So I got my new phone on time and couldn’t wait to use it. I was a little worried because as soon as I placed my order my text plan quit working on my original iPhone. Took it out of the box and ran through the process and then got the ominous message that it may take several days for my activation to occur due to heavy traffic and they would email me to let me know.
So here we are now 36 hours later and still nothing. I switched my sim card out with my old one and the phone works. Weird side effect is that my texting still doesn’t work and the ATT site says I have used 0 of my 7 text messages on my plan. As far as I can tell they don’t sell a 7 text message plan.
Grrr! Waiting on ATT support to get back with me. Apple needs to find a new partner because ATT sucks. Now the phone on the other hand is awesome especially the voice controls, and updadted GPS. Especially since I am upgrading from a Gen 1 iPhone!
So Lil Kim is up in arms again. I know that North Korea is dangerous but when you read the things they say it is just funny. Take this threat from todays news
We will cut off the enemies wrist even if they touch the tip of our finger“
Okay that has lost its meaning in translation or something because it simply doesn’t sound ominous. Everyone is all jacked up because they are threatening to test another nuke. I wonder why people don’t realize that every nuke they test is one they don’t have to shoot off at their neighbors. Estimates are that they had enough enriched uranium to make about 6 bombs. Let them test away.
So I ordered my new iPhone yesterday to go along with my new Mac Airbook.
I love my airbook and cant believe I ever used a pc. Definitely wont go back.
A friend of mine posted on his blog about the concept of not being at war with Islam. Now I understand that many people feel this way mostly, in my opinion, because nobody wants to be labeled as a racist or intolerant. I am not sure when intolerance became a bad thing. I personally am intolerant of a lot of things. Being punched in the face repeatedly for example, I am highly intolerant of that. The point is there are many things that it is perfectly okay to be intolerant of and I myself consider stupidity and delusional behavior to be those kinds of things.
Now many people have a problem with the concept I am about to put forth mainly because they know many religious people who are perfectly nice and abhor violence and who may even support some scientific research or the like. I know these types of religious people as well but they are still part of the problem. The concept you have to consider is can a good person be part of a bad group, and the answer is unequivocally yes. Was there not one good person residing in Germany in the 40s? Were there no good people in the Soviet Union? What about North Korea or Pakistan? Of course there were but still through silence or fear or absentia they became part of a problem.
Religion, even moderate religion fosters a delusional belief system that provides a fertile breeding ground for extremism. In fact if you have ever read the Quran or Bible to any extent you would immediately see that the extremists are only following the good book to the letter while moderates do not do as their codex says. And why do moderates not follow the instructions of God to the letter you might ask? It’s simple, science. Science has given man better answers and solutions to problems once thought the realm of an unseen and vengeful sky god. There is no need to sacrifice virgins or children to get it to rain, we now understand through meteorology that it is simply drought and we can use irrigation or even cloud seeding to get by until nature sends rain. When disease breaks out we use medicine to cure it instead of labeling a woman a witch or cursing unseen demons that have attacked the faithful. It was not an easy path but science has been able to beat back religion to some degree.
Now science did not have an easy road to get to this point. A belief system that by definition isn’t based on fact but rather faith doesn’t respond well to criticism even when faced with overwhelming truth. Many suffered and died or were imprisoned for putting forward scientific theory that was very valid but at odds with what religion taught at the time. Scientists faced death and imprisonment for their theories. Sounds like war to me.
Many will try to brush these facts aside by saying that we have overcome this kind of intolerance from religion toward science. Not so. We still have a large section of the population that fights with all they have against scientific advance. Stem cell research, abortion, genome mapping, cloning, and birth control, mention any of these topics to a devout believer and see how tolerant they are of others beliefs. Okay you say but these are just differences in belief rational people can disagree, right? Wee I take exception to calling someone who believes in talking snakes and invisible sky gods rational but let’s say that’s true. There are many other things that are less rational that occur daily. Catholic priests rape with impunity with very little outrage from either religious heads or their congregations. How can any rational person not completely eaten up by the god delusion not be outraged at this? I have asked this question of practicing Catholics and they simply say yeah it’s sad, unbelievable. What do you think the response would be if it were an atheist group raping children? Godless heathens would be burning at the stake before sundown. When God enters the equation the wrong can seem not so bad. Not because they are bad people but because they are a member of a group that they don’t want to speak out against because it is Gods group. Even if they see a problem they are reduced to praying about it instead of doing something about it.
So yes I am intolerant, intolerant of child raping organizations. Intolerant of a belief system that has no rules and can be openly interpreted to anything from be kind to blow up infidels and each are equally backed up by their manual. Without interference from religion man would be free to progress at a faster rate. Without the Pope claiming condom use a sin and saying they are dangerous the continent of Africa could be closer to being free of Aids. Without religion the world would be a better place and so as a humanist and a thinking man I consider myself to be at war with religion. Regardless of what I think or you think we have been at war with religion since man first said why.
There is a push by atheists in Europe to put signs on buses to get out their message. Predictably little brains everywhere are outraged. Italy will not post the classic line on their buses “The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is that we do not need him”. Hmm isnt the Popes bat cave there?
In America you cant drive a few blocks without seeing a church and everyone has a sign with what passes as wit in their community plastered on it to get out their message. But then again Christians arent big on rights except their own.
I saw where the Catholics had this special commission whose job is to hold hearings to forgive people from sins that priests cant. That is really grave sins that need special permission to forgive because they are considered so bad. So naturally my ears perked up because I expected one of them to be, Oh I don’t know, supposedly religious men who betray everyone’s trust and their own oaths by raping the children left in their care.
No, didnt make the list, thats ordinary sin. So what is so bad? Defiling or psitting out the cracker at confession. Cause you know it actually becomes the body of Christ. Any catholic out there please tell me how you can take this organization seriously. Fucking crackers!?!
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