Sunday, January 1, 2012

Snake eyes did it too. (It's becoming to be a habit.)

Money doesn’t leave the church once it’s in it.

Q. Yes way?  No way?

A. No way.


In early two thousand and five, shortly after the terrible, terrifying and catastrophic tsunami that hit land in south east Asia and killed so many people and left even more homeless, good old Jean-Paul II asked that more money be channeled to the disaster area by countries that had already contributed and that countries that had yet to send money, to do so.

In two thousand and eleven, on July second to be exact, history has repeated itself. Yes indeed, old “snake eyes”, Benoit XVI that is, (have you ever seen such an untrustworthy  pair of eyes as his?) has called on the world to send more money to the famine struck corn of Africa out of compassion and fraternal solidarity in order to help save the twelve million people who are threatened to die.

Have you ever in your life herd or seen written somewhere that the Vatican, a debt free and world-wide tax-exempt city-country, worth in the vicinity of one trillion dollars, has sent money to any catastrophe-stricken area of the world? No and you never will. The catholic church being the well organized, tightly-ran business that it is doesn’t let one penny go once it has made its way into the system. People can die of starvation or for any other reason around that church, it just doesn’t give a dam.

How can a church (any church for that matter) that claims to be the height of compassion and charity be so bloody cheap and lack so much human charity when it comes to disasters of that proportion? It’s simply because a church is a business and businesses don’t give money away unless there’s a promise of a good return. One thing is sure however. It hasn’t received money from me in many, many years and it won’t in any future.

I’m an atheist because I think! Therefore I think because I’m an atheist.


© 2012 Jean-Paul Gosselin


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Take this with you.

The pope goes to visit the Seven Dwarfs. As he is finishing his speech on comparative religions, Dopey raises his hand to ask a question.

"Mr. Pope, are there any dwarf nuns in Rome?".

"No Dopey," responds the Pontiff, "there are not".

"Mr. Pope, are there any dwarf nuns anywhere in Italy?", Dopey questions.

"No Dopey," chuckles the Pope, "there are no dwarf nuns in Italy."

"Mr. Pope," Dopey asks pleadingly, "are there any dwarf nuns anywhere in the world?"

"No Dopey," the Pope says sadly, "there are no dwarf nuns anywhere in the world."

And softly in the background the six remaining dwarves start chanting, "Dopey screwed a penguin, Dopey screwed a penguin."


Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!----PROSPERO ANO NUEVO!----BONNE ET HEUREUSE ANNEE!  

Thursday, December 1, 2011

They still believed in god. ( What was wrong with them?)

Some people believe in god no matter what.

 Q. Yes way. No way.

 A. Yes way.


Ever since the catholic bible has been written, accusing the Jews of killing Jesus-Christ, those people have been discriminated against, stepped on, beaten, exiled, killed and incinerated. A group of them would establish a community in some European country and things would be fine for a short or relatively long period of time and then, for an unclear, somber reason evocated by some asshole, they would become unwanted overnight. “Good people”, Christians, would chase them out of their established homes and take possession of their belongings as if nothing had happened and as if it was their right to display such deranged behavior. Spain is a fine example of this madness under the reign of the very catholic queen Isabella. Of course, in treating this subject, we can’t forget Germany which at the time was under the guide of a certain dictator called: Adolf Hitler.

Some black people of this world were enslaved following tribal conflicts in Africa. I supposed that a certain percentage of vanquished warriors in any battle in the world, throughout history, ended in this situation as well. Black people captured other black people in Africa and sold them to white people who took them to the Americas in order to serve other white people as slaves. Their term of service was hard work, no pay, from the time that they were bought until the time of their death. During that period of service they were fed the strict necessary food that they needed to survive and punishment for real or imaginary infractions to the set code of life as a slave could be whipping, starving, or even death by shooting or hanging in order to show others an example. During all the time that slavery existed in the southern U.S.A. you never heard the Christian church (business) reprimand the slave owner on his morally unacceptable conduct and mentally twisted behavior because he would donate interesting sums of money to the local church in order to keep it happy and especially, quiet.

