Moral Relativism
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the chapter: Human Savagery, Lex Talionis, and The Golden Rule
To cite moral relativism is to attempt to justify and rationalize evil acts of the past, which only stands to justify and rationalize the evils of today; so, enough with that bullshit.
A Very Human Invention
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the section: Everyone Is Agnostic—No One Knows A Goddamn Thing
The human brain is without a doubt the most remarkably advanced evolutionary discovery in the universe known to humankind today. From a single-celled organism 3.65 billion years ago to the conscious communicating self-reflecting dreaming procreating sentient creature presently known as homo homo erectus, or, the human beings that we call: us. The human brain is so remarkable that the humans walking the earth 200,000 years ago were just as relatively capable of being as intelligent as we are today, but simply did not have access to the resources in history that we have—and, it shouldn’t go without saying: it is only through our collective ancestors’ great struggle and sacrifice that our collective great fortune is made in the headstart they’ve given us towards the future to surpass our very own wildest dreams and ambitions.
Robert Browning’s famous line from Andrea del Sarto is doubly apt here, though, “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” as humankind has surely risen to heights that could not have been possibly even dreamt of 10,000-5,000 years ago, but that humankind and the human mind would have and did consciously create many gods 10,000-5,000 years ago to satiate the need to connect with the present and contend with the unknown—and in many cases, with the past and with death. But, also, in order to understand the present and connect with the future—in an effort to remember and be remembered—the brain discovered and invented purposeful and meaningful art, and words, written language and science and mathematics, and all the other illustrious natures of the understanding of the human condition. For example: I am writing this book to the future you who is now the present you reading these words right now, dear reader—without having a publisher in place or even a word in the dictionary to reference—yet, here we both are.
The Color Purple, Not Green, And To Each Their Orange
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the section: Everyone Is Agnostic—No One Knows A Goddamn Thing
Perspective is an often overlooked term in the battle of ideas, especially when discussing things such as: consciousness, morality, and determinism—but, it is easily one of the most important. Life has a way of changing individual humanity in such a way, that, like fingerprints, no two human experiences are the same. How you experience the world and how I experience the world are bound to be vastly different, even if the vast majority of our experiences are coming from a relatively mutual perspective. Siblings, for example, are often treated very differently with huge impact in the long run—and sometimes, those differences are so subtle at the time, that you may not have noticed them for years. How we are treated affects how we treat others and ourselves and our situations. Zealots, the pious, and unfortunately some nonbelieving professors—and libertarians, it must be said—are ahistorical bigots in their own right often neglecting the past for the present future; often to their own benefit, even in hypothetical situations—which is all that libertarianism is: hypothetical nonsense. Because, without perspective, you have no past; and with no past, you have no future—if you take away someone’s history, you cut them out at the roots.
Proving the Negative
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the chapter: The Fallacy of Unfalsifiable Infallibility
When confronting believers with the concept of proving that their god exists, nonbelievers are often mocked for not being able to prove that the believer’s god does not exist. But, if it is agreed that the belief in god is the belief in the Creator god of supposedly Everything, then it is not necessary to go through every individual god idea one by one in order to disprove the idea of, or belief in, god. All one needs to do is prove the negative: nothing cannot exist, therefore, something always exists; therefore, god, the creator, cannot have created everything if something already existed; therefore, god, the creator, does not exist.
…hence, adeology
Human Savagery, Lex Talionis, and The Golden Rule
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the chapter: Morality
One might like to tell oneself that there is a punishment befitting every crime, but that would be a delusion—for the extremes of human depravity know only the bounds of human imagination, and the laws of physics.
The Idea of Evidence
An extraction from the book Adeology
From the chapter: A Very Human Invention
What is evidence? It obviously depends on any given circumstance, yes, but in general, what is evidence to you, dear reader? Is it merely that which proves something to be—to be real—to be true—to be evident—to be evidently true—to be truly evidently real? Is that something (being) physical? What does it look like? Is it only physical? Can it sound like something? What does it sound like? Isn’t a sound a physical reverberation from sound wave to eardrum? Is that not considered “feeling something”? Isn’t feeling something a physical experience? Can’t I feel my emotions? People literally die from broken hearts—isn’t that how feelings work: that you feel them? Doesn’t that prove that metaphysics exists in reality? Can it (evidence) then be metaphysical? Like, if I believe god exists, then, god exists, right? But then, and not for nothing, doesn’t this also prove that the “super”natural is just natural? The original title idea for this book was, The Idea of God, which quickly became a non-believer’s journey down the path of “the idea of evidence”—which, in turn, quickly led me to me realize that we didn’t have enough dialectically intellectual artillery on the side of non-belief to oppose the imposition of state-sanctioned deity worship in public places—that not enough “evidence” had “materialized” on “our end” of the god-debate to win back secular freedom in opposing the imposition of deity worship throughout electable forums—and, that by continuing to play by their rules, we continue to lose. So, I invented more intellectual ammunition for the non-believer to use in the god-debate.
…hence, adeology.
Morality
Human Savagery, Lex Talionis, and The Golden Rule
part 1
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the section: A Few Words
One of the main disagreements in the god-debate is about morality—often referred to as Absolute Morality—but to the believer, it is never about morality, it is always about where morality comes from—which needlessly complicates the matter. Believers love to believe that they live on higher moral ground because they believe that their god tells them so, which, in turn, immediately puts them on lower, shaky ground. Believers of all kinds believe this regardless if religion is involved. It is the belief in god which allows for such dangerous, arrogant ignorance.
…hence, adeology.
Why and How
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the section: A Few Words
It should go without saying, but alas: there is a difference in meaning between the words why and how. For example: why we are here, as the human race, is different from how we got here—one is subjectively based on opinion while the other is objectively based on fact. And yet, people confuse these two words, and use them interchangeably, all the time—it could be said, confused deliberately, in some cases.
