‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law’ is the often misinterpreted saying of one Aleister Crowley. He did not mean ‘Ah sod it, just do what the hell you like’. He meant, roughly, ‘Attempt to achieve those things you feel you should achieve’. Maybe that’s not the best way of putting it. Maybe the original quote was the best way after all.
Modern Pagans (some versions) have something similar – ‘An’ it harm none, do as thou will’, which is perhaps a little clearer. Do whatever you want as long as you cause no harm to anyone else.
Mainstream religions, as far as I can discover, have no equivalent to either of those sayings. They are all based on a great big sign saying ‘Obey, or be damned forever’.
Which is Libertarian? I doubt anyone needs it explained.
The last few random and often wandering babbles have been skirting around an underlying point. One hinted at in the middle by the mention of Alex Jones, the groaning fighter for everyone’s freedoms – except the ones he doesn’t like. In Alex Jones’ Libertarianism, everyone should have freedom except smokers. He doesn’t like smokers. They are not real people in the eyes of the antismoker so do not deserve even one single meeting place where they can have a drink and a smoke and not be forced into another lifestyle.
God, Allah, whatever you want to call him, is not a Libertarian. Okay, even Libertarians can agree with some of those commandments. No killing, no stealing, no fraud (‘false witness’), that sort of thing. All perfectly legitimate and justifiably enforceable rules. We might want anarchy but we don’t want to live in bloody chaos. Letting everyone make their own decisions can only work where there are real consequences for those decisions that cause harm to others.
Religion demands much more. You must live as directed, down (in some cases) to minute details such as how you wash and how you dress. Who you associate with and what foods you can eat. All those not of your religion are Wrong and must be shown the error of their ways. That is not libertarianism.
Neither is the Dawkins version of ‘atheism’ which really should come down to ‘You believe it if you like, I have other stuff to do over here so if you don’t mind, just leave me alone, okay?’ but that is no longer what atheism is. Now it is big signs on buses, and books and meetings and derision aimed at those who beleive differently and a determination to convince the world that all religion is Wrong because they do not think the atheist way. That is why I no longer refer to myself as atheist. I am an apathist.
In the past I have defined ‘apathist’ as ‘there may or may not be a God, I don’t care’ but it is perhaps more accurately defined as ‘I don’t care what you believe and have no interest in changing your mind’.
Evolution does not disprove God. All it disproves is the 6000-year limit imposed as the age of the Earth. There are no dates in the Bible. None. The 6000 years was the invention of a man, working with an incomplete manuscript. We know the early Church edited the Bible and took out quite a few books it didn’t like. Some of those books are found but how many more were there, that have not been found? Adding up all the ages of the Biblical past is going to have some very large gaps in the sum.
Also, I cannot fathom why the religious will insist that Adam counted his age from the date of his creation. He had no knowledge of numbers until he ate of the Tree of Knowledge. He lived in a perfect garden with no seasons so had no means to keep track of years. He was immortal so had no reason to keep track of anything. If his age counts from the date he learned about age and years and seasons and the rest of the world, and was then summarily expelled into it, there is no limit to how long he would have been in Eden. That alone would demolish the 6000 years argument and end the bickering about evolution.
Is Science better? In theory, yes. In practice it is exactly the same. You won’t believe the trouble I had publishing my work on oxygen levels in the intestine back in the 1990s. ‘There is no oxygen in the intestine’ was the mantra. There isn’t much, it’s true, and it declines to zero in the middle of the intestine, away from that vast surface area of the blood-infused gut wall, but it is there and it is measurable. And it matters. In terms of gut bacterial metabolism and the location of species within the digesta, it matters a lot. Yet I came up against idiot reviewers who tried to convert my mmol/l figures into Pascals and claimed that my trace detections were greater than atmospheric oxygen. One particularly daft professor claimed that oxygen could not possibly transfer from the blood to the intestinal contents because haemoglobin bound oxygen too tightly for it to be released… which makes blood pretty damn usless for supplying internal organs with oxygen.
I won in the end, but that’s all in the past now.