I’m the type of guy with a good sense of logic, a just as good analytic mind and a fairly good sense of understanding different situations. That’s just the way that I’m made, I suppose. However I must admit that I’m completely screwed-up concerning the following. How in the world could people who came out of Hitler’s concentration camps weighing eighty, ninety or one hundred pounds of skin and bones and on whose head their invisible, imaginary god had shit for so many years, could go back to adoring that bastard god?

How could people who had never been made aware of the supposed existence of an invisible, imaginary god before they were brought to the Americas decide, once they were freed, to build churches and make him their master after he had allowed white people to do what they had done to them? I don’t know what drives intelligent people to do things like that, it’s complete and utterly nonsense. I just don’t understand. If you’ve got an intelligent and reflected answer to my questioning please let me know of it.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin

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I’m an atheist because I think! Therefore I think because I’m an atheist.

Copyright 2012

Thank you.


Take this with you.

Quickie in the bushes.

There are two statues in a park. One is of a nude woman and one of a nude man. They had faced each other, across a pathway, for one hundred years when one day a magician came to them and made them alive. He told them that their live state would last thirty minutes and invited them to do whatever that they wished to do.

The male takes the female’s hand and leads her amongst the nearby bushes. After fifteen minutes of laughing and giggling, the two come back where the magician was standing.

He asked them if they enjoyed themselves and they answered yes. He reminded them that they still had fifteen minutes to go and suggested that they can go back to the bushes if they so desired.

The male asked the female if she wanted to and she said: ”Yes” adding: ”This time you hold the pigeon and I’ll shit on its head”.


Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.        

MERRY CHRISTMAS------FELIZ NAVIDAD-----JOYEUX NOEL




Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Your soul, my soul. (A pure invention)

Everyone has a soul.

 Q. Yes way? No way?

 A. No way.


The three monotheistic religions of this world have succeeded in convincing their followers that they have “a soul” and that that soul has to be pure in order to be admitted into heaven after death. If that supposed soul is so important in the after-life of the followers of those religions, you’d be inclined to think that that soul would be an integral part of all human beings and be present at the exact moment of everyone’s conception, but that’s not the case.

For the muslims, allaah sends an angel to breathe the soul into the foetus some one hundred and twenty days after conception. (Reported by Muslim, 1528).

As far as the jews are concerned, the time at which the soul enters the body isn’t specified but the belief that it exists is considered.

Of course, in order for the human being to acquire its soul, the catholic (christian) church had to make it a costly ceremony and if a person wasn’t baptized, he or she didn’t have a soul. The catholic church has always been the champion of costly ceremonies in order to bring as much money as it could into its coffers.

If you haven’t been baptized (in order to acquire a soul), you’re considered by that church to be very low as a human being, so low in fact that you’re considered to be close to nothing. At the time when the Spanish conquistadors enslaved Central and South American Indians in order to make them work in gold and silver mines, Charles V, king of that era, wrote the pope and asked him if it was proper “christian behavior” to do that. The pope, in all his greatness, answered that it was ok “because those people didn’t have a soul” (in other words, they hadn’t been baptized). Of course, besides the king and the catholic church of Spain, the church headquarters in Rome received its cut of the treasure as well.

I was born in Quebec City in nineteen forty-one and in those years the baby was, the day after its birth, taken from the hospital to the church in order to be baptized. What was the reason given? If the baby died before being baptized, it would die without a soul and would have to spend time in purgatory before being allowed to go to heaven. What was the real reason? At that time there were still a fair amount of babies who died soon after birth and when it happened, the catholic church lost the potential revenue that that person would have provided during his or her existence. The churche’s reasoning? Why not get income from that child’s parents right now in case he or she dies soon. Amassing as much money as possible has always and will always be that church’s (business) mentality.

