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read my profile sign my guestbook Name: nevermind that now... Location: Pennsylvania, United States Birthday: 12/6/1986 Gender: Male Interests: Future collapse of humanity... Expertise: Pretending to be scary...Boo Occupation: Unemployed/Between Jobs Industry: Textiles Message: message meEmail: email me AIM: WarpedDwarf Member Since: 7/7/2004

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Thursday, January 27, 2005

A person who has faith seems to be the quintessential of a brainwashed twin in the book A Brave New World. Engaging in any sort of theological debate will always follow a routine of religious slogans that will end with “Sometimes you just have to have faith.” Usually this comment will angry me to the point of wishing I could take a bat to...well nevermind...but later on I realize how truly sorry I feel for these people. Faith, essentially, shows to be nothing more than intellectual bankruptcy. Faith is simply accepting something based on its assertion and not on its merits. While thinking about faith-based religions...(I have nothing to do but think due to the fact detained in the office every lunch period for the rest of the year)...something interesting arises. Faith exists without any knowledge, and the converse is true, Knowledge exists without any faith. If you have faith that something exists and later learn that it really does exist then your faith is gone.

Now simply apply this to theological arena, by using Christianity as an example. In this certain cult, christians are told to that in order to reach heaven they must have faith in the existence of a god. Now lets say that by gathering knowledge through science, we find indisputable proof that there is a god and this proof is beyond all reasonable doubt. What would happen? If people knew that god exists (or doesn’t exist in my case) then what would happen to faith? The simply answer is you would not need faith anymore. Faith would be destroy by knowledge.

After I realized this a lot of puzzling facts began to make much more sense. The Christian cult is based on faith without faith there would be no religion, and knowledge is a destroying power to faith. So what does this religious institution have to do? Destroy knowledge. And up to this point religious zealots have a pretty good track record. Throughout history the Christian church in particular committed heinous crimes against people seeking knowledge. Greatest thinkers of all time had to hide in fear from this persecution such as Da Vinci, Galileo and countless scientists of periodical inquisitions.

To dispel the idea that this anti-intellectual behavior was simply a phase in history, just read a bible. The very first lesson taught to Adam was not to eat from the tree of Knowledge and accordingly after gaining knowledge Adam was considered a wicked creature and thrown from Eden. What kind of message is that telling you? That is it evil to have knowledge. How can people follow a religion that teaches gaining knowledge is evil and goes so far to kill those who try to gain it. The weakness of faith-based religions are show by their open attacks and brutality against knowledge. Without knowledge we are nothing more than mere sheep and that is exactly what religions are looking for.

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Monday, December 13, 2004

So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor— your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?

Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except by the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more.

But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality—the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?
But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich—will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt—and of his life, as he deserves.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns—or dollars. Take your choice—there is no other—and your time is running out.

What is your religion teaching you about the true nature of money?

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Saturday, November 13, 2004

I need you all... I need all those of you I know and those who I don’t know but are for some reason reading this....I need everyone who is part of my life....I need those people I truly hate and those who piss me off...I need those people who hate me for many a reasons or for no apparent reason...I need those people who I am occasionally nice to....I need those people who are, for some reason, tolerant of me(especially sarah)....Why do I need all these people? because they in turn return, help me...my life is a simply search for an experience so rewarding that I will want that moment to linger forever...only way to accomplish this is to combine the two extreme opposite emotions such as love and hate at the same time....in other words one must experience heavens and hells at the same moment....so I need you all for me to hate and you to hate me...I need you all for me to love and you to love me.....so to everyone out there, I need you all for whatever relationship you have with me....if you love or hate me please continue with as much passion as you see fit.....thank you all...perhaps this may explain my differing behaviors.....or probably this again makes no sense at all......

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Monday, October 25, 2004

This Sentence is False.

Read that sentence....

Reread it again and again....

A person talking about himself, or even just pointing at himself, is self-referencing. Above is a simple instance of self-reference in the one-line paradox. It is easy to see that texts that reference themselves, even if they are as short as the example cited above, can lead to amusing or paradoxical results.....i am easily amused.....and presently writing in the past....

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

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The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard
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It was then that the fox appeared.

"Good morning," said the fox.

"Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.

"I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree."

"Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."

"I am a fox," the fox said.

"Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy."

"I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed."

"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince.

But, after some thought, he added:

"What does that mean--'tame'?"

"You do not live here," said the fox. "What is it that you are looking for?"

"I am looking for men," said the little prince. "What does that mean--'tame'?"

"Men," said the fox. "They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?"

"No," said the little prince. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean--'tame'?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."

"'To establish ties'?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ."

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