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alt.atheism.FAQ
Version 0.1
Sunday 27 Sep 2009
compiled by alt.atheism regulator
Contributions and corrections welcome via NG
CONTENTS:
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1.0 - Welcome
2.0 - What's New
3.0 - The Charter
4.0 - Frequently Asked Questions.
4.1 What is alt.atheism?
4.2 - What is a atheism?( WIP)
4.2.1 Some definitions
4.3 - History of the NG (WIP)
4.4 - Who are the Key Figures In Atheism (WIP)
4.4.1 Modern Atheists
4.5 Atheism as part of Non-Belief
4.6 Atheism in History
4.7 Common terms
4.8 Where can I find archived messages?
4.9 Who moderates alt.atheism?
5.0 - Contributors
6.0 - Additions / Amendments to the FAQ
1.0 WELCOME
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Welcome to alt.atheism, an open, unmoderated newsgroup
for the discussion of all topics relating to
atheism in an open forum dedicated to
Free Speech and rights for all.
2.0 What's new:
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The BAWAA faction have revived their Warlord after a series
of defections and the general decline of the NG for some years now.
Can the rot be stopped?
Ask the new Warlord, Fluffy
http://altatheismfaq.blogspot.com/
3.0 THE CHARTER
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CHARTER: alt.atheism
An unmoderated newsgroup which would provide a
forum for the discussion of all aspects
of atheism.
Possible discussions are, but not limited to:
- Union of Savage Slaughter and Repression(USSR)
- Mao's Great Leap Backwards
- Mao's Cultural Devolution
- Pol Pots Cambodian Genocide
- Nth Korea
- Atheist fundamentalism
- The decline in global Atheism
- Metaphysics.. Just kidding!
- Jesus jokes
- Hard-Core Atheist thuggery
- forging
- Slandering
- Lying
- Pack Hunting
- BAWAA
# From: Steve Knight <sknigh...@cox.net>
# Newsgroups: alt.atheism
# Subject: A.A. BAAWA - FAQ
# Message-ID: <p8mrb5lvaf0cj5bp1e4jbmlsqebu9j9...@4ax.com>
# Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:46:34 -0700
#
# We kill theists and shit down their throats and
# not in a girly way.
This group will be unmoderated.
Binary postings, chain letters and unrelated
commercial advertisements are prohibited.
Cross-posting should not be discouraged.
Knowledge is Holistic, Users should exercise their
judgement as to which NGs are relevant
4.0 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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4.1 What is alt.atheism?
alt.atheism is the Internet network news forum
for discussing atheism
4.2 - What is a atheism? ( WIP)
Here are some starting points, feel free to
submit/discuss your own:
4.2.1 Definition
1. "The Doctrine that their is no God"
2. "A Disbelief in the existence of a God (or gods)
3. Godlessness
The Macquarie Dictionary (2nd Revised edition) 1989
4.2.2 Some Individual Perspectives:
Send us your views.
4.2.2.1 Historical Atheism:
"Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism."
-Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
Atheist States
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism#Wolak2004
#
# "State atheism is the official promotion of atheism
# by a government, typically by active suppression of
# religious freedom and practice."
# - "Protest for Religious Rights in the USSR:
# Characteristics and Consequences,
# David Kowalewski,
# Russian Review, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1980), pp. 426-441,
#
#
# "An atheist, Pol Pot suppressed Cambodia’s Buddhist religion:
# monks were defrocked; temples and artifacts, including statues of
# Buddha, were destroyed; and people praying or expressing
# other religious sentiments were often killed.
# ...the government emptied the cities through mass evacuations
# and sent people to the countryside. Cambodians were overworked
# and underfed on collective farms, often succumbing to disease or
# starvation as a result. Spouses were separated and family meals
# prohibited in order to steer loyalties toward the state
# instead of the family.
#
# About 1.7 million Cambodians, or about 20 percent of the population,
# were worked, starved, or beaten to death under Pol Pot’s regime."
# - http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579038/pol_pot.html
#
# The Cambodian Genocide:
http://www.lietuvos.net/istorija/communism/communism_photos2/392millones.jpg
#
# "The country's 40,000 to 60,000 Buddhist monks,
# regarded by the regime as social parasites,
# were defrocked and forced into labor brigades.
# Many monks were executed; temples and pagodas were
# destroyed or turned into storehouses or jails.
# Images of the Buddha were defaced and dumped into
# rivers and lakes. People who were discovered praying
# or expressing religious sentiments in other ways
# were often killed.
#
# The Christian and Muslim communities were among the most
# persecuted, as well. The Roman Catholic cathedral of
# Phnom Penh was completely razed.
#
# The Khmer Rouge forced Muslims to eat pork, which they
# regard as an abomination. Many of those who refused were killed.
# Christian clergy and Muslim imams were executed."
# - http://countrystudies.us/cambodia/29.htm
#
# "Forty-eight percent of Cambodia's Christians were killed
# because of their religion."
#
http://www.lietuvos.net/istorija/communism/communism_photos2/44camboyano.jpg
#
#
# "the state established atheism as the only scientific truth."
# - Daniel Peris,
# "Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless"
# Cornell University Press 1998 ISBN 9780801434853
#
#
# "State atheism has been mostly implemented in communist
# countries, such as the former Soviet Union,[1] China,
# Communist Albania, Communist Afghanistan, North Korea,
# Communist Mongolia and Poland under communist rule also
# promoted state atheism and suppressed religion.
# - Forced out: the fate of Polish Jewry in Communist Poland.
# Wolak, Arthur J. p 104
#
# In these nations, the governments viewed atheism as an
# intrinsic part of communist ideology.
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4.3- History of the NG
Achievements:
Goals:
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4.4 - Who are the Key Figures in Atheism (WIP)
4.4.1 Modern Atheists
Lenin
Mao
Stalin
Pol Pot
Kim ill Fuk
Kim ill Suk
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Fluffy the BAWAA Warlord{Snigger)
BAWAA Nights
http://www.computerpranks.com/download/images/sheep_guy.jpg
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4.5 Atheism as a minority sub-group of Non-Belief
# Highlights: US religious majority: 80%
#
# Atheists 2.3% worldwide
# 0.7% in the USA
#
#
# American Religious Identification Survey, Summary Report March 2009:
#
# "Self-identification of U.S. Adult Population by Religious Tradition
#
# 2001 2008
#
# Non- religious 29,481,000 (14.1%) 34,169,000 (15%)
#
# Religious 167,254,000 (80%) 182,198,000 (80%)
#
# Agnostics 991,000 (0.5%) 1,985,000 (0.9%)
#
# Atheists 902,000 (0.4%) 1,621,000 (0.7%)
#
#
# 'NON-RELIGIOUS' DOES NOT = ATHEIST
#
# Atheism is
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4.6 Atheism in History (WIP)
Epicurus
Hypatia
Not Much Happening for millennia
No great and enduring civilisations
@0th Century Atheist States
USSR
Maoist China
Pol Pots Cambodia
Nth Korea
Albania?
Russell
Dawkins
Hitchins
Bus Ads
In May 2009, their support waning and their numbers dwindling
to a mere handful, the BAWAA faction decided to emulate the
historical political structure of the infamous Atheist states
of the the 20th Century and chose a Warlord to control their
thoughts and actions See Fluffy
http://altatheismfaq.blogspot.com/
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4.7 Common terms
4.7.1 What is "BAWAA"
A cult formed around a self-appointed 'Warlord'
Like the priesthood, they are dying out, for
much the same reasons ;-)
4.7.2 What is a Baaa Baaa Waa Waaa Night
Here are two of them, they are interchangable
http://www.computerpranks.com/download/images/sheep_guy.jpg
4.7.3 What is "Blind Cricket"
Fluffy goes sub-orbital
http://altatheismfaq.blogspot.com/
4.7.4 What is ad-hom
'ad-hom', a contraction for 'ad-hominem argument',
means literally 'argument against the man'.
In alt.atheism ad-hom is synonymous with 'abuse'.
This is in distinction to the formal meaning of
ad-hominem argument in which the truth or falsity
of a proposition is said to follow from the source
of the proposition.
4.7.5 What does "fasgnadh" mean
"Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff"
separating the worthy from the unworthy.
4.7.6 What is post forgery
The unconscionable alteration of text and attributions
to make the posters words appear to be attributed to
their victim See Syd Slander and Virgil
4.7.7 What is a Killfile?
The standard tactic for atheists to avoid questions they
can't answer, arguments too rational for them to rebut
and their major method of Running Away
4.7.8 What Snip and Run
Snipping all of the opponents text and saying nothing
4.7.9 What is the future for alt.atheism
# "The Kooks and assholes are way louder and more visible
# it is getting to me lately.
#
# The kooks are stupid but tedious and boring with it
# -not even "kooky" in an entertaining - fun to poke at - way.
#
# There are no decent arguments"
#
# Subject: The Decline of alt atheism - and time to say farewell.
# From: Richo <m.richardso...@gmail.com>
# Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
# Message-ID:
<acbca475-4901-4b6d-ab9d-44ffede51...@s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
4.7.10 What is a "Drongo", "fruit loop", "Boofhead", "Bozo", "mullet",
"nong", "rabbit" ..an idiot cf: Virgil
4.7.11 What is an "Ankle-biter"
- a (small) child
(cf: apprentice Baaa Baaa Waaa Waaa Nought ;-)
4.7.12 What is a "Wanker"
- someone prone to self-abuse,
often in public. eg: Bukakke
4.7.13 What is
4.7.14 What is
4.7.15
4.7.16
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4.8. Where can I find archived messages?
Posts are archived at www.google.com.
Except for Fluffy's, he's shy.
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4.9 Who moderates alt.atheism?
No-one. This is an unmoderated NG.
Anyone is free to post here within the defamation,
libel and vilification laws of the land
This was the founding principle of USENET and is supported,
at least in principle, by most people who value freedom
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 next week
and, as the founding document for all international human rights
treaties, it has played an important legal and intellectual
role for the past 60 years.
We are all free to believe, think and speak
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HmHS-bSIH9g
"Human right # 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or
belief, and freedom, either alone or in community, with others
and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance."
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Which of these people don't have rights?
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ixjACBvv2mE
No one can take them away
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/watchads/view/psa30_h.html
5.0 CONTRIBUTORS
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fasgnadh -Comic Inspiration
Morton Lucifer -FAQ creator
Steve Knight - Playing with Swords and stuff
Ritcho - Showing Atheists the way
Bukakke - Sewer Inspector
Virgil - Photocopying
Trance Stupor - zzzzzzzzzzzz
I wouldn't want to upset anyone by leaving them out
6.0 - ADDITIONS / AMENDMENTS TO THE FAQ
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Post submissions to the alt.atheism NG
with
AAA FAQ ... in the header
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