This my anti-profile.
Maybe it's while you're shopping. Maybe it's while you're watching television. Maybe it's while you're applying spray-on tanner to your fake breasts. We all have those moments each and every day when we feel, even if just for a second, that we're living in an illusion, that we have bought in to a paradigm that doesn't fit and can't sustain. I will abuse your illusions and molest your thoughts in all the right ways.
my view on religion...
"Atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
The atheist is merely a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (87% of the population) who claim to never doubt the existence of God should be obliged to present evidence for his existence and, indeed, for his benevolence, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day. Only the atheist recognizes the boundless narcissism and self-deceit of the saved. Only the atheist realizes how morally objectionable it is for survivors of a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God while this same God drowned infants in their cribs. Of course, people of faith regularly assure one another that God is not responsible for human suffering. But how else can we understand the claim that God is both omniscient and omnipotent? There is no other way, and it is time for sane human beings to own up to this. Only 28% of Americans believe in evolution; 68% believe in Satan.
Only the atheist refuses to deny the obvious: Religious faith promotes human violence to an astonishing degree. When we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; when we have no reasons, or bad ones, we have lost our connection to the world and to one another.
Atheism is nothing more than a commitment to the most basic standard of intellectual honesty: One’s convictions should be proportional to one’s evidence. Pretending to be certain when one isn't—indeed, pretending to be certain about propositions for which no evidence is even conceivable—is both an intellectual and a moral failing. Only the atheist has realized this. The atheist is simply a person who has perceived the lies of religion and refused to make them his own.
Here's an easily recognizable distinction between religion and spirituality. All the major religions incorporate prayer into their practice. These practices feature repetition in verbal and physical expressions. Chants, beads like the Catholic rosary, confession, Islamic prayer, the same hymns over and over in Christian church and even primitive culture ritualistic dance and drum. ALL are designed to seduce the mind into a state of receptivity to control as they fill the mind with a singularly charged repeating energy and directive.
Spirituality uses meditation to create a clearing in the mind giving access to what lies beyond it. The mind is where all control takes place and while we experience mind based creativity, the real party is beyond the mind. When we create beyond our minds, we're hearing the music from 4 Doors Down and doing great things.
Unlike many atheists, I don’t doubt the subjective phenomena themselves—that is, I don’t believe that everyone who claims to have seen an angel, or left his body in a trance, or become one with the universe, is lying or mentally ill. I have had similar experiences myself in meditation or in lucid dreams. I know that astonishing changes in the contents of consciousness are possible and can be psychologically transformative. I remain agnostic on the question of how consciousness is related to the physical world. There are, of course, very good reasons to believe that it is an emergent property of brain activity, just as the rest of the human mind obviously is. But, I am an atheist who can be expected to be unforgiving of religious dogma.
briefly, my view on politics & the socio economic system...
Politicians, along with everyone else, are “victims of culture”. We cannot consider the integrity of any human without considering the integrity of the environment within which they were raised and live. The reinforcement mechanisms of that environment generate and amplify intent and motivation. This understanding, when considered in detail, explains why those in positions of power within the current social system lend themselves consistently to monetary and power-oriented corruption. It is rewarded, reinforced and invariably needed to sustain select groups and their values.
The Scientific Approach, which respects the orders of Natural Law such as physical science and mathematics, the need for nutrition and clean water, and everything else required for our personal and social survival and progress, can be considered the real “constitution” of social governance for species survival on the planet. It is the methodological referent that has stood the test of time. It is likely the greatest intellectual human discovery ever, and each year scientists perfect and refine these understandings through it's processes. We now find that there is a real, near-empirical, emergent, testable measure upon which all our concerns can be contextually considered. This, then, is the platform for true social participation.
True social participation is not to simply “vote” for a person or idea; It is to also interface with the process of logical inference and tested, proven proofs which show what works and what doesn't in the natural world. In other words, it is not based on the whims or opinions of an ideological group - but based upon physical law and causal reasoning.
Our social problems are, in fact, “technical” and not “political”. Poverty, war, educational imperatives, starvation, cancer, energy scarcity, unemployment and the like do not exist as “political” issues in reality, even though they are generally addressed as such. Each issue can only be resolved by a technical/physical solution. This goes virtually without exception when one is able to see past the cloud of distracting political noise and hence “opinionated” rhetoric coming from both the hardened public norms and archaic political machine - stubborn “baggage” from our ongoing social evolution.
The structural and psychological aspects of the monetary market system today are the driver of conflict, war, hunger, poverty, crime, pain and suffering. And at the core is societies lackluster ability to change for the better. Changes which are systematically rejected without any legitimate or logical defense. It appears that traditional sentiment is constantly in conflict with present day knowledge.
