You instigated an investigation in to my identification

You caused me to seek
and destroy.
To regress from being the unhappy man
to the smiling boy.
You caused me to awake in the morning
and not wish to die.
You allow me to fall from the bridge
but this time I want to fly.
I am wrapped inside the barrel, Niagara falls with hope
so many times i have wanted to escape
this time i plunged and coped.
the essence
the presence
you instill within me
i will travel over oceans,
you allow me to be free.
You instigated an investigation in to my identification
I will no longer be the falsification
that has been my life
for too long now.
I see the world through untainted spectacles
it is no longer unachievable
no disrespect but respectable.
you make me,
give me edges
a point to prod and survive
i smell the freshness of your essence
and i am glad that I'm alive.

Delight and illuminate

i left
because it was not right
i swerved
because it was not straight
i gained
because i was behind
i developed
because the picture needed
i raised
because the walls hindered me
i told the truth
because the lies inhibited me
i became sane
because insanity drove me inside
i found a reason
because not doing so denied it
i crashed the fence
i instigated
i propagated
i proposed
i supposed
i disposed
i left
because it wasn't right
fight
i implore you.
fight
delight
and illuminate.

Faking the lunar landings......really?

Lets think about this, just for a minute or two. Its been forty years since Messrs Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon, since Neil uttered those now famous words, "this is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", I always suspected that was a verbal error, and recently Armstrong confirmed it, it should have been, "this is one small step for A man" which makes much more sense! Anyway, 40 years.....40 long years. And still in all those four decades, some people out there, have continued to insist, the moon landings were staged, a 1969 production, filmed somewhere in some dessert, back in the states, so that the U.S got one up on there old adversaries the USSR. That, over the last forty years, not one individual has come forward and said, to anyone, and i mean anyone, not just a member of the press, but even a member of their own family,"you know what, you are right, it was a fake, oh, that is one sweet relief, all these years living a lie, we were in Arizona, can you believe that, in fact Armstrong, he is fake too, and Aldrin, both made out of balloons and squirrel fur, yup, and the pictures you saw, not real at all, oh and the equipment that's still on the moon, its not really there at all, in fact the moon's not real, that big old ball in the sky, we made that".
One thing, (apart from the overwhelming evidence for the positive argument, and the fact that most of the conspiracy theorists tend to come across as being a tad, well, menta)l, that convinces me the moon landings were genuine, is, if they were not, why stop there. Why not fake a Mars landing? If the Americans had been able to mock the moon landings and keep the story covered up for forty years, why not, using the unbelievably brilliant effects we see employed today in the movies, make up a Mars touchdown. Imagine if you will, The Americans pull Peter Jackson to one side(Lord of the rings, King Kong etc) and say, Pete, here's a bit of an idea for you!!
The Americans could fake a Mars landing, and even better than that, they could create a budget for the real thing, Billions of dollars, making space exploration become a reality, the tax payer wouldn't mind that, its a positive step, NASA can do it, select a crew of American heroes, throw in a Brit and a homosexual, in fact no, a trans gender, and a north Korean and an Iranian, and Nelson Mandela, and fly those dudes to Mars, Whoohoo, old Pete Jackson, now so beyond those poxy Oscars, sits in his workshop, masturbating over his new film, project 'red planet' and within five years, oh my, touchdown "this, is, another stepping stone, for mans continuing exploration, of our imagination, and of our technological capabilities" or some such shit.

President Obama, within the next few days i am told, will be making a pledge to send man to Mars, to go back to the moon, and use it as a launchpad for continuing exploration. He has the vision that Kennedy had, he sees that us, humans of all creed, need a distraction, away from the continuous, mouse trap on the nipples, news, we seem to wake up to every morning. We need a shiny object to follow so we don't notice whats really going on with all the other underhanded, falsities, perpetrated by our governments. Damn it, we need hope. Is Mars that hope, you bet your house(while you still have it) it is.
And when it happens, will it be an animated pixar version we will be watching on our TV screens, or will they have actually achieved the glorious beginnings of mans natural propensity to explore and conquer. Well, just like the moon, i guess only time will tell.

The plinth

On tuesday night at 8pm, our programme manager will be on the fourth plinth in Londons Trafalgar square, broadcasting live, for Sheffield Live!, you can here it on the radio or on the web@http://www.sheffieldlive.org/ you can also watch live @http://www.oneandother.co.uk/, so have a look and a listen, I wont be able to attend will be watching Alan do his stuff, Good luck mate!

yesterdays show

http://www.canstream.co.uk/sheffieldlive/index.php?id=17409

Radio show

So as any of my twitter pals will know, i have now started presenting on a local radio station.
http://www.sheffieldlive.org/

Monday mornings 7am till 9am, and Friday afternoons 12pm till 1pm.

