Metaphysic Storm

A few months ago I joined the New Orleans Secular Humanists Association. I wanted to help the religious residents of New Orleans discover that Atheists are not evil people. NOSHA is NOLA’s only “free thinker” organization. I began to participate in their online discussion group but quickly realized there was something askew. I’m now under the impression that the organization has political motivations. I have no desire to see a “Free thinker” make office. A Thinker would suffice for me.

Most Humanist groups seem to be designed to give people who want a religion without god, a social outlet. NOSHA is a wild woman. Private organizations protesting other private organization is a strange ball game. New Orleans Christians have nothing to fear. NOSHA is about as skilled at drawing in new members, as a preacher is at making sence. This was my goodbye kiss.

Dear NOSHA

We’ve had some good times but I think I’m going to have to break it off. It’s not that your ugly or intellectually unstimulateding, I’ve just been seeing another girl, Philosophy801. Some would say that this is masturbation, but I believe that the true principles of liberty, equality and social responsibility are objective. No committee is needed, just a persistent examination of facts, self criticism and metaphysical proofs.

I knew from the start that we would most likely end like this. Our “values” are just too different. For instance, I know that a Human with even modest brain waves, that’s in a state of growth, has Human rights. Therefore killing a middle 1st trimester human is infanticide. I frown greatly upon murder. What exactly is that choice you support?

I also have a problem with your opposition to the liberty of other “non-profit” corporations. The Boy scouts (homophoebes) of America are registered as a non-profit private corporation and are funded from private donations. I empathize with your sympathy because MENSA has discriminated against me. You see, I’m only in the upper 3% of the population in Intelligence Quota. They’ve banned me from the round table! If you would picket them, I might consider a little somethin’ somethin’, on the side.

The main reason I put forth the effort to get to know you was because I thought you were focused and organized in opening up the eyes of the faith heads. Supernaturalism is a terrible sickness. Just look at those monks who let the mosquitoes suck their blood. Something is terribly wrong when you let a bug that’s attacking you have free rain of your vessels. But I’ve come to realize that you’re actually hurting the cause. You give the christfans a target, a face on the devil they fear. I’m close to many christfans and even though they’re a little silly in the head, most of them are nice people, just like you.

Well I’m out the door. I’ve got Zero in my hand and I’ll be looking for a new mate that loves Zero as much as I do. Lord knows, one has to have something to bind you with your mate.

Mr. Carvar said - Has anybody read [American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America] & if so, was it a worthwhile purchase & a worthy addition to any Freethinker’s library?
Thanks

I said - I’ve got one more chapter to go. It’s pretty good, though it’s preaching to the choir and doesn’t present any real solutions. It’s not hard for anyone to see the problems we face from asecular madness. The author graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School so I assume he is a faith head. I’ve held a slight prejudice against the author because, although I despise invalid religious reasoning, I have more respect for a person who uses the complete “word of god” as their base, than I do from the religious that pick and chose “their word of god.” If one believes in gospel, it should be gospel. The god of the bible is certainly not liberal and claiming that he could be only encourages faithers to put on humanities specially designed blinders.

Insert: “We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.”

Call me intolerant, but I don’t have respect for those who pick only the “good” things from their faith or collective and claim that the bad elements are a perversion of it’s true form. Nor do I believe that the people who pump out the religious media are responsible for the idiots who turn it on and listen to the drivel. Like the invisible watch maker of evolution who is guided by survival pressure, the market is dependent on the demand of the “belief consumer.” Collectivism is an insult to the individual. God bless democracy and the gang wars that follow. I’ll donate it to the library next meeting.

Bill said - I have not read this book, but I’ve read a number of books quoting pre-WWII European leaders and followers who in one way or another could be described as fascists. Fascists overwhelmingly came out of the ranks of conservative Christians. Fascism reflects many Christian beliefs and attitudes. Many fascist leaders, both laity and clergy, especially hated/feared “atheism” as they defined it, which included church-state separation, political liberalism/socialism and the alleged immoralities of societies. Fascists believed Jews, more than any other gorup, were behind atheism. This fear of atheism likely was a major, if not the primary reason European Christians committed the Holocaust. The full chain of evidence/argument is too much to go into, but it’s probably safe to assume that most conservative Christians are fascists, and vice-versa. Hatred of church-state separation is a particularly strong indicator of fascist attitudes.

