Religious, Atheist or Anti-theist? a tale of tragedy.

This is rather a long post, but bear with me, this post is well worth a thorough read, i tried to cut it down. But shorter versions didn’t sound right faced with the horribly tragedy of the tale.

It all started with tragic events surrounds an Iranian family, the tragic events stemmed directly from religion and religious culture

Had they earlier rejected their religious superstition it could have saved them, and perhaps even offered them some happiness. As things are they are divided and its far from certain if this family has any kind of future ahead of them.

I have over the last year engaged the suppressed worshipers and their imam at the local mosque. It hasn’t always been friendly, and on more than one occasion it has come to blows. Anyway long story short, lets just say the clergy didn’t really like me, the local Imam was even arrested for a period for death treats against me.

To clarify i see religion as dangerous, i think religion causes so much harm that i see it as my duty to combat it at every turn, even if it poses a risk to my person.

This active, up close and personal approach to combating religious superstition puts me in a position where i see first hand the ugly, ugly face of religion and thus i am able to bring you this horrific and tragic tale.

The Imam (the death treat guy) was up until recently a fervent observer and die hard follower or Islam. Today he virulently rejected Islam, Islamic doctrine, and religion including its culture in any shape way or form.

I was at the mosque to have a new round of dialogs as he held his last sermon today. And i have never heard anything like this before! Everybody in attendance where moved deeply and i seriously doubt anyone had any faith left at the end of it.

I recorded most of it on my mobile and here is the transcript, the imam, broke down in tears several times during the sermon it shook me to the core. I wish i had a video camera since my attempts to describe this to you will not be close to convey the collective feeling of horror, guilt, and sadness we all experienced.

Sermon:

(we can all see that the imam is horribly tormented, his faces is ash gray and contorted by pain, he just stares at us all for a long time before he starts)

Is god good? does god exist? Are religious people dangerous? Is believing in god harmful? ……

Latently we have all been repeatedly challenged on this, you all know our friend (smiles sadly and points at me) I am here today to deliver my final words to you in regards to this issue, I will not speak to you again from this podium.

Many of you already know that i have just lost my family,,,, (struggles to continue) what you don’t know is how this came to be.

From this very spot i have repeatedly praised, and made you praise, the goodness of god! but is god good??? like many of you, we still have friends and family in Iran. The abominable hell hole! that we are all so FUCKING proud of! (he collects himself, long pause)

My daughter where to be married in may, i had arranged everything. My daughter was never consulted of course. She is only a girl. After all she was MY daughter! Our culture, our religion,,,, (looks down and sobs for a few seconds),, everything told me i own her! i would do as i pleased,,,, God gave me that right! (long pause while his sad eyes accusingly stares at us)

A few weeks ago a friend of my daughter still in Iran was killed, she had been arrested last year during a demonstration, i don’t know what the demonstration was for. She was 17,,,, the same age as my daughter.

My daughter was totally distraught, not only was her best friend hanged simply for daring to speak up! But shortly before her execution she was married to one of her executioners, since Islam forbids the execution of a virgin!….

Is this the will of a great and good god? isn’t this very act, committed according to gods own commands evil? how is allowing the executioner to rape the condemned prior to killing her in any possible way an act of goodness? How can killing a young innocent woman ,for simply speaking, be deemed GOOD! (swallows hard several times)

My daughter asked me these questions! And i defended god of course. “Its gods will” – “he is testing the parents” – “he was testing my daughter” DO NOT QUESTION GODS WILL! (swallows hard again)

The next morning my own daughter was gone, she had fled, taken refuge in the emergency protection program! She is beyond my reach no matter what i do! (looks at us with painful eyes)

Now god was testing me! The pain is almost unbearable, i am worried for my daughter, all alone among strangers! What if she gets hurt? What would i say to the groom? His family? What would my family say? I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t rest! (the Imam shaking we can see he is in incredible pain)

Is god good? Can the suffering god was putting me through be described as an act of good? IS TESTING ME TO THE POINT WHERE MY HEART, MIND AND SPIRIT BREAKS IN ANY WAY GOOD! (long pause)

A few days later my daughter contacted my wife to say goodbye, she said she was safe and well cared for, she explained her reason to run away to my wife. She was no longer a virgin she had been with a Norwegian boy in secret. They had sex. Even though she was against marrying a person she knew nothing about she still wanted to please her parents and follow our wishes. But she didn’t dare to travel to Iran to be married fearing not only a lifetime of misery, she was scare Her new family in law would murder her, when they figured out she was no longer a virgin.

(took some time to collect himself, he is boiling with pain and hate)

Upon hearing this news i exploded with rage! i repeatedly struck my wife, i guess a neighbor called the police, and before the hour was over i was incarcerated at the police station. I have never before really struck my wife, i have slapped her with my flat hand and the koran commands but this time i really struck my wife, i am drowning in my own shame. (looks down so we cant see his face)

When i was released i returned to an empty house! my wife had also moved into protective care and my remaining children are in forster care.

