08.09.2009 - 5:03 p.m.

it must be september because the half mile of residential B road between the end of my road where i live and the start of the dual carriageway where you can drive fast is full of bloody cars again, 10 to 15 minutes to do a half mile, yesterday i had a heart stopping moment where the car stalled, luckily i was able to start it again on the key otherwise i could have been in trouble (it's an automatic)

for the last 6 weeks i've been able to reach 30mph quickly and not drop below that the whole way to work, now i'm doomed to sit in a line of traffic while non-refrigerated snowflake carriers transport the precious' to school, apparently the world is now too full of child catchers, hungry jagulars and temporal sweetshops to allow them to walk unaided.

i was born near the start of the 70's, i would hope/expect to live to the 2060's. Ever since the 50's they've been predicting flying cars in the future and a utopian society enabled by technology, well we're fifty(ish) years since the start of manned space flight and futuriest predictions and science has failed to deliver either flying cars or utopian society, we have stuff that can be classed as personal fliers but you need to be Hank McSquarejaw, fighter jock and dancefloor hero to get in them, i ain't him so that's out. Our society is pretty much as discombobulated and shaggy as it gets, all the bad things that used to happen still happen daily, DAILY PEOPLE, (with the exception of villagers being dragged into the wild woods by large mammals, and that's only 'cos we killed them all - the mammals not the vilagers) the various religions still screw over anyone who challenges their dogma and wars are still being fought by petty old men trying to prove they're the most adept at making wars.

some people say that the only thing to unite all humans together is an external threat, however it's much more likely that certain groups will try and make deals with the external threat to gain an advantage over the rest of humanity, this is the game we play.

but it boils down to this :

if i don't see flying cars by the time i'm an old man i'm going to kick off with my one good leg and/or run people down in my geriatric buggy, lazy fucking scientists.

there was an article a while back (and repeated recently on the Pharyngula blog) about how we are hard-wired to believe in religion and it's inevitable, and even small children automatically believe in supreme creators blah blah blah god is great blah blah

first of all

don't ask small children their opinions on anything unless you're angling for �250 from you've been framed, small children know absolutely fuck all and should never be consulted on anything, dumbasses

second

we're not 'hard-wired to believe in religion' because religion is a construct of the structure of the human brain which is a result of evolution, evolution created god, i shall explain

humans have evolved great big frontal lobes on their brains, it's in these regions that most of our religious/mythical/believing in bullshit is formed, this can be proved because:

- lsd works well on the frontal lobes, tripping people frequently report meeting god, i met god once while tripping and it was awesome (as in really actually awesome, a state of being full of awe, not the awesome that vapid 'dudes' keep talking about, like "he did a triple kick-flip, awesome", that is not awesome that is a skateboard trick, the jonas twats say awesome every other word in interviews, they need to be deactivated) i've also met god once whilst very very stoned, same effect really.

- people who sustain damage to the front of their heads often become tangentally religious out of nowhere.

- believing in fairy shit of any flavour is linked with your biological makeup, some individuals are more likely to be susceptable than others to belief, i once knew a kid who swore he could talk to dragons in his mind who lived in a far off dragonny world, he was convinced, i wasn't, even at 9 years old i knew he was being a twat.

- most people use religion to scam others, a few use it benefit others, those doing the scamming have a duty to uphold the status quo so they can keep on scamming, the ability to scam comes from being able to maintain multiple lies and to forecast events in which those lies may take place, this is a uniquely human trait and a direct result of our large brains, the concept of god remains sustained which is again a result of evolution.

morons

[quick and dirty update - see here for details on local scumbag, busted for scumbagginess]