In my first 30 years I was a shy and awkward loner. I found solace in obscure movies, music, and the strange realms of my imagination. A sweet romantic who spends more time dreaming than saying. What else can be said about this Canadian man named Andrew with a small art collection and a camera?
I’ve never thought of camp as a means of participating in something I don’t like or enjoying something for being really bad. I’ve always thought of it as more self-deprecating or at least self-acknowledging. A means of admitting that your own personal taste isn’t always good, refined, sensible, or intelligent.
Atheist Billboard Comes Down in Ohio After a Christian Complains
Today we received the news that the owner of the land where one of our billboards was placed has threatened to cancel his lease with Lamar if they do not take down our billboard. Had I been forced to guess which one of the three we put up people would find most offensive and which one we would be forced to take down I would have been wrong. Apparently what people fear the most in Mansfield Ohio is not being told there is no God or that God is an invention of man. No my friends what they fear more than those two messages was a message encouraging the use of reason over faith.
I know you guys mean well but this does have a bit of a sardonic angle to it. It’s not the promotion of reason that bothers Christian. It’s the passive-aggressive attack on faith.
“The Way It Was”: Abortion in the US before Roe v. Wade.
I was thinking about this article and this is really one of my favourite articles ever. Really powerful.
Reblogging for the same reason ^
I want to print out this article and personally hand it to every “til abortion ends” loser giving up soda and candy bars until we WAHHH STOP KILLING BABIES. Abortion has always existed and will always exist.
Wes Anderson’s latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, is now out in theaters! New York and Los Angeles saw their debuts last week, and nationwide roll out is just around the corner.
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The Mighty Boosh - Dixon Bainbridge
‘Dixon Bainbridge was originally portrayed by Richard Ayoade in the pilot episode, and later by Matt Berry throughout the first series. He originally appeared in the pilot and several episodes of the first series of the TV show, and in the 2006 stage show, The Mighty Boosh.
Bainbridge is the owner of the Zooniverse, as well as being an admired adventurer with an impressive moustache. Bob Fossil is deeply in love with Bainbridge, which often results in Bainbridge beating him up.’ - Wikipedia
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1 Strong theist. 100 per cent probability of god. In the words of C. G. Jung, ‘I do not believe, I know.’
2 Very high probability but short of 100 per cent. De facto theist. ‘I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe in god and live my life on the assumption that he is there.’
3 Higher than 50 per cent but not very high. Technically agnostic but leaning towards theism. ‘I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in god.’
4 Exactly 50 per cent. Completely impartial agnostic. ‘God’s existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable.’
5 Lower than 50 per cent but not very low. Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism. ‘I don’t know whether god exists but I’m inclined to be sceptical.’
6 Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. ‘I cannot know for certain but I think god is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’
7 Strong atheist. ‘I know there is no god, with the same conviction as Jung “knows” there is one.’
In which position are you now?
#6
Who cares? If you don’t worry about what God thinks, or you don’t sincerely believe that God does things for you, then you’re probably an atheist.
David Coppedgehad a job most computer experts would kill for. He worked for NASA as a computer specialist, as a team leader on the Cassini mission, oriented towards the exploration of Saturn. Coppedge is also a Creationist, though, and…
It sounds like he worked very hard to earn himself a spot on the top of the layoff list. He sounds like a guy who was unpleasant to work with, believed he was entrenched, and wasn’t willing to take the basic steps to make himself more valuable to the company. These aren’t causes for firing. It does make management’s life a little easier when they need to reduce the work force. The advocacy is just icing on the cake.
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How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.
Excuse me but it appears your baby is actually upside down
Did you take Sex Ed freshman year because babies come out headfirstHi, OP! As someone who was given up for adoption, allow me to call bullshit on your little post there! You see, when I was adopted, I was a white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical infant, which basically put me at the top of the list, right underneath white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical MALE infants! There’s only one kind of infant people wanted to adopt more than me! I was SOOO lucky! But if you actually bothered to look at the information readily available on the interwebs, you would be aware that the majority of people who are forced to rely on abortion for family planning are poor people and people of color. Of course, those two demographics intersect, thanks to the institutionalized racism of our society! Neat huh?!
Of course, even babies of color are not in high demand with couples looking to adopt. Many who do want to adopt outside their race choose to go outside the country, where laws are less strict and the process is often less expensive. Of course, most of the infants adopted this way are obtained in unscrupulous fashion, but who cares about that when you’re saving a little Korean or African baby from the horrible fate of growing up in Korea or Africa??? And all those children who have birth defects, are born with diseases or disabilities, or have other issues… WELL. Who wants to invest that kind of expense and time? Why would you adopt someone broken, LOLOL?!