Incidentally, one of my PhD supervisors came up with a real outside-the-box gadget for measuring nanomolar levels of oxygen. A membrane-covered tiny cell filled with a culture of Vibrio fischeri on the end of an optical fibre linked to a photomultiplier. V. fischeri is one of the bacteria that makes the sea glow at night. I’ve seen that and it’s amazing. It produces light depending on how much oxygen is around, and it’ll produce light in direct relation to how much oxygen there is – even at extremely low levels. There were many brilliant people in science in the past. That was before the political grant-suckers took control.
Science should be a perfect example of libertarianism but it is infested with control freaks and idiots and dogmatic fools. In some parts it still works but a lot of it is now no better than religion. Believe in the Established Way and do not dare question the Hallowed Ones.
I try to be Libertarian, ever since I heard about the concept on Devil’s Kitchen and realised that mostly I was already there anyway. I really don’t care if people want to believe in Salvation after death. It does not harm me. It does not even harm me when various religions want to chat with me at my door or in the street. If I have no time I just say ‘No time, sorry’ and carry on. If I have time I will hear what they have to say. None have convinced me but to my mind, they should always be free to try. The Dawkins Cult would not allow them that freedom.
Science can claim that living this way or that way is bad for us and should be free to say it. As we should be free to ignore it or to take it on board, judge the risk and either change or carry on as before. Science and especially political pseudoscience should have no power to impose their way of life on the rest of us. The Scientific Inquisition is now a reality in almost every GP’s surgery. Is that what we want?
That is the result of selective libertarianism. ‘Everyone should be free to live as they wish except…’
Libertarianism is an absolute. You are or you are not. There is no middle road.
I do not agree with UKIP’s curbs on immigration. There is no need. All we have to do is stop paying them to come. The problem is not immigration, it is benefits and free healthcare for any bugger from anywhere on the planet. Someone comes here for a better life and is prepared to work for it, fine. Someone comes here for a free house, free money and the right to force us to live like the place they ‘escaped’ from, stop giving them freebies and they won’t come. It’s not rocket science.
I do not rail against religion because I cannot prove that religion is wrong. I do not believe but am I right to not believe? I don’t know for sure. Can anyone provide absolute proof that I am right to not believe? Nobody can. One day I will find out and it will either be oblivion or a very, very red face.
Even antismokers have the right to be sanctimonious gits. When they impose their views by closing all options to us they violate that ultimately libertarian ‘An’ it harm none…’ principle and shift into totalitarianism.
So what’s it going to be then, droogies? Are we libertarians or are we ‘libertarians except for the ones we don’t approve of’? Are we humans or are we Nazis? No in between there is, young Jedi.
Either we accept that other people are different and might sincerely hold beliefs we might personally find mad, or we try to force others to believe as we do.
There is no in between.
Which world do you want?
“I do not agree with UKIP’s curbs on immigration. There is no need. All we have to do is stop paying them to come. The problem is not immigration, it is benefits and free healthcare for any bugger from anywhere on the planet. Someone comes here for a better life and is prepared to work for it, fine. Someone comes here for a free house, free money and the right to force us to live like the place they ‘escaped’ from, stop giving them freebies and they won’t come. It’s not rocket science.”
That, plus, idiots like Abu Panda, who publicly proclaim they want to kill us or convert us all to Islam, deport them with the biggest trebuchet ever made, which should be built at Dover. (I reckon with modern composite materials like CF and kevlar you could make a huge fucker today, should be able to launch a cow or an idiot pretty much to the middle east)
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Public proclamation of intent to kill should result in arrest and charge. Especially where it is done repeatedly.
That doesn’t happen – unless some native Brit makes a casual remark on Twitter…
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ATHEISTS ARE THE LEAST LIBERTARIAN
Do ‘atheists’ think of themselves as libertarian? There are campaigns at the Humanist and Secular societies to ban various concepts, like faith schools. Except that every school will be a faith school, based on their atheism/Paganism.
Some people shout about getting religion out of schools. What they mean is get Christianity out of schools. There’s still plenty of religion there.
I read yesterday that everybody has a need to worship something. I don’t disbelieve it.
