Wordgasm is a portmanteau of "words" and "orgasm", an outburst of words with the same euphoric effect of squirting your DNA. Nihil sub sole novum, the Ecclesiastes say; there is nothing new under the sun. It is only but words that grant the world a whole new spectrum of perception. And the point is? I have no idea.
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Atheist Writers
Thursday, 01 October 2009

Just another bout of emotional existentialist whining.

It struck me just now (it struck me before but never really really thought of it real hard, I mean really) that a massive portion of my books were written by atheists. Right. All my four favorite authors are atheists: George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Moore, and Chuck Palahniuk (in that order :p). Other atheist writers I've read include:

  • Douglas Adams
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Charles Bukowski
  • Albert Camus
  • Arthur Clarke
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Marquis de Sade
  • Daniel Dennett
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Harlan Ellison
  • William Golding
  • Sam Harris
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Robert Heinlein
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • David Hume
  • Aldous Huxley
  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • Ian McEwan
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Ayn Rand
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Carl Sagan
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Mark Twain
  • H. G. Wells

...and everybody else I missed mentioning. Did they influence me to become an atheist or did I read them just to affirm my own beliefs? Hurr. It didn't even occur to me they were atheists from the stuff they wrote but read them anyway because they were rather honest in expressing the human condition.:p Lines that melt me:

Looked into the sky, heavy with smoke and human fat, and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. It is not God that kills the children, not fate that butchers them, nor destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.
--Rorschach from Alan Moore's Watchmen

Sadly, the movie left out 90% of the graphic novel. Meh.

Why isn't there any atheistic debate in this country?? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh. Oh god, I am alone.

Alone, alone, oh so alone.

Word did you say?



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