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last one I swear

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The Anonymous Atheist
on July 6, 2007
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The Geek/Nerd/Dork test.

I still scored higher than 99% on all three. Wow.



Your Score: Outcast Genius


78 % Nerd, 86% Geek, 56% Dork




For The Record:



A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.



You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.



Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).



Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.



Congratulations!



Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:



Buffy the Vampire Slayer




Professional Wrestling






Love & Sexuality




America/Politics




Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST




Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

last one I swear

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 6, 2007
.
The Geek/Nerd/Dork test.

I still scored higher than 99% on all three. Wow.



Your Score: Outcast Genius


78 % Nerd, 86% Geek, 56% Dork




For The Record:



A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.



You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.



Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).



Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.



Congratulations!



Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:



Buffy the Vampire Slayer




Professional Wrestling






Love & Sexuality




America/Politics




Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST




Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

And again, I swear I didn’t cheat.

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 6, 2007
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My computer geek score is greater than 100% of all people in the world! How do you compare? Click here to find out!

And again, I swear I didn’t cheat.

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 6, 2007
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My computer geek score is greater than 100% of all people in the world! How do you compare? Click here to find out!

My nerd score. Is anyone surprised?

Published
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The Anonymous Atheist
on July 6, 2007
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I am nerdier than 100% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to find out!

That's right. 100. No, I did not cheat. Scary? I think so.

My nerd score. Is anyone surprised?

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 6, 2007
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I am nerdier than 100% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to find out!

That's right. 100. No, I did not cheat. Scary? I think so.

My Pownce invites

Published
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The Anonymous Atheist
on July 3, 2007
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My Pownce invites. Let me share you them.

Requirements: You have to have an established blog on the Atheist Blogroll or Planet Atheism.

Just post a comment with a link to your blog.

A link back would be appreciated, but certainly not required. I'm not selfish like that.

The reason I'm only opening it up to those groups is so that maybe, while testing out this handy piece of technology that may or may not suck ass, we can be productive and share things relevant to us. But we may just be wasting our time.

My Pownce invites

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 3, 2007
.
My Pownce invites. Let me share you them.

Requirements: You have to have an established blog on the Atheist Blogroll or Planet Atheism.

Just post a comment with a link to your blog.

A link back would be appreciated, but certainly not required. I'm not selfish like that.

The reason I'm only opening it up to those groups is so that maybe, while testing out this handy piece of technology that may or may not suck ass, we can be productive and share things relevant to us. But we may just be wasting our time.

The sheer lunacy of Mormonism

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 3, 2007
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I don't mean to attack a specific religion. I promise, that was never my intention when starting this blog. I decided that, besides my own experiences, I would stay fair.

But last night, I changed my mind.

I had previously thought that Mormonism was odd, how Joseph Smith translated some plates he found with a magic decoder ring he put in his hat, but I found Mormonism to be mostly harmless, and thought that it taught it's followers basically the same as Christianity only with more restrictions and some nuanced differences. Boy was I ever wrong!

Mormons believe that there are trillions of planets and trillions of gods. Some planets are human planets, some planets are god planets. Earth is a human planet, but if we are good Mormons and die we become gods ourselves and can have dominion over a planet.

The Earth god is Elohim, whose sons (Lucifer and Jesus) kinda battle for domination of the planet. Lucifer's followers became demons, Jesus' followers became happy white Mormons, and the people who chose to stay neutral became black people.

A few other tidbits:
Mormons inhabit the moon, as well as the earth.
Elohim lives on Kolob. They've found it with the Hubble too, wouldn't you know?
We're all aliens since we started life on Kolob
They have doctrine on how to handle how to worship when traveling through space to another planet, governed by a different god.

I could go on for a while.

Recently Al Sharpton was criticized for having made an insensitive comment suggesting that Mormons don't really believe in the real God. He fumbled, trying to save face, and failed. According to Christian doctrine shouldn't he have just owned up to it? I don't think many would disagree with him if they knew what Mormons believed.

I've said before that all religion is equally as quirky and nonsensical except for Scientology, but I think I'll now add Mormonism to that as well.

You can say I'm insensitive, and you'd have a point, but there are millions of people who believe this, and that's just unacceptable!

Seriously. WTF?

Sources:
http://www.nowscape.com/mormons1.htm (this is a satire site to a point, but all facts are taken from actual Mormon beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FhoBCUG8uJo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zy0d1HbItOo

The sheer lunacy of Mormonism

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on July 3, 2007
.
I don't mean to attack a specific religion. I promise, that was never my intention when starting this blog. I decided that, besides my own experiences, I would stay fair.

But last night, I changed my mind.

