Metaphysic Storm

I don’t like the fat ass elephant’s or the jackass’s POV. The U.S. Godless and Independents, also known as Humans, reject group identities, focus on the issues and realize the uselessness of stereotypes outside of comedy. But Palin has pushed my distaste of the GOP to a new level, scaring the bejesus out of me with her Bushyish stance on war.

GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task (aka plan) that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said -(ahhh mmmm)- first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words. (although I have read the Bible out loud) But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side. That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.

GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”

Obamba - You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Palin - I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening. We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

My first thought when Palin capitalized on Obama’s slip-up was what the Liberal counter version of Bible toting, gun carrying, redneck Conservatives would be. I came up with, Disco ball worshiping, Dildo toting, city slicking Liberals. My beliefs fall much more in line with Liberalism via the “truth by consensus” of Wikipedia, rather than the description of Rightwingers from Conservapedia. Although, I don’t like disco, dildos or murdering babies.

I believe that the ideology of Conservationism is inherently oppressive. “Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour tradition, where tradition refers to various religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs.” Culture is dynamic, constantly changing in a sea of memes. Liberalism on the other hand is defined by “a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal.” That with the Human rights of health care, basic education, minimal shelter and sustenance to support the principle of equality, sounds to me like the only humane option for a civilized society.

And I’m well aware that not all “right wingers” fit the redneck stereotype.

Stereotypes are silly. Where on earth do they come from? Instead of stereotypes, I prefer raw data and the means they produce. For example, the median income for a family in Newport Beach is $147,697. Many Christian churches there worship with rock-n-roll. And Jesus undoubtedly is the unofficial king of Orange County. That’s my fair and balanced POV. For an unbalanced OmnipresentPOV from the absolute truth generator, please visit his blog.

Louisiana legislatures have just passed a bill which allows science teachers to supplement their 7 year old science books with material that the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education deem appropriate. Opponents to the bill claim that this is a covert way to incorporate Intelligent Design in the public schools science classes. Biologists and the New Atheists across the Nation have since looked at Louisiana in befuddlement at our desire to keep our children as dumb as they can be. The designers of the bill state that it’s purpose is to encourage free thought in the science lab. Hopefully similar bills will be passed for the History curriculum, the one place that questioning the facts is really appropriate. The record of history, after all, is selected out by the men whores sexes the most with the biggest and bestist gun. Three days latter the same legislation voted for their %300 pay raise.

I admit that I don’t know that much about evolutionary biology. I do understand the basic facts and implications. Random mutations occur in the copying process of DNA. If that mutation is detrimental the individual will have less favorable odds of succeeding in life, which objectively is reproduction. If that mutation is beneficial to the current environment, even in the most insignificant amount, that lineage will have more favorable odds of succeeding. I have no problem letting the abstract parts of my mind witness the development of the eye from pond scum, but I have a difficult time seeing current birds as little dinosaurs. I have relatively high confidence in the professional evolutionary biologists determination that the birds are little saurs. The abstract parts of my mind is also able to see quite easily that the fossil record is never going to give enough physical evidence of where everything came from. But I never needed that, all I needed was the fact of random mutation and statistics.

As an artist, I might not be a master of biology but I am a specialist of design. That’s my job. I take Carbon, TiO2, cadmium, cobalt and others, mix them up on a surface and design images for viewers to enjoy. If you were walking in the desert and came upon one of my paintings you would look at it and intuitively know that there was a designer behind it. That is called a truism. It’s obvious that the desert didn’t weave a canvas, refine pigment and arrange it is such a way as to make an illusion of an island sunset. So, as an expert on design, I thought that I could propose a supplement for the science classes of Louisiana. That is the only “legitimate” argument against evolution so far proposed. Just look at your opposable thumbs. Isn’t it a truism that, that couldn’t have happened, by the awesome power of Natural Selection?

The smartest person on television, Ben Stein, stated that evolution doesn’t explain why the laws of thermodynamics are what they are. I agree with him completely, they certainty do not. However, I think he’s implying that the entity that designed thermodynamics also designed the Bonobo. I’ve studied the design structure of thermodynamics which can be summed up as, ——-. I would like to quote someone now. Arnold Sommerfeld: “Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don’t understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don’t understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn’t bother you any more.” Cheers and this foreign bud is for you. I would, and obviously will, like to incorporate into this paragraph that I think the the +1 of Zeroth law of thermodynamics was realized before the heat sink. I abstract an ancient dude watching a camp fire thinking, “That wood turned into heat, sound, light, gas and dust. But nothing was lost.”

