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My motto
Life is too short to be taken seriously, but long enough to enjoy.
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My motto
Life is too short to be taken seriously, but long enough to enjoy.
A variation on a statement attributed to Oscar Wilde
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Maybe this will save me having to type and send the same response over and over again.
Maybe this will save me having to type and send the same response over and over again.
Response to a Theist
Dear ...
Thank you for your letter.
I appreciate your concern with my wellbeing.
Response to a Theist
Let me start by saying that I wish you all the best, and that I hope that you are happy too.
Thank you for sending me information about your religion. I trust you meant well.
Response to a Theist
Hopefully this will not come across the wrong way, but I do not wish to learn a lot about your religion. To me, as an atheist, your religion is just one of a plethora of religions, all with different claims on the truth, and none of which are fundamentally different from all the others.
Response to a Theist
Of course you will disagree with that assessment; you are deeply involved with your religion, and to you that religion is unique. You will, no doubt, be tempted to respond and protest that such an assessment is unfair. I hope you won't. You need to realise that to me it will all look the same.
Response to a Theist
What could you possibly say to me that is qualitatively different from what I have heard thousands of times already from people of your own and of competing religions?
Response to a Theist
You may protest to me the deep-felt conviction you hold. You may be tempted to quote to me several verses from your Holy Texts.
But members of competing religions would make exactly the same kind of claims.
Response to a Theist
The only difference is that they would quote verses from THEIR Holy Texts.
There are too many competing religions, their followers all sound the same to me, their arguments are all equally unconvincing and frankly, life simply is too short.
Response to a Theist
Perhaps, at this point, you will be tempted to tell me that I am putting my "immortal soul" in danger. Perhaps you will claim that you have an Eternity in some kind of Paradise to offer?
Response to a Theist
Well, so does everybody else. And everybody who claims that their religion CAN save my immortal soul also tells me that their competitors' CAN'T. That their competitors will tempt me with false promises.
I'm afraid your promises, to me, look identical to theirs.
Response to a Theist
But this is even more important for you to understand. Even if your offer were genuine, even if you really could offer me an eternity in some kind of Paradise, I would have to reject it.
Response to a Theist
I have accepted the fact that my life is finite. One day I will die.
But I have come to realise that this has a number of important implications.
I will never experience death.
Response to a Theist
By the time death arrives, I will have ceased to exist.
All I will ever experience is what it is like to be alive.
I can never be separated from my life, not despite, but BECAUSE it is finite.
Response to a Theist
After my life I will have ceased to exist. Death can hold no fear for me. It is a state that I will never know.
And because my life is finite I will always be close to that which is or was important to me in my life. I have come to appreciate this as a thing of great beauty.
Response to a Theist
In other words, I am very happy to be atheistic. I would not want to be any other way.
I feel a deep sense of morality, and I enjoy life. I wish for people to live in peace.
Response to a Theist
I don't intend to "deconvert" anyone. I accept that to you, your religion is important and to you the relationship with your god(s) greatly enhances the quality of your life. That I could never share your belief is beside the point; it is real to YOU.
Response to a Theist
You may be a kind-hearted person, and if your belief was instrumental in making you that way I am grateful that you hold such a belief. I accept that your belief is your business, and that I have no right to interfere.
Response to a Theist
You, conversely, will accept that it is my choice to not believe. You will accept that that is the right choice for me, even if you do feel and know within your heart that it could never be the right choice for you.
You will not try and convert me.
Response to a Theist
We will agree on moral codes and laws only by engaging in a dialogue, in which each side must convince the other in terms that make sense to the other. You will accept that the authority of YOUR god(s) cannot be an influencing factor in what WE can accept as "reasonable".
Response to a Theist
We will both accept that the other may lead a lifestyle that may seem offensive to us and that we would not be able to accept for ourselves. We will accept that the kind of life the other decides to lead is none of our business.
Do this, and we will live together peacefully.
Response to a Theist
Thank you once again for contacting me. I hope you aren't too disappointed with my response.
Regards, and Peace.
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That's all, folks! No more lexapro for me. Coming down wasn't easy though.
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I'm asking all YouTube Muslims to post a video response to this. You can do it like I did
I'm asking all YouTube Muslims to post a video response to this. You can do it like I did - just text - or in any other manner you see fit. But please do take a minute to post your response.
