The Well-Armed Lamb:"The Bleat Goes On!": The Bleat Goes On: Faith; Round Two

Monday, January 21, 2013

The Bleat Goes On: Faith; Round Two

Dear "Faith-People":
If you GOTTA have "God," if you absolutely MUST maintain that idiotic fantasy, then keep the fucker in church where he can't omnipotently fuck anything up; and out of the statehouse, courthouse, and legislatures, where his influence is ALWAYS intrusive upon and destructive to the people's freedoms.

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One Fly said...: jesus fucking christ

ya gotta be shitting me; January 22, 2013 at 7:34 AM

Dr. Woody's Droll Dichos & Homey Homilies

You get what you'll settle for.
You don't have be very smart to confuse the truly stupid.
You do not "know" what you cannot "say."
You can't sell your soul and then pretend you still have one.
You are NOT "What you eat." You are what you don't excrete.
Wolf pups snapping at one anothers' heels aren't simply "playing," they're PRACTICING.
Without deadlines, I'd have had far fewer headlines.
Who can convince you to believe the impossible can induce you to do the unthinkable.
When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. But if you have ANYTHING,m then you have EVERYTHING to lose.
When in doubt, you're probably right.
What's the loneliest waterway in the world? Bayou Selphe...
What you see depends not on what you're looking at, but what you're looking for.
What we detest most in ourselves, infallibly we detect immediately in others.
What Coprophagy is to nutrition, so exactly is Ayn Rand to intellect.
Usurpers are endlessly inventive in "defense" of the stolen.
United, we bargain; divided, we beg.
Treat your 'faith' like your dick: Don't shove it in somebody's face unless they ask...
Thinking: What we call the process of turning feelings into words.
They say, youo can't cheat an honest man. Don't belive it. You can.
There's nothing in the 'worst' of us that isn't in ALL of us.
There is no such thing as an "outside" joke.
There CANNOT be a meaningful political "democracy" amid a totalitarian economy.
The Rich make "choices": Porsche or Jag;the poor make "decisions": Food or rent.
The person who says money can't buy happiness probably doesn't know where to shop.
The older I get, the better I used to be.
The more knowledge there is, the less "miraculous" the Universe seems, but the MORE astonishing.
The greatest privilege the privileged enjoy is the privilege of pretending they aren't privileged.
The epitome of human hubris is the frantic search for the cure for death.
The Bosses don't have to control what you think as long as they control what you think about, and how you think about it."
The "sin" at the root of all "religious" crimes is "thought."
That I am not surprised does not mean I am not outraged.
Television: Electronic thorazine for an irritable polis.
Speed kills. Weed chills.
Sex is just sex. All the rest is adjectives.
Religion is the safest grift: Nobody can say "God" didn't "say" what you say "He said."
Religion is how folks who need 'purpose' invent it.
Positive Thinking is an oligarchic trick, part of the "free wiill" scam, by which the Owners/Bosses convince you that it's YOUR OWN FAULT when you fail to successfully navigate the array of traps and snares THEY have set to keep you in your place.
People who mock lawyers mostly have never been defendants.
Optimism is the secular equivalent of "faith."
One thing about being a solipsist is, you're never really alone.
One thing "faith" makes possible: ENDLESS self-deception!
One seldom mutters imprecations when drunk that one does NOT think when sober.
One may safely ignore those who loudly or proudly proclaim their own sanctity or enlightenment.
One may be honestly mistaken; but upon learning what is true, one must thereafter cease to be either 1) mistaken or 2) honest.
NOTHING of which humans are capable has NOT at some time been both a sin and a sacrament.
Nobody's ever too old to be an orphan.
Nobody gets religion like a slut gone "good."
No reliable CorpoRat sycophant, of which ever "party," ever left Congress broke.
No people, no country, which rewards "entrepreneurs" with profit from the misery of their neighbors and its citizens, --their illness, injury, imprisonment, disability or death--can be regarded as humane and deserves to be called "civilized." That's a nation of fucking, blood-sucking parasites....
