Loreena McKennitt - Penelope's Song

"Penelope's Song"

 

Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine.
Till you come to me.

There like a bird I'd fly
High through the air
Reaching for the sun's full rays
Only to find you there

And in the night when our dreams are still
Or when the wind calls free
I'll keep your heart with mine
Till you come to me

Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine.
Till you come to me

The Christian disease explained perfectly and in great detail.

http://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/christianity-a-symptom-of-a-greater-virus/

The 2014 terrrorist organization, the Islamic State, gets all their ideas (violence, etc.) from their holy book.

http://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/islam-12-painful-truths/

Question at Yahoo answers: "Can Christians be evolutionists and deny the existence of Adam and Eve?"

Can Christians be evolutionists and deny the existence of Adam and Eve? 

Yes but only if they admit their dead Magic Jeebus Man was an uneducated moron because most certainly that worthless preacher man was a creationist.

This Neil deGrasse Tyson video about how life got a foothold on Earth will make the god-soaked cry.

From a Nova video, "Origins How Life Began", at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cRr3NkpLA

"Life began as a chemical act. Life is really chemistry. There is no question about that. In fact it's a chemistry that when you get the recipe right, it goes and it goes fairly quickly."

How life got a foothold on Earth about 3.8 Billion years ago is a favorite hiding place for the god of the gaps. But there are no gaps. The fairy's magic wand was never necessary for anything.

Miller–Urey experiment

Abiogenesis

My favorite chess openings

For several years I have been using the exact same opening every single game. I do this because I feel comfortable with the positions I get.

When I'm White I pretend I'm Black and use the King's Indian Defense. As Black I use the Sicilian, preferably the Najdorf Variation, when White plays P-K4. Any other move by White and I use the King's Indian Defense.

God-soaked scum think our species was magically created from nothing and they think we will magically fly to a magical paradise after dropping dead, because our species and our planet are a big fucking deal.

This diagram shows perfectly why the Earth is equivalent to one grain of sand in the Sahara Desert. But still the god-soaked like to pretend this insignificant planet in the middle of nowhere is special, so special that a magical being (The Magic Jeebus Man) magically flew to Earth so he could get executed and then magically resurrect himself after decomposing for 3 days, all so we can magically fly to a magical heaven when we drop dead, or something ridiculous like that.

My contempt for the god-soaked grows everyday. They're too cowardly to grow up and face facts.

I explain why civilized people don't pretend a "god" is real.

c) A Pantheist god, the god that is itself the universe, with all the laws and constant that make it work, it's not an individual per se, nor has a conciousness,  is just like let's say "mother nature".

Then why not call it "nature" instead of using a word (god) that's responsible for countless millions of deaths, breathtaking stupidity, and slowing down human progress?

The religious violence is completely out of control and getting worse, so this isn't some harmless game. Heads are being cut off FFS. Civilized people don't pretend the word "god" has any value.

How can we prepare ourselves for when islam takes over the world and kills anyone who doesn't convert? I'll be ready for them with guns loaded.

"I'll be ready for them with guns loaded" 

Same here. Looking forward to exterminating Muslim scum. 

American bombs have recently killed hundreds of Muslim scum in Syria and Iraq. Way to go America. 

A few years ago somebody suggested we should nuke Mecca. That's a bit extreme but I'm for it. 

Also, Muslim scum must never again be allowed to enter civilized countries.

Anti-science fucking idiots who created an anti-science everything-is-magic video and had to the nerve to use part of a pro-science TED video but didn't provide a link to that video. Typical dishonest quote mining.

Their bullshit idiot video (which of course has music for idiots): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjxTfaWhVs8#t=389

Comments I wrote there:

Your logic: Complexity therefore supernatural magic. Also, you like music for idiots. And you provided no link to the TED video you used. Why not? Is it because unlike you TED videos are pro-science and you don't want anyone to watch it? "Science has disproven evolution and proven that life was created." With a magic wand? Admit it. You want to throw out science and replace it with magic. Drop dead moron.

Incredibly you invoked world-class-idiot Ben Stein who like you knows zero about science. You're a typical god-soaked uneducated moron.

Your last professional moron repeatedly said "by chance". Of course natural selection is not chance. Your professional idiot didn't bother to mention that. Evolution is fact you stupid asshole. If science makes you cry nobody cares. We don't need you drooling morons.

Anti-science idiots who created an anti-science everything-is-magic video and had to the nerve to use part of a pro-science TED video but didn't provide a link to that video. Typical dishonest quote mining.

BOOKS ABOUT THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION

I read these four books, all excellent, all written by brilliant biologists: 

Your Inner Fish, A Journey Into The 3.5-Billion-Year History Of The Human Body by Neil Shubin 

Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne 

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll 

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA BUS FARE INCREASES

Some chessplayers

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-seven-sexiest-female-chess-players

The breathtaking stupidity of Christianity explained in one paragraph.

