February 2013
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A Short Story
I looked around at the faces all around me. I was one of them too; an unimportant lump among a pile of unimportant lumps. Some of us were fat, others skinny, and others with strange deformations and lumps all over the place. My life was shit. One day I just popped into existence, out of some asshole that didn’t bother hanging around. It wasn’t just my story; it was everyone else’s too.
The place I...
December 2012
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Sandy Hook
On Friday 14th December, as I’m sure everyone knows, there was a shooting in a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut which resulted in 28 deaths. Once again, the mainstream news approached this story in completely the wrong way, as they have done in every other school shooting.
Firstly, Fox News reported the wrong name of the murderer. The 20 year old who they reported did the shooting...
October 2012
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An Encounter with a Jehovah's Witness (and her...
Just this morning, I was visited by a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses. While I didn’t invite them in I did have a long conversation with them on my doorstep. The following is a brief recount of the experience.
I opened the door to two women standing on the doorstep. One was american, I don’t know what nationality the other was as in true religious preacher fashion only one spoke,...
May 2012
2 posts
Anonymous asked: Are you an atheist or an anti-theist?
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The 10 Commandments
Before we get started, a little house keeping. It’s been a short while since I last posted and I apologise. Regrettably our creationist friend Gavin ceased replying to my messages after the Dawkins video and evolution in cetaceans argument below. I do not know why, maybe he saw it as a lost cause to try to convert me, maybe he couldn’t find a way to argue against the evidence, maybe he...
March 2012
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A Brief Interlude from Debate
It has been a few days since I got a reply from Mr. Creationist (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, see here) so I thought so that I don’t get out of the swing of writing these posts, I would write about a couple of interesting things about evolution. The first is a video involving the dissection of a giraffe which is essentially proof that intelligent design is not real....
February 2012
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An Encounter with a Young Earth Creationist (Part...
Previously on “An Encounter with a Young Earth Creationist”: Creationist Gavin replies that there is evidence for a Christian god that is found in nature, one should look for evidence to support ones beliefs and goes on to suggest that the human body was perfect in its design. Our atheist friend, the dashingly handsome and not at all arrogant Alex, retorted saying that the human body...
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An Encounter with a Young Earth Creationist (Part...
Welcome to Day 2 of what critics are calling the “biggest waste of 10 minutes ever.” I received a brief reply from Gavin today explaining that he’s busy this weekend so he’ll write a full reply later. However, his post did feature some interesting points which I couldn’t resist but to call him out on. Let’s jump to it, shall we?
G: You certainly are a very...
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An Encounter with a Young Earth Creationist (Part...
Recently, I have come into contact with a “Young Earth Creationist” from America called Gavin and we ended up talking over Facebook about religion, creation, evolution and the like. I plan to post excerpts of these conversations (in context, as to not take sides) over the next few days as I believe they will make for interesting reading. I will try to split the messages up so that each...
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Pseudo-Science in Schools or "The Most Ridiculous...
It’s been a long time since I had a good rant on here. This one will be in the same vein as my previous post about Power Balance bracelets. Recently, I have been reading Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” and I was rather ticked off by what I discovered in Chapter 2 of the book. It mentions an initiative which is in effect in the state school system in the UK called “Brain...
September 2011
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salpal asked: Just a response to your 'could God create a rock so heavy that he couldn't carry it?' This is basically the old 'what would happen if an unstoppable object met an immovable one?' The laws of physics tell us that it would be impossible for both to exist simultaneously. And so if in this instance 'God' is someone who could lift anything, he could not then create...
August 2011
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People, Y U So Dumb?
At my job, I spend a lot of time people watching and one thing that I’ve noticed over the last six months is how many people lack any form of logic whatsoever. Society has fallen to a wonderful scam involving “Power Balance” bracelets.
The website described these bands as a bracelet that “optimizes the natural flow of energy around the body, and so improves an...
June 2011
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How to Create Awesome 8-bit Songs in 2 Minutes
Ever wanted to make an 8-Bit or Chiptune song but too lazy to do it? I discovered how to do this the other day and it’s awesome. You’ll need to download a couple of programs but don’t worry, they’re completely clean and you don’t need to sign up for anything.
You will need to download and install two programs:
TuxGuitar (found here). This program lets you download,...
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Thought of the Day #1
Can God (or any theoretical all-powerful being) create a rock so heavy that he couldn’t carry it?
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E3 Round Up
So E3 (one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world) has been and gone for another year. Personally I am a little let down this year, even though some pretty cool things were shown.
Firstly, Nintendo successfully found a more stupid name for a console than the “Wii” by announcing their next console: the “Wii U”. Nintendo, being Japanese and therefore completely...
