Arakish's Tale

[arakish]

Arakish's Tale, Part One

Where to start?

Sperm and Egg?

Perhaps not.

At 3 I was teaching myself to read by reading cereal box labels well before there were any GNC or "store brand" or generic products. Me mom caught me at almost four and began using the Bible to teach me to read. I even used my bicycle to measure off one floor of Noah's Ark using the neighborhood as a guide in which I was living. Just ain't big enough I discovered one week after turning four. Even then there were almost a billion species already found. What is the total now? Two, three billion on just Earth alone? American billion, not British. Just clarifying.

I had big problems with the Bible. Far too evil. If those are "god's" laws, I ain't living by them. Stinks far too badly of malignancy.

So does the Qu'ran. Written by a war-mongering, murdering, rapine, child molesting thief in the throes of psychological schizophrenic dissociative delusion.

Particularly, all religions are based on lies.

If you wish to truly believe in that, then you are also a schizophrenic dissociative delusional person.

When I turned five, me mom gave a novel written by Sir Arthur C. Clarke titled Childhood's End. She also had a note inside the front cover saying, "I want a five page written report." What kind of mom tortures her son thusly? A mom who is preparing her son for school and testing intelligence. I loved the book so well, I wrote a ten page report. Even wished I had a copy to re-read the book. Ain't read it in over 50 years.

Two months after me fifth birthday, Star Trek: The Original Series (STTOS) premired on TV. Ran for three impressive years. My Greatest Hero has always been Spock. My many decades of living have been Spock's "Please Doctor, logic and reason shall always find the answer."

Two months after the ending of STTOS, and six days after me eighth birthday, I watched Neil Armstrong do the Small Step Giant Leap thing. I was forever hooked on Science and Science-Fiction. Star Trek is now responsible for creating much of the technology we have today. Prove me wrong.

Besides, the Scientific Method is the ONLY method by which anyone can discover the True Truth.

Two months after me 16th birthday, Star Wars IV premiered at theatres. I got to see it in a rocking chair two-cinema theatre. Initially, they only had it on one screen, putting it on both screens two weeks later. It ran for 94 consecutive weeks in SENCland. Both screens!

Ooops. Another fact, for my years 5-16, I was raised on a combination farm and horse ranch about 20 kilometers outside Wilmington NC. We cycled 12 acres as farmland, using four acres per year. The other 24 acres had the 12-horse stables and grassland. Even had an exercise circle about 5m radius. I had to clean the stables at least once a day, even on school days. And that is where I created the term "Horse Hoowhee." Just walk into a stable on a hot "dog" day in August. "Hoowhee!" And, yes, this makes me a Southern Hick as the pathetically insistant Yankees of New York City.

"New York City ?!?" What the hell do you know? Did you know that in the 50s, Queen Elizabeth traveled our country in 1950s and announced that the ONLY American Dialect chosen as the Queen's American English was the same Deep South style of dialect that spread from North Carolina to Louisiana. Sorry, Northerners.

Another fact is us Southerners are the only ones who distinguish between singular "you is" as opposed to the plural "you are," also "y'awl."

I was also in the Boy Scouts 5-16. Made Eagle Scout at 15 by earning the City of Wilmington Citizen's Merit Award for helping to rescue a child that fell in a well. I was old enough, skilled enough, and small enough to be lowered down the well, secure the child, then be raised out.

There was another horrid event when I was 10 that made me to completely repress that memory unit for over 40 years. I no longer talk about it. Do NOT ask.

Me dad was atheist, but was so indifferent, he cared nothing. Me mom was the worse kind of religious: Mississippian, later North Carolinian, Baptist Bible Thumper. However, they agreed ALL family traditions would be honored. I was rescued. When I turned 13, in me dad's traditions, I was able to envoke the Age of Minority. I was able to decide whether I wished to attend church or not. I chose NOT. Again, citing the evil and malignancy ONLY to meself. I continued the "fake" salvation thing. Had no alternative BUT to "fake" the salvation thing.

