Religions is a tool of the right wing

Religion has been a tool of he right wing and the status quo for centuries.  The Germans viewed World War 2 as a struggle between religion and atheism  the Germans actually had more Teutonic crosses on their aircraft than swastikas. Of course, the swastika has been called a "twisted cross."

Oddly, the right wing in the US picked up where the Germans left off . in the 1990s Ronald Reagan used the evangelical community to win a presidential election. Although George HW Bush was less enamored with religion than his son, Karl Rove used religion to elect his son, GW Bush.

GW Bush even tried to give the US welfare system to church leaders after the election, but the church leaders balked at the idea stating that wasn't the mission of the churches.

Rightardia has a secular humanist slant on the world that some might call that view agnostic atheism. By using the term agnostic we mean we have no special knowledge that God exists or does not. We have no idea. At the same time the religious community has offered scant evidence of god's existence  Many religious people take a Gnostic view in that they have special knowledge of god's existence.

Pat Robertson is a good example of this when he says he knew who will be the next president.

Robertson later admitted he got God's message wrong suggesting Robertson believed God had told him that Mitt Romney would win. Robertson also said the president's policies do not reflect what American believe.  Of course, Obama had a convincing election win both in popular vote and electorally. Obama won by more that 4.5 million votes

Don't forget Billy Graham either. He invited Mitt Romney to his church and then removed the Mormon faith form the Billy Graham cult list to give the Republican an election a boost with evangelical.  Right after the election, the Mormon Church went back on the cult list when officials from Graham's church admitted they had made a mistake about the Mormon faith.

Many years ago Sinclair Lewis made a famous quite about fascism:

American fascism has elements of capitalism, religion and jingoistic patriotism  Another world for fascism is corporatism.

Churches has always looked toward corporate sponsors for church contributions and have reminded their flock to look the other way when corporate abuses were occurring. Why worry about the here and now when paradise is waiting for the obedient in heaven?

Is it possible that a supreme being created the universe?

Certainly, but why would a supreme being need to be worshiped or hang around one small planet in he middle of a very large universe?

Even the Founders believed the universe was inhabited by other intelligent worlds and that there were probably sentient beings who are a lot smarter than the people on earth. Many of the founders were also deists. They believed in God, but not in organized religion.

In fact, it  is rumored that Ben Franklin was an atheist,

Thomas Jefferson even edited the Bible.

"The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels which contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages indicating Jesus was divine," 

Of course, these same  four gospels  of gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the ones that are embraced by evangelicals and fundamentalists. 

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
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Man created God in his image

Certainly this description would fit the God of most fundamentalists and evangelicals.

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Banned Mormon cartoon

Uploaded by briman232 on Feb 25, 2010

This cartoon  has a look and feel os somthing produced  in the 1950s or 1960s. However, the information is accurate based on what Rightardia knows about the Latter Day Saints. . There is an exteneded version of this cartoon at 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3BqLZ8UoZk

If you have concerns about about Mitten's regiion, this may answer some of your questions. Romeny is a devout Mormon who has been been both a Mormon bishop and stake holder or stake presidnet.

Joseph Smith perceived the Bible had been translated incorrectly.  He used seer stone which were equivalent to a crystal ball to translate  the golden plates he discovered in NY and "corrected" the Bible.

Elohim was the arch god in Judaism who created Jahweh and Asherah, his wife. Around 600 bce, King Joseph/Josiah got rid of Asherah and Judsiam become monotheistic.

However, it was Elohim who created Adam and Eve. Elohim is a plural Hebrew form which may denote the dual sexauaity of Elohim, who was both male and female.

This video was made by Jeremiah Films (www.jeremiahfilms.com). Foundational Mormon Doctrines, twisted as they are, were never more readily / simply explained, demonstrated & exposed than in the God Makers Cartoon aka "The BANNED Mormon Cartoon".. 

The claims contained within are what the Mormon religion was actually founded on. Many modern Mormons now try to distance themselves from these views simply because of their blatant absurdity, yet still cannot manage to simply walk away from their religion, such is the power of the constraints of religion on the mind. 

Despite these absurdities, millions of Americans call themselves Mormons today.

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Atheist Pig has a carton that many religious folks won't understand

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Betty Bowers interviews Ann Romney

Published on May 16, 2012 by MrsBettyBowers

The First Lady of Christians, Mrs. Betty Bowers, sits down to chat with the First Lady of Mormons, Mrs. Ann Romney, for Ann's most candid interview.

