Bitsy Haywood
  • Female
  • Jefferson City, MO
  • United States
Share on Facebook
Share Twitter

Bitsy Haywood's Friends

  • Ashutosh Mishra
  • Greg Lammers

Bitsy Haywood's Groups

Bitsy Haywood's Discussions

Abraham-Hicks and the Laws of Attraction

Started this discussion. Last reply by JayBarti Aug 18, 2009. 3 Replies

Gifts Received

Gift

Bitsy Haywood has not received any gifts yet

Give a Gift

 

Bitsy Haywood's Page

Latest Activity

Bitsy Haywood replied to Stump Parrish's discussion How do you debate the criminally insane and still retain your sanity?
"There are a lot of ways to describe the contents of a bowel movement, but just because someone says something in a convoluted and well-parsed way doesn't mean he's talking sense. You can get extremely poetic about something and still be…"
Dec 20, 2009
Bitsy Haywood commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
"Something else to thing about... god's supposed qualities of omniscence and omnipotence. He knew it was going to happen, but he set it all in motion anyway. So everything is going according to "divine" plan, no matter what a mess it…"
Dec 2, 2009
Bitsy Haywood commented on Tina Aitken's blog post Any thoughts on TigerWs.
"Justification?? of course there's no justification EXCEPT if his marriage had been understood by both partners to be "open" to extramarital sexual adventuring. Some marriages are that way, by mutual agreement. If that is not the case,…"
Dec 2, 2009
Dave Rogers commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
"Trying to rationalize nonsense is the life of a bible apologist. The motivations and intentions of the original authors (and countless scribes in between), with their limited knowledge, are somewhat easier to rationalize. They were creating fairy…"
Nov 12, 2009
Stephen Moore commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
"This particular story is far better read as allegory than as literal truth. Read as allegory, on can understand it as humanity moving from ignorance to knowledge. The knowledge gained leads humanity to a deeper appreciation of the world, but with…"
Nov 12, 2009
Jacqueline Sarah Homan commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
"Bitsy, in sum the very first impression I got as a young girl when my grandmother read to me the creation story from the TOrah (OT to Xtians) was that it was nothing but a shell game. I have been an atheist since childhood because my bullshit…"
Nov 11, 2009
Atheist Exile commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
"Here's my spin, Bitsy . . .     "God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If this was the only way they could understand the difference between good and evil, how could…"
Nov 11, 2009
Atheist Exile commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
"Bitsy, That was a very good comparison to debunk Original Sin. God is definitely flawed, logically and morally. I guess that's not surprising, given the ignorance of the ancient authors of the Bible."
Nov 11, 2009
Bitsy Haywood posted a blog post

The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

I've always been bothered by why god would have placed a tree in the garden of eden that bore fruit that would cause those who consumed that fruit to have knowledge of good and evil. And then he was so self-righteously angry that they ate the fruit. What did he have in mind? Why would he do such a thing except to set Adam and Eve up for the "fall from grace" that was used to explain all the horrible things that god has supposedly been punishing humankind with ever since. What a perverse trick…See More
Nov 11, 2009
5 Comments
Bitsy Haywood replied to Glenn Sogge's discussion Has Anybody Been Threatened With God Lately?
"A co-worker (a sweet lady) made a reference to god helping her through something and I replied that I do not have any religous beliefs. We got into a long, thoughtful discussion about what I believe (how can I stand not looking forward to heaven,…"
Nov 8, 2009
Bitsy Haywood replied to Miss Mercy's discussion Welcome to the Heathen Club! [Roasting in Hell]
"I understand that the Jews don't actually believe in hell or heaven. The christian hell and heaven seems to be an adaptation of the Greek concept of the afterlife being deep in caverns (reached only via the river Charon). There were beautiful…"
Nov 8, 2009
Bitsy Haywood commented on Jack Russell's blog post Funny Site: eternal-earthbound-pets.com
"Ah, the old, familiar selling of the "indulgence" has a brand new spin. ..... uuuhhh.... SUCKERS!!! The world's full of them!!"
Oct 19, 2009
Bitsy Haywood commented on sekhar's blog post Impose
"My writing style's a lot different from yours. I pack a lot less into a sentence than you, but I think we're both trying to address the same phenomenon of the sensation of a "watcher" who is deeply involved in our lives and…"
Oct 19, 2009
Bitsy Haywood commented on Dan Rosenberg's blog post Chinese create an "Artificial-Virginity-Hymen-kit". Egypt is not amused.
"Yeah, then girls won't have to worry about being stoned to death for what would only be a simple mistake in the western nations. Of course the muslim men don't like it, they may lose some of their terrifying bully leverage against the…"
Oct 6, 2009
Bitsy Haywood commented on Bitsy Haywood's blog post Looking Sexy
"Here's some interesting information about what Europe's like as the population of young muslim males come of age in a country where women run around unsupervised.…"
Oct 6, 2009
Bitsy Haywood replied to Jennifer W's discussion Do you believe Jesus existed?
"There's a big difference between believing and knowing. I believe (suspect, actually) he possibly may have existed. I know that if he did exist almost everything ever written about him was written by people born long after he was killed, based…"
Oct 6, 2009