A while ago I posted a video.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeGaXKOz7Ss
It was nothing. Just an announcement. My parents were coming from abroad to visit me and my family.
Whilst I did speak in that video about how a person could find some fulfilment in an atheistic lifestyle, I never spoke out against Islam. I did not set out to "deconvert" anybody. I did not attack Islam or insult its prophet. Nor did I do this to any other religion for that matter.
And yet, I got the following comment by a user by the name of HaashimUK:
"Allah and Islam are the future."
Whilst this is an opinion I do not share, I have no problem with him expressing this. But this is how he proceeds:
"Insha'Allah, your parents' plane will be hijacked and all those on board will burn in the fire of the Islamic fury"
My parents' flights were uneventful, both ways. And I have nothing to say to that person - it would be a rather predictable response anyway. But I am asking this of all Muslims on YouTube. Please post a video response to this video, and tell this person what you think of him.
Many thanks, and peace.
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Some images from a rather wet summer here in Ireland.
Pictures taken in my garden and a
Some images from a rather wet summer here in Ireland.
Pictures taken in my garden and at the Glenview Hotel in Co. Wicklow.
The hand is my mum's :-)
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Apparently, Shawn is leaving
Shock! Horror!
He has been receiving death threats
Ok. L
Apparently, Shawn is leaving
Shock! Horror!
He has been receiving death threats
Ok. Let's take that at face value.
If you are the person who is threatening Shawn, please, do everyone a favour and go fuck yourself.
In other words, get lost.
Regardless of what we may think of our Shawn, we are quite able to deal with his stupidity with rational arguments and by peaceful means.
And certainly any decent person will join me condemning such sick, cowardly tactics.
But Shawn, if this threat is real, they already have all your personal details.
Deleting your videos is not going to help. It only serves to encourage the bastards.
You told the authorities, didn't you? Good. They'll handle the matter. They're the experts. But caving in is not going to make the bullying stop.
But.... Shawn...
I watched your GOODBYE video. I checked your channel. And I'm getting bullshit vibes. Bad ones.
Your channel has not been closed. But, ok. You say you hope one day you'll return.
But I noticed that even though you deleted a lot of videos, you didn't delete all of them. Only the ones in which you embarrass yourself. Of course that is the large majority of your videos. Call me a cynic, but that's what I noticed. You only deleted the videos that embarrassed you.
Why is that, Shawn?
And I can't help but notice how you seem to be using your GOODBYE video to accuse people you don't like. Thunderf00t, TJ, those who lampoon you. Of course you don't like them, but you can't seriously hold them responsible, to any degree. This is not acceptable. They didn't threaten you. Leave them out of this.
I can't help but observe that you have lied to us before. Remember how you told us we could freely comment on your video, only to use it as a means to identify everyone you didn't like and to block them all? We don't forget such behaviour.
So when I see you act the victim whilst taking that opportunity to cast aspersions I have to wonder what is going on. Are you cynically exploiting sympathy in order to attribute guilt by association? Are you trying to blacken the reputation of people you don't like by engineering a situation that will call for people to sympathise with you and then tarring those who intellectually oppose you with the same brush as those who threaten you?
Is this a situation you engineered, rather than the truth? I hope not. Because I can tell you, if you think we treated you meanly before, if that is what you are up to you better start praying to your imaginary friend now that we will never find out.
The accusations you made in your vid were unacceptable. But I'm sure most of us can understand that in the stress of such threats your judgement would be clouded. But if there is any veracity to what I'm describing here, there's no way we can ever let you get away with it.
I needed to say that. Other than that, good luck, Shawn.
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Now here's a bandwagon I don't mind jumping on
The following link starts a playlist. Pl
Now here's a bandwagon I don't mind jumping on
The following link starts a playlist. Play it. To death. Just turn down the volume on it and minimise your browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qhwgGO2950&feature=PlayList& p=0B66526CDB5D585D&index=0&playnext=1
I have only just created the above play list. I'll be adding videos to it now.
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Just an update, thoughts about what atheism has to "offer" and my "message from the heart"
Just an update, thoughts about what atheism has to "offer" and my "message from the heart"
Ben, I have been mad busy lately, and I haven't even had a chance to look at your video. I will, promise!, after my folks have gone home. I basically took a wild guess as to what you were looking for re. this "message from the heart". If it is a completely irrelevant response, let me know and I'll do another one before the 31st of August.
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