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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Relay is Over
And so ends our efforts at the Relay for Life.
The weather was horrid, it was cold and muddy.
We had to do our best to 'turn the other cheek' to religious folk telling us that we were going to hell (oh, how nice of them), the Phytoplankton cancer cure woo woo promoters and the mirrorless christian reflection tent.
The coffee was bad, the canteen only sold meat and all the raffles were for stuff we didn't want.
But we soldiered on and ended up raising $463 for the cause, which was to fund research into the minimisation of the immunological problems that people suffer when going through chemotherapy, which can cause further complications through infections etc.
All up we had 14 atheists walking for the cause, all of whom deserve congratulation for all the work they have put in. (remember this when you see us at the next pub meeting).
Once again the Sydney Atheists have helped to spread positive atheism and have lived up to our motto 'Good Without God'
The next charity event will be another blood donation in a month or so, we hope to see some more people then!
The weather was horrid, it was cold and muddy.
We had to do our best to 'turn the other cheek' to religious folk telling us that we were going to hell (oh, how nice of them), the Phytoplankton cancer cure woo woo promoters and the mirrorless christian reflection tent.
The coffee was bad, the canteen only sold meat and all the raffles were for stuff we didn't want.
But we soldiered on and ended up raising $463 for the cause, which was to fund research into the minimisation of the immunological problems that people suffer when going through chemotherapy, which can cause further complications through infections etc.
All up we had 14 atheists walking for the cause, all of whom deserve congratulation for all the work they have put in. (remember this when you see us at the next pub meeting).
Once again the Sydney Atheists have helped to spread positive atheism and have lived up to our motto 'Good Without God'
The next charity event will be another blood donation in a month or so, we hope to see some more people then!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Its raining and the atheists walk on!
We have been walking in circles despite the high danger of contracting a case of wet.
The tasty sweet corm a few tens up from us has provided sustenance to get us through for a little longer. We are worried that we may not have been prepared for the severity of the conditions. As every moment passes we notice a drop in morale. The only thing that will b able to bring us through is an avalanche of donations. Please give often and generously.
Sydney atheists. Wet, godless and angry at cancer!
Nommy vegan cupcakes
That's just as well, because the tent is full of nommy vegan cupcakes!
Yays!
Hawkesbury youth band
Please sponsor us!
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The weather doesn't look great, but we'll do our best!
(I don't think the telescope is going to be too successful!)
Relay for Life
This weekend, Sydney Atheists are participating in the Cancer Council's 'Relay for Life'.
We will be raising money to help fund cancer research, whilst also raising awareness of the need for cancer research.
Over the weekend we will be sending live updates to the blog (if I can get online, it is in the sticks), to let you know how we're doing. We only have a small team, so it's going to be a bit of a slog to be able to walk continuously for 24hrs, but we'll do our best.
Please sponsor us online here
You can see more details on out meetup site and facebook event.
We will be raising money to help fund cancer research, whilst also raising awareness of the need for cancer research.
Over the weekend we will be sending live updates to the blog (if I can get online, it is in the sticks), to let you know how we're doing. We only have a small team, so it's going to be a bit of a slog to be able to walk continuously for 24hrs, but we'll do our best.
Please sponsor us online here
You can see more details on out meetup site and facebook event.
Friday, May 22, 2009
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The webs are full of fruit!
Just going through my webcomics rss feeds and there was quite a few good ones this week.
Here's a taste
Here's a taste
Monday, May 18, 2009
Holy Crap! (and other flash games)
I came across this site and just had to put up a post about it.
Freethunk is a site full fo freethinking miscellany, including articles, comics, videos and silly little flash games.
Ive been going through the comics over the weekend, and some are pretty good, there's even and archive of 'Atheist Eve' by Tracie Harris and Don Baker from the Atheist Community of Austin. Be careful, because some of them are quite NSFW.
But the most fun can be found in the little flash games. Here are a few of my faves.
Claque Beignet- in which you play an alien race trying to take over the earth, but can't because of the number of vocal singers, which destroy your ears. You have created a marvelous machine that allows you to remotely slap the singers in the face, but you must get them all before the sound becomes unbearable!
Holy Cow- you are a dead flying cow with blue polka dots, but to get into heaven you must do an acceptable amount of good in the world. You have to catch falling playing card suits and poop them out onto people praying beneath you. There's also a sewer for the poops nobody wants. If you don't crap on a person's head when they pray, they'll commit suicide!
Running Jesus- You are competing in the christlympic games as Jesus of Nazareth and have to win a sprinting competition agains other son's of the one true god. Oh yeah, and you're carrying a cross to slow you down.
Gods Playing Field- You are God (or, at least you are gods fist) and you just have to squash people. Earn points and get other funky powers, like lightening, floods and sowers of pianos!
