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Freethinker: : one that forms opinions on the basis of reason independently of authority; especially : one who doubts or denies religious dogma By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins, in "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder,"
About Me
- Stardust
- I love to write, read, paint, draw, take photos, listen to music, travel, and stargaze. If I could live my life over again I would be an astronomer. “Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. Arthur C. Clarke
CURRENT MOON
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Astronomy websites
- Astroblog
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Bad Astronomy
- Carl Sagan Portal
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Cosmos: The Science Channel
- Dirty Skies: Experiences in Urban Backyard Astronomy
- IceInSpace : Largest Online Astronomy Community in the Southern Hemisphere
- International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)
- Kepler Mission
- Mauna Kea Observatories
- NASA Orion Spacecraft Project
- NASA Space Shuttle
- NASA's Stardust Comet Mission
- NASAs Futrure Missions
- NASAs next moon mission - 2020
- Space.com
- Stephen Hawking's Website
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- Anthropology Resources on the Internet
- Evolution on PBS
- Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago
- Live Science
- Museum of Science & Industry - Chicago: The largest science museum in a single building in the Western Hemisphere.
- National Center for Science Education
- Pharyngula
- Professor John Hawks Anthropology, Genetics and Evolution
- TalkOrigins Archives
- The Panda's Thumb
- Understanding Evolution - University of California,Berkley
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Resources
- American Atheists
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Atheist Alliance
- Celebrity Atheist List
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- God Checker.com Mythology Site
- Internet Public Library
- Literature.org
- Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, & Related Resources
- Merriam-Webster Online
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- Positive Atheism
- Rational Response Squad
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- The Secular Web
- The World of Richard Dawkins
- Thomas Paine Society
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Why Wont God Heal Amputees?
- Wikipedia
- Wikiquote
- World Religions - A Comprehensive Directory
Funny stuff
Culinary Iconography
- Allah in beef gristle!
- Allah on an apple
- Allah on an Eggplant, Melon and Bean
- Allah on an eggshell
- Angels in Tomatoes
- Chocolate turn Virgin Mary
- Darwin on a Frying Pan
- Fish Bone Jesus
- Heavenly Work of Cod
- Jesus head found in roots of asparagus plant
- Jesus on a potato chip and chip bag clip
- Jesus on a French Fry
- Jesus on a Frying Pan
- Jesus on a Tortilla! Holy Guacamole!
- Jesus on cheese puffs
- Make Your Own Jesus Toast
- Mary and Baby Jesus Honey Mustard Pretzel
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- Sign, sign everywhere a sign
- Yet another example of not-so-intelligent design
- Missing NY pastor found at Ohio strip club
- Sunday funny
- Is the distant universe really what it appears to be?
- Bill Maher on religion
- Earth Hour 2008 - Will It Matter?
- What a waste of tax dollars
- Narcissists and religion
- Transgender man pregnant?
- When will people learn that prayer is ineffective?
- Keeping kids ignorant for Jesus
- Praying pup
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- Margaret Atwood discusses religion and the dangers...
- Easter - Christian or Pagan?
- Atheist Blogroll now has 600 members!
- FirstFreedomFirst.org presents “A Simulcast Event”
- Blog Against Theocracy March 21-23, 2008
- OSTARA: Spring Goddess of Fertility.
- Ten Most Historically Inaccurate Movies
- Battle of the bat-shit crazies!
- Following in Dubya's footsteps
- Good question
- It’s that S & M time of year again . . .
- Indonesian "hobbit" debate continues
- Traveling Hellfire preacher
- Origins of Easter
- Previously posted by me April 14, 2006The sacred d...
- Borg similarities to Fundamentalists
- “Allowing pharmacists to put their religious belie...
- Sam Harris - Misconceptions About Atheism
- Tainted water
- Christopher Hitchens Illustrated
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- Robin Ince on Creationism
- Now here's an appealing and useful god . . . .
- Doggie mass
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- Sunday funnies time
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- Kind of looks like FSM and his Noodly Appendages
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9 comments:
LOL! Yeah, I love Bill Maher too.