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Real Time with Bill Maher: atheism and an unbaptism

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The Real Time host brings Mitt Romney's father-in-law back to the realm of the dead atheist.

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

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Who should non-believers confront in the War on Chistmas?

According to recent surveys, 83 percent of Americans claim to belong to a religious denomination, 40 percent claim to attend services nearly every week or more, and 58 percent claim to pray at least weekly.

A majority of Americans report that religion plays a "very important" role in their lives, a high proportion among developed nations (Wikipedia).

Other studies show that 16-18 per cent of Americans are unaffiliated which includes non-believers and people with no affiliation. This is the fastest growing segment in religious surveys.

During the French revolution the Catholic church, also referred to as the Second Estate, was attacked. Church property was seized and many priests were executed. Many French became atheists and other became deists. Deists believe in God but not organized religion. Theists believe in organized religion.

It would be safe to assume that most of the 40 per cent of Americans who attend church nearly every week are theists.

But what about the other 40 per cent cent who claim to belong to a religious denomination but don't go to church. Are they theist or deist? Many of these folks probably claim the denomination of their parents although they no longer go to church.

The non-believer community should not be confrontational with deists or as far that matter people who are theists who attend progressive churches. Many of these people like the social life that a church offers but take the religious dogma with a grain of salt.

The people who are suggesting there is a war against Christmas and we need under God on our coins and in the pledge are Evangelical and fundamentalist theists.

Many of these people are intolerant other religions such as Islam and Judaism, intolerant of the LGBT, people, intolerant of other races, nationalities and cultures, and want women to fulfill stereotypical roles.

These are the people who need to be confronted by non-believers.

Should there be a war against Christmas?

Absolutely! But choose this war carefully.

If the holiday was called Mohamedmas or Mosesmas, Christians would not be happy. We need Christ out of the holiday season because the US is a secular nation and the holidays are for everyone, not just the right wing theists.

Wikipedia sources: 

Robert D. Putnam and David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (2010) ch

"U.S. Stands Alone in its Embrace of Religion". Pew Global Attitudes Project. Retrieved 2007-01-01.

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10 commandments for atheists?

Penn Jillette'ss attempt on a "10 Commandments for Atheists"

Glen Beck asked Penn Jillete, the magician, if he could come up with a 10 commandments for atheists. Gilette is an atheist because in his craft most magicians see faith as hocus-pocus,

Rightardia thinks that the non-believer community doesn't need 10 Commandments, although we like the first one of Jillkete's a lot.

Dangerous Intersection points this out, too:

. . . The original line in Exodus 20:16 (KJV) is Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. This is a very specific form of lie. Even too specific. Not only is it an injunction against perjury, but only against perjury against your landholding neighbor, as opposed to people from other places, or to property such as women and slaves.

The Christian community likes to push the 10 commandments but most of them are archaic. The 10 Commandments were derived form Hammurabi's code and were  probably written during the Israelite Babylonian captivity.

Rightardia would add education to the list. There is, of course,  both formal and informal education. Perhaps the French proverb, "Don't die stupid" best explains our outlook on education!

Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative should also be considered.

In Kant’s view, the sole feature that gives an action moral worth is not the outcome that is achieved by the action, but the motive that is behind the action. . .  The categorical imperative is Kant’s famous statement of this duty: “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

In other words, the end does not justify the means at least in terms of moral and ethical behavior. This is  a philosophical "Golden Rule" of sorts. 

source: http://dangerousintersection.org/2011/12/11/what-most-sets-of-commandments-get-wrong/
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Newsy.com: AL governor says Non Christians 'Not His Brothers"

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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley made the news just moments after being inaugurated. His religious comments are being criticized.

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Huffington Post: Tony Blair debated Christopher Hitchens on religion

CHARMAINE NORONHA | 11/27/10 01:48 AM |

Guess who won?

TORONTO — Tony Blair  faced a fierce opponent in the debating ring Friday night. Hitchens, 61, an avowed atheist, Vanity Fair columnist and author of "God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," has been a prominent voice in attacking religion.

"Is it good for the world to worship a deity that takes sides in wars and human affairs, to appeal to our fear and to our guilt – is it good for the world?" Hitchens said in his opening remarks.

"To terrify children with the image of hell ... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?" Hitchens asked as he opened the debate hosted by the Munk Debates center.

Hitchens was just animated than usual in spite of his battle with cancer of the esophagus. He said earlier Friday that he scheduled his chemotherapy treatments around the debate so he "wouldn't have to let anyone down." Hitchens said:

"This is what I do whether I'm sick or not. (Religion) is still the main argument." 

