darwin on line

look what i found! is great no? loads of his books and original writings all under one roof! 

oh dear oh dear oh dear

can you belive this? i couldn't, not really. i  mean, come on, you guys!

anyone who believes they have dominion over the planet kills the planet (eventually) 

would anyone like to suggest a punishment for mundocide?

puppy murdering slag is liar - official

yup that helicopter-executioner sarah 'nailin' palin is also a big fat liar! over @ the palindeception (and the blog for more detail) there is literally loadsa evidence that something very, very dodgy has been going on up in alaska. very dodgy indeed. 

what was most worrying was this from the experiences of a "well-known" free-lance journalistwho spent some time in alaska trying to find out (fruitlessly) what was what, his final comment on the experience was "how afraid everyone is of her."

not surprising really, this is the kind of cunt that shoots defenceless puppies with a sniper rifle from a helicopter - and is proud of it!!!

mo' nihilist quotes

"i don't have to step in dog shit to know that it stinks."

- anon

"evolution is to the social sciences as statues are to birds"

- steve jones

"you wonder what i am doing? well, so do i, in truth. days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then i sleep. what have i done, what am i doing, what i am going to do, puzzle me and bewilder me. have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? that's the feeling."

- t. e. lawrence in a letter to his friend eric kennington shortly before his (lawrence's) death.

"when it comes to the real world, christians act just like atheists"
- daniel florien @ planet atheism

"it's always the hours between night and day when revolutions happen. out of the dawn the bird of revolution rises to reach the sun."

- bakunin

"you can't own something unless you can swallow it."

- chinese proverb

bbc are utter bastards shocka!

what on earth is going on? ongoing  demonstrations outside broadcasting house today over the bbc's decision to suspend adverts for the disasters emergency committee.

cheif operating officer caroline thompson said today on radio 4 that: "at the moment we feel the best way we can help people is to keep our reputation for independence and reporting in a way that people will trust." yet in the very same interview she says: "there are, obviously in the middle east, very vociferous lobby groups on both sides who will immediately jump on any decision we make" which i found surprisingly honest at least. one wonders, however, just which particular lobby groups are stopping the bbc from putting out a humanitarian appeal?

tony benn, in typical fashion, used an interview on the today programme to publicise the campaign saying if you want to donate send a cheque in a stamped envelope to: DEC (gaza crisis), PO Box 999, London, EC3A 3AA or go to any post office quoting the freepay number:1210, as he was cut off by the bbc presenter/evil wanker.

itv, channel 4 and five will be going ahead with the broadcast. channel five's head, chris shaw, saying that "provided it complies with the normal  broadcast regulations as a fair appeal it'll go ahead...this is a humanitarian appeal, that's the beginning and the end of it." & channel 4 saying that they did not feel that broadcasting the appeal would affect its impartiality in the eyes of its audience. which is a bit odd. surely if something is impartial it is impartial, regardless of what (or even whether) the audience thinks about it. but there you go.

stick it up 'em i say, we don't need 'em do we my nihilist chums? oh no.. you can cancel you licence fee (who watches tv anymore anyway? you can get dr. who on ya pc!) then go to the DEC website and hand over all your saved cash there, go on, give 'em an extra tenner just to spite the bastard bbc! you can also go that bit extra and complain if you like the phone number is: 03700100222 (i have no idea who this is, btw, i just nicked it off the granuidad's letters page!)

culture war over!

yup, once again you've heard it here first! reports are coming in of deists and atheists linking arms, singing songs and picking flowers an' shit (which is a plus, my dogs have been at it something rotten in my garden).

                                                                                                                

yup, one of the 20th centuries biggest battles, the culture wars (TM) are over. a ruling by the ASA has rules that claims of the existence of god are "not capable of objective substantiation.".

so that's that. looks like half the blogosphere's gonna have to find something else to do!

cows on mars

yup, you heard it here first-ish, life on mars! and, what's more, it may well be bovine! reports read by nihilists @ pharyngula have loads of methane appearing (i know, don't ask me, they're astronomers, they can see methane) in the martian atmosphere. 

the boring scientist chappies over at discover magazine (where the story first broke with some exciting 'live-action' style blogging) put the methane production down to microbial life. but an interesting suggestion put forward in the comments section (+ only really clever people comment on articles there) suggested that the answer may be of a bovine nature. what's more; the amounts of methane being produced mean martian dairy herds contain some 31,000 members!

nihilist quotes (+interesting links)

my own nihilist research has shown that people often stumble here looking for nihilist quotes and if there is one thing nihilism is famous for it's giving people what they want, well that and being confused with a death wish, so here goes...

