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A Fable for Christians.
A Freethinking Elephant, while roaming in quest of his own proper food, chanced to disturb some Jesuitical Hyenas and Puritanical Buzzards disputing over the carcass of a Dead Ass. The foul odor of the decaying thing naturally repelled the clean and healthy tastes of the Elephant, and he instinctiv[e]ly turned aside to seek a purer atmosphere. The Hyenas and Buzzards, thinking that all animals must hav[e] appetites as depraved as their own, invited the Elephant to come and partake of a feast with them.
“No, thank you,” replied the Elephant, “such food may be very agreeable to you who hav[e] been raised that way, but for me it would be not only nauseating, but poisonous; and, altogether, I prefer to liv[e] on clean things.” At this the unclean brutes and birds became greatly enraged ; the Hyenas howled, and the Buzzards croaked, and after heaping all sorts of abuse upon the Elephant, and calling him a “heretic” and a wicked “infidel,” they boasted that when he came to die he would repent and return to the dead ass to be comforted, and he might even be glad, yet, to get a Hyena or a Buzzard to shrive him. But the Elephant, knowing how utterly absurd and foolish their assertions were, calmly went on his way regarding his assailants with mingled feelings of pity and contempt.
MORAL.-Because you Christians love a dead creed, don't abuse others who hav purer and more wholesome tastes than you hav[e], for you only worry yourselves and do the skeptics no harm.
Start of a new tradition, Cannon Falls Freethinkers Adopt-A-Highway, October 4, 2009. Friends from Cannon Falls, Waseca, Hastings, Lakeville, and Minneapolis.
Unfortunately I missed the talk (it was the previous day, the room was filled up, a lot of us couldn't get in)... but at least I listened to him in the Q and A.
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924), for defending Ossian Sweet, and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman, noted orator, and 3-time presidential candidate).
Called a "sophisticated country lawyer", he remains notable for his wit, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.
Clarence Darrow was born in rural northeastern Ohio on April 18, 1857. He was the son of Amirus Darrow and Emily (Eddy) Darrow. Both the Darrow and the Eddy farms had deep roots in colonial New England, and several of Darrow's ancestors served in the American Revolution. Clarence's father was an ardent abolitionist and a proud iconoclast and religious freethinker, known in town as the "village infidel." Emily Darrow was an early supporter of female suffrage and a women's rights advocate. Clarence attended Allegheny College and the University of Michigan Law School but did not graduate from either institution. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878.
...Philanthropist, Founder of "Forum Humanum" Neversdorf and free Thinker.
Sad for Neversdorf (near Hamburg) - but his spirit will stay!
Bob Marley Street Art by Eme Freethinker, Mauerpark Berlin, Ende Mai 2020.
ONE LOVE - Bob Marley.
Bob Marley (* 6. Februar 1945 in Nine Miles, Saint Ann Parish; † 11. Mai 1981 in Miami, Florida; eigentlich Robert Nesta Marley, ab März 1981 Berhane Selassie) war ein jamaikanischer Reggae-Sänger, Gitarrist, Songwriter sowie Aktivist und gilt als bedeutendster Vertreter und Mitbegründer der Reggae-Musik, die durch ihn und seine Band The Wailers ab Mitte der 1970er Jahre international bekannt wurde.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete
The game is played like this:
Goto the Home screen and search everyone's photos with the answers to these 12 questions.
My answers are in the notes.
Choose a photo from the first page presented to you for the best representation of each of your answers.
Here are the questions:
1. What is your Flickr name?
2. What is one word to describe you?
3. What do you love about life?
4. What do you want to be when you grow up?
5. Favorite Dessert?
6. Dream Vacation?
7. Favorite Drink?
8. Celebrity crush?
9. Favorite Color?
10. What High School did you attend?
11. What is your favorite food/meal?
12. Your first name.
The mosaic is created using Mosaic Maker at fd's Flickr Toys site.
1. Knock Knock, 2. Awe, 3. Travel with friends, 4. Why you growing up so fast, 5. coffee and chocolate mousse cake, 6. my favourite beaches, 7. .grape+bean., 8. Andy Garcia 2, 9. Reds and Blues, 10. Pro Football Hall of Fame, 11. Saganaki!, 12. Maria Laura Garcia
said hubby.