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The Bush burns. NO CONTRA septic. Because He said so.

The idea of discriminating on anything other than performance infuriates me. My saintly twin has written about the virtues of the “no asshole rule.” A simple idea: that a nice way to get a team to function at maximum efficiency is to remove all the assholes. That’s a tough cookie to swallow because asshole is very difficult to define. It’s a hole after all, dependent on the fleshy gluteus maximums for its existence. All one has to do is walk into a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods to see the benefit of the no asshole rule. What odd corporations they are. They remind me of a bizarro world New York stock exchange, selling tangible life sustaining things with a smile, but still somehow mechanically inhuman.

I’ve never been a team leader but I imagine that having an optimal team is about how the individuals interact with each other relative to the objective. There must be an asshole quotient, therefore if the mean is high, perhaps it would be a detriment to have an outsider on board, an antiass. I’m sure it’s dependent on the purpose of the team. Think tanks probably work better with assholes; synchronized swimmers less so. While being an overass may be grounds for dismissal, I don’t think it’s a good basis for determining wage. I suppose the logic behind the assrule is that having one in the midst of the office could cause the nice folk to seek other employment or hurt the others performance by over activating the mental hate centers. It seems odd to me to even consider “who” a person is as relevant to their job. Cult of personality has it’s place, I just think it makes more sense in Hollywood.

I’ve listened to the arguments against sexual discrimination in the work place. The statistics reveal that males tend to make more money than females doing the same job. I except a naturally existing variance in wage, depending on the job, because males and females generally exhibit much different behavior in youth, which lends to being raised differently, thus excelling in different areas of skill. I would expect that there are jobs that females average higher wages than males, jobs that require keen communications skills for instance, and vice versa. Statistics are a funny beast. Mark Twain said it best, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” I imagine people of resent African decent average more money in basketball. It’s not that light skinned people are being unjustly discriminated against, it’s just genetically there are more 7 foot dark skinned people. Hopefully humans realize that Mind is not genetic and that legitimate height discrimination for B-ball doesn’t get carried over to the office. This is were the complex issue of sexual discrimination comes into play, men and women do have physically different brains. Natural discrepancies in performance are bound to surface.

A feminist activist friend of mine came to the same conclusion as I, wage should be based souly on individual performance. Anything else violates the principle of equality. I know that there are unjust biases in the minds of many and that will be a problem that humankind will probably always struggle with. No one is or ever will be perfect. However the problem is much larger than I had realized. A friend of mine in the corporate world told me of an experience she had with her boss. He hired a male for a secretarial position and started him at a much higher rate than the female that formally held the position. As this is obviously unconstitutional, my friend confronted the sexist bastards prejudice. He said, “Yeah, but he’s a man. Men have families to take care of.” My asshole opened up and I almost lost my shit. I knew that people discriminate unconsciously but to say it out loud and not be able to recognize it, boggled my mind.

At first I couldn’t understand how my friend could keep working for him. Though, she concluded that he is just stupid, not really sexist. When she opened his eyes, he realized that he could get in trouble for what he did and started the trainee at a sexually equal rate. If I were a woman I would have a difficult time looking at him, lest working for his company. I’m the kind of person who has to believe 100% in what I do and who I do it for. I’d rather be poor than be you’re hired by Donald Trump. I walk the walk too, I mean I walk so much my shoes wear fast. I began to think of ways women could fight back against this manly family man bullshit. My first thought was that the market could dent it. There are a limited amount of workers for any job, and generally half of them will be women. If women put the anti-ass principle above money, they will hurt the asshole business owners passively by reducing their available talent base. This would increase the success of equal minded business owners. Good girls never win, but they can help fight.