Metaphysic Storm

Pioneering Ignostic Jew, Rabbi Wine, died a short time ago. “In 1969 he helped establish the Society for Humanistic Judaism to serve as the national outreach vehicle for the humanistic movement. In 1986 he helped to create the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews” Although Ignostic Jew is an Oxymoron, I do find Rabbi Wine’s coinage of the term “Ignostic” to be quite a revelation in linguistics. Ignostic is a version of agnostic but unlike agnostic, which is the stance that god may exist, ignostism is the belief that the word “god” is noncognitive. I don’t have a cognition problem imagining a disembodied, all knowing, all powerful, and all loving consciousness. But I know it’s logically impossible. That’s the divine thing about logic, “it” doesn’t care what you think or say.

Madness and genius sometimes seem to parallel each other, especially in thoroughbreds. When a species consciously encourages inbreeding to create a “pure blood line” or more accurately, an artificially restricted genetic pool to bring out subjectively desired physical traits, it seems that the mental positive and negative aspects are intensified within the breed, subspecies, race or whatever other noncognitive word you want to give it. The Pantheist Jew Albert Einstein is an excellent example of this. He was brilliant enough to discover that time is variable, depending on mass and speed relative to light in a near void, but was unable to see that race identity is what fostered the hate of the Nazi’s. I don’t think it takes a genius to realize that a group claiming “we are a different type of human” creates their own enemies. The secular and Christian Germans of the early 20th century were feeling financially oppressed by the Jewish Klan. It’s a fact that there is no stronger unifying force than the common suffering and a common enemy, hence the war on whatever.

Intellectuals most beloved Jewish raised Ignostic, Noam Chomsky, has had some brilliant statements mixed in with his utter babble. I don’t know If I’m over steeping political correctness by giving someone a label such as “Ignostic” but this is my reason: In the ChomskyChat public discussion forum, Chomsky was asked if he believes in a God. He replied, “Do I believe in God? Can’t answer, I’m afraid. I’m not being flippant, but I don’t understand the question.” But along with that bullshit comes this clear and profound statement, “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” He goes on to claim that the media is self censoring themselves, a most vile form of willed oppression. It’s the free market, not oppression. No one forces the consumer to click their remote. I believe media selectiveness is not conspiracy but a natural avoidance tendency in humanity. Many times when we don’t like something about ourselves or our family, it’s easier to suppress those thoughts, pushing them deep into our subconscious, just hitting the kid upside the head or pressing the infamous delete button. Doing so can have a paralyzing consequence on growth. The mind or organization that prohibits self criticism is not free.

I have to admit, I’m for some forms of censorship. For instance, I would be against Jesus fish logos finding their way onto food packaging. “Contains nuts” is one thing, but gods blessing is bullshit. I’m actually surprised the pope hasn’t started organizing a blessed food/factory campaign. With all the priests going out of business because of their pedophilia interests, they’re going to need some other jobs. Gang tags on food would be a great way to help the Us. food market. I wasn’t that surprised to find that the Nazi’s had their own Food Production Association and a pin to boot. Call me crazy, but I’m thinking of starting a line of Atheist friendly food products.

The more I think about the OUT campaign the more it bothers me. It’s obviously supposed to be parallel with homosexuals coming out of the closet. However, unlike homosexuals, atheists really don’t have anything to come out to. It’s not as if many of us want to walk down the street holding ZERO’s hand. Unlike the homosexuals who just wanted to be able to be who they are in public, the atheists who want a voice are more antisupernaturalists than simply godless. Homosexuals were not implying that the heterosexual lifestyle, as if there is such a thing, was not wrong. Naturalists are claiming that the religious are wrong and that we’re tired of the supernatural shit that saturates public policy and opinion.