Question: What am I being saved from?

No one has ever answered sufficiently. Not even atheists such as meself who were born atheist, stayed atheists for well over half a century.

What am I being saved from? Eternal nothingness? I shall live forever. What happens to the molecules, substances, elements of me body when I die? It gets absorbed and transformed into something else. This shall continue until the literal End of the Universe.

So the fuck what?

What makes you think I want to have Eternal Servitude in exchange for Immortality? The ONLY true immortality. No religion can understand this fact. Only very few philosophical ideals, such as Confucianism, can even grasp that concept. I know Confucianism has kind of become a religion, but the sayings are not. Then there is Sun Tzu's Art of War which I read at 12.

When I joined the US Navy and completed Boot Camp, I told me mom that I had "faked" that salvation thing. My surviving siblings despised me for such heresy. I cared not. I was no longer home. If they cannot accept me for who I am, then so be it. I could care less. I was happiest when I did not have to keep living that lie. And, yes, sometimes one has to live a lie, especially to survive those despicable, deplorable, derisory, ludricous, ridiculous, preposterous, farcical, idiotic, and mentally retarded Christians. Even today, Christians still practice mental rape, emotitional molestation, and psychological terrorism. And Islam ain't any better.

If I were to be said to have any religion, it would be Nature. On the port side of our house, there was a full-blooded Cherokee, and on the starboard side, there was a full-blooded Lumbee American Natives. I learned more from them than I did from any religion.

OK. Now I feel I need to supply some definitions.

[size=16pt]Religious[/size]

Religious Absolutist - anyone belonging to and possessing an inexorable belief in any religion because of their inability to utilize critical thinking, logical and deductive reasoning, and rational and analytical thought, especially the worst subset, Apologists.

Religious Absolutist Apologist - a dastardly subset of the Religious Absolutists who practices apologetics, which is the assumption of presupposed conclusions that have nothing to do with reason and rationality and actual information and reality, creating irrational excuses and whatever conflicting ideas justifying their baseless assumptions, regardless of what the true facts are, through the use of beguiling dialectical semantics, distorted and perverted data, emotional whiney-ass pleas, due to an indoctrinational conditioning that is so ingrained they never question the veracity of the nonsense they offer, or why they need to defend their faith at all.

The difference between a Religious Absolutist (a.k.a. - religious assholes) and a Religious Person (a.k.a. - civilized believer) is that the Absolutist completely believes the Bible/Qu'ran is inerrantly correct and will not accept any evidence that truthfully proves their beliefs are completely incorrect. A Religious Person actually believes science to be true and views the Bible/Qu'ran as basically a fairy tale, excepting the very few true truths it does hold.

[size=16pt]Unbeliever[/size]

Agnostic - This means nothing more than "without knowledge.
Agnostic, from the Greek: γνοσι (gnosi) = knowledge;
ενα- [usually shortened to α-] (ena- [usually shortened to a-]) = to be without;
thus, αγνοσι (agnosi) agnostic = to be without knowledge.
I am agnostic in there are many things I do not know. Thus, I am without that knowledge, thus agnostic. Everyone is agnostic to a certain point. I cannot put this any simpler.

Atheist - If translated literally, this means "without god."
Atheist, from the Greek: θεος (theos) = God, Lord, Creator;
ενα- [usually shortened to α-] (ena- [usually shortened to a-]) = to be without;
thus, αθεος (atheos) atheist = to be without God.
However, in today’s terminology, and more accurate, atheism actually means "a lack of or disbelief in any claims for the existence of any deity."

Anti-theist - This one, in my definition, means exactly as it says; anti- = "against," theist = "belief in one god." Or better, "against belief in any deity."

Anti-religionist - This one is exactly as it says: "against religion."

Apistevist - lack of blind faith; one who does not rely on religious blind faith in order to discern true facts.

How about another breakdown?

Agnosticism: I do NOT know whether an Umaäxalis (V: All Creator) and Athanorama (V: Lord Fatherer) exists or does not exist.