Granted, there are some wonderful people who understand the system a little better, and make it a point to try and give POC and disabled children a good home. But they make up a very small fraction of potential adopters! This difference in supply and demand leaves a lot of children stuck in the foster system, where their chances of being adopted diminish with every passing year, and their chances of being physically or sexually abused INCREASE! Isn’t that wonderful?
And of course, we haven’t even talked about the person who is giving birth to the baby! I know you probably think pregnancy is a wonderful, happy time, and for some people it is, but it is also one of the greatest health risks a person can take. I love my son very much, and from the day I found out I was pregnant with him, I wanted him! But I also nearly died giving birth to him. You see, I had pre-eclampsia, the most commonly fatal birth complication in the world. My blood pressure was 180 over 130! At twenty-two years old, I was actually headed for a stroke, hah hah! How funny is that? And all it took was missing a single pre-natal appointment during which my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels and my body tried to kill both me and my son. Those seizures sure were fun, as was the emergency c-section performed without anesthetic! And being chained down while the operation was performed, because I was delirious and wouldn’t stop trying to fight off the doctors, that was a BLAST! It was great for my husband too, since he almost lost his wife and child in just forty-five minutes. You can imagine how thrilled he is at the prospect of me ever getting pregnant again. Babies are certainly cute, but pregnancy can have massive health complications, and I know it’s such a bummer, but they are PERMANENT. :( My abdominal muscles never recovered from being hacked through with a scalpel, and the flood of hormones caused by late pregnancy have changed things from heartburn (never used to have it, now, all the time!) to my emotional reactions (I cry when I see pictures of kittens now. I used to be tough). These are changes I did not ask for, cannot control, and cannot fix! And many people go through worse! I know, right? Unbelievable, but go look up the word ‘episiotomy’ and then look up ‘birth rape’ and I’m afraid you’ll find some stuff that just isn’t very shiny. Plus, the studies actually show that people who carry a baby to term, give birth, then give it up for adoption suffer HIGHER rates of post-pregnancy complications like post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis, general depression, and other mental health issues. Adoption actually isn’t good for the person giving birth at all!
I’m afraid the picture you chose to use there is also pretty disingenuous. I know, I know, it seems like nitpicking. I’m not trying to be mean! :( But that picture shows a fully developed, viable infant, and most abortions are performed when the fetus isn’t even a fetus - it’s a blastocyst. That’s just a clump of cells. Seriously! You can totally find pictures on the interwebs and they’re not even gross, LOLOL! Later-term abortions are usually performed because of health complications, though some of our intrepid state legislators are trying to change all that! They care so much about people who are pregnant, you see, that they want to force them to carry dead or dying fetuses inside them until their body either becomes infected while it rots in their tummies (this is called sepsis, and it makes people very sick, and can even kill them!), or forces it out naturally in a gush of blood and fluids! Isn’t that so caring of them? I’m so glad they’re around to make those decisions for me! And if a pregnant person is not allowed to terminate an unviable fetus, in some states, they have to carry the child to term, give birth to it, and then watch it die in their arms because its lungs weren’t developed, or its brain formed outside its skull, or any of a million possible birth defects that will kill you just as quick as lickity-split! Isn’t that wild?! Of course, these people go through terrible grief, and as I mentioned, some of them may get sick and die from not being able to abort dead or dying fetuses. But I guess that’s just A-okay with you, huh?
Basically, I think before you suggest adoption as a universal alternative, you should actually go do some research on adoption. And before you condemn abortion, you should do some research on abortions - not the stuff your church is giving you, the stuff the real doctors are saying. Go to Planned Parenthood (if they haven’t all been closed down, ROFLMAO!) and request whatever information they have on the process, the statistics of who has abortions and why… and actually, all of that is on the interwebs! Isn’t technology AMAZING?
And in closing, since I’ve been asked this question many times and I know it’s coming? Yes, I realize I am here talking to you because I was not aborted. But the thing is, if my mother had chosen abortion, I wouldn’t know the difference, so it wouldn’t matter to me. And if she decided that choice was best for her, then that choice would have been best for her, and I would never want to take that choice away from her. As it is, since I was given up for adoption, and since I have seen the statistics on how badly people who give their children up for adoption suffer, I have spent much of my adult life worrying about her, whether she’s healthy, whether she’s okay, and feeling that if she did suffer from any of the common post-birth symptoms, it is at least partially my fault, even though she made that decision on her own. Which is silly, I know, but at some point, all children have to stare down the consequences of their parents’ having them. For some, that’s poverty. For others, a life-time of their parents struggling to treat and care for a severe illness or disability. For others, it’s wondering if their mother ever got over giving them away, and wishing you could reach out and assure her that it’s okay, she doesn’t have to be haunted.