May 2011
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Some Music For Your Earholes →
Video link here. I know, I know. Nothing for ages and then three blog posts in a matter of days, what’s wrong with the world?? But lucky for you guys, this isn’t a rant from me. I thought I would do a little PSA and direct you to a cover by my best Danish friend Alexander Leistiko (talk about pretentious names, jeeze ;-) ). Anyways, I highly recommend that you guys watch it and show...
A Reply to "The End is Nigh..."
The following is a reply to the question posed at the end of the previous post on the subject of the end of the world. It was sent in by a friend and previous colleague. Many thanks Michael :-)
“Orthodox Christianity does indeed believe in an end to this present world and a day of judgement, however it does not believe that we can use weird codes and and quite frankly terrible biblical...
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The End is Nigh...
(Sidenote: I have decided to write a relatively serious article for once. If you came here expecting witticisms, you’re in the completely wrong place. Getting stabbed in the eye is funnier than this site. Seriously. Plus, people have been making Rapture jokes as if there’s no tomorrow so I thought it was time for a rest.)
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few...
From Reddit: A Short Post on AV
The following is taken from this page on Reddit:
1. FPTP is unfair because it is very far from proportional.
2. AV is probably no more proportional than FPTP.
3. However, FPTP is also unfair because it puts pressure on large numbers of people not to vote for their favourite party. Under AV you don’t have to worry about wasting your vote. The right voting strategy is almost always to put the...
April 2011
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““If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and...”
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Listen to New Foo Fighters Album →
The new album from the Foo Fighters, Wasting Light, is currently streaming on their website. I highly recommend listening to it, it’s their best work since “The Colour and the Shape”.
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Derren Brown "Svengali" Review
This is a quick review of one of the first shows on Derren Brown’s latest tour, “Svengali”. This review will be completely spoiler free for both the benefit of people going to see the show and by request of the performer himself.
The first thing that was immediately impressive was the elaborate steampunk set which relied heavily on mechanical workings (heavily relevant to the...
March 2011
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Just Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
This is an age old joke which has been told numerous times and every single time has resulted in bemusement as to why one would tell such a pathetic non-nonsensical anti-joke.
However, during my many wasted hours of browsing the internet today, I think I may have found the answer to such a question, courtesy of reddit.com
The answer to the riddle lies in the fact that by “the other...
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Aladdin with M. Night Shyamalan twist
When I was younger, I watched the 1992 Disney movie “Aladdin” over and over to the point that I could quote the entire movie off by heart. However, there is one thing that I did not notice at all and when I learnt it earlier today, it blew my mind. Aladdin actually has a massive plot twist which goes almost completely unnoticed.
Remember this merchant from the start of the movie? He...
February 2011
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83rd Annual Academy Awards Results
So the Oscars were presented last night with almost no big surprises other than Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech), who has made two good movies in his entire career, winning best director instead of David Fincher who has such a massive resume of awesome work including Se7en, Fight Club and Zodiac. And Aliens 3, but we’ll pretend that movie wasn’t ever made.
For those who didn’t see...
Anonymous asked: I read your blog about valentines day being mass marketed and couldnt agree with you more, its like everything just goes mad for one day then that is it for another year. Although i suppose if you have a partner it is totally different :(
Just to clear things up...
This blog is not intended to be a way to insult or offend any Christian or religious group. The title “Invisible Atheist” was chosen because:
1) It sounded like a suitable title for a blog
2) The “invisible” part comes from an in-joke from school while the “atheist” part is simply because I enjoy debating religion, philosophy, theology and the supernatural.
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Anonymous asked: i think evilpinkyfnger made a typo. The question should have been why are you lonely not lovely?
Anonymous asked: I find that chewing gum is generally more appealing when it has been in my pocket for a good hour or so and has, through proximity to my leg, become both warm and soft.
Do you share this opinion?
Do you share this opinion?
evilpinkyfinger asked: Why are you so lovely? :)
Oscar Week
So the Oscars are only a few days away now and I thought to myself:
“Hey. You know what people would have absolutely no interest in?”
“What??” I replied, inquisitively.
“Letting people know what movies you think will win awards at the Oscars and putting that on your shitty little blog that no one could give a flying fuck about,” came the answer.
“Stop...
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Why Valentine's Day is a Waste of Time
I thought I would begin my blog with a cheery, optimistic post about how unicorns are awesome. I then thought “sod this, there’s already too much happiness in the world” so here is my pessimistic, grumpy and cynical rant about Valentines Day.
Due to the popularity of Valentine’s Day, people who are in relationships are forced by society to be (or pretend to be) romantic....