Bitsy Haywood's Blog

The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Posted on November 11, 2009 at 6:56pm 5 Comments

I've always been bothered by why god would have placed a tree in the garden of eden that bore fruit that would cause those who consumed that fruit to have knowledge of good and evil. And then he was so self-righteously angry that they ate the fruit. What did he have in mind? Why would he do such a thing except to set Adam and Eve up for the "fall from grace" that was used to explain all the horrible things that god has supposedly been punishing humankind with ever since. What a perverse trick… Continue

Looking Sexy

Posted on October 1, 2009 at 12:59pm 8 Comments

A co-worker and I were examining a picture of some extreme and very expensive high heeled shoes that were quite obviously extremely dangerous to wear as well as insanely uncomfortable. I commented on how bizarre they were and my younger friend said that they were supposed to make you look sexy.



"Look sexy," I said, "Don't you mean they're supposed to make you look fuckable??



First she looked at me with a slightly stunned expression, which I initially thought was from me… Continue

Not Just Another Missing Link!!

Posted on October 1, 2009 at 12:33pm 0 Comments

Hot off the press... Don't you just love archeology??

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html

Responsible Party

Posted on September 16, 2009 at 8:30pm 12 Comments

I was thinking about how so many of the things that athiests/agnostics/skeptics are called seem to have a negative spin in people's minds. For example the label "Brights" instantly makes the people who just couldn't get an A+ average or even an A average feel like tearing things apart with their teeth. Something that doesn't have an arrogant or perjorative ring to it is needed... but what?

And I was also thinking... Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party... hmmm. How about… Continue

A little theory

Posted on September 7, 2009 at 4:00pm 0 Comments

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/15-big-similarities-and-quirky-differences-between-our-left-and-right-brains

I've been thinking about the fact that we have two halves to our brains. According to what I've heard, one side of our brain controls our speaking, while the other side is voiceless. I've always suspected that intuition comes from the voiceless side. I think that the voiceless side is always watching everything closely, observing everything that is going on around us, and… Continue

Comment Wall (2 comments)

You need to be a member of Atheist Nexus to add comments!

Join Atheist Nexus

At 4:45am on October 1, 2009, Ashutosh Mishra said…
yeah u r right...and even i was born in a family with hindu religious belief ...but i have moved from it....for me religion is way of life not a forceful traditional thing...as i have seen in india....btw....nice to have u here..take care
At 11:31am on September 6, 2009, Greg Lammers said…
Hi Bitsy, the Columbia Atheists have regular meetings, you can find us at:

http://www.meetup.com/The-Columbia-Atheists-Meetup-Group/

and at:

http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/columbiaatheists
 
 
 

© 2013   Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: Richard Haynes.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service