Saturday, June 30, 2012

Americans, our economy sucks. Obama has been president for more than three years and still there are millions of desperate people who can't find a job.

Most Americans like President Obama. Unfortunately he's incompetent. There is an alternative.

Mitt Romney’s Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth

Another problem I have with Obama is his disrespect for our freedom, for example our freedom to make our own decisions about how we spend our hard-earned money, instead of Big Government making those decisions for us.

ObamaCare Watch, The Individual Mandate

The individual mandate falls more heavily on low and moderate income families.  They will be required to enroll in health insurance plans that generally are more expensive than many of today’s offerings, and if they don’t do so pay a fine or a tax that they do not pay today.  These added costs will mean these households have less discretion to spend their limited resources on other priorities, such as perhaps education or housing.

My favorite way to waste time on the internet is not this blog.

I used to think it's interesting to try to reason with creationist retards. But what's the point? Stupid can't be fixed. Now I waste time playing chess at http://www.chess.com/.

I like to play 10 minute games (each side gets ten minutes to play the entire game). Every game is interesting because my opponents are rated close to my rating which is about 1700 right now. Like the visitors to this blog, my opponents live in virtually every country of the world. My living room is an international chess club, open 24 hours a day. I takes just a few seconds for the chess.com software to find my next opponent.

This blog has five posts about evolution at http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/chess.

Try to Remember

Try to Remember

This music is incredible: Orquesta Filarmonica Requena - Pavane, Opus 50 Gabriel Fauré

The most prominent atheist in America (Mr. PZ) is a fake atheist (as is Dawkins of the UK).

At http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/04/what-kind-of-atheist-are-you/ PZ wrote "It is almost certainly true that there is no god ...".

Would PZ say "It is almost certainly true that there is no Easter Bunny"?

Of course not. There are no magical rabbits, period. PZ is implying a god creature with unlimited magical powers is more likely than a Easter Bunny who hides hard boiled eggs from children.

God = magic = bullshit. I am absolutely 100% certain god, also known as magic, is an idiotic fantasy that couldn't possibly be true.

PZ is a fake atheist. Richard Dawkins of the UK has the same problem.

Grow up famous atheists. Bible thumpers and terrorists love your "almost certainly true" bullshit. Stop being part of the problem.

Google Inc can't be trusted.

iGoogle will be retired in 16 months, on November 1, 2013.

iGoogle is my homepage. I spent a lot of time putting lots of stuff into it and now the fucking idiots of Google Inc are going to destroy everything.

Fuck you Google.

Free Markets, Not Redistribution, Is Best Way to Reduce Poverty

Free Markets, Not Redistribution, Is Best Way to Reduce Poverty

The so-called War on Poverty has failed. Making government bigger and creating more federal redistribution programs has been bad news for taxpayers. But the welfare state also has been a disaster for the less fortunate, creating a flypaper effect that makes it difficult for people to lead independent and self-reliant lives. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video shows how the poverty rate was falling after World War II -- but then stagnated once the federal government got involved.

Assholes and idiots are wiping out our planet's endangered species.


Near Sri Lanka blue whales are being harassed by unregulated whale-watching boats, forcing the whales farther out from shore where they are being destroyed by ship traffic. I would regulate these morons by killing them.

Please see Growing Ship Traffic Threatens Blue Whales.


This blog has 13 posts about whales at http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/whales.

This blog has 9 posts about the environment at http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/environment.

A religious idiot asked a stupid question.

At a news website about faith (also known as believing in insane bullshit that couldn't possibly have any evidence) an idiot asked "Attack faith? Why?"

Why attack faith? It's a dumb question only a religious tard (or a worthless atheist wimp) would ask.

1. the 9/11/2001 religious atrocities
2. the daily suicide bombings
3. our never ending religious wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
4. the Christian war against science education
5. the child abuse called religious indoctrination
6. the burning stupidity
7. the god fantasy is bullshit

Antonín Dvořák, 9. Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95, Aus der Neuen Welt, Largo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IhfxpdXlhc

God is magic. Magic is impossible. Therefore god is bullshit.

That's it theists. There's nothing more to say about your childish god fantasy. If you believe in a god then you believe in magic. Magic is bullshit therefore your invisible creator with unlimited magical powers is bullshit. If you don't want to admit that then there's nothing I can do for you. Your stupidity is incurable.

One more thing. This post is for the Christian scum who infest my country: FUCK OFF CHRISTIAN IDIOTS.

Friday, June 29, 2012

"My title will be On the Origin of Species. I shall keep god out of it."

The quote is from the father of modern biology in the movie Creation.

