thought.

What is really disturbing is that there is little here that I haven't heard expressed as a fantasy.

Queer Arse Juice

a gay?

Superior

The word 'superior' came up the other day.

It makes me feel uncomfortable. To me a D/s relationship is kind of like a nut and bolt. Is a bolt superior to a nut? One may be on top, one may be positive while the other is passive, but one is nothing without the other.

Superior can mean higher in rank without necessarily meaning 'better'. But generally it means 'better' and even though the girl who brought up the subject would like somebody who is better than her... I really don't want to have a 'superior' view of myself.

Yes, thats right! Another meaning of superior, as in 'having a superior attitude' or 'acting superior' - is somebody who has an over inflated opinion of them self.

...because you know it, people who think they are 'all that', usually aren't all that.

Darwin noticed this phenomenon, he said, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge". Bertrand Russell said, "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision"

And in 1999 a couple of fellas named David Dunning and Justin Kruger wrote a paper having studied it. The  phenomenon is now known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

In my words it goes something like this. Stupid or ignorant people are too stupid and ignorant to judge their own competence.  They fail to see their own incompetence and overestimate their abilities, underestimating the abilities of others. (To a lesser degree the reverse is also true that competent people underestimate their own abilities and overestimate the abilities of others.)

Anyway, here is a video which explains it better than I have:-


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I think this has a baring on this whole business of Dum-doms, as discussed by Swan,  Lurve, myself and many others. As mentioned at the end of the video, social feedback may or may not work -- but when nobody seems able to speak out or criticize, the incompetent are acting in a vacuum free of direct feedback. And yet as Swan mentioned, some of these people are the ones shouting the loudest... telling us all how it's done. It does of course apply to tops,  bottoms, subs and Dominants. But lets stick with Dum-doms for now.

There seems to be some interesting side effects of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, one of which is that because these people think they already have the skills they need, they are reluctant to learn more. They may also externalize, making excuses for their failures, because they will obviously fail.... hard.

Those that keep posting in group chat, over and over... most of us must look at them and think that they say nothing of interest, their profiles contain nothing of interest, and the fact that they keep on keeping on indicates they aren't finding that special somebody with this method. I was told that one guy who posts virtually every day in no less that 9 groups that I belong to, has posted virtually the same thing every day for about three years! I suspect that he has put more effort into ineffective marketing than he has into being a Dom during this time.

Now when you think of all the complete idiots you have run across, ask yourself, what Nationality were they?

Mostly American right? Well thats no surprise as there are a high percentage of Americans here abouts.
And Italians? I say in my profile I'm not interested in Italians, and I have seen at least three subs who say much the same, and I am reliably informed that in the gay BDSM scene Italian Doms are a running joke.

Actually, was I too quick to excuse the Americans? There are a lot of them, but there are large numbers of Germans too and I haven't had a problem with Germans ever. And there are a lot of British too, a lot of them are complete knobs, but that doesn't make them the Dum-doms we are talking about.

We all know there is a cultural element to this don't we? I can't be the only one who has noticed?

So what do studies into the Dunning-Kruger effect say about this? The initial tests were done in America, but when taken to Europe and Asia, the effect was much less pronounced. It seems that people from the U.S.A. are much more prone to the Dunning-Kruger effect than people from other cultures.

My own pet theory is that the American culture fosters this because it teaches that, 'Yes you can', 'Nobody is better than you', and encourages confidence, celebrates success and puts less importance on modesty.

So what the fuck happened to the Italians? Maybe it's because Italian males all seem to think they are god's gift? Like Americans, they believe their own hype. This isn't just a personal opinion of mine... parts of Italy are in real trouble due to depopulation, the reason being is that Italian men are so misogynistic,  so 1950s in their expectations of the family unit, that even Italian women aren't interested in them.

If I were to pick a third nation that produces Dum-doms, I would have a tough time choosing between Spain and Portugal -- where incidentally the words 'Machismo' and 'Bravado' originate. Which I believe is a clue. These words were once positive, but in this day and age the former is now very much associated with misogyny, and the later had come to mean pretense. Yet I think I'm right in saying that the afore mentioned countries place a high value on a rather dated concept of machismo.

Another interesting thing; I had a conversation not so long ago about American girls who I have know who told me they were victims of domestic violence. I mentioned to an American friend that there seems to be certain areas where it seemed almost normal. When I listed the States where these girls were from, he said, "Thats really no  surprise, you do realize you just drew a line straight across the bible belt?". So it's interesting that Italy, Spain and Portugal are among the most religious countries in Europe. This isn't directly related to the issue at hand, but it is interesting that the Dunning-Kruger Effect is probably most often mentioned in regard to educated people trying to discuss or debate matters of science, history or philosophy with those trying to promote a biblical world view.

In a previous post I put a video which essentially said that, 'God always agrees with you because your god is your ego'. There are interesting implications when you put the two theories together, thats an amplifying effect if ever there was one.

