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Are you a Fundamentalist Atheist? 24 July 2010

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Taken from www.tektoonics.com

You may be a fundamentalist atheist if...

1. You believe that extra drippy ice-cream is a logical proof against the existence of God, because an omniscient God would know how to stop the ice-cream from being extra drippy, an omnipotent God would have the ability to stop the ice-cream from being extra drippy, and by golly, an omnibenevolent God wouldn't want your ice-cream to be extra drippy.
2. Although you've memorized half a dozen proofs that He doesn't exist, you still think you're God's gift to the ignorant masses
3. You believe the astronomical size of the universe somehow disproves God, as if God needed a tiny universe in order to exist.
4. You think questions like, "Can God create a rock so big that He cannot lift it?" and, "Can God will Himself out of existence?" are perfect examples of how to disprove God's omnipotence and ultimately how to disprove God. When someone proves to you the false logic behind the questions (i.e. pitting God's omnipotence against itself), you desperately try to defend the questions, but then give up and go to a different Christian site to ask them.
5. Related to the above, you spend a great deal of your spare time writing to Christian websites asking them these very questions.
6. You spend hours arguing that a-theism actually means "without a belief in God" and not just "belief that there is no god" as if this is a meaningful distinction in real life
7. You consistently deny the existence of God because you personally have never seen him but you reject out of hand personal testimony from theists who claim to have experienced God as a reality in their lives.
8. You can make the existence of pink unicorns the center-piece of a philosophical critique.
9. You say that there is no God and that those who believe in God do so in blind faith, yet your claim that there is no God also rests on blind faith.
10. While you don't believe in God, you feel justified on bashing God or attacking those who believe in something that you KNOW doesn't exist; fighting against or even discussing about a non-existent being are the symptoms of mental illness!
11. You blame God for the starvation, sickness, pain and suffering in the world... when, indeed, it is MAN's greed, politics, selfishness and apathy that not only causes, but also ignores the sick and the starving masses. We aren't our brothers' keepers, but we should be
12. When asked where the big ball of matter (that started the "Big Bang") came from, you insist that it popped out of nowhere.
13. You say that the existence of God is a "blank idea", since no one knows the universe's secrets, yet you continue to state your opinion of God not existing as a "fact".
14. You believe in many things about history (the culture of the ancient Mayans, egyptians etc.), yet you refuse to accept personal modern-day testimony from someone who has personally experienced God.
15. You ask Christians to come on to your forum to address issues you raise. When you don't like the answers or can't accept them, you proceed to delete the conversation.
16. You believe that planes, computers, calculators, compasses, etc, were "all obviously designed," yet the human body, being intricately more complex was "obviously a product of biological evolution." It seems the more complex the apparatus, the more obvious the "fact" that it was not designed.
17. As a member of the Skeptic's society you pride yourself on being skeptical of extraordinary claims. You also pride yourself on silencing everyone who is skeptical of the extraordinary claims of evolution.
18. Isaac Newton does not count as an example of a great scientist who believed in the Bible since he died before the Origin of Species was published.
19. When you watch a punt returner run a 93 yard touchdown, you marvel at what evolution has done for the human race. But when someone gets cancer, you blame God for it.
20. When you're discussing the origin of the world, the phrase "uncaused cause (God)" is a stupid, meaningless thing to say. You will, however, settle for "uncaused effect (the world without God)".
21. When you ask the question "How can life arise from non life" you are told to "get a basic biology textbook". When you ask "if the answer is so easy why don't you tell me?" you are called an ignorant buffoon.
22. You love to castigate Christians for being "anti-science" if they deny evolution from goo to you via the zoo, and to preach that they should adapt their thinking to the "science" of our day. But you also castigate the Church of 400 years ago for being anti-science, when it DID adapt its thinking to the science of ITS day i.e. Ptolemaic cosmology, then joined with the Aristotelian scientists of the universities in rejecting Galileo!
23. You have recently stuck a Darwin fish on your car in the hopes the people with the Jesus fish on theirs will be offended.
24. You can claim with a straight face on sites like Talk Origins that "Evolution does not have moral consequences" despite the fact that prominent evolutionary advocates like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett vehemently assert that evolution does transcend biology in a way that has profound effects upon ethics.
