Comments by Diacanu

Comment #202639 by Diacanu on July 1, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Goldy-

Kestrel, you join forces with the religious at your peril - they want you, totally and utterly.

Exactly.

Religion doesn't want compromise, it wants its bullshit ideas to WIN.

It didn't want compromise when it had the power to try to eradicate evolution flat out.

All its so-called compromises are political smoke and mirrors.
It only "compromises", when reality forces it to fall back.

502. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202625 by Diacanu on July 1, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Oh and...

Kentrel-

...here we have someone who can offer common ground between atheists and the religious, ...

Yeah, that sounds so fucking lovely, it really does, but this isn't Coke drinkers vs. Pepsi drinkers.

It's truth vs. lies.

Religion is fake, evolution is true.

You can't drive down the middle of that street.
Pick a fucking lane, folks.
Pick a fucking lane.

503. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202623 by Diacanu on July 1, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Steve Zara-

I am afraid that at least for me, it isn't reasonable enough,

Agreed.

Bullshit wrapped in the "golly gee willikers, gang", tone of the pseudo-peacemaker is still bullshit.

504. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202621 by Diacanu on July 1, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Kentrel-

My heart bleeds for your wounded sensibilities, really.

*Rubs thumb and index finger together*

See? I'm playing the saddest song in the world on the world's smallest violin just for you.

Gut wrenching stuff, no?

Wanna hanky?
Eh?
Hanky for your boogies?

505. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202415 by Diacanu on July 1, 2008 at 1:11 pm

The title of his book should've been "mollycoddling the deluded".
A must-miss on my reading list. Right up there with "The Secret".

506. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #201842 by Diacanu on June 30, 2008 at 10:06 am

So, I guess the answer would be D then.
:)

507. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #201838 by Diacanu on June 30, 2008 at 10:02 am

Robert O'Brien-

Is Diacanu...

1. Lacking in native intelligence.
2. A vapid atheist.

Hey, I'm not the one using bad logic, long ago refuted arguments, and a total lack of evidence to shore up literal belief in bronze age fairy tales.

508. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #201809 by Diacanu on June 30, 2008 at 9:34 am

I'm late to this thread, help me out here..

Is Robert O'Brien...

A. Fuckin' stupid.
B. Fulla shit.
C. Fuckin' nuts.
D. All of the above.

509. Faith schools undermined by 'Government witch hunt'

Comment #201797 by Diacanu on June 30, 2008 at 9:21 am

Apathy Personified-

You're intolerant to their intolerance!!

Persecution!! Persecution!!

510. Faith schools undermined by 'Government witch hunt'

Comment #201773 by Diacanu on June 30, 2008 at 8:53 am

Don't you just fucking love how opposing religion in any way, in any degree, no matter how shady their agenda, makes them piggy-squeal persecution?

Why, don't you know you're just supposed to roll over, and give them everything they want?

And what do they want?
Oh, just everything.
All the money, all the influence, hands on every lever, seats at every table, everyone's brains, especially sweet juicy child brains, and everyone who doesn't believe their bullshit terrorized or dead.

That's all.
Golly gee willikers it's not much.
Buncha meanies, why can't they have it?
It's persecution, I tells ya.
*Lip quiver, sniffle*

511. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200346 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 11:04 am

theIdiot-

Deuurr!!!!

Pretty much what I thought.
Marked as troll.

512. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200339 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 10:40 am

theIdiot-

So shut your ass up,...

Or you'll what, Butch?

513. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200336 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 10:37 am

Sciros-

I think a "Batman for president" campaign needs to be promoted.

Sounds like a plan to me.

514. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200329 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 10:22 am

theIdiot-

It's really this simple, I'm good because I'm good, you're good because you fear an invisible man in the sky sending you to a pit of fire in the mantle of the earth.

You're a scumbag.

Next case.

515. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200328 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 10:17 am

Vacingetorix-

Ah, so you agree that the system is decaying, and we're all going to die screaming and writhing?

Good, glad we're on the same page. :)

516. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200317 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 9:49 am

Vecingetorix-

*Head pat* Yeah, that's nice, why don't I just write in Daffy Duck while I'm at it too, eh?

Now go to sleep.

517. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200310 by Diacanu on June 27, 2008 at 9:38 am

"It can be reasoned that if one believes God determines worldly affairs, then there is little reason for individuals to participate in civic events,"

Of course, that likely had to be translated from the patterns of moaning, drooling, slurring, and gasping from the subjects momentarily forgetting how to breathe.

518. An Interview with Prof. Richard Dawkins

Comment #200024 by Diacanu on June 26, 2008 at 4:17 pm

scotochromagen-

Hmm, don't think I've ever thought of it that way...

Non-existence being a better "place", than cancer.

Naturally, yeah.

I always thought of it as meaning the afterlife, and better than this world, period.