"The only thing that trickles down is shit."

Anon

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman

"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"So you're offended. So fucking what?"

Stephen Fry

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Stephen Roberts

"Evolution: a theory so simple and obvious only england's greatest genius could have come up with it."

Ricky Gervais

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is they are not even superficial."

Friedrich Nietzsche 

the credit bunch

had a brilliant idea today today whilst listening to a piece on radio 4 about students 'preparing' themselves for the new job(less) horizons. how about a gang of  socially aware animals teaching kids useful skills for this new world?

you  could have ricky the rioting rhino, harry the housing provider hippo and fanny the free food f- fo- fa- fuck it. can anyone think of an animal starting with f?

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here's one for ya: the daily irritant your alternative news source/round-up part of freydis' holology website.  Freydis is the tireless nihilist that brought you counterorder, nihilism's home on t'internet. 

what is holology? the man 'imself:

"Holology is not just an ideology or just a religion, it's a little of everything and a little of nothing, a weltanschauung. It encompasses not just one aspect of a life but all. But that doesn't mean one can't like one part and reject another just as religious people do with passages of the Bible. Holology is not antagonistic it's cooperative. Holology is non-government, non-politics and non-religious although it nonetheless discuses and analyzes political and religious issues to better understand them. Furthermore, Holology is not necessarily non-spiritual because the concept of spiritual is intangible, it's a positive accumulation of factors leading to health and well-being of both the individual and the group. And everyone can make their own determination on that one."

so it's whatever the fuck you want it to be! it's about changing the world as you see fit for the benefit of yourself and others. which is what us nihilists are all about. get in!

you have got to be kidding me...

yup, as mentioned elsewhere ol' stephen 'dogshit' green is at it again. he is filing a complaint with the ASA that the atheist bus campaign "there probably is no god..." contravenes advertising standards because, and get this, they do not "hold evidence that god probably does not exist."! 

oh dear. steve, old chap, i'm afraid there is ample evidence that if not any god, at least your god probably does not exist. and it's all around you steve. everywhere. 

the natural world proves that god probably does not exist. as we only have one (count 'em folks) piece of evidence in favour of god (the holy babble). if god exists how could he have got the creation story so pathetically wrong? to my mind it sounds like the kind of story ancient egyptian royalty would have come up with (whoops!). so what gives?

then of course there's the universe. and genetics. and good old-fashioned reason. there would seem to be ample evidence. this could well blow up in poor stevie's face.

thanks, once again, to the esteem-able PZ for the tip off. the heresiarch's all over this one as well.

UPDATE: its gotten worser! at the Granuidad we have some daft bugger trotting out the old anthropic fallacy. oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,as DA so eloquently put it: "...imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."

fat, ugly bastards

not content with eating all the pies, the US have voted against a UN measure calling for people to have the right to food. yup, you heard right, the fattest nation on the planet now feel the need to stop anyone else putting on any weight.

"Draft resolution XX on the right to food, approved on 24 November by a recorded vote of 180 in favour to 1 against ( United States), with no abstentions, would have the Assembly reaffirm that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity, requiring the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international level, for its elimination. (Press Releases GA/SHC/3940 and GA/SHC/3941)" original here.

would you adam & eve it? let them eat cake or what? and this is merely a resolution for the adoption of 'urgent measures' whatever they are. no teeth, no nothing. just a 'wouldn't it be nice' kinda thing.

to be fair many of their own citizens were as outraged as the rest of us at such a move. but fuck 'em. if the germans don't get off that easy, neither do you!

thanx to DCNY (a septic 'imself, no less) for the heads up.

ouch!

here is a dog cleverly duping an unwitting cat into ali's famous 'rope-a-dope' trick. from i can cheeseburger (i have no idea).

good news!

at last! from those ceaselessy optimistic chaps at A World to Win some good news for the new year! and i quote:

"Market researchers warn that over 1,600 UK retailers will be driven out of business this year, triggering thousands of job losses and leaving more than one in ten shops empty."

one in ten! bo-fucking-nanza!