"The billion Catholics are a powerful organization that is rightfully excluded from direct participation in the political square in the USA by our Constitutional separation of Magical belief Systems from Our government at all levels."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mr-president-meet-pope-francis-1490914446
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Friday, March 31, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
What I wrote about endgames for another chess player.
The most important part of the game is the endgame. Too many chess players spend too much time studying openings when they should be spending virtually all their time studying the endgame. I recommend this book because it helped me know what moves to make in the opening and the middle game to be able to have an advantage in the endgame.
"Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games" by Irving Chernev
Chernev made the games interesting instead of tedious.
Also helping me improve my endgame skills is the free computer analysis of my games at Lichess.org which is the best place to play chess.
My favorite endgames have pawns on both sides. I have the bishop pair and my opponent has a bishop and a knight. Almost always I'm able to win this endgame even though the material is even. If my opponent in the opening or middle game exchanges his bishop for my knight I know I have a won game because the bishop pair is enough to win.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
A quote from Muslim scum: “Move on the [infidels] wherever you can find them.” I wrote a comment at the WSJ. I expect Christian scum to attack me relentlessly because they won't like what I wrote and because Christians are stupid fucking assholes.
“Move on the [infidels] wherever you can find them.”
Google is my friend.
Infidel (literally "unfaithful") is a pejorative term used in certain religions for those who do not believe the central tenets of one's own religion, are members of another religion, or are not religious.
I'm not religious so I'm a infidel.
The world would be better off without religions. The god fantasy was the human race's greatest mistake. Religion has a very long history of violence. It's never going to end. It's getting worse.
Without the world's insane religious cults there would still be violence but at least people won't be killed because they believe in the wrong god.
I never met a creationist who wasn't an uneducated moron.
Creationists are creationists (aka science deniers, flat-earthers, morons) because they're too lazy and too cowardly to grow up, educate themselves, and face facts.
Evolution is the strongest fact of science. Evolution is supported by countless thousands of powerful evidences from embryology, DNA sequencing, and many other branches of science.
No matter how times a scientific theory is explained to these retards they still don't understand. Extreme stupid can't be fixed.
"Theory: In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses. The contention that evolution should be taught as a "theory, not as a fact" confuses the common use of these words with the scientific use. In science, theories do not turn into facts through the accumulation of evidence. Rather, theories are the end points of science. They are understandings that develop from extensive observation, experimentation, and creative reflection. They incorporate a large body of scientific facts, laws, tested hypotheses, and logical inferences. In this sense, evolution is one of the strongest and most useful scientific theories we have."
-- National Academy of Sciences
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170328162442AAGhfGE
Evolution is the strongest fact of science. Evolution is supported by countless thousands of powerful evidences from embryology, DNA sequencing, and many other branches of science.
No matter how times a scientific theory is explained to these retards they still don't understand. Extreme stupid can't be fixed.
"Theory: In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses. The contention that evolution should be taught as a "theory, not as a fact" confuses the common use of these words with the scientific use. In science, theories do not turn into facts through the accumulation of evidence. Rather, theories are the end points of science. They are understandings that develop from extensive observation, experimentation, and creative reflection. They incorporate a large body of scientific facts, laws, tested hypotheses, and logical inferences. In this sense, evolution is one of the strongest and most useful scientific theories we have."
-- National Academy of Sciences
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170328162442AAGhfGE
Monday, March 27, 2017
Some children in rural Mississippi discover chess which motivated them to get good grades in school.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-fight-stereotypes-using-chess-in-rural-mississippi/
Parker Wilkinson: I don’t want that to make me seem like a cruel person, but I’m, I really am just OK with crushing people’s spirits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/61p9op/chess_instills_new_dreams_in_kids_from_rural/
Parker Wilkinson: I don’t want that to make me seem like a cruel person, but I’m, I really am just OK with crushing people’s spirits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/61p9op/chess_instills_new_dreams_in_kids_from_rural/
Lichess.org provides a much better chess website than chess.com and unlike chess.com everything is free at lichess. Chess.com will not let me write comments there because I told the truth about their disgusting inferior website. This is what I wrote at "reddit.com chess":
Chess.com requires censorship to defend their disgusting inferior website.
I made the chess.com crybabies cry when I provided a quote about chess at a thread about chess quotes: "Lichess.org is better, but it's free." --Thibault Duplessis
"Unfortunately, I have had to mute your account as you have continued to promote lichess despite my previous warning against this: apart from your ongoing disparaging of Chess.com, you have also explicitly advertised lichess by reproducing the quote from Thibault Duplessis in the thread about chess quotes."
