As 2008 kicks off, not only will a ball be dropping in NYC, but Election Day will draw near. In 2004, we as Americans severely failed our fellow neighbors both at home and internationally by electing a clueless imbecile to office (I would say re-elect, but we didn’t elect him the first time). While such a mistake was costly, it is thankfully not irreversible. This 2008 Election is our chance to redeem ourselves for the mistake that is George Bush (if only his father pulled out). We need a candidate who will fight the real issues Americans face NOT pointless wars. So, I will launch a new series “Candidates Profiles.” The profiles will discuss the current candidates who either are leading polls, or should be leading polls. I will not promise to be objective, actually, the profiles will largely consist of my personal thoughts on each candidate, but hopefully I will provide rational and logical reasons for my stances on each candidate. Before I start with the actual candidates, I will make a blog post which discusses my personal stance on each major issue, feel free to debate them via EMAIL or the comment system.
I know I stated in the last blog that I wouldn’t return until next year, but I have sometime, why not do a little blogging I thought.
Switching to Vista wasn’t a choice per say, sort of just ended up that I am using it (after a long complicated situation)…but the switch has been surprisingly…good. Vista has simplified quite a few of the things which one couldn’t necessarily point out, but make an awful lot of sense. On the surface, Vista is largely the same exact thing as XP…if you have used Vista, there isn’t really much to adapt to…its basically the same. Vista’s visual aspect is top notch, you can edit the look of it easily with the click of a few buttons. We see that all the icons are quite fancy and glossy. Glossy is the perfect word do describe Vista actually. You can tell the designers behind Vista spent loads of time refining the design aspect of XP. Everything has subtle details that while not necessarily noticeable on the immediate surface the details are indeed there. I would rate my current Vista experience a 8/10, while Vista is an improvement over XP, it should have been even better. Microsoft had quite a few years to develop Vista, but it simply isn’t a big enough of an improvement from their last OS. Hopefully Microsoft realizes that they better deliver with their next OS, or else they will lose even more customers to the growing competitors of Mac and Linux.
I hate, those top (insert number here) lists…so in order to avoid such nonsense, I will simply post them in alphabetical order of their authors name.
Part Two is now posted here: Great Quotes for Atheists/Non-Believers (Part 2)
“The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.” -Abu Ala Al-Ma’arri
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” -Isaac Asimov
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” -Richard Dawkins
“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. ” -Albert Einstein
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus
“The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.” -Benjamin Franklin
“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” -Christopher Hitchens
“The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.” -Robert G. Ingersoll
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.” -Maynard James Keenan
“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” -Abraham Lincoln
“What have been [Christianity's] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” -James Madison
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.” -Karl Marx
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” -Karl Marx
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.” -Thomas Paine
“…the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.” -Thomas Paine
“Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?” -Robert M. Price
“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.” -Bertrand Russell
“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.” -Bertrand Russell
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” -Seneca the Younger
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.” -George Bernard Shaw
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.” -Mark Twain
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.” -Peter Ustinov
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.” -Voltaire
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.” -Voltaire
“The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool” -Voltaire
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” -Steven Weinberg
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I probably have missed some great ones and I will add to this list often. If you have good quotes please contact me asap!
Update: Added a few more into the post!
Tags: anti-theism, Atheism, church, deism, islam
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