Now I'll x-ray your mouth. (Thanks, but no thanks.)

X-rays can cause cancer.

                                                           Q. Yes way? No way?

A. Yes, yes way.

To those of you who have read my blog articles titled: “Clean your house”, “Open the window” and “Cancer prevention” you know that I have a deep aversion toward chemical products in the home or in the human body. Honestly I haven’t trusted x-rays either for a long part of my life and for the same reasons.

When I retired from the military I had to have a medical check-up which was the routine for any potential retiree. On that day I happened to be the last patient to see the doctor and asked her if we could talk. “Surely, what’s on your mind? Was her answer. To my question as to what she thought about x-rays she replied: “One x-ray is one x-ray too many”. “Wow”, was my reaction. An answer like this coming from the mouth of a doctor left its mark on my mind and since I’ve retired, although I have a yearly medical check-up, I’ve told my doctor that I would go for chest x-ray only every three years, to which she agreed.

Some fifteen or twenty years ago I went the dentist in order to have my teeth cleaned. At one point the assistant told me to follow her. I asked her why and she told me that it was to take an x-ray of my mouth. When I answered: “No way, and by the way, why do you need to do that in order to clean my teeth?”, she and the dentist looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders as if I came from another planet. I said to myself let them think what they want, I’m the one to decide if I’ll look after myself or not.

You see friends, being a dentist also means being in business and, in order to have a successful one, sales must be good and must also increase every year. But I’ll be damned if their sales are going to increase at risking my health.

The reason that I’m writing on this subject today is because of a study results that were recently published in the newspaper. That study was done at the school of medicine at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut between the years 2006 and 2011 and comprised 1433 patients. It was clearly established during that study that because of regular (yearly) mouth x-rays, some people could develop cancerous brain tumors. 

If that’s not clear enough for you, it is for me. If you don’t want to end up with cancer, stay away from x-rays as much as possible, be the master of your body, decide by yourself as to what goes or doesn’t go into your body. You’ll die a happier person.

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© 2012 Jean-Paul Gosselin

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Take this with you.

A guy walked into a bar in Alabama and ordered a white wine. Everybody sitting around the bar looked up, expecting to see some pitiful Yankee.

The bartender looked up and said, "You ain't from around here, are ya? Where ya from, boy?"

The guy said, "I'm from Iowa."

The bartender asked, "What the heck you do in Iowa?"

The guy responded, "I'm a taxidermist."

The bartender asked, "Now just what the heck is a taxidermist?"

The guy said nervously, "I mount animals."

The bartender grinned and shouted out to the whole bar, "It's okay boys, he's one of us! "

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.

Push my camel. (But push evenly.)

Moses lived forty years in the desert.

 Q. Yes way? No way?

 A. No way.

Amongst all of the fantastic stories that are found in the bible one tells the reader that Moses took with him six hundred thousand people into the desert with him. Let alone the parting of the Red sea, which in itself is quite a feat, it’s said that they spent forty years in there.

In reality it’s written that he took six hundred thousand people and a multitude. In anyone’s book a multitude could have been one, two, ten or and additional six hundred thousand people. Who knows? Added to that statement, it’s says that: Neither had they prepared for themselves any victual and that they spent forty years roaming around in that desert. For any person believing that story and knowing the shorter human lifespan in those days, it means that thousands of individuals were born while many thousands died there. Where are the bones? Archeologists haven’t found any to this day.

Knowing very well that if a man decides to cross the Sinai desert from Egypt to Palestine without bringing a required supply of food and water that he’ll be dead in one week to ten days. How could that story be possible in anyone’s mind?

That’s where well planned child indoctrination or programming, if you wish, comes into line. As a small child we all loved that someone told us the story of Snow White or Cinderella and believed them up to a certain age at which time we realized that it was impossible for them to be true.

The stories in the bible are very comparable, in fantasy, to those that were told us in our youth and, what I find very difficult to understand is: How is it possible that so many adults of supposedly average intelligence still believe them. How is it possible that so many adults haven’t outgrown their need for such unbelievable stories? I can only imagine that for certain people their life has to contain a certain amount of fantasy for them to be happy.

© 2012 Jean-Paul Gosselin

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Take this with you.

Martian landing in the 1970s.

Two Martians land in the middle of the night in a closed gas station. They get out of their space ship. The Martians walked up to a gas pump. One said to the other ," I think these are earth people".
"Take me to your leader!" said the first Martian. No response.
The second Martian whispered to his partner, "I don't think we should screw with this one".
The first Martian said "Take me to your leader or I’m going to blow you to kingdom come!" No response.
With that, the first Martian took out his laser gun and zapped the gas pump. It blew up and so did the gas station and the Martians were thrown into the air and landed in a tree.
The second Martian said to the other, "I TOLD YOU, WE SHOULDN"T HAVE SCREWED AROUND WITH A GUY WHO CAN HANG HIS PENIS IN HIS EAR!"

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.

The deluge. (there just isn't enough water.

The deluge really happened.

Q. Yes way. No way.

A. No way.

The text that follows is an extract from an unpublished manuscript called: “The legend of Jesus “, © 2008 by Jean-Paul Gosselin.