Atheism: I do NOT believe the preposterous claims without substantiation whether an Umaäxalis (V: All Creator) and Athanorama (V: Lord Fatherer) exists or does not exist.

Anti-theist: I am against believing the preposterous claims without substantiation in the existence/non-existence of Umaäxalis (V: All Creator) and Athanorama (V: Lord Fatherer).

Anti-religion: I am against all harmful religions that do believe without substantiation in the existence of an Umaäxalis (V: All Creator) and Athanorama (V: Lord Fatherer).

Apistevism: I refuse to utilize blind faith in believing without substantiation whether an Umaäxalis (V: All Creator) and Athanorama (V: Lord Fatherer) exists or does not exist.

And here is a definition: sub•stan•ti•ate - verb (used with object), sub•stan•ti•at•ed, sub•stan•ti•at•ing, sub•stan•ti•a•tion; 1) to establish by proof or competent evidence; 2) to give substantial existence to; 3) to affirm as having substance, give body to, strengthen.

FYI: If you keep the entire word εναθεος (enatheos), you have the basis for the English word anathema. Anathema [uh•nath•uh•muh] noun, plural a•nath•e•mas. 1) a person or thing detested or loathed. 2) a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction. 3) a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication. 4) any imprecation of divine punishment. 5) a curse. 6) execration. And everyone of the definitions for anathema has been used by you Religious Absolutists against us Unbelievers.

End Definitions

I have absolutely no use for anything based on lies. The Bible is nothing more than an anthology of lies plagiarized from myths and legends far, FAR!, older than the Bible and Hebrews. Many thousands of years older.

While in the Navy, I eventually took leave to return home and see my family. My parents had separated and divorced. My eldest sister had disappeared. My brother moved to New Mexico to be around more family who were more devote Religious Absolutists. Only me dad was left in the house I grew up in. He had sold off the entire other 32 other acres, keeping four.

I can still remember me dad's exact words when I asked him why I could not comprehend the Bible (except for it being the most horrible, deplorable, malignant, and terrifying literature ever written) and Christianity. His response, "Your mind thinks like a computer. If it is not logical or rational, it does not compute." And how true those words have been me whole life.

Hell, I even never got humor. Me whole family could be watching a comedy and laugh their butts off at something while I would sit there not comprehending what was so funny. It was not until I was later married and me wife taught me humor. Read Dr. Robin Cook's book Mutation to get an idea of how I was. However, I was not building and doing what that fictional child did between the ages of three to ten years old. I did blow up my chemistry lab (a small shed building) to see if I could create nitroglycerin. Hell, I bought a 12.5 acre plot of land from a farmer when I was only 15. I even told the farmer he could continue using the cleared part to grow product for his roadside farmer market for free. And could still live in his house even.

While I was home on leave, the third day I had gone to Independence Mall (built while I was gone) to waste time since I had grown so damned bored. Hell, I was so bored, I was even thinking of cancelling my leave to return to my ship. After I had gotten into me car and just as I inserted my ignition key, my car shuddered. On the hood, and I literally mean ON the hood, of me car was the rear end of a pick-up truck. I was so pissed I was going to beat the shit out the asshole. Then I saw her. My SoulMate. I had always thought that the adage "Love at first site" was just a big pile of horse hoowhee. Then it happened to me. Who would have thunk.

My future wife, Marisa Deirdre Kolopolis, was so upset that I was going to file and her father would punish her. I got her settled down, and she asked how she could repay me. I simply replied, "By letting me take you out to dinner tonight on a date." This was when she said she fell in love with me. I courted her with lunches, dinners, movies, water slide, boating and fishing for the next 17 days. On the 18th, I proposed to her and she accepted. Six months after returning to my ship, my Captain gave me one week's Liberty, to which I added another week's leave, to have a honeymoon since we were getting ready to leave on a 14-month classified mission. The 14-month mission was so classified we were not allowed any comms outside the command. This meant that I never knew we had gotten pregnant.

