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Why did humanity even create god? This is not a rational post, this is purely speculative. I just thought I’d get that out of the way before you waste your time if you were looking for something solid. I will cite and reference some things, but they are not good references. Again, if you’re looking for something useful in anything other than philosophy, don’t waste your time here.

Early in humanity, we asked questions, probably because wanted to know how to avoid things we didn’t like. When you know that fire hurts, you can avoid getting hurt… at least by fire. So what happened when we didn’t know the answer to things? Apparently we just started making shit up. The earlier religions were based around multiple gods, a god for wind, fire, storms… a god for pretty much everything, eventually even a god for the gods.

So what is the point of this speculation? I think that gods filled the void of the unknown in order to focus on more important things… I mean that knowing how lightning works isn’t that useful to people that need to hunt mammoths for food, however knowing that lightning comes from clouds could be a useful way to avoid getting killed by lightning.

Nowadays god is useless. We don’t need a god to explain the need for morality because we can conceptualize, understand and enforce it ourselves. We don’t need a god to explain nature because we have science. So what do we need a god for? Death. That scary word that almost everyone is afraid of. We have a short existence and most of us don’t want it to end. But believing that we exist for eternity does little to benefit anyone.

Fear of eternal punishment doesn’t stop people from doing bad things and hope for eternal rewards doesn’t make people do good things. So why do we still bring up god as an answer?

Some stupid new Pew poll shows that 80% of Americans distrust the Government, especially Republicans. All I can say is that it’s about time, it should be 100% don’t trust the Government all the time. I’m not saying that the Government is planning to abduct you to perform mind altering experiments on you to make you think that you’re a gerbil bent on happily paying taxes while being tracked by satellites through a tracking device implanted as a filling in your tooth that you got when you were 14… I’m just saying that you should never trust an authority to the point that you’re not questioning them and watching them. I’m also not saying that we should all rise up and take back the Government from the majority because some tea baggers think they know better than every one else. I’m saying prevent chaos by being skeptical.

You’ll notice that trust in the government almost consistently goes down when a Republican is the president of the country but goes up every time a Democrat is the president. I like how people distrust Republicans, I just think that the distrust should be equally applied to Democrats as well. Of course the problem here is that we don’t know the question that was asked of the people. If the question was, “Do you trust the Government to X?” it would mean something completely different than if it was, “Do you distrust the Government?” This is why I don’t like polls, especially polls that do not publish the questions asked and the raw stats (sans certain information that is not needed) for how the questions were answered. Sorry, my distrust is not just for the Government, it’s for everyone. It takes evidence to convince me that you’re telling the truth… at least when it matters.

A good measure for how cautious you should be in trusting something or someone is to determine how many chances you will reasonably have to fix it if something goes wrong and how much problems being wrong about trusting them could happen. If someone tells you they ate a swordfish sandwich for lunch, the consequences of trusting them are so minor that you can just trust them without a worry. However if the person is running to take the responsibility of representing you and thousands to millions of others in the U.S. Government, the consequences of trusting them are much more major and the chances to correct your mistake of voting in the wrong person are slim to none, so you should make sure that you are very sure to only vote for the best option. And whether you voted for the guy or not, you watch them like a child… because most of the time, they are.

A.C.T.A. is a trade agreement that is being discussed behind closed doors. It is trying to increase regulations on pirates, but not only pirates themselves. It is apparent from leaked files that they also want to regulate I.S.P.’s and force them to report any known offenders to authorities and basically want to use the government to ensure the future of big business, and that’s what the fascist states of America does is continue the symbiotic relationship between big business and big government.

Three strikes is something that was initially in this agreement and still is part of it, though not in any enforceable way, the document still contains a recommendation that it would be a good way of enforcing piracy violators. basically three strikes is a way of punishing offenders by starting light and eventually to strong punishment.

It is also evident that heavier regulations of bit torrent sites will occur in the future following passage of this document, it may not be as strong as what the RIAA wants the government to do at international airports, which is to install a spyware program to delete any and all elicit music. which is totally orwellian and wrong but thats just my unsolicited opinion. Well it’s not entirely unsolicited since you’re on  my site, reading my post.

Another part of the released document would try to force I.S.P.’s to rat out any possibly infringing parties connected to their respective services… in other words they are trying to force companies to tattle on their own customers for the “benefit” of the movie, music, and gaming industries. One would think the I.S.P.’s would put up a harder fight than they currently are, and on that same note nerds and geeks and gamers alike should also be raising hell because of this patriot act for the internet. i might have to move to Europe to get the freedoms that I thought were guaranteed in the “greatest of all nations” but it seems that the constitution is only applied when in the benefit of big business and to hell with the rest of us.

A.C.T.A.

For a while now I have been hearing the terms “Real Gamer”, “Serious Gamer”, “Hardcore Gamer” and “Non-gamer” tossed around. Unfortunately my understanding of these words are far more universal and respectful than some.

