#neoatheism

[arthurzdrinc]

Here is a shorterrr sort of shorter exerpt. If you are interested in reading the whole thing you can on my facebook, or wordpress blog, whichever social media network you prefer. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notes/arthur-zdrinc/lets-stop-hating-lets-not-repeat-history/1733719220006923/?comment_id=10155263523591022&notif_id=1525917213802086&notif_t=comment_mention&ref=notif Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/post/arthurzdrinc.wordpress.com/121 FINALLY!! For over a year now I've binge watched debates, documentaries, and binge read History books at about 7 different libraries. I'm not proud of the fact that my late fees are exponentially increasing... Why? Because learning should never stop, and quite frankly I miss academia, I miss the environment of bright intellectual people on their quests for knowledge, and the smell of old books with yellowed pages. I began an intense research project on my own time. The list of sources is excruciatingly extensive so I have listed it on the bottom for anyone and everyone interested in History who wants to read up. Death toll statistics during a secular century: First World War (1914–18): 15 million Russian Civil War (1917–22): 9 million Soviet Union, Stalin’s regime (1924–53): 20 million Second World War (1937–45): 55 million Chinese Civil War (1945–49): 2.5 million People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s regime (1949–75): 40 million Tibet (1950 et seq.): 600,000 Congo Free State (1886–1908): 8 million Mexico (1910–20): 1 million Turkish massacres of Armenians (1915–23): 1.5 million China (1917–28): 800,000 China, Nationalist era (1928–37): 3.1 million Korean War (1950–53): 2.8 million North Korea (1948 et seq.): 2 million Rwanda and Burundi (1959–95): 1.35 million Second Indochina War (1960–75): 3.5 million Ethiopia (1962–92): 400,000 Nigeria (1966–70): 1 million Bangladesh (1971): 1.25 million Cambodia, Khmer Rouge (1975–78): 1.65 million Mozambique (1975–92): 1 million [I was here one of the highest amputee rates in the world because floods washed all the land mines around and no one know where they are. The orphanage I served at had 175 children many of whom have lost their parents to mines, an echo of human ingenuity mixed with equal parts hatred, selfishness, pride, stupity, and technological advancements] Afghanistan (1979–2001): 1.8 million Iran–Iraq War (1980–88): 1 million Sudan (1983 et seq.): 1.9 million Kinshasa, Congo (1998 et seq.): 3.8 million Philippines Insurgency (1899–1902): 220,000 Brazil (1900 et seq. 500,000 Amazonia (1900–1912): 250,000 Portuguese colonies (1900–1925): 325,000 French colonies (1900–1940): 200,000 Japanese War (1904–5): 130,000 German East Africa (1905–7): 175,000 Libya (1911–31): 125,000 Balkan Wars (1912–13): 140,000 [My Grandmother on my Dad's side was born into this... this isn't usually taught in your typical American history class] Greco–Turkish War (1919–22): 250,000 Spanish Civil War (1936–39): 365,000 Franco Regime (1939–75): 100,000 Abyssinian Conquest (1935–41): 400,000 Finnish War (1939–40): 150,000 Greek Civil War (1943–49): 158,000 Yugoslavia, Tito’s regime (1944–80): 200,000 First Indochina War (1945–54): 400,000 Colombia (1946–58): 200,000 India (1947): 500,000 Romania (1948–89): 150,000 [my parents grew up under the oppression of one of the stupidest dictators, Nicolae Ceausescu. So I listen to them when they say socialism/communism will NEVER work... it hasn't for 100 years and won't until the great heat death of the Universe] Burma/ Myanmar (1948 et seq.): 130,000 Algeria (1954–62): 537,000 Sudan (1955–72): 500,000 Guatemala (1960–96): 200,000 Indonesia (1965–66): 400,000 Uganda, Idi Amin’s regime (1972–79): 300,000 Vietnam, postwar Communist regime (1975 et seq.): 430,000 Angola (1975–2002): 550,000 East Timor, conquest by Indonesia (1975–99): 200,000 Lebanon (1975–90): 150,000 Cambodian Civil War (1978–91): 225,000 Iraq, Saddam Hussein (1979–2003): 300,000 [most millennials at least know about this guy] Uganda (1979–86): 300,000 Kurdistan (1980s, 1990s): 300,000 Liberia (1989–97): 150,000 Iraq (1990–): 350,000 Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–95): 175,000 Somalia (1991 et seq.): 400,000 --------------- Works Cited "B&J": Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson, International Conflict : A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management 1945-1995 (1997) Berlinski, David, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its scientific pretensions (2009) Bodart, Gaston, Losses of Life in Modern Wars (1916) Britannica, 15th edition, 1992 printing Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century (1993). