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“The God Delusion”, Richard Dawkins.
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
Richard Dawkins well-known scientist and philosopher, author of brilliant works on natural selection, genetics and more, intends here to raise our consciousness to the fact that there is a life outside religions, that Darwin’s theory is the only plausible answer to our questions regarding humanity’s existence and evolution, and that Atheism is not only a realistic option but also a courageous and beautiful aspiration to have.
This is a must read book with hundreds of true-based facts and stories, in his opinion, on the twisted manipulative guilt orientated ways religions dictate our world and our lives.
“Imagine the world without religion”, the World Trade Centre twin towers would still be there...
Richard Dawkins, a profound atheist, is inviting us to think for ourselves, to be not afraid of leaving behind us the old Dogmas and to believe that our sense or good and bad can be derived from our Darwinian past.
TGD raises questions like, why religions exist, what are the benefits of religion? Does religion has a direct survival value of its own? And if no, is it a by-product of something that does?
With a fabulous sense of humour, and as he says one must need some humour when reading the absurdity of religions statements, Richard Dawkins explains to us his point of view through the book with quotes of Thomas Jefferson, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Kant, John Adams, and many more high profiled men arguing as well the existence of religions; he proposes scientific theories on moral based Darwinian’s origin, and tells us stories of moral and physical child abuses in the name of God.
“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man – living in the sky - who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time... But He loves you! “
George Carlin.
“The Atheist Manifesto”. Michel Onfray. A book to read.
French philosopher Michel Onfray has written here a very interesting thinking about the three monotheist religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, denouncing their extremely violent past and present history (September 11th) and invites us to think outside their judgemental, narrow minded, and guilt orientated laws.
“While September 11, 2001, as seen by the United States and therefore by the West, calls upon everyone to choose sides in the religious war that supposedly pits Judeo-Christianity against Islam, we might prefer to avoid choosing side and opt for a Nietzschean position.”
Onfray argues the fact that the war messages in the holy books from the three religions and this for the last twenty-five centuries calling on each sides to “slaughter of the enemy” or battle with their enemies” are not necessary the answer, but as Nietzsche would say; “we can choose not to choose”.
What he tries to explain here is by not siding with Israel and the United States doesn’t make you a Taliban supporter.
Onfray questioned the supposedly “goodness” of God by reminding us of thirty centuries until today of bloodshed, crusades, the inquisition, French religious wars, the massacre of the protestants, deaths, tortures, burning alive women, rapes, pillages and other horrendous acts, and all of this in the name of the almighty God...
Further down he argues the position of religions mixed with power, money and politics. The use of violence, fear and guilt in children upbringing, Hitler and his admiration for the Vatican and vice-versa, the invention of the holy war by the Jewish, St Paul’s neurosis, and so on.
A God Mr Onfray described as misogynist, violent, jealous, quarrelsome, intolerant and bellicose which has generated more hate and violence than peace. He denounced religion’s needs to control and alienate people’s life, to forbid science and education that don’t follow their dogmas, hatred of women, presenting chastity as a virtue and as we know and talk about it today turn priests into paedophiles, and this sick obsession with death in the detriment of the life here and now.
We can argue forever about God’s existence or not, atheists obviously don’t believe, agnostics believe in a proof, believers believes in the fantasy they read in the holy books and mostly have been educated in order to believe so. What’s important here isn’t really to find out if God exists or not as no one really knows at the end of it but the main purpose of this book is to look at the thirty centuries of religious history until today of the three monotheist religions and the massive gap between their horrible acts of violence and hate, and the supposedly messages of love and peace they are apparently sending to us...
The love life of today, when it ends and why?
Today, one in three marriages ends up in a divorce.
It is not a very glorious statistic and it kind of gives us cold feet in terms of making the big step.
Despite it all we still believe in the big day and in the "forever and ever" fairy tale.
We fall in love, we fall very hard and sometimes it hurts.
Saying this, the wedding planners shouldn’t get too worried, as it seems that despite massive
evidence of increased divorce rates, the wedding industry is still doing quite well!
So, back on our feet after a well earned recovery time, the first thing that pops into our head is,
sharing some special moments with someone special again. If some people say the world revolves
around money, one could say that if money seems to be a major concern, love is a bigger one, and
always was.
We cannot stop hoping for the best partner, this special person that will make us feel happy, safe
and grounded. Even if all those feelings shouldn’t depend on someone else’s power it doubles the
effect when it comes from our other half.
Breaking up with someone is more than just ending a partnership. We lose our best friend and the
primary witness of our life at a certain time of it.
We lose someone that probably knows us at the best, and at the worse too!