When we finally returned home, I could not find me wife anywhere on the pier. My comrade next to me knudged me and asked if a certain lady was me wife. When I looked, it was her, but she was holding two babies. Not only was I returning home, I was a Father. A Daddy.

In me wife's family tradition, it is the duty for the Father to name the first child. Children in my case. Thus, me daughters were simply known as Twin1, for the first born, and Twin2 for the second. I went back into the ancestral heritage from the Angel Isles and named me daughters Dwimor Rhiannon and Miriël Cassandra. Dwimor and Miriël came from JRR Tolkien with Dwimor meaning "Haunting Beauty" and Miriël meaning "Jewel Maiden."

Me Wife: Marisa Deirdre





You'll find out later why I ain't got many other pictures. Have a few of me daughters, but I have been accused of child pornography posting them. Damned fucking Christians ruin/poison everything. Thus, I no longer post pictures of me daughters. Hell, I've even been accused of pornography posting the picture of me wife in the bikini. Gee whiz. WTFGDH.

Science vs Religion:

The wildest thing about me daughters is that both were born with the same exact complete heterochromia iridium. They both had a brown right eye, blue left eye. The most awesomely beautiful females I have ever seen. Excepting me wife, of course. Me wife was the most beautiful woman in all of history. But I am admittedly biased.

Additionally, me daughters were born dyslexic. The only thing that bothered them was letters. Only the letters flipped around on them. Numbers and everything else were completely fine. The image below shows their form.



Now for the real kicker. Me daughters were even more intelligent than I was. Me wife and I never knew they were dyslexic since they had self-compensated for it by themselves. Me wife and I never knew they were dyslexic until they were nine years old. Already in fourth grade. With genius like that combined into identical twins, they would have created a whole new paradigm for the world. My daughters figured out religion at the age of five. Me it took until I was seven. Hell, when they got into high school, me daughters were grasping mathematical concepts I struggled with. They also seemed to have Eidetic Memory. Another thing they could do that was hauntingly perplexing was when you asked them a question, both would answer with the sme exact answer verbatim simultaneously, creating a stereophonic effect. Spooky, yet beautiful.

A little more about me wife. She was like me in being atheist from birth. Her parents immigrated here to America from Greece due to religious persecution for being scientists instead of good little Christians. Me wife was born 15 months later after their immigration. Me wife and I had a small atheistic based wedding when I was only 19 (20 in two months) and me wife was only 17 (18 in one month). We did not get a true honeymoon until almost two years later. I know, I shortened it above.

Continued in Part Two. How Marisa and I raised our daughters.

rmfr

[arakish]

First and Foremost, sorry for the long delays.  We are still getting the outpost set up.

Arakish's Tale, Part Two

How did Marisa and I raise our indentical twin daughters?  The ones with the complete heterochromia iridium?

Simple really.  We raised our daughters to find the answer for themselves.

Same way me dad taught me.  When I had a question, me dad took me to the "Wall of Why."  Wall of Why?, you may ask.  The Wall of Why was simply the wall me dad had that held all of his college textbooks, NatGeos beginning in 1929, two sets of encyclopedias, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Scientific American, etc.  If I could not find the answer in all those, then me dad would help me by taking me to the public library.

After our daughters, Dwimor and Miriël, were born, me dad gave me the entire collection of his Wall of Why on top of what I had already collected.  It then turned into the Walls of Why.  I literally had three walls worth of encyclopedias, textbooks, magazines, all of which were science based.  We never even had any kind of faerie tales books, except when the school put them on the required reading lists.  For a comparison between me and my daughters, here is a small, small list (numbers are ages in years):

Bible is false: Me = 7; Them = 5
High School Algebra: Me = 8; Them = 5
High School Trigonometry: Me = 10; Them = 7
High School Chemistry: Me = 7; Them = not allowed
High School Physics: Me = 11; Them = 8
Pre-Calculus: Me = 12; Them = 9
Astrophysics: Me = 15; Them = 11