There's heaps more to check out here.
I hope you het as much entertainment out of them as I did!
Freethunk is a site full fo freethinking miscellany, including articles, comics, videos and silly little flash games.
Ive been going through the comics over the weekend, and some are pretty good, there's even and archive of 'Atheist Eve' by Tracie Harris and Don Baker from the Atheist Community of Austin. Be careful, because some of them are quite NSFW.
But the most fun can be found in the little flash games. Here are a few of my faves.
Claque Beignet- in which you play an alien race trying to take over the earth, but can't because of the number of vocal singers, which destroy your ears. You have created a marvelous machine that allows you to remotely slap the singers in the face, but you must get them all before the sound becomes unbearable!
Holy Cow- you are a dead flying cow with blue polka dots, but to get into heaven you must do an acceptable amount of good in the world. You have to catch falling playing card suits and poop them out onto people praying beneath you. There's also a sewer for the poops nobody wants. If you don't crap on a person's head when they pray, they'll commit suicide!
Running Jesus- You are competing in the christlympic games as Jesus of Nazareth and have to win a sprinting competition agains other son's of the one true god. Oh yeah, and you're carrying a cross to slow you down.
Gods Playing Field- You are God (or, at least you are gods fist) and you just have to squash people. Earn points and get other funky powers, like lightening, floods and sowers of pianos!
There's heaps more to check out here.
I hope you het as much entertainment out of them as I did!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Atheists not fully human
Apparently, atheists (or people who don't consider the transcendent, which isn't necessarily a trait of atheism... unless you are referring explicitly to gods) are not quite human.
From Suburban Panic
But I guess we need to ask, what is more 'inhuman'? To seek evidence and ask questions before submitting to a belief, or eating the flesh of a non-existent dead Rabbi?
Enjoy your inhumanity, I'm happy where I am thankyouverymuch!
From Suburban Panic
But I guess we need to ask, what is more 'inhuman'? To seek evidence and ask questions before submitting to a belief, or eating the flesh of a non-existent dead Rabbi?
Enjoy your inhumanity, I'm happy where I am thankyouverymuch!
Penn Says: The Prayer Test
Penn (from Penn and Teller) had a video on his vlog "Penn Says" that basically supported proselytizing. The argument was that if you think you are right about an afterlife, supreme being, etc, you basically have a civil duty to tell the world.
This video has been used by a number of churches, which has trickled back to Penn.
In this video, Penn discusses some of the reactions to his post, including an experiment to test the efficacy of prayer.
This video has been used by a number of churches, which has trickled back to Penn.
In this video, Penn discusses some of the reactions to his post, including an experiment to test the efficacy of prayer.
More brainwashed children
About a month ago, I blogged about a video of a child preacher, yelling and screaming from the pulpit. It was an eye opening display of a child's perception of the church experience, showing how the child is not seeing the soft, 'love thy neighbor', baby Jesus and little sheepies version of the church, but sees a person yelling and screaming fanatically at the front of a big room.
It's pretty obvious that the children aren't getting the message, that their attendance at church is inappropriate and that they ought to be protected from being exposed from this kind of material.
It's similar to when we went to the Bethlehem Experience, where they were showing the goriest scenes from 'Passion of the Christ' as all the children were walking past, leaving a number of children in our group crying, upset by the experience.
It seems like, in these cases, some people are willing to subject their children to traumatic experiences, justified by the fact that they are doing so as a way to indoctrinate children into the faith.
I say that if you are using methods like this to scare, shock and traumatise children into staying in your church, you are commiting child abuse and should be stopped.
There are standards of classification designed to protect people from offensive material. I would liek to see these standards enforced upon churches too.
Please speak out against abuse of children whenever you see it.
To add to the previous post on child preachers, here's a selection of kid preachers. It's pretty scary stuff!
It's pretty obvious that the children aren't getting the message, that their attendance at church is inappropriate and that they ought to be protected from being exposed from this kind of material.
It's similar to when we went to the Bethlehem Experience, where they were showing the goriest scenes from 'Passion of the Christ' as all the children were walking past, leaving a number of children in our group crying, upset by the experience.
It seems like, in these cases, some people are willing to subject their children to traumatic experiences, justified by the fact that they are doing so as a way to indoctrinate children into the faith.
I say that if you are using methods like this to scare, shock and traumatise children into staying in your church, you are commiting child abuse and should be stopped.
There are standards of classification designed to protect people from offensive material. I would liek to see these standards enforced upon churches too.
Please speak out against abuse of children whenever you see it.
To add to the previous post on child preachers, here's a selection of kid preachers. It's pretty scary stuff!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Open Mindedness
This video is a really good explanation of some of the logical fallacies applied to skeptical thinking. It's really worth checking out.
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