In the reality of life your soul is no more than what is commonly called your conscience which is part of your brain. It allows everyone the capacity to judge right from wrong, and this, starting at quite a young age. When your body dies, your brain does too and so does your conscience. Everything slowly rots in the earth and all is well. Somebody else with his or her own conscience has already taken your place and might, unfortunately, be brainwashed and programmed to be a believer in the god of the bible and to also make those churches even richer.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin


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Take this with you.

A middle aged woman has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she has a near death experience. During that experience she sees God and asks if this is it.

God says no and explains that she has another 30 years to live. Upon her recovery she decides to just stay in the hospital and have a face lift, liposuction, breast augmentation, tummy tuck, etc.

She even has someone come in and change her hair color. She figures since she's got another 30 years she might as well make the most of it. She walks out of the hospital after the last operation and is killed by an ambulance.

She arrives in front of God and complains: "I thought you said I had another 30 years!!

God replies, "Sorry, I didn't recognize you."


Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.        

     

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The man who created god. (An extraordinary businessmsn for his time.)

A man created god.

   Q. Yes way? No way?
                                           
                                                      A. Yes way.


If and when some of us ever think of the people who lived about three thousand years ago in Palestine and the immediate surrounding area, we probably have a tendency to imagine them as being an uneducated and backward civilization. In terms of education the answer is yes but in terms of backwardness it’s a straight no. The only difference between them and us is knowledge and understanding of the surrounding world. 

Their way of living was much comparable to ours. A daily routine existed and they had their drunks and thieves and lazy members of society as we do. There were small businesses at the village market that only required the work of their owner in order to function properly and there were larger ones such as wine and beer making, animal hide tanning, olive growing and olive oil extracting that had to hire workers in order to reach success.

There were intelligent and resourceful businessmen present in every day life but were there super, extraordinary businessmen among them capable of foreseeing the potentially “highly successful” results of their endeavors? I’m talking here about remarkable men comparable to Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, men who had the skills to forge the manner in which people think and behave and who were capable of enough foresight and displayed the required skills to develop a business to the point were it would become recognized and considered as a super business. The answer to my question is yes; one.

There was, in that area, at that particular time, one man who was able to recognize that the population, in general, needed to have something or someone to hang on to in order to function properly in its daily life. That same population also believed in some sort of after life and could not imagine that after one dies that it’s all over for him. That same guy also noticed that not only rich men were willing and ready to sacrifice an animal to some god of their choice but that the poorest of people were doing the same thing as well, although it only might have been a chicken and that the sacrifice of that animal meant that their children would go without food for a day or two. His conclusion was that all walks of life wanted to believe and were ready and happy to give, no matter as to what their financial status was. 

It was at that moment that a light came on in his head and that he decided to invent one, single, imaginary god whom he credited with the creation of the earth and humanity, and whom you could join and live with, for eternity, in your afterlife. Wasn’t that enough to make everybody happy? You bet it was! He developed his idea, established rules of living for his future followers and that there should be a member contribution towards his movement and hit the road carrying his soapbox under his arm. And bring gold into the kitty, he did! Thousands of ounces of it but not only did he create a religion to which millions now adhere to and contribute millions to, he successfully infiltrated the king’s dictatorship and managed to have it considered as a tax-exempt business. I humbly and cheerfully lift my hat off to that man for his genius. 

The man and his religion did so well that he eventually decided to build a large temple in order to gather all of his followers in one place at convenient times. The more often that he gathered them and the more people that there were to those gatherings equaled to only one, expected result; more money was put in the kitty.

He, and eventually the high priests who followed him, was able to raise so much gold that king Nebuchadnezzar II decided some five hundred years BC to invade Jerusalem in order to steal the treasure before destroying the temple. In the year seventy A.D., the Romans who needed lots of money in order to build the Coliseum, did exactly the same thing. 

When you read the word “treasure” you know damn well that that word means big, big amounts of money (gold). So for all of you who still think that sex runs the world, I think that it’s time for you to believe that religious money does.


Whether you agree with or have an objection to my blog, leave a comment. I’m open to favorable or unfavorable criticism and what you write might enlighten other readers or myself. Thank you.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin


Take this with you.

