Michael Kindt's Blog, page 431
December 23, 2011
Open Up and Say "Ahh"A recent Freedom of Information...
Open Up and Say "Ahh"
A recent Freedom of Information Act request has revealed that the FBI wants what it calls "food activists" prosecuted as terrorists, perhaps because nothing could more terrifying than exposing where our so-called food comes from and how it is manufactured.
Most Americans don't really care where their food comes from or how it is made. All that matters is that it's cheap and tastes good. Unfortunately for the food industry, however, not everyone is that stupid anymore. There is a growing desire to eat food that is healthy and produced in a cruel-free, sustainable way, stemming in part from the efforts of the food activists who have revealed the brutal, unnatural way our food is manufactured.
Thus, the FBI wants them classified as terrorists.
In the the brave new world of 21st century America, terrorism has evolved to mean anything that threatens the status quo or challenges the standings or profits of the corporate entities that have reduced our government agencies to the status of pawns.
Think about it for a second: if you take a picture of a chicken suffering in tiny, filthy cage, the FBI wants you considered a terrorist, especially if your picture causes 'economic loss'. Nothing terrifies a corporation more than economic loss. Why, people may see that photo, have a crisis of conscience, and spend their dollars elsewhere, thereby reducing the power of animal-torturing corporations. Such a thing should only happen in a free market, not in America.
The Freedom of Information request comes just as the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). The AETA is a law designed to suppress activism and speech regarding the industries which brutalize animals with horrific conditions and/or pump them full of chemicals and drugs. Activists who expose such things very likely would cause economic loss due to the fact that many people would not eat what they eat if they actually knew what they were eating. Therefore, it is vitally important that they never find out.
Similar repressive laws are being introduced throughout the emerging fascist state that is America in the 21st century. In Florida for example, an 'Ag Gag' law has been introduced that would define taking pictures of the way corporations manufacture food as 'terrorism'. Nothing says "We have something to hide" like saying "You are a terrorist if you take pictures of it."
Anyway, Merry Christmas and have another slice of corporate ham.
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December 22, 2011
Whenever someone follows me on Twitter, and they're not an organization and do not have an agenda and are not posting all about one thing,
I peer at them curiously for a moment, as if they were a two-headed snake, and then follow them back.
ashamedtosay replied to your post: nymphetaminedream replied to your post: RE: the…
This...
This person is confusing people who don't believe in science with people who believe in God. You can believe in science and you can believe in God at the same time. You can have faith and understand the Bible is a book written by men who are flawed.
It's an interesting debate, to be sure.
I actually think atheism is true religious evolution/innovation. When we were cavemen, we saw spirits everywhere and sacrificed virgins and bulls. We evolved past that and are still evolving further, religiously speaking.
The scientific method is, of course, of limited value. At this stage, as we look deeper and deeper into things, we find them weirder and weirder. A photon is a wave stretching from the sun to your eye, and also a tiny particle occupying a specific tiny space—depending on context. I feel that science isn't revealing truth, but demonstrating how little we know (if anything).
Perhaps the cavemen were right. Perhaps there are spirits everywhere :)
nymphetaminedream replied to your post: RE: the atheism debate that evolved in another...
I highly disagree that atheism is based on faith. Making a decision based on scientific evidence is not faith. Surprised you are attempting to state otherwise.
But that's what I'm saying: the scientific evidence proving that there is no god is exactly the same as that proving that there is a god, i.e., none.
RE: the atheism debate that evolved in another person's pleasant Christmas post.
No reason to keep reblogging it.
I guess I'm coming at it from a nihilist angle, from a truly skeptical one. True skepticism can only lead to nihilism. Keep in mind I don't have a negative view of nihilism, unlike, say, Wikipedia, which defines it clunkily and simplistically.
Certainty is not an external thing, but an internal one, and it is constructed entirely out of faith.
Basically what I'm saying is that all knowledge is opinion and the hanging on to it, faith. Believing that there is no god is an act of faith. Coming down on one side of anything is faith. The human machine operates on faith, just like on air and food.
Facts and truth are those concepts and ideas that have the most subscribers. The minority is simply "wrong", but it takes an act of faith to call it that.
I am no different. I say all this out of faith. I say everything out of faith. So do you.
Winter Solstice morning. Taylorsville, Utah. 2 am. Alcohol a...
Winter Solstice morning. Taylorsville, Utah. 2 am. Alcohol a factor.
Man attempts to shoot a mouse in his kitchen
Man misses and the bullet goes through the wall
Bullet hits another man in the next room, which is a bathroom
Man screams, having been shot in the chest while taking a piss
Police are called
A third man, who is 34 years old, tells his girlfriend to hide in the basement
This girl is only 13
Police arrive, arrest the shooter, and take the wounded man to the hospital
They further investigate, discover the girl, and begin questioning her
They learn that the 34 year old man had been banging the girl for some time, for several months, in fact
This is illegal, even in Utah
The 34 year old man is arrested and booked on two counts of rape of a child
Three counts of sodomy of a child
And three counts of sexual abuse of a child
The mouse was not injured
I had a dream that my cat looked just like Kirsten Dunst.
She was a very odd cat, with a human, Kirsten Dunst face. I tried to love her, but she just freaked me out. Also, the fur on her belly was blue. And I missed my regular cat terribly:
It was a very unpleasant dream. BRB, taking a walk in the snow….
Early Onset of Night: One of the things I love about tumblr
I have a voracious interest in religions. Not necessarily dogma, but religious history and practice. Does that surprise you? Well, I do. I'm ridiculously heavily read on the topics of various religious beliefs, practices and origins, living and dead, and one of the things I love…
I think you misunderstand the term "atheist." We're talking about a creator here, a prime force, not just an obsessive focus or a motivational drive.
Yeah, true. But I think it takes the same amount of faith to say the universe just appeared or always existed for no reason than it does to say it was created by an ultimate force. They are both religions, acts of faith.
Anyway, I'm going to go enjoy my favorite hobby, not collecting stamps. After that, I'm going to exercise by not running on the treadmill. And then finally, I'm going to practice my religion by not going to Mass.
Don't forget "become offended and react indignantly when someone calls my religion for what it is: a religion."
:)
December 21, 2011
Early Onset of Night: One of the things I love about tumblr
I have a voracious interest in religions. Not necessarily dogma, but religious history and practice. Does that surprise you? Well, I do. I'm ridiculously heavily read on the topics of various religious beliefs, practices and origins, living and dead, and one of the things I love…
I think you misunderstand the term "atheist." We're talking about a creator here, a prime force, not just an obsessive focus or a motivational drive.
Yeah, true. But I think it takes the same amount of faith to say the universe just appeared or always existed for no reason as it does to say it was created by an ultimate force. They are both religions, acts of faith.
