The rant of a Dutch Atheist fed up with all the religious hatred

The rant of a Dutch Atheist fed up with all the religious hatred
The blog of a pissed off Dutch Atheist fed up with all the religious hatred, racism and the suffering it causes in the world

Monday, October 28, 2024

The girl I named Janice

I got off my motorbike and there was a woman standing with the homeless newspaper, like you often see at Dutch supermarkets, but I was too occupied by getting a shopping cart to notice her any further.
I was just doing some shopping and would do the same thing as I often do when I see a homeless person, a six-pack of bottles of mineral water and a large package of chocolate bars or whatever was lying around.
After paying and packing the groceries, the intention was to give this to the homeless woman before I would load the groceries bag on my motorbike, but I couldn't find her right away among the people.
Oh well, I still had to go to a few other shops and with the bag in my hand I walked there when I saw her standing there again.

She was wearing the usual clothes that you often see homeless people, but she wore them differently than others, with some flair
This t brought up something of recognition that I couldn't immediately place.
She had short, fading to gray, red hair, a face full of freckles and two lively bright blue eyes, I only noticed after my gaze was drawn to a scar that ran from her ear a little way down her cheek to her neck.
So I handed her the bag with things I bought her, and got a look of recognition: "Ned? Is that you?"
I was momentarily taken aback when I suddenly recognized her: "Janice?"

Towards the end of the eighties of the last century, I was a single struggling musician and had taken the job of sound engineer for a now long forgotten Dutch band that was about to make a European tour.

There were still a few things to arrange and while looking for the tour manager I "caught" the singer Tony, a guy of just twenty, in the tour bus, and he was with full dedication doing "the dirty"  with one of those groupie girls That often hang around at those kinds of events.
Now that was not the first time that I noticed this,  and with an "oops" I closed the curtain and with the thought, "nice ass" I looked further for the tour manager.
Later that afternoon, I had a chat with the singer and saw the girl walking across the parking lot and asked: "Who is that? Do you have a new girlfriend?"
He pointed at the girl, "You mean her? Nah, she was waiting for me when I came in, I've never seen her before, and I thought why not. "
"And now?" I asked. "Nothing, I told her to leave the bus after we finished" was the answer, "for all I care you can have her".
What happened was not unusual in the music scene and I had seen it often in my own time as a singer and guitarist, but I never had the pleasure that a groupie was waiting in my room.

I saw her again that day hanging around with the roadies who were checking the equipment, and then the moment came that I mustered up some courage and walked up to her.
"What are you doing here?" I asked her, "can I help you?"
She looked at me: "I would like to come along, is that okay?" As I saw her, she couldn't be older than 19 at most and I asked her: "Where do you live, how old are you actually and can you just leave?"
"I don't live anywhere, I'm traveling around, and I'm 18 so an adult" 
She showed me a passport with letters that I couldn't read but in the English part it turned out that she was from Greece, which in itself was remarkable because she had orange/red hair, was covered in freckles and spoke Dutch almost without an accent.
If there was any kind of accent it sounded more like English, but it absolutely was her photo on the passport, there was no doubt about it.
I took the plunge and said: "If I let you come along, will you be my girlfriend on the tour?"
"Only if you know the magic word, or give me a name that you think suits me" was her very unusual answer.
"Seriously?"
"Yes seriously" she said.

I thought for a moment and then it came to me “Janice, I think that’s a nice name for you, what do you think?”
She jumped and clapped her hands, “yes nice, and what’s your name?”
“I’m Ned, the sound technician of this traveling circus”, I told her and pointed at the rented truck with a sleeping cabin and the trailer in which the equipment was to be transported,
“And that’s the vehicle I’ll be living in for the next few weeks”.
“Can I look inside ?” I said "sure"and we climbed aboard the cabin.
This went really fast, and I have to admit that I still saw her busy with Tony in the tour bus, and that of course hadn’t left me cold.
Inside, I dropped onto the bed behind the seats, “and this is the bed”.
The rapid progress with this girl really turned me on, and she had noticed that I was “interested” in her.
She tilted her head, leaned forward to my face and said: “you are sweet” and gave me a long kiss.
Then she jumped up, crawled back a bit, and before I knew it the clothes were everywhere, and we were making love in the bed of the truck.
A moment later she looked at me and said: “You are Sweet, Ned-the- Soundman-of-this-traveling-circus” as if it were my full name, “and I would love to be your girlfriend on this tour”.
The tour itself was not very special, the number of tickets sold was disappointing, but Janice made it my highlight of the year.
Although I had expected her to be interested in the other band members, she was always with me.
She helped set up and learned very quickly how things worked, and after the time in bed we couldn't keep our hands off each other. I once called her hot as lightning, and she liked that, she just was so sweet and supportive
When packing up for the next  gig, I got into an argument with the singer about the disappointing number of visitors during the progress of the tour,
"As if Ned can do anything about that" Janice once shouted at him, whereupon he called her a slut, and I made it clear to him that I didn't appreciate that.
When the tour ended, it was also more or less the end of the band, succumbed to misplaced star allures and misbehavior.
It was also the end of my short but passionate relationship with Janice.
I asked her if she wanted to stay, but she wanted to move on, she wouldn't be able to keep it up if she had to stay in one place for too long.
With a heavy heart, we said goodbye…

Now she was suddenly standing there again in front of me, both 28 years older and Janice apparently still a wandering existence without a fixed address.

