More massage for the neurons

posted on October 25th, 2007, 3:49 am

I think what I am going for is ... well disproving religion by disproving the noodly creature as well. It is an unfortunate twist--and not truly good writing--but it should fit my purpose I think. 

[Dr. Lazarus]

posted on October 25th, 2007, 3:27 pm

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If anyone can do it you can! Actually, as we all well know, disproving His noodliness is going to be difficult if not damned impossible, after all, we can only apply the falsifiability test to something that's testable. His Unknowableness is unknowable and unsearchable. Therefore, we should all become Pastafarians 

I'm going to a Pastafarian service on Sunday if you want to come along. We must eat of His body and partake of His tomato sauce if we wish to enter into Holy matrimony with Him. You want parmesan with that? 

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on October 25th, 2007, 9:05 pm

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Thank you! I wrote it in mockery of Christine de Pisan's the Book of the City of the Ladies... if you've ever heard of it. My professor actually thought it was written well, yeah! (we'll see what kind of grade it gets though )
Sure I'll come, name the date, location, and I'll just teleport 
ewwww.... cannibalism. What religion would ever condone that... hmmm. nudge.

Incidently, I think the number of pirates is soon to go negative... in direct correlation with certain weather events. 

On another note, I have become fully evil again. I am Boiling Water: I will cook my arch nemesis the FSM in his own sauce!

posted on October 26th, 2007, 9:21 pm

About the pirate thing, yes that's deeply troubling. Is correlation causation in this case? It certainly looks like it... 

We should all now pray for a positive outcome. As we all well know, prayer enhances the chance of success sometimes. Outside the realms of statistical significance. But we'll ignore that bit. May the religious folk continue their great work in trying to disprove 100 years of statistics research and finally, finally remove the bell-shaped gaussian distribution as a staple of american scientific education.

posted on October 26th, 2007, 10:32 pm

RAmen

posted on October 30th, 2007, 5:52 pm

Hey, how about that, this week's comic exposes the absurdity of God's prayer method. If anyone has ever been told by someone, "I'll pray for you" you'll know how insulting and patronising it really is. And as regards those people who try to say that there are documented cases of prayer working, go take a statistics course and talk to me then. Concentrate particularly on things like chi-squared significance, correlation, and gaussian randomness, and within minutes you'll know why knowledge is power. That stuff even has "power" over the laws of physics, which obey probability distributions rather than the other way around. It's good to understand how things work.

http://russellsteapot.com/comics/2007/omni-impotence.html

posted on October 31st, 2007, 4:35 am

Yes... it makes me very angry  >:(
To no one in particular... Come on, if this deity is soooo benevolent, why would prayer affect an outcome anyway? Does it mean that you are only important if you pray or are prayed for? Such illogical nature is not becoming of an omnipotent being. Similarly, if this deity loves everyone equally, then why would the "prayed-for" group benefit more than the non- "prayed-for" group? Aaaargh! I could go on much longer, but alas, I grow tired and don't want to discuss something so horrifyingly irritating before sleeping  .
Great cartoon by the way
-dom

posted on October 31st, 2007, 5:26 pm

I've also noticed that Christians will pray over trivial matters such as what colour they want their next car to be, and then when this (curiously) comes true, they praise God. Trust me this happens all the time. So, why would God answer your prayer about getting good grades or finding your ideal partner, but leaves 1 billion of the poorest people on the planet to basically eat dirt? Does God have a preference over certain ethnic groups? (I should not have asked that as there are certain sick groups of people who actually believe this based on certain scriptures).

Why would God reward those who have things with even more things? If this is the case then God makes the rich richer. Anyone that tries to claim that they are blessed because they have a big house and their daughter can play the violin, and also claims that the starving children in Darfur are therefore not blessed, is a sick, sick person. God is either uncaring, apathetic, or absent. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is in  the worst kind of denial.

posted on November 1st, 2007, 1:18 am

Yes... well we all know the old adage, God helps those who help themselves (a convenient way of skirting the whole "does this deity exist" argument). May I point out that it is easy... too easy... to say that one is blessed, when in fact one has everything that one could desire? (I hate that sentence...) Would I really choose to say I am blessed if I had nothing? My family has a nice old tradition of reciting at the occasional meal, "We thank the lord for what we have, if we had more we would be glad, but since there's no more to be had, damn it roll on teatime!"
We could also add to clarify absent... this deity has tired of us and has moved on (uh oh, a new favored planet!)

posted on November 1st, 2007, 12:20 pm

If that's true, I can't say I blame him...