"The Society of Clueless People"

Our name "The Society of Clueless People" is not used in an exploitive or a derogatory way. It is used in recognition and acceptance of our incapacity to fully understand or process the knowledge we possess about God, the universe and the afterlife. Simply put - we lack the intellectual power to understand these mysteries - they are beyond our comprehension.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einsein, Voltaire, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Carl Sagan, Ernest Hemmingway, Thomas Jefferson, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain amongst millions of other human beings living or dead have admitted to being "Clueless."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein, Theoretical physicist

An agnostic is a person who feels that God's existence can neither be proved nor disproved, on the basis of current knowledge and evidence. Agnostics note that since the beginning of time theologians and philosophers have tried to prove that God exist. Others have attempted to prove that God does not exist. Agnostics feel that neither side has convincingly succeeded in making their case.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence..."Carl Sagan, American astrobiologist

TSOCP CREED - Information, Logic and Common Sense
The creed of the Society of Clueless People is based on facts and a perspective predicated on logic, common sense and - as best as we can determine - factual information. It is not based on any faith, theory, spiritual belief or ideology. We believe knowledge of God the universe and the afterlife is beyond our comprehension at this time in human evolution - but we are open to any proof to the contrary.

The site/book will use a series of essays, arguments, commentaries and stories relative to subjects that are germane to our premise. We have no answers or conclusions - we supply pertinent information on various subjects - you form your own conclusions.

As part of our premise we would like to feature some of the leading proponents of different religious and non-religious movements - Andrew Sullivan, Catholic - Rick Warren, Christian - Neale Donald Walsch, New Age Spiritualist - Paul Kurtz, Humanist - Michael Shermer, Secularist - Sam Harris, Atheist - plus noted Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim voices.

Most of these prominent people come from a place of conclusion - some kind of absolute truth - of certainty. We feel they are all more likely wrong than any one being right.

The Society of Clueless people come from a place of no-certainty and no-conclusion. We realize there are many points of view and many different answers, but - we believe - there is no absolute answer. We like to think of our point of view as a "breath of fresh air!"

"Are you smart enough to know your Clueless?"G.D.Fury

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Skeptics consider the "prophecies" of Nostradamus to be mainly gibberish.

Have you ever wondered why the so called "great prophets" of the past made predictions for hundreds of years in the future and didn't predict what would happen the next week or better yet the next day. The reason they didn't predict what was going to happen the next day - is - because they couldn't!
If they had really been capable of seeing the future they could have saved the world an incredible amount of pain and suffering.

History and religious books are full of those who claim to be able to see the future, to communicate with the dead, and who can read minds. If these so called psychics can really foresee the future they should be telling us when and where the next earthquake or tsunami is going to hit, where the next hurricane will strike or how global warming might affect the planet thus saving millions of lives. If they have the ability to see into the future they should be able to envision winning lottery numbers and make themselves rich beyond belief by winning a multi-million dollar lottery - don't hold your breath.

Modern day prophets, psychics, mediums, clairvoyants and healers are alive and well - John Edwards, Sylvia Brown, Benny Hinn and James Van Praagh to name a few, are practicing their craft.
Michael Shermer of Skeptics.com said about James Van Praagh (a medium who talks to the dead.)

"Death is a part of life, and pretending that the dead are gathering in a television studio in New York to talk twaddle with a former ballroom-dance instructor is an insult to the intelligence and humanity of the living."

Michel Nostradamus was a 16th-century French physician and astrologer. His modern followers see him as a prophet. His prophecies have a magical quality for those who study them: They are muddled and obscure before the predicted event, but become crystal clear after the event has occurred.
Skeptics consider the "prophecies" of Nostradamus to be mainly gibberish. For example:

"The year 1999 seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
To resuscitate the great king of the Mongols. Before and after Mars reigns by good luck."

Nobody, not even the most fanatical of Nostradamus's disciples, had a clue what this passage might have meant before July 1999. However, after John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette, were killed in a plane crash on July 18, 1999, the retroprophets shoehorned the event to the "prophecy."

Gibberish!

This holds true for modern day prophets - it's very apparent a lot of the new phony prophets are sucking the life and money out of a lot of sorrowfully gullible people.

For more articles on this subject refer to - "Gods, Deities, Prophets, Religion and the Bible"

Read: Randi, James. The Mask of Nostradamus : the prophecies of the world's most famous seer (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993).

One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge

The James Randi Educational Foundation has a standing offer of a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.
The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims.
On September 3, 2001, Sylvia Browne accepted the specific protocol for a definitive test for the JREF million-dollar challenge, on Larry King Live. It is now over 260 weeks since that date. And, it has been more than 290 weeks since she first agreed to be tested on March 6, 2001!

Wars, Atrocities, Natural Disasters and Andrea Yates!

"Don't blame a demon or credit a god for what man is responsible for!" - G.D.Fury

During the 20th century an estimated 160 million people died in wars including 55 million in WW2, 18 million in WW1, 5-9 million in the Russian civil war and 3-5 million during the Vietnam war.
During WW2 after 2 hours of bombardment the wooden city of Tokyo was engulfed in a firestorm.
The aftermath of the incendiary bombings lead to an estimated 100,000 Japanese dead.
During the holocaust German soldiers murdered some 6 million Jews. Nearly a million people were slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and presently nearly a half million have been killed in Darfur.
In the 14th century the Black Death (bubonic plague) killed 25 million people in europe, one-third of europe's population at the time. In 1932 a Russian famine claimed 5 million lives.
More recently the tsunami 0f 2004 killed 220,000 people and displaced well over a million from their homes. The 9/11 terrorist attack in New York took the lives of almost 3,000 americans and Katrina killed a thousand people, tens of thousands lost all their earthly possessions and it left a million homeless.
In the past few years some of the most disturbing atrocities have been perpetrated by individuals including Andrea Yates who methodically, one at a time, drowned her 5 young children claiming "God asked her to do it."
A truck driver, Charles Carl Robert, burst into a one-room schoolhouse in Lancaster Pa. (an Amish community), lined up at least 11 little girls against a blackboard, and then shot them "execution style," killing six of them and claiming in a note he was "mad at God."
Tiffany Hall 24, killed close friend 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall and her unborn baby by using a pair of scissors to tear the fetus from her womb - later the decomposing bodies of Tunstall's three children, ages one, two and seven were found stuffed in a washing machine after being drowned.
Horrible accidents also happen every day - three boys who suffocated in the trunk of a car in Camden, N.J were thought to have been alive for at least 17 hours and maybe up to 33 hours after they became trapped.
It has been reported that around the world a child dies every 3 seconds from disease, hunger, unclean water and other poverty related causes - that's amost 30 thousand a day and over 10 million a year.

Thinking about these horrible occurences questions arise -
If there is a God does he cause these events? - Does God have any power over these events? - Is he a "Good God" or an "Evil God?" - If he is a "good god" how could he let these catastrophes happen knowing the excruciating suffering it inflicts on the victims and the pain so many other people suffer including loved ones, relatives, and friends?
Are religions a remedy or causing many of the wars and atrocities?
It has been said that in the name of religion more people on this earth have been killed than by disasters, diseases and pestilence combined.
Philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years - It's certainly something to ponder.

For more articles on this subject refer to - "Wars, Atrocities and Natural Disasters"