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.
Pop quiz
OK, pop-quiz time: how'd you do?
I got 2%. Can't imagine where I went wrong...;)
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I agree with it.
Non-Holey Moley!
I scored a 3%, I think because I said that I only watched R-rated movies "occasionally", and didn't choose the "blood soaked pork sausage" option.
Cute quiz. Of course, I'm not as non-holy, anti-pious as Hank! -200%? Is that even possible? Heheh...
Quiz
I couldn't sign on to take the thing without giving them my email address, and I wasn't willing to do that.
However!
I can say that I'm radically opposed to religion. I reached atheism and kept on going, and I'm now a solid antitheist. I think religion is the most poisonous worm ever to parasitize the human brain.
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In Larry Niven's "Ringworld," a small group of humans and aliens explore a ring-shaped world orbiting a distant star. An artifact, a made thing, a hoop-shaped ribbon of superstrong material with a diameter roughly the diameter of earth's orbit, and a million miles wide, the Ringworld contained a surface area about 3 million times that of earth.
Obviously fearfully advanced technology was required to build it. Yet when the adventurers land, they discover no technologically advanced civilizations anywhere. At best, there are those making use of remnants of still-working technology from earlier times.
One of the explorers, Louis Wu, asks one of the many natives they meet on their travels, “What can you tell us about the fall of Ringworld civilization?” And the unwashed primitive asks nervously “Is civilization about to fall?”
He didn’t know he was living in the ashes of that more advanced civilization. To him, everything seemed normal and modern, just as it was.
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In the same way, I think religion destroyed us. It doesn’t feel like it to us living in the midst of our modern wealth and leisure and advanced scientific progress. But we only see our surroundings as modern and advanced out of a well-fed provinciality that blinds us to the murdered possibilities.
I can imagine us easily as a thousand years behind where we might have been.
THAT’s how much I dislike religion.
So I’d guess I’m at least a minus 200 percent.
Brag, brag.
Odd...
Odd. I was able to take it without any ID.
But your point is well-taken about moving towards antitheism. I've long said (tongue-in-cheek) that Christianity was proof of alien intervention, designed to sew seeds of anti-rationality and discord which would keep us from spreading to the stars for a few more thousand years. Now I'm starting to wonder whether there wasn't maybe something behind this...
Jim Downey
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Email
I looked at it again, thinking I might be wrong. This time, it let me take the test, but at the end it demanded an email address, or it wouldn't give me the score.
Maybe you're already signed in to OkCupid from a past test? (You know, the one where you scored as "Sexy Studmuffin" on the Britney Spears Date-A-Palooza Desirability Quiz?)
hidden button
Actually the thing demanding you sign up and give e-mail is inconviniently placed so it makes you think you need to sign up. Above it and more obscure is a button that lets you proceed to the results.
Hey!
Hey! How'd you know about that? You with the NSA??
Nah, I wasn't signed in or anything. Sometimes their system is a bit screwy, I think, because I've run into that on other occasions.
Jim Downey
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Pop-quiz
I scored 22% - "You tend to not believe in the existence of a higher power, but at the same don't want to totally discard the possibility. You require proof to believe in things, and as such do not adhere to a specific religion."
PROOF - yes, this is totally important to me.
same here
I couldn't answer a couple of the questions (none of the answers fit), when that happens on an online quiz I either pick the least different or the one that makes me laugh, so I put "Cower in fear mortals!" as my first answer just because I got a laugh out of it.
hehe
I did the same thing. ...There were a few that just made me giggle... so I picked them. I ended up getting 4%.
That's the spirit!
Well, that's the only way to treat these "tests" - as an opportunity for a bit of fun and self reflection. Unless and until James Dobson gets a new Inquisition up and running, there's nothing to fear.
Jim Downey
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
- R. Buckminster Fuller