Good point, you've given me a new perspective to ponder.

519. Creationist critics get their comeuppance

Comment #199785 by Diacanu on June 26, 2008 at 11:02 am

Caudimordax-

Stephen Colbert.

520. An Interview with Prof. Richard Dawkins

Comment #199721 by Diacanu on June 26, 2008 at 8:40 am

Styrer-

Hopkins did, I think, give a magnanimity and a universality to the part which undermined, welcomely, the fuckwit whose real-life part he was playing.

Exactly.

Trusting you were touched PRECISELY because of the dewy-eyed sentiment which is real in this world and can never be a nod to a non-existent 'here-after'. THAT kind of feeling is real, to be hankered after, to be longed for.

I did, and agreed.

But living AGAIN after death? Without my head, my dick, my legs, my BODY? Don't want it.

So what is it supposed to be, this 'afterlife'? Bunches of disembodied 'bits' bumping around?

How the hell do I give my mum a hug?

Fuck that.

Agreed.

And that brings me to the mindless zombie phrase I kept hearing at my grandma's funeral "she's in a better place".

That's totally something people say without even thinking of it at all.

Because let's just think about it just a little bit here "she's in a better place".

A better place than on earth with the family that loves her?
REALLY??

There's a better place, with better people than us?
We're not good enough?
Love isn't good enough?

If you think love isn't good enough, that there's a place with something better than that, there's something seriously and deeply mentally wrong with you.

Another insult to love, and thus humanity, and thus our deepest dignity.

This is what religion has to offer.
These are its so-called "comforts".

Take the metaphorical, poetic, wish-thinking beauty away from notions of death and you're left with the real, poetic, fulfilling beauty that LIFE gives you.

Want more life? Eat more bran. Beyond that, let's stop being so unbelievably fucking ungrateful as to demand more, and more which is not even based on WHAT MAKES US HUMAN NOW.

Took the words out of my mouth there.

Fuckwits everywhere.

Rant on, Diacanu. You're right, and a fucking tonic.

I shall, and thanks.
:)

521. An Interview with Prof. Richard Dawkins

Comment #199459 by Diacanu on June 25, 2008 at 7:41 pm

Styrer-

Oh, Hopkins was good, that's why I even watched it.
And it's a good flick.
Precisely because so much of Lewis's religious shit was trimmed.

But, I know how the real life story turned out, and it's the perfect illustration to me why the "comfort", of such beliefs, religion's one true claim to goodness, is itself tainted.

And to me personally, is an abject lesson in everything I refuse to do with grief, and mourning, and loss, and what I refuse to let my relatives do with my memory when I croak.

I want humanity, and celebraton of life, not make-believe spook shit.

522. An Interview with Prof. Richard Dawkins

Comment #199451 by Diacanu on June 25, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Okay, I haven't gotten too far into this, and already the "psychological succour", thing has cropped up, and pissed me off.

I watched "Shadowlands", on OvationTV last night, and the ending to that pissed me off, and totally fits into this subject.

It IS a sweet real life love story how C.S. Lewis met his wife, and sad and tear-jerky how he lost her to cancer, and the movie chops it off, but how he coped with it in real life was by relinquishing her memory to love Jesus more, which is, to steal a line from Hitchens, an attack on our deepest human integrity.

That's not succour, that's a harmful morality damaging narcotic.

We all, atheist and religionist alike, get pissed off at charlatain psychic assholes who try to replace the memories of our dead beloved with stupid voices in a dark room.

BUT replace spooks with Jesus, and it becomes culturally acceptable somehow.

Fuck that.

Fuck that.

My grandma is dead, she's gone, sometimes it hurts to remember her, sometimes it doesn't, but the pain or lack of it, is REAL.

That's what fucking life is.

"Oh, you're not attacking people's emotional crutches, are you? Maybe their leg is broken, and they NEED the crutch and myeh, myeh, myeh..".

Yes, I'm attacking their crutch.
I'm attacking the crutch they use to cope with pain.
I'm doing it.
Yes.

"Oh, who are YOU to myeh, myeh..".

I'm fucking ME, and I'm fucking sayin' it.

Fuck crutches, and fuck you if you have one.
Fuck you.

I'm not the one INSULTING the memory of the dead by pretending they're a spook floating around on a fucking cloud.

It's fucking infantile.
Remember them how they REALLY were, and grow up.

Fucking shit.

I'm pissed now, that C.S. Lewis stuff really fucking got to me.

Attacks our deepest human integrity indeed, you nailed it Hitch.

523. Saving Us from Darwin

Comment #198906 by Diacanu on June 24, 2008 at 5:24 pm

SharonMcT-

TeraBrat:

Fuck off. ;)

Edit: *whew* I've been wanting to say that for a few days now.

*Exhales*
THANK YOU!

