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“Without religion, you would have good people doing good things and bad people doing bad things. But only with religion, do you have good people doing bad things.”

There’s always that rationalization from religious apologists, those who seek to cleanse the good name of religious beliefs by picking all the bad seeds out of the pot. Somebody commits murder in the name of God? Not a true christian. Terrorist? Not a true muslim. It wasn’t for religious reasons, it was for political reasons, sociological reasons, it was mere psychosis… etc., etc., etc.

But here’s a few facts:

-Without religion, nobody would strap a bomb to their own child in order to murder infidels, 100% convinced that they are sending this child to heaven.

-Without religion, nobody would murder an intelligent, educated doctor just because he performs abortions.

-Without religion, there would have been no Spanish Inquisition, no Crusades, no conflict in Isreal over holy lands.

-Without religion, Hypatia of Alexandria would not have been pulled out of her chariot one day, stripped nude, dragged to the foot of the church and burned alive by a mob of Christians.

-Without religion, a woman would not be sentenced to death for the ridiculous charge of witchcraft.

-Without religion, the vast majority of suicide bombers would never go through with it, knowing that this is the only life we’ll have, that there is no God who will reward them for martyrdom.

-Without religion, Matthew Shepard would not have been robbed, pistol-whipped, tortured, and tied to a fence post and left to die because he was gay.

Go ahead. Argue. Split hairs. Piss and moan. Rationalize. Do whatever you want, but this list can go on and on and on for hours and hours, pages and pages of horrors and cruelties for which the blame can be squarely placed on ignorant dogma and the breeding ground for it that is religion. Charity exists without religion. Peace and love exists without religion. School shootings and gang warfare would exist without religion. But absolutely none of these hideous crimes and cruelties listed would occur if it weren’t for the contemptible and repulsive belief in myth and superstition that is religion.

It’s time to stop defending something that holds back intellectual advancement, that perpetuates hate and violence. Its influence gives us the origin for most of the bigotry in the world, and serves mainly to control the masses and keep them complacent and dulled to a world of killers and tyrants. That moderates exist is absolutely no justification for the crimes of the extremists. The moderates only provide safe haven for the extremists to get closer and closer to pushing forward their glorious vision of armageddon. It’s time to put a stop to it.

It doesn’t require violence or bloodshed to get rid of religious dogma. No coup is required to save the world from this monstrosity. All that is required is for you to stop believing fairy tales are real. To embrace the wonderful, logical intellect you have hidden away in your skull and see the universe as it really is rather than how you want it to be. That you refrain from teaching your children myths, mysticism, and dogma as irrefutable truth. You can still have spirituality. You can still have great wonder for the mysteries of the universe. But let go of the rulebooks. Let go of the nonsense and the answers that are not to be questioned. Let go if it already.

The fate of our species depends upon it.

-Erik Schoenek

So, I’ve been listening to World’s End Girlfriend. Apparently, it’s all done by this one Japanese guy. Who knew? Who cares? It’s pretty good shit. My favorite albums are The Lie Lay Land and Hurtbreak Wonderland. Included are some samples. Right click, save as, but you knew that already, didn’t you?

Sample from Hurtbreak Wonderland:

Ghost Of A Horse Under The Chandelier

Sample from The Lie Lay Land:

Give Me Shadow, Put On My Crow

Download and listen. it’s some good shit.

Links verified working 02/19/2008

This Will Destroy You is an indie instrumental rock band out of Texas, much like Explosions in the Sky. Their first album, Young Mountain, is perhaps one of my all-time favorites. I just picked up their second album (According to their Wiki page, it’s actually their first; Young Mountain was supposed to be a demo) This Will Destroy You. I gotta tell you, it’s pretty win. In some aspects, it seems a lot like Explosions in the Sky- it seems this time around they’re a lot more mellow.

Now, don’t get me wrong! mellow is excellent for them, they pull it off well. They’ve got a distinct sound that’s unique. One of my personal favorites (I’ll link a sample) from Young Mountain would be There Are Some Remedies Worse Than The Disease. Truer words were never spoken. Here is a random link to download.

More and more, it’s increasingly difficult to be masculine in the world today. Back in primordial days when men hunted and shit and women were more or less gatherers, it wasn’t hard to be a man. you hunted. protected your territory. provided for your tribe. worked. As civilization progressed, the nature of man evolved. The nature of masculinity itself evolved. Alot of our identity crises come from the fact that we are a race of men who don’t understand what it is to be men.