Despite ‘atheists’ making up a fraction of the population, they think they can boss everyone else around.
Someone at Frank’s linked to this blog post yesterday: If You Disagree You Are Full Of Hate, You Bigot. He writes,
“Remember that Colorado bakery who refused to bake a cake for a homosexual couple? So-called same-sex marriage is illegal in Colorado, incidentally. No matter. The government said the man must still bake the cake in spite of his religious beliefs. And that he must undergo “sensitivity training”, which is the current euphemism for Reeducation Camp.”
The story in which these homosexuals take the hump shows how far some governments will go to attack an individual’s precious conscience because they worship ‘equality’ which means someone’s sex life (if you call that sex) is valued much higher than a conscience. This is how out of touch these people are who think they own ‘reason’.
A conscience is far more important than allegedly causing a few seconds of ‘offence’.
Not only that:
“In its decision, the panel required Phillips to submit quarterly reports for two years that show how he has worked to change discriminatory practices by altering company policies and training employees. Phillips also must disclose the names of any clients who are turned away.”
He is not planning on complying.
But he is up against religious fundamentalist ‘atheists’ in the seats of power. If there really is a human’s need to worship, it explains why militant ‘atheists’ get so protective of their beliefs and want to spread them by force – because they can.
I vote ‘atheists’ as the least libertarian inhabitant of earth. Even Muslim regimes will allow ‘dhimmis’ certain rights according to their way of life.
You could argue that atheism IS Paganism, but that’s a whole other topic.
Other people worship the earth and believe every word of climate ‘science’ and get very angry if you don’t. Some even demand ‘climate change denial’ be made a criminal offence. It is blasphemy to them. They have even banned us from having patio heaters and non-toxic light bulbs to appease their green god(dess).
As a believer in Christ, I’m pretty libertarian. If everyone followed His laws then we’d all get along far better than we do now and that’s a fact, but I feel no need to demand that ‘atheists’ accept my beliefs – or else. It doesn’t work that way, anyway.
The c6,000 year Biblical span is based on the genealogy, which I think is pretty accurate. True, we don’t know how long Eden was inhabited before Adam and Eve became as gods, knowing good and evil. But no Christian should believe the Theory of Evolution. Actually, no logical, rational person who has studied it and really considered it should. As for Christians, the order is wrong and also, with God being all-knowing, he is a genetics expert, so to create man in His image would obviously be a doddle, as well as providing us with the trees we needed for shelter and heat and gorgeous things to eat and amazing animals.
But, yes, Constantine and his cronies decided which books to include in the Bible. I think this has to be looked at. Of course, people can read the other scriptures themselves, but few do.
So, as a Christian, I would probably not be considered a libertarian by ‘atheists’ because I am against abortion (thou shalt not kill) and like the baker, “gay marriage”. But so is UKIP against SSM.
Another question is – can you really have a libertarian society? Would it work? We allegedly live in a ‘democracy’. But we don’t. We live in a demagoguecracy (rule by emotion rather than reason).
And who wants to live in a democracy anyway? 51% of the people telling the other 49% how to live. Two wolves and a sheep discussing what’s for dinner, etc.
The US had it right with the Constitution and Bill of Rights (as with our old English/British versions) wherewith we are endowed with inalienable rights which cannot be changed because of delicate flowers who feel ‘offended’ or anything else which comes along.
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I don’t know if a ‘libertarian society’ is possible. The Libertarian Party failed, remember, because it was made of individuals. To get any kind of party together you need some leaders and an awful lot of people who are prepared to follow those leaders. Libertarians just won’t stay in line long enough to do it.
You could get a faux-libertarian society where you convince a bunch of drones to follow you becasue of your libertarianism. The drones are still drones, they still want to be followers, but they would be the followers who pretty much want their government to deal with infrastructure and leave their personal lives alone.
Evolution – I don’t ‘believe’ in it either. I haven’t studied it in great detail because it’s not in my area of science, It’s a good idea backed up by a lot of evidence but has yet to provide absolute proof. Also, as someone else said, it’s not really science in that it is purely historical and not predictive. Plate tectonics can predict where the continets will slide to by next week (a few millimetres or so to the left) but evolution cannot predict what the next species will be.