The reason I did not allow me daughters to explore chemistry was because me dad bought me chemistry sets when I was 7 years old.  By the time I was 10 years old, I had taught myself how to make nitroglycerin in the attempt to make it dynamite.  I went inside to get drink.  Just as I came out the backdoor to go to my chemistry lab, it exploded.  I mean all four walls were blown out, and the ceiling collapsed to the ground.  I stood in complete shock.  I had forgotten the temperature thing with nitroglycerin.  OOoops!  Baby sitter ran out.  Sister ran out.  Baby brother was at a friend's.  Baby sister.

When dad found out, I had to walk to his office.  Just a room away from the den.  He asks, "What punishment?"  I replied, "No more chemistry experiments."  Then I left after waiting two minutes.  Even left a small crater since floor was sand and dust.

By the time I was 14, I had built a thermonuclear device out of parts from Lego, Erector Sets, etc.  Obviously, it would have never worked.  I used different color legos to indicate the ball of plutonium and the nodule of uranium that would be fired "gun" style like the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  Of course I was disqualified from the Science Fair, but also told it was worthy of the Blue Ribbon.

Me daughters did not have any inclination into mechanics and construction, thus all the Lego sets, Erector Sets, etc. went unused by them.  Mostly me daughters inclinations resided in the mathematics and other physical sciences.  Like me, they loved the stars, astronomy, and astrophysics.  They also had just a great as love for biochemistry and genetics.  Hell, they'd've probably grown up and created the Predator...



Teach Your Children How to Think Instead of Telling Them What to Think

Marisa and I had always taught our daughters, "You have to take everything with a huge grain of salt.  Trust nothing.  Investigate it for yourself and come to your own conclusion."  Whenever they asked me a question, I would simply point them in the direction to find the answer for themselves.  Additionally, once they thought they had found the answers they needed, and they were still not completely sure, I would sit down with them and discuss how to evaluate the evidence they had found.  How to evaluate and determine whether they had all the data they needed, or if they needed to find more evidence.  That is how ALL parents should help teach their children.

I feel this is how all parents should be raising their children.  However, all tend to say they don't have enough time.  The biggest problem today is social media.  Most parents today have taken to this social media phenomenon worst than their children.  Or just as bad.  Due to this, most parents feel they cannot be interrupted from their social media bullshit by their children; thus, they give them a PADD (Personal Access Data Device) to play with.  Parents, get off your damned PADDs.  Spend time with your kids.  Teach your children how to think.

It may be harsh, but I feel there is need of some new laws:
1) No child is allowed anywhere near any form of anything religious until the age of 21 years.
2) No child is allowed to have any form electronic device (except ONLY a calculator) until the age of 18 years.
3) No child is allowed access to the internet and WWW, except to perform educational research, until the age of 18 years.

As said, these may seem quite harsh.  These were rules I had implemented for our daughters.  My wife agreed after I explained why I felt this way due to the 14 years of experience I had had with the FidoNet and BBS network before the WWW ever came to be.  Hell, even my daughters agreed when both my wife and I discussed it with them.  However, I shall be the first to admit that I relinquished the electronic device rule when they were 12.  By that time, my daughters had shown they were responsible enough to not let their cell phones rule their lives (and they did not).  The same was done with the computer.  Astonishingly, our daughters spent more time with my wife and I  than on the computer (once their schoolwork was done).  That is when they were home and not over at a neighbor’s home.

