User:Giovanni33

This is my current home, Planet Earth. I am its citizen. Its the only home I have:[3]

I'm a volunteer with EFF in the defense of Free Speech.

Here is your chance to try to create God. The one I created was at least plausible, although would not be "God" by most conceptions: http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/whatisgod.htm Next, try this one and see if you can make it across an intellectual battleground without harm! Logic and rational consistency is all you need to make it. I was able to make it without taking a single hit, or scratch. Tread carefuly:http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm

And now for some quotes, most meant stir our thinking, but some for humor. Can you tell which ones?

First let a classic thought by the great Epicurus:

"God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, he is weak -- and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful -- which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?" -Epicurus (from "The Epicurus Reader", translated and edited by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson, Hackett Publishing, 1994, p. 97)

"If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades." – Che.

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." Che Guevara

"As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set policy in the special interests that it serves. But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole, and by now that means the global community." Noam Chomsky

"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all." Noam Chomsky

"The Curch says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." Ferdinand Magellan

"The most important issue that faces us is the survival of the planet's ecology. If that struggle fails, then everything else we do will be nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the "Titanic"." Michael Parenti

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal

"Facts are stupid things." Ronald Reagan Source: His address to the Republican National Convention, 1988

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way." Arundhati Roy. "Confronting Empire," Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1/28/2003

"There can be no real freedom or democracy until the men who do the work in a business also control its management." Bertrand Russell

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so ure who the they are, but we know they're there." George W Bush January 21, 2000 Iowa Western Community College George W. Bush

"If you read the Bible, say, you find that it is one of the most genocidal texts in our literature." Chomsky. Companion Book to the film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 156

"For my part I would as soon be descended from a baboon...as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies...treats his wives like slaves...and is haunted by the grossest superstitions." Charles Darwin

"Facts are not ethical principles, but they tend to form or revise our moral ideas by making it harder to believe nonsense." Bertrand Russell

[edit] Barnstars

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Giovanni33 for tireless effort in attempt to bring a NPOV to Christianity and other related articles, even when vastly outnumbered. KV 22:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

		The Exceptional Parrot Award
		I award this cracker to Giovanni33 for being the most exasperating and original parrot at the Adolf Hitler talk page. (See [4] [5] and [6]) AnnH ♫ 12:24, 25 May 2006 (UTC)