I made the chess.com crybabies cry when I provided a quote about chess at a thread about chess quotes: "Lichess.org is better, but it's free." --Thibault Duplessis
"Unfortunately, I have had to mute your account as you have continued to promote lichess despite my previous warning against this: apart from your ongoing disparaging of Chess.com, you have also explicitly advertised lichess by reproducing the quote from Thibault Duplessis in the thread about chess quotes."
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Two articles about religious stupidity and atheism, aka reality, written by Emmett F. Fields.
A lot to read but it's excellent. It's about the invention of the magic god fairy. I read a little bit of it. Let's come back and read the whole thing.
Is the Bible the Word of God? Emmett F. Fields 1983
Also written by Mr. Fields, extremely excellent description of atheism. I read the whole thing.
Atheism: An Affirmative View (1980) Emmett F. Fields
Is the Bible the Word of God? Emmett F. Fields 1983
Also written by Mr. Fields, extremely excellent description of atheism. I read the whole thing.
Atheism: An Affirmative View (1980) Emmett F. Fields
Christians are anti-science retards. The stupid, it burns. This asshole for Jeebus, as usual, hides his god of the gaps before the Big Bang. He also complained about scientists not being able to create a universe. Amazing breathtaking stupidity. This is what I wrote for the asshole at the Wall Street Journal which is infested with Christian crybabies.
- Sir, what scientists call a research opportunity you call a hiding place for your god of the gaps. Of course you provide zero evidence for it. Your idea translated: "I don't understand therefore the Magic Man did it." This doesn't belong in the 21st century.
This a big problem for religions. They are permanently stuck in the Dark Ages while scientific progress will continue forever.
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
-- Stephen Hawking
"The highest form that you and I have ever seen is man"
Human apes are not the pinnacle of evolution. There is no pinnacle. All species evolved just as much as we have. They just fill a different niche.
You complain because scientists can't create a universe? Amazing.
Sir, if you have any more complaints please click this and read the whole thing:
Lots of information about evolution at numerous Wikipedia websites
An evolutionary lineage is a series of organisms, populations, cells, or genes connected by a continuous line of descent from ancestor to descendent.
Everything there is to know about amoeba
Google Search - thousands of wikipedia websites about evolution and the evidence for it.
Everything there is to know about amoeba
Google Search - thousands of wikipedia websites about evolution and the evidence for it.
Monday, March 20, 2017
I wrote this at the censorship-loving chess.com. My goal was to advertise Lichess.org without getting in trouble with the assholes who own the disgusting chess.com.
As White I prefer the King's Indian Attack.
As Black if White's 1st move is P-K4 I prefer the Sicilian preferably the Najdorf Variation.
As Black if White's 1st move is not P-K4 I prefer the King's Indian Defense.
With these openings always my games are interesting. All my games: http://bit.ly/2n7pWN6
I still prefer Descriptive Notation because I started playing chess in 1961 when I was 12 years old.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
I never imagined Christian stupidity could get this ridiculous.
The stupid, it burns.
"Macro-evolution is a satanic lie and 'scientific' fraud. Biblical creationism, on the other hand, is soundly supportable through real science and scientific methods. That's the truth, and one day, the whole world will repent and know it."
http://www.trunews.com/article/texas-introduces-bill-to-teach-evolution-as-debatable-theory
"Macro-evolution is a satanic lie and 'scientific' fraud. Biblical creationism, on the other hand, is soundly supportable through real science and scientific methods. That's the truth, and one day, the whole world will repent and know it."
http://www.trunews.com/article/texas-introduces-bill-to-teach-evolution-as-debatable-theory
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Creationist retards will always be retards because they will always go out of their way to know nothing.
It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is they are opposing.
-- Richard Dawkins
-- Richard Dawkins
Some quotes about reality, aka atheism, from the Lichess.org atheist forum.
"We shall tell ourselves that it would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent Providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
-- Sigmund Freud
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
-- Richard Dawkins
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue.
-- PZ Myers
Religion is the antithesis of science, an anesthetic for the mind that disables critical thought and encourages the acceptance of inanity as fact, and wishful thinking as evidence.
-- PZ Myers
https://en.lichess.org/forum/team-atheist/last-quotes--of-the-year
-- Sigmund Freud
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
-- Richard Dawkins
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue.
-- PZ Myers
Religion is the antithesis of science, an anesthetic for the mind that disables critical thought and encourages the acceptance of inanity as fact, and wishful thinking as evidence.
-- PZ Myers
https://en.lichess.org/forum/team-atheist/last-quotes--of-the-year
What I wrote at the Lichess.org atheist forum. "The future of atheism."
https://en.lichess.org/forum/team-atheist/the-future-of-atheism
"In particular, Islam poses a major existential roadblock towards the secularization of the planet. Because this religion punishes apostasy with death, it retains and controls its members through fear much more effectively."