Another quote from the movie: "You killed god sir. You have killed god."

http://creationthemovie.com/trailer/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(2009_film)

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

Every educated person knows evolution is fact and magical creationism is fantasy. In this quote from On the Origin of Species Darwin explains why evolution is many times more interesting than magical creationism:

When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, in the same way as any great mechanical invention is the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting - I speak from experience - does the study of natural history become!
— Charles Darwin

Two quotes about Charles Darwin and evolution:

Darwin anticipated problems with his theory. Modern science has answered them. Evolution by Natural Selection has been triumphantly vindicated as fact.
-- Richard Dawkins .

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.
-- Michael Shermer

The best book ever written about the evidence for evolution: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne, published in 2009, 150 years after Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

85% of Americans either completely deny evolution or they think supernatural magic is a mechanism of evolution. Why does this epidemic of breathtaking stupidity matter?

The question is answered at What's the Matter With Creationism?

Why does it matter that almost half the country rejects the overwhelming evidence of evolution, with or without the hand of God? After all, Americans are famously ignorant of many things—like where Iran is or when World War II took place—and we are still here. One reason is that rejecting evolution expresses more than an inability to think critically; it relies on a fundamentally paranoid worldview. Think what the world would have to be like for evolution to be false. Almost every scientist on earth would have to be engaged in a fraud so complex and extensive it involved every field from archaeology, paleontology, geology and genetics to biology, chemistry and physics. And yet this massive concatenation of lies and delusion is so full of obvious holes that a pastor with a Bible-college degree or a homeschooling parent with no degree at all can see right through it.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Please look in the right column of this blog for "THIS IS A LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE POSTS:"

Here are two examples. In the right column of this blog there are links to several dozen more posts that are worth reading. Look for "THIS IS A LIST OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE POSTS:".


Hello Christians, Muslims, Jews, and other deluded theists. You have lost. Science won. It's about time for you cowardly imbeciles to grow up and accept reality.

2012 TEXAS REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM

I'm a Republican but I'm ashamed of most Republicans. Especially Texas Republicans.


"Controversial Theories – We support objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories. We believe theories such as life origins and environmental change should be taught as challengeable scientific theories subject to change as new data is produced.  Teachers and students should be able to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these theories openly and without fear of retribution or discrimination of any kind."

Their "strengths and weaknesses" are code words Christian assholes use when they really mean "Let's let our incompetent biology teachers spread lies about evolution to accommodate the magic Jeebus man."

Evolution has no weaknesses for the same reason our planet's orbit around the sun has no weaknesses. There is nothing weak about reality. There is nothing controversial about the basic facts of evolution, also known as the foundation of biology.

There are incompetent biology teachers in every state of Idiot America but I would bet virtually all biology teachers in Texas are Christian scum who need to be fired. That will never happen because incompetence is exactly what (most) Texans want.

There's other stuff in the Texas Republican Party Platform that is a bit extreme or ridiculous, but I'm mostly interested in their war against science education.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The god of the bible is a stupid asshole.

If the bible god was real and if it lived in the 21st century, it would be hunted down and killed for the same reason we killed Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Moammar Gaddafi.


Sunday, June 24, 2012

A website for idiots: Creation Conversations — Connecting Christians who believe in Biblical creation — discussing beliefs, sharing ideas, and recommending evolution-free resources.

http://www.creationconversations.com/

I tried to join this organization for retards but I will never get in. I was too honest. When asked on their application why did I want to join I wrote I wanted to "knock some sense into you people". It was interesting that they had this question on their application: "Who created the world?" I could have wrote "Nobody created the world you fucking moron, the development of solar systems is a natural process." but instead I gave the answer their computer software required to get to the next screen (god). It was for nothing. They will never let a normal person into their club. Only idiots and uneducated morons are welcome.

Notice that they like evolution-free resources. This is for when they "home school" (brainwash) their children (victims). They want biology textbooks that say nothing about the foundation of biology (evolution). They want their children to be as hopelessly stupid as they are.

These fucking idiots, by the way, are the majority of Americans. Our religion industry and their customers are winning their war against science education because they are willing to do what is necessary (including harassing and threatening biology teachers) to prevent their children (and everyone else's children) from learning anything, and our worthless politicians (who often have the same disease) let these assholes get away with the child abuse.

I can't repeat this often enough. Christians are scum. They have no moral values. They are equal to terrorists and they deserve the same treatment we give to terrorists (we kill them).

For more information about Christian assholes, please see These cowardly Christian assholes harassed, threatened, and yelled at an elderly female biology teacher.