I’m tired of countering the religious with logic and facts. It just seems entirely pointless to say that we, the naturalists, need more reason than, “Duhhhh, don’t you see?”. Therefor, I thought that I would capitalize on duhhh. Duhh is awesome. Duhh is better than a mathematical proof. Duhh is, I think therefor I am. After studying the “design” of the boring laws of established physics and math, 1=1, and the intricacies of the human brain, one brain is more complex than the entire known universe, I have concluded that there could not be one individual designer. I’m sure you may ask how I know that. My answer is duhhh. As a designer myself, I have made everything from complete non representational vomit to photo realistic graphite drawings. But throughout all of my work, no matter how diverse it may be, there is a fingerprint, a signature which reveals who the author was. Ahhh, duhhhh, it’s Robert Sutton’s work. What more Pollock proof do you need?

In conclusion: I would like this work to be included in the supplemental work for young Louisianan scientists. If you look at the design of a rock and the design of an animal part, you must instantly conclude that there were multiple designers. Or the highly improbable possibility that a single designer of everything is currently suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. However, claiming that the Almighty is suffering from a mental disorder, which might send you strait to hell, is not a good odds option to consider. Thus logically concluding that it’s highly improbable that a supreme being is mentally deficient, we must except that there are a multitude of designers leads us to determine that if any faith is correct it is the polytheists. Will the real Shiva please stand up! Intelligent designers: when Sutton’s mind meets the far right. The mantra is: “Sutton Sutton, he tastes like mutton.”

Soon South Carolinians are to be offered a license plate with the phrase “I Believe”, a symbol of torture surrounded by stained glass and their original god, the sun. Opponents to the plate have threatened to sue (probably noddles and two meat balls covered with spaghetti sauce topped with kosher salt), declaring that the license plate is a State endorsement of religion. The bill passed the State House and Senate unanimously on May 22. A similar plate for Florida failed in April.

A Republican chairman for the Senate Transportation Committee said, “I didn’t see a constitutional problem with it… We have other plates with religious symbols on them and phrases like ‘In God We Trust.’ Just because it’s a cross, some very closed-minded people don’t believe it should be on a plate.” Burn them at the stake, they don’t believe!

In South Carolina there are around 200 specialty plates which endorse everything from Square Dancing to the Homophobic Boy Scouts of Gaymerica. The state charges up to $70 dollars for the plates, with the profit benefiting the sponsor. Since no “organization” is sponsoring the Christian plate, the State plans on placing only a surcharge of $5 to counter the cost of making it.

New Orleans is one of the most religious cities in the Nation. I drive in a sea of metallic Jesus fish and see more rosaries dangling from the rear view than any person with a repugnance to religion should have to endure. Jesus fish and crosses have even started showing up on business signs. As if anyone needs any more of a reminder of how many people believe, than the gazillion churches saturating the city.

But it’s far better to live in a world were people are free to express how willing they are to be indoctrinated, worship magic books, and believe in ancient super heroes than live in an oppressive state. I’m not going to not go to your business if you believe in Jebus. I’m going to go to the company with the best price and service. That’s the American way… er, I mean that’s the intelligent way, so maybe not exclusively American.

Why do these freaks need Jesus on their license plate? For that matter, why do people want to have Square dancing on their license plate? The issue is pretty sAmpl to me. A license plate is the property of the State. Consumers may buy it from the government, but it remains the State’s domain. It’s like a social security number for your car. There shouldn’t be anything but numbers, letters and perhaps a symbol of the State on a license plate. I hope the Christians ruin it for everyone, even the “Surfrider Foundation”. Then Americans will have to change their way of life and live with bumper stickers promoting their thing.

I hope that in the future my mouth catches up with my keyboard. Sad Rabbit.