Hitchens also stated that his diagnosis has not opened him to God or religious belief.

The 61-year-old writer mocked religion in front of a Toronto audience on Friday, criticizing the faithful’s belief in a "celestial dictator — kind of divine North Korea."

Hitchens slams the ‘celestial dictator’ in debate with former British PM and makes a referrence to North Korea. 

Blair acknowledged that religion has been used to lead people to commit indescribable acts, but it has also led people to commit acts of goodness. Blair stated:

Health care in Africa has been delivered by those motivated by their religion ... The abolition of slavery was achieved by combined secularism and non-secularism. At least accept that there are people who are doing great things because of their faith.

Blair incited a sarcastic response from Hitchens when he argued the Northern Ireland peace process is an example of how people of different faiths can bridge their differences.

Hitchens: It's very touching for Tony to say that he recently went to a meeting to bridge the religious divide in Northern Ireland, where does the religious divide come from?" Hitchens asked. "Four-hundred years and more in my own country of birth of people killing each other's children depending on what kind of Christian they were . . ."

Audience members voted on the debate and preliminary results posted on the Munk Debates website sided with Hitchens, with 68 percent saying that religion is more of a destructive than benign force in the world.

BBC World News and the News Channel will broadcast the debate on Jan., 1 2011.

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Dangerous Intersection: The rise of churchless believers

Erich Vieth | October 17, 2010

Large numbers of people now leaving churches nonetheless continue to believe in a god. This article in the L.A. Times indicates that the marriage of conservative politics and religion is driving many away from church:

The most rapidly growing religious category today is composed of those Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. While middle-aged and older Americans continue to embrace organized religion, rapidly increasing numbers of young people are rejecting it.

As recently as 1990, all but 7% of Americans claimed a religious affiliation, a figure that had held constant for decades.

Today, 17% of Americans say they have no religion, and these new “nones” are very heavily concentrated among Americans who have come of age since 1990. Between 25% and 30% of twentysomethings today say they have no religious affiliation. This is roughly four times higher than in any previous generation.

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Al Jazeera: Losing our religion

Well, maybe not so much. This week the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a poll showing that Americans arguably know less about various world religions than they do about who won the disco ball on the last season of Dancing With the Stars. This shouldn’t be hugely surprising.

We’re Americans, after all, and not knowing stuff is as American as apple pie. Famed historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book in 1964 entitled Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and it is likely this strain of our historical DNA that is responsible for such phenomena as Snooki getting a book contract and Glenn Beck having an online university.

But, before you judge too harshly, it’s important to remember that this hasn’t exactly been a banner decade in the United States. Median household income has declined by almost $1,000 over the past decade once adjusted for inflation, health care costs continue to soar as we wait years for promised health care reforms to kick in (and others never made it), and the US is embroiled in foreign entanglements in what often seems like a dizzying array of places. So you can excuse people for having other things on their mind, than say the theological underpinnings of Jainism.

The problem, however, is that those foreign entanglements have some religious undertones that would be good to understand, and all too often demagogues at home in the US take advantage of the fact that many of us don’t . . .

But the real danger, of course, is that the US is involved in conflagrations with those predominantly of a different religion, including terrorists who falsely interpret their religion to justify heinous acts—all of which leads American opportunists of all stripes to use these distinctions to denigrate others and generalise about the ‘Other.’ Whether it’s nihilists cheering for random bombings abroad, or an at-the-time-unknown Pastor named Terry Jones, who has a Wyatt-Earp-moustache fetish and likes to threaten to hold Quran burnings, how better to clear out your sinuses while sowing worldwide division?

These people are all preying on fear of the unknown, leading to hatred, where none would otherwise exist. And as the great Shirley MacLaine once said, “fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

How else could Pastor Jones, who used Mel Gibson’s movie “Braveheart” as an inspiration to preach his anti-Islamic mumbo jumbo—in between roaming the Dove World Outreach Centre compound in Gainesville, Florida porting a pistol on his hip—get anyone listen to a single word of his inglorious claptrap . . .

That men like this can get in front of some very big microphones will always make ignorance about other religions dangerous in the world we live in today. Not to mention the fact that religion has probably been the number one cause of war since the Dinosaurs went bye-bye. So what is the answer?

Obviously, people need to be better educated, as knowledge is the best antidote to the poison spread by cranks and charlatans; this includes not just Americans, but people around the world. You must know some of these people, who believe conspiracy theories about Jews’ being warned about 9/11 ahead of time, or Buddhists planning the Chinese invasion of Tibet, to gain world sympathy for their millennium of meditation-enhanced domination . . .