Unfortunate but true. Sometimes their own relatives are the problem. I imagine there are many atheists in theocratic countries who keep quiet about their acceptance of reality to avoid problems including being murdered.
In America where I live when I told my mother I was not going to church anymore she became hysterical about it. I was sorry to see that happen but it made me realize religions can cause great harm to everyone including the people who believe in it.
Science education kills religious ideas and this is a good thing. The theists know this is a problem for them which is why in America there is a never ending war against science education. This is a good example: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/education/28education.html
Will religions go extinct? I think it's possible but not in my lifetime.
"In particular, Islam poses a major existential roadblock towards the secularization of the planet. Because this religion punishes apostasy with death, it retains and controls its members through fear much more effectively."
Unfortunate but true. Sometimes their own relatives are the problem. I imagine there are many atheists in theocratic countries who keep quiet about their acceptance of reality to avoid problems including being murdered.
In America where I live when I told my mother I was not going to church anymore she became hysterical about it. I was sorry to see that happen but it made me realize religions can cause great harm to everyone including the people who believe in it.
Science education kills religious ideas and this is a good thing. The theists know this is a problem for them which is why in America there is a never ending war against science education. This is a good example: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/education/28education.html
Will religions go extinct? I think it's possible but not in my lifetime.
A basic fact of science that makes uneducated morons cry: People are apes. The dead Magic Jeebus Man was an ape. Christian retards worship a dead ape. Then of course we have the world's largest terrorist organization, Islam. There are virtually zero Muslim scum who understand this basic fact of science. Mohammed (aka pervert) was an ape.
"Geneticists have come up with a variety of ways of calculating the percentages, which give different impressions about how similar chimpanzees and humans are. The 1.2% chimp-human distinction, for example, involves a measurement of only substitutions in the base building blocks of those genes that chimpanzees and humans share. A comparison of the entire genome, however, indicates that segments of DNA have also been deleted, duplicated over and over, or inserted from one part of the genome into another. When these differences are counted, there is an additional 4 to 5% distinction between the human and chimpanzee genomes."
"No matter how the calculation is done, the big point still holds: humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos are more closely related to one another than either is to gorillas or any other primate. From the perspective of this powerful test of biological kinship, humans are not only related to the great apes – we are one. The DNA evidence leaves us with one of the greatest surprises in biology: the wall between human, on the one hand, and ape or animal, on the other, has been breached. The human evolutionary tree is embedded within the great apes."
Take your complaints to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape- The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, includes orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans.[1][a][2][3] There are seven extant species of great apes: two in the orangutans (genus Pongo), two in the gorillas (genus Gorilla), two in the chimpanzees (genus Pan), and a single extant species, Homo sapiens, of modern humans (genus Homo).[4][5]
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
What I wrote on March 15, 2017 at the Wall Street Journal about the cowards who wish for a magical 2nd life.
"Suicide bombers attacked a courthouse and restaurant in Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding dozens more"
Muslims have been blowing themselves up every day for several years. What motivates them to do this ridiculous thing? A childish belief in a magical 2nd life in a magical paradise, a cowardly fantasy terrorists share with American Christians.
It's possible the Wall Street Journal will delete my comment. They love censorship. It's also possible a Christian crybaby will complain. We will see what happens.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
In Spain they don't call a bullfight a bullfight. It's not a fight. The bull has to die. It's against the law to let it live because it would be too dangerous after its experience in the ring. In Spain it's called "corrida" which translated to English means "running".
In Spain they don't call a bullfight a bullfight. It's not a fight. The bull has to die. It's against the law to let it live because it would be too dangerous after its experience in the ring. In Spain it's called a "corrida" which translated to English means "running".
I recommend "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway.
From Amazon:
"Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.
A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature."
YouTube videos of a corrida: http://bit.ly/2mGX2S8
An interesting chess game I played against someone in Spain today:
https://en.lichess.org/0VN8QRyC/black#0
In this game each player is given 10 minutes to finish the game. I somebody loses on time like I almost did then that person loses the game even if he has an easy win.
With only 23 seconds left I found a queen sacrifice that won the game. Spain who has been here 2 months had 1:31 left. 39 moves. Score 1-0. Very intense game bookmarked. Spain probably thought his king was safe because of his P-QR3 move but it was not safe at all. I was determined to not lose on time but I was very concerned about it. Move 24 I didn't want to take the knight because I would have lost my queen but then I realized it was the best move.
I recommend "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway.
From Amazon:
"Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.
A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature."
