God botherers. Man, they give me the creeps: they fuck with my chakras and meridians big time. Deluded fundamentalists, all of them. Lonely lost little humans, unable to cope with the indifference of Nature and the enormity of the Universe, so they conjure up an imaginary friend in order to help them deal with their reality, and then they run around spouting propaganda down the throats of all those who don’t have an imaginary friend. Telling the non-believers they’re shameful sinners and they’re going to burn in hell (or at the stake) if they don’t hurry up and start believing. Perpetrating heinously vile acts against fellow humans in the name of (and with apparent permission from) their invisible friend. Quite hysterical en masse: totally irrational. Wankers.

Harsh, you may say, but so what? My words are nowhere near as harsh as the actions of the psychotic Crusaders and Conquistadors of earlier times. Since when is genocide saving people? Did Hitler save the Jews, did he?

When you speak to a believer, and they discover your non-belief, and you see their ears close up and their eyes glaze over as they imagine you burning in their own private vision of whatever the fuck they think hell is, and you watch them become a brick wall and ignore whatever knowledge is passing from your lips because they’re too busy professing to want to save you (and your poor lost soul), well then, you may just form the same opinion as me.

There is simply no point in having a deeply philosophical conversation with a believer. They have wool in their ears as well as over their eyes, and they only see one answer to all questions. God. God did it/made it/wants it/needs it/teaches it/hates it/loves it…whatever. How about we made God, and everything that the God botherers think He wants is just their own ‘character defects’ projected onto the rest of the world. How about that?

Why must they incessantly try to convert me with their ridiculous propaganda? Bibles in hotels and leaflets in the mail and knocking on my door. Invading my personal space – not to mention the waste of trees – so they can try indoctrinating me into their mindset. You can’t trust somebody that only reads from one book. It’s all Propaganda. The word itself became common use in 17th century Rome due to the church. It was used to describe the congregatio de propaganda fide – the congregation for propagating the faith. Propagate comes from the Latin words propago and propagauis – to peg down, to propagate. To peg down, eh? Well, it seems to me that religion has been doing a marvellous job of that for the last three fucking millennia. Yay for them.

But they keep claiming they can save me. Save me from what? The beauty of the Earth and everything that dwells upon it? The wondrousness of the Cosmos? My intelligence? My Self? I’d rather not be saved from any of those things, I’d rather explore them.

I can’t understand why these freaks can’t just leave me the fuck alone to find my own answers to the Universe. They’re always imposing their allegedly ‘correct’ knowledge of the Universe upon the whole fucking world, while discrediting any other speculation on existence at the same. Spread the word, all that bullshit. Be a good little servant to God. These freaks get into positions of power on this planet – fingers on buttons, so to speak – and, still to this day, anyone who doesn’t believe is treated as a heretic: a heathen outcast deemed not worthy of attention.

Yet where would we be without these so-called heretics: the season-worshipping Pagans that developed agriculture, the shamans and naturopaths that have such knowledge of the natural environment they can find medicines anywhere on the face of the Earth, the scientists that questioned the Universe and brought about the modern era. These people helped the human race evolve. Where would we be without free thought?

The belief in God is like a remora on our psyche. A parasite: eating away at the Self and the Now, and gorging itself on our fear of the unknown, our fear of what is to come. Especially the fear of death. Because nobody knows what happens when we die, we make up fanciful stories of Heavens and Hells to cope with the stinking, rotting reality of death. To soothe our fear and sadness. Seriously though, what need of fear do we have? None. No need whatsoever: we are the smartest creatures on the planet, top of the food chain, with no known predators – except for ourselves – and yet we are full of fear.

Sure there’s something out there that’s bigger than us. It’s called the planet, it’s called the solar system, it’s called the galaxy, it’s called the universe, and it’s fucking massive. And we only have one lifetime to experience and enjoy (not destroy) this wondrous existence we call life.