I feel it is the only way to get the human species into the Age of Rationality that it needs to ascend to.  Unfortunately, the Religious Absolutists still hold far too much power (especially the Bible Belt Baptists) to get something like this implemented.  Maybe in the next 2000 years here in the religious septic tank known as America, while the rest of the world passes us by.  If America ain’t careful with this religious septic tank we are holding onto, we are going to become the most backwards nation on Earth.  China will become the new leading nation in technology and capitalistic power.  In fact, China ain't as far behind as most of us Americans wish to believe.  I even predict China will become the wealthiest nation on Earth by 2100.  Perhaps as soon as 2050.  Thus, it is you Religious Absolutists who are destroying America.  Hell, even Canada is moving ahead of us when it comes to rationalism.  One of the reason why I would not mind moving to Canada.  Rationalism is also the reason I would love to move to Australia or New Zealand.  America, the country of my birth, the country whom I served with honor, has become the most disgusting place I can think of to live.  If it were not for the freedoms, and having the most fascinating caldera to study, I would have left long ago.

Explaining My New Laws

1) No child is allowed anywhere near any form of anything religious until the age of 21 years.

Why 21?  Hopefully, by then, the person has gotten at least a Baccalaureate Degree and has actually learned how to think critically, using analysis, deduction, rationality, logic, and reason.  Then, since they are also well beyond that 4 to 14 range for completely wiping a kid's mind and filling it with pure bullshit, the Religious Absolutists may not be able to brainwash them.

2) No child is allowed to have any form electronic device (except ONLY a calculator) until the age of 18 years.

This is probably self-explanatory.  Just look at people wherever you may go.  At least 80% of the adults, and virtually 100% of the children with them, have their faces shoved into their PADDs.  Parents today no longer have the skills to discipline their children and to further their children's education.  Just so they ain't got to deal with such, they give their children a PADD of their own.  "Here, sweetie, mommy ain't got time to deal with you.  Play a game.  Watch a movie."  Bollocks.  Horse hoowhee.  Bullshit!  I know it shall never happen, but we need to get rid of those fucking devices.

3) No child is allowed access to the internet and WWW, except to perform educational research, until the age of 18 years.

Again, kind of self-explanatory.  Kids can access too much of the wrong shit online.  However, this would also need to be implemented on children's PADDs also.  I feel they should be limited to only accessing educational research tools on the WWW.  Then those tools can further limit what they can research and which sites that come up during a search.  Some form of centralized educational research center(s).  Of course, this could also be easily abused by the wrong persons.

Basically, there is no easy or clean solution.  However, a curbing of the three items discussed above may be able to help.

Tyrannically, if I were in charge, I would forbid ANY AND ALL religious organizations access to the WWW.  I would also forbid any form of televised access.  Just letting them have tax-exempt status is bad enough.  They would still corrupt far too many persons even without the WWW and TV.

And then I loved this statement by Aron Ra:
Atheists don't want religions to have exemptions under the law, and why should we?  It's not our demographic that has the most divorce, the most chemical dependency, the most domestic violence, the most criminal convictions, or even the most abortions.  The only thing we Atheists might have more of, are diplomas.

The biggest problem with today's society, and it actually began in the mid to late 80s, and especially in the 90s when the "smart phones" started to proliferate rampantly, is that no parent is willing to spend time with their children, furthering their education, as they are supposed to be doing.  All parents want today is to get their children "out of their hair."  Thus, the reason you see children with advanced smart phones (although I differ on the term "smart") and/or PADDs at ages I would never give one to my child.  EVEN TODAY!  It would never happen.

I believe as my parents raised me, parents should spend every possible second they can with their children.  Especially guiding them on their schoolwork.  I did.  I spent every possible second I could with my twin daughters.  Except, of course, when they wanted to be alone with each other, go over to a neighbor's home, or they wanted to go somewhere with friends with their parents, or they had friends over at our home, etc., etc.  Yes, there are times children just want to be away from their parents.  That is perfectly OK.  That just gives the parents some alone-time.  Hint, hint...

And the perfect way to teach your children how to think is when they have a question for which you do not know the answer.  Research for that answer with them.  Analyze the data you find with them.  Explain to them how you interpret that data.  See if they have a different interpretation.  In other words, why don't you parents teach yourselves how to think while you are teaching your children how to think?  Think about it.

Continued in Part Three...

rmfr

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Curious story.

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Hello!

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What about the tacos? Did you bring the tacos?