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Blow out my candles!
Can you mouse above my birthday cake
and blow out ALL my candles!
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Religion should be like your
birthday cake. . .
good tasting,
fun, and no fear of hell!
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It's a harmless tradition we all learn when we are two. For a moment in time, everyone at our table is focused on you as you inhale, pause to make your wish, and then, hopefully, blow out all your candles.
Boy, what power! If you blow out all your candles, your guests usually applaud and shout!
You have to blow them all out because that is required if your wish is going to come true. Sometimes you get a little help from your mother or a well-meaning friend.
Nobody really notices if you need a second attempt to blow out that last candle.
Birthdays are a great time!
Of course, when you get to 70, you usually get a single candle. Your family and friends want you to live long enough to eat your cake.
You take in a deep breath, pause to make a wish and blow out your candle. For more than 50 years my wish doesn't vary. I wish that I blow out all my candles.
It's a harmless superstition and a lot of fun because a birthday person and his appointed favourites also get to lick icing off your candles.
A couple of them may ask, What did you wish for? but most don't care. They are absorbed eating your cake and wiping icing off their plates with their fingers!
There are a lot of superstitions in our lives as we grow up. We forget most of them as we get older. Here are just a few.
“Don't step on a crack or you will break your mother's back.”
“Don't walk under a ladder.”
“Don't put your hat on the table.”
“Don't cross the path of a black cat.”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
None of them are meant to be serious just fun!
Churches should be fun! Many, unfortunately, are not!
They keep saying that "You have to believe or you will go to hell!"
Life should be like a great birthday party and we don't need anybody telling us we are going to hell!
Most Atheists blow out their birthday candles and know how to be good . . . without gods!
Anton Kozlik
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Atheist
Quotes
 Christians are like children blowing out candles on a birthday cake. They do it because they want to believe their wish will come true.
Anton Kozlik
1938 -
Provocateur
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My definition of morality . . .
“No one should expose another living entity to unwarranted pain, loss, or deprivation!”
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*Terms and Definitions
My articles may contain words or phrases that may infer different meanings to different readers, or my reader may be unfamiliar with a term or its definition. I feel it is important to know what writers meant when they used a word or term.
cognitive dissonance
Filtering out information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one’s beliefs.
Editors note: I will be repeating the “cognitive dissonance” definition for quite a while since it is practiced by so many — known by so few!
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Grandpa said . . .
“Everybody who said I would die is dead!
The occasion was his 80th birthday. Many years before when he was 51, his doctors gave him less than a year to live.
He particularly enjoyed the following birthdays that proved them wrong, although he felt bad about their passing.
He always had a twinkle in his eye when he blew out his candle(s). I never knew what the joke was, but he got to "blow out his candles" until he was 97.
Perhaps that was his joke. He got to live an extra 46 years in spite of what the experts said.
I learned many things at my grandpa's knee. I believe that most of them helped me in my life. I share his comments with you.
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June 3rd, 2009
Quitting is not easy!
Why you need to find a good replacement before you try to change . . . and I am not talking about quitting smoking!
Click here
to read my last posting.
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