Nonetheless, it is a coherent theory and the best science has at the moment.
As for those missing books of the Bible, I have copies here.
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Bugger. Stuart, I actually like you. But notwithstanding, I reckon you are madder than mad Jack MacMad on a particularly mad day. Clearly you believe what you spout, and for that you deserve some credit. But modern scientific thought seems to have bypassed you somehow. I’m bewildered how someone can believe that the earth is 6,000 years old. That takes some doing considering the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This time I read your mixture, in its entirety. In future, keep your musings, shorter. Less is more and there is much to be achieved with succinctness and restrained brevity. Mad old sausage, that you are.
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What is the evidence? You never say anything that’s not an insult or about the Inquisition. I know what I’m talking about. You don’t. And I don’t write to be liked, but to try and get some truth into thick skulls.
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Anti-religionists (who are not necessarily atheist or agnostic) need thick skulls precisely to fend off the bullshit projected by Creationists and other scripture-slaves. Look around you, Cowan, FFS just look around you! Does it look designed to you? Haemorrhoids, tsunamis, hardened earwax, myxamatosis, meteorites, … and why do we need so many species of humming bird?
Doryfera
johannae Blue-fronted Lancebill
ludovicae Green-fronted Lancebill
Androdon
aequatorialis Tooth-billed Hummingbird
Ramphodon
naevius Saw-billed Hermit
Glaucis
*dohrnii Hook-billed Hermit
aenea Bronzy Hermit
hirsuta Rufous-breasted Hermit
Threnetes
niger Sooty Barbthroat
loehkeni Bronze-tailed Barbthroat
leucurus Pale-tailed Barbthroat
ruckeri Band-tailed Barbthroat
Phaethornis
yaruqui White-whiskered Hermit
guy Green Hermit
syrmatophorus Tawny-bellied Hermit
superciliosus Long-tailed Hermit
malaris Great-billed Hermit
margarettae Margaretta Hermit
eurynome Scale-throated Hermit
*nigrirostris Black-billed Hermit
hispidus White-bearded Hermit
anthophilus Pale-bellied Hermit
bourcieri Straight-billed Hermit
philippii Needle-billed Hermit
squalidus Dusky-throated Hermit
augusti Sooty-capped Hermit
pretrei Planalto Hermit
subochraceus Buff-bellied Hermit
nattereri Cinnamon-throated Hermit
maranhaoensis Maranhao Hermit
gounellei Broad-tipped Hermit
ruber Reddish Hermit
stuarti White-browed Hermit
griseogularis Gray-chinned Hermit
longuemareus Little Hermit
idaliae Minute Hermit
Eutoxeres
aquila White-tipped Sicklebill
condamini Buff-tailed Sicklebill
Phaeochroa
cuvierii Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
Campylopterus
curvipennis Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
largipennis Gray-breasted Sabrewing
rufus Rufous Sabrewing
hyperythrus Rufous-breasted Sabrewing
duidae Buff-breasted Sabrewing
hemileucureus Violet Sabrewing
*ensipennis White-tailed Sabrewing
falcatus Lazuline Sabrewing
phainopeplus Santa Marta Sabrewing
villaviscensio Napo Sabrewing
Eupetomena
macroura Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
Florisuga
mellivora White-necked Jacobin
Melanotrochilus
fuscus Black Jacobin
Colibri
delphinae Brown Violet-ear
thalassinus Green Violet-ear
coruscans Sparkling Violet-ear
serrirostris White-vented Violet-ear
Anthracothorax
viridigula Green-throated Mango
prevostii Green-breasted Mango
nigricollis Black-throated Mango
