http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Acrylicist&feed=atom&deletedOnly=&limit=50&target=Acrylicist&topOnly=&year=&month= FreeThoughtPedia - User contributions [en] 2024-03-29T12:03:47Z From FreeThoughtPedia MediaWiki 1.17.5 http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/User:Acrylicist User:Acrylicist 2008-11-09T15:37:11Z <p>Acrylicist: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;html&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/p/Aleph_Acrylicist/711919578&quot; title=&quot;Aleph Acrylicist's Facebook profile&quot; target=_TOP&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://badge.facebook.com/badge/711919578.107.2101220089.png&quot; border=0 alt=&quot;Aleph Acrylicist's Facebook profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<br /> <br /> Blog has changed. Now mostly concentrating on http://groups.google.com/group/time-as-money as a thought experiment/world changing lever. I can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/acrylicist .<br /> <br /> I am a closet-atheist around my family and friends because of the very reasons many other atheists have found: there is a tendency to shun atheists. I'd like to keep the friends I have at least a little while until the environment for us gets better--its very much like how homosexuals have been treated before things got &quot;better.&quot; (But not by much.) I might get away with it for a while if I used the &quot;Bright&quot; label, but then that would require a lot of explanation. <br /> <br /> I appreciate the irony of maintaining a Facebook profile while seeking to remain anonymous. So there.</div> Acrylicist http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/User_talk:Acrylicist User talk:Acrylicist 2007-09-27T23:53:00Z <p>Acrylicist: Other bits of writing...</p> <hr /> <div>Can you do us a favor and put a link to FreeThoughtPedia on your blog?<br /> --[[User:Pile|Pile]] 12:53, 24 September 2007 (CDT)<br /> <br /> == Linking... ==<br /> <br /> Certainly-- I'll add it. [[User:Acrylicist|Acrylicist]] 23:39, 24 September 2007 (CDT)<br /> <br /> == update ==<br /> <br /> Made you a sysop : ) --[[User:Pile|Pile]] 01:05, 25 September 2007 (CDT)<br /> <br /> &quot;Never ask for power, earn it.&quot;--Me. Thanks! [[User:Acrylicist|Acrylicist]] 01:08, 25 September 2007 (CDT).<br /> <br /> ====<br /> <br /> Do you have a source for that letter being a hoax? If it is, I will remove it from the front page.<br /> --[[User:Pile|Pile]] 01:41, 25 September 2007 (CDT)<br /> <br /> * [http://templewhore.blogspot.com/2007/05/not-all-news-is-bad.html Alice Shannon Letter] --[[User:Acrylicist|Acrylicist]] 02:03, 25 September 2007 (CDT).<br /> <br /> Well, that's good enough for me.. I'll fix that.. I have a better thing to put up anyway... Thanks very much for that info! --[[User:Pile|Pile]] 02:15, 25 September 2007 (CDT)<br /> <br /> == Other bits of writing... ==<br /> <br /> Just posted my ideas about nonviolent revolution[http://acrylicist.blogspot.com/2007/09/non-violent-revolutionary-acts-for.html] (its political, but important).</div> Acrylicist http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/The_Age_of_Unenlightenment The Age of Unenlightenment 2007-09-27T04:34:59Z <p>Acrylicist: This also needs authorship.</p> <hr /> <div>== ''&quot;Maybe you've put your faith in spiritual claptrap because our random, narrative-free universe terrifies you. But that's no solution. If you want comforting, suck your thumb. Buy a pillow. Don't make up a load of floaty blah about energy or destiny.&quot;'' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the Middle Ages toward a modern age of science, reason and democracy. It changed everything. If it wasn't for the Enlightenment, you wouldn't be reading this right now. You'd be standing in a smock throwing turnips at a witch. Yes, the Enlightenment was one of the most significant developments since the wheel. Which is why we're trying to bollocks it all up.<br /> [[Image:Religion.jpg|right|370px]]<br /> Welcome to a dangerous new era - the Unlightenment - in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They're everywhere - reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychics, babbling about &quot;chakras&quot; and &quot;healing energies&quot;, praying to imaginary gods, and rejecting science in favour of soft-headed bunkum. But instead of slapping these people round the face till they behave like adults, we encourage them. We've got to respect their beliefs, apparently.<br /> <br /> Well I don't. &quot;Spirituality&quot; is what cretins have in place of imagination. If you've ever described yourself as &quot;quite spiritual&quot;, do civilisation a favour and punch yourself in the throat until you're incapable of speaking aloud ever again. Why should your outmoded codswallop be treated with anything other than the contemptuous mockery it deserves?<br /> <br /> Maybe you've put your faith in spiritual claptrap because our random, narrative-free universe terrifies you. But that's no solution. If you want comforting, suck your thumb. Buy a pillow. Don't make up a load of floaty blah about energy or destiny. This is the real world, stupid. We should be solving problems, not sticking our fingers in our ears and singing about fairies. Everywhere you look, screaming gittery is taking root, with serious consequences. The NHS recently spent £10m refurbishing the London Homeopathic Hospital. The equivalent of 500 nurses' wages, blown on a handful of magic beans. That was your tax money. It was meant for saving lives. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,2145124,00.html]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Theist_arguments]] [[Category:Commentary]]<br /> <br /> If you've ever described yourself as &quot;quite spiritual&quot;, do civilisation a favour and punch yourself in the throat until you're incapable of speaking aloud ever again. Why should your outmoded codswallop be treated with anything other than the contemptuous mockery it deserves?<br /> <br /> -please see section on logical arguments</div> Acrylicist