“Is that really you? Ned-the-Soundman?” She looked at me with wide open eyes. “And you brought me something, how sweet!”
I looked at the plastic bag with chocolate cookies and water bottles and said: “Now that I know it’s you, do you mind if I give it to the other person?”
She looked at me disappointed, but I quickly continued, “Because you are worth much more to me … and … if you want of course, you are terribly welcome, and I would like to take you to my home".
She pointed to my motorcycle and said: “on that ?”
I said “not?”
“Yes, of course,” she exclaimed, “with you always and can I be your girlfriend again?”.
I opened the top case on the rear of the motorcycle and took out my second helmet.
Once seated on the back, she put her arms around my waist and we drove away.
We passed a group of astonished people who suddenly saw me taking off with a homeless person.

When we got home she turned out, not to have changed at all, nor had I by the way.
At the end of the clothes trail to the bedroom we continued where we had stopped 28 years ago, she was still just as sweet as I remembered her.
She told lots of stories of where she had been and her experiences, good and bad, like once she almost got  killed when she was mugged and this caused  the long scar on her face.
I didn't care about that scar, she was still my sweet Janice.
We were together again, for a few months even, until her wandering blood started to itch again, and I couldn't convince her to stay any longer.
But, even though I still don't know her real name, I have offered her a place where she can come home to if she decides to end her wandering existence.
I wonder where she is now...



Sunday, August 6, 2023

I'm in love with a trans woman

This is an unscripted rant, so prepare

 No I am not dead, I was just busy doing other things..
You know what it is, to much to do, just not enough time.
Spending my time on YouTube, developing my anime child Ivy to a twitter and YouTube personality, and at my age I never thought I would ever fall in love again.

Now the story:

I have always  been sympathetic to the LGBT++ community. 
Not because they ARE LGBT++, but because they are most usually loving and caring people.
Years ago I posted a blog about how bad I feel that because of bigotry, stupidity and simple intolerance transgender women are almost forced in to doing sex work, like prostitution or porn just to make a living.
These girls are not converted or modified men!a
You convert or modify hardware like motorcycles cars houses, but not human beings.
Transgender persons are people with desires dreams and wishes for a happy life, just like you and me.

As a man, who is mostly attracted to women I have always felt sympathy for trans gender people.
And I learned a lot like a transgender woman does not have to be taken for granted to be attracted to men, She can als be attracted to women, to other trans women or both men and women..
What ever their preferences are it is about love.
And what is wrong with that.
The pas few weeks I learned a lot more about what makes trans gender people to what and who they are. 

Believe me I had a lot to learn and I am still learning, because I want to..
I am not one of these conservative minds that won't take information because it goes against what I have been told in my up bringing.

What I have learned is a little on a side track of what I have learned in my life.
Like when having a penis or vagina does not necessarily make you a man of a woman.
It does represent your reproduction functionality, Sex is your equipment. but what happens in the brain is something different.

The brain is the most powerful sex organ any person possesses.
How sexuality develops is all in the brain.
Sometimes a female personality develops in the body with male reproduction organs.
This is not a mental disorder this is a perfectly fine personality with all the love and desires in the wrong body.
In my curiosity I have spoken to several trans women, was intimate with a few and was always struck by their kindness and honesty.
A trait I missed in most women I had relations with.
Like I mentioned earlier I am a man mostly attracted to women, but now trans women have my preference. 

There is one American transgender woman who I recently met on Twitter who confirmed what I knew inside..
I totally fell in love with her, there is no age gap, she is smart sweet and I think she is absolutely beautiful.
Bur I am here in the Netherlands and she is in the USA  and this can be a barrier..

I won't mention her name because however we have a lovely contact, I am not yet sure if the feelling is mutual.

Yes I am in love with a trans woman. 
And that on my age..

Monday, February 26, 2018

There is a weird thing on the moon

Repost from 2014 to correct the text color

I often encounter radical Atheists, who not only NOT believe in (any) god, but as it looks like they believe nothing  and dismiss every question mark added to official statements as a hoax or conspiracy theory..
Myself I am hugely skeptical about these things , but I think is is foolish to dismiss it this way like hogwash.
I can give you an example of what intrigues so much I am doing research on all the things I can find about it and doing the usual thing like cutting away the bullshit until I reach something that cannot be cut away because it simply is there and there is evidence to prove it .

The following is one of these things and I had a discussion about it on some discussion website and the Question was " would you rather go to the moon or to mars and I chose the option I would rather go to the moon..

If it was only do see what the hell this thing is : I don't know if the top picture is real or part of a hoax created  However the second picture is real and if you enlarge it you will see it as taken from Apollo 11 in 1969
space ship or hoax ?

