ok i don't know who wrote this one article but a lot
of shit is wrong. nicotine isn't in weed. only dumb
asses put tobacco in weed.people who smoke ciggarettes
aren't fuckin losers. you don't lose ur sense of
reality from smoking. and smoking weed may damage u a
little bit but in the records no single person has
died from smoking it.and yo it its fine to be wasted
all the time look at the kotton mouth kings they're
stoned 24-7 and they're fine. get ur information right.

Since when have you had access to "the records"? Which records would these be?

I wrote the article and it does not suggest that nicotine is in "weed".

Maybe you should read it when you are not stoned. Or if you did the first time perhaps you should reassess your idea that it does not matter if people are wasted all the time and that it does not cause intellectual impairment. It seems to me that you regard an attack on drug taking and smoking as a personal attack on you. That "drug smoker" is the way you see yourself. If that is the case you have a serious problem.

It is extremely sad and distinctly pathetic to identify yourself with something you consume, whether that is a drug, music or somebody else's religion. Try and get a life that involves producing, creating or at the very least being something, not just consuming something your mom doesn't like.

I hope the lifestyle comes together,

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When I was about 9 years old my mother told me about god. She told me that he could see everything I did. But I had doubts and I thought about this god for several months. I had very strong doubts that there was any such god. One day I stood in the middle of a wide-open hay field in July, raised my hands toward the clear sparsely clouded sky, and told god to strike me dead. I was that confident that no god existed.

leon

Hi Martin,

While I would not even begin to try and suggest that your daughter should do anything other than what you tell her, I think a little research on henna will show that it is a perfectly safe product. In all likelihood, given the apparent design seen on your child's extremity, I would assume that she wished to have a very dark tattoo. Pure henna will only produce an orange to an orangeish red colors, not the black or blue typically used in this style of tattoo. To achieve a dark black or blue color a hair dye called PPD is used. This chemical can indeed cause severe allergic reactions, exactly like those shown on your web site.

Here's a link to a site that has some useful information about henna and PPD.
http://allergies.about.com/library/blhennawarnings.htm

By the by, I enjoy your site.

Later Larry.
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She had the "tattoo" done in Rome on a school trip. It was a week later before any reaction was noticed.

Since that photograph was taken her arm has got significantly worse. She is now on antibiotics to cure a rash which is all over her body. At first we blamed fleas and sprayed the house and shoved a tablet down the cat's throat all to no avail. It was clearly a reaction to an infection caused by the henna tattoo.

I asked her if I could take another photograph yesterday to show how much worse it (her upper arm) looks now, her reaction: "in your dreams!"

She has had henna tattoos done before, presumably with natural henna, with no adverse reactions. She must be sensitive to PPD. So I'll be telling her she can't be a Goth and dye her hair black because she's too sensitive to black hair dye.

She has seen a doctor and has been advised that there may well be noticeable permanent scarring but even a skin graft would not be guaranteed to look any better.

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though i agree with many of the things you write and cant help wondering if youre not just replacing religion with science, you seem to blindly quote science and put your faith in concepts like evolution but at the end of the day arent these mere beliefs too?

andrew.

If you understood my position. But you probably don't.

The wheel story is a great one. How much was the patent on the wheel worth? Nothing. There was no patent system. The wheel was invented because it was useful. It was copied because its usefulness was apparent. In what way is the inventor of the wheel harmed by other people using wheels? How many useful things were thought about but not made because the inventor wanted to become a billionaire before it was worth his while making his invention?

When do you expect to become a billionaire?

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Why do you hate so much? Are you a Christian?

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I thought so. You really can't beat a Christian for mindless and illiterate hate and seeing the worst in people.

You must be so proud of yourself, spreading hate and ignorance wherever you go.

Spoil the planet for Jesus and God bless America, eh?

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When I publish this on my website people will think I made you up.

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Why do I need to respect the Bible? It is a book of lies that claims to define the very essence of truth: it is a blasphemy against reason. Fiction that knows it is fiction I can cope with, fiction that pretends it's true is annoying, fiction that pretends it is superior to science is an insult to my species and I that is an insult I take personally.

The Bible is full of lies. People have knowingly manipulated the text to "predict" what had already happened. People are still lying to support those earlier lies. No matter how old a lie is it never becomes true and it never deserves respect. All lies deserve uncovering, that is the only moral thing to do with lies, paying them lip service and pretending to respect them is spineless.

Human nature does not change, and has not changed in thousands of years. People who start new religions today are charlatans and/or madmen. People who started religions thousands of years ago were charlatans and/or madmen. There was nothing special about one particular tribe of genocidally inclined goat herders. There was no Holy Land, no Biblical Times and there is no Chosen People. Just people doing what people have always done: tell each other stories and pretend to understand what's really going on.

You are dead wrong. Deep down inside I know there are no gods. It might suit you to think that everybody deep down is actually you in denial but it isn't true.

Are many of your friends Christian shit kickers?

