Goes To Twelve: J.M.U.S.

Friday, December 07, 2007

J.M.U.S.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom – Mitt Romney

Absolute Rubbish.

What Do God the Father, Allah, Shiva, The Holy Spirit and the Virgin Birth of Jesus all have in common with Santa, Harry Potter and Republican Logic?

They are all JUST MADE UP SHIT.

I am sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick and, finally, sick to fucking death of Religion.

I'm not going to complain here of the countless depravities committed in the name of Religion. I'll blame humans for that. And I'll attack it regularly elsewhere.

No, I just want to vent that I am tired of being told about the importance of believing in fairy tales.

Look, I understand that we all miss our imaginary friends from our child hood and that holding onto the ridiculous and unsupportable belief in god allows us to not have to grieve that loss completely but my tolerance has (illiberally?) expired.

I am now committed to telling believers that they have to wise-the-fuck-up and face the music (Led Zeppelin?). There is no god. At first it will hurt to accept this. It will lead to a period of adjustment while you realize that your morality, honor, reason for living etc. are all the result of the love and guidance of your family and friends. It will be weird to realize that all those nice feelings you experience in church are just simply your unfettered unifying with your neighbors and not the result of a magic man in the skies pouring down warm fuzzies to you (see Emile Durkheim).

Soon you will discover the relief that comes from not worrying that some work of Literature or Science will NOT endanger you kids morals. You will no longer waste time arguing about how many angels fit on the head of the pin. The word Darwin will no longer immediately and Pavlovianly bring up jabs of fear and threat. Christmas will be even more fun because you won't ever have to sing Silent Night again. You'll get to watch all the Sunday morning pundits without guilt.

So, just stop the madness, stop the denial, stop being just plain stoooooooopid.

Happy Fucking Holidays.

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Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

Goes To Twelve

Friday, December 07, 2007

J.M.U.S.

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