I was shot from the Bunker with: “What do I think about Hagee withdrawing his endorsement of John and McCain denouncing John. Even though McCain fought for his endorsement in March; you will recall that Huckabee was also in the race at the time… Huckabee also fought for the endorsement but McCain won”

Unfortunately I didn’t remember who Huckabee was. I’m bad with names and have uncontrollable brain freezes when idiots run for office. Huckabee has stated in the past, “Politics are totally directed by worldview. That’s why when people say, ‘We ought to separate politics from religion,’ I say to separate the two is absolutely impossible”. Huckabee believes in biblical inerrancy, which is that the bible in its original form is totally without error. Obviously I have a permafrost problem.

John Hagee recently said of McCain’s denouncement, “I’m tired of these baseless attacks of fear; they have become a distraction in what should be a debate about important issues. I have therefore decided to withdrawal my endorsement of senator McCain and remove myself from any active role in the 2008 campaign.” But John stated that he had renounced, repudiated, Hagee’s comments and already rejected the endorsement. I’m still a little confused about the egg. In the past Hagee has said some controversial things, such as the holocaust’s point was to drive the Jews to Palestine and Catholicism is the great Ho. Who’s on first is still a mystery to those who care about Chickens.

What do I think about the endorsements/dénouements? I think presidential candidates should pass notes to the people they seek approval from. On that note should be the words “Do you like me, check yes or no.” Once the box is checked there’s no going back, the two are either enemies or officially BFF.

Voting because of an endorsement, which works or they wouldn’t do it, means that the voter doesn’t trust their own judgment about the candidate but trust the endorser’s judgment. Religious endorsements are so powerful because in the church people put blind faith in the “book of ultimate truth” and the interpreter of it. After all, if a person is going to trust a pastor to keep them from the fiery pits of eternal torture, a factless and baseless attack of fear, wouldn’t the sheeple trust the pastors choice for president? Celebrity endorsements slam me to the floor. Why anyone would care who an actor, a person trained in creating deception, votes for, is beyond my comprehension.

I actually think that Huckabee’s statement about the impossibility of separating government from religion is a far more of an outlandish statement than the realist ate prize the original Abrahamites got via the holocaust or the truth about the Catholic Church being the Biggest of Big Daddy’s pimps. Hagee obviously just doesn’t understand that Cui bono is not proof of anything but he does seem to understand how to use Protestant fear of Catholicism to fill pews and his pockets.

The blog bunker said, “This plays into the larger point of what this conversation was supposed to be, in that, should a candidates faith really matter… Why has religion exploded in the 08 elections?”

A person’s faith should matter because of what that faith will cause a person to do. Most American Christians have no problem understanding why a “radical” Muslim’s beliefs should matter, if that Man were to run for president. But Christians see their faith as important for politicians because they believe that Jesus invented the golden rule. Thus to be a good person you must be a least a “little” Christian. The golden rule existed long before Jesus stepped onto the stage and actually existed in a far more refined passive form from Confucius, “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others”

True followers of Christ should not vote, leaving those things to the heathens. And take god off of our means of trade. Jesus said, “Whose head is on this fucking coin?” The people who wouldn’t think for themselves answered, “The Imperadør’s.” Then Jesus said, “That’s right, gods omnipresence does not extend to metal. Give therefore to the Imperadør the things that are the Imperadør’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” -Matthew 22. Perhaps I’m confused; maybe Jesus was telling his flock to vote for atheists, god’s will doesn’t need votes.

If everyone were non pagans we’d all wear magic cloths made of daisies and trade in pebbles. We would live in beautiful secular anarchy with magic stores full of free shit. Everyone would have a food replicator from the Starship Enterprise. Jesus said, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them… “And why do you [even] worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ or ‘who should we vote for’ for the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” -Matthew 6

I wish I would have had a little breifing befor the interview.

I’ll be representing The Tome of Communism tomorrow at 5pm Eastern time on The Blog Bunker. The topic will center around “why everyone [is] focusing on candidates’ pastors and religious affiliations - isn’t religion supposed to be separate from politics.”

I know how dorky I sound on the radio because of the time I spent on Reading Radio in New Orleans. And stumbling on someone else’s words on an obscure channel in NOLA was one thing, messing up your own words on satellite is another altogether. I can only imagine that Satellite will crystallize my shortcomings. Tonight I’m going to pray to Marx and hope it helps me more than god guides this guy.