Can we force someone to hold onto its promise even if this person can no longer keep it?
Researches revealed that happy marriages argue as much as unhappy ones, the differences are that
for the first it is called constructive arguments!
Technically it means that happy marriage's disagreements bring couples together, they work as a
team and use their differences to grow together.
Instead of being driven apart by it, they intersperse their arguments with positive comments and
humour to reduce the tension. Every single marriage on earth could, apart from extreme situations
as violence for example, last "until death pull us apart". What it needs is two people willing to work
together, wanting to stay together and appreciating each other's love, says Mrs Palmer.
Stephanie from Sydney talks about her relationship with her boyfriend: “Josh and I fight. When we
fight it is nothing out of the ordinary, we fight over regular everyday couple problems. The
difference may be with us is that we talk openly and honestly. We communicate every thought and
feeling - then we take the steps to find solutions to the problems. It's a wonderful way for us to learn
about ourselves and each other. Of course there are times when I'm so annoyed that even the fact
that he's communicating everything annoys me. The point is we're honest with each other and tell
the truth - there's a lot of trust between us. We make time and space for each other, time away so
we can be individuals and time together. We are and always will be individuals - we simply come
together to learn from each other, help each other and grow as human beings.”
If only we could all do it!
So if u want to make it work, put your ego in your pocket, it is not about proving the other one
wrong and making your point but show respect to your other half, listen to it, and remember your
willingness to go more than halfway to carry the relationship through difficult times.
dear all, so much happened lately that i haven't been able to post anything, i send u all my sincere apologies.
i will come back very shortly and tell u all a fantastic story!
meanwhile, enjoy the olympics
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National Australian identity, what are we?
Australia as the “child of Mother Britain” has a lot on its plate when it comes to define its national identity. It has certainly its roots in the Anglo-Celtic origins but since then many things have evolved and the cultural identities of Aborigines, Torres Strait and Pacific Islanders, Chinese, Thai, Indian, German, French and many more should be taken into account. In regards to Aboriginal heritage we see Aboriginal motifs everywhere, on Qantas planes, tourism ads, T-shirts and teacups. During the Sydney Olympics games aboriginal’s heritage was predominant throughout the whole event and seen as the primary national symbol by people overseas. Yet, it is only since 1967 that aboriginal people were accorded “basic citizenship rights”, prior to this they were not even counted as inhabitants... they are basically the true Australians; they have been there since ever and nowhere else... However, they make up only 2% of the Australian population... and as the rest of Australian people do not necessarily share their mystical connection with the land, Aboriginal symbols are not enough to define Australia.
Together, we are a multitude of different identities defining ourselves in many different ways such as cultural, ethnic, religious, class-oriented or ideological. With so much diversity how can we create our national identity without excluding anyone? What does it mean to be Australian? What can we use to create a national identity that unifies all of us
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Boycott or not Boycott that is the question! What people think!
On the 24th of April, Australia has the pleasure and pride to welcome the Olympic flame in Canberra. After the explosive events occurring in Paris, London and the massive security that needs to be set up now in the countries where the torch will be, what can we expect here at home?
It isn’t new to see political issues rising at the Olympics Games. The old tradition from the ancient Greece where the first game started in Olympia, the city of Gods around 770BC has a long history of controversial and political outbursts. Already in around 400AC the games were forbidden as Christianity imposed itself in the area. It’s only much later in 1859 that the games reappeared... near Athens. French aristocrat, Pierre de Coubertin at the initiative of the IOC was looking for “a way to bring nations closer together, and to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war”. Despite Coubertin ideals of peace and togetherness 3 games were cancelled because of war, WW1 and WW2
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Enchanted, if you have not seen it yet, please go for it!
Enchanted the latest Walt Disney production is jewel of delight
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I have never been a big fan of video games, as I always preferred outdoors activities, but I have to admit that one game grabbed my full attention to which I always stayed completely faithful, a real facionista, it is Super Mario Bros!
It was created by Nintendo in the year 1985 and had straight away a worldwide success due to a completely new concept featuring smooth-scrolling levels but most of all a real story behind it. The purposes were not only to fight and win, but a whole script was written, characters had a complex human like history, a mission was giving, where the player was the hero. While taking the game console in your hands you would become Mario or Luigi his brother, if in two-player mode.
If you remember, in each game, Mario must conquer eight worlds in order the save the Princess Peach in the Mushroom kingdom from the evil Bowser, a big and ugly turtle, king of the Koopas, also turtles. As you all know Mario receives the “famous” kiss from the princess each time he “finally” saves her, after thousand attempts which depend on good “u” are! We don’t have much information on the true nature of their relationship, but it seems quite affectionate
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