I had previously thought that Mormonism was odd, how Joseph Smith translated some plates he found with a magic decoder ring he put in his hat, but I found Mormonism to be mostly harmless, and thought that it taught it's followers basically the same as Christianity only with more restrictions and some nuanced differences. Boy was I ever wrong!

Mormons believe that there are trillions of planets and trillions of gods. Some planets are human planets, some planets are god planets. Earth is a human planet, but if we are good Mormons and die we become gods ourselves and can have dominion over a planet.

The Earth god is Elohim, whose sons (Lucifer and Jesus) kinda battle for domination of the planet. Lucifer's followers became demons, Jesus' followers became happy white Mormons, and the people who chose to stay neutral became black people.

A few other tidbits:
Mormons inhabit the moon, as well as the earth.
Elohim lives on Kolob. They've found it with the Hubble too, wouldn't you know?
We're all aliens since we started life on Kolob
They have doctrine on how to handle how to worship when traveling through space to another planet, governed by a different god.

I could go on for a while.

Recently Al Sharpton was criticized for having made an insensitive comment suggesting that Mormons don't really believe in the real God. He fumbled, trying to save face, and failed. According to Christian doctrine shouldn't he have just owned up to it? I don't think many would disagree with him if they knew what Mormons believed.

I've said before that all religion is equally as quirky and nonsensical except for Scientology, but I think I'll now add Mormonism to that as well.

You can say I'm insensitive, and you'd have a point, but there are millions of people who believe this, and that's just unacceptable!

Seriously. WTF?

Sources:
http://www.nowscape.com/mormons1.htm (this is a satire site to a point, but all facts are taken from actual Mormon beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FhoBCUG8uJo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zy0d1HbItOo

Anybody have a Pownce invite?

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on June 29, 2007
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In case you haven't heard about it, Pownce is a new service by Kevin Rose (of TechTV and Digg fame) that seems to be, if nothing else, innovative.

You gotta wonder though... Digg? Pownce? What's next? Wallk? Eeat? Sleepp?

Anyway, if anyone can share an invite to Pownce, I'll give most of my invites back via some sort of fun contest

Anybody have a Pownce invite?

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on June 29, 2007
.
In case you haven't heard about it, Pownce is a new service by Kevin Rose (of TechTV and Digg fame) that seems to be, if nothing else, innovative.

You gotta wonder though... Digg? Pownce? What's next? Wallk? Eeat? Sleepp?

Anyway, if anyone can share an invite to Pownce, I'll give most of my invites back via some sort of fun contest

Evangelizing Atheism?

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on June 29, 2007
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UPDATE: I added a poll to the sidebar

de-Conversion has a new post about preaching Atheism, so rather than make a super-huge comment, I briefly commented there and decided to make a post of my own.

I read an article in Wired a few months ago about Richard Dawkins and evangelical Atheism. I was repulsed to begin with-- I hate it when Christians try to do it to me, why would I want to do it? I rejected Dawkins for a long time because of this.

But since then I've had more time to think about it, and I've changed my mind.
Over at Atheist in a Minivan, Possum Momma has a post from January about an essay her daughter wrote, in which she proclaims herself as an Atheist. Her teacher had this to say:
Her teacher wrote this at the end of her essay:
"Possum#1*, thank you for your thoughtful remarks. I don't think you're an atheist but I respect your empathy for your friends. Please see me after class today. A+"

After class, possum#1 said that her teacher told her she couldn't be an atheist because her "ability to care for others feelings isn't an atheist trait." and that her "attitude was very Christian." WTF?!


Also at Atheist in a Minivan, there's this post, which is a Baptist preacher's reaction to the essay. Also, some choice comments from said preacher follow the post, including many about how Atheists merely feign morality.

ALSO on Atheist in a Minivan (she's getting a lot of love from me today), this post points out how this country music singer (and I suppose all his fans) feel about atheists-- we're incapable of any emotion, bad parents, and druggies.

I also have my own experiences, people in high school assuming that I worship the devil, people I considered friends telling me they couldn't spend time with me anymore... it never ends.

Complete misunderstanding of Atheism is rampant, and we have to do something to stop it. That's why I'm convinced that we have to be evangelical in one way or another. I think evangelical Atheism is almost a survival mechanism at this point. We should never “stoop” to the methods used by Christian evangelism (among others), but it’s essential that we get the word out about atheism/agnosticism/non-theism.

I’m not saying we shove it down people’s throats, but we need to open people’s eyes to the alternative to religion. Whether they wish to choose this path is up to them. I would never suggest trying to force Atheism on the faithful.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, I hope there will be a day when we can all live together in peace regardless of religion (or lack thereof) but it requires an understanding of the other side. An understanding which the majority of people don't have about us.

So I pose the question to you: should we evangelize Atheism?