Every religious fantasy was invented by ancient idiots.

For example look at the Catholic bullshit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatory#Catholicism. There is heaven and hell, purgatory, sin, prayer for the dead and indulgences.

The Catholic Church teaches that the fate of those in purgatory can be affected by the actions of the living. Its teaching is based also on the practice of prayer for the dead mentioned as far back as 2 Maccabees 12:42–46, considered by Catholics and Orthodox to be part of Sacred Scripture.[43

Somebody made that bullshit up. Theologians make a living from writing about bullshit invented by other theologians. It's all bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Other cults have the same problem. It's all bullshit.

It all started with the god fantasy. After a population becomes stupid enough to believe in a magical master of the entire universe, then all other bullshit becomes possible. They are only limited by how much bullshit they can imagine.

All theists and agnostics are insane. If they want to recover from their mental illness, first they have to admit they have a serious problem. Unfortunately there is a huge industry that depends on gullible morons staying stupid. Then of course there's the child abuse called religious indoctrination.

The solution? I'm not sure but I suggest a good place to start would be to hunt down and kill every priest, preacher, cleric, rabbi, and theologian until these worthless scum are completely eradicated.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

My comments on other blogs are often censored so I publish them here.

This is my comment which is waiting for censorship at TRAGIC, SICK AND ALL TOO COMMON: CONSERVATIVE CATHOLICISM MINUS ITS SECRECY AND SELF-POLICING, IS THE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, NOT PROGRESSIVE CATHOICISM WHICH PLAYED A HUGE PART IN THE SCANDAL TOO AND WHICH HAS BEEN A MISERABLE FAILURE ON EVERY FRONT IN THE CHURCH.

FR. ALLAN J. MCDONALD, you probably don't abuse children but you belong to a child abuse organization. That makes you part of the problem. Even worse, you have made your child abuse cult your career. Why don't you grow up and get a real job.

All Catholics (also known as suckers) are part of the problem. If the faithful grew up and stopped being faithful, there would be nobody to pay the legal bills and there would be no Catholic Church, a worthless organization which has never contributed anything to human progress.

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I noticed in the comments McDonald the Catholic priest wrote a few things including this bullshit. This shows that all Catholics, especially the worthless priests, are batshit crazy. They're gullible cowardly morons, as retarded as it's possible to be. His "Church in heaven" and his "the Kingdom is here nowis more childish than the Easter Bunny fantasy. The drooling moron buys all the Catholic bullshit including purgatory. According to this asshole, priests who fuck little boys still go to a magical Catholic heaven.

I'm not surprised most priests sexually abuse children. Of course all priests mentally abuse children which is equal to sexual abuse. All priests belong in prison. If I had my way all priest scum would be wiped off this planet.

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...
I should also suggest that when you receive Holy Communion, which is a sign of the Church in heaven and the "meal" of the redeemed, that you recognize that every forgiven sinner, no matter how heinous their sins and crimes, if they are forgiven (and I suspect I will spend some time in purgatory for mine) will be at that heavenly table and you will not be seeking retributive justice from them, you will love Cardinal Law and every sick pedophile who by the grace of God makes it to heaven--so start preparing now for the Kingdom is here now, but not yet fully realized.
JUNE 23, 2012 2:04 PM

Friday, June 22, 2012

Dad is playing with his baby's foot. Mom is staring into Dad's eyes. This young couple is obviously very happy. How can anyone look at this photo and still deny we share an ancestor with these wonderful creatures?

Orquesta Filarmonica Requena - Pavane, Opus 50 Gabriel Fauré

Orquesta Filarmonica Requena - Pavane, Opus 50 Gabriel Fauré


Orquesta Filarmónica de Requena
Palau de la Música de Valencia 12 Octubre 2009
Director: Francisco Melero Belmonte
Pavane, Opus 50 Gabriel Fauré

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And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

The title of this post is a small part of the extremely detailed instructions for how the magical master of the entire universe wants the ark of the tabernacle built.

Millions of Christian assholes believe their fairy wrote this bullshit.

For more information about Christian insanity please see The Bible is boring and insipid.

Christians, the reason I have repeatedly called you imbeciles "fucking idiots" is because you really are as bloody stupid as it's possible to be. Before I started researching your death cult I never realized it was possible to be as brain-dead retarded as American Christians.

It's just amazing. Here we are in 2012, the 21st century. There's been thousands of amazing scientific discoveries. The entire universe business has been figured out (minus a few minor details, also known as research opportunities). And still you fucking morons cling to your disgusting childish idiotic holy book and pretend the god fairy of the entire fucking universe writes instructions for you tards for how to build a fucking ark of the tabernacle, whatever that is.

