So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded.  Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.  Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. – Exodus 7:10-11

Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded.  In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water…

How do you deal with someone civilly when you're being forced to see them and they don't deserve someone being civil to them?

How can you calmly schedule meetings with a person that you never want in your life again?

How can you follow through with those meetings without snapping?

How do you spend an entire day, two days a month, with a person you'd rather just slap across the face?

How can you be nice to someone who has been a huge jerk to you?

How can you…

I honestly could not care less what you believe.  If you want to assert that loving a person of the same sex as yourself damns you to a fiery abyss for all of eternity, thats your choice.  Similarly, if you believe that rape is "God's Will", and that any child which is conceived from this event deserves a right to live, no matter what the age or mental state of the mother may be, that is entirely your choice, and I'm glad you have that choice.  The ability and time to make and have our own…

Atheists,(people who don't believe in a God.)?

#1. How do you go day by day living knowing one day you'll die and you'll have nothing to look forward to, just be dead?…

An excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Timequake.

Genesis According to Kilgore Trout:

"In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and i mean NOTHING," he said. "But nothing implies something, just as up implies down and sweet implies sour, as man implies woman and drunk implies sober and happy implies sad. I hate to tell you this, friends and neighbors, but we are teens-weensy implications in an enormous implication. If you don't…

Romney & Obama phoning Tel Aviv,

s-

u-

c-

k-

i-

n-

g!!

I. first comes Iron Dome.

($70 million dollars MORE of

US taxpayers money going straight

into Israel’s military defense)

II. then comes Jerusalem.

(Romney, down on his knees with

Netanyahu in his mouth, proclaims that

Jerusalem IS in fact the capital of

Israel, even though the rest of the world

is…

It's been a long time in the making, but I am an atheist. More specifically, I'm a nontheist with atheist, Humanist, and pantheist sways. I think religion is a part of human nature; it's our way to simplify the complexities of the universe, a way to enforce morality, and a way to fulfill our basic human need to see order in chaos. It helps us cope as we mourn and fear death, it gives us hope when things are tough, and it gives us comfort when we see the imbalance and chaos between good…

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there was a time when

the delusional

blamed what they termed

“evil”

on “creatures,” “spirits” &

“demons”---

all were meant to terrify

the living whilst at the same

time making them comfortable

in knowing that they had

imagined the most horrible things

that could possibly be &

in doing so,

their world made sense again.

the unknown (source of

their actual fear) was so…

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them.  The land become Pharaoh’s.  As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.  Only the land of the priests he did not buy. . .

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh.  Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.  And at the harvests you…

megalomaniac

wakes up one early morn

with a brand new personal plausible

excuse &

this will be the answer of all

answers for

her/him, so that s/he may

beat upon the drum

a new web of madness &

stir the masses like a

shit covered stick in a bowl of

porridge.

religion & religion alone

lets the madwo/man find their

way, endeavoring to take on

the cause of others with…

http://plus.maths.org/content/does-it-pay-be-nice-maths-altruism-part-i

Mathematical evidence that cooperation evolves naturally as a successful strategy.

This is one of the most interesting things I've read for a long time.  Don't worry, it's not too mathematical.  I recommend printing it out if you want to read it. 

I believe we need to know why these things…

June 30, 2012|Jennifer Dobner | Reuters

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage.

Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in a public park to sign a "Declaration of Independence…

the world watches Holmes

sit “dazed” in the courtroom,

with each mainstream media

monolith

churning out the sound bites

referencing his eyes & his

red hair---

the picture that goes viral is

of course the one that can

be likened most to something

out of Heath-Ledger-as-The-

Joker-101,

visually answering questions

for the people at home,

because we all know that

individuals who dye…

This is a piece, roughly translated it and edited to point out this part, of a news article that appeared in a newspaper in my country:

In an alarming number of suicides committed by youngsters between 9 and 16 in Dominican Republic one raises the eyebrows. As Jiménez Páez, director of the National Institute of Forensic Pathology puts it. Several of this happenings have struck him very hard, as the one of this 9 year old that kill himself after arriving home from an evangelical mass…

I'm venting. Straight up. But I need somewhere to share my anger and ... disappointment. You see, my dad is a pretty smart guy. He's an electrical engineer. He likes to think things through and is fairly methodical, except when it comes to bullshit like religion, or the climate "debate" or his ultra-conservative political leanings, or thinking that some crazy conspiracy theories are actually true (The President is a MUSLIM COMMUNIST BORN IN KENYA AND COME TO DESTROY…

how does it feel to have been a

believer? 

after all, you voted for mr. hope &

change, after rallying behind him,

after believing that he would be

different than all the others, after

seeing his wondrous smile, after

getting butterflies in your stomach

when he came near, when you saw

him speak in front of tens of

thousands, when you drove such a

long way to listen to him, after you

went door to door for…

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