veraguensis Veraguan Mango
dominicus Antillean Mango
viridis Green Mango
mango Jamaican Mango
Avocettula
recurvirostris Fiery-tailed Awlbill
Eulampis
holosericeus Green-throated Carib
jugularis Purple-throated Carib
Chrysolampis
mosquitus Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
Orthorhyncus
cristatus Antillean Crested Hummingbird
Klais
guimeti Violet-headed Hummingbird
Abeillia
abeillei Emerald-chinned Hummingbird
Stephanoxis
lalandi Black-breasted Plovercrest
Lophornis
ornata Tufted Coquette
gouldii Dot-eared Coquette
magnifica Frilled Coquette
delattrei Rufous-crested Coquette
stictolopha Spangled Coquette
melaniae Dusky Coquette
chalybea Festive Coquette
pavonina Peacock Coquette
insignibarbis Bearded Coquette
Paphosia
helenae Black-crested Coquette
adorabilis White-crested Coquette
Popelairia
popelairii Wire-crested Thorntail
langsdorffi Black-bellied Thorntail
*letitiae Coppery Thorntail
conversii Green Thorntail
Discosura
longicauda Racket-tailed Coquette
Chlorestes
notatus Blue-chinned Sapphire
Chlorostilbon
mellisugus Blue-tailed Emerald
aureoventris Glittering Emerald
canivetti Fork-tailed Emerald
ricordii Cuban Emerald
swainsonii Hispaniolan Emerald
maugaeus Puerto-Rican Emerald
gibsoni Red-billed Emerald
russatus Coppery Emerald
inexpectatus Berlepsch Emerald
stenura Narrow-tailed Emerald
alice Green-tailed Emerald
poortmani Short-tailed Emerald
auratus Cabanis Emerald
Cynanthus
sordidus Dusky Hummingbird
latirostris Broad-billed Hummingbird
Ptochoptera
iolaima Natterer Emerald
Cyanophaia
bicolor Blue-headed Hummingbird
Thalurania
furcata Crowned Woodnymph
watertonii Long-tailed Woodnymph
glaucopis Violet-capped Woodnymph
lerchi Lerch Woodnymph
Augasmall
cyaneoberyllina Berlioz Woodnymph
smaragdinea Emerald Woodnymph
Neolesbia
nehrkorni Nehrkorn Hummingbird
Panterpe
insignis Fiery-throated Hummingbird
Damophila
julie Violet-bellied Hummingbird
Lepidopyga
coeruleogularis Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
*lilliae Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird
goudoti Shining-green Hummingbird
Hylocharis
(Basilinna)
xantusii Black-fronted Hummingbird
leucotis White-eared Hummingbird
(Hylocharis)
eliciae Blue-throated Goldentail
sapphirina Rufous-throated Sapphire
cyanus White-chinned Sapphire
pyropygia Flame-rumped Sapphire
chrysura Gilded Hummingbird
(Eucephala)
grayi Blue-headed Sapphire
Chrysuronia
oenone Golden-tailed Sapphire
Goldmania
violiceps Violet-capped Hummingbird
Goethalsia
bella Pirre Hummingbird
Trochilus
polytmus Western Streamertail
scitulus Eastern Streamertail
Leucochloris
albicollis White-throated Hummingbird
Polytmus
guainumbi White-tailed Goldenthroat
milleri Tepui Goldenthroat
theresiae Green-tailed Goldenthroat
Leucippus
fallax Buffy Hummingbird
baeri Tumbes Hummingbird
taczanowskii Spot-throated Hummingbird
chlorocercus Olive-spotted Hummingbird
Taphrospilus
hypostictus Many-spotted Hummingbird
Amazilia
(Chionogaster)
chionogaster White-bellied Hummingbird
viridicauda Green-and-white Hummingbird
(Polyerata)
candida White-bellied Emerald
chionopectus White-chested Emerald
versicolor Versicolored Emerald
*luciae Honduras Emerald
fimbriata Glittering-throated Emerald
*distans Tachira Emerald
lactea Sapphire-spangled Emerald
amabilis Blue-chested Hummingbird
cyaneotincta Blue-spotted Hummingbird
rosenbergi Purple-chested Hummingbird
*boucardi Mangrove Hummingbird
franciae Andean Emerald
leucogaster Plain-bellied Emerald
cyanocephala Red-billed Azurecrown
microrhyncha Small-billed Azurecrown
(Saucerottia)