YouTube videos of a corrida: http://bit.ly/2mGX2S8
An interesting chess game I played against someone in Spain today:
https://en.lichess.org/0VN8QRyC/black#0
In this game each player is given 10 minutes to finish the game. I somebody loses on time like I almost did then that person loses the game even if he has an easy win.
With only 23 seconds left I found a queen sacrifice that won the game. Spain who has been here 2 months had 1:31 left. 39 moves. Score 1-0. Very intense game bookmarked. Spain probably thought his king was safe because of his P-QR3 move but it was not safe at all. I was determined to not lose on time but I was very concerned about it. Move 24 I didn't want to take the knight because I would have lost my queen but then I realized it was the best move.
"it is like confessing a murder" -- Charles Darwin
A Charles Darwin quote from 1844: "it is like confessing a murder". When he published On the Origin of Species 15 years later in 1859 the world changed forever. The reaction from the superstitious idiots was as bad as he feared. Even today millions of people who live in backward countries (for example Idiot America) want to throw the whole thing out and replace this important science with magic.
The entire letter is here: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-729.xml
Besides a general interest about the Southern lands, I have been now ever since my return engaged in a very presumptuous work & which I know no one individual who wd not say a very foolish one.— I was so struck with distribution of Galapagos organisms &c &c & with the character of the American fossil mammifers, &c &c that I determined to collect blindly every sort of fact, which cd bear any way on what are species.— I have read heaps of agricultural & horticultural books, & have never ceased collecting facts— At last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a “tendency to progression” “adaptations from the slow willing of animals” &c,—but the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his—though the means of change are wholly so— I think I have found out (here’s presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.—You will now groan, & think to yourself ‘on what a man have I been wasting my time in writing to.’— I shd, five years ago, have thought so.— I fear you will also groan at the length of this letter—excuse me, I did not begin with malice prepense.
Another quote from the year 2009:
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science."
-- Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist, author of "Why Evolution Is True" and "Faith Versus Fact, Why Science And Religion Are Incompatible"
The entire letter is here: https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-729.xml
Besides a general interest about the Southern lands, I have been now ever since my return engaged in a very presumptuous work & which I know no one individual who wd not say a very foolish one.— I was so struck with distribution of Galapagos organisms &c &c & with the character of the American fossil mammifers, &c &c that I determined to collect blindly every sort of fact, which cd bear any way on what are species.— I have read heaps of agricultural & horticultural books, & have never ceased collecting facts— At last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a “tendency to progression” “adaptations from the slow willing of animals” &c,—but the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his—though the means of change are wholly so— I think I have found out (here’s presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.—You will now groan, & think to yourself ‘on what a man have I been wasting my time in writing to.’— I shd, five years ago, have thought so.— I fear you will also groan at the length of this letter—excuse me, I did not begin with malice prepense.
Another quote from the year 2009:
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science."
-- Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist, author of "Why Evolution Is True" and "Faith Versus Fact, Why Science And Religion Are Incompatible"
It be would nice if all religious cults, including Judaism, were completely eradicated from this planet. It's all Dark Ages bullshit. However I'm usually a big fan of the Jewish people who unlike the other religious scum, they have a brain. This article from the Jewish Journal is about the dishonest bullshit in the Christian bible and the Muslim Quran.
On March 2, the Jewish War Veterans, issued a call to action against anti-Semitism declaring: "In light of bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers, cemetery desecration, and the rise of anti-Semitism and xenophobia, it is time to act!" We salute the valor of the Jewish War Veterans and their willingness to fight for what is right. They understand better than most what Elie Wiesel meant when he said "Silence always aids the oppressor, never the oppressed."
But for Jews to simply denounce anti-Semitism without confronting its source, is as effective as a doctor denouncing cancer without discussing the cause, treatment or cure. Some people look to education and interfaith dialogue as the answer, but sadly, most such efforts remain superficial due to political and religious correctness. As Catholic scholar Bishop John Shelby Spong observed, anti-Semitism is as much a part of the foundations of Christianity and its holy writ, as the flying buttress is foundational to the structure of a Catholic church.
The "New Testament" has much to say about the Jews, e.g. "You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last." (I Thessalonians 2:15)
This theme is repeated ad nauseam in Christian Scripture, reinforced by the teachings of the Church fathers, and was graphically portrayed as Gospel truth in the bloody and repugnant movie "Passion of the Christ," produced and directed by the anti-Semite, Mel Gibson, which is shown today to millions of children, indoctrinating new generations of hatred. If such statements were made by a public figure, he would be condemned, however, when contained in the Christian Bible, they are revered by many Christians as the word of God and accepted without question as Gospel truth. Sadly, virtually no Jewish organization or leader challenges the lies upon which the movie is based, i.e. that the Jews killed Jesus, which is the oldest and most pernicious of the blood libels, and which historians know to be patently false.
