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Friday 30 July 2010

Friday night thoughts



I've been reading many blogs tonight, not just the usual circle, but much further afield. Quite educational, so many viewpoints, many expressed clearly, but I'm a little saddened how little wit and humour is out there.
Too many people really take themselves too seriously. My minor philosophy on life is always strive to have fun, to see the funny side of any incident if possible.
Some of life's bumps and thumps are too sad to have any funny side. The death of a child for instance.

I cam across this:
"
"A Happy Atheist"

How fortunate I am to be atheist indeed,
I don't have to pray to any god with heed,
Nor do I follow a religion with irrationality,
Living secularly, I enjoy the world in true reality,
Without religion I am not morally corrupt,
My freethinking and logic do not disrupt,
My fellow infidels may agree with my psychology,
That the ultimate oppressor of freedom is theology

By Brandon Seger"



As an agnostic since I was 14 years old, I cannot take any religion too seriously. I looked at all the evidence in 1964, decided that there was really no way to decide on any faith using simple observed rationality, therefore I decided there and then to forget all about it unless someone discovered new evidence.
I am not an aggressive atheist, and I am usually harmless. Unless someone (normally a Christian fanatic)tells me I am going to burn in hell.
I usually laugh it off, but aggressive Christianity, or any other proselytising religion makes me angry and a bit sad.
How can they be so certain.
I said earlier that I am not an aggressive atheist, so if someone discovered a 5000 metre monolith on the back side of the Moon, or on Cydonia on Mars,

saying in letters 10 metres wide and 100 metres deep, incised with micron level accuracy, the words, GOD WAS HERE, then I would be relieved. Proof was present. The problem of which set of rules to then follow would become really problematic.
Maybe I could set up my own little religion, taking bits of other beliefs to fit my own preferences.(If Ron Hubbard could do it, so could I)

My new church site

Perhaps sacramental wine from the Catholics (The Wine Guy could advise on vintages), but not the little dinky glasses in use at present. I would propose a bottle each, with half bottles of Malt(Laphroig)


on Holy Days (every other Friday).
Add in 3 wives per man as per Islam and/or The Church of the Latter Day Saints.
The penultimate section of the service would be a nice thank you to the now-proven God for Sunsets, flowers, little girls singing and dancing on a late summer meadow, yeast,self-repair mechanisms in DNA replication, and then as a finale, a thoughtful request that a little intervention in wars, disease, floods and storms, cancer and ageing would be nice, if that was OK.

Wouldn't it be nice to know.

9 comments:

  1. "How can they be so certain."

    No one's certain; love is freedom. God is love, so I'm told.

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  2. I agree that too many people take themselves too seriously. This is why I liked from the start Richard's Milliganesque take on life. He always wrote silly little letters way before the internet and blogging evolved. It was always mad. Sometimes racist and seditious. But nearly always funny. Basses and bass bags didn't feature then. Perhaps that's something that happens when one gets older - to do with the sagging maybe.

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  3. It's still possible that I might wake up one day and realise that I am god. I'll let you all know if, and when, this happens.

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  4. I wish everyone could express themselves in such a restrained manner Second.
    We had an UnterFuhrer in Nuova Lazio who, althogh a nice guy and a good UnterFuhrer, was a born again evangelical christian, of an intnsity that made me feel a bit uncomfortable, as you could not really discuss the issue, as HE KNEW THE TRUTH.
    I can live with uncertainty, it's the bastards who "Know" and tell you that everyone else is wrong and will burn in Hell that I have problems with.

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  5. "It's still possible that I might wake up one day and realise that I am god."

    That, Richard (of RBB) is not funny. The idea sends shivers down my spine.

    Perhaps Fluffy (of RBB) is really God. Think about it. This almost unknown animal is making you house it, feed it, entertain it, against your will.

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  6. "Perhaps sacramental wine from the Catholics (The Wine Guy could advise on vintages), "

    Not vintages as they usually don't have them (all part of the mystery you know) but I did write a wine review on altar wine. March 31st 2009.

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  7. Go back to bed you silly old buggers. Its Saturday.

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  8. "Go back to bed you silly old buggers. Its Saturday. "

    And you're up this early beacause.....?

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  9. "We had an UnterFuhrer in Nuova Lazio who, althogh a nice guy and a good UnterFuhrer, was a born again evangelical christian, of an intnsity that made me feel a bit uncomfortable, as you could not really discuss the issue, as HE KNEW THE TRUTH."

    Goodness me, all second did was discuss a book he's reading. Atheists are far worse as the above comments show. Take a deep breath and relax!

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