25. When the Pope says that God may have used evolution, he is an enlightened religious leader whom Christians should listen to. When the Pope preaches on the sanctity of human life from conception, and thus denounces abortion, he's just a senile religious bigot who should keep his opinions to himself.
26. You insist that science is completely partial to all ideas, is not dogmatic and researches all possibilities - except creationism and/or intelligent design.
27. When a creationist points out problems with the evolutionist model you claim that the whole point of science is to answer problems like these. But if you can point out even one problem in the creationist model it should instantly be abandoned as absurd.
28. You are a person who absolutely believes that life came from non-life, yet absolutely deny the possibility of anyone rising from the dead.
29. You won't bet $10 on a football game because a 50/50 chance isn't good enough, but you have no problem gambling with your life on the nearly impossible odds of a cell randomly generating from nothing.
30. You teach a belief as truth beyond any shadow of a doubt. Yet of course, you ignore that fully educated scientists in most other nations have proven against Darwinian theory. Like the Chine paleontologist who reportedly says: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."
31. You insist that "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", then claim that Jesus never existed.
32. When you use a historical point to prove Christianity is false (i.e., pagan parallel to Christianity), history is objective truth. When a Christian uses real historical scholarship to prove you false, history was written by subjective men and therefore cannot be trusted.
33. You reject what Cornelius Tacitus wrote about Jesus, dismissing it as "too late", but you readily accept what he wrote about Tiberius and Augustus.
34. You not only spell "God" with a lower case "g," but you also add an "E" to "B.C.," and replace the word "Christ" with an "x". Yet, when asked to name the planets you have no problem with spouting out the appropriate list of Roman Gods. Heck, you'll even spell them with capital letters! Not only that, you can even spell and pronounce the name of the 800-mile-diameter Trans-Neptunian Object 'Quaoar', and are delighted that it comes from the creation mythology of the Tongva people (aka the San Gabrielino Native Americans).
35. In addition, you say that terms like "AD", "BC" and "Christmas" (as opposed to "winter holiday season") are medieval, outdated, bigoted poison and must be eliminated at all costs from the world, yet the fact that our months and days are largely named after Roman, viking etc. figures (eg. Janus - January, Thor - Thursday) is a glowing testimony to the diverse and wonderful nature of human history.
36. You believe that Hitler claiming to be a Christian is undeniable proof that he was a Christian, while George Washington only claimed to be a Christian in order to win the people's favor.
37. You are outraged at the slaughters in the Bible ordered by God because of the need at the time (such as the Midianite children's tendency to avenge their parents after growing up), but then vigorously defend the bombing of Hiroshima on the grounds that the Japanese would fight to the death.
38. You assert that the crimes and failings of some Christians (acting inconsistently with the teachings of Christ) disproves the whole edifice of Christianity but that the crimes and failings of some atheists (acting consistently with the fact that atheism can provide no basis for objective morality) should on no account be held against the philosophy of atheism.
39. You assert there is no absolute categories of good and evil, that all morals are merely personal, social and evolutionary constructs but then you can still describe Christians and Christianity as absolutely immoral, repugnant, evil and a danger to humanity and not feel even a twinge of hypocrisy at the monumental illogic of your position.
40. You get angry when Christians tell you you're going to a place that you don't think exists.
41. You're convinced that people only believe in God because they're afraid of going to hell, despite the fact that if there is no God, then there's probably no hell either.
42. You think Christians are narrow-minded for believing in only one religion, but atheists are open-minded for believing in absolutely none.
43. You believe that Christianity discriminates, because you have to join their religion in order to be a member of their religion.
44. You don't like Christians because they are stuffy and judgmental and you don't like judgmental people. You also don't see the irony in this.
45. You believe that nativity scenes should be banned from public view, but that anyone objecting to pornography only has to look the other way.
46. Your only knowledge of The Bible comes from searching 'bible contradictions' in Google.
47. When you say "I don't know" you are being brave and honest. When a theist says "I don't know" they are being dishonest and are trying to dodge the question.
48. You quote The God Delusion like Christians quote the Bible.

