Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Who knew?
Well, I suppose I should have, since I was 'raised Catholic' and grew up listening to (and loving) The Beatles:
A book by Joseph Niezgoda - The Lennon Prophecy, A New Examination of the Death Clues of the Beatles - makes a good case for John Lennon making a pact with Satan in exchange for fame and fortune. The author is a first generation Beatle fan, has read every book out on the rock group, and admits conflict with his love of the music and the evil that he perceives surrounds it. His book - a 15-year project - was an effort, he said, to try to define or make sense of that evil.
In fact, this is the book I was always planning to write about the Beatles. Since I threw out my Beatles albums along with the rest of my rock music many years ago, I've been gathering facts about the clues and signs of a Satanic link, evidence of camaraderie with occultists and their dabbling with the occult. Believe me, plenty exists.
Man, it just gets better from there.
Jim Downey
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Damn, why do people DO this shit? I mean, could you BE any more stupid?
I guess the guy doesn't HAVE to know he's lying, but there must have been points along the way at which he dimly realized he was making stuff up.
Or, okay, I guess I'm being naive. The other answer is that of course he knew it. He just doesn't care; it's all about his 15 seconds of fame, and the money. Plus whatever tiny amount of power he can gain over the morons.
I used to wonder what it felt like to be the big chief of a demographic of morons. What do you do, if you're an intelligent, motivated person, and you find you're surrounded by a crowd of simpering idiots? What do you do when there's nobody to talk to, nobody to hold an intelligent conversation with ... and you've done it to yourself?
Or what do you do if you really love reason and science, but you don't know much about it, and you get off into some little pseudo-science side street in order to impress people, and you THEN discover that all the REAL science and reason people despise you, and the only audience that listens and admires you is an audience of credulous boobs who can't tell the difference between atomic energy and crystal power?
And do any of these people ever look back and think, "Gosh, I'm sorry I ever got into this mess. I wish there was some way to quit it."
Maybe
And do any of these people ever look back and think, "Gosh, I'm sorry I ever got into this mess. I wish there was some way to quit it."
But then they remember how mediocre they really are, and what utter nobodies they would be without the woo. Bill Dembski, for example, would probably be a mediocre math teacher if he wasn't selling Intelligent Design creationism to the credulous.
It really makes you think, though.
I mean, if the guy has such convincing evidence there's only one thing I know of that defeats his argument: SATAN DOESN'T EXIST!
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.