First, let’s take a quick look at the basic biblical narrative:

There is an indescribably powerful and intelligent being called God who is in existence prior to the dawn of time. For whatever reason, he decides to create the universe and pays particular attention to planet Earth. Having created the universe, Earth and all the species on it (through ‘creating’ the Big Bang and ‘guiding’ evolution in the Williams style of interpretation), he decides to focus all his attention on a collection of tribal groupings in the Middle East, in particular the Israelites who are his ‘chosen people’ and who he obsesses over, while apparently ignoring the rest of the world’s population. He lays down numerous often primitive and arbitrary moral and ceremonial laws, then gets involved in inner tribal politics and land disputes, inciting acts of brutality, war crimes, genocide, and rape along the way. Fast forward to the Middle East under Roman occupation and God decides it’s time to put in an appearance. By mystical means he comes to earth in human form, being born of a virgin. He becomes incarnate as a Jewish male and wanders around what is today Israel-Palestine, imparting pithy social commentary (but never giving any systematic explanation of how such ideas might be made politically useful), engaging in faith healing (removing ‘demons’ from people), magic tricks (such as walking on water and raising a dead man), and ranting on and on about sin, eternal punishment for the majority of the world’s population, and the impending end of the world. He gets himself crucified, in order that he can sacrifice himself to himself for our good. A few days later he walks out of his tomb and wanders round with some of his followers (noticeably not bothering to make himself known to anyone but those who already believed in him), before ‘ascending’ into ‘Heaven’, to wait for the time when he will return to raise every human who has ever lived in bodily form for judgement, then cast most of us into a pit of fire and take a select few into his ‘kingdom’ for eternity where they will live happily ever after.

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2007/are-the-new-atheists-avoiding-the-real-arguments/

Fighting in Iraq until hell freezes over. America is now fighting the Iraq War for the third time, somehow madly expecting different results, while guaranteeing only failure.

The staggering costs of all this -- $25 billion to train the Iraqi Army, $60 billion for the reconstruction-that-wasn’t, $2 trillion for the overall war, almost 4,500 Americans dead and more than 32,000 wounded, and an Iraqi death toll of more than 190,000 (though some estimates go as high as a million) -- can now be measured against the results. The nine-year attempt to create an American client state in Iraq failed, tragically and completely. The proof of that is on today's front pages.

Apocalypse now, Iraq edition

Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. There are 30.

Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Company	Price	Change	% Change	Volume	YTD change
MMM 3M Co	133.83	-4.81	-3.47%	7,370,347	-4.58%
AXP American Express Co	84.99	-0.90	-1.05%	4,235,195	-6.33%
T AT&T Inc	34.25	-0.41	-1.18%	28,949,332	-2.59%
BA Boeing Co	121.50	-1.26	-1.03%	4,220,241	-10.98%
CAT Caterpillar Inc	93.13	-0.37	-0.40%	6,179,172	+2.55%
CVX Chevron Corp	113.89	-0.62	-0.54%	9,258,246	-8.82%
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc	23.34	-0.85	-3.51%	48,313,616	+4.06%
DD E I du Pont de Nemours and Co	66.54	-0.77	-1.14%	8,170,619	+2.42%
XOM Exxon Mobil Corp	91.60	-0.22	-0.24%	18,173,104	-9.49%
GE General Electric Co	24.27	-0.51	-2.06%	47,837,259	-13.41%
GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc	180.38	-0.89	-0.49%	4,405,622	+1.76%
HD Home Depot Inc	92.55	-0.52	-0.56%	6,350,141	+12.40%
INTC Intel Corp	31.91	-1.71	-5.09%	80,917,567	+22.94%
IBM International Business Machines Co...	185.93	-0.49	-0.26%	5,090,345	-0.87%
JNJ Johnson & Johnson	101.23	-0.85	-0.83%	9,988,521	+10.53%
JPM JPMorgan Chase and Co	58.52	-0.56	-0.95%	16,690,858	+0.07%
MCD McDonald's Corp	92.30	-0.42	-0.45%	5,846,707	-4.87%
MRK Merck & Co Inc	58.66	-0.55	-0.93%	11,285,257	+17.20%
MSFT Microsoft Corp	44.03	-1.82	-3.97%	51,978,146	+17.70%
NKE Nike Inc	87.19	-0.04	-0.05%	4,524,141	+10.87%
PFE Pfizer Inc	29.13	+0.14	+0.48%	32,065,292	-4.90%
PG Procter & Gamble Co	84.69	+1.03	+1.23%	13,733,453	+4.03%
KO The Coca-Cola Co	44.47	+0.60	+1.37%	25,920,757	+7.65%
TRV Travelers Companies Inc	94.04	+0.15	+0.16%	2,875,029	+3.87%
UTX United Technologies Corp	99.94	0.00	0.00%	6,678,094	-12.18%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc	85.39	+0.45	+0.53%	4,036,846	+13.40%
VZ Verizon Communications Inc	48.94	+0.01	+0.02%	19,412,480	-0.41%
V Visa Inc	204.98	-2.73	-1.31%	2,937,612	-7.95%
WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc	78.29	+0.43	+0.55%	10,078,027	-0.51%
DIS Walt Disney Co	86.27	+0.56	+0.65%	12,675,546	+12.92%