User:Neural
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Current favourite quote:
'What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.' - Christopher Hitchens
Articles started:
- An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Atheism (a book by Daniel Harbour)
- Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (a book by Alister McGrath)
- The Rage Against God: Why Faith is the Foundation of Civilisation (a book by Peter Hitchens)
Likes:
- Freethinkers (see freethought)
- Computer games such as Deus Ex, Morrowind, and Civilization IV
- Monty Python
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
- Horror fiction and science fiction
- Films
- Erotica, non-exploitative porn, and sex in general
- Women
- The Wicker Man (the restored 99 min 1973 version)
- The insights and efforts of Richard Dawkins
- Questioning beliefs and assumptions
Personal Dislikes:
- Social conservatism
- Censorship
- The "big three" Abrahamic world religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; especially all forms of religious fundamentalism
- The constant proselytising of many Christians and Muslims
- Attempts to enforce brands of religious morality by passing laws that apply to everyone, religious or not
- Uncritical faith in anything
- The popular anti-paedophile witch-hunting
- Poverty
- Neo-Nazis and those with a similar mentality
- The nonsense that some people take seriously
- And the mouth-foaming insanity that some people think is a virtue
General Interests:
- Chess
- Pagan religions and rituals
- Psychology
- Neurotheology
- Sociology
- Philosophy
- Nietzsche
- Programming
- Transhumanism
- The universe!
My Political Compass:
My political compass result (Economic: -2.50 Social: -6.26) I am strongly libertarian (or perhaps I should say anti-authoritarian), and slightly to the left on the economic axis. My result for the latter seems a bit exaggerated to me, although I did answer every question honestly. I think my natural distrust of huge multinational corporations and my belief that writers/artists are as important as manufacturers is showing here. Take the test here
Some interesting and/or controversial links:
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