Many Jews who were led to the slaughter in the Holocaust and subjected to unspeakable cruelty along the way, were told by their killers that this was the penalty they paid for rejecting and killing Jesus. Catholic theologian James Carroll traces anti-Semitism in Christianity from Christian Scripture, through the Middle Ages and culminating in the Holocaust. Yet, in most interfaith dialogue today, these truths are ignored, and even worse, are denied by appeasers who are willing to sacrifice the truth in a false effort to promote interfaith "understanding."
Most right wing Jews today give a pass to such hatred due to their new found friendship with fundamentalist Christians, seeking their continued support of Israel in what could be described as a pact with the devil. And many left wing Jews give a pass to vile anti-Semitic statements in the Koran and the Hadith which compare Jews to apes and pigs and suggest that Jews must be killed by Muslims in the "end of days," in a misguided effort to appear "tolerant." I am all for dialogue as much as the next guy, and engage in interfaith discussions all the time, but until we have the courage to hold every idea up to the light of reason, no matter the source, "Never again" will be an empty phrase, and the weed of anti-Semitism will continue to grow.
This topic will be explored in more detail at the monthly Controversial Issues Series on Wednesday, March 15 at 7 p.m. at L'Dor Va-Dor, 3475 Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach. All are welcome.
Silver is spiritual leader of Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor in Boynton Beach.
But for Jews to simply denounce anti-Semitism without confronting its source, is as effective as a doctor denouncing cancer without discussing the cause, treatment or cure. Some people look to education and interfaith dialogue as the answer, but sadly, most such efforts remain superficial due to political and religious correctness. As Catholic scholar Bishop John Shelby Spong observed, anti-Semitism is as much a part of the foundations of Christianity and its holy writ, as the flying buttress is foundational to the structure of a Catholic church.
The "New Testament" has much to say about the Jews, e.g. "You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last." (I Thessalonians 2:15)
This theme is repeated ad nauseam in Christian Scripture, reinforced by the teachings of the Church fathers, and was graphically portrayed as Gospel truth in the bloody and repugnant movie "Passion of the Christ," produced and directed by the anti-Semite, Mel Gibson, which is shown today to millions of children, indoctrinating new generations of hatred. If such statements were made by a public figure, he would be condemned, however, when contained in the Christian Bible, they are revered by many Christians as the word of God and accepted without question as Gospel truth. Sadly, virtually no Jewish organization or leader challenges the lies upon which the movie is based, i.e. that the Jews killed Jesus, which is the oldest and most pernicious of the blood libels, and which historians know to be patently false.
Many Jews who were led to the slaughter in the Holocaust and subjected to unspeakable cruelty along the way, were told by their killers that this was the penalty they paid for rejecting and killing Jesus. Catholic theologian James Carroll traces anti-Semitism in Christianity from Christian Scripture, through the Middle Ages and culminating in the Holocaust. Yet, in most interfaith dialogue today, these truths are ignored, and even worse, are denied by appeasers who are willing to sacrifice the truth in a false effort to promote interfaith "understanding."
Most right wing Jews today give a pass to such hatred due to their new found friendship with fundamentalist Christians, seeking their continued support of Israel in what could be described as a pact with the devil. And many left wing Jews give a pass to vile anti-Semitic statements in the Koran and the Hadith which compare Jews to apes and pigs and suggest that Jews must be killed by Muslims in the "end of days," in a misguided effort to appear "tolerant." I am all for dialogue as much as the next guy, and engage in interfaith discussions all the time, but until we have the courage to hold every idea up to the light of reason, no matter the source, "Never again" will be an empty phrase, and the weed of anti-Semitism will continue to grow.
This topic will be explored in more detail at the monthly Controversial Issues Series on Wednesday, March 15 at 7 p.m. at L'Dor Va-Dor, 3475 Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach. All are welcome.
Silver is spiritual leader of Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor in Boynton Beach.
Monday, March 13, 2017
On the Origin of Species changed the world in 1859.
"Instantly explosive when it was published in 1859, the book is still viewed as the keystone of evolutionary biology. Legions of scientists remain devoted to its text and to the observations that went into its preparation."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/arts/design/charles-darwin-research-notes-hackers-project.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/books/review/book-that-changed-america-darwin-randall-fuller.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/arts/design/charles-darwin-research-notes-hackers-project.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/books/review/book-that-changed-america-darwin-randall-fuller.html
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Today, March 12, 2017, I threw out the Safari browser. Now I do everything with Google Chrome which is the best browser on the internet.
