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| There is a left and a right and somewhere in
the middle lies the truth. If you take away the lies,
distortions, manipulations and the power that filters every aspect of
dissemination of information, you'll find the truth often rests hidden somewhere far
closer to the left. Since defenders of civil liberties, human rights, the
environment, the rights of workers, Constitutional rights, freedom of
speech, freedom from religious bigotry and intolerance, women's rights,
animal rights, indigenous people's rights, as well as, government, corporate and
media watchdog groups are all lumped together and arrogantly derided
as being, "liberal" or "left", it is no real mystery, once
you've seen through the cloud bank, that lies told again and again by
servants of the corporations and the governments, shadow
the truth. A great many people get up every morning, look into the mirror and take pride in their "conservative" moniker. Take a look again at the list above and tell me, what groups are left to lump together as "conservative" and what have you realistically left to take pride in? The only real "conservatives" are the ultra rich and powerful who use any and every means at their disposal (all network television, the bulk of AM radio, the military, the justice system, and every patriotic, feux-Christian, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-welfare, pro-military, flag waving lie and diversion) to shroud the truth in order to sustain and build power. It is extremely hard to discuss issues with a "conservative" because real truth always gets trampled and lost in "truthiness", but I have yet to find a real honest Joe "conservative" who can say that the rule of the neocons has made his own life better in any way. How could they? It is one thing to claim "conservativism" as some honorable, intelligent, morally correct and patriotic position, but it is quite another to peel back those warm layers and find that the reality is cold and has absolutely nothing to do with honest Joe. It is especially painful to peel enough away to find not a member of an exclusive club of "better thans", but simply a hood-winked tool of a very powerful group; one, in which, Joe will never belong. We will discuss "conservative", "liberal", "Republican", "Democrat", history, religion, the state of the US, the state of the world and so on and, although the words and ideas here at TruthCourier.com may seem forceful or biased at times, we assure you it is not our mission to attack, but to enlighten. Shining a bright light on truthiness can only help the human race. If you're a voting member of the dark side, bring your sunglasses at first, but eventually, your eyes and heart will adjust. |
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| Patriots, Human Gems, Heroes These people, for the most part, tell the truth. George Carlin |
Hatetriots, Highly Paid Liars,
Excusists, Clouders, Tools, Anti-freedom/Anti-American Poison Defending the rape of the Constitution and the destruction of our once promising government for the people; one lie at a time.Q: When is a neocon lying? A: When he/she opens its mouth. Bill O'Reilly Truely Despicable Liars,
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| Atheist. Now,
there's a moniker of much derision, but what does it mean? Atheist -
One who denies the existence of God. As opposed to Theist - One who
believes in the existence of a god or gods; especially, believes in a
personal God as creator and ruler of the world. Agnostic -A thinker
who disclaims any knowledge of God. Agnosticism -Philosophy.
The doctrines of the agnostics, holding that certainty, first or absolute
truths, are unattainable, and that only perceptional phenomena are objects
of exact knowledge. Consider the fact that no man or women in the
U.S. today can be elected President if they do not believe in heaven and
hell. Notice in the definition of agnostic that it begins with
"a thinker" and then ask yourself why atheists are considered
evil? Take a look at the following truncated list of thinkers, who
are unelectable because they don't believe, sight-unseen, in the myths and
