Slut Walk Seattle 2011 Video Diary

Sam Wise Gingy

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Monday June 20, 2011 · 3:20 PM PDT

2011/06/20 · 15:20

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Women are humans and the right to safe from violence, including rape is as important as any other right.

23 votes Vote Now!

Women are humans and the right to safe from violence, including rape is as important as any other right.

Yes

23 votes

Just Because God Tells You to Do Something, That Doesn't Make it a Good Idea.

Sam Wise Gingy

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Tuesday June 14, 2011 · 11:24 AM PDT

2011/06/14 · 11:24

Leviticus 24:14

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.

See that's not a good idea because if you aren't free to blaspheme then you aren't free to think and express your ideas. People who aren't free to reason and speak are stifled in their creativity, so societies and individuals suffer when you stone blasphemers.

Stoning blasphemers hurts the community because without blasphemers there is no way to know what the faults of your religion are, presuming your religion has any. Most believers are fairly certain that any faults with religion are mainly in someone else's religion. So they usually are against stoning blasphemers unless they happen to blaspheme their religion.

More things your god may tell you to do that aren't good ideas on the flip...

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You shouldn't cut anyone's junk unless you have a good medical reason.

58 votes Vote Now!

You shouldn't cut anyone's junk unless you have a good medical reason.

Yes

38 votes

5 votes

Pie

15 votes

The Pope, The Vicar of Christ

Sam Wise Gingy

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Thursday June 09, 2011 · 11:20 AM PDT

2011/06/09 · 11:20

The Vicar of Christ:
The papacy is the term for the office and the authority of the pope of Rome, the successor to Saint Peter as bishop of Rome and head of the universal Church. Also called “the pontiff,” “the Holy Father,” and “the Vicar of Christ,” the pope is the spiritual head of all Christendom and a visible symbol of unity in the Church.
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Papal infallibility does not mean that the pope can never do anything wrong. However, when, like Peter, he is speaking on matters of faith and morals and intends to instruct the whole Church by defining a doctrine, the Church believes that he is protected by the Holy Spirit and cannot speak in error.

http://catholicism.about.com/...

This qualifies the pope to make this statement:

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Long live the pope

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Long live the pope

No way

17 votes

Amen

17 votes

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12 votes

Interview With Benjamin Franklin

Sam Wise Gingy

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Wednesday June 08, 2011 · 11:16 AM PDT

2011/06/08 · 11:16

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Benjamin Franklin is

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Benjamin Franklin is

Fairly portrayed

6 votes

Unfairly portrayed

0 votes

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The Costco System

Sam Wise Gingy

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Friday June 03, 2011 · 2:24 PM PDT

2011/06/03 · 14:24

When I go to Costco I can put anything I want on my cart. Nobody cares if I put three 72 inch plasma 3d TVs (Do they still call them TVs?) on my cart.

But if I try to take those TVs out of the store without a receipt for them the guy at the door gets a real hostile attitude. For some reason Costco takes exception to people taking stuff out of their store without evidence that they have payed for it. I guess that is how they protect themselves from thieves.

Now suppose there are people who say we have a deity and all of you guys should do what we say, because our deity says so. Our natural response should rightly be one of questioning. How can we know that their deity is real and not imaginary, and why should we do what their deity says? If they can't produce any reasonable evidence for their claims, then we would be wise not to listen to them.

Why should we do that when they are such nice people who have done so many wonderful things? Some of them are even united with us politically.

Answer on the flip.

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Religious ideas should be held beyond criticism at the Kos.

48 votes Vote Now!

Religious ideas should be held beyond criticism at the Kos.

31 votes

Yes

4 votes

Pie

13 votes

Seattle Folk Life Festival

Sam Wise Gingy

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Wednesday June 01, 2011 · 1:37 AM PDT

2011/06/01 · 01:37

If your still awake you might like a little night music. These are mostly amateur acts, off stage. Some of them are quite good. Enjoy!

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Thursday May 19, 2011 · 2:21 PM PDT

2011/05/19 · 14:21

My thoughts on the end of the world.

Be there or be square.

Transcript on the flip:

Sam Wise Gingy

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Wednesday May 11, 2011 · 4:23 PM PDT

2011/05/11 · 16:23

Whereas religion has been either the direct cause or a proximate cause of nearly all of the world's wars and social divisions among humanity, therefore religion stands as an apparent obstacle to the peace and the harmony of humanity.