I was about to sell it under the name "free thinker" but when I showed it to him, he told me it was dangerous.
My interpretation of anarchy is no chaos. It is "no god nor master".
It has a peace sign inside the hoodie! :)
Armeria maritima. Clustog Fair.
Armeria maritima. Thrift. The Welsh name translates as: Marys' Pillow.
The sign warns of the financial cost of trespassing on the railway line... The freethinkers among you will realize that the sign cannot enforce what it says... However, if you were to trespass on the line; you would soon come across the mangled body, of some fleet footed creature, that did not make it, across 4 feet 8 1⁄2 inches of track! People think they will see or hear a train a coming... No.
If the train driver sees you, anywhere near the track, they will sound the horn, in panic, as that is all they can do. At 70 mph a diesel trains stopping distance is 816 meters (408 meters using an emergency brake application) compared to a car, which takes 75 meters to stop (96 meters with the thinking time).
Basquiat Street Art by Eme Freethinker & Pen Chill, Mauerpark Berlin, Ende Mai 2020.
BASQUIAT by @Eme_Freethinker + @Pen_Chill.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (* 22. Dezember 1960 in New York City; † 12. August 1988 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Künstler, Maler und Zeichner. Er war der erste afroamerikanische Künstler, der in der hauptsächlich weißen Kunstwelt den Durchbruch schaffte.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
Tim Minchin addresses the crowd between songs. Here, he gives an intro to the song "Thank you God for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum."
FFRF was a big donor to the Reason Rally and helped fund acts like Tim Minchin. Join FFRF today!
The Reason Rally took place on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Saturday, March 24, 2012. It was sponsored by many of the country’s largest and most influential secular organizations.
An ad from the American Humanist Assocation noting that Barack Obama, though now a Christian, grew up in a non-religious household. (Via PZ Myers.)
The headline: "President Obama: Living proof that family values without religion build character," with supporting quotes from Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Some people are gonna get steamed over this one, I'm sure.
See my blog post for more.
© 2009 American Humanist Association
Break time at KHPS, The Nursery Teachers are seen in the Photographs they too enjoying Breakfast with the children.
You can donate to the school via a paypal link at : www.atheistsinternational.com/programs/aai-foundation/274...
Saunders County, NE
Listed: 03/20/1986
The Lodge Plzen hall building is an architecturally significant expression of Czech-American Romanticism in early twentieth century Nebraska, manifest as a distinct vernacular product of the Renaissance Revival style. Significant ethnic associations are evident in the membership of Rad Plzen, charter lodge number 9 of the Zapadni Cesko Bratrske Jednoty (now Western Fraternal Life Association), and with the contractor, mason and carpenter credited with the building's design and construction.
Lodge Plzen was first organized on June 6, 1880 as Lodge number 63 of the Cesko-Sloverisky Podporujici Spolek (C.S.P.S.). Shortly thereafter a frame hall was built on Spring Creek south of Morse Bluff. When the Lodge reorganized in 1897 as part of the newly-formed Z.C.B.J., the hall was moved into Morse Bluff to lot 14 of Block 6, where it was used both as Town Hall and Lodge Hall. When the city built its new hall in 1909, the lodge also started the planning of a new hall (the present structure), which was completed in 1911.
Czechs from Bohemia and Moravia form one of the prominent immigrant groups in Nebraska, more having settled here than all of the other Great Plains states combined. By 1920 over 140,000 Czechs had settled the Great Plains, accounting for more than 22 percent of the Czech-speaking population of the United States. Of these, 40.3 percent lived in Nebraska.
Of all the European immigrant groups that settled the Plains, the Czechs were the only among them whom were a majority of freethinkers, that is, those who had severed all ties with organized religion. As many as 55 percent of the Czechs called themselves freethinkers. The intellectual origins of freethought lies in the European Enlightenment, eventually providing a basis for the Czech National Revival of the second half of the nineteenth century.
The growth of Czech freethought on the Great Plains was fostered primarily through voluntary fraternal and benevolent associations.