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The Vision of Five Angels 17 July 2010

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The rapture is getting closer. I would like to share this with you.



The Vision of Five Angels (Vision, Prophecy, Revelation)
Written by Rev. Samuel Doctorian
Patmos, Greece, June 1998

CONTENTS: First Angel (Asia) | Second Angel (Middle East) | Third Angel (Europe) | Fourth Angel (Africa) | Fifth Angel (Americas)

I came to the Island of Patmos on May 5, 1998. For several weeks, alone in a house, I was struggling to live by myself, and try to cook and do other things around the house. I tried to eat as little as possible. I spent my time in prayer and fasting. I found a little chapel next door, where nobody goes, called St. Nicola Chapel. I went there pouring my heart to God. On a hill next to the house I found a marvelous rock. I went often and sat on that rock, prayed, meditated, and read the Bible. Several times I went to the cave of John, where he saw the great revelation.

While meditating for one month in this solitary place, I thought, "I wonder if the Lord will ever send a tenth angel?" I had seen angels nine times before - In England; in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. I had seen an angel in Amman, Jordan, in Jerusalem. Another angel with his message had delivered a woman from being hanged in Upper Egypt. I saw the last angel, the ninth, in Beirut, in the midst of the war. The angel awakened me physically, 3:00 o'clock in the morning. He told me to get out of the country immediately. I am grateful to the Lord until today. I don't know what would have happened to me if the angel had not come. Heaven will tell that one day. So here in Patmos I thought, I wonder if I would see an angel for the tenth time. There were times when I was alone in the house praying, I felt such presence, I wondered and asked the Lord if an angel was coming now. But it was not to be. One night I dreamt about an angel. It was tremendous. An angel told me to just fly in my dream. I felt is it possible? But an angel was telling me. I was on a high cliff and I really let go and was flying in the most beautiful way. I came down and landed just like having a parachute, peacefully. But that was a dream. That was not real. I wanted to see an angel, like the nine times before.

20th of June, 1998. 3:50a.m., here in Patmos, suddenly my room was full of light. There are not lights around here. The house sits by itself at the end of a road, near a monastery. Of course, I wondered what this bright light was. And lo and behold, as I was wide awake, this was not a dream, I saw five beautiful angels. I saw their faces, perfect. Looking like human beings, but full of light. I saw their eyes, their face. Their hair was so beautiful. On my right side, there were two lovely angels. When I looked at the others, trembling, suddenly I saw the other three had wings. I had been asked many times, if the angels I had seen before had wings. I had decided the next time I would see an angel, I was going to ask the angel, if he had wings. Everybody was asking me. Other times when I had seen angels, I was so scared and trembling, I did not have the nerve to ask them if they had wings. Now I saw the three angels on my left side with wings, and the two on my right without wings. They all had hands. They had beautiful white robes all the way down to the floor. Very hard to describe with human words. I wondered why five angels had come. I was trembling, shaking. I wanted to cry, I couldn't. The place was full of light. Suddenly the angel on my right side, the first one said, "We are five angels, from the five Continents."

Just before I could see the tremendous revelations of the angels, in the Spirit, I was in a great meeting where a great multitude of people were present. They were God's children, from many nationalities. I was on a platform, standing behind the pulpit. I was preaching in English. I had an interpreter on my left side. He had dark hair, gray suit. But I couldn't remember to what language he was interpreting my message. I was prophesying. This was the prophecy:

"My church, you preach love, teach love, but you need to practice love, and to show love.
There is need of unity in my body, there are many divisions among you.
My Spirit will not move and work where there is no unity.
There is carnality in my church.
Too much uncleanness in my church.
I desire and want holy people.
I died to make you holy."

While prophesying, I'm trembling. I'm lost in the Spirit. My eyes are opened. I'm looking to the great multitude.

Suddenly I saw these five powerful, mighty, shining angels, totally in white, come towards me. I began to go backwards from the pulpit about three, four meters. I was going to fall down. I didn't know what to do. I was wide awake, but in the spirit. Some power helped me not to fall.

As I was wondering what all this was, the angel on the right said, "We are here to give you messages of the five continents of the world." The moment I heard that I could hear the multitude, the crowd, thousands of them, saying, "Oh, Oh, Oh..." I believe the multitude saw the angels also. And somehow the Lord revealed to me that the time is coming in many parts of the world where God is going to reveal Himself through the ministry of angels. It's going to happen publicly, in churches. Thousands will see angels at one time. The Lord is witnessing that. Angels will be ministering to the Body, in these last days.

Suddenly the message started to come, "What you see and hear, tell it to the nations." This was not something I should keep to myself. Even they accept it or not, I have to tell it to the nations.