So what about the US? Obviously we need to edify our students through our schools. We need to teach our citizens the truth through a media that remembers that it’s supposed to educate and not just titillate. The responsibility rests with all of us to do this, day in and day out, from the President on down, to change opinions over the long-term by making sure that fact replaces fiction.

As Charlie Brown once said, "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night. . ."

This opinion piece does not discuss some the major findings o f he Pew study that atheists and Jews know more about religion than other groups. This did not surprise Rightardia because it is hard to reject religion if you don't understand its history and core values. The American Jewish community is also one of the most educated in the US.


Cliff Schecter is the President of Libertas, LLC, a progressive public relations firm, the author of the 2008 bestseller The Real McCain, and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.

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source: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/10/20101048130462386.html

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Athiest Agenda: UTSA students are butting heads over a "bibles for porn" program

kens5.com | San Antonio News,

by Stacia Willson / KENS 5


Posted on March 3, 2010 at 5:39 PM Updated today at 6:45 PM

An atheist agenda group has been handing out adult magazines in exchange for any type of religious scripture.

University officials allowed the program because they say it's a first amendment right.

However, many students said they are offended by the program.

The atheist agenda group has done the "smut for smut" program in years past.  This time around they handed out about 40 adult magazines for religious texts.

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Republican Historical Revisionist Lie Number 1

Republicans have tried to portray their fascists brothers and sisters in Nazi Germany as godless socialists. Let's start with the godless part first.

Evidence of the alleged pro-Nazi sympathies of wartime pope, Pius XII is in the church's official annals,

For many scholars, though, he is at worst the Devil incarnate, "Hitler's Pope", and at best a coward who refused to speak out against the extermination of Jews, gypsies and homosexuals in gas chambers, even when he had compelling evidence that it was happening, lest his words attract Nazi aggression.

The Vatican's response to all such accusations is to issue a blanket denial, insisting that it was neutral throughout the conflict.

In the late 1990s, the Vatican allowed the British writer, John Cornwell, limited access to its papers about Pius XII. A cradle Catholic, ex-seminarian and the author of a book which conclusively refuted allegations that Pope John Paul I had been murdered, the church believed Cornwell could be trusted.

When Cornwell's book, Hitler's Pope, was published in 1999, it alleged that Pius was seemingly prepared to put up with any Nazi atrocity because he saw Hitler as a bulwark against the advance across Europe of godless communism from Russia. To paraphrase more recent politicians, the deaths of 6 million Jews was a price worth paying to protect the Catholic church.

Do you want more proof that the Nazis were fuelled by religion? This is the symbol they painted on their war planes:

What was the highest homor of the Nazis? that would be the Iron Cross they pinned on their soldier's chests.

Religion has always been associated with the right wing. This is why the association with C Streeters, evangelicals and fundamentalists with the GOP is alarming. It is not a coincidence either that evangelical church leaders sanctioned the Iraq War while mainstream churches including the Catholic Church refused to declare the Iraq War 'a just war.'

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/religion-rome-and-the-reich-the-vaticans-other-dirty-secret-479043.html

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Kirk Cameron spoof

Originally posted Thursday September 24, 2009 04:00 PM EDT

By Oliver Jones

He's used to getting love letters and high-fives as a former teen heartthrob, but onetime Growing Pains actor Kirk Cameron isn't letting the mockery and criticism dissuade him from promoting his controversial project to dispute evolutionary theory.

"Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species," Cameron tells PEOPLE. "We have a situation in our country where young people are entering college with a belief in God and exiting with that faith being stripped and shredded. What we want to do is have student make an informed, educated decision before they chuck their faith."

Rightardia comment: It looks like we have another Steven Baldwin.  I checked Cameron's bio and discovered he didn't attend college. If you want to see what happens when religious people go into the ring with educated people who are philosophers and intellectuals, watch the next video that was featured on Nightline. 




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Dear God, I Am Agnostic. Is That Ok?

05 July 2009
Editor's Note: I liked this article a lot that was the lead on Virtual Synapses blog.  Agnostics fit somewhere in between deists and atheists. Deists believe in God but aren't big on organized religion. Many of the Founding Fathers such as Jefferson, Adams and Franklin were deists.


I like Buddhism and other Eastern religions because they don't have the mysticism that permeates Western religions. You don't have to believe in angels or other divinities to be Buddhist. Most religions arose in the Bronze Age to explain the world before science existed.