It makes me nervous knowing that a good majority of the population suffer ‘delusions of divinity’ to the detriment of the planet and society Here and Now. To know that these numbskulls believe they’re ‘going to a better place’ in the ‘afterlife’, and to see them trash the shit out of their current place of residence (the Earth), their actual life, it really worries me. Seeing people constantly searching, hoping, for a controlling factor behind the seemingly random and out of control nature of the Universe makes me think humans can’t accept reality.

Call me a heretic, an infidel, an atheist, whatever. But, I only have one lifetime, one body, and one mind, to discover all that I can about this wonderful place, before this vessel becomes broken and beyond repair, and my energy gets recycled back into the Universe. I can see bad things happening over the horizon if the Muslims and the Christians can’t grasp reason and logic, and can’t get over the ‘differences’ in the way their imaginary friends present themselves.

If these oppressive, intolerant, dogma spouting bigots keep on ‘keeping on’, then we are all going to end up FUBAR. Just look at the last 2000 years of our history. These freaks keep repeating the same actions (wars, genocide, oppression, suppression) all because the next guy doesn’t think the way they do.

We must take the next evolutionary step and remove this illness from the collective consciousness, remove it from the organism that is the Earth, and remove it quickly, before we cause the extinction of ourselves and the planet.

“El trabajo es un castigo. La Biblia lo dice. Lo impuso Dios y, que sepamos, no lo ha levantado.”

Fernando Fernán Gómez

Caín. ¿Tú tentaste a mi madre?
Lucifer. No tiento a nadie, sino con la verdad: ¿no fue aquel árbol el árbol del saber? ¿Y no era el árbol de la vida siempre fértil? ¿Fui yo quien le dijo que no comiera de él ?¿fui yo quien plantó lo prohibido al alcance de seres inocentes, curiosos por su propia inocencia? Yo os hubiera hecho dioses y el que os echó, fue porque no debías comer el fruto de la vida, y “llegar a ser dioses como nosotros”. ¿Fue eso lo que les dijo?
Caín. Eso fue, según dicen lo que oyeron entre truenos.
Lucifer. ¿Entonces quién fue el demonio?

Leer  Caín: un misterio, de Lord Byron (en inglés)

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Toda poesía –y la canción es una poesía ayudada- refleja lo que el alma no tiene. Por eso la canción de los pueblos tristes es alegre y la canción de los pueblos alegres es triste.

El fado, sin embargo, no es alegre ni triste. Es un episodio de intervalo. Lo formó el alma portuguesa cuando no existía y deseaba todo sin tener fuerza para desearlo.

El fado es el cansancio del alma fuerte, la mirada de desprecio de Portugal al Dios en que creyó y también lo abandonó.

En el fado los Dioses regresan legítimos y lejanos. Es ese el segundo sentido de la figura del Rey Don Sebastián.

El fado y el alma portuguesa. Publicado en Noticias Ilustrado, 2º serie, nº 44, 14/4/1929

Fuente l Ensayo Pessoa. Bitácora de  Carlos H. Rasines  

Gracias, José.

I came across an interesting web-page today. It was all about different evils in the bible (rape, murder, human sacrifice and slavery, for instance) and impossibilities about the god of the old and new testament. It’s a particularly intelligent, if rude, site.

The most interesting thing I came across was a page about the definition of atheism. It brought up several curious thoughts, and has taught me a little as well.

Firstly, atheism is apparently not the combination of a (without) and theism (belief in a god). It is, according to this site, the combination of atheos (godless) and ism (belief, which was tacked on later). This means that it isn’t so much a person without belief in a god as it is a person with belief in Godlessness – a person who believes that there is no god. This certainly makes more sense, if you think about it, because our definitions are defined by popular use. For just one example of how that plays out: those who call themselves agnostics usually do so because they are undecided, and don’t know if there is a god or not. That would mean they don’t believe in a god. So with the definition of atheism I’ve found nice, they would be atheists. They don’t believe in a god, but they don’t believe there isn’t one, so we need to make sure we realise that they are agnostic, not atheist. Thus, atheism should be a belief that there is no god.

