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ear to be buying into her assumptions it doesn t really matter what you write because her smug truth is already contained in the way she couches each topic it s a lose lose situation for an atheist you and i are part of a small community of reason here whether we like it or not we do speak somewhat for one another since we re vastly outnumbered each of us has some responsibility to all the others the majority tends to view a minority particularly one it fears as an entirety judged through the words and actions of any member of that group when you write for the faith page not only do we as a community gain nothing but we are all genuinely hurt by appearing to sanction the herald leader s constant clarion call to espouse religion that s not your fault because you re only one person as you do point out but you ve been thrown a poisoned bone by the editor you don t get to have any input in the topics under discussion you re always forced to react to her set of nonsensical givens and you ve been placed in the unenviable position of speaking for all of us because there s no other public atheist writing at that newspaper you re its personification of lexington atheism and as such you re giving a thumb s up to the perpetuation of the faith page and indirectly the rest of the herald leader s superstition soaked reporting please don t take this personally because i d write exactly the same note to any self identified atheist who chose to write for a faith page atheism isn t a faith it s freedom from faith let s not put ourselves into the position of seeming to agree that faith should be given any credence whatsoever after i sent and reread yeah i did them in that order what i d written i wondered if my opinions were really indicative of any godless consensus so i d like to find out since you readers are clearly representatives of the best and the brightest among heathens i d like toask you 1 is there any circumstance under which it would be a good idea for an atheist to respond to a tendentious question on a newspaper s faith page if so what might that circumstance be 2 do you agree or disagree that the vast majority of religionists generally judge all atheists by the words and actions of any publicly recognized atheist if you agree do we have some kind of responsibility to one another not to say or do things that make us look like idiots or is that too much of a burden for us individualists to place on ourselves 3 in an area dominated by crypto christian newspapers radio stations and television channels how can we atheists get ourselves a booth in the marketplace of ideas do we have to wait for the freethinkers equivalent of the stonewall raids before we re given an opportunity to state our case in the mainstream media or is there some more reasonable way to coax news publishers and broadcasters into granting coverage to our ideas posted in freedom from faith 29 comments sing along with auntie diluvian posted by larry wallberg on 08 15 2010 this isn t intended to be an earworm post but if you do happen to find yourself humming the tune involuntarily just be thankful it s not kumbaya posted in freedom from faith music 11 comments homesite puzzler 6 who says my readers are backwards posted by larry wallberg on 08 11 2010 ugh i hate the dog days of summer all that heat and humidity addles my mind maybe that s why i ve mixed up the names of the authors of these great quotes not only have i written them backwards but i ve separated each last name from the rest of the name and to make matters even worse neither the last name nor the rest of the name are attached to the right saying there s also something very strange about each quote although the weirdness fits a single pattern my challenge to you readers is to find the full name of the correct author of each of the gems below most of the names will be familiar perhaps one or two will not hint one was a polish satirist another a french playwright extra credit for those of you who can explain the odd quirk about the quotes in general please don t ruin the puzzle for others by posting your solutions as comments send your answers to elwallberg at gmail com as usual those who get anything right will be thrown a bone at the bottom of the post obviously you can feel free and are even encouraged to leave other comments like for instances uoy kcuf or llubtip damn you yrral grebllaw kcul doog 1 t hese christians believe they are acting in the name of eldoop so they can t and won t compromise i know i ve tried to deal with them yebba ydoow 2 reliewttor is a sound people make when they re too tired to think anymore mahguam c w 3 i cannot believe in a dnuohdoolb that has neither honor nor common sense cel ohcuorg 4 i distrust those people who know so well what teppihw wants them to do because i notice it always coincides with their own desires retawdlog naej 5 good ffitsam how much reverence can you have for a supreme being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his divine system of creation nilrac eessennet 6 thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy ztipshsinnif in vain unless you ve used up all the other four letter words nekcnem yrrab 7 sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in enadtaerg nella kram 8 i noticed that all the prayers i used to offer to auhauhihc and all the prayers i now offer to joe pesci are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate xram l h 9 if we assume that man actually does resemble ijnesab then we are forced into the impossible theory that ijnesab is a coward an idiot and a bounder smailliw tesremos mailliw 10 with gup what is terrible is that one never knows whether it s not just a trick of the devil niawt b nasus 11 if you want to know where wohc wohc is ask a drunk ynohtna yzrej walsinats 12 i do not believe in esetlam because i do not believe in mother goose sdleif egroeg 13 all your western theologies the whole mythology of them are based on the concept of rezuanhcstniag as a senile delinquent hliuona ecneralc 14 in the first place yksuhnaksala made idiots that was for practice then he made school boards relleh drawde 15 if only reveirterrodarbal would give me some clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a swiss bank worrad hpesoj top dogs chappy 15 extra credit srsny 15 extra credit if you d like to see all the answers drop me an email and i ll send them to you posted in freedom from faith puzzles and games 11 comments earworm saturday 7 posted by larry wallberg on 08 07 2010 when my friend visited me from new york one of the things she really wanted to do was to go to shaker village having been there once i had no desire to hear the history of the silly religious sect again the only thing i remember about them is that they were hot for celibacy so they didn t tend to breed much soon big surprise they went extinct who says darwin is inapplicable to christianity in any case on the morning of the day my we d planned to head to pleasant hill how pleasant could it be without sex we heard that the temperature was going to be 91 degrees even my friend had no interest in braving the sweltering heat just to watch people make chairs so we stayed home and to mollify her i found a decent rendition of that ubiquitous shaker tune note the tune is ubiquitous the shakers as previously noted not so much by the way if you re wondering what to get me for my next birthday the jewel in the video is a simple gift i d enjoy if you know me you can