First Angel
The first angel, the farthest from me and to the right, said, "I have a message for all of Asia."

The moment he said that, in a split few seconds, I could see the whole of China, India; the whole of the Asian countries, like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea. I've never been to those countries. I could see the Philippines and Japan. Down to Singapore, I saw Malaysia, and Indonesia. Then the angel showed me all of Papua New Guinea, and the whole of Irya Jaya, Indonesia, and down to Australia and New Zealand. This was the message of the angel, to all that part of Asia, including Australia and New Zealand.

"I am the angel of China," he said, "India, Australia." In his hand I saw a tremendous trumpet, not a small one, but a long big one. He was going to blow it all over Asia. So whatever the angel said, it's going to happen with the trumpet of the Lord, all over Asia. Millions are going to hear the mighty voice of the Lord. Then the angel said, "There shall be disasters, starvation, many will die from hunger. Strong winds will be loosened like never happened. A great part will be shaken and destroyed. Great part will go under the ocean. Millions will die in China and in India. Nations will be against nations, brother against brother. Asians will fight each other. Nuclear weapons shall be used killing millions." I heard the word 'catastrophic' used twice. "Financial crisis will come all over Asia. It will shake the world." I was trembling while the angel was speaking.

Then he looked at me and smiled and said, "There shall be the greatest spiritual awakening. Bondages will be broken. Barriers will be removed. Millions in China, India, all over Asia will turn to Christ. In Australia there shall be tremendous revival."

Then I heard the angel of Asia say, "It is the last harvest." I could hear the Spirit say, "I shall prepare my church for the return of Christ."

I was happy with the last few sentences of good news, after such judgment.


Second Angel
The second angel had a sickle in his hand. I heard him say, "Harvest time has come in Israel, and all the countries all the way to Iran, all of Turkey and the Arab countries. Multitudes that have refused me, refused my message of love shall hate each other, shall kill one another, shall be destroyed." I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all of the Middle East countries.

In few seconds I saw the whole of Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and all of Asia Minor full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. I saw fire, nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction and men will destroy one another. I heard, "Israel, oh Israel, the great judgment has come."

The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the remnant shall be purified.The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God." I saw fires and smoke rising to heaven. The angel said, "This is the final judgment. My church will be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Many will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry. Man will fight for water in the Middle East countries." I saw the United Nations shall be broken to pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations.

The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.


Third Angel
In the presence of almighty God and what the angels were talking to me I was shivering, trembling. I wanted to cry, but I was not able to. I was so much lost to see what was happening.

I really was fascinated. I couldn't have the courage to ask the third angel, who had wings, to open his wings. Suddenly this third angel opened his wings. I saw him fly over my room and in the spirit showed me the whole of Europe. I saw Europe from one end to the other. All the way from the North down to Spain and Portugal. He had a scale in his hand - a scale of measurement. Whatever the meaning, the Lord will give it to us. I heard clearly the angel say, "I am grieved. I am grieved. I see unrighteousness, uncleanness, ungodliness all over Europe. Sin has risen to heaven. The Holy Spirit is grieved." I saw the rivers of Europe flooding, covering millions of houses. Millions drowned. Suddenly I heard Earthquakes all over Europe. Countries that had no earthquakes before shall be shaken. Suddenly I saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris crumbling, falling down. Great part of Germany destroyed. Great city of London, destruction everywhere. I saw floods all over Scandinavia. I looked to the south of Europe. I saw Spain and Portugal passing through great hunger and great disasters. Many will die from hunger.

I cried and said, "Lord, what about your children?" The angel said, "I shall prepare them. They shall be looking for the appearing of the Lord. Many will cry to me those days and I will save them. I shall perform mighty miracles for them and show them my power."


Fourth Angel
Then I saw the fourth angel fly all over Africa from Cairo to Cape Town.

The angel of Africa had a sword in his hand. I heard him say, "Innocent blood has been shed. Divisions amongst the people. Generation far from the Lord. Thousands of people have killed each other. I've seen my faithful children in Africa. I shall reward all the faithful. I shall bless them abundantly. I shall control the weather- such scorching, burning of the sun. Other parts flooding. Foundations shall be shaken, rivers shall dry, millions will die from starvations. My sword shall judge the unrighteous and the bloodthirsty. So many earthquakes shall happen. Rivers will flow in different directions. Flooding of many villages." God's Judgment shall do it. I saw great pieces from stars falling from the sky upon Africa. The trembling of the earth shall be tremendous. Never happened since the creation. None shall escape the sword of the Lord.