The reasons people like me prefer the lack of a belief definition is because it says right up front, “I don’t need faith to say I’m an atheist” and “this is not a belief, it is a disbelief.” However, we can’t always go by what is pleasant, so on this instance I’m going to have to say that atheism is indeed a belief that there is no god. If we find those who try to argue it takes just as much faith, then we shall argue with them, not just change our name.

So yeah, kinda rushed and quick, but I see the errors of saying that atheism is a lack of belief. It is not a lack of belief, it is a belief that there is no god.

Information on bonuses with CD purchase

Bonuses with purchase of GPKISM 1st album [Atheos]
[Jishuban Club]
http://www.jishubanclub.com/
2008 US tour poster and unpublished recording [Sublimis inst mix]

[Pure Sound America Mura]
http://www.puresound.co.jp/
2008 US tour poster and unpublished recording [Synthesis inst mix]

[Darkest Labyrinth online shop]
http://darkestlabyrinth.ocnk.net/
Unpublished recording [Immaculatus & Illuminatum inst mix]

(all info above is from GPKISM’s Official Myspace)

Here is all the tour info straight from bloods official myspace:

Final tour info

BLOOD Final Tour: La Fin De La Journee (with GPKISM and DJ SiSeN)

Jan 28 Club Altavista(Mexico city / Mexico )
Avenida Las Torres 4, Col. Churubusco, Del. Coyoacan
Hora: 5:00PM Boleto: $150 Venta de boletos: “Harajuku”
Plaza Revolucion Local 94

http://knightmare69.ninja-x.jp

Jan 29 JUNGLE -in store event-(Los Angeles / CA)
OPEN: 8:30pm Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN
319 East 2nd Street 103, Los Angeles, CA 90012

http://www.animejungle.net

Jan 30 Knitting factry (Los Angeles / CA)
$20 ADV/ $25 DOS / DOORS: 8:00pm / ALL AGE
Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN, Vamp Star
7021 Hollywood Blvd Ste 209 Hollywood, CA90028

http://www.knittingfactory.com/

Jan 31 Sam’s Burger Joint (San Antonio / TX)
$17 ADV / $20 DOS / DOORS: 8:00pm / ALL AGE
Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN
330 E Grayson San Antonio, TX 78215

http://samsburgerjoint.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=27702&eid=33484

Feb 1 The Middle East Club (Boston / MA)
$17 ADV / $20 DOS / DOORS: ?:00pm / ALL AGE
Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN, Echostream
472 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

http://www.mideastclub.com/

Feb 2 Santos Party House (New york / NY)
$?? / DOORS: ?:00pm / ALL AGE
Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN, Echostream
100 Lafayette Street Ground Floor South, New York, NY 10013

http://www.santospartyhouse.com/

Feb 4 Yakitori Boy (Philadelphia / PA)
$?? ADV / $?? DOS / DOORS: ?:00pm / ALL AGE
Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN, Echostream
213 N 11th St
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-8088

http://www.yakitoriboy-japas.com

Feb 5 Subterranean (Chicago / IL)
$15 ADV / DOORS: 6:30 pm / ALL AGE
Act: BLOOD, GPKISM, DJ SiSeN
2011 W. North Ave, Chicago,IL 60647

http://www.subt.net/

So as usefull as this would have been a while back . . . I hope everyone still has a chance to get a ticket to this show.

Also Remember Bloods Final Album, Lost Sky, is released this January, 28th.

