mike says things sometimes

Yes Virgina, there IS a Flying Spaghetti Monster:

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/?p=80

I feel I must confess, in true livejournal fashion.  I am an Atheist.  I don’t believe in God.

It’s not for a lack of trying mind you, I’ve spent the last year or so trying to find a dogma I could roll with, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I cannot logically accept any of them.  It just doesn’t make sense.

Now that’s not to belittle those that do.  The majority of family is very christian, and they are very good people.  More power to them I say.  But I  just cannot roll with magic sky guy, anymore than I can honestly believe in unicorns or the Flying Spaghetti Monster (may you be touched by his noodly appendage).  For the existence of God creates more problems than he solves, and frankly seems to reduce the greatness of what the universe has created.  The Universe fills me with far more awe and inspiration to know that it was the process of billions and billions of years of slow change, that we are all made of star stuff, and are a piece of whats all around us.  That’s a far deeper truth than to believe were magically put here as is, taking all the wonder out of just what nature can do.

A QUESTION OF ETHICS:

We do not need God or religion to be good people.  Rather, we are good people IN SPITE OF Religion.  The Bible, The Quaran, The Torah, these books do not tell us how to be good and decent human beings, rather – as Richard Dawkins put it – the Zeitgeist of the times tells us our ethical truths.  And these truths change as we as people change.  Not so long ago, women couldn’t vote, the races were segregated, and the theory of a superior white race was the norm.  Abraham Lincoln himself stated that the white race was superior, even as he freed the slaves.  And he stated it because it was the Zeitgeist of the era, but it is one we have since moved away from.  Yet those who would say we take our moral standing from the Religious texts choose to be blind to the fact that these same books encourage Racism, Sexism, and incredible amounts of violence and sadomasochistic behavior.

So we choose to be good in spite of what the text tell us, rather than because of what the texts tell us.

I am an Atheist, and I’m proud of it.

Mmmmm healthy, originally uploaded by ABLE-X.

Another shopping trip full of health food

Achrodingers insanity, originally uploaded by ABLE-X.

Just in case anyone was wondering, my cat has completely lost her mind. She is now destroyer of rubberbands and molester of armchairs. Just thought you might like to know.

I must have one of these

Well, I promised.  Now it’s time to deliver.  Here it is, Cover Fire, Vol. 2.Featuring 6 tracks of songs I didn’t right, some from bands you’ve never heard of.  Lots of variety here as per usual, so head on over here and download it, and enjoy

Ok, I’m trying to update shit, really I am.  Wordpress is giving me grief creating new link pages, but if you follow the links starting from my profile page you can eventually get everywhere.  Yes, it sucks, but I wanna go play dreamcast now.

Another day down, originally uploaded by ABLE-X.

Server is finally mostly working, I get to go home now, yay me

or hardly workin…

Here i sit, waiting out Microsoft time in my office. Do you have any idea how long it takes to copy a 200MB symantec installer folder across a VPN? This does not make for happy time. And apparently you’re expected to have Anti-virus on your servers and worksations…eh, who knew?

I believe the cold is finally making it’s way out of me, but my energy level is still in the shitter. I’m taking friday off, so I’ll have a day there to chill and get better, and maybe do some reading up with these IT books I downloaded. Or I’ll sit and watch Mythbusters….I think that’s far more likely.

I really hate microsoft time, it really has no bearing on reality. On the plus side of things, we’re getting closer to having all our sites on one domain finally, which means work gets easier, cause I don’t have to keep track of 4 domains, only 3, and one of those will be disappearing soon too, yay for a lightening work load!

end pointless ramblings for now while i await file copy