The parallels between the two hated groups is easy to confuse. This is mostly due to the Christians and Muslims because their holy word throughly condemns the “unnatural” acts. Fundamental Christians or the far right see homosexuals as a threat to heterosexuality. Almost understandably, they don’t want anal sex education in the public school, though fellatio is just as odd a subject to teach. Perhaps they have a point and we should incorporate homosexual education into Life science. Sex ed should really be in life science but for some reason many people don’t like to know we’re animals. The gay zietguist is that a person is born a homosexual and thus strait Christian folk have nothing to fear. But the truth is that a person can choose to be gay or have life experiences which fosters the desire to switch teams. Even though that’s the case it doesn’t make homosexuality wrong or threaten the existence of heterosexuality or their majority.
But the simple minded people who think that razing a child in a homosexual house will turn the child into a homosexual is obviously untrue. In fact, I’m willing to bet that a child raised in a Christian house is more likely to become all things not Christian, if they start the painful process of thinking for themselves. Children raised in a true minority household, will most likely be some of the most excepting and empathetic adults.

Any group of people that share a trait which is hated or feared and thus become oppressed, naturally develop the fight or flight thinking pattern. The homosexuals obviously took the flight path for centuries which brought a bubbling fight to the forefront of modern debate. It’s now created irrational behavior from many of them. Gay Pride is one of the oddest secular things I’ve heard of. Why would some one find their sexual orientation something to be proud of? I don’t mind the fag flags but many times walking through Provence town, Key West and the French Quarter, I’ve felt almost threatened by my straitness. Can you imagine how a young homosexual would feel during a Strait Pride Parade? Equality is a two way street or else it’s not equal. Living pale in the Chocolate City I’ve come to realized the importance of freedom of expression. They can be warning signs. It’s not a White Power rally that’s the problem, it’s the ignorance that fosters such utter and total collective bullshit.

For the most part the Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, Transgender humans are not saying that their way is right, just that it is not wrong. Us Naturalists are a different breed though. We are claiming that submitting one’s will to the force of ghosts, goblins and reincarnated fat cats, is not only a bad idea but a dangerous one. Lately I’ve lost a little respect for Dawkins in two key areas. First, in his interview with the BBC he stated that god “almost certainly does not exist” and his collectivism attitude towards atheists. He’s giving food to fools like Vox Populi, who are gaining legitimacy in their Dawkinism fear. Leave it to an English Biologist to develop the Theory of “Meme” Manipulation.

There seems to be a bit of confusion about existence. There is reason to believe that the famous pink cock head unicorn could come into existence, because it would consist of the two elements that make up the universe, god and ghosts are an entirely different story. To leave open their possibility, consciousness outside of body, is actually stating that nothing can’t be proved. The last number “can’t” be proved but +1 is a fact. God is an idea and ideas do exist in the metaphysical. And everyone knows the metaphysical is only found in the mindsurfing brain. With the billions who have searched critically, but found nothing, we are safe declaring a real god certainty does not exist.
However, Professor Dawkins does make one extremely significant point in his battle against the believer. Parents have no right speaking for their children. It’s as ridiculous to declare one’s child a Muslim as it is to declare them a Republican. To “speak” for anyone is to oppress their thought, that is never good. I understand why we are the last group that it’s “alright” to hate, we are an antibody of Faith. And we don’t have to force our children to twist their mind into a dogmatic stupor. But, I don’t think that the OUT campaign is going to cause anyone to ponder deconversion. It’s a numbers game and unfortunately Human numbers are the cause of most of Earths problems.

At NOSHA’s August meeting we received the OUT handout. It’s an attempt to make atheism supersexy memelicious. The OUT campaign is being organized by Richard Dawkins, author of the “The God Delusion”. I enjoyed the book but found the humor a little dry for an English man. My opinion is that the Brits do best with The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. The religious make fools of themselves when they do their possessed spirit dances or the pope and his funny wardrobe, but mostly when they try to defend their nonsense with pseudo intellectualism. No one with half a brain buys the holy word argument.

I have no shame in being an atheist but find it an odd thing to be proud of. I actually lived for 16 years without even knowing I was an atheist. I suppose most monotheists might find that difficult to believe until they realize they are an Athorists. For 16 years I lived a pure secular life enjoying food, art, recreation, companionship and the fruits of intellectual pursuit. I didn’t give a thought to the flocks of believers that constitute the fast majority of this nation. I enjoyed conversation with philosophic people which usually revolved around deist and spirit ideas. Non of the arguments I was involved with convinced me of their legitimacy but the mind is a terrible thing to taste.