Just means I may be a little bit busier, but should also mean i have new material for the blog, so listen if you can, and keep on reading,(the music on the breakfast show is great, with a lot of new, debut songs from local artists.)

The below was contributed to the UK brights discussion group, i personally loved reading it. comment or discuss below the piece. And visit the link, thanks.

What does it mean to be open minded? writers link below.

A green table behind a door is physically possible. A whale drinking tea and talking to a geranium while both orbit Mars is not physically possible.

We use belief in the first instance because both absence and presence are possible.

"I believe there is a table behind the door"

"I believe there is not a green table behind the door"

are both acceptable statements.

We use knowledge in the second case because our knowledge of the physical universe is that it is impossible.

"I know there is no whale drinking tea and talking to a geranium while orbiting Mars"
It would be absurd to say "I don't know if there is a whale drinking tea and talking to a geranium while orbiting Mars, so I can only say that I think / I believe there is no whale drinking...."

God is physically impossible. This is not a metaphysical or philosophical trick. It's a statement of fact.

We know that the Jewish-Christian-Muslim God cannot exist because omnipotence, omniscience and infinite compassion cancel each other out.

The only other possibility is a God that started the universe working and then sat back to see how it turned out. If such a God exists - and there are very strong arguments* that suggest it doesn't exist - then that form of supernatural consciousness is so remote from our own lives as to have no meaning or relevance. And the whole point of God is that he/she/it is relevant to humanity. If God is not relevant, God is not God.

God - a supernatural consciousness that created the universe and is interested in / involved in human lives cannot exist. And because God cannot exist, God does not exist. And that makes the statement "I know God doesn't exist" the only description possible by a rational individual.

Non-believers who say "I don't know if God exists" or "I don't believe God exists" or "I believe God doesn't exist" are simply refusing to take the discussion to its logical conclusion.

Martin

www.godwouldbeanatheist.com

* I'd say that the arguments = proof that the non-involved supernatural consciousness doesn't exist, but it would make this post too long.

The Abyss

I fell,
into the void i swore
to avoid.
I intended, to swerve against,
deflect the evidence,
but its forces were so immense,
I fell.
It enraptured me
a quilt of togs
bogs me down
soggy,
yet i would have it
no other way.
I fell,
She engulfs my mind,
my heart, stroked
attacked
she resuscitates,
massages back
to life
this lifeless
reason to be.
I fell
listless
unable to defeat
I cave, without mercy
or regret
I fell
in love
in to
the abyss.

Swine flu? A stealth tax?

Swine flu, is it a coincidence it became apparent in the middle of a financial crisis? If you believe that our governments are capable of being a part, ney, the instigators, of 9/11 or 7/7, in order to justify the billions of $/£ spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,(oil and heroin by the way, we truly dont give a fuck about democracy) surely they can create a flu pandemic in order to tax the citizens of the world.
Swine flu is a government, Media driven scaremongering tactic. A non entity, gathering force and followers, where only mass TV coverage can. more people have died this year from toaster related deaths than have died from Swine flu. Should we ban toasters?
There is nothing like a Pandemic of epic disproportionates to fuel a tax we can not help but to contribute to. A stealth tax we have to fund. A flu, that started in Mexico and then died out, but miracleously made its way into the US and across the Atlantic into Europe, and, apparanty, is spreading like wildfire, into all our homes!
Check the stats, number of deaths? its all bullshit. unless of course you wish to raise the premium of health insurance, or in the UK, have to pay for your perscriptions. Swine flu? oh no, i hear thats a killer! the health secretary in the UK recently announced that up to 100000 people per day, by the end of August will have contracted the disease, what he failed to mention is this pandemic(as now classed by some medical board we have only recently acknowledged) does not kill you, it is a minor flu, a little less agressive than the common cold, the 'killer' of, so far, a bunch of people with pre determined medical conditions, complications that related to swine flu, contributing to their deaths.
I hate this. Its is simply a tax. They will make us pay our way out of their financial fuck ups by taxing us invisably.
We already have bailed out the banks, but at least we all are share holders now, bollocks we are.
what else can we do to bleed these imbeciles of there hard earned cash, shit, im not sure, oh, no, hold on, why dont we create a magical disease, and charge the dumb fucks with the privalage of immunisation?
Dont think they could think of it?
I did, and im just a dumb pleb who used to believe in our medical board, the one sponsored by our governments, who are controlled by the billionaire media, struggling in the current climates, which, by the way, they invented to add dollar to the price of everything.
Believe it or not, i am not a conspiracy theorist, so, until they catch up, sleep well.