Didn't Christ once say "Blessèd are the shit kickers"?

No. I don't believe he did.

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Hmmm. And when Robin said "Holy Mackerel Batman!" he was demonstrating his fervent belief in a piscine deity?

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You wouldn't have the stamina to masturbate often enough to prevent problems, your wrist might give out before your penis. Masturbating as much as you want would be inclined to make your ejaculate more fertile. To reduce the sperm count to levels which would present a negligible risk you would need to ejaculate six times in the hour before having sex, that sort of feat is a once in a lifetime achievement for most men and more suited to 16 year olds than 23 year olds.

If you are worried about your wife becoming pregnant use condoms until her next period or stick to mutual masturbation, it won't kill you for a few weeks, at least it is a lot less likely to kill you than your original plan.

At the age of 23 I think your doctor is right about the vasectomy, you are too young to make such an important decision.

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Why do I care? Because I can see how much time and energy is invested in lies. How many man-millennia of effort has been "invested" in god-belief? Significantly more than has been channelled into any other human endeavour of any kind. If that investment was put into science and technology we would be having colonies on the moons of, well, that big planet with the red spot named after a god. If that effort had been put into building a free and fair political structure there would be peace on Earth and goodwill to all men and nobody would have to get nailed to anything.

If everybody followed the example of Jesus where would the world be? Let's think about that shall we. If everybody gave up their work and went around with twelve accomplices begging and telling everybody else how to live their life would the world be a better place? If everybody did magic tricks to convince the people watching that they were magic would the world be a better place? If everybody got themselves tortured to death to seal a bargain that nobody explained beforehand or at the time in which they engineered their own death to save the world from their father's wrath and so gained everlasting life for everybody who believed the story without proof would the world be a better place? No, it would be a world full of crazy people obsessed with death and sacrifice.

The story of Jesus is the story of a madman, a travelling beggar who did conjuring tricks, told stories and did a bit of exorcism for theatrical effect. He didn't do anything much to set an example to his followers except show how to get killed, that seems to be his biggest legacy. When people "follow in the footsteps of Christ" they do no such thing. People do not go out and get themselves tortured and killed so their followers can found a new religion in their name.

Your arrogance amazes me. You seem to think that I actually believe in your stories and I am lying about being an atheist. Not so. I did not go through the systematic brainwashing that seems to be characteristic of Americans.

Why shouldn't I feel bitter? Billions of people are telling each other lies and are slandering my species. I take that personally. I don't see why people should be expected to react angrily if people slander their family, race or nation but should be as meek as a lamb when people systematically slander the entire species. Religions slander me and my people because they slander humanity. I see no reason to react differently to being called immoral and evil as an individual or because I belong to a particular species. "Preacher man, come outside and say that to my face".

Atheists who convert to Christianity are no such thing. The usual case is that they are half-indoctrinated (or more) Christians going through puberty who think that by denying God they can get laid, get drunk and take drugs with impunity and appear smart. By denying God he ceases to exist and they are free to do what they want. Then they find out that there aren't that many people who actually want to have sex with them who they want to have sex with. The "liberation" palls and they start to feel guilty again. Childhood conditioning reasserts itself, they start to want to believe in God again so he can exist (either to love them or to punish bad people, and sometimes both) and POOF by the magic of their cosmic consciousness God becomes real again. I despise such people, those who think reality is affected by their beliefs: arrogant tossers.

I despise people who choose to believe, whatever they believe. Belief should be involuntary: this is what I must believe, but the compulsion should never be imposed from outside. Religions impose creeds which are lists of statements that the "believer" is expected to make a point of believing. That is indoctrination and it is evil. Always.

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, light from light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and became truly human.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father [and the Son],
who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

You will believe this. We all do. You will be assimilated into the church. Resistance is futile. You will accept every line. Say it. Say it. No wine until you say it. If you don't say it you're evil and nobody will like you. Say it. Believe it. Say it like you mean it. Say it!

I never tell anybody to believe what I believe, I explain what I believe and invite them to consider it. When people tell me they agree with me I feel good, and then I go back and check to see if I can't come up with something even better.

I have just found out my daughter is an atheist today, and has been for about three years. I am delighted. I don't make anybody believe anything, I explain what I believe and invite them to agree with me.

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Fate means the future sucks and that what goes around affects what comes around. I don't see any evidence for that and I don't see any evidence for a mechanism, I don't see how such a mechanism could operate and I don't see any reason for such a mechanism to exist. In the absence of such evidence I don't believe in such concepts.

I don't see any reason to be tolerant of error, unjustified superstition or wishful thinking. And I don't see any reason to apologize for having rational views and expressing them.

I don't claim that people who believe in fate are stupid, I believe they are wrong, and your defence of your beliefs seems to be able to be summed up as “aww, please don't call me stupid”. You're not stupid, you're wrong, that is what I will continue to believe until I am presented with a good case for changing my mind.

Are you prepared to put your beliefs to the test of sceptical questioning?

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