The Problem

Step 1.  Realize the truth of the world around you is a lie
Step 2.  Tell people
Step 3.  Get Strung up
Step 4.  There is no step 4

Anytime a great reformer comes about, resistance is the status quo from the status quo wherever you go.  Where can you go to find a place where no one has gone before?  Stretching before us to the expanse of the great unknown our only avenue is fiction, a fantasy, full stream ahead to a place where people don't use them in the first place where the first place and last place begin to lose meaning as the mean flattens out to the farthest corners of our existence

Required Reading

Over on theology web, I do a once or twice a week PM to various people that I list as required reading(and videos). These take the form of, generally short, links to various places around the internet that are really good information. I figured I would expand that to the WORLD! (no one has even read this thing yet and here I am having delusions of grandeur)

Anyway,

The first article I ended up linking was a fairly long 1924 newspaper article written by an atheist by the name of Rupert Hughes entitled "Why I quit going to church"

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/rupert_hughes/why_i_quit_going_to_church.html

The interesting thing you'll notice when reading this, is how little has actually changed in america, in the arguments against atheists, for theism, and general attitude.

What other section of society is viewed the same way as the 20's?

Science and Religion

On the science verse religion part, its always astounded me how science always seems to point in the same direction after a bout of well mannered infighting to eventually settle on a conclusion we can test in the real world until new information comes out and the process starts over, while even inside one religion the doctrinal splits become more and more prevalent, people who devote their entire lives to understanding "god" are unable to reconcile any two sects of the same religion.

I used to, when me and my shipmates would be talking about religion I'd throw out that all over the world you can have people doing the same experiment independently and they are going to get the same results. That always fascinated me. Science doesn't care what you think, you do something, you get a result and if you do it again in the exact same way, you get the same result, then you show some peeps and they go "wow, apparently X + Y = Z, someone write this down"

Then we get religion, where if two people read the same book they can get wildly different takes on it, there's no reconciliation and people argue on it endlessly with no end in sight because, well, what are you supposed to say to any two religious bodies that is going to get the other side to go "oh, your right, we're doing it wrong, damn"

Is their anything?

Welcome to Jaecps Take

Well, I broke down, and started a blog,

This won't go well...

Some of my earlier posts will be simple reposts of OP's I've made on various forums, while anyone seeing these from that forum will have already read the content, it gives me a good baseline for the rest of the site.

Anyway,

Greetings,

Welcome to Jaecp's Take