i am matt. i love cheeesecake it's the best. sometimes i have absurdly disturbing internal dialogue. and sometimes, i don't know where the hell i'm going, but i'll keep digging until i find something. there now you know me.ö¦+ª . (¼??
music, philosophy, art, theology, astronomy, science, psychedelic literature, snowboarding, mountain biking, wakeboarding, kinesiology, singing, school
this guy... ...and galileo, plato, maynard, timothy leary, trent reznor, jesus, hitler, einstein
Tool, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deftones, Soundgarden, Incubus, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, Alice in Chains, A Perfect Circle, Radiohead, Beck, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Coheed and Cambria, Rush, The Cure, Chevelle, Crystal Method, Meshuggah, Mars Volta, The Prodigy, BT, Primitive Radio Gods, 311, Dragonforce, 00-Metro, Between the Buried and Me, Beatles, Mos Def, Hendrix, Outkast, Chemical Brothers, Chuck Berry, Wu-Tang Clan, Van Halen, Sublime, System of a Down, Coldplay, Sigur Ros, Modest Mouse, CCR, Helmet, Bush, Apollo 440, Tribe Called Quest, Bassnectar, Thrice, Team Sleep, Slipknot, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lamb of God, Papa Roach, Pearl Jam, John 5, Pantera, Janes Addiction, Pinback, Jimmy Eat World, Marylin Manson, Killswitch Engage, The Doors, Hatebreed, Metallica, Dave Matthews, Type O Negative, The Pixies and many, many more...
fight club, pulp fiction, seven, snatch, matrix, true romance, forest gump, training day, sin city, momento, vanilla sky, hero, kill bill, this list will go on forever dont feel like typing that much
south park, dave chappelle, conan o'brian, lost, whales humping on the discovery channel
Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, philosophy, under the banner of heaven, fear and loathing in las vegas, the prophet, John Krakauer
intentionally self-ignited monks on fire, timothy leary, maynard james keenan, chris cornell, jimi hendrix, galileo Abraham Lincoln"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."Albert Einstein"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.""I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism.""I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.""If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."Ernest Hemingway"All thinking men are atheists."On page 144 of Paul Johnson's book Intellectuals, it states that despite being raised in a strict Congregationalist household, Ernest "did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to human happiness", "seems to have been devoid of the religious spirit", and "ceased to practise religion at the earliest possible moment." Other's have pointed out that Hemingway used the non-existence of God as a theme in his books.Charles DarwinFrom the age of forty he was, to use his own words, a complete dis-believer in Christianity. He professed himself an Agnostic, regarding the problem of the universe as beyond our solution, "For myself," he wrote, "I do not believe in any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities." "The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us, and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.""It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Quoted in How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer.Benjamin Franklin"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.""Lighthouses are more helpful then churches." Carl Sagan"My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic."Galileo Galilei"They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit."Freidrich Nietzsche"Faith means not wanting to know what is true.""So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is truth?""The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, a self-derision, and self-mutilation.""All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race – before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications.""The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.""There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more."Helen Keller"There is so much in the bible against which every insinct of my being rebels, so much so that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention."Karl Marx"The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.""The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille."Napoleon Bonaparte"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.""Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.""All religions have been made by men."Vincent Van Gogh"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create." Thomas Jefferson (Deist)"History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. " – Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.""Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity." –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782."And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors." –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823"Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.""I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.""Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.""It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."Sigmund Freud"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. ""Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.""The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."Freud certainly regarded belief in God as an illusion that mature men and women should lay aside. The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind. [A History of God]