[ExI] Religions are not the ultimate cause of war

Tomasz Rola rtomek at ceti.pl
Mon Oct 1 18:44:14 UTC 2012


On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, spike wrote:

> 
> Ja.  The inherent disadvantage of Satanism is that his name is two
> syllables.  It makes it harder to call upon one's deity when experiencing a
> toe-curler.  The traditional ".Oh God Oh God." is so well established, it is
> likely the name itself was originally coined exactly for that nearly
> universal purpose.  The pronunciation is almost automatic, and doesn't
> require much concentration to utter, at time when the brain is otherwise
> completely occupied.  Most names can be shortened to a single syllable, such
> as Stef in your case.  But look at the case of the devil, imagine oneself
> adopting him as the object of adoration, think of all the names.  None of
> them work very well for the purpose stated above:  Oh Dev!  Nah.  Oh Sate!
> Nope.  Oh Luce!  That one would immediately stop the action, for the
> suspicious partner would demand "Who the hell is Luce?"  The hasty
> explanation .Oh, I cut off the 'ifer'. might fly, but would likely spoil the
> mood at a critical moment.
> 
>  
> 
> Even the hard core true atheists among us have this problem, for none of the
> syllables in our particular deity work as a name:  Oh EV!  Oh LOOSH!  Oh
> SHUN!  
> 
>  
> 
> We heretics just hafta face the facts.  God has us in the naming department.
> He was there when we were conceived.  We are fighting an uphill battle.

Spike, I have already covered this subject earlier this year. Or maybe 
previous year.

The atheistic credo comes in few different forms, but they all converge to 
something like this:

"There is No (Not), a Supreme Entity"

or

"There is No, God"

or

"There is Not, a God"

>From this I proved that atheists worship No (sometimes also called Not).

I am apalled, apalled that nobody reads my machiavellian and genious 
explanations. If you did, your mind would stop wandering around bonobos 
and you would know that the naming battle went quite well for you :-).

However, you are a bit handicapped sometimes - like, in a critical moment 
you will have to cry loud "Oh No!". I guess this isn't what your 
Significant Other would like to hear.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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