No language is either "inferior" or "superior." None is "better" nor "worse." Each one uniquely conveys the conditions its speakers require it to describe.
No 'quiet desperation.' Not here; here, the despair is LOUD and RUDE.
Metaphor: The art of calling something what it is not, and being understood.
Men who weep at tragedy are "compassionate"; a weeping woman is "weak."
Life's too short to drink cheap Scotch,
Life's an existential tautology: It's only purpose is to "be."
Life is so rich, so variegated, so fecund that I find it unlikely that it is rare.
Law functions best to insulate the Rulers from the insolence of the unruly.
It's your pain. Nobody gets to tell you what hurts, how much or what helps.
It's hard to quit being an asshole, because it requires admitting you were an asshole to begin with.
It is often easier an more effective to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
Is "freedom" an intellectual/emotional antidote--the speculative antivenin--to the snake-bite certainty of determinism?
In the Corporate State, corporate media are State Media.
In the "real" world, nobody cares HOW you win, only THAT you do...
In principle, there are a gazillion explanations for "things" that DON'T require "god," or "divine will" and only one that does. I like the odds.
In a dog's eyes, there's no such thing as "size."
If you get better with age, I must SURELY be approaching "splendid" by now.
If religious people were susceptible to reason, they wouldn't BE religious people.
If men were conditioned from birth to autofellate, they'd never have to leave the house; there'd be world peace in a generation...
If it's my weed, we're on my schedule; if it's yours, I'm flexible.
I've not got much use for those who gotta have "God" to be good.
I never lost a job; I knew where every damn one of 'em was the day they let me go...
I find the most vitriolic critics of lawyers usually have NOT been "defendants."
I believe in higher powers; they're called "exponents."
I always scored "high" on drug tests...
Humanity: A cosmic experiment, testing if Life can survive intelligence. The Null Hypothesis appears safe.
Hope is emotional morphine. It doesn't relieve pain, it anulls anxiety about it.
Grown-ups don't expect "credit" for doing the right thing, or for NOT doing the wrong one.
Great wealth is never "innocent."
Grafitti is the art of "self-inscryption."
Freedom isn't free; so quitcher bitchin', and pay your fucking taxes...
Freedom in any civilization is measured by the distance between the Church and the State.
Free will (#2) is a metaphorical trap by which the Oners/Owners persuade the powerless to blame themselves for their own oppression.
Free will (#1) is a handy myth by which the Owners can blame the Losers for their own fate and make the Losers accept the verdict.
Faith is NOT an automatic dispensation from the requirementrs of reason and logic.
Everybody's got 'baggage'. What matters is how and what you pack.
Economics is the scientific application of high-level maths to the job of making the Rulers look good.
Don't expect to be treated nicely by people to whose faith you are a living rebuke.
Do you have the sense that it's already been as good as it's gonna get?
Do not automatically impute to 'stupidity' what can equally well be explained by 'malice.'
Depressions are only really bad for 98-99% of folks. The rest do okay.
Credit cards are nothing so much as renewable instruments of indenture.
Class war only occurs when the workers fight back
Civility is the shit-soaked ball-gag the powerful force onto the People to silence their rage.
Celebrities are known for BEING known, not for WHAT they know.
Causation in human affairs is ALWAYS retrospective.
Atheism is a "religion" the same way "Off" is a TV channel.
Agnosticism: A conviction that arguing over the 'existence' of 'gods' is only idol speculation...
Age inflicts the subtlest injuries.
A MINIMUM wage that is NOT also a LIVING wage is a mockery of the whole idea of working for any wages at all.
A 9-letter word meaning "Thinking 'Everyone's out to get me.'" 'Paranoiac? "No,"Observant."
A 'gentleman' should be known by the quality of his intoxicants and his generosity with them.
"Tweet" and "Twitter": Last gasps of cultural canaries in this hyper-mediated "coal-mine."

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Monday, January 21, 2013

The Bleat Goes On: Faith; Round Two

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