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I guess I just was not feeling ill enough today, so I decided to take on the rest of Monica Dennington's inane ramblings.  Hopefully I get through this without too much distress, though I did not even make it half way last time.

@ 13:36 — Picking up where we left off, Monica just continues to spout the fallacy that god's existence is self-evident.  She cites Romans 1 as if this is something non-believers have never heard before.  I simply do not understand how she fails to realize that scripture is not convincing.

@ 14:04 — She challenges us to research history because history has proved the Bible and the resurrection.  I guess that is why so many people lost their faiths while studying history [1] [2] [3].  Do your research, honey.

@ 14:28 — "You just so happen to be obeying everything that Satan wants you to do if you're and atheist and you serve yourself, because that's what Satan is tellin' you to do..."  Do you have any evidence that this is what Satan wants me to do?  Here's a question, how do you know YHWH is good and Satan is evil?  Perhaps YHWH has simply launched a successful smear campaign against Lucifer in order to make you think he is evil when Satan is actually benevolent.  You could be taking orders from a lying tyrant.  Prove me wrong.  (I am just trying a little role reversal here.)

@ 15:22 — "And that is why you cannot stand me.  It's not a logical reason.  You can't find a logical reason.  If you think about it, you don't even know me."  She really needs to turn this logic on herself.  You don't know us either, Dennington.  You assert that we serve ourselves when you admit you are not even interested in having a conversation with us.  You not only do not know us, you admit have no interest in knowing us, and yet you somehow know we all live in unapologetic selfishness?  Perhaps we do not like you because you spout idiotic tripe such as this.

@ 15:48 — "If people believe what I'm saying, the worst thing that's going to happen is that people are going to start loving more."  And what a message a love she has brought to us so far, am I right?  Is it not nice to have the loving mouth of god speaking directly to us through YouTube?

@ 16:30 — "There is no logical reason for you to hate [dramatic pause] Jesus Christ..."  Now there's a Freudian admission if I ever saw one.  She starts off this little rant by saying there is no logical reason to hate her and ends by saying there is no logical reason to hate Jesus.  She evidently suffers from severe delusions of grandeur.

@ 16:40 — Once again, she says we know god exists.  There is no quicker way I can think of to discredit your scripture than to say to non-believers that we know god exists, and you know we know because it says so in your Bible.  If we do not know god exists, which I do not, then we know your book is wrong.  End of story.

@ 17:29 — "...Whether you realize it or not the spirit that is within you hates the fact that he has to bow to the spirit that's in me."  I am unsure whether or not she can set herself any higher than she has at this point.  Her sermon obviously has nothing to do with a desire to save us, but is merely being used a medium through which to look down on us and tell us how much better she is than us.  Just keep on smiling while you tell us we are going to Hell, Dennington.  Your pleasure in saying such horrible things indicates the true content of your character.

@ 18:30 — (With reference to judgement day.)  "You really think that's how it's gonna go down?"  No.  I am an atheist.  I do not think it is going to "go down" at all.

@ 18:33 — Our opinion about god is does not matter.  And yours does?  Oh, right.  Your opinion is not an opinion, it is a fact.  How could we be so blind?

@ 19:00 — "Nothing that you did here is going to count or matter."  I could not sum up the problems with your theology any better than you just did, Ms. Dennington.

@ 19:26 — "You're not gonna wake up one day, you're not gonna die and open your eyes and wake up and find that you are the judge of the world."  She is right, because when I die, I am going to stay dead.  I will not be waking up ever again after that.

@ 20:04 — Dennington thinks it is funny when non-believers point to attrocities in the Bible committed or mandated by YHWH.  Go ahead, apologize for all those terrible things you do not think are terrible.  You are merely submitting your right to claim the moral high ground.

@ 21:24 — "...You really think you have a better sense of justice than God?..."  If he exists and his actions are consistent with the Biblical account, yes I do.  I am more loving, too.

@ 21:39 — "When did you ever give your child and watch them beaten and killed for the sake of someone else that was guilty to try to let them off the hook?  When did you ever love someone that much?..."  Oh yeah, that is quite a sacrifice right there.  Now YHWH and Jesus only have the rest of eternity to spend together.  This idea that Jesus sacrificed so much to save us is a joke.  As Christopher Hitchens has pointed out, it is not until gentle Jesus meek and mild hits the scene that the threat of eternal damnation appears, so it seems to me Jesus did more harm than good.

@ 22:01 — "You imagine that you have all this power."  No, I do not, because unlike Dennington, I am not so audacious as to suggest that this massive universe [1] [2] [3] was created with me in mind.

