Would you mind not sticking your nose into my ask hole? I mean, the nerve of some people! Not even a by your leave! Thank you very much! Simply comes in all unannounced, nose as cold as the northern pole and expects the bloody carpet to be laid out! Well, I never!
If you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life is all very well and good, but it often doesn’t pay the mortgage :(
The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion.
The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes on Channel 4 in the UK.
Dawkins has said that the title “The Root of All Evil?” was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy. His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.
Dawkins’s book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. The God Delusion explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them.
Dawkins opens the programme by describing the “would-be murderers … who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they’re motivated by what they think is the highest ideal.” Dawkins argues that “the process of non-thinking called faith” is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.
Because that person really annoyed me today.
I’m all for live and let live, I really am. However, there are days when people like that just get under my skin and remind me that far too many people think like them …
Sometimes the mantra “that’s what they do” I was taught to remind me of the fickleness of humanity is not enough to abate the frustration.
I find your bigoted idealism offensive.
I find that your construct of the world and the proposition that your faith is the only righteous, moral and correct path is grotesquely erroneous.
I do not care for you or your repulsive point of view.
Your careless disregard for human life and the glee with which you speak out of the murder and rape of “disbelievers” further confirms the madness of your bigotry and hate.
If you hate “the theory of science” and all of its evil influence in “spreading the word of ‘satan’ through the theory of evolution” then I suggest that you withdraw from all the fruits that science has blossomed. No longer may you participate in modern medicine, the use of the internet, the mobile phone or the velcro keeping your synthetic material sweat pants on.
I say to you and all like you - regardless of what deity they choose to believe - that there is no longer room for you or your kind.
Keep away from me.
Keep away from the school system.
Keep away from politics.
Keep away from the ability to allow humanity to continue to evolve into the altruistic and beautiful beings we are destined to be.
We are good, without the gods or demons you wish us to fear.
1 pair of used feet.
Toe nails tough. Calloused heels. Generally good condition.
Odometer broken, but may have walked a billion miles*.
May I say, considering it was planned in my spare time, in under a month with a budget of a whopping $AUD 100.00 … I think I did A-OK.
From chooks to community groups. From Permaculture to vermiculture. From the practical to the philosophical. It was all covered in a neat little “gardening expo” for the staff.
I may even have managed to get a few of the groups and speakers to collaborate on new projects out of todays meetings and talks. I’ll be glad if that’s the case - makes it feel that it mattered that little bit more :)
My feet are aching - having been on them and running around all day and I need to get up early to drive off to Romsey in the North-West Central Victorian region to do a field trip on a 50Ha farm of a guy who “doesn’t do anything by the book and gets results no one else gets” as the organiser stated it. Another chap stated “I hate going to Pat’s place - you always leave thinking how crap your place is by comparison”
You better believe that’ll be another day on your feet … in wellingtons no less!
… too exhausted to even ty