Original data:
Image Collection:  Panoramic
Mission:  15
Magazine:  P
Revolution:  38
Latitude / Longitude:  19° S / 117.5° E
Lens Focal Length:  24 inch
Camera Look:  Forward
Camera Altitude:  117 km
Sun Elevation:  27°Stereo Pair:  AS15-P-9630
Film Type:  3414

Click here to see the original Apollo filmstrip


Is it so crazy that I am curious ? But guess what happens when I share this with other, mostly American atheists and skeptics suddenly the skeptical part is gone and they apparently just wave the curiosity away and dismiss any evidence or indications  as a hoax or a conspiracy theory.
Isn't that the same thing as Christians do ? they tend to ignore the proof about their beliefs being based on fantasies and dismiss them the same way as their indoctrination has taught them to..
To my opinion -EX Christian- Atheist skeptics aren't skeptical at all this way.
In my book Skeptical means being open minded but evaluate things and cut a way the crap to see what will be left over .
These kind of Atheists just dismiss these things like this example of that thing on the moon..
Read what I got from an American agnostic/when I brought this example up
Mind that I already explained, I am not a UFO freak or conspiracy theorist about the government hiding stuff  AND that I already have been cutting away the things I have my serious doubts about..
Guess what I got from an American agnostic/when I brought this example up?

"It is Just a rock"  that was it ..  No interest, no curiosity, just dismissal..


trying to spark a little curiosity in him I answered :


Ok if it is "a rock" how did that rock get there ? There were no ice ages and no erosion on the moon. There are no no bolders on the moon as we know them..
There is no force on the moon that can have pushed it there
How about a rock that looks like it's "nose" is painted in another color? And this odd bulge on top of it ?

It cannot have fallen there from outer space because it is not in the center of the crater but actually rests along side the slope of a more a less oval shaped shallow hole close to the Iszak crater (which really is an impact crater)
Notice it is like 3.5 mile long and about 3rd of a mile in diameter
It's an abnormality, like it does not belong there ..

Again I am very skeptical about the hype about it on youtube and these UFO "science" websites... Even if it IS a rock I just REALLY would like to see it for real from up close ..

His answer:

how did a rock get there?????? The moon is covered with ROCKS as the moon is made up of rocks, not green cheese as some have tried to make us believe. :)).


Even jokingly, to my opinion this is a defense of his dismissal of my arguments so I gave him another reply:
You are so rigid in your opinion that you totally ignore anything else.
Sure the moon surface has countless rocks but no ROUND rocks because there is no erosion and this thing does not only have no sharp edges it is way too big to be a rock and that is what makes it so weird.

And of course he chose the easy way out:

(quote)"Notice it is like 3.5 mile long and about 3rd of a mile in diameter
It's an abnormality, like it does not belong there .." (quote)
Rounded because of lack of erosion, please. Have you ever seen a rock that size not "Rounded" And there is slight erosion on the moon, trillions and trillions of particles streaming in from space over billions of years tend to round edges. Where do you think all the moon dust comes from.


I have done some reading about moon dust to know that it is completely different than what we call sand and I explained that to him:

Moondust under a microscope

 you are using religious arguments like "were you there" and this erosion you talk about is nothing compared to earth erosion where everything  constantly is in motion..
The moon dust is most probably the pulverized rock that is the result of millions of meteorite impacts
Moon dust is generally very sharp edged compared to earth dust.
Why? there is no erosion on the moon.

 

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Sand under a microscope



Earth dust (we call sand) is generally rounded without sharp edges. Guess why ..

This thing I refer to has not fallen to the moon like an asteroid because there is no crater
Did you look at the original photo strip?
(when you view it it is the original size) the Iszak crater  on the same strip shows a real impact crater..
If an asteroid of the size of this weird object had impacted there , the crater would have been immense still it is just laying there on the slope of this hole ...
You can deny it as much as you want but it does not change that it is still there.

I am still waiting for his answer, but it will probably never come , same as what happens when I out-argue a religious believer..
I had no intention to force my opinion about this moon thing on him, I only wanted to explain to him WHY I would so much to see this thing with my own eyes from up close - I want to know - and isn't this what human life is about ? Curiosity ?  Finding plausible explanations that can be scientifically proven ?
We are living in a time of discovery and gaining knowledge..
When Skeptical becomes Dismissal it is only a few steps away from Dogma, all the open mindedness, inquisitiveness and freethinking and most of  all THINKING FOR YOURSELF  is thrown out of the window..

Ane personally I find this very disturbing..

Friday, April 8, 2016

The Usa, the worst modern nation in the world.

I wanted to make a whole story about this but after finishing the list I felt rather depressed..

Here is the short list in what the Unites States of America is the worst country in the developed western world::
  •  Education 
  •  Human rights, 
  •  Incarcerated citizens 
  •  Police brutality 
  •  Police killings 
  •  Mass shootings 
  •  Gun related crime 
  •  Crime in general 
  •  Health Care 
  •  Repeated teen pregnancies 
  • 1st day infant mortality 
  •  People -per capita- living below the poverty line 
  •  Disaster management 
  •  Biased manipulation by news media 
  •  Accidental deaths called by gunfire 
  •  Religious insanity.

This just comes from the top of my head, but I bet you can Google many more examples and it will become a very long list..


The path to hell is paved with corporate donations to politicians...