The faith argument suggests you should believe in a priori values that cannot be proven. I am a man of little faith. I remember what happened when we had a man of faith in the White House for the past eight years.

I was born into a family of believers (Catholic). My parents, grandparents, wife, in-laws, brothers, cousins, aunts, and uncles are all faithful people and I have not the slightest doubt that they believe in God. Sometimes I ask myself, “Am I some sort of mutation in the gene pool?” Everyone around me goes to church, say their prayers, have faith in God, and live good lives. There’s probably something wrong with me.

Maybe I’m just a noninterventionist dumbass, but I think the only significant difference I found between me and my folks, regarding this issue, is that I asked “the question” and took it seriously. Everybody asks that question, right? What’s the question? Oh, geez, you know what I’m talking about. Here, answer this by filling in the blank:

Is there a _________?

Hint: It starts with the letter G and ends with a D.

Question: What reason do you have for being agnostic?
Answer: There are two sides of the coin. I just want to stay in between, if that's possible.

Good vs Evil

I think good and evil are created illusions. When you do something positive to other people, then that is considered good. When you do something negative, then you’re a bad ass person. But what if you don’t do anything at all? Let’s say that you go to a mountain to find a cave and spend the rest of your life just being there. There is no social interaction of whatsoever. Is that good or is that evil?

Religion vs Science

Roman Catholic, Anglican, Independent Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Baptist, Methodist, Adventist, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian, and so on and so forth. These are just some of the denominations of the Christian religion. Wait till I enumerate the ones under Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and the rest of the main religions on earth. Isn’t it absurd for us to tag ourselves as a “human race” when we can’t even find a unified belief system that can bring us all together?

On the other hand, some people put their faith in science. They say that as long as any phenomenon can be explained with empirical evidence, that’s good enough for them. Are you telling me that you want to put your faith in the hands of scientists who, as much as any other person in the planet, have their own biases and inadequacies in perceiving reality? How clever.

Mysticism vs Skepticism

Mysticism adds its own different shade of color to people’s thought processes. The archenemies of mystics are skeptics. The former is trying to go beyond the five senses to explain reality, while the latter wants to remain conventional. If you’re going to take sides, I suggest that you try Michael Jackson’s medicine.

Will you be interested to know about your karma? Would you like to know how many reincarnations you’ve been through? Do you want to get out of your body and possess Brad Pitt’s so you can play with Ms. Tomb Raider? The skeptics are saying, “STOP *lucid* DREAMING!!”

Materialism vs Idealism

Quantum physicists have concluded that matter is literally an empty vacuum. Experts are justified in regarding the atom as 99.9999999% empty. I nearly ruptured a vein in my head trying to answer this question, “If matter is empty and nothing really exists physically, what are quantum physicists? Are these people some sort of illusion?

An idealist walks over to a materialist and asks, “Hey, I know you’re made of atoms and all, but does it really m-m-m-matter? The materialist responds, “Ideally, yes. We don’t m-m-m-mind at all.”

Atheism vs Theism

There is no God! There is a God! There is no God! There is a God! Blah3x… Yada3x...

Jesus H. Christ! Would you self-absorbed and power-hungry mass butchers stop confusing people? There’s already enough suffering in the world. Stop playing with their minds. Stop claiming that you know that truth when you clearly have no idea at all about what it is, where it is, and how to find it. Nobody really knows the truth, damn it. I don’t even know if what I’m saying is true.


Determinism vs Indeterminism

Imagine the chain of events that happened starting from the big bang (creation of the universe) until the point when you reach the end of this sentence. Ok, STOP. Think for a moment. Do you realize how everything almost seems to cause everything? Just look at the sun. Everything that the planet earth has gone through is undoubtedly caused by this massive ball of light. The sun was formed, then the solar system, then the planets, the life on earth emerged, your parents met, and then voila! Nice to meet you.

When there is a cause, there is an effect. When there’s a beginning, there’s an end. Everything happens for a reason and I am here because I was intended to be here. And, after all of this, my end will come. So what is my end? If everything in my life is determined by “you know who” then do I really have a choice? Does choice even exist?

Wahoo! I’m glad I reached the end of this article without experiencing symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage. Anyway, agnosticism is still a belief. It’s a belief about not believing in anything. If I believe that I don’t believe in anything, then I believe I’m probably screwed for the rest of my life? Noooooooooooooo…

source: Virtual Synapses
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/self-help-mind-control-free-life-virtual-synapses

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