Several years ago, the Catholic Church required women to wear a head covering in order to enter the sanctuary. One Sunday a lady arrived without her head covering. The priest informed her that she couldn’t enter without it.

A few moments later, the lady re-appeared wearing her blouse tied to her head. The shocked priest said: "Madam, I cannot allow you to enter this holy place without your wearing a blouse."

"But Father, I have a divine right," she claimed.

 "Yes, I see. And your left one isn't bad either, but you still must wear a blouse to enter *this* church!" he insisted.


Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.       




Thursday, September 1, 2011

Professional jurors. (The subject should be considered).

Should jurors be professionally trained?

 Q. Yes way?  No way?

 A. Yes way.


If you’re reading this article, it might not be a bad idea to first read last month’s titled: “Temporary insanity, my ass.” When I wrote it I was mad, and still am, regarding the judiciary system in our country and others. But, alone, who am I to change the system?

When psychiatrists, people who shamelessly pretend to be “capable to visualize” what goes on in someone’s head were originally accepted as defense witnesses the following, unwritten, but then generally accepted moral law was brutally thrown out the courtroom windows. What I’m writing about went like this: “No adult person should be permitted to pretend to have lost the control of his or her mind because of the use of liquor, drugs, any other cerebral altering substance or the influence of another person. An adult should always remain in full control of his or her actions at all times.” The preceding sounded good and fair to me and most people then and it still sounds the same today. I don’t feel that this is asking too much of anyone.

Psychiatrists who pretend that they are capable of knowing as to what goes on in someone’s mind, but who probably wouldn’t be able to find the pile of manure behind the barn, are in my opinion, full of shit. The person sitting in front of them doesn’t have to be a brain surgeon in other to fool those idiots. One good, solid, never altered story will make any of those guys look like the idiots that they really are and a person will literally be able to GET AWAY WITH MURDER. 

Because insanity is such a deeply rooted state of mental disorder and disability, it should be impossible for a person to be allowed to plead temporary insanity in any court of law but some do and those pleas are unfortunately accepted by the judges sitting in our courts and, very sadly, considered by inexperienced and sometimes very gullible members of juries. A person can’t honestly claim to be insane for thirty or sixty minutes any more than a woman can claim to be pregnant for thirty or sixty minutes. You are or you aren’t. It’s as simple as this.

The above brings me right back to my argument that members of juries should be professionally trained in order to render honest, reflected and deeply considered verdicts amongst the choices offered by the judge. As things stand right now some potential jurors are simply not intellectually or mentally equipped and prepared in order to be in a position to properly deal with very shrewd and very experienced defense lawyers.

However, we all know that the source of the problem isn’t the fact that, in general, people who are selected as jurors lack a lot of experience and knowledge that should be the property of such people. The real impairment of the justice system resides in the fact that our courts will accept the witnessing of psychiatrists who pretend that they can see what goes on in a person’s head when it’s quite easy for anyone to understand that if a person decides to fool those guys, it’s the easiest thing in the world. So keep on dreaming world because the justice system won’t be changed in the near or any future. Too bad!

What do you think?

N.B. As I’ve mentioned at the beginning, it might not be a bad idea to read last month’s article titled: “Temporary insanity, my ass” in order to understand my frustrations concerning the subject.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin

 
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Take this with you.

Maria is a devout Catholic.  (No condoms for her!)  She gets married and has 17 children...and then her husband dies. She remarries two weeks later...and has 22 children by her second husband. She dies.

At her wake, the priest looks tenderly at Maria as she lies in her coffin, looks up to the heavens, and says, "At last...they're finally together." A man standing next to him asks, "Excuse me, Father, but do you mean her and her FIRST husband, or her and her SECOND husband?"

"No," the priest says politely, "I mean her LEGS."


Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.      














Monday, August 1, 2011

Temporary insanity my ass.

         A person can be insane for thirty minutes or one hour.