In Dawkins manifesto he says, “Break OUT of religious conformity and, in celebration of your new found freedom“. I’ve been out since I was able to recognize the bullshit being feed to me as a young adult by my family, priests and nuns. I don’t see the logic in having the adjective in front of conformity though. I think that any conformity outside of team work and civil ethics are good for an individual. There’s plenty of negative conformity in the secular world, it’s just easier to see it in the religious “non-iPod” world, well that’s unless were talking holy underwear. Uh oh, I’m going the way of the antirabbit. Freedom is as strange a word as atheism. I hope that Humankind will someday wonder what both mean, because both depend on bullshit and oppression to be relevant. Freedom should be a modifier, not a noun.

That is why I stopped addressing myself as an atheist, though I do make sure when I’m speaking with someone about issues involving the “big bearded man in the sky”, I point out that he has the legitimacy of The Omnipotent Sourdough Loaf. (Why does The Flying Spaghetti Monster get all the attention?). I’ve embraced the term Naturalist. It’s a positive Identity but even it gets befuddled amongst intellectuals. People tend to think anything from nature lovers to nude enthusiasts. And the Theistic argument inevitably arises that if god exists, he fits perfectly well in the definition of natural. Well, it doesn’t! A Naturalist believes that only matter and energy exist and the metaphysical are dependent on both. Although the acts of murder or organ donation can fit into the modifying form of natural, as in, they happen in the natural world, that is not what Naturalism means. Naturalism is a specific enermaterialistic philosophy. And although I have read very little on the philo, I know the power of a non-holy WORD.

Dawkins furthers his OUTing with, “Atheists are just people with a different interpretation of cosmic origins.” I definitely have a different interpretation of cosmic origin from the average jouliet. I don’t even think I would call it an interpretation. It’s more of a clashing of scientific fact and metaphysical poetry, a strange place indeed. I don’t even believe that “cosmic origins” is a coherent word grouping. Most atheist have to deal with the difficult question: Why is there something instead of nothing. I think the evidence from the First law of thermodynamics does a great job of proving that matter and energy can neither be created or destroyed. How much more evidence does one need to believe that the stuff that makes the cosmos is eternal, thus has no origin? I love the wild and wear cloths, but as a Naturalist I believe that only matter and energy exist, thus in a positive way reject a third supernatural substance.

I obviously don’t reject the metaphysical, though the title of my blog, Metaphysic Storm, is a different reference. Meta adj. beyond : Physic n. a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative. Our brains are a storm of ideas, emotions, concepts, dreams and imaginations. We are dependent on the atoms that make our brain and the current that waves us to mind our consciousness, but we are not any one single thread in our head. The naturalist knows well, that we can not exist without our body and that no consciousness does, but we don’t reject that the pattern in the sand is not the sand in itself. The campaign should have a big N not a big A. What are 4/5 of the world going to think of us when we wear T-Shirts that say we reject what you hold dear. They were the T around their neck to create unity, not a slashed out A.

Dawkings stated that, “Atheists are not devils with horns and a tail, they are ordinary nice people.” I hate to put a damper on our glorious prison statistics but atheists are not necessarily ordinary or nice people. In fact, I think most of us are who are involved in trying to kill the poison of religion are exceptional people but an atheist can just as easy be a mass murdering ass munch. Harry said that he thought we at NOSHA were generally morally superior to the mass of Faithheads swarming NOLA’s streets. It’s true that Humanist do typically share a respect for human dignity and legitimate reason, but let’s not grow those horns we’re accused of. The Theists are sick. They are suffering from dogma that teaches they are superior to non believers and they have a protoplasmic body waiting to be filled in paradise. I believe the

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will harm our cause. If only the Nah were as sexy as the A, we could market a positive campaign.