Just been reading through some of the other blogs on this site... My word there are a lot of mental christians on here...
Now i have nothing against religion (as such) but can't understand how, in modern society especially, people still buy it and to such extraordinary lengths (something doesn't look right with extraordinary - think its the a and o being together. Is that how its spelt? bollocks who cares...).
My main beef with "organised" religion (other than it causing more wars and upset than jedward) is the fingers-in-the-ears, la-la-la i'm not listening approach to anything that even remotely questions their faith or even slightly contradicts anything they say. I used to work with a lad who was a bit religious and truly belived the world was only created 10,000 years ago, by a fella with a big white beard who sits on a cloud having a bit of a laugh with us all... Now when he was asked "If the world was only created 10,000 years ago how do you explain dinosaur fossils from millions of years ago?" his reply was "They were put there by the devil"
Now i don't know about you, but the actual story that millions of years ago there were these massive lizards running round tearing it up, then all of a sudden being wiped out (in an nutshell, a really small nutshell) is far more interesting than "the devil put some bones in the ground to stop people believing in god" but he wouldn't have it, just would not accept that these things actually exsisted... BUT a big bearded fella living in the clouds - thats perfectly acceptable...
It just winds me up that people would rather believe that we were molded from some sort of clay by a big omnipotent Tony Hart or Neil Buchanan (nostalgia fans). I would much rather believe in the majesty of science, the fact that we are here (and the way we are) by complete and utter chance, if anything was to change by even the smallest percentage - we'd be toast... I appreciate that religion gives people something to believe in and gives them hope etc. and that is a wonderful thing but i just think that the real stories behind things (i.e - evolution, D.N.A, all that kind of stuff) is much more interesting and exiting than "some fella made them", the fact that the human brain, or the eye or digestive system or whatever you want is so complex and has taken millions and millions of years to get to the point it is now, (in fact, rather than brain, eye etc. read LIFE) to take all of that, millions and millions of years of trial and error and just say "nah mate, that was all created in 6 days..." just pisses me off...
Hereth endeth my ranteth
Darwin bless you all !
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Thursday, 22 October 2009
My first tentative steps into the 'blogosphere'
Greetings dear reader and nice one for reading this....
Ok so thats the niceties out of the way.
Now, I'm not much of a writer but after reading a good friend of mine's brilliantly crafted blog (you're welcome nick), i thought bugger it, i'll give it a go but you will have to excuse bad punctuation etc.
As the title suggests this is going to basically be stuff that happens in my bonce in written form. If you want you can leave a comment an we'll have a bloody good chat/debate because lets face it, we all love a good natter...
Now there is nothing i love more than the ol' freedom of speech. That is to say EVERYONE, man/woman/child/moose/liverpool fan is entitled to their opinion. That is not to say everyone's opinion is right, but simply they are entitled to believe whatever they want. If someone wants to believe that the colour of someones skin actually makes a difference or (the most laughable of all opinions) GOD EXISTS, thats fine you go ahead and think that mate, but while you do, in my head i'm thinking obviously a bit of a balloon-head, nobody of sound mind with the evidence available would come to that conclusion and I (which is the most important thing) certainly don't agree BUT... i will allow them to say their piece, and this seems to be the bit that people forget - the idea of a democracy is that everone gets a fair crack of the whip.
I do understand that the B.N.P have some dubious policies/beliefs/'morals'/values - but what i find amazing is that the people opposing one of them being on question time (all of whom i would say are opposing them for being either rascist or - more accurately - discriminatory) are doing the EXACT SAME THING. I actually think its worse to discriminate against someone for their ideas or thoughts than, for example, skin colour - the reason i say this is that there could be a genuine reason for not liking or trusting, lets say, a black man... If your only experience of a black man was the time you were beaten up by one you have a justifiable (if a bit ropey) reason to be wary of all black men... on the other hand were you to voice this opinion without prior explaining your reason, you would instantly be labelled rascist by those too quick to judge (or discriminate against) your rightful viewpoint.
And that, for now, is that...
Most of my articles will be along this line, not the bnp or rascism, but a bit of common sense - or more importantly a bit of logic (all be it my own unique brand of logic). I just think people these days are too quick to judge things without actually thinking about it first - with a bit of luck i will give you a few things to think about and debate with ya mates... Theres nothing better.
Much Love
Dave x
Ok so thats the niceties out of the way.
Now, I'm not much of a writer but after reading a good friend of mine's brilliantly crafted blog (you're welcome nick), i thought bugger it, i'll give it a go but you will have to excuse bad punctuation etc.
As the title suggests this is going to basically be stuff that happens in my bonce in written form. If you want you can leave a comment an we'll have a bloody good chat/debate because lets face it, we all love a good natter...
Now there is nothing i love more than the ol' freedom of speech. That is to say EVERYONE, man/woman/child/moose/liverpool fan is entitled to their opinion. That is not to say everyone's opinion is right, but simply they are entitled to believe whatever they want. If someone wants to believe that the colour of someones skin actually makes a difference or (the most laughable of all opinions) GOD EXISTS, thats fine you go ahead and think that mate, but while you do, in my head i'm thinking obviously a bit of a balloon-head, nobody of sound mind with the evidence available would come to that conclusion and I (which is the most important thing) certainly don't agree BUT... i will allow them to say their piece, and this seems to be the bit that people forget - the idea of a democracy is that everone gets a fair crack of the whip.
I do understand that the B.N.P have some dubious policies/beliefs/'morals'/values - but what i find amazing is that the people opposing one of them being on question time (all of whom i would say are opposing them for being either rascist or - more accurately - discriminatory) are doing the EXACT SAME THING. I actually think its worse to discriminate against someone for their ideas or thoughts than, for example, skin colour - the reason i say this is that there could be a genuine reason for not liking or trusting, lets say, a black man... If your only experience of a black man was the time you were beaten up by one you have a justifiable (if a bit ropey) reason to be wary of all black men... on the other hand were you to voice this opinion without prior explaining your reason, you would instantly be labelled rascist by those too quick to judge (or discriminate against) your rightful viewpoint.
And that, for now, is that...
Most of my articles will be along this line, not the bnp or rascism, but a bit of common sense - or more importantly a bit of logic (all be it my own unique brand of logic). I just think people these days are too quick to judge things without actually thinking about it first - with a bit of luck i will give you a few things to think about and debate with ya mates... Theres nothing better.
Much Love
Dave x
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