Today, March 12, 2017, I threw out the Safari browser. Now I do everything with Google Chrome which is the best browser on the internet. One of its many nice features is Google Search by Voice which is better than Apple's Siri.
What I wrote about this comment at the WSJ: Your entire comment, well done sir. I was impressed. I don't share your liberalism, I'm a Republican, but we agree about science and the religious implications of evolution.
Terry P. Carriker
From 1347 to 1350, a devastating pandemic hit Europe causing the death of approximately 25 million people, one third of the population. Entire families were wiped out and some villages were made into ghost towns. Houses became empty because all of the inhabitants had died. Fields and animals went untended causing crops to fail and the animals to die. Most people thought that a vengeful God caused this catastrophe and the remedies of choice were prayer, fasting, and mystical rituals. All of these were ineffective, of course, and when there seemed to be end in sight, most people thought the world was coming to an end.
The Black Plague offers a multi-faceted demonstration of the non-reality of the Christian faith. First, it convincingly showed the ineffectiveness of prayer, as God ignored millions and millions of prayers of the suffering Europeans. Second, it showed the callousness of God to human suffering, as the plague caused pustules and tumors to grow almost visibly, fever, vomiting of blood, and pneumonia as victims suffered immense pain for up to a week before their deaths. Third, it highlighted the failure of God to enlighten people of the causes and prevention of disease either through scripture or divine revelation. Had this been done, the range and scope of the outbreak would have been much less severe. Fourth, it revealed God’s flawed design of the human body to be so vulnerable to this pathogen.
In short, the Black Plague is exactly what would be expected from evolution, a godless process that has no preference or partiality for humans. For an objective observer, it provides a compelling clue that Christianity is false.
From 1347 to 1350, a devastating pandemic hit Europe causing the death of approximately 25 million people, one third of the population. Entire families were wiped out and some villages were made into ghost towns. Houses became empty because all of the inhabitants had died. Fields and animals went untended causing crops to fail and the animals to die. Most people thought that a vengeful God caused this catastrophe and the remedies of choice were prayer, fasting, and mystical rituals. All of these were ineffective, of course, and when there seemed to be end in sight, most people thought the world was coming to an end.
The Black Plague offers a multi-faceted demonstration of the non-reality of the Christian faith. First, it convincingly showed the ineffectiveness of prayer, as God ignored millions and millions of prayers of the suffering Europeans. Second, it showed the callousness of God to human suffering, as the plague caused pustules and tumors to grow almost visibly, fever, vomiting of blood, and pneumonia as victims suffered immense pain for up to a week before their deaths. Third, it highlighted the failure of God to enlighten people of the causes and prevention of disease either through scripture or divine revelation. Had this been done, the range and scope of the outbreak would have been much less severe. Fourth, it revealed God’s flawed design of the human body to be so vulnerable to this pathogen.
In short, the Black Plague is exactly what would be expected from evolution, a godless process that has no preference or partiality for humans. For an objective observer, it provides a compelling clue that Christianity is false.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/bobby-fischer-defense/
Garry Kasparov wrote this excellent review of a book about Bobby Fischer.
Garry Kasparov wrote this excellent review of a book about Bobby Fischer.
Some links about the idiotic bible I found at the Wall Street Journal.
What someone else wrote about Mark Twain:
I prefer Mark Twain's take on the lives of Adam and Eve to the account in the Book of Genesis … a great and humorous read if there ever was one.
I prefer Mark Twain's take on the lives of Adam and Eve to the account in the Book of Genesis … a great and humorous read if there ever was one.
Eve's Diary, By Mark Twain (contains the 'Extract from Adam's Diary)
www.kelleytown.com/shared files/adam and eve.pdf (a different version)
Eve's Diary from Project Gutenberg (pick a format)
Extracts From Adam's Diary from Project Gutenberg (pick a format)
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"If anything is absolutely, rock-bottom true, it’s that life evolved, beginning about 4 billion years ago, and that the creation myth of Genesis is completely wrong."
-- Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist
UPDATE:
A know-nothing anti-science Christian fucktard wrote "So you really believe Jerry Coyne? Then you do have quite a lot of faith in man. Science has not proven this rock bottom true--no true scientist would say that it has."
The stupid, it burns. This was my reply:
"So you really believe Jerry Coyne?"
I don't have to believe anyone because I have spent several years studying the overwhelming evidence, powerful evidence you apparently don't know anything about.
"Science has not proven this rock bottom true--no true scientist would say that it has."
Sorry sir but that's just plain wrong. Virtually 100% of biologists agree evolution is the strongest fact of science. By the way Jerry Coyne is a famous biologist. He was not making anything up when he wrote that. And you implied he's a liar.