 The deluge

I suppose that the majority of people has learned, in its young years, about the principle of rainmaking and understands its functioning. Water evaporates from the earth’s oceans,lakes and rivers into the atmosphere thereby forming clouds of water vapor which, after sufficient cooling, is then transformed into water, showering the earth with rain. This cycle has faithfully, although not identically or uniformly, been repeated through the history of the earth.

The bible tells us that god informed Noah that as much rain would fall on earth as the tallest mountain is high, plus fifteen cubits. A cubit is an ancient unit of measurement

equivalent to the length of a man’s arm taken from his elbow to the tip of his longest, or in this case, the middle finger. After averaging the length of a few measurements we find that the final figure that was then generally adopted is twenty inches and the tallest mountain on earth we also know is Everest.

Mount Everest, it’s been determined, culminates at twenty-nine thousand and twenty-nine feet above sea level. If we add fifteen cubits or twenty-five feet to its height we arrive at a total of twenty-nine thousand and fifty-four feet. Dividing this last amount by forty, which is the length of time in days that we are told that it rained, we can then establish that seven hundred and twenty-six feet deep of water fell each day that the deluge lasted. In order to find out as to how much rain fell during each hour we have to divide this figure by twenty-four hours and we are left starring at the unbelievable amount of thirty feet or, if you wish, six inches per minute..

You see, Pauline, it’s naturally and mathematically impossible for two feet of water to fall to earth when only one foot has evaporated from it and, even if the god of the bible had completely drained the earth of its water and returned it in the form of rain, that rain would simply have filled the cavities left empty by the evaporation, without causing any inundation. Where then has he taken the required extra water from? Certainly not from outer space because it’s been proven that there’s none on the moon and that it’s only present in micro and perhaps nano-quantities on Mars and probably on the other planets as compared to the volume found on earth.

Has the deluge really happened or is it just another story invented by whomever wrote the old testament portion of the bible and that the catholic (Christian) church uses in order to show the power of its invisible god?

It’s for you to judge Pauline.

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Take this with you.

It was a sunny Saturday morning on the course and I was beginning my pre-shot routine,

visualizing my upcoming shot, when a voice came over the clubhouse loudspeaker.

"Would the gentleman on the woman's tee back up to the men's tee please!!"

I was still deep in my routine, seemingly impervious to the interruption.

Again the announcement, "Would the MAN on the WOMEN'S tee kindly back up to the men's tee."

I simply ignored the guy and kept concentrating, when once more, the man yelled:

"Would the man on the woman's tee back up to the men's tee, PLEASE!

I finally stopped, turned, looked through the clubhouse window directly at the person with the microphone and shouted back,

"Would the person in the clubhouse kindly shut up and let me play my second shot?"

 

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.

I’m an atheist. (Dedicated to practicing jews, christians and muslims.)

I’m a weird person because I’m an atheist.

Q. Yes? No way?

A. No way.

If I eat too much I become fat, just like you. If I bleed, my blood is red, just like yours. If I cut myself it hurts me, as it does you. If I loose someone whom I love, I’m sad just as you are. If someone whom I love becomes a dope-head, I’m concerned, just as you are. If I stupidly talk on the telephone or text while driving my car, I become liable to have a deadly accident, just as you do. If I have sex, I enjoy it just as you do. As you can easily judge, you and I are very alike human beings.

As a child I was indoctrinated and programmed by my parents and the catholic church, just as you were in your environment, and I’ve read the bible just as you have read the torah or the koran and understand what is said in that book just as you do. So, what the hell is the fundamental difference between you and I?

The difference is that you’ve read it and that I’ve read and analyzed it. I’ve indeed scrutinized every element of every anecdote and sub-story that is written in the bible. I’ve dissected every feat claimed in that book and have come to the only possible conclusion that could be reached after such work. The stories are basically written in a manner as to make you (children included) believe that a wonderful after-life truly exists in some place called heaven and to scare the shit out of you (burning hell) if you don’t. Anyone who believes whatever claim that is made in either of those books will believe that the big bad wolf did, indeed, blow down two of the three little pigs houses and that Cinderella’s carriage was really transformed into a pumpkin. Those books simply amount to a veritable similarity with children’s books. No less and no more!

Ludvig Holberg, (1684-1754), said what I’m trying to say in a better manner than I or anyone else could ever say it. Holberg criticized school doctrines in Christianity, arguing that "Children must be made into men, before they can become Christians"^{[6][citation needed]} and "If one learns Theology, before learning to become a man, one will never become a man."^{[7][citation needed]}

In other words, once a person has been programmed, especially at a young age, it generally becomes impossible for that person to use her faculty that should normally allow her to be able to reflect on a particular situation and to analyze it with the goal to draw her own conclusions and to make up her own mind concerning that situation. And that’s why theists will quote the stupidities found in those books when confronted with an objection to their accustomed way of thinking.

Well I sometimes enjoy quoting bible writings to you, theists, as in the following: To anti-abortion Christians, for instance, I’ll ask as to why their god saved four people from the fires of Sodom and Gomorrah and eight people from the deluge and judged it admissible and acceptable to senselessly and cruelly kill millions of innocent babies and children. It normally takes care of the argument right there and then and, if I stretch my ear a little, I can faintly hear someone mumble: “Fuck, why didn’t we think of that.”

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.

A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found", the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!"

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.

      

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!  

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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Copyright 2012

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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

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.