...not that I am blaming Dum-doms on religion. But it must be said... when you start looking at kinks and perversions that either cross the line of common decency by a running jump, or in some way evade sexual responsibility (i.e. rape fantasy) or act a surrogate for sex (i.e. vampireism), it is amazing how many of the people who are into it come from a religious background which is far from liberal.

I formed the theory that this is because religion draws a line at masturbation, which is a line pretty much everybody will cross. When you cross that line, and you face eternal damnation, where do you draw a new line? As the punishment can't actually get any worse, why bother? Why not keep chasing the thrill of offending god? And if as a bonus the act of depravity helps you overcome the guilt that religion lumbers you with... bring on the goat!

Religion in the news

This could be a well researched article... with lot of links and shit... but actually it gets on my thrupenny bits so much that I can't be bothered.

Anyway, the news is that in a high court decision it has been ruled that local councils aren't allowed to say prayers as part of meetings.

Despite a new law being rushed through which will make it legal, (a law the bishops probably get to vote on) of course various pervy old men if frocks who's opinions really shouldn't be taken seriously because they believe in ghosts, jumped up and down and made a lot of noise about a war on religion.... well yeah, there is because it's shit and we should grow out of it already!

Lord Pickles was quoted as saying, "This is still a Christian country". Well the latest British Social Attitudes Survey would disagree, those identifying as Christian are now a minority (43%), and church attendance figures mean... well the Church of England is already selling off the silver.

But unfortunately, a large part is  Protestant  Christian...  which pisses of some Catholics so much that hundreds of years on, they are still killing people for some reason.

So in other news some moron was convicted of murdering two soldiers on behalf of the IRA, and some other off shoot murdered a man in front of his family last night.

The Christian couple who owned a bed and breakfast and refused to let homosexuals share a double bed lost their right to appeal the court's decision that they were nutters.

Apparently you are only allowed to get away with abusing homosexuals in the street, not in the workplace. A preacher was cleared of verbally abusing two gay men .

In other news, some of those ethnic religious loonies that brought their brand of Christianity back from Africa are in the dock for murdering a boy who they thought was a witch, proving that it is religious idiocy and not the Middle Ages that causes this kind of nonsense.

And just to prove it isn't only Christians who are who do stupid shit in the name of a god, some Muslims were convicted of handing out leaflets saying that homosexuals should be killed.

So this little lot was all in one radio new bulletin. Oh the irony! Religions bringing us peace and love! If gawd forbid we were to become a secular country, we would descend into immorality, and rape and murder and shit, just like Sweden and Denmark!

[EDIT] I should mention that yesterday's news continued the Church of England's split over the issue of women Bishops... I just wanted to show that it's not just homosexuals, witches, atheists and people of other denominations  they are against, in the interest of balance it should be noted that continue with their bigotry against women too.

Oh, have an insightful video:-  

Let the courts decide

I claim France in the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

I fully expect Argentina to back my claim at the UN, as they seem to think that the following are legitimate grounds for a claim of sovereignty.

A. We went there once.
B. It's not very far away.

As for the Falkland Islands, there is nothing to negotiate...  but this can be settled at the International Court. The United Kingdom is more than happy to meet Argentina there to see if the afore mentioned grounds for their claim trump the Falkland Islander's right to self determination.

I wish I could claim credit for the idea of settling this in court, but the idea was first put forward by H.M. Government in the 1960s* and as far as I know it is an option that remains open. Alas, Argentina has always ignored this means of settling the matter once and for all.


Correction : This solution was put forward during negotiations in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s... until they invaded in 1982.

history

Horrific sexually transmitted disease

Atheist Experience 645 - The God Virus with Dr Darrel Ray

In Matt we trust

Serious Politics

America is bullshit. They tried to legalize torture in the name of national security! For fucks sake!

Blah, they don't give a fuck about national security, it shows.

Let me tell you about national security, 1901, that's when the UK realized that health and wealth was a matter of national security. The lessons learnt in those dark days of the Boer War led to socialized National Healthcare and the Welfare system.

Yah! Step back a mo. What could be a bigger issue of National Security that making sure the people, your workforce, potential soldiers are fit and healthy?
What's the point in defending a nation that doesn't have it?

And what about utilities and transport?
Here in the UK the gypsies have been steeling copper off the railways. It's a threat to our transportation systems, apparently they have the Secret Intelligence Services working on it, it's that important!

As for Utilites... I heard a whisper that back in the 1970s, SIS told the IRA that if they went after the National Grid, the gloves would come off... helicopter rides over the Atlantic.

If power goes out, it can cost business billions.

Now look at the US - they reject moves towards a Nationalized system of free healthcare.

Despite Obama trying to put money into infrastructure, they still struggle to get railways built.

As for their National grid, it's so delicate that it can hardly weather a storm. It's so vulnerable... if a lard arse with an air conditioner can cause an outage, just think what a terrorist with a map and a length of cable could do.

It's a disgrace! But worse still, as long as Ohio is blacked out,  my hottie can't get online, and I can't get laid.

For this reason alone, I plead that you write to your congessman, your State Govenour, demand a public enquiry. Because if you think al Qaeda are nasty, you should getta load of me when I'm not getting any. I'm a bitch!