Firstly, let me credit Shulamite with reviving my interest in writing here. Go here Link . This is as much, if not more, a response to my own first response to Shulamite's article, as it is a response to that article itself. I freely admit to having a problem with authority. My problem is that it is frequently not authoritarian enough, and that, usually, when it attempts to exert itself it does so in fundamentally inept and counter-productive ways. I also freely admit that I am ...

That detestable hypocrite; that self-serving egomaniac; that paragon of ignorant prejudice and prideful ignorance, KFC, JU's permanent godbotherer, has taken it upon herself to delete my comment on one of her threads, just as I knew she would. This is a link to her latest effusion, the vomit of one of the dogs referred to in the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine, also known as Revelations. ( Link ) This is the copy of my response to the idiot nonsense this wannabe 'teacher' posted: ...

On my Conversion thread ( Link ) little-whip, my wife, had this to say about me: " Simon was the Penultimate, tongue-speaking, foot-stomping, slain-in-the-spirit Pentecostal for five years, and that was after He spent FOUR years as a Fire-Breathing Street Evangelist, accosting unsuspecting sinners wherever He could find them and telling them ALL about their condemned asses. One poor sap was cowed, teary eyed, into a corner after being the victim of His evangelistic derision for.....weari...

I have insomnia right now... something that happens virtually every time I'm between jobs, hence the two articles in one day. I'm writing this one at the request of island_gurl12, who asked me to talk about my conversion experience(s). A 'crisis conversion' is exactly what's implied by the term - some radical change (perhaps religious, usually 'spiritual') that occurs as a consequence of some stressful situation in life. My crisis conversion occurred when I was 24 and its immediate consequ...

This is not a rant about the materialism of the Christmas season - even though there's need of such a rant, since this supposedly 'holy' season has become nothing but one more holiday and an excuse for the grossest and most pathetic manifestations of greed. However, I'm not inclined to write it, not today. Instead it's a meditation relating to some of the similarities between faith and money. It's been borne in upon me, over the last few months, that faith is a tool and not an end in itsel...

I'm tired of you, you so-called 'religious'. You prate your pious nothings, endlessly quoting scripture you don't comprehend and expounding dogmas you have no understanding of. As I've said many times, your gods are delusions and your faith no more than over-anxious self-deceit. So now I'm come to challenge you with a question. Christians may answer it. Muslims may answer it. Jews may answer it. Those who adhere to sects which are subsidiary branches of those three great streams of faith m...

There are very few benefits to the study of philosophy - other than coming to know the truth and falling in love with it, of course. Other than that, the study of philosophy teaches you two things. It teaches you yourself, and it teaches you the world. Not the world as it actually is, of course, but the world as we consider it to be. I would like to tell you something, in all sincerity. Something that I have learned after (let's see, how long has it been?) close to twenty years of the most...

The fear of the lord is not well understood. It, the fear of the Lord, relates to the way we commonly understand the word 'fear' in the way the word 'sky' relates to the word 'atmosphere'. The sky is what we see. The atmosphere is what is. And the two are not the same, but they are fundamentally related. There are two senses in which 'the fear of the Lord' is used in the Old Testament of the Bible. One sense is outright terror - the kind of terror you would feel if you knew, for a certaint...

There is no such thing as original sin. There is no such thing as 'sin' at all. Original sin as sexual sin began life with the writings of Saint Augustine of Hippo, one of the most influential Christian writers and thinkers in the history of the Church. Augustine was not always a Christian. He was a convert from Manicheanism, and before his fascination with Dualism took hold he had been, by his own confession, a drunkard and a general debauchee, possessed by a rabid appetite for sex. W...

As of approximately fifteen minutes ago I am an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church Monastery. I will shortly be receiving my Ordination Package, including a legal certificate of ordination which I will immediately present to the County Clerk, who will authorize me to solemnize marriage in the Commonwealth of Virginia. An astounding thing to any European who has even a passing familiarity with the bitter history of intolerance, religious warfare, persecution of heretics, witch-b...

Human Sacrifice is, generally, meant to propitiate the Gods (may they live forever, all the Gods, even those that be dead). As in the movie 'The Wicker Man' (where to my mind the Ritual was misused and misrepresented) types of life, particularly fecund life like rabbits and hares, were gathered up in a wicker framework having the form of a man, and into which a human offering was placed last, the whole then being burnt to ash and the ashes scattered on the land. This was done on the Longest...

Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful...

I've come to loathe 'the religious'. Whether they be Christian,Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Pagan, or whatever. In all honesty, and to paraphrase an honest man, "Whenever I hear the word 'religion' I reach for my pistol". I don't have a pistol. But if i did I'd kill everyone of you pathetic motherfuckers whenever I caught you. You preach endless hate. Your righteousness is nothing more than what you consider to be right, nothing more than what you consider God to have spoken to us all. W...