Infinite wants and the idea that humans are too complex or incompatibles for a designed environment efficient is mostly propaganda and delusion. Historical reflection on human collective behavior show deep adaptability and if people were not so manipulated by advertising; living in a consumption-grown economy model, our needs and wants would be very different, our values are simply distorted. Humanity needs to base it's "wants" on the scientific principles of sustainability. True economics calculation in this sense would also reveal how abundance on earth for all human needs is possible today. The reason our world has 3 billion people starving and in deprivation is a result of monetary calculation, not scientific calculation.
on war TODAY as we are poised to attack Syria and then Iran....
War is about barbarity, perversion and pain, an unchecked orgy of death. Human decency and tenderness are crushed. Those who make war work overtime to reduce love to smut, and all human beings become objects, pawns to use or kill. The noise, the stench, the fear, the scenes of eviscerated bodies and bloated corpses, the cries of the wounded, all combine to spin those in combat into another universe. In this moral void, naively blessed by secular and religious institutions at home, the hypocrisy of our social conventions, our strict adherence to moral precepts, come unglued. War, for all its horror, has the power to strip away the trivial and the banal, the empty chatter and foolish obsessions that fill our days. It lets us see, although the cost is tremendous.
on marriage...
Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation, as to how things shall be divided. During their understandably temporary association, the 'married' couple will typically consume a large quantity of merchandise and a large portion of each other.
The modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming. Nothing productive is done there. Such work as is done there is done at the expense of the resident couple or family, and to the profit of suppliers of energy and household technology. For entertainment, the inmates consume television or purchase other consumable diversion elsewhere...❤
What do you think? Do you share my worldview or agree with my view on religion, war, marriage and our socio-economic system? I have barely touched the surface here and it reads like an essay but these are two topics deeply ingrained in our lives and important to express when seeking a partner when it's critical to agree on a fundamental level.
I'm looking for a deep connection with a man, a soul-mate. I'm a Bohemian, an artist and writer, who lives and acts free of regard for conventional rules and practices living a simple stress free life and want to drift from place to place across the country for a while.
I often stayed signed in here 24/7 even when I'm not online.
I want to wish everyone here success in their quest for love. Don't give up! Love is the only thing that is REAL.
Maybe it's while you're shopping. Maybe it's while you're watching television. Maybe it's while you're applying spray-on tanner to your fake breasts. We all have those moments each and every day when we feel, even if just for a second, that we're living in an illusion, that we have bought in to a paradigm that doesn't fit and can't sustain. I will abuse your illusions and molest your thoughts in all the right ways.
my view on religion...
"Atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
The atheist is merely a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (87% of the population) who claim to never doubt the existence of God should be obliged to present evidence for his existence and, indeed, for his benevolence, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day. Only the atheist recognizes the boundless narcissism and self-deceit of the saved. Only the atheist realizes how morally objectionable it is for survivors of a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God while this same God drowned infants in their cribs. Of course, people of faith regularly assure one another that God is not responsible for human suffering. But how else can we understand the claim that God is both omniscient and omnipotent? There is no other way, and it is time for sane human beings to own up to this. Only 28% of Americans believe in evolution; 68% believe in Satan.
Only the atheist refuses to deny the obvious: Religious faith promotes human violence to an astonishing degree. When we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; when we have no reasons, or bad ones, we have lost our connection to the world and to one another.
Atheism is nothing more than a commitment to the most basic standard of intellectual honesty: One’s convictions should be proportional to one’s evidence. Pretending to be certain when one isn't—indeed, pretending to be certain about propositions for which no evidence is even conceivable—is both an intellectual and a moral failing. Only the atheist has realized this. The atheist is simply a person who has perceived the lies of religion and refused to make them his own.
Here's an easily recognizable distinction between religion and spirituality. All the major religions incorporate prayer into their practice. These practices feature repetition in verbal and physical expressions. Chants, beads like the Catholic rosary, confession, Islamic prayer, the same hymns over and over in Christian church and even primitive culture ritualistic dance and drum. ALL are designed to seduce the mind into a state of receptivity to control as they fill the mind with a singularly charged repeating energy and directive.
Spirituality uses meditation to create a clearing in the mind giving access to what lies beyond it. The mind is where all control takes place and while we experience mind based creativity, the real party is beyond the mind. When we create beyond our minds, we're hearing the music from 4 Doors Down and doing great things.