For the loudest of voices a “Real Gamer” is a person that plays a PS3 or XBox 360 but definitely not one who plays a Wii. Seriously, they will sit there straight faced and say something like: “A real gamer plays all the latest 1st person shooters.” Well sorry if I’ve been playing the same fucking game since Wolfenstein 3D, and it gets a little boring. The “major improvements” that these latest 1st person shooters have over Wolf 3D are: better graphics, jumping, ducking, driving a vehicle and better physics. I’m not saying that the games are boring, but if you’re going to sit there and seriously say that I’m not a gamer because I don’t play every possible version of one kind of game… then you’re an idiot. At most that makes you a “Real 1st Person Shooter Gamer,” but don’t leave out that “1st Person Shooter” part because what I consider a real gamer is someone who plays all games, not just one kind.

A “Serious Gamer” is someone who needs serious depth to their games that can’t come from a system that markets to families. Yes, a serious gamer is seriously serious about playing serious games. So in order for you to consider me a serious gamer I have to only play games that you deem as “serious?” So what, like God of War 1,2 and 3? Fuck that, I’m supposed to take some painted retard seriously while he destroys huge fictional and mythological creatures? No, serious is shit like you see on Life Time and pretty much every movie that has won an Academy Award. Some almost naked, bald, painted freak killing mythical creatures is not serious, it’s cool. Now unless you mean that a serious gamer takes gaming seriously, then I can agree with you, but if you think being a “serious gamer” means only playing games where you kill people in bloody messes then grow the fuck up.

If you want to come out and tell me that because I play cartoon and/or puzzle games instead of limiting myself to just bloody action and 1st person shooters, that I’m not serious or real, then you really need to take a step back and take a look at how wrong you are:

1. You’re defining a “real” gamer as one who only plays one or two kinds of games, while some one else who plays a different genre or one who plays all kinds of games is some how less real.
2. You’re saying that “serious” gamers only play “serious” games but provide no intelligent way to determine exactly what a “serious” game is.
3. You’re taking the easy way out and only playing games that are the same and you criticize other people that seriously develop in other game genres by playing all kinds of games.
4. You’re creating some kind of elitism based on nothing more than your meager, unfounded, baseless, speculative, plebian opinion.
5. The only time you say “real” or “serious” gamer is when you don’t have a rational point but still think you’re right in spite of reality.

I’m a Real Serious Gamer because I take my gaming seriously and I play all kinds of games not just violent, bloody action or 1st person shooter games, but ALL KINDS OF GAMES. I play games to have fun, to challenge my mind and to release stress.

As a young lad I was told what was bad
And the things that I had wouldn’t save me from sad
And I was told that we’re all gods children
To err was for man but watch your intention
Had Jesus been here he’d only
Help the poor and the sick and the lonely
He would do whatever to decrease
Suff’ring from sick and to halt their decease
He’d heal the blind and the lame would then walk
But we can do the same and instead we just talk
About how its unfair to help those in need
And have the rich pay from their pockets a seed
Of their masses of fortune to pay
For their brethren to live one more day
What I learnt as a child was to help the least
And now you’re corrupted by the beast
Of lust and greed and wouldn’t spare
A pittance of your wealth, show that you care
Its a pity to teach a child
What in manhood you reviled
That god would want us to care for all
A chance we have now, I heard a call
To follow gods plan and help without gall
And give u(.)s(.) the right of life, health care for all.
The fathers of the country have said
But on their words you have tread
In the independence declaration
Life was the first right for gods creation

We were taught as children to care for the least of these, now that we are moving in to do that, you revile and scorn and hiss but would Jesus really want you to fight the help of the poor, the very poor he spent his life serving?  You better be clear, are you a christian republican or a republican who also believes in Christ? If you’re the former then religion comes first and in Jesus’ ministry he called for all to help the poor, the rich and even the least of your brethren… if you’re the latter you believe in republican values and some christian values that also conform to your ideology yet cling to religion though you hang off the edge of hypocrisy over the pit of your sins that you have pushed over the edge of your life that you won’t have to atone for until death. Others will die because of people like you and your selfish hateful ways will disable many from getting the very things that were claimed as rights before this country was founded. Enjoy your hypocrisy and fooling your children into believing things that they’re not supposed to believe in adulthood, helping the poor, using the constitution as a guide, instead follow glen beck and his army of idiots to the end of your meaningless life and die an ignorant bastard for which only the most sincere will mourn because of your wasted tenure on this planet.

-Anonymous

There have been more and more atheist advertisements popping up recently, now it’s still no where near the saturation level that Christian or even other religious already have, but it’s increasing. You can take this one of two ways (actually many other but just live with my false dichotomy): You can see this as people practicing free speech… or you can take this as an attack on religious freedoms.

Let’s talk about the latter. So atheists are advertising their lack of a belief in a god. Most people wouldn’t see this as a big deal, but just wait until you see what they’re saying in these ads: “You can be good without god.” Oh my fucking god, what the fuck is this shit? That is a direct attack on Christianity. Holy shit we have to stop this immediately! We can’t have these ass holes telling people that they can be good without an irrational belief in some sick fuck who likes to punish people and make people attack people ordering them to rape and murder entire cities (including women and children… even their oxen)!

Of course the other way to look at it is that since there are so many advertisements for religions, an advertisement for atheism is just fair. Just look at how Christians react when they’re shit gets banned… yet they want to ban everyone else…