Faith

Faith is like dividing by zero, if you divide by zero you can
get any number out of an infinite number of answers.
Likewise, if you use faith, you can justify an infinite
number of beliefs. If by faith you believe in one god,
then there are an infinite number of gods.
The only thing that faith can do, is be one of the memes
in the religious meme complex that is used to avoid the
use of thought and reason.

Last political post

I've been disgusted lately, yellin' at the T.V. , mumbling to myself,
just plain disgruntled all the time. I'm disgusted with the U.S.
government, disgusted with the media, and disgusted with the
unthinking portion of the American people who support this
administration, no matter what they do.
This administration has been called-out on: torture, selectively
leaking secret material for political purposes, political corruption,
incompetence, and above all, warrantless spying in the U.S. Now,
when we should have the administration on the defensive and
should be working toward impeachment of the president, what
does the media do?, I spends two entire weeks covering totally
meaningless crap. The Dick Cheney accident and the
transfer of port management from one company to another are
not issues of importance. What is important is domestic spying
and the president thumbing his nose at the constitution of the
United States.
The president signed the bill against torture and then promptly
said that he would only follow the law when it suited him. When
he was caught spying in the U.S. with out oversight, he said that,
he would continue to do warentless wire tapes as long as it suited
him. Where is the outcry for impeachment?, It has been covered
up by two weeks of meaningless crap in the news.

Posting on politics is just to aggravating. From now on,
I will do intermittent posts on intuitive science, and leave
the politics to the Rude Pundit.

My next post will be under the category of, the origin of life.

Voice of Reason

I was watching the coverage of the Olympics, when a news clip
came on about the muslim rioting over the release of the cartoon
with Muhammad wearing a bomb hat, I suddenly had a thought
that the world would be much better off if there was no religion
at all.
Soon after the news clip, when John Lennon's song "imagine" was
played as part of the opening cerimonies, and the thought fresh
on my mind, I became conscious of the anti-religious message
in the lyrics. I would like to post parts here.

Imagine
by John Lennon:

imagine there's no heaven,
it's easy to do,
no hell below us,
above only sky,

imagine there's no countries,
it isn't hard to do,
nothing to kill or die for,
no religion too,

1776

I was to blog on my topic number four, but the spying case is still in
the news and I have to speak to the obvious.
President Bush during his back-pedaling news conference yesterday,
stated that FISA was an old and obsolete law, made, way back, in
1976. None of the news people had the sense to point out that the
constitution was written in 1776, and did he think that the
constitution was also outdated?
During their justification of torture, the administration said that
the Geneva convention was quaint and outdated. They, the present
administration must think that all laws pre-911 are outdated and
can be ignored or revised in private.
Does president Bush actually believe he can ignor the constitution
because he, "answers to a higher power"?

He must be impeached to stop this obvious power grab

Brain functions & Bush

"Bush says U.S. policy on Hamas unchanged" ABC News.

When the Isrialites took the city of Jericho, They killed every:
man, woman, child and all their amimals. If Bush can respect
the Isrialites, he can recognize the government elected by the
Palestinian people.

Why is the brain susceptable to religion?

The brain is seperated into three levels: the lower reptilian brain
that we share with the reptiles, the mid level brain that we share
with the mammals, and the higher cortex which, in its full
development, only humans have. The lowest level controls our
basic drives: sex, thirst, and hunger; the mid-brain provides
emotion and rudimentary social behavior; while the higher cortex
provides logic, language and reason, the human qualities. The
brain has developed from the bottom up, each level intern
developing its own emergent properties.

I think, and this is totally conjecture, that people utilize the
different levels of the brain in varying amounts. If a person uses
pridominately the mid-brain, they will tend toward being selfish,
clannish and more susceptible to the influences of religion. If they
use there higher cortex more they will tend to be more logical,
resonable, and altruistic, while being less susceptible to the
religious meme complex. The fact that all arguments for the
existence of God are fallacious, and that the exceptence of religion
takes an unreasonable denial of reality, points to a dominance
of the mid-brain functions. As for fundamentalist religion,
I think that it has its origin also in the reptilian brain. The
evidence is that they seem to be more concerned with embryos
and a brain-dead woman then they are in hungry and abused
children

There is no God

I know what you are going to say, "you can't say that", "you can't
say that." I hear that all the time. Well, how I can say that there is
no God?, by the fact that I am a reasonable person.
Jurors in the courts don't have absolute knowledge, the courts use
the test of, what would a reasonable person say or do?
So, I am a reasonable person and I say that the sun will come up
tomorrow and I don't have to say, maybe or probably it will rise.
If the goal of the lotto was to be correct instead of guessing a
particular number, the most logical bet would be to bet that you
will lose when you bet one dollar. The average person who bets
a dollar each week will probably never win the top prise. So a
reasonable person can say that they will never win the lotto.
Now, as to there being a God: there is no evidence, prayer doesn't
work, and according to the laws of physics, nothing can control the
entire universe and effect anything with out an equal and opposite
reaction. Therefore, I will say it again, God does not exist.

That was topic 6 on my list. Tomorrow:
We know religion is a dilusional psychosis and the product of a
meme complex, but why is the brain susceptible to a psychosis or a
meme virus?

Bush spying

I haven't posted in about a month, a lot of personal things
have happened. My mother has passed and an other
relationship is ending. I have been thinking of topics but
haven't bothered to develope them.
I have listed eight topics and hope to post a short comment
on one of these topics each day.

Today is Bush and spying:
I've heard in the news that over 40% of the voters think that
the president has the right to spy, and has done nothing wrong.
I'm wonding what the pole results would be if the question
was stated in terms of: do you think the president ( not
Bush the fundamentalist and anti-abortion president, but
any president) has the right to intercept all communications,
enter spy ware on anyones computer, and look at everyones
personal records, with out reporting what they have done to
the judiciary?
President Bush is thumbing this nose at our constitutional
rights, he is endangering our constitutional form of government
and has put all of our freedoms at risk.
Government without oversight is tyranney, president Bush
should be impeached for this arrogance as will as his crimes.

That was topic three on my list.