Grow up Christian scum. You have disgraced my country long enough.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

What's the difference between a dead billionaire and a dead cockroach?

Nothing. A dead billionaire or a dead President of the United States is equal to the cockroach I stepped on yesterday.

This post is about Idiot America's worthless funeral industry. A tremendous amount of money is wasted on our good for nothing undertakers. Mostly this is a religious problem and the ridiculous idea there's something special about dead human apes.

It's a religious problem because most American funerals are another excuse for worthless priests and preachers to justify their existence. And it's a religious problem because of the insane childish heaven fantasy. The idea is there's a soul, whatever that is, that magically floats up to a magical paradise and then is magically converted into the dead human ape which is magically not dead anymore. There are millions of American cowards who actually believe this bullshit.

Our idiot Christians who spend their hard earned money on stinking decomposing corpses need to grow up and accept reality. Their dead grandma, who used to be just an animal, is now nothing more than a dead animal, equal to a squirrel that got run over by a car. It's insane to waste money on dead people for the same reason it's insane to waste money on dead squirrels.

Just throw grandma on the wood pile in the backyard and enjoy a nice bonfire while drinking a beer. If you don't have a backyard then hire someone to cremate the stinking pile of garbage for the cheapest possible price and then throw the ashes in a trash can.

It's not necessary to waste cash on coffins and undertakers and preacher scum.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Christians are fucking idiots.

http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/sound-off/sound-off----june-20-2012-159695065.html

Like the idiot USA, Canada is infested with Christian subhumans. This bullshit from Brandon, Manitoba (a hick-infested city north of North Dakota) was written by a cowardly fucking idiot and it's typical for Christian imbeciles, the most insane stupid assholes in the history of the human race. Every sentence burns with extraordinary stupidity. The tard boy calls his magic fairy an intelligent designer. Please notice the threat at the end of it. "Sorry for eternity" means "my fairy will torture you". Fuck off and die Christian scum.


Better to be safe than sorry!
Regarding the recent letter in Sound Off by the atheist on June 18. The evidence for the existence of the intelligent designer God is found in the intelligent design in all living and non-living matter. Mindless macro-evolution has no ability to produce intelligent design. The Bible, too, is totally from God in its original copy. God used about 40 different writers, over a space of about 3,000 to 4,000 years. He fully expects every human being to accept that He created all things, and that He gave us the Bible. He says He has given us proof that He exists through the things that are made, so that we are without excuse not to believe in Him. Those who believe that Christ is Saviour and Lord have forgiveness of sins and the free gift of eternal life. It makes perfect sense to me that these things are true. But even if there is no God, it is far better to be safe than sorry for eternity.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Bible thumpers fear reality so they attack evolution with dishonest books.

A few years ago in Idiot America I was working with some idiots who believed in the magical powers of their god fairy. Of course they were evolution deniers. I started to think there was something wrong with these people when I frequently heard one worker talking about praying. Eventually I got asked about my religious beliefs, so of course they found out about my contempt for religious stupidity. The guy who liked to pray a lot said that Francis Collins (an idiot scientist who accepts evolution but still believes in supernatural magic) was a creationist. The next day I showed him a Francis Collins quote that showed beyond any doubt he was not a creationist. My brainwashed friend, after looking at this undeniable evidence that showed Collins accepted evolution, then told me "Francis Collins is a creationist". Then I realized my friend was a moron so I said OK and that was the end of it.

A few weeks later a Bible thumping lady we worked with gave me a 255 page book about why evolution is bullshit. I thanked her and said I would read it.

The anti-science pro-magic book was exactly what I expected. Lots of dishonest quote mining of scientists to make it appear they thought evolution has problems. Lots of examples of amazing creatures who are so complex they couldn't possibly have evolved, therefore they were magically created out of nothing. The book can be summarized in one sentence: "Complexity, complexity, complexity, therefore  magic."

Of course the Bible thumping idiots who wrote the book completely misunderstand natural selection even though it's an extremely simple scientific concept. For example they ask the question "Could life have originated by chance?" Of course new species don't appear by chance. But natural selection is the exact opposite of chance.

From Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True:

Chance alone cannot explain the marvelous fit between individuals and their environment. And it doesn't. True, the raw materials for evolution--the variations between individuals--are indeed produced by chance mutations. These mutations occur willy-nilly, regardless of whether they are good or bad for the individual. But it is the filtering of that variation by natural selection that produces adaptations, and natural selection is manifestly not random. It is a powerful molding force, accumulating genes that have a greater chance of being passed on to others, and in so doing making individuals even better able to cope with their environment. It is, then, the unique combination of mutation and selection--chance and lawfulness--that tells us how organisms become adapted.