May your birth control never fail!
Pro.
Sonneillonv deserves a mother fucking standing ovation here.
Reblogging because of Sonneillonv. Your google-fu is formidable!
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^ All the commentary, and also: why are pro-life graphics always SO GODDAMN CREEPY???
-Jess
Yes, in countries like Afghanistan, being a pedophile is allowed but in countries like Iran, an Islamic country, it’s a crime. It’s considered to be rape - which will result into a death sentence, NOT for the victim, though but rather the person committing the crime.
And Muslims in the West…
First, I have to say that God never had sex with Mary. The fact that Jesus was born of a virgin is fairly heavily emphasized. Also, the ascension of Jesus seems to have some left overs from older belief systems. I know in Celtic mythology there is belief that there are three realms: a physical, a metaphysical, and a spiritual. Very similar to the Holy Trinity in Catholicism. You have to remember that Jesus didn’t ascend to heaven in spiritual form. He ascended in physical form, and he was sent to open up the heavens form man kind (people in the physical realm). So why would Jesus have to be physically born, die, and rise from the dead? Well, cause that was the only way of opening the door between the physical and spiritual realms. This of course would make perfect sense if were reading a fantasy novel.
If I have to go school and read dozens of books to be a nurse, how can you be a Christian without reading the Bible?
Easy. Just go to church and let the preacher fill you up with all the filtered stuff that he says is in there. Reading is hard.
Why are you setting the bar so high? All you really need is Christian parents.
HOLY FUCK THE NOTES.
Don’t think I’ve seen so many notes on a post since the “Reblog if Captain Jack Harkness Has Shagged You” one.
Omz!
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But religion has nothing to do with it. Right?
When you’re born a woman in the world you’re taught to hate yourself. Shit, man, misogyny is pretty close to being a universal human value. Religion is often a tool of oppression, but so are glossy fashion magazines and romantic comedies. It pisses me off that so many atheists pick on Islam as if it’s somehow especially patriarchal and oppressive of women. It seems particularly disingenuous when atheist activism as a whole continues to be full of misogyny (and racism… and other -isms) as well.
Patriarchy doesn’t magically disappear in the absence of religion.
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atheists are no more free from the patriarchy than religious folk are.
Talk about missing the point. Atheist could all be woman haters (they are not of course) and that has nothing to do with how the bible and the quran describe women and their place in society.
All of those that say these religions are being “perverted” or “misunderstood” need to actually learn about what the “holy” books say before defending them. They become unintended accomplices in the oppression of the women they supposedly defend.
No one said patriarchy disappear if religion disappears. That would be asinine. The point is that giving religion an undeserved pass will make the situation these women are in even worse. And one thing is clear, the less avenues for oppression the better. Religion is not only one of those avenues, it is the most used one.
-FA
Find me one place in one society where a stricter adherence to religious text meant more personal freedom for women. Cause so far any example I can think of is quite the opposite.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3yxsv9i0U1qzewk6o1_1280.png)
But religion has nothing to do with it. Right?
When you’re born a woman in the world you’re taught to hate yourself. Shit, man, misogyny is pretty close to being a universal human value. Religion is often a tool of oppression, but so are glossy fashion magazines and romantic comedies. It pisses me off that so many atheists pick on Islam as if it’s somehow especially patriarchal and oppressive of women. It seems particularly disingenuous when atheist activism as a whole continues to be full of misogyny (and racism… and other -isms) as well.
Patriarchy doesn’t magically disappear in the absence of religion.
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bolded for the truth
atheists are no more free from the patriarchy than religious folk are.
Talk about missing the point. Atheist could all be woman haters (they are not of course) and that has nothing to do with how the bible and the quran describe women and their place in society.
All of those that say these religions are being “perverted” or “misunderstood” need to actually learn about what the “holy” books say before defending them. They become unintended accomplices in the oppression of the women they supposedly defend.
No one said patriarchy disappear if religion disappears. That would be asinine. The point is that giving religion an undeserved pass will make the situation these women are in even worse. And one thing is clear, the less avenues for oppression the better. Religion is not only one of those avenues, it is the most used one.
-FA
Find me one place in one society where a stricter adherence to religious text meant more personal freedom for women. Cause so far any example I can think of is quite the opposite.
These people look so stupid right now. Just imagine how they will look in another 40 years.Word.
40? More like in 15 years. Tops.
They already look stupid. Unfortunately, they’re stupidity will have a dire effect on the lives of people who deserve much better.
Senator Doug Finley orchestrated it, in 2011, 2008, 2006, as well as in certain by-elections (cough*Vaughan*cough). It’s hard to refute emails from his @conservative.ca account to the (two) main companies behind the robocalling and voter suppression, discussing strategy and payment.
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