probably guess the rest i wound up with an earworm and so did my friend we spent a lot of the rest of the day asking one another to stop whistling the weirdest thing about simple gifts however is that it s hardly ever performed simply this sweet potato is trying to make her interpretation look easy but she s not fooling anyone is she here are a couple of presbyterians clearly working hard once or twice they get so close to one another that it s a good question whether they ll be able to remain celibate for long but nobody makes the song seem more difficult than this guy how does he do that note here s an addendum for the curious some music directors are entirely wrong headed is there anything simple about this version occasionally even a rendition that has aural simplicity still manages to look impossible how did these siblings get their pianos on the sand a new set of lyrics was written in 1963 by sydney carter who managed to combine christ and dancing screw all those fundies who think that doing the jig is a sin in case you re in too much of a religious rapture to notice i should warn you that the input file has no video stream given carter s lyrics you should have guessed that i d include this un simple performance with its many encores what says simple more than a fireworks display in fact the only thing remotely simple about this video is the fact that the guy forgot to put on his shirt are you bored of the dance yet if there is an afterlife the ghosts of 19th century shakers are definitely shaking at their no longer recognizable song the moral of this post is keep it simple stupid posted in earworms 22 comments i blame kevin costner posted by larry wallberg on 08 04 2010 most of my readers take a dim view of blind faith however you may not have thought about this it doesn t always manifest itself as religious expression there s that whole field of pipedreams business about if you build it they will come yesterday i was thinking about how stupid that phrase is when i was reading this article in the local rag let me give you the background in a little bit more than a month lexington will play host to the world equestrian games the city is going nuts with excitement for more than a year hoteliers and restauranteurs and souvenir vendors have been counting their soon to be made money if you have no idea what the weg is are you re probably not alone i d never heard of it them until i moved here last october to put it simply they re a kind of olympics for horses a series of effete competitions that only equino manes can enjoy jumping and vaulting fuck knows what the difference is reining horses not cats and dogs eventing huh and endurance although mostly of p r pros and of course there s everyone s favorite dressage playing with paper doll ponies and para dressage playing with paper doll parasites if you re really interested but why would you be unless your name is flicka you can find all the relevant information on google i m not paid to advertise here lexington is one of the horse capitals of the world and hosting the weg seemed like a good fit the expectation around these parts was that the area would be overrun with furriners just dying to toss their funny looking cash around downtown streets have been torn up and are being rebuilt in preparation for the expected influx of alien tender legal or illegal concerts have been arranged because as everyone knows europeans and asians need to experience our native culture country music and christian rock high school bands will march and play but not necessarily both at the same time kentucky s junior leaguers will hold meet n greets and local eateries will offer special horsemeat buffets just kidding they ll be serving the same plain ol horsemeat and grits that they always do unfortunately the horses have been preceded by the horseshitters greedy hotel owners were fed plenty of fodder by the hucksters who swore that lexington would be teeming with international currency just dying to be spent literally jumping out of the sissy wallets carried by those crazy talking strangers but the story in yesterday s herald leader reveals that nearly one third of all the hotel rooms in town some of which have been marked up to nearly four times their regular price are still unspoken for as the saying goes foals rush in but wise men save their bread the town s hotel owners were clearly eager to make hay while the sun shines but the globe s horsey set hasn t saddled up for the ride so there s plenty of hay but not enough hayseeds as it turns out the weg buzz is just a variant on if you build it they will come like all offshoots of that plucky but dumb saying it s as american as applesauce it springs from the same mindless sensibility in which a 13 year old appearing as a contestant on a televised talent competition can say with perfect seriousness it s always been my dream to play vegas it s a product of the same empty headedness that gives celebrities the idea that they re political pundits if you build it goes hand in hand with those bumper stickers in which parents express their irrational pride in their backward children here in lexington the myth has taken a familiar form if you hype it they will come but maybe not particularly if you try to gouge visitors by charging inexcusably high prices during a worldwide financial slump i must admit that as a skeptic i m amused by the if you build it mentality because really it makes no more sense than putting one s faith in the existence of mr ed only horses asses believe that kind of stuff posted in freedom from faith new to kentucky 29 comments please pass the sour grapes henry posted by larry wallberg on 08 01 2010 i d rather be right than be president kentucky senator henry clay ok the winners of the lexington herald leader the best of everything readers choice 2010 poll have been announced and apparently i am not the most popular local media personality newspaper tv radio blogger nor am i the city s most popular pet groomer cosmetic surgeon or place to worship no specific numbers were published so lacking evidence we have to take the results on faith the most popular media personality in lexington is leland conway who is you ll never believe this a conservative radio commentator the runners up are a tv weatherman and an early morning guy who claims he gets to meet the greatest people on the earth kentuckians fyi the exclamation point is his unfortunately those people weren t great enough to spell his last name correctly it s cruse not as the newspaper editors wrote cruise no relation to tom or carnival the poll is disappointing in other areas too lexington is happily home to a number of decent all day breakfast joints but the readers favorite place to eat breakfast brunch is that uniquely bluegrass entity the chain restaurant cracker barrel yuck i guess the greatest people on the earth don t necessarily enjoy gorging on one another s pancakes there are dozens of local hamburger eateries here too some pretty good but the second favorite burger joint is a national one wendy s also yuck have you given up lite beer for low end wine you ll probably be pleased to know that the second favorite place to buy wine and spirits is kroger an ohio based grocery chain i don t really get it lexington is overrun with local boosters everywhere you go you ll hear about our basketball team our horses our bourbon our coal our god yet when asked to choose their favorites in food they ignore the 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