Q. Yes way?   No way?

A. No way.

On July 5th, 2011, on the same day that Casey Anthony was found not guilty in Florida of killing her young daughter, doctor Guy Turcotte was declared, in Montreal, not criminallyresponsible of stabbing his two young children to death. The man pleaded guilty to his actions and took the stand on his own behalf.

The man is a doctor, a cardiologist. He is therefore, in most people’s eyes, an intelligent and diligent person but he’s also a mean calculating bastard who should have never been recognized: not criminally responsible for his actions, for reason of temporary insanity.

In his testimony he said that he also wanted to commit suicide. The man is a doctor who knows exactly what sort of drug will kill him instantly and, not only that, those drugs were readily available to him at his place of work. All he had to do was to bring some home on that sad day. Instead, he supposedly tried to commit suicide by drinking car windshield washing liquid. In other words he wanted to punish his wife for having an affair with a family friend and also wanted to live in order to see her suffer.

Before killing his children he brought them to rent films at a video shop and looked and acted very normally on the shop’s security video. He let them watch the films and then put them to bed. Afterwards, according to his testimony, he proceeded to drink a certain amount of the windshield washing liquid, just enough to make himself sick. At eight pm. he went into the children’s bedroom and stabbed one child seventeen times and the other twenty-nine times. Twenty-seven minutes later he called the baby-sitter to tell her that her services wouldn’t be required on the following day and called his realty agent to cancel a forthcoming meeting.

At eight thirty-five he called his mother and talked to her during one complete hour. Now does that really sound to you like a man who wants to commit suicide. Absolutely not, it sounds like a man who did what he wanted to do, that is punishing his wife, and who didn’t have any real plan to commit suicide, as he claimed.

By taking the stand at his own trial the bastard planned everything so that, with his own sob story and the favorable testimonies of the psychiatrists hired for his defense, the members of the jury would lean in his favor. He cried, said that he loved his children very much and said that he was remorseful for their deaths. He also said that the reason that he killed them was that he didn’t want them to find him dead on the next morning And that’s exactly what has happened. That dozen idiots found him “not criminally responsible” for the death of his loving children.

As normal, law abiding, morally and mentally stable members of our society what should we be lead to think of a justice system that allows such garbage to fall through the cracks? The answer is not much and the worst thing is that we can’t, as ordinary citizens, do anything about it. But there’s one man who can (I can’t remember what the name of his position is) and he does. He’s decided to appeal the verdict in appeals court. I wish that man good luck from the bottom of my heart.

What do you think?

N.B. Next month’s article will deal with jurors.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin


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 Take this with you.

Sure indication that you have PMS

Everyone around you has an attitude problem.

You're adding chocolate chips to your cheese omelet

Your husband is suddenly agreeing to everything that you say.

Everyone's head looks like an invitation to batting practice.

You're convinced there's a God and he's male.

You're counting down the days until menopause.

You're sure that everyone is scheming to drive you crazy.

The ibuprofen bottle is empty and you bought it yesterday.

Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.



Friday, July 1, 2011

Women discrimination. (You can only blame the bible ladies).



  1. The bible discriminates against women.
 Q. Yes way? No way?

 A. Yes way.


Case number one: On a fine Sunday afternoon, after working hard for six days creating the earth, the imaginary god of the bible was sitting in his reclining chair drinking a good cold beer when he looked down at his work and noticed that the Adam guy was displaying a fine penal erection and strange behavior, by sneaking up to that little white goat from behind. “Oops” he said to himself. “I gave the lion his lioness, the tiger his tigress but I completely FORGOT to give Adam his Adamess.” So, we’re told, he reached down and grabbed one of Adam’s ribs with one hand and a handful of soil with the other, made a ball of all of that and threw it back to earth and pop, woman was invented, after man of course. The story goes on to say that; “man is the fruit of god and that woman is the fruit of man.” And if you read a little further, in chapter five, it’s written that god told Eve: “and thy desire shall be to thy husband and HE SHALL RULE OVER THEE.”


