Atheist Pamphlet

Probably an outline of Atheist moral principles...

Volatile Weather Is Not New

Children are besieged with doomsday scenarios associated with global warming, and chronic anxiety ensues.

"North Carolina-based psychotherapist Chris Saade, co-director of the Olive Branch Center, a grief/wellness counselling firm, says he’s seen a huge jump in the number of patients under 18 who come to him with concerns about the environmental crisis. “Unlike adults who can put their heads in the sand about what we have been doing to our planet, these kids are very aware of what’s going on,” adds Saade, who has led more than 200 psychological retreats in the United States and has offered grief counselling through his private practice for more than 20 years. “Because of the Web, it’s not hidden any more. Children often ask me questions that we, as adults, try to evade: What is going to happen to the human race?”

It appears that the counselors are buying into the doomsday talk also.

The lack of actual warming has caused the mantra to be replaced with the warning of "weather volatility". But volatile weather has been around a long time. This diagram from NASA shows how the Mississippi River has changed its course over the past 1000 years (probably due to extensive periodic flooding and associated washout alternating with stablized beds).

The leftist terror tactic a la Al Gore seems to be working, at least on those who have been mal-educated in the past 25 years and are not analytically inclined.

"Dr. Anthony Levitt, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s director of research in the department of psychiatry, agrees climate-change anxiety increasingly enters into the discussions he has with many of the young people who come to see him. “Younger people [teens to mid-20s] appear to be much more accepting of the science and facts than older people,” Levitt observes. He’s also seen an uptick in climate-change-related anxiety in parents with younger children.

“For most people who are anxious about climate change, the anxiety is escalated by the fact they do not see an answer or a way to make a change. Worry plus powerlessness leads to distress,” says Levitt, who is also a professor in the psychiatry department at the University of Toronto.

More and more anecdotal evidence of historical warm spells is emerging, for example, from burnt tree rings in sequoias in the US western states, where fires became more common during the Medieval Warm Period when the region was warmer and dryer.

If you look closely at the unburned portion of the tree, the rings show significant variation in width (e.g. extreme left, between 1277 and 1311).

Another study has found that Mongolia was wet and warm during the Medieval Warm period, giving Genghis Khan the ability to form the strength for conquest.

These examples obviously are anecdotal rather than universal. Still they are data points which disagree with the doomsayers, meaning that the doomsayer data is not universal, either. If you think that the doomsayer data is consistent, consider this:

The IPCC originally had Medieval Warming and the Maunder Minimum in the data; apparently they now do not, even though other scientists are investigating events in the Medieval Warming period.

Most of the past 8 - 10,000 years have been within 0.5 to 1.0 degree from the 2004 point..

A point aside: given all the natural fires in the past, the CO2 generation must have been high tonnage, one would think. And so would allowing fires to eliminate the high build-up of ground fuel in forests due to the forest services war on fires for over a half century, creating the late 20th century mega-fires in the western states and a huge tonnage of CO2.

Cornered, The Administration Goes Silly Stupid.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Jay Carney Lies About The Benghazi Email.

Yesterday I wrote about the most significant email that the Obama administration produced in response to a FOIA request by Judicial Watch. It was sent by White House political operative Ben Rhodes to a variety of administration officials whose duties related to PR, not policy. Among the recipients were David Plouffe, Dan Pfeiffer, Dag Vega and Jay Carney. Sent on the Friday before Susan Rice made her infamous tour of the Sunday morning talk shows, it set the talking points for the prep session that the group had scheduled with Rice for Saturday afternoon. Here it is:

This email deals directly with the administration’s response to the Benghazi attack, and should have been produced long ago in response to requests by Congressional committees. Today reporter Jon Karl of ABC asked Carney why the Rhodes email is only now being made public. Carney squirmed painfully, and claimed that the email wasn’t produced because it isn’t about Benghazi, but rather about conditions in the Arab world generally:

Carney’s answer is ridiculous. Of course the email bears more broadly on conditions across the Middle East, but it relates most specifically to Benghazi. Why was Susan Rice appearing on every Sunday morning talk show? Because four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Why was the administration’s top political team gathering to prepare her for those appearances? Because four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Why does the email begin with the stated goal of conveying that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to protect its people abroad? Because four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Why is the group talking about “bringing people who harm Americans to justice”? The only place where Americans were harmed was Benghazi. Obviously, the email relates to Benghazi. And equally obviously, its reference to “underscor[ing] that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy” was intended to deflect blame for the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi.
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Why even ask them? They will lie about lying, every time. No matter how stupid they look.