Evolution has been considered a fact for more than a century. Today the evidence is thousands of times more powerful than Darwin could have imagined possible.
Before you or someone else asks for the evidence, don't bother because I refuse to waste my time doing other people's homework. All you have to do is go here to answer every question you have. Please take the time to educate yourself sir: http://www.giyf.com
TWO MORE UPDATES: The stupid is burning out of control in Idiot America.
A Christian asshole wrote "We can't know whether evolution is a semi-random process or divinely inspired, or perhaps some of both."
My reply: As if supernatural magic is a mechanism of evolution. Biologists "know" this is nonsense.
My reply:
Some nitpicking sir: Biologists are called "biologists" not "evolutionists".
The fossil evidence is overwhelming but biologists do not require any of it to be able say beyond any doubt all species are related. Human apes share an ancestor with chimpanzee apes and every other species including cockroaches and trees. This is scientific fact supported by thousands of extremely power evidences from DNA sequencing, embryology, and many other branches of science.
You or maybe someone else might demand I tell them what is that overwhelming evidence as if I work for know-nothing science-deniers. I refuse do other people's homework. I always send them here: http://www.giyf.com
Explaining science for a science denier is equal to teaching a dog how to play chess. It's a waste of time and accomplishes nothing.
LAST UPDATE:
A fucking moron wrote "My points are no species: will evolve into another species, life cannot create it's self. There will never be proof different." Imagine the breathtaking stupidity required to write that bullshit.
I wrote this reply:
"My points are no species will evolve into another species"
LAST UPDATE:
A fucking moron wrote "My points are no species: will evolve into another species, life cannot create it's self. There will never be proof different." Imagine the breathtaking stupidity required to write that bullshit.
I wrote this reply:
"My points are no species will evolve into another species"
Sir, I apologize for having to say this. You're totally wrong. We "know" a species of fish evolved into land animals. We "know" whales evolved from land animals. We "know" birds evolved from one of the dinosaur species. We "know" land animals evolved into numerous other species including lizards, mammals, and other creatures. We "know" mammals evolved into numerous mammal species including monkeys, chimpanzee apes, and us human apes.
How do we know these things? Evidence. Overwhelming. Still growing. Powerful stuff from many branches of science for example embryology which you know nothing about.
Nobody cares about your problem. Scientists ignore science deniers. All you're doing when you write ridiculous things like "no species evolved into another species" is making a fool out of yourself.
There is something called "looking things up". I recommend it. http://www.giyf.com/
If I get any more bullshit from this know-nothing asshole this will be my entire reply:
One more time to help you understand sir: http://www.giyf.com/
ONE MORE THING: Wikipedia - Evidence of common descent and Wikipedia - Evolution
Another one more thing: The know-nothing asshole wrote this: "If species could evolve into another species, we could cross breed one into another, as I keep saying the fact that we can't cross breed one into another, proves it has never happened."
Like all science deniers this moron is way beyond retarded. Breathtaking stupidity in everything he writes. I wrote one more reply. From now on ignore the bible thumping dipshit.
My reply:
If I get any more bullshit from this know-nothing asshole this will be my entire reply:
One more time to help you understand sir: http://www.giyf.com/
ONE MORE THING: Wikipedia - Evidence of common descent and Wikipedia - Evolution
Another one more thing: The know-nothing asshole wrote this: "If species could evolve into another species, we could cross breed one into another, as I keep saying the fact that we can't cross breed one into another, proves it has never happened."
Like all science deniers this moron is way beyond retarded. Breathtaking stupidity in everything he writes. I wrote one more reply. From now on ignore the bible thumping dipshit.
My reply:
The common ancestor of chimpanzee apes and human apes became separated and then evolved into 2 different species. This is called speciation by the way. You need to read this sir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation
DNA analysis has shown that during about the 1st million years they became separated when they encountered each other they had their way with each other. But eventually the same analysis shows that when they became more different from each other they stopped doing this because now they were becoming different species. This is all scientific fact. I don't make things up. And unlike science deniers like you I look things up.
With all due respect you are total waste of my time. I suggest you do the following things. Read this stuff:
Then you need to check this out: http://www.giyf.com/
You have wasted my time. That ends now.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
July 20, 1969.
On July 20, 1969 I was 20 years old when from my Chicago basement apartment I watched Neil Armstrong take his 1st steps on the moon. It was a big deal. Never been done before. What I watched was in black and white and it looked grainy. The entire world was watching the same thing. America despite the odds accomplished President Kennedy's goal he made in 1961 to land an American safely on the moon by the end of the decade.
It looked tense near the end of the landing. Armstrong was running out of fuel and it took him a while to find a safe place to land.
