Mr. OFFENSIVE: 2010-05-09

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Tim Minchin - The Good Book

Preivous Post: The Pope Song by Tim Minchin

BONUS VIDEO: Tim Minchin Stand up - Dark Humour and Wife's Humour

Fox News Spins Net Neutrality - TYT Analysis

More from this bitch Megyn Kelly "They're pushing! They're Pushing!"

Original video of Megyn Kelly's blatantly biased discussion of net neutrality

Via The Young Turks

Anchor Makes 'Enjoying Penis' Remark

ABC News 20 reporter Catherine Shreves' stimulating report on a woman who uses "G Shot," a form of female Viagra, elicited this very frank, and quite nonchalant, response from anchor Michael Hill: "So she's enjoying penis a little bit more, is she?"

A flustered Shreves holds it together and responds that the woman is indeed "enjoying her sex life a little bit more."

It was quite the Ron Burgundy moment.

Lebanon Calls for Separation of Religion and State

Friday, May 14, 2010

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day May 20th, 2010

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Wisconsin Atheists Draw Cartoon Muhammad

Einstein's Letter on Religion

[An abridgement of the letter from Albert Einstein to Eric Gutkind from Princeton in January 1954, a year before his death]

... The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them.

In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the priviliege of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision, probably as the first one. And the animistic interpretations of the religions of nature are in principle not annulled by monopolisation. With such walls we can only attain a certain self-deception, but our moral efforts are not furthered by them. On the contrary.

Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, ie in our evalutations of human behaviour. What separates us are only intellectual 'props' and 'rationalisation' in Freud's language. Therefore I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.

With friendly thanks and best wishes

Yours, A. Einstein

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