Wish I could afford to pay the extra bucks to see him on HBO's "Real Time".
I don't have HBO either. Our cable bill costs enough as it is. Cable companies are rip offs.
Star, I love your site and have it in my Bloglines RSS reader, and read your posts every day. And love them.
but I have a small problem. I'm a confirmed San Francisco athetist, but a former girlfriend of mine from Nebraska has somehow become a born again Christian, and she's sending me daily email messages about how Jesus will save my soul.
I'm not interested, but don't want to offend her, since she's still a friend and is still a good memory.
So here's the deal: she sends her messages to me with all the included email addresses. Yup. Doesn't know about BCC. And I'd like to respond to the whole group with my counter views that this whole Jesus thing is a fraud.
What should I send her? Some cheeky signs would be good on the graphic level, and a few of your best posts would be great.
Please advise...
Carl
Send me a message or just post a message for everyone else who is facing this problem. Thanks!
Star, me again. I'm not sure why I had to sign in to post a message, since I already have a blogger account and a Blogger website at http://friskodude.blogspot.com
And it didn't seem to automatically bring up the option to post as Blogger, so well, here we go again.
Anyway, some suggested images about a few of what you consider your most useful posts would be helpful. I sometimes get lost in all your messages, but a refreshers post would be helpful to me and probably everbody else subscribing to your blog.
And to think I misspelled the a word.
Carl
Hello carl, Were you signed in before you tried to comment? If you were already signed into your own account and then had to sign in again here, that's weird. Blogger is quirky sometimes.
Getting emails from Christians is a thing I still have to deal with. And you are right about not wanting to "offend" them, as I have found out they are easily offended, especially the evangelical variety. I have tried to tell people not to send me that stuff and it got me banned from one family member's life, then I tried putting an Apache Indian quote for my signature line and they got all bent out of shape about that. But I am supposed to just ignore and allow them to send me Bible quotes at the end of their emails, etc....well...because their views are the only "true" views in their worldview and mutual respect when it comes to emails I guess they think that doesn't apply on their part. sigh. . .
I can tell you one post right off the bat that you could send your ex and everyone. It's humorous but gets the point across at the same time...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
UPDATED FOR A MODERN AGEand tell them to pay special attention to Commandment #6.
I always turn to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, which makes a great argument.
Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason" - 1794
I will do some more digging around my archives and get back to you.
Thanks for reading!
Carl...Here is another post I like to point to. It's how Christianity is a spin-off of Mithraism. Here is my post on that, with links.
Mithraism and Christianity - A Connection?
And
More About Mithraism-Christian Blending
Oh...and Carl, you might find this site more helpful than mine...it's full of useful information in debating fundies.
God is Imaginary
and here is one of my posts on why people turn to religion...
Religion: A Convenient Lie (The Reason Why Religion Exists)
Stardust,
Many thanks for all those great links, and I'll finally have some way to respond to Karen without offending her or cutting off our years of relations.
Yeah, Blogger is quirky at times. I was signed into my Blogger account, but it still asked for my Blogger details such as email addy and even my password. That makes me nervous. And why do I sometimes get this "insecure" content warning when I'm just reading this message page? Gad, you'd think
Google would have this all figured out, but I've found in the past that it's often the big boys that don't get it right. Microsoft has put up some terrible MS sites over the years, filled with mistakes.
Carl
Carl, glad to be of help. It's really difficult to know what is going to "offend" them. I simply asked a family member to lighten up on the religious stuff in their communication with me after getting a very preachy newsletter (singling me out...), they banned me from communicating with them at all. I would never do that to another family member, but it's how some fundies treat others. We are somehow a great threat to their "faith". It's why they all horde together in their churches. If they mingle too much in the real world with those who think differently, they might just lose that "faith". And so what does that tell you?
Yes, Blogger has constant "issues". I started a WordPress blog just for miscellaneous topics and will see how that goes. I hate to move this one because I finally have a large following and am in the top 100 on the Social Rank thingy. I didn't even know about that and don't know who submitted my site, but glad they did!
Your site is great, by the way. Love your stories and photos. Very interesting. I am going to link to you, if that is ok.
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