Whereas religion stands opposed to reason in that religion encourages beliefs that either do not appeal to reason or that stand in direct opposition to reason, and given that the advances of humanity in the past three centuries are directly attributable to reason and by extension science and technology, it is found that religion is a threat to continued human progress.

Whereas religion adsorbs inordinate amounts of human attention and resources with little or no benefit it is found that religion is a waste of human life and a waste of the precious resources of life, the least of which is time.

Whereas religion in our society tends to promote the most regressive political sympathies religion is found to be against the goals of a progressive political community.

More reasons to oppose religion on the flip.

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I believe in a deity that has a name and who intervenes the affairs of humanity.

113 votes Vote Now!

I believe in a deity that has a name and who intervenes the affairs of humanity.

Yes

25 votes

76 votes

Pie

12 votes

May Day in Seattle 2011 Video Diary

Sam Wise Gingy

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Tuesday May 03, 2011 · 1:46 AM PDT

2011/05/03 · 01:46

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We need to explain why injustice and oppression are bad things.

12 votes Vote Now!

We need to explain why injustice and oppression are bad things.

Yes, Unfortunately many Americans don't know what's wrong with oppression and injustice.

10 votes

No, Everyone knows that oppression and injustice are wrong and harmful.

2 votes

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0 votes

Tea Party Madness

Sam Wise Gingy

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Tuesday April 19, 2011 · 3:29 PM PDT

2011/04/19 · 15:29

On April 15th I visited three Tea Parties and did interviews. The most encouraging thing I observed was that this years Tea Party events were much smaller than last year, on the order of half what they were last year.

So if you are interested in the mentality of surviving Tea Partiers and are willing to hazard possible brain damage here is what I witnessed.

Sam Wise Gingy

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Saturday December 04, 2010 · 2:04 PM PST

2010/12/04 · 14:04

Hymn for Today
(To the tune of The Old Rugged Cross)

In the minds of today stands an old bigotry
the cause of great suffering and shame;
and I hate bigotry, which did harden my heart,
to a world of my brothers in pain.

(Chorus)
So I'll cherish all reason and truth,
and bigotry at last I'll lay down
I'll not cling to my old bigotry,
But exchange it for thought that is sound.

Oh my old bigotry, so toxic to this world
had such a hold on me;
for if God loves some but not all;
then some men have no right to be free.

(Chorus)

In that old bigotry, so confident was I,
so blind that I just could not see;
I accepted that others would suffer and die
rather than challenge my certainty.

(Chorus)

From that old bigotry, I'll forever be free
none my shame or reproach ever bare,
And I hope that one day, not far away,
for a world of peace and justice to share

(Chorus)

Announcing the Sarah Palin Award for Excellence in Conservatism Nominees for 2010

Sam Wise Gingy

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Wednesday November 24, 2010 · 10:50 AM PST

2010/11/24 · 10:50

This is the moment none of you have been waiting for.

I have decided to make a Sarah Palin Award for Excellence in Conservatism to the person who has done the most to promote conservative values and ideals in America. Though you have never heard of this award you can not misunderestimate its importance as one of this year's nominees George W. Bush would say.

This is the third time I have made a Sarah Palin Award.

Past winners:

Tina Fey.

Sarah Palin made a good run for the award but Tina Fey just flat out out-Palined Sarah herself. "I can see Russia from my house" will go down with "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and "I like Ike" as a famous campaign slogan, but Sarah never said "I can see Russia from my house," Tina Fey did. The important point is that "I can see Russian from my house" sounds like something Sarah Palin did actually say.
Sarah Palin came in second.

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Who should win the 2010 Sarah Palin Award for Excellence in Conservatism?

91 votes Vote Now!

Who should win the 2010 Sarah Palin Award for Excellence in Conservatism?

Sarah Palin

9 votes

Glenn Beck

6 votes

Christine O'Donnell

28 votes

Rand Paul

6 votes

Janet Brewer

7 votes

Sharron Angle

18 votes

Joe Miller

4 votes

George W. Bush

7 votes

other

1 vote

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Slut Walk Seattle 2011 Video Diary

Just Because God Tells You to Do Something, That Doesn't Make it a Good Idea.

The Pope, The Vicar of Christ

Interview With Benjamin Franklin

The Costco System

Seattle Folk Life Festival

Rapture Video Diary

Declaration of War on Religion

May Day in Seattle 2011 Video Diary

Tea Party Madness

Hymn for Today

Announcing the Sarah Palin Award for Excellence in Conservatism Nominees for 2010