Rant 26: Doubt P2

I think I can confirm it for now, though I have known it for a very long time now
..I am an atheist.
There is some doubt as to the very name "atheist". Oxford dictionary says its someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God. But if I don't believe in something in the first place- which is to say, that there is absolutely no logic in my mind that can lead me to believe in a thing, then where is the question of disbelieving in the existence of it?
I guess we could also say...isn't Oxford dictionary assuming that a god exists anyway? It's very convenient for someone like God (if he did exist) to be watching us argue on his/her/its existence.
None of us starts from the fence on the question of god. we start by either calling ourselves believers or non-believers. why don't we start, say, along the lines of Bill Maher, who groups his beliefs under the word Doubt. This post is not named after his beliefs...although doubt is a way of starting off on the fence.
since we all like to appear scientific (many of us actually BEING so) in their approach to answer questions, lets conduct an experiment to find out which side of the fence we classify ourselves in.
lets base the experiment on the premise that both believing and not-believing provide some purpose or give something in return.
So....first exp.
Religion/God---> Prayers offered by people. In return, we get (if u believe in the whole divine plan/god's will etc. jazz) floods, earthquakes, not to mention exciting apostles of evil like George Bush, Dick Cheney, Adolf Hitler, Stalin. where is the proof that God told Bush to invade iraq or hitler to kill all the Jews? how fast an internet connection does the white house have?
lets add some election defeats to this (i read in a newspaper report about how it was "god's will" that a certain party had lost the recent general elections)
I wonder how all our priests have never dragged their overly-obese bodies onto the streets and shouted up to the skies "What the fuck God?"...Noooo. the obese bodies stay comfortably inside the temple, and tell everyone else "it's God's will...That's all Folks!" (tell me u didn't just picture Porky pig in Hindu garb!)
Non-believers---> Realism, i.e. Nature and Nature alone has the kind of power over us, that we can and should put any kind of faith - if u will - on. We fight disease with medicines yes, but think about it...if humans didn't pollute everything in sight, a multitude of preventable diseases would actually be prevented. I hate it when i see ads for water filtration machines on TV.
people! Industries pollute the water. Then another industry comes along to sell you that crappy filter and soon, two fat industry tycoons are joking at a party about how one of them saved millions by dumping all factory waste into the local river...and how one of them made millions by selling the crappy filter.
Have you ever noticed that when politicians talk about nuclear wars or global warming..they do so as if the planet would blow up or something.
"boo hoo! think about the earth and what all our nuclear weapons are doing to it"
"global warming...climate change ..waaah! Lets hold a G1000 summit, so we can express our grief about how no one is doing anything...which the population also does anyways, just that we do it on a more expensive and glamorous level"

Bullshit!
all that our govts probably fear is that our human race will be annhilated in all the nuclear shit etc. people...the Earth has a lot more capacity than you think. The planet's like the intelligent mother who lets her kid get dirty in the shit he's been playing in...then tells him that its socially unacceptable to go around in public like that.
whatever we manage to do to ourselves by shooting bombs, Nature will take over. You think we're more powerful than the dinosaurs? they lived for millions of years buddy! we've been around - at least the dumb-as-shit part of humanity- for no more than 3000 years tops.

Here's my solution to save the PLANET . kill the whole human race...
before that..have a look at "Life after People" (google it)

Rant 10: For Argument's and God's sake

Of all the ***forsaken movies we've ever watched including those made by the master of satanism himself Mr. Bill Maher, needler in Bush's ass Mr. Michael Moore etc etc, here is one movie that completely blew me away...
ps: if homeland security is reading this then ...well..nothing....ukhaad ke dikhao!
it's called God on Trial.
A group of prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp ( a lovely little retreat in Poland built by Hitler!) decide that enough is enough. The sheer injustice meted out by the Nazis is enough to warrant answers from the big G himself.

"But the horror of it! how can you put God on trial? and how is he to be represented. and we all know he himself can't come here, ha ha ha ha!" this last bit would of course point to a higher reason but we all know poor theists are 90% blind to it anyways. and that was not a quote from the film itself, but what i assumed theists would say to a statement like "can we put god on trial pleeeease!?"

