User:Senca
General Information[edit]
Well, for some reason you seem to have stumbled upon this page, so I guess I should tell you something about myself, huh? I'm 25 years old. I was born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a post-industrial city in the midst of the Allegheny Mountains (which is about the only thing I miss from there). I attended college at RPI in Troy, New York for Computer Engineering, but never completed my degree for a number of reasons. I spent some time living in nearby Albany, New York, which was a big improvement over Troy, working for General Electric as a programmer. Eventually I migrated to Boston, Massachusetts which is where I currently live. I'm currently attempting to go back to college to study political science at Boston University.
I'm very interested in politics and sociology, and I've been known to dabble with theology. I don't claim to be an expert, but I'm learning more every day. Politically, I consider myself a democratic socialist which definately puts me on the left of the political spectrum. I'm a strong atheist, but I'm also very curious about religions especially Judaism and Taoism. It could be said I'm a discordian or nihilist as well. I love music and listen to industrial music, EBM, futurepop, punk rock, skate punk, pop punk, alternative rock, grunge and a multitude of other things.
Quotes[edit]
- Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like sending a kiss through a messenger.
- Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, man will know, that he cannot eat money.
- Anonymous or Unknown
- Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
- Language is a virus.
- I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
- If there's any miracle in the world, it's that so many people actually believe god exists.
- The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
- Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
- For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities.
- The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
- The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.
- Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
- After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave--a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.--And we--we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- [In the West] unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for an official ban.
- I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
- When you are as old as I, young man, you will understand that the only thing worth living for, is sin.
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Last Update: September 6, 2004 Fnords