Somehow America must figure out a way to throw out our incompetent biology teachers and replace them with real teachers who actually know something about the foundation of biology which is of course evolution. Right now most of our students are learning nothing about science. How can they learn anything when our worthless teachers either believe in magical creationism or they have a cowardly fear of Christian thugs who go berserk when a biology teacher has the nerve to teach biology.

Even if we had more competent science teachers, there would still be the problem of religious indoctrination which permanently destroys minds before the victims learn anything about science. This is why evolution must be taught starting at age 6 in First Grade before students become brain damaged.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Bonobo apes are a good example of speciation.


speciation: The evolution of new populations that are reproductively isolated from other populations.

Genetic sequence could solve mystery of why bonobos are more peaceful than other chimpanzees.

When the Congo River in central Africa formed, a group of apes was forever stranded on its southern banks. Two million years later, the descendants of these apes — the bonobos — have developed distinct social patterns. Unlike their chimpanzee relatives on the northern shore, they shun violent male dominance and instead forge bonds through food-sharing, play and casual sex.

Humans, chimps and bonobos all share a common ancestor that lived about 6 million years ago in Africa, when the human lineage splintered off. By the time that our Homo erectus ancestors were roaming the African savannah 2 million to 1.5 million years ago, populations of the common ancestor of chimpanzees and bonobos had been separated by the Congo River.

Nature.com suggested bonobos evolved to make love instead making war because on their side of the Congo River there was no competition from gorillas for food.

President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History

We Americans have to get rid of this person before he destroys our country.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/06/14/president-obama-the-biggest-government-spender-in-world-history/

UPDATE JULY 1, 2012:

The United States Supreme Court has given President Obama the right to force Americans to buy anything he wants them to buy.

Is there no hope then? Is liberty, in the land of the last best hope of mankind, irrecoverably lost? Perhaps not irrecoverably. But a re-election of Obama in November would signify that a majority of Americans no longer want to be free.

At a news website I wrote the following comment:
I have a very healthy lifestyle and I have had no need for a doctor for several decades. Why should I be forced to subsidize slobs who drink, smoke, eat junk, and never exercise? Also, how did liberal loon Obama get the idea that government, which works for us, has the right to tell us how we spend our hard earned money?

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Christians are stupid.

They believe their magic Jeebus man was the son of the magical master of the entire universe. Why do they believe this? Because Jeebus himself said it was true, and because Jeebus was able to rise from the dead (become a zombie) despite three days of decomposing internal organs and maggots feasting on everything. Imagine the smell.

Why do Christians believe the Christian bullshit? There can be only one possible explanation. Christians are just plain stupid.

maggot: The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various flies of the order Diptera, often found in decaying matter.

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The original reasons for this blog (the religious implications of evolution, the evidence for evolution, the breathtaking stupidity of theists and agnostics) no longer interests me. Now I just play chess and buy stuff.

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Antonín Dvořák, 9. Sinfonie e-Moll op. 95, Aus der Neuen Welt, Largo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IhfxpdXlhc

Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Dawn of Man

The rectangular object was not necessary, but this was a great opening to a great movie, and the music was powerful.

There was a small population of human ancestors who had what it took to survive a drought in ancient Africa. This movie showed what might have happened. Whatever the details are, the drought probably helped in the development of our larger brains.

The primitive apes in the movie remind me of 21st century Muslims for some reason.

The must-see video is at http://vimeo.com/4176485 and at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0.

The incredible music, set your volume to full blast: Also sprach Zarathustra~Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Tone Poem by Richard Strauss (the introduction fanfare "Sunrise")

From wikipedia:

The Dawn of Man


The match-cut spanning four million years[21]
A tribe of herbivorous early humans is foraging for food in the African desert. A leopard kills one member, and another tribe of man-apes drives them from their water hole. Defeated, they sleep overnight in a small exposed rock crater, and awake to find a black monolith has appeared in front of them. They approach it shrieking and jumping, and eventually touch it cautiously. Soon after, one of the man-apes (Daniel Richter) realizes how to use a bone as both a tool and a weapon, which they start using to kill prey for their food. Growing increasingly capable and assertive, they reclaim control of the water hole from the other tribe by killing its leader. Triumphant, the tribe's leader throws his weapon-tool into the air as the scene shifts (via match cut) from the falling bone to an orbital satellite millions[22] of years in the future.