Florida court sets atheist holy day‏

I just received this email from my mother. Just, please, read it.

> > In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming
> > Easter and Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to
> > bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews and
> > observances of their holy days.
> >
> > The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no
> > such recognized days. The case was brought before a judge.
> > After listening to the passionate presentation by the
> > lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring,"Case
> > dismissed!"
> >
> > The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling
> > saying, "Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this
> > case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and others. The
> > Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah; yet my client
> > and all other atheists have no such holidays."
> >
> > The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you
> > do. Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant."
> > The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any
> > special observance or holiday for atheists."
> >
> > The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April
> > Fools Day. Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his
> > heart, there is no God.' Thus, it is the opinion of this
> > court, that if your client says there is no God, then he is a fool.
> > Therefore, April 1st is his day.
> > Court is adjourned.
> >
> > You gotta love a Judge that knows his scripture!

Oh, ha. Ha. Ha. How... Amusing. Anyway, I know this is bogus and ridiculously stupid. The thing that bothers me about it though, is that religious people actually read this garbage. You think this is a one off case of my stupid mother? Nope, it's not. Attending an Anglican school for 10 years and a Catholic school for 1 has made me realise that a lot of christians actually do listen to this bullshit. Ridiculous stories like these give them comfort and solace.

Here's another ridiculously stupid story I remember from my childhood. A particular vice principal of a particular secondary school in Singapore read out this story during assembly.

"An old woman had 10 gold coins and she counted them every day. They were so precious to her, blablabla. She lost one of them and turned her house upside down trying to find that one last gold coin. So she ended up spending 8 gold coins to find that 1 gold coin. Eventually, somehow, she found it and all was well."

Um, okay.

10-1=9
9-8=1
1+1=2

Right. So... When she could have had 9, she ended up having 2. Very smart, the moral of the story was that god will do anything to bring you back to the fold. Um... I can't even begin to tell you how ridiculously stupid I think this all is.

Another one from some pastor, or something.

"When I was your age, I did not believe in god. I thought he was a stupid concept and refused to believe him. Then my life started going badly, a lot of horrible things happened to me and I went and thought, why not try praying. I said, in my own room, "God, if you really exist, can you please send me a sign?" And then I felt this heat in my chest, and it kept growing and filling me from head to toe and I could see a bright light. It started getting brighter and brighter and I said, "Oh dear lord, I believe you exist, please forgive me for doubting you." And from then on, I believed."

Yes, I believe that experience is called heroin. You were taking heroin, you fucking junky. I wouldn't be surprised if the blood of christ or whatever has some mild-acting, short half-life version of lsd. How else do you explain the idiots speaking in tongues? The very fact of the matter is, whether this is believable or not, you can't expect someone else to convert into your faith via the very fact that you somehow have had a personal experience and your suspicions have been confirmed but you expect other people to have faith?

Hi, listen to me because I know.
How do you know?
I've seen shit.
Okay, well, I haven't.
You have to have faith.
How bout you get on your back, think of jesus and shut the hell up. I'm not paying you to talk to me.

Sigh, I'm too bored?

Hmmm...?

Maybe I'm just really bad at taking criticism?

I don't know, another thing that annoys me are feminists. They obviously don't understand that the whole reason why this movement started was because women weren't treated EQUALLY. This does not translate to women being treated BETTER. Realistically, if this whole equality of the sexes should occur, obviously there must be some considerations as to the areas that different sexes are stronger in. That noted, it really shouldn't be hard for women to integrate themselves within the work force. You've just got to be expected to be treated equally. EQUALLY.

You can't expect to bat your eyelids and get better treatment than everyone else. Of course I understand the benefits of doing so, but if people aren't willing to give you that extra little bit, you shouldn't expect it then. Plus they tend to have these massive hissy fits when not treated better as well, blah. Go fuck yourself.

Yeap, I should keep my mouth shut? Nah...

Yeah fuck you man, seriously. When I last spoke to the guy, he said it was frighteningly honest. He can't believe that it's out in the open and on my facebook profile so openly. I honestly don't see what the big deal is. I am who I am, and I'm not afraid of it. Sure some shit things have happened, and I've dealt with some really heavy stuff for someone my age but life goes on and I've dealt with it, or am in the process of it. I don't feel the need to hide the real person I am away from the world. And although this sounds obnoxious, maybe you shouldn't either.

Quality vs Quantity...

I'm sorry, once again, for being so shit. I know I keep saying that I'll keep up with the posts but I've been so busy! I'm trying to squeeze in this research project I'm doing plus bar work which is the gayest thing of all time. Enough about that though.

Last night a friend told me about how he started reading my blog and found it the most narcissistic, boring thing ever. I can deal with the narcissistic, obviously having a blog where you voice out your opinions to the whole world is self-indulgent but BORING!? It's true though, my blog standards have dropped really low. It doesn't receive half as much readership as it used to and it's my fault. I also haven't written anything cool in ages, just been pretty gay after the break up and then having no time just makes it all the worse.

I can't help it though, I just keep thinking that Ev still reads this so I can't post up as much shit as I'd like to? Meh, peace guys