I saw the Nile River drying, fishes dead, stinking all over Egypt.

Great part of the middle of Africa shall be covered with water, millions drowned.

"Lord," I said, "It is all bad news, all destruction. Any good news?" The Lord said, "The final day has come. Judgment day is here. My love has been refused, now my anger has come."

I trembled. I was shaking. I thought I can't bear it any more.


Fifth Angel
Then I saw the last angel flew over America, north and south, from the North Pole to the South Pole. From Canada all the way to Argentina; from the east of the U.S.A., New York, till the West, California.

I saw in his hand a big bowl, a deep cup full of judgment. The angel said he would pour from this bowl upon north and south America.

The angel said, "No justice any more, no righteousness, no holiness, but idolatry, materialism, drunkenness, bondage of sin, killing of innocent blood, families broken, adulterous generation. Sodom and Gomorra is here. The days of Noah are here. False preachers, false prophets, refusing of my love, imitation of religion, having the form of godliness but denying the power."

I begged the angel, "Can you not wait for a little while. Don't pour it. Give a chance for repentance." The angel said, "Many times God has spared and has spoken, but they have not listened. His patience has come to an end. Now the time has come. They have loved money and pleasure more than me."

As the angel began to pour from the bowl, I saw the great icy mountains melt in the north. Flooding came all over Canada and North America. All the rivers flooded, destruction everywhere. The world market collapsing with mighty earthquakes in New York. The skyscrapers tumbling, millions dying, ships in oceans sinking, explosions I heard from all over the north of the country, and millions dying.

The angel was pouring judgment on Mexico and all of Central America. Flooding of the countries, two oceans joining together, the Atlantic and the Pacific. Great part of north Brazil covered with water, the Amazon River turning to a great sea, forests destroyed and flooded, major cities in Brazil destroyed, earthquakes in many places.

As the angel poured judgment all the way to the South, to Chili and Argentina, great destruction took place, like never before.

The whole world was shaking. "In a short time," I heard the angel say, "this is going to happen."

Then I saw the five angels surrounding the globe, the world, lifting their wings and their hands towards heaven and saying, "All glory to the Lord of heaven and the earth. Now the time has come and He will glorify His Son. The earth shall be burnt and destroyed. All things shall pass away. The new earth shall come. God shall destroy the works of the devil forever. New heaven and new earth shall come. I will show my power, how I will protect my children in the midst of all these destructions. Be ready for the day of the Lord has come."

My room was full of light from the brightness of the angels. Then suddenly they ascended up to heaven. As I looked up I saw the angels go in five different directions. I knew they had already started their duties.

For more than an hour I could not move. I was wide awake. I was not sleeping. I was trembling from time to time. Then I said, "Lord, shall I leave Patmos now?" "No," said the Lord, "I have brought you for a purpose." "I'm in your hands Lord," I said, "Let thy will be done. Lord, the messages from the angels all over the world is not good news. It is judgment, punishment, destruction, and devastation. What would people say about me? I have always been a preacher of love, peace and good news."

The angel said, "It is our message. You are the instrument, the channel. What a privilege God has chosen you, to use you to give His message." Then I answered, "Thy will be done."

Still I lay there motionless. I was lost in thoughts. I did not know what to do. I was in the presence of such holiness of God. I wanted to cry but I couldn't. There's no way to weep. I could not laugh, impossible. I was praying, fasting, and seeking the mind of God in order to write everything down in the Spirit. After such meditation, I was able to write all that God's Spirit brought to my remembrance.

Undoubtedly this was a highlight in my life. To God be the glory. Amen.

Samuel Doctorian

Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 5:1-11; Hebrews 12:22-29; 2 Peter 3:1-13; Matthew 24:1-15; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Isaiah 17:1; Zechariah 12:1-3.

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Photosynth Competition 18 March 2010

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Hello everyone. Some updates that I thought I should let you know :D

1. My official website, jsquaredtm.com, has been "Soft-launched". During these three months, the blog will be in an "experimental" mode - meaning that not all features have been implemented yet.

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