i have a new blog.  as in, one that is seperate to this one.  this is my personal blog where i can post random shit about me...  which no one cares about, but i, for some odd reason, feel inclined to write.

my new blog is a community.  it's called "death of god", named after nietzsche's famous notion that "god" (as in, the christian "God") is dead.  being an atheist, i'm rather fond of this notion.  this new blog is intended to be somewhat philosophical...  looking at issues of ethics...  and so on...  fuck knows what, but we may find out, if i continue with it.

you can find it here:
http://community.livejournal.com/death_of_god/

since it's a community, you can also join it, and (if i feel inclined to allow you to do so) you can post on it too.

enjoy.

this is taken from an email i just sent to a close friend.  but i figured i may aswell share with everyone.  here you are...

i sent the first link to mum...  that was cos i'd just read a little bit of the shit on the page and decided to send them an email, but wasn't sure if it was worth it and i ended up asking mum if she could read what i wanted to send them and tell me if it's worth doing.
God Hates Fags  i'm sure you'll agree that this is all a load of fucked up shit (you do really have to enter the site though) and won't be surprised that i bawled my eyes out over it...
here: Funeral Protests Cost Church $11 Million  is the link with the news story through which i heard about this site (it's on their tshirts) and being silly as i am, knowing it would be a load of crap, i followed the link anyway...
here: Free Speech for Evil, Hateful, Repulsive Nutjobs?  You Betcha! is the blog i found about it which made me think...  interesting point she has, and i think i rather agree...  i think...  not sure...  what do you think?...  but this relates to hate speech stuff coming in over here too (or at least being debated...) and i think she and this guy: Gay-bashing should not be a hate crime are probably quite right in what they say...  i find it interesting...
and this one is very long, but very interesting, and i agree with almost everything (if not in fact everything!) she says.  and if you're religious i know it might be offensive...  maybe...  depends how open you are, i guess...  but if you have the patience to keep reading, you might see that she has a point.  she gets to it in the bit where she talks about people saying "but i'm not racist".  this is the kind of thing i would dearly love to send to everyone i know (and yes, of course, especially christians, and not just to get a reaction, but because she is so fucking right!!!!!!!!!!) but i'd almost see that as spamming people, and i do have a mild fear of stepping on people's toes too much, though i doubt a lot of people know that.  i guess they can be happy that i care so much for their toes, otherwise many of them would be badly bruised if not broken by now.  oh right, you need the link!  duh...  atheists and anger.

i'd be interested to hear what you think on this stuff.  and feel free to pass it on to any who you think might be interested...
me

i recently discovered "google reader" which is a fantastic way to subscribe to, organise and read rss feeds.

so of course, i went and found stuff to subscribe to and have been reading.

so, if you know of any interesting blogs, comics, news sites, whatever that you think i might like, please email me or leave me a comment with the link to the site so i can subscribe if i want.

also, another wonderful feature is that you can share.
so here is my sharing page.  have a read.  i'll add more.  oh, and if you subscribe to rss feeds too, you can subscribe to my sharing page :)

here is one thing i want to share simply because i thought it's fantastic!!

the very controversial folsom street fair poster (san francisco, i think)
and here is an article from the christian post in which i first heard about it, stating their outrage.  well, since the christians do so much damage and offend so many people, here's a dose of their own medicine.  i don't have a problem with the poster, and i must say, i rather like it (hence it now being my current default image).

omg, and here is another rather amusing site: the fake gay news!!  the tagline being "because real gay news is too damn depressing".  i've only just discovered it so haven't read much, but the link i put in doesn't take you to the home page, but to an amusing article i found...

well it's time for a blog.
how do you like my new background?!  blog and profile background in fact...

mmmmm...  boobies....  breasts....   mmmmm....

anyway, griff's annoyed cos i kept playing david bowie's "life on mars?" over and over and over and over and over (you get the picture).  she'll have to get used to me getting hooked on just one song and playing that continuously on repeat until i can't listen to it anymore (which could take a few minutes or a few weeks...)

and now she's going on about "omg you are so fucking gay" cos i switched songs and am now playing elton john & queen's "the show must go on".

yay she's left the room, i can play bowie again!!
it's not often that i'm all happy and excited that she's left the room...  very rare in fact...  but now she's back.  let's see how long it takes before she says something about it.

she hasn't and she's left the room again.

i am getting more and more pissed off at christianity as time goes on.  in fact, i'm thinking it should be banned.  let's take over the world and kick out the christians, then all their fears will come true.  what with their propaganda about us wanting to take over the world and corrupt the children, etc.  when in fact it's them that want to brainwash the kids, not us.  (and yes, it's turning into a bit of a them and us).  i used to teach sunday school for a bit, and i was a leader at a few christian kids camps, and it quite literally is a case of "get them while they're young and easily brainwashed" (except they don't call it brainwashing.  but they may aswell.  except they actually believe all the shit they teach them).

i don't want to go into detail, but it is rather upsetting, though right now i'm just in a very angry mood and want to do something.  except, of course, i can't think of anything to dooooooo!!  we could insist on a subject being taught at school (all schools, even the evil christian ones) where gender issues and relationships are discussed.  sex ed can be included in that.  and social interaction skills.  put all that "health" stuff in too, about alcohol and drugs.  but make sure it looks at being gay, straight, bi and trans (transgender, transexual and/or transvestite).  and issues of masculinity and femininity.  and put in careers advice too.  and make things like being stay at home dads and working mums ok.  inversions of traditional gender roles, whilst still assuring them that if they want, traditional gender roles are fine.

get the kids while they're young!!  except instead of brainwashing them to believe that everyone's evil and us gay people are out to get them and rape them, teach them to be openminded and that it's ok to be gay, it's ok to be bi, straight, trans or asexual.  there's nothing wrong with being open-minded and accepting, but everything wrong with being narrow-minded, conceited and condemning.

reminds me of a poster in the school counsellor's office: "it's ok to be straight, but not to be straight and narrow".  me thinking at the time, of course, that "i'm not straight and narrow, i'm just right."  it's so fucking conceited and wrong!!!!!!!!!

as many of you will no doubt be aware, i have quite an issue with getting my lefts and rights mixed up.  this is not only ridiculously silly for someone of my intelligence (or so it seems to me) but it is also rather embarrassing.
of course, being as self-confident as i can tend to be, i really don't give a shit about making a fool of myself in front of anyone, and if someone does happen to laugh at me about this (which happens rather frequently) and it happens to irritate me (which happens on occasion) i am quite capable of glaring at them fiercely whilst demanding to know if they were laughing at me.  it tends to make people shut up about it and deny that they were laughing at me...  or they laugh even more.

anyway, i have decided that i really need to do something about this.  yes, i do know which side is left and which is right, but the problem is that i have to consciously think about it rather than knowing automatically which i assume is what people who don't have this problem do.

oh well.
i shall probably continue through life mixing up the lefts and rights and having a hell of a lot of fun regardless.

so fuck it all!!   hehehe