Unlike many atheists, I don’t doubt the subjective phenomena themselves—that is, I don’t believe that everyone who claims to have seen an angel, or left his body in a trance, or become one with the universe, is lying or mentally ill. I have had similar experiences myself in meditation or in lucid dreams. I know that astonishing changes in the contents of consciousness are possible and can be psychologically transformative. I remain agnostic on the question of how consciousness is related to the physical world. There are, of course, very good reasons to believe that it is an emergent property of brain activity, just as the rest of the human mind obviously is. But, I am an atheist who can be expected to be unforgiving of religious dogma.
briefly, my view on politics & the socio economic system...
Politicians, along with everyone else, are “victims of culture”. We cannot consider the integrity of any human without considering the integrity of the environment within which they were raised and live. The reinforcement mechanisms of that environment generate and amplify intent and motivation. This understanding, when considered in detail, explains why those in positions of power within the current social system lend themselves consistently to monetary and power-oriented corruption. It is rewarded, reinforced and invariably needed to sustain select groups and their values.
The Scientific Approach, which respects the orders of Natural Law such as physical science and mathematics, the need for nutrition and clean water, and everything else required for our personal and social survival and progress, can be considered the real “constitution” of social governance for species survival on the planet. It is the methodological referent that has stood the test of time. It is likely the greatest intellectual human discovery ever, and each year scientists perfect and refine these understandings through it's processes. We now find that there is a real, near-empirical, emergent, testable measure upon which all our concerns can be contextually considered. This, then, is the platform for true social participation.
True social participation is not to simply “vote” for a person or idea; It is to also interface with the process of logical inference and tested, proven proofs which show what works and what doesn't in the natural world. In other words, it is not based on the whims or opinions of an ideological group - but based upon physical law and causal reasoning.
Our social problems are, in fact, “technical” and not “political”. Poverty, war, educational imperatives, starvation, cancer, energy scarcity, unemployment and the like do not exist as “political” issues in reality, even though they are generally addressed as such. Each issue can only be resolved by a technical/physical solution. This goes virtually without exception when one is able to see past the cloud of distracting political noise and hence “opinionated” rhetoric coming from both the hardened public norms and archaic political machine - stubborn “baggage” from our ongoing social evolution.
The structural and psychological aspects of the monetary market system today are the driver of conflict, war, hunger, poverty, crime, pain and suffering. And at the core is societies lackluster ability to change for the better. Changes which are systematically rejected without any legitimate or logical defense. It appears that traditional sentiment is constantly in conflict with present day knowledge.
Infinite wants and the idea that humans are too complex or incompatibles for a designed environment efficient is mostly propaganda and delusion. Historical reflection on human collective behavior show deep adaptability and if people were not so manipulated by advertising; living in a consumption-grown economy model, our needs and wants would be very different, our values are simply distorted. Humanity needs to base it's "wants" on the scientific principles of sustainability. True economics calculation in this sense would also reveal how abundance on earth for all human needs is possible today. The reason our world has 3 billion people starving and in deprivation is a result of monetary calculation, not scientific calculation.
on war TODAY as we are poised to attack Syria and then Iran....
War is about barbarity, perversion and pain, an unchecked orgy of death. Human decency and tenderness are crushed. Those who make war work overtime to reduce love to smut, and all human beings become objects, pawns to use or kill. The noise, the stench, the fear, the scenes of eviscerated bodies and bloated corpses, the cries of the wounded, all combine to spin those in combat into another universe. In this moral void, naively blessed by secular and religious institutions at home, the hypocrisy of our social conventions, our strict adherence to moral precepts, come unglued. War, for all its horror, has the power to strip away the trivial and the banal, the empty chatter and foolish obsessions that fill our days. It lets us see, although the cost is tremendous.
on marriage...
Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation, as to how things shall be divided. During their understandably temporary association, the 'married' couple will typically consume a large quantity of merchandise and a large portion of each other.
The modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming. Nothing productive is done there. Such work as is done there is done at the expense of the resident couple or family, and to the profit of suppliers of energy and household technology. For entertainment, the inmates consume television or purchase other consumable diversion elsewhere...❤
What do you think? Do you share my worldview or agree with my view on religion, war, marriage and our socio-economic system? I have barely touched the surface here and it reads like an essay but these are two topics deeply ingrained in our lives and important to express when seeking a partner when it's critical to agree on a fundamental level.
I'm looking for a deep connection with a man, a soul-mate. I'm a Bohemian, an artist and writer, who lives and acts free of regard for conventional rules and practices living a simple stress free life and want to drift from place to place across the country for a while.
I often stayed signed in here 24/7 even when I'm not online.
I want to wish everyone here success in their quest for love. Don't give up! Love is the only thing that is REAL.