magic of Theism. Atheists and Agnostics: A Brief List Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Aldous Huxley Andrew Carnegie Ernest Hemingway "All thinking men are athiests." Charles Darwin Ayn Rand "Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge." Ben Franklin Carl Sagan "...if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it." Bertrand Russell Clarence Darrow Elizabeth Cady-Stanton "The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation." George Carlin "Religion is just mind control." Voltaire Frank Zappa Galileo Galilei Frederich Nietzsche "Faith means not wanting to know what's true." Gene Roddenberry George Bernard Shaw Gloria Steinam Helen Keller James Madison (President of the US and a founding father) John Adams (President of the US and a founding father) "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." John Stuart Mill "The time appears to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known." Karl Marx Leo Tolstoy Marilyn Manson Kurt Vonnegut Napoleon "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." Dr. James Watson (discoverer of DNA) James Joyce H.L.Mencken "Religion is opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth." Walt Disney Margaret Sanger (founder of planned parenthood) "No Gods, No Masters." Frank Lloyd Wright "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Sir Alfred Hitchcock Denis Diderot (philosopher) "Man will never be free until the last King is strangled by the entrails of the last Priest." Richard Burton Irving Berlin George Orwell William M. Gaines (founder of Mad Magazine) Charles Schultz Mark Twain "If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be--a Christian." Marquis de Sade Robert Ingersoll "The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know." Robert Frost Susan B. Anthony Vincent Van Gogh Thomas Jefferson (Diest, President of the US and founding father) on followers of the Christian God "They are always of two classes, fools and hypocrites." Madalyn Murray O'Hair William Howard Taft (President of the US) Thomas Edison (inventor of the light bulb...and a few other things) "Religion is all bunk." Thomas Paine Sigmund Freud "Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." Charles Laughton Jonathan Swift Oscar Wilde Thomas Henry Huxley (coined the term agnostic) Ambrose Bierce "Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." Charlie Chaplin Albert Camus Jean Paul Sarte Woody Allen Gillian Anderson Noam Chomsky Fidel Castro Marlon Brando Dick Cavett Michael Kinsley Camille Paglia Michael Crichton Jodie Foster Francois Mitterrand Gore Vidal Spalding Gray Randy Newman Arthur Miller Stanley Kubrik Jack Nicholson Eddie Vedder William Shatner Gary Numan Burt Lancaster Ingmar Bergman Warren Buffett Benjamin Spock Ron Reagan Jr. Christopher Reeve Katherine Hepburn Virginia Woolf Clive Barker Quentin Crisp Howard Hughes Marie Curie Sir John Gielgud Michael Stipe source wonderfulathiestsofcfl.org also see celebathiests.com
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Homosexuals: A Brief List Plato Michelangelo Tennyson Florence Nightingale Napoleon Frederick The Great Moliere Pope Julius 2 Oscar Wilde Alexander The Great Gertrude Stein Cole Porter Socrates Leonardo Da Vinci Valentino Tchaikovsky Freddie Mercury Elton John Virgil Aristotle Shakespeare Joan of Arc Beethoven Wagner Byron Walt Whitman Shelley Sir Francis Bacon Proust Henry James Herman Melville Tennessee Williams Nikolae Gogol Emily Dickinson Willa Cather Virginia Woolf Bill Tilden Sir Noel Coward Aaron Copland Margaret Mead Marlena Dietrich Langston Hughes Sir John Gielgud Greta Garbo Quentin Crisp Leonard Bernstein Liberace Truman Capote Rock Hudson Michel Foucault Allen Ginsberg Andy Warhol Rudolf Nureyev Martina Navratilova (source--Rictor Norton--The Great Queers of History) Hans Christian Anderson Traci Chapman William S. Burroughs Jodie Foster Billie Jean King K.D. Lang Greg Louganis Ralph Lauren Sir Isaac Newton Sinead O'Connor Gore Vidal Lily Tomlin... And the list goes on. There are thousands of world leaders, scientists, philosophers, composers, artists, writers, entertainers, politicians, clergymen, doctors, philanthropists and so on, whose names are not so famous, but whose impact on humanity is undeniable. And why is it again that we must persecute and withhold basic human rights from them...oh yeah, because four times in the old testament it is mentioned. The old testament was written by Jewish tribesman when the prevailing thought was that the earth was flat, the universe revolved around it, the tribes needed to grow and get this--there was no America. Here is where we come to truth. The truth is fundamentalist religion (Christian, Moslem and Jewish) is racked with bigotry and intolerance. For the sake of your 'faith', please, please evolve.