Coming back to the story, what was perhaps most interesting, was that even in the face of extreme injustice, mass murder by millions etc, people were ready to believe that it was all part of a plan.
To borrow keywords from the film's dialogue, "the holocaust is part of a purification process." Yes! just like the great flood of Noah or the endless worldwide plagues, the wiping out of entire races was considered a process of re-modeling. it's like the god here screwed up often and then just so that everybody would think he was doing ok, would tag the humans as sinners, cleanse the earth and then start all over again.
hey he's god...what are you gonna do about it?
i remember bringing a similar form of enthusiasm for my 2nd grade drawing class.

anyways.

the principle charge that the Jews (primarily) in the film lay out was that God had broken his covenant with the Jewish people. This is something like a signed contract that God made with the jews. So apparently all the praying etc that all other religions did was simply false. or did god simply listen to them so that in the end he could finally realise his dream of imitating Eric Cartman and telling all non-jews:
na na na na naah naah...u got the wrong religion.... u got the wrong religion
and just for fun Nelson (simpsons): haaaaan haan!

it is here where i feel the BEST dialogue bit of the film comes into play...
firstly theists like to see the world as intelligently designed. How else could a structure so intricate as say the human body or any other living organism be formed and fucntion. all the wonders of the natural world, delicate systems etc. It all seems so overwhelming to the theist that it definitely looks intelligently designed.
I am a simple Journalist, not a scientist. hence i'll let one of my fav characters from the film, the lone member of science at the blockhouse -the physicist- talk to u for a bit.
(Gist)
" there are a hundred thousand million stars in this universe. and numerous planets like ours around them who knows? why do you people insist on believing that a god who can create a hundred thousand million stars would stop to make a covenant, a contract with only one tiny planet at the edge of an outer spiral? and not even one planet, one set of people, the Jewish people."

and staying with Intelligent Design gives us this peach of a (dialogue) delivery
There is mention of a certain kind of wasp that lays its eggs on flowers. The larve upon hatching then carry the flower's pollen to other flowers. it does not help the wasp for it cannot eat it, but it still carries it.
wow! what intelligent design

here is the physicist's reply:
"does the wasp carry pollen for all flowers or only Jewish flowers???"

(I rest my case)

Rant 8: doubt

I have had quite a weird relationship with one of mankind's most pointless fascinations. yep i'm talking about everyone's favourite Reality show...the GOD show (not to be confused with GOD Tv though there really isn't much of a difference). i'm talking about the one reality show that didn't even need TV to begin with. Egyptians, Grecians etc made sure that we were all participants in this the mother of all shows.
Back when i was a kidI used to assume Mr. Gary O Donnel (the nice old man living up in the sky watching over me) was kind of a mean guy, punishing people with threats of hell for wrong stuff. so i did the necessary prayer time, at home, and mostly before exams. at that point, doing badly in exams was way way worse than say shoving the back-side of a pencil up ur desk partner's rear end...way worse.
i now realise that it was probably all the constant coaxing from my folks etc that got me the results i got...and not some 6X9 picture of a woman with ten hands. it's scary shit. i remember going to an Oriya association function one evening and the only thing i clearly remember is being shit scared of the black coloured statue of my people's god...Jaggannath. i was inadvertanly given the message of fear of the unknown by this statue.

as u can probably guess from earlier posts, i love "conversing". so now that i stand on a platform of uncertainty, i guess i have to take the matter up with the big G himself.

me: 'sup
G: How are you my son?
me: m doin' great. had some questions for ya though.
G: (sigh) what is it
me: how does one guy like you listen to the hopes and prayers of a whole fucking planet?
G: its a good trick u know. U dont really have to be listening even. my good friend, Mr. Bush and his dear dad made sure that my "message" gets through to everyone. that way when someone asks me for something (and this is by the millions everyday), i simply throw out random Yes's and No's. this way there's a very good probability that everyone will get somethi ng or the other that he/she asked in his/her lifetime. God bless America.
me: hang on...ur the god here i thought. did u just pray to urself??? and why does god feel obligated to bless only america. why not Jerusalem. I'm guessing the place where three religions were born should be a more blessed place than a place where crackpots like Joseph Smith emerged.
G: well you know, USA called dibs on me first.
me: dibs??? ok now this is getting silly.
G: It is. all of religion is just plain silly. take this conversation for instance. you feel like ur talking to god or someone right? wrong...ur always talking to urself. and for once, i'm gonna lay some truth on ur arse. this whole god thing is a sham. the little voice inside ur head talking to u, is ur own damn brain. Get over urself. all actions are either directly or indirectly a result of human action, and not a result of drinking my blood every sunday or lighting a thousand candles....i wouldn't even need candles if these stupid priests didn't put me in such dark corners of their temples.
and speaking of dibs, it is what politicians have always done. i'm sure u know how my good friend bush has made good use of MY concept and made life soo good for the americans. every social or geo-political master needs an element that binds his/her subjects; in order to acheive social control. apart from today's modern age, lets face it, when brother Ugger (pronounced ooo-ger) left for his morning hunt out of stone-age papua new guinea and saw his first lightning strike, he might have been just a little tempted to think there was more than just charged particles floating around. thus the first human Master emerged. and since it was Ugger who first noticed the lightning strike, thus emerged the first human Prophet. this cycle is repeated in every generation and it is how u end up with a thousand paths to the same frickin' destination.
Goddammit...it irritates me just to be talking about stuff which these idiots (the population) should have been clever enough to guess for themselves.

sigh....i guess man will always be man...and i will always be the product of a 21 year old's incessant uncertainty.