Indoctrination Machines.

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I love indoctrination machines!

The world is littered with the most brilliant array of indoctrination machines! Some of them are very old. I travel the world to marvel at them.

Indoctrination machines are things of wonder. Man has poured his creative splendour into their production. They are machines that fill you full of awe. Their scale, majesty, power and beauty is designed to stun you!

Standing in Stonehenge, the La Sagrada Familia, Westminster Cathedral, Ankor Wat, the Blue Mosque or Notre Dame you are shocked by the absolute wonder of it. They are so stupendous, so elaborate and so wonderful. They are immense. They took so long to built. They took so much time, energy and skill.

But that is precisely the intent.

They were conceived to take your breath away. You are meant to be shocked.

The intent to make you believe that the religion must be real because nobody in their right mind would put so much into creating such works of genius if it was not true.

The message is – be overawed and believe!

The irony is that despite the fact that the message is undeniably nonsense the works are among the greatest creations of mankind. This goes for the statues, paintings, decoration and architectural embellishments as well.

They are wonderful!

These indoctrination machines are designed to force you to believe. The ridiculous thing is that they work on so many gullible people! People are carried away with their wonder and believe the rubbish!! They do their job!

History is littered with the ruins of previous indoctrination machines from defunct religions. When we have outgrown our present religions the cathedrals, mosques and temples will lie in ruins as testimony to the folly of man and his need to believe in supernatural garbage to bolster his insecure psychology!

As an atheist I can’t wait! Long live the death of religion! Long live the ruins of indoctrination machines!!

Perhaps you would find amusement in my book on religion:

Or the effect tourism is having on the planet:

One in twenty people hear voices!!

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It seems that you do not have to be up the top of mountains, wandering through the wilderness or in a cave to hear voices.
One in twenty people hear voices in their heads. Most people who suffer this do not pay too much attention to it. They accept it and go on living their lives. Some people find it annoying.

The amazing thing is that some of these people seem to believe that it is some fictitious supernatural beings talking to them that they call god.

That’s fine with me except they feel the need to share it with everyone else, claim it is real and want to impose a whole series of rituals, dress-codes and rules on everyone. That I do not like.

More incredibly there are billions of gullible people who give credibility to these voices and adopt the rules as a life-style.

It just goes to show what an insecure and needy lot of people human beings are! They have to be told what to do!

Schizophrenia is not greatly understood. Hearing voices is a symptom. The mind is a delicate organ.

Hopefully we will have a good treatment for it soon. I know that because the voices told me!

Perhaps you would enjoy my irreverent whimsy on religion?:

Time for reasonable Muslims to stand up and be counted!

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The image of Islam is dominated by the views of the militant Jihadists. They are setting the agenda and seemingly thousands of young English Muslims are taking up their extreme version of Islam.

I am an antitheist. I believe all religion is constructed by human beings and there is no god. However I am tolerant and I believe in freedom. I believe that all people should have the right to follow and practice whatever religion they want.

Perhaps it is time for moderate Muslims to stand up and be counted. If Islam is a tolerant religion that means ‘peace’ then there should be an active opposition to the barbarity being practiced by the extremists.

Do Muslims around the world believe:

  • Non-Muslims must be converted to Islam?
  • That failure to convert is punishable by death?
  • That apostasy is punishable by death?
  • That blasphemy is punishable by death?
  • That anyone should be stoned to death for even the severest crime?
  • That people should be forced to adopt strict codes of dress such as Burqas for women and beards for men?
  • That women should not be educated?
  • That all the world should be forced to convert to Islam?
  • That personal freedom is wrong?
  • That music and the arts should be banned?
  • That other religion’s images should be destroyed?
  • That the West has a war against Islam?
  • That it is ever right to punish people with violence and mutilation?
  • That women are second class citizens who do not have the same rights as men?
  • That politics and decision making are the province of men?
  • That the culture of 600 AD Islam is preferable to that of modern civilisation?
  • That having large families is good?
  • That Allah has given them the right to impose their views on everyone else in the harshest manner possible?

If reasonable Muslims do not believe that then perhaps they need to shout about it and take active steps to stop their sons from getting caught up in such intolerant extremism.

The alternative is surely that we all learn to coexist in peace, tolerance and freedom. That those of religious persuasion can accept the views of others, not oppress people and live in harmony.

There is no room for hatred.

We can build a positive zeitgeist and make the world a better place! We can!!

Islam means peace?

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Supposedly Islam literally means peace. So why is it that the Islamic community is not loudly disclaiming the militants who are killing and terrorising non-Muslims in Iraq? Surely this barbaric intolerance is not what the religion is about?

I think there has to be a debate here. Either Islam stands for peace, tolerance and civilisation or it stands for primitive barbarity?

Muslims need to decide. There needs to be a strong outcry from Muslims against these atrocities.

If the British government issued an ultimatum to all Muslims in Britain instructing them to give up their religion or be executed the whole world would rightly be outraged.

Why is the British Muslim community so quiet?

See my views on why we should rid ourselves of all religion on Opher’s World: https://ophersworld.com/

This is what I believe!

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I live on a small planet going round an average sun.

My body is an incredible phenomenon created by billions of years of evolution. My consciousness is even more amazing and created by the same way.

My awareness came out of nothing when I was in the womb and will go back to nothing after I die.

I share this incredible planet with billions of other life forms which evolved in the same way as me. Many of them share the same attributes as me. Some are quite different but all have very similar biochemistry. This life is a spectrum created by the evolution of the stupendous DNA molecule. This DNA molecule interacts with proteins to create a phenomena we call life.

At this moment in time my species, having wiped out all other human species, has temporarily overcome most of the predators that kept our numbers in check and all other limiting factors. We are not likely to be eaten by fierce animals, killed by disease or restricted by lack of food, water or adverse conditions. Therefore our numbers are increasing exponentially and we are using up space, resources and the natural environment. In the process we are killing off other species at an alarming rate. We do not seem to understand that we are part of a fragile ecosystem the destruction of which will destroy us. We do not recognise other life forms as possessing intelligence, consciousness or feelings. They are lesser forms of life to be cruelly destroyed or thoughtlessly eradicated.

Many of our species have formed a superstitious belief that we were ‘created’ and there is a wonderful ‘plan’ for us. They are not too bothered by the destruction around us. It is part of the ‘plan’.

Many of our species are sitting comfortably in their own little bubble in which the ‘real’ world does not intrude. That’s just how they like it.

Many of our species are obsessed with owning more whatever the cost.

Many of our species are living hand to mouth and trying desperately to survive. They will use and eat whatever comes their way.

Unless this is addressed on a global scale we will thoughtlessly destroy something that is miraculous.

I do not believe we will destroy life. What is left after we are gone, even if it is only bacterial slime, will form another incredible, but different ecosystem, after a few billion years.

It is the thoughtless cruelty I detest.

Of course we can do something about it and alter the Zeitgeist!!