Evangelizing Atheism?

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on June 29, 2007
.
UPDATE: I added a poll to the sidebar

de-Conversion has a new post about preaching Atheism, so rather than make a super-huge comment, I briefly commented there and decided to make a post of my own.

I read an article in Wired a few months ago about Richard Dawkins and evangelical Atheism. I was repulsed to begin with-- I hate it when Christians try to do it to me, why would I want to do it? I rejected Dawkins for a long time because of this.

But since then I've had more time to think about it, and I've changed my mind.
Over at Atheist in a Minivan, Possum Momma has a post from January about an essay her daughter wrote, in which she proclaims herself as an Atheist. Her teacher had this to say:
Her teacher wrote this at the end of her essay:
"Possum#1*, thank you for your thoughtful remarks. I don't think you're an atheist but I respect your empathy for your friends. Please see me after class today. A+"

After class, possum#1 said that her teacher told her she couldn't be an atheist because her "ability to care for others feelings isn't an atheist trait." and that her "attitude was very Christian." WTF?!


Also at Atheist in a Minivan, there's this post, which is a Baptist preacher's reaction to the essay. Also, some choice comments from said preacher follow the post, including many about how Atheists merely feign morality.

ALSO on Atheist in a Minivan (she's getting a lot of love from me today), this post points out how this country music singer (and I suppose all his fans) feel about atheists-- we're incapable of any emotion, bad parents, and druggies.

I also have my own experiences, people in high school assuming that I worship the devil, people I considered friends telling me they couldn't spend time with me anymore... it never ends.

Complete misunderstanding of Atheism is rampant, and we have to do something to stop it. That's why I'm convinced that we have to be evangelical in one way or another. I think evangelical Atheism is almost a survival mechanism at this point. We should never “stoop” to the methods used by Christian evangelism (among others), but it’s essential that we get the word out about atheism/agnosticism/non-theism.

I’m not saying we shove it down people’s throats, but we need to open people’s eyes to the alternative to religion. Whether they wish to choose this path is up to them. I would never suggest trying to force Atheism on the faithful.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, I hope there will be a day when we can all live together in peace regardless of religion (or lack thereof) but it requires an understanding of the other side. An understanding which the majority of people don't have about us.

So I pose the question to you: should we evangelize Atheism?

The Ocho Meme

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on June 28, 2007
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mojoey tagged my wife who then tagged me. I think every blog I will have ever read will eventually have this meme on it.

SO, onwards:

  • We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
  • Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
  • People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
  • At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
  • Don't forget to leave them each a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.
1. Habit: I bite my nails like it's going out of style. I think I always have. It's annoying as shit, and I've stopped a few times in my life, but it only ever lasts a few months.

2. Fact: I know I shouldn't be, but I'm a sucker for lolcats. Usually internet fads annoy me to the point of anger, like 1337 5p34k, but lolcats just make my day. I have the I Can Has Cheezburger feed in my feed reader. I mean, come on, how can you not smile when you look at this:



3. Habit: I'm a digg junkie. There isn't a single item that hits the front page that I don't at least read the little blurb for. It's great! You really find out a lot of news that you wouldn't from more traditional media, as well as a lot of time-wasters.

4. Fact/Habit/Embarrassing Confession: For a few years now, I have had what you could almost consider an imaginary friend. I thought one day "I wonder what someone from 18th century America would think about our world today" and ever since then I can't stop imagining some person from Colonial times following me around and being amazed and confused about everything. It's not like I talk to him, but I do imagine conversations I would have with him. Really, it's amazing how far we've come, and it's an interesting thought experiment, but I can't seem to turn it off whenever my mind is idle.

5. Fact: I have ADD. This could explain #4 a bit, I suppose. I've learned to deal with it on my own, because medication really messed me up, and my stomach has never completely recovered. This didn't help #6 out at all.

6. Fact: I have a chronically bad gastrointestinal system. I got it from my mom. I have recurring diverticulitis, but I have it under control with a high fiber diet. Diverticulitis usually doesn't show up until late thirties, early forties, and I'm now 25. I have acid reflux. I used to throw up all the time but it's been a blissfully long time since I've done that. Hopefully it's getting better with age.

7. Fact: I'm a geek, to the extreme, and I love every minute of it. I own about 10 computers, and a few of them even work. I love sci-fi movies (good sci-fi... not the Sci-Fi Channel original movies like FrankenFish). I have seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I knew about Firefly before it was canceled. I have only come across a very few computer problems I couldn't fix, I know enough HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL to do some quality web design. I have three monitors on my desk right now, two of them hooked up to this PC, two of them soon to be hooked up to another PC (one of them shared via KVM). I used to run Linux exclusively. And I can use all of this at my job!

