It is with a tear in my beer and a rocket in my pocket that I welcome The Maddening Horde.  Aside from the persistent spammers, who don't count, this is my first troll.  Thanks, Penrod / Sean!  I love you, too.PS: I'm sorry your god died.  : (   . . . (More)

  I could've said: "Atheists think that they are hardcore because they don't believe in God. But Buddhists don't even believe in people! - except in a notional or discursive sense, and excepting the personalists (who lost), and then there's the Pudgala section of the Adhidamma, but there, we . . . (More)

  "Hey." "Hey.  Doctor You?" "Sure.  Go ahead, uh, caller.  You're on the air with Indie Loveline." "Whatever.  So, my girlfriend or whoever won't speak to me after I finally informed her that Dinosaur Jr. are over-rated... " "Srsly!  Dare to speak the truth to power, comrade." "...and th . . . (More)

  I am not at war with the universe - though that doesn't mean I have to like it.That's the trouble with ravers and Discordians; they insist upon liking it.  The disciples of sweetness and light are characterized by grasping desperation. (And no, I'm not against it, either.  Didn't I already say . . . (More)

 Or:  Per Wittgenstein, religion is a form of life, principally. 

�Fiction, myth, religion, faith, voluntary reality, ritual, and play.� The stakes today are rather high.� then there's "Bob".� Why do I assert that "Bob" is the prime wholesale source of relatively uncut Slack there be?� "Bob" said so, and "Bob"'s word is good enough for me, . . . (More)

  It is very difficult - for US - to see what is directly in front of our faces.  So what IS?  Short version:  Everything is terrible, and there is no hope.  That should send most of you scurrying off to look at porn.  Have a nice day, meat puppets. Let's start with the Great Pacific G . . . (More)

  Mohammed, during his brief early period as an aluminum siding salesman. Facebook dweebs pissing off Islamic fundamentalists Islamic fundamentalists pissing off the Internet Hate Machine Wenlock and Mandeville Hating yourself so effectively that you make everyone else hate you too  (O . . . (More)

  On the other hand, many people are crazy, and some shit is just weak.   . . . (More)

  Thanks to Cain Aerte for providing a pointer to the implosion of the Richard Dawkins Foundation website forums - apparently once a leading web community for atheists, it was apparently undone (big surprise!) by bad management and by being much more important to its participants than to its o . . . (More)