When i last spoke with my bellowed wife she said she wants a divorce…. (sobs)

IS THIS AN ACT OF GOOD! WHY WOULD GOD STRIP ME OF EVERYTHING!!!! EVERYTHING i cared about? (now getting enraged) IS SPLITTING UP THE HOLY UNION FORMED BY HIMSELF LEAVING ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED TO SUFFER !AN ACT OF GOOD,,,, WELL IS IT!!!!! IS IT GOOD TO DEPRIVE MY 1 YEAR OLD SON OF HIS FAMILY AN ACT OF GOOD! IF GOD IS TESTING ME WHY PUNISH THIS INNOCENT CHILD!

GOD IS NOT GOOD !

FOLLOWING HIS RULES HAS TAKEN EVERYTHING FROM ME,,,,, If he even exists i hate him, I HATE HIM! FOLLOWING HIS RULE HAS CAUSED TREMENDOUS PAIN TO ME, MY WIFE AND ALL MY BELLOWED CHILDREN!!! I FUCKING HATE GOD WITH EVERY FIBER IN MY BEING ! IF I EVER SEE HIM I WILL DRIVE A STAKE THROUGH HIM! TORTURE HIM TO DEATH IN THE MOST SLOW AND PAINFUL MANNER I CAN POSSIBLY MUSTER.

(long pause with crying)

I hate to admit it, but all my life i have been wrong! Our friend here is right! i have searched myself and i must admit that!

I refuse to be one of those traffic wictims you see, sitting paralysed in their wheelchair: ” the accident left me paraplegic, but i was right! it was the other guy thet didnt follow the rules! never mind that i saw he was traveling to fast to stop! i was right!”

I will not be that guy! i will not be that GUY!,,,, I denounce god, I denounce our culture,i denounce and cancel my daughters pre-arranged marriage!

I will never again speak to you here, never again will i step inside a holy house! I AM LEAVING GOD! I am leaving Islamic culture! I am leaving the koran and all the other oppressive lies and garbage behind.

- —- I WILL NOT BE THAT GUY!. ———- (screams the words)

I am leaving you now to try to save my family,,,, my future,,,, their future,,,, my own life! I cannot bear it without the love of my family! I am ready to pay the price for having believed in god…. My only hope is that its not to late……

Change before its to late.

(struggles with his tears bows his head and walks out)

End of sermon:

The silence in the room was deafening, people just sat there for maybe 5 minutes, suddenly a woman stands up, takes off her head scarf, utters “he’s right” shoots out of the room, a few murmurs ripple across the crowd and everyone shoots out.

in what seams like an instant i am the only one left there, i was shocked to the core. It was, to put it mildly, a powerful experiences. For a long time i just stood there letting it sink inn.

I went to the Imams house to offer my support, he was grateful but this was something he just had to work out on his own.

It cant be easy to go from the deeply religious camp streight into the far right anti-theist camp in less than a week.

I really hope he and his family comes out of this on top, and now that religious and cultural dogma is out of the equation they might actually have a chance….

Christian? dont read this!

If you are one of those Christians that believe in Jesus, his return to earth, the rapture, and all that nonsense, don’t bother to read on! Unlike the idiots that think the end of the world is just around the corner. I believe we must take care, not to irreparably damage our biosphere so that we leave our children a planet fit to live on.

This post is not about religious idiot bashing its about a potential technology that can help reduce worldwide emissions from cars.

Electric cars have been around for almost a decade, i myself own several cars. One is an a 5 seater electric Renault kangoo that i use to and from work. What sucks about it is that it will only travel 60-80 km on one charge. and it takes 4 hours to re-charge the batteries.

Its plain to see why todays electric cars are not suitable for everyone. On the other hand the electric car is dirt cheap to operate and own. Compared to my other cars i would estimate that the cost of operating the electric car is 2-3% of the cost of operating a normal car over the same distance.

Apart from the major negative of battery power and charging cycles and the major positive of ultra low operating costs! The electric car is just like normal car, comparable acceleration, comparable comfort, comparable speed, its bit more quiet though…. anyway in most respects it just like a normal car.

If battery power and charging cycles where more suited to the power requirements of a normal car i would immediately trade in all my gas guzzelers for electric vehicles.

Now a company has a solution for this problem! Their products address a diverse range of needs in energy, pharmaceutical, and other industries but what made me place some money in their stock is their battery technology.

Altairnano as the company is called, produce among other things, fast charge, high power density, long life battery technology.

Imagine a car battery that re-charges in 15 minutes, powers the car over 300 -350 km, with a battery life span 4 times longer than the average lifetime of a car. This is what their technology delivers. Or how about charging your mobile once a week? or a laptop that can run on batteries for several days and re charge in 10 minutes?

Not only do they have propietory battery designs but they can also integrate their tech in existing litium ion batteries, greatly improving performance.

On top of this the cost are only around 1,50 – 2 dollar per KW, this is comparable to existing battery costs, the only difference is that this battery is a hell of a lot more practical in use, it delivers the same performance and practicality you would get from a petrol engine but with none of the environmental damage caused by burning fosil fuel.