Click for pre-order

and in other (more recent news) GPKISM is releasing their FIRST full length album,  Atheos, will be released March 4th. There will only be 666 copies released so get it fast. I know I’m Buying a copy as soon as possible

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AtheOS (de Athena Operational Sistem) era um sistema operacional inicialmente desenhado para comportar-se de forma semelhante ao AmigaOS. Seu desenvolvimento começou no início de 1994 pelo programador norueguês Kurt Skauen. Interessantemente, o AtheOS foi desenvolvido para que Kurt testasse o sistema de arquivos criado por ele, o ATheFS (ou AFS). O AtheOS tornouse notório quando seu anúncio ao público foi feito de uma maneira um tanto inusitada. Kurt jogou no Usenet uma mensagem onde anunciava estar rodando um servidor com seu próprio sistema operacional (licenseado pela GPL) e que desejava que as pessoas o ajudassem tentando invadi-lo. O resultado foi uma chuva de ataques ao servidor de Kurt e, por consequencia, centenas de olhos de pessoas dispostas a ajudar no desenvolvimento.
Kurt desenvolveu o sistema sozinho e quase que artesanalmente durante o tempo todo e, embora disponibilizasse o código fonte pela GPL, relutava terminantemente em aceitar contribuições de terceiros ao seu sistema. A comunidade, por fim, iniciou seu fork, deixando que Kurt permanecesse sozinho com seu AtheOS e iniciou o Syllable.
O Sistema operacional de Kurt começara com um sistema de arquivos de 64 bits e com suporte a journaling. AtheOS foi completamente escrito do zero, sem aproveitar código de nenhum outro local. Atualmente, roda em processadores intel, AMD e compatíveis e tem uma considerável quantidade de softwares portados para rodarem sobre o sistema, como o Apache e o PHP 3. Em vez de usar o X11 como seu servidor de vídeo, o AtheOS usa seu próprio servidor de vídeo, o que, segundo o desenvolvedor, tem muitos prós e contras. Os contras (alguns), são o lento desenvolvimento do servidor gráfico, o fato de que muitos softwares são escritos para rodar sobre o X11 e não poderão ser portados para o AtheOS. Como prós temos o fato de que o servidor gráfico do AtheOS é muito mais lece que o X11 e de que muitos processos, com áreade transferência, por exemplo, são gerenciados pelo So em vez de pelo servidor gráfico, o que causa uma maior consistência no funcionamento e facilita o aprendizado do usuário.
A GUI do AtheOS é composta por dois elementos principais: um servidor de aplicações e uma dll que providencia uma interface em C++ entre o servidor e as aplicações. A GUI é programada usando uma API em C++ que permite a criação de diversos widgets que possuem, cada um, seu próprio ambiente gráfico.
O kernel, totalmente escrito do zero, tem suporte a SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing) e possui um cliente TCP/IP embutido. O suporte a módulos permite que elementos sejam carregados ou descarregados da inicialização do kernel e também tem supotrte a diversos sistemas de arquivos.
Como era de se esperar, o AtheOS (a cruzada de um homem só) teve um desenvolvimento lento e me lembro bem de que em 2004, quando ouvi falar nele pela primeira vez, não dava suporte a muitas funções básicas de teclado. O Syllable rapidamente suplantou o AtheOS, e, por fim, Kurt abandonou o projeto AtheOS, passando a dedicar-se a outros empreendimentos. O Syllable continua a ser desenvolvido pela comunidade e seguiu rumos diferentes dos pretendidos por Kurt Skauen.
O site oficial do AtheOS está em um servidor que, é claro, roda AtheOS. As especificações técnicas são: Dual Celeron 466 com 768MB RAM e 85Gb de espaço nos discos. esta máquina está executando os seguintes serviços: HTTP, FTP, CVS, SSH, DNS e Mail (SMTP/POP3).
HTTP: Apache V1.3.9
FTP: wu-ftpd 2.6.0
CVS: CVS V1.10.
DNS: Bind
Mail: QMail

Mais sobre o AtheOS

• Site Oficial
• Download
• Programas portados
• Hardware suportado
• Contribuições
• Uptime do Servidor (divirta-se)
• E-mail de Kurt Skauen