Update:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor:

"It is increasingly clear that this administration orchestrated an effort to deflect attention away from their failed Libya policy and the resurgence of al-Qaida and other terrorists," Cantor said. "The emails provide additional evidence that senior officials knew the attack on our mission in Benghazi was a complex attack and not a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video.

"Some may say, what difference at this point does it make?" the majority leader asked.

"Well, four brave Americans were killed in Benghazi — and to date it appears that more has been done to protect internal emails than to bring the murderers of these Americans to justice."

George Will on Global Warming

Back door socialism is being implemented daily, with numerous new regulations and covert attacks on the populace, via unelected bureaucrats controlled by unelected Leftist Czars. This is not news; it's just a reminder.

An Atheist Claim

From an Atheist site called, Humans Are Weird:

"Although atheists don’t have any formally set book of principles to live by or aspire to, most of us, I’d imagine, do have value systems. Beliefs, if you wish. Most of us do believe in being a good person. Definitions of what makes a good person will vary from atheist to atheist. Sure. Atheism doesn’t involve a kind of clean-cut objective benchmark to adhere to; there is no reference point that espouses how one should live a righteous life. Some atheists, myself included, would never want to live a ‘righteous’ life. Some of us don’t even like using the word ‘good’. But why is that a problem? It just means that if you want to find out how the atheist sees the world, you’ll have to ask him."

This is followed by a standard Tu Quoque referencing internal differences within Christianity and Islam. And then,

"Atheism is a (non) structure made by humans, for humans. It is an undefined framework to be constantly built upon, and fine-tuned, for there is no superlative authority on any single matter. It is a way of life that allows the space for your beliefs to grow and evolve, as better knowledge and better wisdom emerges from the shadows of our past.

This is gilding the VOID. Atheism is, in fact, more than a non-structure; it is a launching point out of the Void and into self-involved fantasies of elitism, followed by categorizing the Other into Victims and Persecutors, with the Atheist as the messiah/savior due to his self-perceived superiority, both intellectual and moral. There most definitely is a "superlative authority" which Atheists claim for themselves; they claim "logic" and "evidence". This acquired "superlative authority" is a direct consequence of the Atheist Void. If the Atheist doesn't exhibit it as is claimed here, then perhaps he is still in the Void, without any principles at all.

"To atheists such as myself, atheism doesn’t actually mean shit. It’s not a defining character trait. It’s not an important aspect of my life."

This cannot be the case. It is false. Atheism is the void which removes human value and moral responsibility and replaces them with human accidental existence under evolution, and the inevitability of the Will To Power as the messiahist, elitist, Progressive moral code, which emerges naturally from the do-it-yourself morals of emerging Atheists.

"I write about it often purely because I find ideas relating to beliefs about the supernatural interesting. Atheism means, quite simply, that we don’t credulously subscribe to any single philosophy on how to live life, and that we don’t have an opinion on that which is said to exist but is, really, beyond what’s known to exist. That’s all."

Of course that's all, to the Atheist. To an Atheist, it means nothing, whatsoever, because Atheists have no necessary beliefs in common, except for their superlative authority. So when one encounters an Atheist, one knows precisely that this person could actually believe anything, whatsoever, and believe it with superlative authority. And asking him/her what s/he believes is a fruitless exercise, because the relativism which infects Atheism allows the Atheist to claim anything... whatsoever.

This Atheist concludes,

"My religious friends, there’s no need fear we, the heathens. We’re just like you. We’re just doing what we can to get by. Chuggling along. Singin’ a song. Whacka, whacka, whacka – ice cream cones and pony rides.

Life’s a bitch, and then you die. Let’s try and make it easier, for both you and I.

Chugga-chugga meatball soup – hey!"

No, we are not alike. Not at all. Without any fixed, objective, known, authoritative moral principles - those which do not necessarily match behaviors because they were created to do that, those which are subject to change upon a whim, those which are relative and not fixed due to moral authority - without these characteristics regarding your Atheist "beliefs" there is no reason to believe you, or to trust you. That you either do not understand that, or think that we do not understand that, demonstrates a certain lack of credibility before we even start to know you.