I have since long had a solar panel next to my parking space and i will trade inn my kangoo with a berlitz since they have usable Battery packs with altair nano technology. I believe this stock will make me a nice profit over the next couple of years. I put 150K $ into the company, i realise most people cant affort to gamble this sort of money on stocks but you dont need to invest a lot.

If you have some extra cash that you can afford to gamble with, i recommend this stock! not only am i convinced it will give you a good return, you will also be supporting research and technology that can greatly reduce car derived pollution.

How hot is hell?

I came across a funny story today, supposedly a university professor in thermodynamics gave his class only one question for their final exam. And it was as follows, is hell exotermic (gives off heat) or endotermic (absorbs heat), prove your theory.

The majority of his students referred to Boyles law, where gas cools when it expands and heats up when it is compressed, but one of his students answered as follows.

- the students paper.

Firstly you need to know how hells mass changes over time, you need to find out how many souls arrives in hell and how many departs, i make the assumption that if you first arrive in hell you never get out. Therefor no one leaves hell.

When it comes to the question of how many souls that arrives in hell, we have to take a closer look at the different religions of the world. Some religions claim that if you don’t follow their religion you go straight to hell, since there are multiple religions that make this claim, and since people usually only follow one religion at any given time, it is logical to assume that everybody will end up in hell.

With todays number of births and deaths the number of people in hell increases dramatically every day.

Secondly you need to calculate the change in hells volume, Boyles law predicts that for the temperature and the pressure of hell to be maintained at a steady level its volume will need to be increased at the same speed as new arrivals.

This in the end then leaves you with only to possibilities

1. if hell expands with a slower speed than new arrivals the pressure and temperature will increase until all hell breaks loose

2. on the other hand if hell expands faster than new souls arrive the temperature and pressure will decrease until hell freezes over

Which of these two possibilities is the correct one? If we bring into the equation the fundamental principle that has was established by Theresa Banyan during my first year in college where she said (hell will freeze over before I will go to bed with you) and the fact that I still haven’t made any progress with her, we can exclude possibility number 2 and therefor hell is exothermic.

 

 

MEGA! MORONS!

I havent made any posts for a while with good reason, the discussions on my resent posts have raged, with some articles receiving over 100 forum posts.

I have deliberetely stood silently on the sideline and watched how the religious crowd yet again demonstrate their inability to understand that religion is superstition.

Its difficult to understand why religious people are allowed to walk free in our societies when its obvious that they are suffering from several serious mental problems.

Now the religions themselves are pretty spectacular delusions on their own, after all believing that there is a super being out there taking a personal interest in your life is pretty fucked up on any scale. A good illustration for how deranged this belief actually is, is to think back to your child hood experiences around Santa and presents. He knew if you where naughty or nice as well, and rewarded-punished you accordingly.

The difference of course is, most of us grew out of such silly superstition at the age of 5 while religious people of all denominations continue to cling to such ridiculous notions.

- I shouldn’t sin so i can go to heaven (getting a present) and avoid ending up in hell (not getting a present) – he knows if you have been naughty or nice…..

Yet the religious crowd continue to be perplexed when i call them idiots and morons.

It beacomes even funnier if you dive into the details of the superstition, lets take the concept of a good god.

Imagine is you had a screen that feed you all the tragedy and suffering that occurs on our planet every second of every day.

Car wrecks, murders, rapes, torture, miscarriages, child molestation, starvation, disease, etc. Think about all the suffering experienced on this planet during any ordinary day.

Even though we are pretty blunted by Hollywood, my guess is that it would be a terribly uncomfortable experience, watching all these events unfold.

If god as imagined by religious morons was an omnipresent and all seeing all powerful being this is what he would watch every hour of every day, yet he does nothing to prevent or alleviate any of these tragedies.

A religious freak i talked to a few days ago told me how happy she was with god, she had prayed that god would let her win a bid on a house she and her husband had made. and she was totally convinced that (since she had won the bid) god had helped her out.

Wait a second? here god gets involved in a totally trivial matter of buying a house? yet he does nothing to help or reduce the unspeakable horrors bestowed on humanity every day?

God if he existed would be one sadistic fucked up shit-head if you ask me.

If God is all-knowing all seeing the only conclusion is that god goes through his daily routine watching people murder, rape, molest and terrorize other people millions of times every day, but he does nothing to stop them. He watches the victims as they are being murdered, raped, molested and terrorized, but he does nothing to help them. God completely ignores the prayers of the planet to eliminate murder, rape, child molestation and terrorism and allows these atrocities to continue unabated.

Why would anyone want to believe in, or look favorably upon a creature who acts like this? I mean while he is helping you find your lost car keys God is allowing 100,000 children to die of starvation, what a great guy he is!

Now if god existed he would be the meanest, most deranged psychopathic terrorist in the universe, he would put poll pot or any die hard jew murdering Nazi to shame.

Believing in any religion is simply put! stupidity on a truly monumental scale!