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| Famous and Infamous Drug Users (source Erowid Character Vaults) Steve Allen LSD Tim Allen Coke Lewis Armstrong Cannabis The Beatles Weed, Acid Sarah Bernhart Coke Elizabeth Barrett Browning Opium Lenny Bruce Heroin, Weed William S. Burroughs Coke, Horse, Weed, etc... Winston Churchhill Nitrous Grover Cleveland Coke William Clinton Weed Ray Charles Heroin Jean Cocteau Opium Kurt Cobain Heroin Salvador Dali Hash Charles Dickens Opium Bob Dole Viagra The Doors Acid, Mescaline, Weed Arthur Conan Doyle Opium, Coke Alexander Dumas Hash Thomas Edison Coca Wine Ben Franklin Opium, Weed Sigmund Freud Coke Art Garfunkel Weed Bill Gates LSD Allen Ginsberg Nitrous Al Gore Weed Tipper Gore Weed Cary Grant Acid Ulysses S. Grant Coke George Harrison Acid, Mushrooms, Weed (but, Cigarettes killed him) Ernest Hemingway Absinthe Jimi Hendrix LSD, Heroin, Weed Woody Harrelson Weed Abbie Hoffman Weed, Coke Billie Holliday Heroin, Coke Victor Hugo Hash Aldous Huxley Mescaline, Acid, Psilocybin Andrew Jackson Weed William James Nitrous, Ether, Peyote Thomas Jefferson Hemp John Keats Opium Ken Kesey Acid, many others King George 5 Coke, Opium Stephen King Coke Timothy Leary Acid, Weed, many others John Lennon Acid, Weed, Mushrooms, Heroin Rush Limbaugh Opiates Abraham Lincoln Weed Bela Lagosi Opium, Morphine James Madison Hemp Bob Marley oh, yea, Weed Joseph McCarthy Opium Paul McCartney Weed, LSD, Coke, Heroin Mohammed Hash Ralph Nader Weed Willie Nelson Weed Charlie Parker Heroin, Amphetamine Pablo Picasso Opium Edgar Allen Poe Opium Pope Leo 13 Coca Wine Cole Porter Coke Richard Pryor Coke Queen Victory Opium, Weed, Coca Wine, Chloroform Dan Rather Acid, Heroin Arthur Rimbaud Absinthe The Rolling Stones Weed and so forth Carl Sagan Weed Sir Walter Scott Opium William Shakespeare Weed Ringo Star Acid, Mushrooms, Weed Robert Louis Stevenson Coke, Morphine Stravinski LSD Zachary Taylor Hemp Hunter S. Thompson Weed and so on Vincent Van Gogh Absinthe Jules Verne Coca Wine George Washington Hemp W.B. Yeats Hash Famous and Infamous Cannabis Users Not Already Listed (source Famous Cannabis Users) Balzac Aaron Sorkin Bing Crosby Bob Dylan Bruce Lee Cab Calloway Count Basie Dioscorides Pedanius (1st Century AD Greek Physician) Dizzy Gillespie Duke Ellington Francois Rabelais (16th Century French author) Friedrich Nietzsche (used it as medicine) Gene Krupa George W. Bush (professional hypocrite) Franklin Pierce James Monroe Jackie Gleason Jesus Christ (source) Jimmy Dorsey Joan of Arc (accused of using 'witch herbs'--another name for Cannabis) John F. Kennedy Kareem Abdul Jabbar Mike Bloomberg Miles Davis Newt Gingrich Norman mailer Oscar Wilde Peter Sellers Peter Tosh Pink Floyd Robert Mitchum (jailed in the 40's) Rudolph Nureyev Rudyard Kipling Samuel Becket Steve Jobs (co-creator Apple Computers) Steven Sondheim Ted Turner The Who Thelonious Monk Stone Age Man Most Popular Musicians since the turn of the 20th century And, believe it or not, I've left off hundreds of modern names--let's just say that the music, film, TV, art, literature, dance and theater worlds are filled with further examples of individuals who use Cannabis to assist their creative drive, to medicate their bodies and to relax. The TRUTH is that long term heroin use is not a good thing. However, in the extensive , but shortened list of drug users above, very few died as a result of their drug use and absolutely none of them died as a result of Cannabis usage. Alcohol, cigarettes and prescription addiction and misuse are the enemies of good health and the killers. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.
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