Need a new messiah? Why not Zoidberg?

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The rules:

1. Reach for the nearest book
2. Turn to page 123
3. Skip the first 5 sentences
4. Post the next 3 sentences
5. Tag 5 more highly respected bloggers

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Any guesses?

This has helped me become able to take it all more lightly. I began posting videos and sillier things because that’s where I’m at now. I believe there may be an “atheist movement”, yet I don’t think everything I say and do is dependent on deconverting others. I am me and post as such. This is an atheist blog; its a place for atheist rants, videos, images, et al. But that’s all, a mere collection of atheist junk. And I prefer it that way! lol.

Anyone else not tagged, you are now tagged!

- Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
- At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
- Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

So do list yet another set of random facts? Or just link over to my previous ones?

This meme machine is becoming something like a religion! LOL.

• We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
• Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don’t forget to leave them each a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Here are my eight random facts:

1. I can say it like it is online but can be rather quiet in person.
2. I went to school to study film and creative writing (emphasis on short stories). But I do production finance for TNT/TBS Originals. And do graphic/web design for fun (on the side)!
3. I love playing video games.
4. I don’t buy Apple products because they’re not worth they’re own hype.
5. I suffer from anxiety and have found the only drug that helps insomnia and nausea is good ol’ Mary Jane. (Also, not addictive.)
6. I was Bat-Mitzvahed in front of the Wailing Wall.
7. My two biggest high school celebrity crushes were Trent Reznor and Conan O’Brien.
8. I got an “A” in high school physics (didn’t even have to take it).

The blogs I’m choosing to tag are:
Angels Depart
Kill the Afterlife
Letters From Le Vrai
“Atheism Sucks” Sucks
The Jewish Atheist
The Atheist Jew

Science speed, my good friends…

The term meme often has mixed emotions that are quickly to follow. Coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, it refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Why are so many quick to argue that a meme has a negative presence?

Most memes have a negative impact due to the lack of individualism. The moment a person invites a meme into one’s life, he/she is tossing aside all signs of individuality. It is often stated, “It’s what they’re doing?” So we have to ask ourselves “is something a good idea solely because it is popular?” In addition to this, we must also ask, “Who are ‘they’ “. Can anyone tell me who “they” are? It’s what they wear, they eat, they buy, they study, and basically just what they do. Who are they and why are they deciding what’s right for me? We can also ask, “what is normal”, but that’s been asked before. And never really answered because it can’t be. The very idea is constantly changing with fashions and ideals.

A better question would be, “Who are they and why are they creating this memery?”

Some fashions are held as societal norms. Is this an example of a possibly good meme? Or does this also stand in the way of our individuality. Just because big belts are sold, doesn’t mean you have to buy and wear them. They are so unflattering on everyone.

Some religious ideology are societal norms, but many are not. It was once “normal” to keep your wife seen as your property and dumbed down to what’s going on. Most religions still cherish this in their good books, whether the followers want to admit it or not. Societal norms are always shifting. So why do some cling tightly to some memes while readily casting others aside? I cannot answer that. Why are we still having big weddings with big rocks? Simply because “it’s tradition”. Slavery once was tradition.

Even when society considers a behavior to no longer be “normal”, memes can linger on further.