I give up.  Going through the rest of this is simply not worth the headache.  If this woman truly wants to convert anyone, she needs to radically change her strategy.  What a pathetic display.

The LCROSS experiments have paid off as NASA has found water in the Cabeus crater on the moon.  They have also found evidence of the presence of other previously undiscovered substances as well.

"The full understanding of the LCROSS data may take some time. The data is that rich," Colaprete said. "Along with the water in Cabeus, there are hints of other intriguing substances. The permanently shadowed regions of the Moon are truly cold traps, collecting and preserving material over billions of years."

I am unsure precisely how NASA intends to use this information, but the finding is interesting, nonetheless.

In other news, NASA will attempt to free the incapacitated Mars rover on Monday.  The rover Spirit has been stuck in a sand trap since April.

Drinks

Sorry that I just want to ramble on today. I'm feeling seriously rebellious. I think I want to completely overhaul my lifestyle. Mostly my diet. Okay, so I've got: a wheat allergy and chronic fatigue syndrome. The last thing I want is pity - I don't need it. I got through a graduate biology program. But I'm annoyed at our society for its silliness with edibles.

Should I stop drinking? It's so dumb how I google cider recipes and they all have booze in them. That alone makes me want to boycott the industry. I'm definetly cutting back on coffee because I'm having palpitations again when I have too many cups or alcohol.

I wonder if I should just go whole hog and live a crazy vegan lifestyle. I also google vegan recipes and they all have wheat. I can't eat those. Can you see why I want to start diet groups on Vox? People keep saying to me, "Oh, I don't know how you can stand to go without cake / coffee / booze / steak". Yeah, thanks for the words of wisdom.

On a happier note, we have heroes like Alton Brown to educate us on cooking techniques. And I still love Ace of Cakes, I bet they would make a cake just for me. My favorite episode was when they made a cake for the author of a kid's book called Ghost Girl, a child who was teased in school. Then she died and she learned what real friendship is.

Appropriate for my dilemma, I guess. Maybe I'll change my attitude along with what I consume.

ghostgirl

Green_tea

So I've sent out my resume, I'm waiting patiently to hear back from potential employers. I can't wait for school to send my diploma so I can take that stupid word "Candidate" off my title for "Master's of Science".

My mom thinks I should apply for a college teaching job. You know, so I won't get eaten by some beast in the forest. I can't imagine anything I'd want to do less. I'm in biology so I won't have to work with humans, remember?

The one advantage to teaching is that I'd  teach those brainwashed students about evolution. In the vet tech program, our cell biology teacher was a devout Christian. A student asked about Intelligent Design, and she replied, "This is a science class, so we're not going to discuss religion". Score!

Although it may be brutally cold I'd rather be watching bobcats anyday than stuck in a monkey suit at a desk. Being an ecologist means I can dress casual and be a socially awkward geek if I like. Not that I can help it.

I'm at least tempted to volunteer for science groups that stand up for Evolution in schools. And a new arrival at my favorite bookstore showed Origin of the Species in illustration form. Yay!

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation

I got caught up with my first full day at work yesterday so like the butcher who sat on the mincer I'm all behind in my work.

Enjoy.

Terrified Cartoon Parrot

A young man named John received a parrot named 'Chief' as a gift.

The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary.

Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.

John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's vocabulary.

Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot.

The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder.

John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer.

For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed.

Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.

Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said, "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions.

I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."

John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued, 'May I ask what the turkey did?'

This from the preceding post:

And Dr Collins sees no problem with where aliens might fit in with the belief that man was created in God's image.

"Every creature reflects the goodness and the creativity of God. Humankind, we certainly would argue that we represent that most fully and most completely," he said.

"But all of creation represents God's creativity. So any extraterrestrial being would certainly represent that creativity as well and may be or may not be more developed than we are."

I've long thought that humans make a fundamental mistake in that they arrogantly assume that the universe is all about us. That is why stupid statements like the above are made. We see God as some super human who created a stupendous universe for us to run around sinning in. And, what's more, we are supposedly made in God's image. All the other creatures on this Earth apparently weren't. Only us. Yeah, right. God must be delighted with that one. Think Hitler.

We weren't even around for most of the Earth's history. The first life appeared 4,000 million years ago. Something resembling us (and supposedly God) appeared on the scene 60 thousand years ago. Why did God take so long you may ask? And just when did we acquire a soul? One would think such questions could be easily answered by the men who point to a book written 2,000 years ago for answers. Of course they can't. So I do wonder why they pontificate at such length with such inane garbage that can be easily disproved by anyone who cares to exercise a few brain cells.

Do they really think we're that stupid? Apparently so. I think I need another drink.