Leaving You


Emily Loizeau au festival “Voix de femmes”


Artist: Emily Loizeau
Album: L’autre Bout Du Monde
Year: 2006

I’m leaving you | I don’t know if I should
I prayed the moon | To see if she would
Let me be by you | She said she may
If I gave her my soul | And I said no
 
I’m leaving you | I don’t know if I should
I prayed the sun | To see if he would
Let me be by you | He said he may
If I gave him my days | And I said no
 
I’m leaving you | I don’t know if I should
I prayed the winds | To see if they would
Let me be by you | They said they may
If I never flew away | And I said no
 
I’m leaving you | And you know I’m not the one
To give up my heart | For the good of a man
Even by you | So tell me I should
Push me away | Don’t make me stay
For I’m leaving you | And I still love you
Yeah I’m leaving you | And I still love you.

Posted in m.Staff-carboN at April 28th, 2009. 3 Comments.

Bible Plagiarism

It’s quite obvious that if we were to cut out all the fiction from the bible, it’d be a short tale and an afternoon read. But what would remain if we took out the repetition?

Below is a sample of 2 Kings 19 beside Isaiah 37. (Click on the image to enlarge the photo.) You might notice that under the “Judah Delivered from Sennacherib” subtitles there’s a note on where else in the bible the same verses can be found.

Traditionally Jeremiah was credited with the authorship of the Books of Kings, but wouldn’t that make Isaiah a lousy prophet?

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Posted in Anti-theism at April 28th, 2009. 2 Comments.

Puzzle #2: Hidden Values

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Question: What value does x, y, and z represent?
The answer will be posted in the first comment of Puzzle #3.

Posted in Cobweb Removal at April 28th, 2009. 3 Comments.

Puzzle #1: Team Rankings

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Letters K, L, M, N, and T represent teams. The columns 1 through 5 represent team rankings. The rows represent Mark, Desmond and Jessica’s prediction of the final team rankings. (Mark and Jessica believe Team T will win, while Desmond believes Team N will.)

Everyone correctly predicted three times while each guessed wrong twice.

Question: In what sequence from first to last did the teams rank?
The answer will be posted in the first comment of Puzzle #2.

Posted in Cobweb Removal at April 28th, 2009. No Comments.

Bible Humour

How long will this flurry of posts last? Not that long I imagine.
Am I becoming an extrovert? I highly doubt it.

I will continue to do my best to to spare you from the everyday junk without which most blogs would simply disappear – cursor left flashing on an empty page.

So, let’s get to the good part.

Genesis 4:17: Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city…

[In the beginning, there was Sarcasm.]

Wait a moment. Building a city? How, for whom, and with whom? Cain is like what, the third person on earth? (Where’d he find his wife anyway? *gasp* Is she his baby sister?)

 

(Ewww.)

Let’s move on, or to be exact back it up away from this disturbing thought…

Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

[Then there was the narrator's brief observation.]

Notice what is happening here? Someone clearly just discovered the word c-r-e-a-t-e-d. Created. I’d be so pissed if I had to carve it into stone three times in just one sentence. Obviously no one took pity on the scribe by applying to their faithful narration the concepts of brevity. As I was saying…

Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28: God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it…”

Created male and female? What, all at once, just like that?
But everyone knows that Eve came from Adam’s rib!

Gensis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 22: Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Two and not just one creation story, but clearly the bible corrects itself in the latter portion.

[But God didn't understand Sarcasm, so he smote it.]

Anyone under the extremely popular impression that the bible is the literal word of anyone or anything has A) never read it, or B) is in very poor shape when it comes to the ability of using basic reason.

[Now God is angry. You won't like God when he's angry.]

Neee, the bible with its many self-contradictions cannot be true – neither is it entertaining. I much prefer Trout’s Genesis. I especially like his explanation that Satan is a woman. (Oh go ahead, read it before you castrate me!)

Trout is dead and in heaven now – never did rewrite all of the bible. But at least there is the LOLCat Bible Translation Project, and if you need something to believe that makes a bit more sense than the three most popular desert dogmas, open your heart to the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) and Pastafarianism. The FSM has manifested himself to people from around the world – may His noodly appendages touch you and your life, breathing delicious sauce into everything you do.

[Mmmm... spaghetti.]

Posted in Anti-theism, Aspirations at April 27th, 2009. 1 Comment.

Sunday Sermon

Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim
Church excommunicates mother and doctors – but not accused rapist

Excerpt from The Independent, March 9, 2009

“Declaring that “life must always be protected”, a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, the cardinal added: “It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons. Life must always be protected.”

Police believe the girl was sexually assaulted for years by her stepfather, possibly since she was six. That she was four months pregnant with twins emerged only after she was taken to hospital complaining of severe stomach pains.”

Full Story

 

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” *

* Steven Weinberg

Posted in Anti-theism at April 26th, 2009. No Comments.

Witches Burning

I’ve been thinking about the things that get me down, and I keep coming back to this religion thing. It’s enough to ruin a man’s day!

Take the poor farmer with wheat on the field that makes his neighbours green with envy. Some would say “Mr. Farmer, God has been good to your fields.” If he’s a quick witted man, he might smile and reply “You should have seen how He treated them when I wasn’t around.”

Standing at a meter long casket the gathered often ask why. The priest comforts the believers by reminding them that the only way forward is to have faith in God – that it was His plan, and we cannot possibly try to understand it.

The following Sunday the same priest will stand tall and tell his congregation exactly what God thinks of unbelievers, pre-marital sex, abortion, Harry Potter, Twilight, homosexuals, and those that stayed home in their comfortable beds.

Just once I’d like to hear a priest with an answer when it really matters. When death, disease, famine, or war are the subject.

“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.” *

* Emma Goldman

Posted in Anti-theism at April 26th, 2009. No Comments.

New Look

How’s this for a fresh new look?
Yes, there still are things that are not working, but at this hour neither is my brain.
Just stay tuned, okay?

Posted in Hergest Ridge News at April 25th, 2009. 2 Comments.