“It’s like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five … Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.” — Sir David Attenborough, on teaching creationism in schools. (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
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There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
Lol America. We’re such a joke to everyone but us. We’re that one jock kid in the classroom that is absolutely convinced he’s the greatest thing given to this earth - but completely oblivious to the fact that the rest of the classroom laughs at him (though they still kiss his ass for party invites and to beat up the other kids).
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Aries: a knife, lots of stab wounds, especially ones in the face- most likely a rage kill. After they were done stabbing you, they’d start ripping you limb from limb, even if you were already dead.
Taurus: Their bare hands, and they’d strangle you to death. They’d stare into your eyes intensely as they suffocated you to death, maybe even adding in a few dramatic “I got you in the end, you know.” phrases while doing it.
Gemini: It all depends on what is convenient for them to use as a murder weapon- they’re clever, so they’d figure it out quickly. Most cannibals are Geminis, so they’d probably eat you afterwards. If you really fucked them over, maybe they’d cut off your hands and watch you bleed to death, probably laughing while doing it.
Cancer: They’d take you to the beach and find a secluded area only to tie you to a boulder in the shallows of the beach and watch the tide slowly drown you and sea creatures start to pick at your helpless/crying for help corpse.
Leo: They’d make a whole sport of it- they’d find a bunch of really sadistic, fucked up people on the black market and put you in a pit filled with big cats (especially lions), you’d here “let the games begin!” and a spotlight would come on the death pit as your torn to shreds.
Virgo: They’d make it look like an accident somehow. Regardless, no one would ever find out that they did it, because they’d cover their tracks well enough.
Libra: Similar to the virgo one, but they’d definitely pretend to be distraught by what happened, and mask that they were involved really well…but in order to get you back, they’d get your family, your friends, and other people you cared about to show THEM sympathy, and to be on their side.
Scorpio: Succinolcholine injection after chloroforming the person helpless. (sp? A horse tranquilizer that is extremely hard to detect and basically make the person POWERLESS to do ANYTHING except suffocate to death. It makes all muscles go soft.) and they’d talk to you about how powerless and helpless you were until you died.
Sagittarius: beating the shit out of someone until they were literally an unrecognizable bloody mass.
Capricorn: Shooting someone in the head, mafioso style. They’d want it to be quick and clean, and they’d have organized a team to cover for them, dump the body, and probably hired virgo to hide the evidence.
Aquarius: It’d either be something really strange, whacky, and off the wall, like killing someone in the middle of a play by planning to have a stage light dropped on them, or they’d make an example of you in front of a bunch of their “followers” which they’d most likely have if they were crazy enough to kill.
Pisces: They’d capture you and play surgeon, the whole time ranting and raving about “how it feels” to feel pain as intensely as the emotional pain that they feel. They’d make sure that the kill took a long time so that they had a captive audience for a long time- another reason they’d prolongue it is they’d enjoy being the predator instead of the victim for once.
Astrology is total BS, but this is so awesome lol
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Compared to Jupiter’s moon Europa, our planet is practically a desert, as this NASA image shows.
(Details at APOD: 2012 May 24 - All the Water on Europa)
Wow. I’ve seen the Earth droplet many times, but never next to Europa. Perspective, you haz it.
PREACH, Dex.
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What are you filling your brain with today?
“So logically, if she weighs the same as a duck, she’s made of wood!”
Embarassingly accurate.
“I’ll tell you what you did with Atheists for 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities, or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind. Drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them alive. And you have nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.” —
Madalyn Murray O’Hair (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
While I don’t laugh at theists (save for a few of the more absurd aspects and sects), it’s sometimes good to be reminded how nice it is to be in a day and age that is at least more tolerant than the past.
A Self-Portrait of Opportunity
I want you to stop and think about something. This is a picture of another planet. Where this robot is. Right now.
As we sit here on Earth in this or any moment, we each have in our heads a flurry of worries and questions and ideas. And most of them pertain to our own lives. That’s okay, it’s human nature. We are each the center of our own universe.
I often think about this in crowded places, like while in traffic, as the place I’m going is far more important than the place all of these other people are going. I’m convinced that they feel the same way. And so we sit.
But that means that there are seven billion mental universes walking around on this planet. We are staring into them through little digital windows that we carry in our hands, and certain that this decision is the most important decision. Everything that is happening is happening to us.
Yet for the past eight years, there has been a dusty, six-wheeled rover crawling around the surface of Mars, completely alone. Incidentally, that rover has exceeded its expected mission of 90 days by thirty-two times over. That’s admirable, and I can’t help but personify the little guy. Like a sort of scrappy, diligent explorer, quietly working hard for the benefit of someone else. “No complaints, boss!” Like Johnny 5 meets Wall-E.
And so we get images like this, reminding us that every day we can look beyond our personal universe. What a thought! Look at how much is out there. Think of what else we could see! Let’s go.
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I love how all my non-religious friends get weird whenever I talk about God or the fact that I’m praying for them. Like, I don’t need to be reminded that you’re not a person of faith, you already told me. However, God is a real part of me and my life, so of course I’m going to talk about Him. And of course I’m going to pray for you. Because I pray for everyone, regardless of religious or non-religious affiliation. Because I believe. Get it? Me, I believe. My beliefs have nothing to do with your faith or lack thereof. You know, I encounter difficulties with my Roman Catholic religion, but that doesn’t stop me from wholeheartedly believing and trusting in the God I so love- the God I have sealed within my heart and let become one with my soul. I am proud to say that I have received the Sacrament of Confirmation. I am in a place in my life where I am still discerning whether I am being called to enter religious life, holy matrimony, consecrated life, or to remain in laity. But you know what? This is who I am. And even though I will always see you as my sister or brother, as a whole and complete individual, sometimes I wonder if you still see me as such. Or if I just become some stereotyped image of a “right-wing fundamentalist” in your eyes…
(edit: I want to add that I would actually love to hear and talk about other people’s beliefs and opinions. My point of view is that my faith is made fun of and disrespected when I am respectful and accepting of everyone. No one ever offers to discuss their “non-belief” in the same way one might discuss their faith. I probably should’ve mentioned this in my first post, but that’s what open conversation is for.)
I think I may be in the minority of atheists who says that I agree with you. If some I love legitimately believes (actually I’m married to a Roman Catholic), than I would be a little worried if they did NOT pray for me. Because even if I don’t think any of it is real, they really do, and so of course they would be worried. They’re not forcing anything down my throat by doing it, they’re praying on their own. I find it fairly endearing that those I love do pray for me.
I may just have this tattooed myself…
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Carl is my auto-reblog.
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