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa(1981) The Cambridge History of Africa(1986), ed. J. D. Fage and R. Oliver CDI:  The Center for Defense Information, The Defense Monitor, "The World At War: January 1, 1998". Chirot, Daniel: Modern Tyrants : the power and prevalence of evil in our age(1994) Chomsky, Noam,  The Chomsky Reader(1987); Deterring Democracy (1991) Clodfelter, Michael, Warfare and Armed Conflict: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1618-1991 Compton's Encyclopedia Online v.2.0(1997) COWP: Correlates of War Project at the University of Michigan [http://www.correlatesofwar.org/] Courtois, Stephane, The Black Book of Communism, 1997 Davies, Norman, Europe A History (1998) Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History, by Jan Palmowski (Oxford, 1997) Dictionary of Wars, by George Childs Kohn (Facts on File, 1999) DoD: United States Department of Defense [http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/m01/SMS223R.HTM] Dumas, Samuel, and K.O. Vedel-Petersen, Losses of Life Caused By War(1923) Eckhardt, William, in World Military and Social Expenditures 1987-88 (12th ed., 1987) by Ruth Leger Sivard. Edgerton, Robert B, Africa's armies: from honor to infamy: a history from 1791 to the present (2002) FAS 2000: Federation of American Scientists, The World at War (2000) Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Gilbert, Martin, A History of the Twentieth Century (1997) Global Security: The World At War [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/index.html] Grenville, J. A. S., A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (1994) Hammond Atlas of the 20th Century(1996) Harff, Barbara & Gurr, Ted Robert: "Toward an Empirical Theory of Genocides and Politicides", 32 International Studies Quarterly 359 (1988). 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Perspectives on comparative genocide (1996) Rummel, Rudolph J.: China's Bloody Century : Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (1991); Lethal Politics : Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917 (1990); Democide : Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder (1992); Death By Government (1994), http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rummel/welcome.html. Sheina, Robert L., Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791-1899 (2003) "S&S": Small, Melvin & Joel David Singer, Resort to Arms : International and Civil Wars 1816-1980 (1982) Singer, Joel David, The Wages of War. 1816-1965 (1972) SIPRI Yearbook: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Skidmore, Thomas E. (and Peter H. Smith), Modern Latin America, 4th ed., 1997 Smith, Dan:  The State of War and Peace Atlas (1997); The New State of War and Peace (1991); The War Atlas(1983) with Michael Kidron Sorokin, Pitirim, Social and Cultural Dynamics, vol.3 (1937, 1962) Timeframe AD 1900-1925 The World In Arms (Time-Life) Timeframe AD 1925-1950 Shadow of the Dictators  (Time-Life) Timeframe AD 1950-1990 Nuclear Age(Time-Life) Totten, Samuel, ed., Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (1997) Urlanis, Boris, Wars and Population(1971) Wallechinsky: David Wallechinsky's Twentieth Century : History With the Boring Parts Left Out (1995). War Annual: The World in Conflict [year] War Annual [number]. Wertham, Fredric, A Sign For Cain : An Exploration of Human Violence (1966) White, Matthew, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (W. W. Norton, 2012) http://necrometrics.com/pre1700a.htm#Total (1999-2010 with last update Jan. 2012) "WPA3": World Political Almanac, 3rd Ed. (Facts on File: 1995) by Chris Cook. --------------- Hashtags #Hate #War #Love #Peace #Atheism #Religion #God #DeathTolls #Murder #Science #Socialism #Communism #Secularism #Naturalism #Materialism #Nihilism #YHWH #Yeshua #Christianity #Islam #Judaism #IgnoranceisBliss #History

[papercraftexpos]

To be a neo-atheist is to be duped by imperialism. Islam is a distraction from the injustice done to the middle east by colonial powers.  You’re not enlightened. You’re not deep. You’re just a smug asshole who took the bait.

[zeitvox]

...Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow do not succeed in murdering philosophy in their recent book The Grand Design. Nor do they even try. Perhaps this is because they believe, as they blandly announce on the first page, that philosophy is already dead.

But the joke's on them. If philosophy were a big burlap bag, then these writers seem to have delivered us their book higgledy-piggledy from somewhere in the dark within.

This joke, indeed this irony, is often on all of us - though for some more self-consciously than others.

They are in good company, to be sure. But to judge from the text, Hawking and Mlodinow don't seem to have any sense of the history, the pre-history, or indeed the lively present of the ideas they are tossing around... it's a rehash of philosophical ideas whose real interest seems to elude the authors.

 - Alva Noë from an interesting new NPR blog, 13.7, "set at the intersection of science and culture".