A matter of life and death

I think it is beyond question that at some point, a human embryo must be called alive while still in the womb. Whether that is at the point of conception as science tells us, or at the point of some sort of awareness, there is life there. A beating heart. A developing awareness. It is a prenatal human.
Birth is nothing more than the first of many transformations for this human. There will be puberty and the confusing teens. There will be adulthood and parenthood and menopause and death. All these started with conception.
We humans continue to develop as long as we live but we do more physical developing in our first nine months than in the rest of our lives. This rate of development does not make us less than human. It does not make us parasites. It makes us very young.
We count the days of our lives from the time of our birth, as if we somehow magically popped into being from nothingness, as if we had not been a developing human for nine months.
So, what to do with this knowledge as far as the prenatal human's right to life versus a woman's rights to choose what to do with her body?
If one looks at it coldly and unemotionally, without the influence of religious or secular law, the prenatal is losing the chance of eighty five or so years and the mother is losing nine months. It seems obvious that this young human must be given the chance to live.
And yet I do believe in a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body. I know that educating and empowering women, especially in third world countries where they are stuck in a cycle of breeding, is the most important thing we can do to eliminate poverty worldwide.
Women are not breeding machines. They must have the right to choose to abort a life within themselves.
And so I must sadly and begrudgingly count myself as pro choice.
But please, let's not belittle the lives that are ended by abortion. Let's not call them "parasites" or "not yet human" in an attempt to lessen or dismiss our own guilt or grief. To stop a heart from beating is to end a life and to end whatever that human may have been.
We humans can condition ourselves to believe all sorts of nonsense, like religions and Flat Earth ideas. But when it comes to taking an innocent life, let's not pretend it wasn't alive to feel better about ourselves.
If we have any interest in seeking truth in our lives, we must not lie to ourselves about death... because death makes life precious and only life makes death possible.

Sapien

A-theism is like saying a-god. If there is no god, how can I be against it?
It's time we had a name for ourselves that does not deny that which does not exist.
Here is the birth of a word to describe those who seek truth, who put knowledge before belief, who want to understand how things work, and who question everything.

Sapiens (as used in homo sapiens) means 'wise.' If we drop the S at the end of sapiens, we have 'almost wise.'

Sapien (Say'-pee-enn)
Sapien means, 'almost wise.'
One Sapien
Two Sapiens
In Sapeist fashion. (Say-pee-ist)

Enemy Of The State - book review

I've just finished reading Tommy Robinson's Enemy Of The State.
Wow!
Tommy is beset on all sides by Islam, SJWs, MSM, almost all politicians, and the police.
They knock him down; he gets up. Again and again and again. Kick his teeth in, throw him in prison, harass his family, take everything he has... and he gets back up.
I don't know how he does it.

This is not a book for the English language purist. Tommy is a working class guy from Luton and while he writes better English than he speaks, but it's Tommy's voice you hear as you read. If you want Hemingway, go read Hemingway.
But don't make the mistake of thinking he's stupid because he has a Luton accent. Tommy makes some subtle points about Islam, politics, and social issues that need to be discussed.

I was surprised when I finished the book, partly because Tommy was smarter than I thought before reading it, (and I'd figured him intelligent before), but mostly because I'd read it so quickly.
This is an enjoyable book, a bloody good read, written with anger and humour and a feeling of helplessness in the face of power. Tommy stands up to all those who would have, or who would ignore or assist, the Islamisation of the West. And he pays the price every day with constant surveillance, threats of violence, and the guilt he feels for putting his family through some tough times.

I knew much of Tommy's story before reading Enemy Of The State because I'd watched so many youtube videos of him. The videos get his message across but don't tell you why he speaks up or the price he's had to pay for standing up to Islam.

This book is necessary reading for anyone who wants to keep Western culture alive. And if you think that's hyperbole, then you really need to read Enemy Of The State to see that your comfortable Western lifestyle is under attack by a violent and repressive religion, which is supported by confused or bribed politicians, police, and media.

Can a negative be disproven?

Yes. Science does this all the time.

Hypothesis; "Gravity is demons holding us down from soaring with the angels."
This hypothesis can be disproven by the complete lack of evidence in demons and angels, and the scientific evidence we have to show that gravity is not a supernatural phenomenon.

Why then do even some atheists believe that god cannot be disproven with the same method?
There is a complete lack of evidence for god, and undeniable scientific evidence to counter the claims of religious supernatural phenomena.

Thunder is not Thor and his hammer. Lightning is not Zeus casting his bolts from Olympus. These gods are accepted as disproven deities and mere mythology.

Why then is the Abrahamic god given special consideration and allowed to be considered above disproval... above mythology? Because it is a current religion and even the brightest and most reasonable people sometimes allow the social prevalence of religion to sway our reasoning minds.

After all, we're only human.

My self eulogy to be read at my funeral

I wish I could say some of you touched me.
You didn't.
We never actually touch anything; the electrons in our atoms repel things which get too close. We feel the energy of the electrons repelling things but we never actually feel... the things.
Our clothes, a hand, a punch... we feel only energy.

Nothing matters.

The Milky Way galaxy is made up of between 100 billion and 400 billion stars. We estimate there are between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies.
Using the low end of these numbers, if just one planet in each galaxy... just one... of 100 billion stars contained life, there would be 100 billion planets that harbour life.
We are not alone. We are not the only life in the universe, not the only consciousness, and not the only lives that search for truth.

Nothing matters.

We are, each of us, unique bundles of energy on what Carl Sagan called "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." This mote of dust is home to uncounted energy beings, from trees, ants, tardigrades, and water. Even the Earth itself is made of energy.
And there are 100 billion planets of uncounted energy beings.

Nothing matters.

Now, pay attention... here's the tricky bit.
If nothing matters... if we are not unique in simply being alive and we can't even touch each other, then how we treat each other is the most important thing any of us can do.
Why? Because if all we have is free will... if we can possess nothing and life is not unique to Earth... if nothing matters... then our only benchmark for morality is what we do with our free will.

So clasp the energy of the hand of the person beside you. Share your energy. It will feel good for a while but you must understand it is only energy you feel. It doesn't matter.
To truly and honestly matter to anyone or any thing... to touch the only way we can touch... the only way any of you touched me or touched anything...
Be kind.
Be gentle.
Love.

"If not God, what do you believe in?"

Fear Not

SJWs, religions, 3rd wave feminists, and the regressive left are too frightened of dealing with their own issues to do so, therefore they expect the rest of us to change society to fit their fears.
This is precisely what we must not do.
To live in fear... to merely react to any uncomfortable change with denial and obstruction is to stagnate the evolution of the human race, or at the very least to change our evolutionary course to one of mere survival, as opposed to one striving for growth and greatness.
We must act in the best interests of future generations and choose the wisest course for humanity.
The fearful are a mostly harmless minority that have always been present in the human tribe. They are successful only because their agenda is censorship in the guise of fairness and that censorship happens to fit very well within the one percent's plans for society. The fearful get massive coverage on the news and politicians quote them and enact laws for them.
Look at the difficulty Bernie Sanders has in getting air time with his proven, reasonable ideas, compared to the air time the fearmongering Donald Trump gets.
Bernie unites; Trump divides.
Any group that fits the one percent's plan gets plenty of media air time.
Want some air time? Simply shout your message that, "Nothing should be allowed that hurts my feelings!"
What a great message for the one percent!
"Sorry, your rights make these people afraid, so we're going to have to take them away."