"We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win."
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Evolution makes Christian retards cry.
In Idiot America the Christian war against science education, especially evolution, will never end.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
What I wrote at a comic strip about the cowardly magical heaven fantasy.
Reality makes cowards cry. That’s why they hope for a magical 2nd life, aka the heaven fantasy. It’s not a harmless belief because it makes terrorism possible.
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/03/05
A Christian fucktard showed off his cowardly stupidity and I wrote a reply:
“I pity you on the day you face the final judgement.”
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/03/05
A Christian fucktard showed off his cowardly stupidity and I wrote a reply:
“I pity you on the day you face the final judgement.”
Sir, when you tell normal people, aka atheists, they deserve pity because of your hell fantasy, they think you’re a terrorist because you are threatening people with eternal torture. You accomplish nothing with your threat, you just increase the contempt normal people have for the world’s ridiculous religious cults.
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Somebody else, either a normal person or a fucktard, provided this link about logic:
http://web.mit.edu/gleitz/www/Introduction%20to%20Logic%20-%20P.%20Suppes%20(1957)%20WW.pdf
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A normal person, aka atheist, wrote this list of quotes which I like very much:
A few of my favorite quotes:
Being an atheist means coming to grips with reality.
Faith is belief without and against evidence and reason. Coincidentally, that is also the definition of delusion.
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the right one.
It’s funny how religious people always need physical evidence for each step of evolution… but when it comes to God all you need is faith.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. (Isaac Asimov)
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. (Mark Twain)
You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.
Why do you pray? Is God’s mysterious plan not to your satisfaction?
Religion is bullshit. Big-time, major-league bullshit. (George Carlin)
Religion is like a virus that change’s people’s minds into dogmatic thinking, rule following, blind faith, qualities which do no good for the well-being of mankind.
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A quote I wrote:
Atheism is an acceptance of reality. Theism is a denial of reality. Take your pick.
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Somebody else, either a normal person or a fucktard, provided this link about logic:
http://web.mit.edu/gleitz/www/Introduction%20to%20Logic%20-%20P.%20Suppes%20(1957)%20WW.pdf
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A normal person, aka atheist, wrote this list of quotes which I like very much:
A few of my favorite quotes:
Being an atheist means coming to grips with reality.
Faith is belief without and against evidence and reason. Coincidentally, that is also the definition of delusion.
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the right one.
It’s funny how religious people always need physical evidence for each step of evolution… but when it comes to God all you need is faith.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. (Isaac Asimov)
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. (Mark Twain)
You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.
Why do you pray? Is God’s mysterious plan not to your satisfaction?
Religion is bullshit. Big-time, major-league bullshit. (George Carlin)
Religion is like a virus that change’s people’s minds into dogmatic thinking, rule following, blind faith, qualities which do no good for the well-being of mankind.
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A quote I wrote:
Atheism is an acceptance of reality. Theism is a denial of reality. Take your pick.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
I wrote a comment at the disgusting chess.com about the free computer analysis at lichess.org. Chess.com offers an inferior computer analysis of games and they charge their victims money for it. For what I wrote I might not be allowed to write comments there because the chess.com assholes use censorship to defend their idiotic website.
"How do you analyze games?"
I use stockfish, excellent and free where I play chess.
A message for the censorship-loving Big Brother who is always watching: A question was asked. I answered it. So don't cry about it.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
What I wrote about at the WSJ about evolution. I expect never ending harassment because Christian scum are fucking assholes.
Interesting article. I never heard of Sufism before.
Some nitpicking: "Sufism attests that God has created man with a mind and a free will."
Actually that's not true. The development of the human species was a natural process called evolution by natural selection. Your Mr. God did not have anything to do with it.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about the evolution of birds and the breathtaking stupidity of American Christians who want to throw out two centuries of scientific progress so they can keep their moronic Magic Man fantasy.
For now, having the detailed images of Anchiornis emphasizes how similar some feathered dinosaurs were to birds, Dr. Brusatte says. “If you saw these things alive you’d probably consider them to be some kind of bird and not even think twice about it.”
Birds evolved from one branch of dinosaurs. The numerous and growing evidence from fossils is supported by DNA sequencing.
This basic fact of science makes know-nothing science deniers cry because they prefer their ridiculous "The Magic Man did it" fantasy, a mental illness American Christians share with the Islamic State terrorists.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-imaging-method-helps-scientists-look-beyond-dinosaur-bones-1488297602
Update: The WSJ deleted my comment. Perhaps a retard complained. Censorship is out of control at that place.
Update: The WSJ deleted my comment. Perhaps a retard complained. Censorship is out of control at that place.