Ditto there.

524. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #198163 by Diacanu on June 23, 2008 at 9:45 am

Steve Zara-

I suggest we explore his psychology, and try and understand why he has this feeling of self-importance,

It's not psychology, so much as biology.

Cancer thinks it's really fucking important.

Look how it claims priority over the organs it snacks on.

Txpiper's original human brain for example.

525. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198129 by Diacanu on June 23, 2008 at 9:06 am

Well, there goes my dream.

I had it all planned out, I was going to write some books, get d-list famous, but enough so I could get on Bill Maher the same time as George Carlin, and finally meet him, and shake his hand.

Shit, if Stan Lee croaks, I got nothin'.

What famous people can I hang out with then?
Like Al-Rawandi brought up, Dane fucking Cook?
Blah.

Depressing.

526. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #198123 by Diacanu on June 23, 2008 at 8:52 am

*Feeling rotten already, then I see txpiper still spewing*

Txpiper....just go fuckin' eat rat poison, would ya?

Planet still spinning with a cancerous mole like you on it, while good people die.
There's no God alright.
Solves that equation right there.
To the nearest fucking decimal place.

527. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198114 by Diacanu on June 23, 2008 at 8:31 am

AoClay-

That's my two favorite comedians down now, Hicks and Carlin. Man, I didn't think he'd die quite yet.

Man, you said it. :(

528. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198108 by Diacanu on June 23, 2008 at 8:15 am

Awwwww fuuuuuuck. :(

I'm punched in the gut.

He was my friggin hero.

His concerts literally kept me sane as a teenager.

That's so weird, I just had a marathon of all his DVDs over the past week.

Man, I knew he was getting on in years, and had a bad ticker, but I thought we had a couple more decades left with him.
"It's bad for ya", really was his last one, I'm gonna savor that one as a holy relic when it's finally out. :(

Aw, man, what a story to wake up to.

Dammit, dammit, dammit. :(

529. The Flea Delusion

Comment #197768 by Diacanu on June 22, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Diacanu-

Teratornis-

....and then peak oil is going to kill 99% of the human population.
Women will eat their babies.
People will starve to death at superspeed from the sheer poverty energy in the air.
The bones will push through the flesh before your eyes. The flesh. The flesh. The flesh.
A human skull. On the ground. Human skull. On the ground. Turn around.

There you go, I added that for you.
:)

....ah hell..

*Dances in tophat and tails*

Turn around!! Turn around!! There's a thing there that can be fooouund!!

Turn around! Turn around!

There's a human skull on the ground!!

Human skull!!

On the ground!!

Tuuurn aroooouund!!!

*Gets on knees and outstetches arms as if expecting wave of applause*

*Gets pelted with tomatoes*

*Embraces it like a baptism*

Yes!! Yes!! Yeee-heh-heh-heeesss!!!!

*Tears of joy*

530. The Flea Delusion

Comment #197763 by Diacanu on June 22, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Teratornis-

....and then peak oil is going to kill 99% of the human population.
Women will eat their babies.
People will starve to death at superspeed from the sheer poverty energy in the air.
The bones will push through the flesh before your eyes. The flesh. The flesh. The flesh.
A human skull. On the ground. Human skull. On the ground. Turn around.

There you go, I added that for you.
:)

531. The Flea Delusion

Comment #197748 by Diacanu on June 22, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Richard Dawkins-

The jokes in The Delusion Delusion are all variants on "This page is left intentionally blank." "There is no page 5 in this book, so I added one because we have to make up the page count somehow" "This page is not a delusion. This is just to help me get past page 58." "Remember that the real purpose is to fill up the pages so we can call this a book." "Congratulations! You have read beyond page 18 and you are still awake. And I have managed to fill 57 pages of a real book." In other words it is an unabashed pot-boiler and the only joke it contains is "This book is an unabashed pot-boiler."

Tch, I'm funnier than that!
I wrote stuff that corny back in 5th grade!
Shit, I could pound out a funnier God Delusion parody in a couple months!

...ehhh...but I won't, I don't wanna be a parasite.

(As Conan)
I will have my OWN kingdom!

532. The Flea Delusion

Comment #197579 by Diacanu on June 22, 2008 at 10:47 am

Josh has to either get his butt in gear, or have someone else do it, but all the new ones have to be spliced onto that little orbit chart.

Come on, someone here has to be a graphic artist, let's get that shit done, gang.

533. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #196928 by Diacanu on June 20, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Actually, post 8412 is merely a literal representation of the mental priming I go through before engaging txpiper.
:P

Except in my mind, when my post has concluded, I swing the spear thingy, pop his head off like a dandelion, and cause it to roll down a little hill into one of 4 numbered holes, and you're all cheering and betting on the hole.

534. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #196918 by Diacanu on June 20, 2008 at 3:27 pm

alvorin-

MONSTER!!!! THIS IS THE END OF YOOOUUUUUU!!!!

*Chest kicks him onto the ground, alvorin splays helplessy as Diacanu rases a golden spear pike with a sort of curved bladed like tip to it*

HERE IT COMES!!! HERE IT COOMES!!!!

*Goldy tugs on Diacanu's shirt*

What?

What?

*Reads alvorin's reply*

Ohh...sorry....

Ahem...*skulks off quietly*

535. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #196893 by Diacanu on June 20, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Steve/Goldy-

That's why I asked him to elaborate.
I wanted to be sure he was saying what I thought he was, and why the pissy attitude.

If he was/is being pissy, I'm a bit confused, giving a perusal of his other posts, that seemingly place him on anti-theocratic ground.

536. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #196861 by Diacanu on June 20, 2008 at 1:59 pm

alovrin-

Care to elaborate there?

537. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #196856 by Diacanu on June 20, 2008 at 1:51 pm

ReceivedTheGift, then Jethro, now Txpiper comes back, what are they working in shifts?

Hey, fellas, why not a coordinated attack, give us the CareBear-Stare, except with Jesus rays, destroy our demonic evil once and for all?

538. The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic

Comment #196328 by Diacanu on June 19, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Hmm, I've noticed philosophers and game designers are always into prog rock/metal.

I've given it a spin, and while I recognize its complexity and artistry, and can enjoy it fairly well if someone else fired it up...I don't LOVE it..I wouldn't out of my way for it, y'know?

I think I'm probably just 5 IQ points short.

Ah, well.

539. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #195648 by Diacanu on June 18, 2008 at 4:26 pm

RtG-

Oh no!!
Creationist are watching me pee!!
I've been pee-shyed into giving up atheism!! You've defeated me!!
Arrrgh!

540. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #195641 by Diacanu on June 18, 2008 at 4:20 pm

You guys are STILL doing this??!!?

I think you should've given 3 strikes, and ended it.

The silence and avoidance is proof enough of no evidence being forthcoming from the ID crowd ever.

I mean, if it's to the point you practically have to torture these sumbitches to say anything of substance, then it's not worth knowing.

541. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194513 by Diacanu on June 16, 2008 at 10:33 pm

*Sigh* you're still on the merry-go-round with this finger sniffing baboon?

542. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194082 by Diacanu on June 16, 2008 at 12:00 pm

MPhil-

*Thumbs up*
:)

543. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194034 by Diacanu on June 16, 2008 at 9:58 am

This ice canopy shit makes me envision a nifty level for a evolution vs. creationism video game!! :P

(Steve Zara rides a flying jet-ski towards a giant orbital pentagram shaped ice island, and fires little *Bzeew, bzeew!!* lasers at it)

(Queen)
Steve!! Zar-aaa!!
Savior of the universe!!

*Bzeew!! Bzeew!!*

Steve!! Zar-aaa!!
He'll save every one of us!!

*Bzeew!! Bzeew!!*

Steve!! Zar-aaa!!
He's a miracle!!

*Bzeew!! Bzeew!!*

(Steve's husband)
Steve, I love you!!! But we only have 5 hours to save the earth!!

544. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194028 by Diacanu on June 16, 2008 at 9:50 am

Severalspeciesof-

Diacanu,

Aw, go ahead and repost it.

Steve-

Put it back!

Aw man, I gotta remember all of that?
All right....

545. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194016 by Diacanu on June 16, 2008 at 9:36 am

Okay, I deleted my post 7446.

I never know what's going to be laughed at, and what's going to bomb.

Steve declined comment, so I assume he wasn't amused.

Ah well, I thought it was cute, but, I guess I was wrong.

546. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #193982 by Diacanu on June 16, 2008 at 9:03 am

Steve/Quetz-

(Doug Henning)
Maaaaagiiic!!!!
(8D

547. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #193717 by Diacanu on June 15, 2008 at 11:58 pm

....*thud*....zzzzzz......

548. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #193712 by Diacanu on June 15, 2008 at 11:51 pm

Brian English-

Caffeine? Anxiety? Andrenal rush?

Meh, little of all of those probably.

549. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #193706 by Diacanu on June 15, 2008 at 11:43 pm

Brian English-

I do sleep...eventually.

My brain doesn't seem to have a manual shutoff, so I have to run myself to complete exhaustion.

550. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #193701 by Diacanu on June 15, 2008 at 11:35 pm

MPhil-

We need not say that there cannot exist anything that science cannot explain.

I don't think that I did.

There may in fact be.

The claims of religion aren't among them, IMHO.

Global floods, parted oceans, zombies, etc, are the sorts of thing that should have assloads of evidence.
Or, at least mountains of first hand contemporary corroboration, not just fucking hearsay in one shitty book.