Case number two: The old bearded, deeply complexed man or men who wrote the old testament of that book didn’t give Adam enough judgment to figure out by himself in which hole his penis went but instead pushed discrimination even farther by pretending that a virgin insisted to have sex with a man. A virgin to whom the pleasures of sex were totally unknown? That’s pushing things a little far, isn’t it? But it’s not the end of the story. Following their game of “legs in the air “ it’s written that god told Adam: “Control the woman”. Well girls let me tell you that the orthodox jews took those words seriously and decided that their women’s place is in the house in order to make it a pleasant home and to cook great meals and it’s still the norm today for those guys. On the other hand, some muslins flipped completely on their heads and made their women “prisoners” of their homes. Not to be outdone, the priests of the catholic church, from their pulpits during Sunday mass, used to tell women that they were not allowed to sexually refuse their husband and women are still prohibited from becoming and will probably never be able to become priests because they’re considered as second class citizens by that church. What do you think of this shit?   


Another fine example of discrimination is found when we’re told that Sarah, Abraham’s wife, was unable to give her husband a child. They don’t suppose that the ninety-four year old fart might have been impotent, no. They put the blame on her by saying that she couldn’t have babies, that she was sterile.


A little further in the story we’re told that, after running away from burning Sodom and believing that they were the only people left on earth, Lot’s daughters waited until their father fell asleep from drinking before having sex with him, in order to repopulate the earth. Has it ever come to some jew’s or christian’s mind that it’s a fact of life that physically, it’s totally impossible for a dead drunk man to have an erection? Should it instead have been written that Lot committed incest on his daughters? Does the bible say that he was punished for his vile actions? Of course not, the blame had already been put on his daughters.


Who was finger-pointed for cutting Samson’s hair, thus robbing him of his extraordinary strength at the same time? Good old Delilah of course. And the girl became known as the first lady barber in the history of man.


Guess who asked for John the Baptist’s head on a platter. You guessed right, a woman, king Herod’s niece.

    
Jazebel is simply called a whore and in order to make things a little different they called Mary Magdelene a prostitute. Both words are synonymous with instigation to illicit sexual activities.  Bad, bad girls.


The only women about whom the writers of the new testament didn’t say anything bad are Mary and her mother Anne. They wrote unbelievable things about Mary but although they didn’t write anything bad, as they did about other women in both testaments, they didn’t write anything good either. In fact, for a supposedly good woman and JC’s mother, they wrote very little about her.


Ladies perhaps you should reflect intensely on this article because one of the most read book, in the entire world, discriminates a lot against women and if you’ve had a lot of ground to catch up with, it’s entirely due to that book and to nothing else. That book of which we’re told teaches love and charity, in reality, teaches prejudice and nothing but prejudice. It blames women so much for sexual temptation that it puts her on the same level as the so-called satan, hence the control of man over woman from the very beginning. Except for Mary, the story has nothing good to say about every single woman who is mentioned in it.


In my eyes woman is probably the prettiest and most sensitive of the earth’s inhabitants but the bible has taken away all of her incentive, dignity, self-respect and pride. Although it’s called the good book, it doesn’t impress me one dam bit in that sense. Keep on fighting for your rights as you’ve done in the past but please don’t act as enraged feminists do. I’ve always felt that acting nicely and in a civilized manner will get you everything that you seek and, don’t forget, men have been superbly brainwashed and extremely well programmed by priests, ministers rabbis and imams for so many years that you don’t turn that ship on a dime. Good luck girls all over the world.

© 2011 Jean-Paul Gosselin

What do you think?  

Whether you agree with or have an objection to my blog, leave a comment. I’m open to favorable or unfavorable criticism and what you write might enlighten other readers or myself. Thank you.

Take this with you.

Can you believe what people do in church these days?

I was in the church listening to the priest's sermon when I saw a guy smoking a cigarette.

I was so amazed that I almost dropped my bottle of beer.

Have a swell day, stay relaxed, have a beer and don’t forget: keep smiling. Life is good. Buena la vida. La vie est belle.