cyanifrons Indigo-capped Hummingbird
beryllina Berylline Hummingbird
cyanura Blue-tailed Hummingbird
saucerrottei Steely-vented Hummingbird
tobaci Copper-rumped Hummingbird
viridigaster Green-bellied Hummingbird
edward Snowy-breasted Hummingbird
(Amazilia)
rutila Cinnamon Hummingbird
yucatanensis Buff-bellied Hummingbird
tzacatl Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
handleyi Escudo Hummingbird
*castaneiventris Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird
amazilia Amazilia Hummingbird
viridifron Green-fronted Hummingbird
violiceps Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Eupherusa
*poliocerca White-tailed Hummingbird
eximia Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
*cyanophrys Blue-capped Hummingbird
nigriventris Black-bellied Hummingbird
Elvira
chionura White-tailed Emerald
cupreiceps Coppery-headed Emerald
Microchera
albocoronata Snowcap
Chalybura
buffonii White-vented Plumeleteer
urochrysia Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer
Aphantochroa
cirrochloris Sombre Hummingbird
Lampornis
clemenciae Blue-throated Hummingbird
amethystinus Amethyst-throated Hummingbird
viridipallens Green-throated Mountain-gem
hemileucus White-bellied Mountain-gem
castaneoventris White-throated Mountain-gem
cinereicauda Gray-tailed Mountain-gem
Lamprolaima
rhami Garnet-throated Hummingbird
Adelomyia
melanogenys Speckled Hummingbird
Anthocephala
floriceps Blossomcrown
Urosticte
benjamini Whitetip
Phlogophilus
hemileucurus Eucadorean Piedtail
harterti Peruvian Piedtail
Clytolaema
rubricauda Brazilian Ruby
Polyplancta
aurescens Gould Jewelfront
Heliodoxa
rubinoides Fawn-breasted Brilliant
leadbeateri Violet-fronted Brilliant
jacula Green-crowned Brilliant
xanthogonys Velvet-browed Brilliant
schreibersii Black-throated Brilliant
gularis Pink-throated Brilliant
branickii Rufous-webbed Brilliant
imperatrix Empress Brilliant
Eugenes
fulgens Magnificent Hummingbird
Hylonympha
*macrocerca Scissor-tailed Hummingbird
Sternoclyta
cyanopectus Violet-chested Hummingbird
Topaza
pella Crimson Topaz
pyra Fiery Topaz
Oreotrochilus
melanogaster Black-breasted Hillstar
estella Andean Hillstar
leucopleurus White-sided Hillstar
adela Wedge-tailed Hillstar
Urochroa
bougueri White-tailed Hillstar
Patagona
gigas Giant Hummingbird
Aglaeactis
cupripennis Shining Sunbeam
*aliciae Purple-backed Sunbeam
castelnaudii White-tufuted Sunbeam
pamela Black-hooded Sunbeam
Lafresnaya
lafresnayi Mountain Velvetbreast
Pterophanes
cyanopterus Great Sapphirewing
Coeligena
coeligena Bronzy Inca
wilsoni Brown Inca
*prunellei Black Inca
torquata Collared Inca
phalerata White-tailed Starfrontlet
bonapartei Golden-bellied Starfrontlet
orina Dusky Starfrontlet
helianthea Blue-throated Starfrontlet
lutetiae Buff-winged Starfrontlet
violifer Violet-throated Starfrontlet
iris Rainbow Starfrontlet
Ensifera
ensifera Sword-billed Hummingbird
Sephanoides
sephanoides Green-backed Firecrown
*fernandensis Juan Fernandez Firecrown
Boissonneaua
flavescens Buff-tailed Coronet
matthewsii Chestnut-breasted Coronet
hardini Velvet-purple Coronet
Heliangelus
mavors Orange-throated Sunangel
spencei Merida Sunangel
amethysticollis Amethyst-throated Sunangel
strophianus Gorgeted Sunangel
exortis Tourmaline Sunangel
viola Purple-throated Sunangel
micraster Little Sunangel
squamigularis Olive-throated Sunangel
speciosa Green-throated Sunangel
rothschildi Rothschild Sunangel
luminosus Glistening Sunangel
regalis Royal Sunangel
zusii Bogota Sunangel
Ericnemis
*nigrivestis Black-breasted Puffleg