8. Fact: I'm a movie/music snob, but not in a bad way. I hate the crap they play on the radio these days. There's an occasional good song, but I have actively sought out most of the music I listen to. Lately at least half of the movies I've seen have been Asian, and not the generic Kung-Fu movies that get imported to America. Takeshi Miike and Takeshi Kitano from Japan, Chan-Wook Park and Joon-ho Bong from Korea, Johnny To and Wilson Yip from China, could all teach even the best directors in Hollywood a thing or two about how to make a movie. That said, I still enjoy the pointless Hollywood crapfest like Ultraviolet, which is definitely a terrible movie but it's just so damn fun to watch! So while I'm snobbish in my preferences, it's definitely not to the exclusion of others.

So now, who am I going to tag that hasn't been already... hmmmmm...

The first two are the only blogs I read (out of like 30 or so if you include rarely read ones) that are relatively active and haven't been tagged yet.
Chadmac
Cragar

Now, some random people on Planet Atheism
Blurp
Kill the Afterlife
Radical Atheist
Stupid Evil Bastard
The Spiritual Atheist
Hell's Handmaiden

The Ocho Meme

Published
by
The Anonymous Atheist
on June 28, 2007
.
mojoey tagged my wife who then tagged me. I think every blog I will have ever read will eventually have this meme on it.

SO, onwards:

  • We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
  • Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
  • People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
  • At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
  • Don't forget to leave them each a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.
1. Habit: I bite my nails like it's going out of style. I think I always have. It's annoying as shit, and I've stopped a few times in my life, but it only ever lasts a few months.

2. Fact: I know I shouldn't be, but I'm a sucker for lolcats. Usually internet fads annoy me to the point of anger, like 1337 5p34k, but lolcats just make my day. I have the I Can Has Cheezburger feed in my feed reader. I mean, come on, how can you not smile when you look at this:



3. Habit: I'm a digg junkie. There isn't a single item that hits the front page that I don't at least read the little blurb for. It's great! You really find out a lot of news that you wouldn't from more traditional media, as well as a lot of time-wasters.

4. Fact/Habit/Embarrassing Confession: For a few years now, I have had what you could almost consider an imaginary friend. I thought one day "I wonder what someone from 18th century America would think about our world today" and ever since then I can't stop imagining some person from Colonial times following me around and being amazed and confused about everything. It's not like I talk to him, but I do imagine conversations I would have with him. Really, it's amazing how far we've come, and it's an interesting thought experiment, but I can't seem to turn it off whenever my mind is idle.

5. Fact: I have ADD. This could explain #4 a bit, I suppose. I've learned to deal with it on my own, because medication really messed me up, and my stomach has never completely recovered. This didn't help #6 out at all.

6. Fact: I have a chronically bad gastrointestinal system. I got it from my mom. I have recurring diverticulitis, but I have it under control with a high fiber diet. Diverticulitis usually doesn't show up until late thirties, early forties, and I'm now 25. I have acid reflux. I used to throw up all the time but it's been a blissfully long time since I've done that. Hopefully it's getting better with age.

7. Fact: I'm a geek, to the extreme, and I love every minute of it. I own about 10 computers, and a few of them even work. I love sci-fi movies (good sci-fi... not the Sci-Fi Channel original movies like FrankenFish). I have seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I knew about Firefly before it was canceled. I have only come across a very few computer problems I couldn't fix, I know enough HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL to do some quality web design. I have three monitors on my desk right now, two of them hooked up to this PC, two of them soon to be hooked up to another PC (one of them shared via KVM). I used to run Linux exclusively. And I can use all of this at my job!

8. Fact: I'm a movie/music snob, but not in a bad way. I hate the crap they play on the radio these days. There's an occasional good song, but I have actively sought out most of the music I listen to. Lately at least half of the movies I've seen have been Asian, and not the generic Kung-Fu movies that get imported to America. Takeshi Miike and Takeshi Kitano from Japan, Chan-Wook Park and Joon-ho Bong from Korea, Johnny To and Wilson Yip from China, could all teach even the best directors in Hollywood a thing or two about how to make a movie. That said, I still enjoy the pointless Hollywood crapfest like Ultraviolet, which is definitely a terrible movie but it's just so damn fun to watch! So while I'm snobbish in my preferences, it's definitely not to the exclusion of others.

So now, who am I going to tag that hasn't been already... hmmmmm...

The first two are the only blogs I read (out of like 30 or so if you include rarely read ones) that are relatively active and haven't been tagged yet.
Chadmac
Cragar

Now, some random people on Planet Atheism
Blurp
Kill the Afterlife
Radical Atheist
Stupid Evil Bastard
The Spiritual Atheist
Hell's Handmaiden