I am of the belief that the essence of man is testosterone. Anyone who is in the grip of testosterone will tell you that they are aggressive, confrontational, assertive, predatory. While we no longer hunt or even work for our livelyhood, we still need to understand how to be masculine, how to be male in a consumer-driven world.

Part One:

First off, in order to be masculine, you must take control. This is a tough concept for most people. When you take control, you deny control from someone else. To take control of your life is to assume that you hold the keys to your manifest destiny. Most people who have not yet taken control of their lives exist in a sort of waiting idle, like sitting in neutral. The engine is running, but you’re not going anywhere. you can go somewhere if someone pushes you around, however. When you take control, you refuse to be pushed. you refuse to be pulled. you choose your direction. you determine your course of action. you determine your level of involvement. You direct conversations, you control the ebb and tide of information, things fall into place because you cause them to. You control your day from the time you wake up to the kind of food you eat, the quality of work you put forth, the people you socialize with, the women you take to bed at night, to the time you decide it’s time to sleep.

Part 2

First off, you must let go. You have to let go of the unnecessary things that hold you down and hold you back. Let go of insecurities, fears, doubts, and most importantly, you must let go of any useless and painful emotional baggage. This also means shedding negative habits and avoiding people that encourage the worst. Letting go of the things that cause you harm is a lot more difficult than taking control, but it’s just the other side of the same coin: in order to take control you must let go; in order to let go you must take control and make the conscious choice to be an active participant in your life.

Dear ladies. Nestor here.
It seems as though we have had some problems in the past that I’d like to clear up before we can move on. You see, I love women very much. You are soft, cuddly, sweet, warm, friendly, sociable, funny, amusing, whimsical and altogether delightful creatures. I delight in enjoying the female figure with all five of my senses. I love the way you look, the way you sound, the way you smell, the way you taste, and the way you feel.

However, there are quite a few of you out there that are just straight up fucked in the head!
Here’s my open letter to those women who may be fucked in the head, or sitting on the fence, wondering whether it’s okay to be fucked in the head or walk the path of the enlightened adult.

Dear women,

Some tips:

1. Your chaotic personal life is none of my business. (By this I mean getting into fights, arguments, drama, and general asshattery)
2. Your traumatic past is none of my business. (It’s none of my business, I can do nothing about it, and all you’re doing is making me feel like shit.)
3. Your past relationships. (None of my business. I don’t have a want or a need to know, especially if it didn’t work out. Pssst. If you’re with me, your past relationship didn’t work out. just, you know, FYI.)
4. Your problems with people I know. (None of my business. If you have a problem with a particular associate, friend, colleague, co-worker, whatever, please take it to them. I am not a middle-man, nor am I a dumping ground for your problems.)
5. Your problems with people I don’t know. (None of my business. See above.)

If you cannot get through your day without telling me anything from any of those categories, then I’d rather you simply did not talk to me at all. So just, you know, internalize that list. Think of it like a game. the rules are simple:

1. You want to talk to Nestor.
2. Pick a topic.
3. Does it fall in the above five categories? If yes, see #4 in this list. If No, see #5
4. BAD END. Don’t talk to me! In fact, take 24 hours as penalty and try again tomorrow!
5. TRUE END! You’ve Won! Your reward is to talk to Nestor and have him talk to you! Be entertained!

I’ve updated my “About” page.

If you haven’t played True Love yet, you’re really missing out. it’s a classic h-game that really brings home the concept of a dating-sim. You… make choices and go out on dates, you build up your stats and try and appeal to the girl that you want. there are easy girls and then there are girls that are hard to get, and then most especially, there are secret, unlock-able girls. there’s even a couple mini-games. As far as plot goes, it’s pretty sparse, but I’m sure this game is entertaining enough to let that slide.

Anyway- True Love. It’s abandonware, so I’ve got it hosted for download. Get it here. I’ve packaged it in a self-extracting rar file. If you can’t get it to run because of a registry issue, run the registry fix. I can’t vouch that it won’t fuck up your computer. then run the game exe again and it should load.

I accept no responsibility for support, this software is hosted with the understanding that if you’re smart enough to download and extract it, you know what the fuck you’re doing, so don’t begin to think I will help if it doesn’t work.

Link verified working on 02/08/2008