soderstromi Soderstrom Puffleg
vestitus Glowing Puffleg
*godini Turquoise-throated Puffleg
cupreoventris Coppery-bellied Puffleg
luciani Sapphire-vented Puffleg
isaacsonii Isaacson Puffleg
mosquera Golden-breasted Puffleg
glaucopoides Blue-capped Puffleg
*mirabilis Colorful Puffleg
alinae Emerald-bellied Puffleg
*derbyi Black-thighed Puffleg
Haplophaedia
aureliae Greenish Puffleg
*lugens Hoary Puffleg
Ocreatus
underwoodii Booted Racket-tail
Lesbia
victortiae Black-tailed Trainbearer
nuna Green-tailed Trainbearer
Sappho
sparganura Red-tailed Comet
Polyonymus
caroli Bronze-tailed Comet
Zodalia
glyceria Purple-tailed Comet
Ramphomicron
microrhynchum Purple-backed Thornbill
dorsale Black-backed Thornbill
Metallura
phoebe Black Metaltail
theresiae Coppery Metaltail
purpureicauda Purple-tailed Thornbill
aeneocauda Scaled Metaltail
*baroni Violet-throated Metaltail
eupogon Fire-throated Metaltail
williami Viridian Metaltail
tyrianthina Tyrian Metaltail
iracunda Perija Metaltail
Chalcostigma
ruficeps Rufous-capped Thronbill
olivaceum Olivaceous Thornbill
stanleyi Blue-mantled Thornbill
heteropogon Bronze-tailed Thornbill
herrani Rainbow-bearded Thornbill
Oxypogon
guerinii Bearded Helmetcrest
Opisthoprora
euryptera Mountain Avocetbill
Taphrolesbia
*griseiventris Gray-bellied Comet
Aglaiocercus
kingi Long-tailed Sylph
coelestis Violet-tailed Sylph
Oreonympha
nobilis Bearded Mountaineer
Augastes
*scutatus Hyacinth Visorbearer
lumachellus Hooded Visorbearer
Schistes
geoffroyi Wedge-billed Hummingbird
Heliothryx
barroti Purple-crowned Fairy
aurita Black-eared Fairy
Heliactin
cornuta Horned Sungem
Loddigesia
*mirabilis Marvelous Spatuletail
Heliomaster
constantii Plain-capped Starthroat
longirostris Long-billed Starthroat
squamosus Stripe-breasted Starthroat
furcifer Blue-tufted Starthroat
Rhodopis
vesper Oasis Hummingbird
Thaumastura
cora Peruvian Sheartail
Philodice
mitchellii Purple-throated Woodstar
Doricha
enicura Slender Sheartail
eliza Mexican Sheartail
Tilmatura
dupontii Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird
Microstilbon
burmeisteri Slender-tailed Woodstar
Calothorax
lucifer Lucifer Hummingbird
pulcher Beautiful Hummingbird
Archilochus
colubris Ruby-throated Hummingbird
alexandri Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliphlox
evelynae Bahama Woodstar
bryantae Magenta-throated Woodstar
amethystina Amethyst Woodstar
Mellisuga
minima Vervain Hummingbird
*helenae Bee Hummingbird
Calypte
anna Anna’s Hummingbird
costae Costa’s Hummingbird
Stellula
calliope Calliope Hummingbird
Atthis
heloisa Bumblebee Hummingbird
ellioti Wine-throated Hummingbird
Myrtis
fanny Purple-collared Woodstar
Eulidia
*yarrellii Chilean Woodstar
Myrmia
micrura Short-tailed Woodstar
Acestrura
mulsant White-bellied Woodstar
decorata Decorated Woodstar
*bombus Little Woodstar
heliodor Gorgeted Woodstar
*berlepschi Esmeralda Woodstar
harterti Hartert Woodstar
Chaetocercus
jourdanii Rufous-shafted Woodstar
Selasphorus
platycercus Broad-tailed Hummingbird
rufus Rufous Hummingbird
sasin Allen’s Hummingbird
flammula Volcano Hummingbird
torridus Heliotrope-throated Hummingbird
simoni Cerise-throated Hummingbird
*ardens Glow-throated Hummingbird
scintilla Scintillant Hummingbird
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Alex Jones is a bit of an odd one. I have been a listener for many years now (since about 2002) and Jones actually does still smoke every now and again, when he does occasionally demonize smokers he is doing it to promote something that he is selling.
