Sell the vatican | 12.10.2009 |
Dawkins interviews Singer | 16.06.2009 |
Vision | 03.02.2009 |
I say … | 23.12.2008 |
«I say: let humanity be informed by science, inspired by art and motivated by compassion for all living beeings. There is no god!» - The Atheist Monologues (Video)
rain forest vs. meat | 21.10.2008 |
«In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more and more cattle. Agriculture is the world's biggest cause of deforestation, and increasing demand for meat is the biggest force in the expansion of agriculture.» - Time magazine, 12/6/99, via TED: Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders [Simple changes have a huge impact on lifespan and health], 00:12:17
Related: Meat, junkfood, cheese …
Just about every fossile… | 16.10.2008 |
«Just about every fossile you find is gonna be an intermediate between something and something else.» - 00:12:23
«If you plot a tree diagramm […] humans come in the middle of the ape-tree. So What that means is that humans are closer cousins to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas or orangutans.» - 00:28:30
"Memolution" | 09.10.2008 |
«A meme (pronounced /miːm/) consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, gestures, practices, fashions, habits, songs, and dances. Memes propagate themselves and can move through the cultural sociosphere in a manner similar to the contagious behavior of a virus.» - Wikipedia
Via: friendlyatheist.com
Nuclear Weapons | 21.09.2008 |
My favorite religion | 21.09.2008 |
Transcription:
«My favorite religion is actually Sheen-Ran Buddhism. I was married in a Sheen-Ran Buddhist church 35 years ago. And the great thing about Sheen-Ran is that it's an offshot of Amida Buddhism. Amida was the Buddha who refused to enter nirvana until all sentient beings could enter nirvana with him. And so he reincarnates forperpetually to bring everybody to supreme enlightenment. And part of the teaching of Amida Buddhism is that if you call on Amida Buddha once with true faith, that will be enough, even if you screw up this life entirely, in your next life you'll do better. In your life after that you'll do better until eventually you do achieve total detachment and nirvana. All you got to say, in Japanese, is "Namu-amida-butsu" "in the name of Amida Buddha". If you say it with true faith you will eventually be saved. And in the 12th century a monk named Sheen-Ran meditated on this until his heart broke. He thought it was just not fair to those people who can't muster a true faith. There are some people who are always asking questions, never satisfied, always asking the next question but always a little skeptical. I'm one of them. And we just can't manage true faith. We just can't. We're just wondering, maybe there is an alternative, maybe there is another way of looking at it. And Amida, the Buddha of endless compassion, can he possible leave us out if he intends to bring all beings to perfect bliss and enlightenment? And Sheen-Ran decided that was impossible. So Sheen-Ran Budhism is based on the teaching that, if you say "Namu-amida-butsu" whether you have faith or not it's enough, you will be saved eventually. I think that is the most merciful, the most common-sensical, the most generous and the most noble religion ever invented. At least it seems that way to those of us who are incapable of true faith in the traditional sense. And so I have said "Namu-amida-butsu" with some degree of faith and a great deal of skepticism on numerous occasions. I never managed total faith but I like to say it because Sheen-Ran says whether I believe it or not it will work. And so I'd like to leave everybody with those words "Namu-amida-butsu". Say them once whether you believe it or not it will work and all your problems will be solved. It may take a thousand incarnations but eventually you will get there and hey we got lots of time.» - Robert Anton Wilson
This was supposed to be the future … | 19.08.2008 |
… where is my jetpack?
Via: reizbombardement.de
Slogan by: threadless.com
«Die Filmemacher Ricarda Hinz und Jacques Tilly haben ein virtuelles Streitgespräch um Deschners «Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums» [zugehöriger Wikipedia-Artikel] zusammengestellt. Getrennt aufgenommene Aussagen zahlreicher Kirchenvertreter und radikaler Kirchenkritiker werden zu einer präzisen inhaltlichen Diskussion zusammengeführt.» - deschner.info
Die haßerfüllten Augen des Karlheinz Deschner, 1998
"Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums" im Kreuzfeuer
(Namen und Positionen der Sprecher werden nach und nach eingeblendet)
Index
Teil 1:
00:02:27 - 1. Gebot: Du sollst dir kein einseitiges Bild machen
00:06:53 - 2. Gebot: Du sollst auch das Gute sehen
00:13:03 - 3. Gebot: Du sollst die Menschenrechte achten
00:20:02 - 4. Gebot: Du sollst dich nicht herausreden
00:28:45 - 5. Gebot: Du sollt nicht hassen
Teil 2:
00:02:46 - 6. Gebot: Du sollst deine Nächsten lieben
00:09:57 - 7. Gebot: Du sollst nicht frauenfeindlich sein
00:17:29 - 8. Gebot: Du sollst nicht mit dem Teufel paktieren
00:27:55 - 9. Gebot: Du sollst deine Schuld bekennen
00:33:56 - 10. Gebot: Du sollst nicht mehr auf Gebote hören
Interessanter Abschnitt im Film (sinngemäß)
"Das, was damals im Namen der Kirche geschehen ist, ist aus heutiger Perspektive natürlich schlimm aber man muss es aus der Perspektive der damaligen Zeit betrachten."
- "Diese Aussage "leugnet" die Zeitunabhängigkeit der christlichen Werte z.B. der 10. Gebote oder der Todsünden und somit die des Gottes." (00:23:35)
Related: Kirchen - vom Staat subventioniert
Via: strobl.twoday.net
Die Zehn Gebote | 22.07.2008 |
«Die Zehn Gebote sind genauso unverzichtbares Fundament unseres gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens wie das Doppelgebot der Liebe.» - Angela Merkel, laut sonntagsblatt-bayern.de, via dober.de
Related: Applying the new seven sins
My Afternoon With Reverend Zero | 05.07.2008 |
