Mystro introduced me to the youtuber WildWoodClair1. She has a nice channel with many videos mocking christian inanity in the multitudinous forms it comes in. Our selection today is a particularly concise take down of bad christian religious ideas stated with risibly solemn rectitude by clueless christians. Enjoy. 🙂
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Dead Wild Roses: Poetry Slam – Natasha
I’m looking for the transcript (found it)because sometimes the applause drowns out the speaker. In any case, this is a command performance and emphasizes a few important points about discourse in our society in general and feminism in particular. I remember how the park, outside of parked cars, was frozen
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – 50 Shades of Awesome!
CBC radio 2 still has goodness left in it, witness the Signature Series. A string of programs that explore popular conceptions of music written in specific key signatures. Today’s interlude will feature the key of G minor and songs that are written in that specific key. The downside to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Shadow Ruling My Life
My Morning Dog Time That would be my damn dog looking at me quizzically while I snap yet another phone-photo of her cuteness. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: dog love, shadow
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Atheism vs. Atheism Plus – Guess Where DWR plants her Standard?
Not too many surprises here folks, subscribing to the radical notion that women are people too is how we roll around here. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Atheism, Debate, Rational Thought
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Edmonton Arena – The Katz Method:Socialize the Risk and Privatize the Profit
Edmonton taxpayers are going to be fleeced without affection or mercy by the Katz Group. This has been in the cards since this atrocious deal was pre-approved last year. Having done some reading though, we can still pull out of this money trap and it looks as if Katz is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Removing the Blinders of Privilege – A Political Moral Awakening
Meaningful discourse requires a mutually accepted set of shared definitions to start. Otherwise the parties involved will unerringly talk past each other and misconstrue what the other is saying. George Lakoff, a cognitive scientist, has mapped this procedure brilliantly in several books ( The Political Mind being the most concise).
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gamer objections to Feminism – Pwned.
Okay, first of all, go to Jezebel and read the whole damn article. It is good and does not just apply to the gaming sub-culture, it works everywhere for the most part and is useful to have in the back of your mind as you see stuff go down around
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Since when does the GOP make sense on Womens Issues?
Who would have thunk? Filed under: Politics Tagged: Abortion, Decent Republicans, Politics, Pro-Choice, Pro-life
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Defending your Imaginary Friend
For a concise rundown of all the religious based stupidity going on in the Middle East please follow this link to the CBC where they have set up an interactive time line of all the idiocy that has, and continues to unfold, over a really bad film. People are going
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gullible Hockey Fans – Angry now, demure later.
Woo! It is lock out time for the NHL and not a moment to soon. The great showdown between millionaires is about to begin supported by the gullible hockey fan. Just take in the love they have for fans as they gouge you for parking, beverages and food. Oh
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So, Tell me again about Islam being the Religion of Peace – Innocence of Muslims
Islam, religion of Peace burns down American Embassy illustrating dedication to rational non-violent ways of resolving disputes. This just in the from insano-delusional land (credit CBC.ca): “Many Muslims find it offensive to depict the Prophet Muhammad in any fashion, much less in an insulting way. This week’s attacks on U.S.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Objectification of Women – Tour de Fail
Thanks for pointing that out Sociological Images. “[…][A]nother over-the-top example of the objectification of female athletes. The commercial is for RoadID, a company that sells “identification gear.” Autumn saw it while watching the Tour de France; she found this shortened version online, which she says actually features less objectification than
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Busted! – The sleep in.
Ah yes, the dog that is not allowed up on the furniture. I return early to my room and find this – I’m napping here human, what gives? Not much you can do with a super cute dog now is there? Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Busted!, Cute, dog, sleep in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Slap me with a Fish! Liberal Viewer on Is the Economic system in the US rigged for the Rich
Americans force fed their concerns from the elites handbook need to see Liberal Viewers 101 guide to the economy or even just to get a sense of what is going wrong and how crazy it is to support people who are for “more of the same”. Filed under: Politics Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion makes me sad.
It’s funny, for all the take-down, all the arguing all the debate that has been featured here at DWR, sometimes a picture just nails what is so wrong with a concept. In this case the idea is christian religion. The picture is so sad. And yet people want to believe
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Canadian Office of Religious Stupidity.
Hey I need some help eroding the church/state separation. Lets ask the experts! I’m not really sure what is so shit-hot about the attitudes and conventions of the Dark Ages, but Harper and his government have decided to fecklessly dive into the land of pants-on-head stupid and establish a official
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Failures of Capitalism – Unquestioned Assumptions on Happiness
Did you ever wonder about economic growth? Take the time to question your assumptions on economic growth and how it effects you? Thomas Homer Dixon has and what he says is quite interesting. From The Upside of Down pages 192 – 193. “One might even say that we’re collectively fixated
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Bach, Three-part Invention #4, D minor (Sinfonia), BWV 790
The vertical stripes show the rhythmic “grid” — showing the hierarchy of beats. The first beat in a measure is the strongest, followed by the half-measure point, followed by quarter-measure points, etc. This lets you see when a note is “suspended” through a strong beat. Filed under: Music Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Prevention Tips
This from Can you Relate, a helpful guide to Rape Prevention. Ten rape prevention tips: 1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks. 2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone. 3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember
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