He does talk a lot of truth but he has such a drive for selling things that he will demonize anything in order to get a sale. He’s sell his own granny for a few bucks.
He’s still worth listening to though despite all his faults. 🙂
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*He’ll. This heat is getting to me! :-p
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I disagree. He’s Cointelpro. He’ll tell you 90%+ of the truth amid his ranting, but he’s a shill so I reckon it’s dangerous to take anything he says seriously. Search out the video of William Cooper dissecting Jones’s year 2000 fearmongering.
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“Mainstream religions, as far as I can discover, have no equivalent to either of those sayings. They are all based on a great big sign saying ‘Obey, or be damned forever’.
Just obeying, doing good works, is not enough.
Faith, not good works, is what matters “lest any man should boast”.
For most religious people on this Earth, ‘The Golden Rule’ and, the flip-side of it, the ‘Silver Rule’ of “Don’t do unto others what you do NOT want them to do unto you” is a condition of their beliefs.
Golden Rule in Islam
Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.
—Muhammad, The Farewell Sermon
The Qur’an commends:
“None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
—An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith 13 (p. 56)
This is a very ‘Libertarian’ concept.
Some religion leaders seem to have gotten astray from that.
As for ‘Evolution’, you are talking of a theory based on a very small sample size.
It is based on observations made on one planet in one solar syatem in a Universe that contains about 90,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 such systems.
Even if only one system per 1 billion had a life bearing planet, that leaves about 90,000,000,000,000 (90 trillion) such planets.
It is based on a world in the visible matter area, 85% of the matter in the Universe is not ‘visible matter’.
Visible matter is only about 2% of the ‘total’ content of the Universe.
Non-dark and dark energy make up about 70% of the ‘total’ content of the Universe.
If there are critters that are made of energy, they would be the dominent life form in the Universe.
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I think dark matter is angel shit. They’ve been out there since the beginning, it’s starting to build up to nasty levels now.
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Here is a chart for you if you are having difficulty in deciding which religion to believe in.
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As far as I know all religions seem to have a central shared theme. That is, be good and behave as best as you can when you are alive and that will get you into heaven which will be wonderful. Probably the best control ever conceived eh?
With that as a starting point, and the guilt added on top so if you do something you have to atone, for some it’s pretty ideal life although it’s pretty dull.
There was a period in my life when I tried various chapels, Salvation Army etc. and there was one I went to fairly often. The guy that ran it was pretty okay, down with the kids etc. anyway I went along with my girlfriend and some other teenagers. One Saturday I was going to a football match so I let everyone know I’d be late back and late to the chapel.
It turned out that I got back earlier and went to the chapel about half an hour after it started but still much earlier than I said I would be. There was the main man chatting up my girlfriend and telling her to pack me in. This was a man of god apparently. Maybe he’d got muddled and thought he was god. He must have done because he was in his thirties and my girlfriend was 17.
Religion works for some people and good for them. Libertarians probably a lot less so. Religion is far too much a tool of power which is there to subjugate people and to make them as passive as possible until their religion tells them to don weapons and fight the good fight.
Sticking to my own principles of toleration, peace and self responsibility work fine for me. I don’t expect anyone to agree with me I just do my thing.
Simples.
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Do no harm is as simple and effective as any ‘way of life mantra’ needs to be.
All religions even the one truly global religion the, religion of authority are created by man. They are all designed to trap men and women into ‘taking sides’ as all religion needs a divide to enable it to conquer the mind and spirit of man and woman.
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