Know Nothing
An extraction from the book, Adeology
Nothing does not exist—but that does not mean that the “it” we are referring to here is merely “that which does not exist”—that would mean “it” is something. But, never-the-less, nothing cannot exist, which means that something must exist. And that is what it means to know nothing.
The Hard Answer: What Is Consciousness?
An extraction from the book, Adeology
From the section: Unapologetics
What is Consciousness? Nothing more than the experience of that which has just happened—is happening. It is the most remarkable thing—ever. Well, the most remarkable thing ever next to existence, anyway—because yes, it is true that without existence one would not be able to be conscious; but, without consciousness, one would not be able to know that existence exists. David Chalmers [the hard problem] says that consciousness does and doesn’t exist, and Daniel Dennett [the hard question] loves to remind us that consciousness isn’t what we think it is—I can agree with them both. But, the hard answer to: what is consciousness, for humans and all other sentient creatures with varying degrees of sentience, is that consciousness is merely that which is experienced between birth and death—an evolutionary adaptation—a phenomenal acquisition to the survival of life and the pursuit of continued existence. And, on top of that, thanks to consciousness, we can enjoy things too!
What Is A Word?
What is a word? Communication.
How is a word made? Usage.
Why words? Necessity.
Who says what a word is? We do.
Words: a form of communication that started out as grunts and grumbles and shrieks and hollers eventually evolved into the discernible but ever-changing dialectical lexicon we understand to be the colorful myriad of human languages today. I am sure there will be those who will say that adeology is just a made up word, but, they’re all made up—i.g., at one point, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was just a “made up word” in a movie; but people used it enough, and now it is defined in the dictionary as meaning: extraordinarily good. Dan Barker recently published the book, Contraduction, titled with another “made up word”. Words like adeology, adeist, adeism, et al. are intentionally “made up words” meant to be used in discussion, especially by non-believers, as new tools in the debate against the imposition of deity worship in public spaces.
…hence, adeology.
The Fundamental Difference Between the Belief in God and the Worshipping of God 3/3
I do believe, however, that billions of people, without the aid of storytelling, could come to their own belief in a god—that each of them could, on their own, come to some sort of internal determination that a god, indeed their very own personal god, exists. But, billions of people do not come up with the belief, on their own, that some so-and-so flew into outer-space on a winged horse and broke the moon in two; or that there’s going to be some messiah someday to save humanity from itself; or that there already was a messiah but that that messiah was martyred, believed to return to be the savior of the souls of humanity one day—they do not each of them silently come up with those very specific ideas on their own—those billions of people are told that story. Now, as to their belief in whether they are convinced by those stories that a god exists, that is up to them—but, they do, all of them, have one identical belief: the belief in god—all of them—and I believe that that belief is a false-belief.
…hence, adeology.
The Fundamental Difference Between the Belief in God and the Worshipping of God 2/3
An extraction from the book, Adeology
One can come to, or arrive at, an inner, seemingly inherent belief in god that is different and potentially more meaningful than any and every other story ever told by any and every other person that is ever brought to religion, brought to believing in religion, and/or brought to miming the physical incantations of religious practices. And, I do say, “brought to religion” intentionally because, that is how it happens. Whether by upbringing, despair, or commercialism, anyone ever believing in religion, was brought to religion—compelled in some way, shape or form, to try and escape or assuage the so-called mortal coil of the physical world with the belief in ancient tribal stories of eternal creator gods—not because of some sort of internal, logical epiphany that x, y, or z belief in god is true or real, but because they were led and persuaded into it.
…hence, adeology.
The Fundamental Difference Between the Belief in God and the Worshipping of God 1/3
An extraction of the book, Adeology
Understand, there is a fundamental difference between believing in god and believing in the validity, efficacy, and historicity of religion and religious practices. If a person believes that they, and everything, is created by god, that is one thing. But, if a person believes that they become closer to god by communicating with god through committing such acts in the name of god as: the folding of hands or kneeling or bowing, or the wearing of certain garments, or the partaking and abstaining of certain foods and activities, or gathering with one another on certain days and dates, that is tantamount to witchcraft and voodoo. Understand that.
…hence, adeology.
Yes, Non-Belief is a Worldview, Get Over It
An extraction from the book, Adeology
To Whom it may concern: Yes, Non-Belief is a worldview, get over it—and, one day, it will be the most popular worldview! Why deny it? There is no benefit. There are too many atheists needlessly seeking refuge in the argument that non-belief is not a worldview, and I find that to be a cowardly and illogical argument for one to make. Of course non-belief is a worldview—it couldn’t be anything other than a worldview. In fact, it might be the only true worldview that will collectively ever be, because once the ancient stories and myths and fables have all gone, there will be nothing left to debate but the conscious belief in god—and, once the human race wakes up to its own delusion, there will be no other choice but to believe in reality and not make-believe—hence, adeology.
Free Thought—Free Will
An extraction from the book, Adeology
Free Thought and Free Will do and do not exist. Free Thought exists only to the degree that one has the capacity for thought. And as for Free Will, one can will oneself to be productive in some way, even in thought, but one cannot will oneself to levitate; or will oneself to “teleport” to another space and time in existence. Both, however—Free Thought and Free Will—are only possible with a conscious being.
Nothing Never Exists
an objective, definitive, fact in truth
Most god-believers hinge their entire belief on the idea that all of this existence that we experience could not have just popped into being out of nowhere—out of nothing. But, nothing never exists; ever. And, this objective truth really does end that sort of argument, because, something must exist if nothing cannot exist—everywhere—for all time and space. Forever.
…hence, adeology.