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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1980 on: September 08, 2010, 02:53:26 PM »
The atheists that purchased a billboard that has been all over the local news here. The same ones who bitch about it when churches do the same thing. It just bugs me that they're acting all smug about it and acting like "we're not trying to be controversial, we just want people to know that there are likeminded people out there" when I know the guy who heads the local group and he's totally doing it to be controversial.

Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)
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« Reply #1981 on: September 08, 2010, 03:41:25 PM »

Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)

What if instead of God we were referring to WMD?  Would that make a difference?
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« Reply #1982 on: September 08, 2010, 06:09:41 PM »
The atheists that purchased a billboard that has been all over the local news here. The same ones who bitch about it when churches do the same thing. It just bugs me that they're acting all smug about it and acting like "we're not trying to be controversial, we just want people to know that there are likeminded people out there" when I know the guy who heads the local group and he's totally doing it to be controversial.

I agree that he should have the integrity to admit that a billboard like that is bound to be controversial whether it's their primary intention or not, and go on to say that there's nothing wrong with controversy, especially over ideas that get as much deference across the board as religion does. That said, the other part of the message, that if you don't believe you're not alone, seems perfectly worthy to me.

Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)

I can't either.  Are you now saying that they should not only shut up about it unless asked, but also refrain from forming associations that are weird?
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« Reply #1983 on: September 08, 2010, 06:27:28 PM »
I guess I am one of those religionists. Interesting how all of my thought processes have been reduced to a label. Do any of you ever feel like I have ever tried to "evangelize" you? I mean, I must have, right, after all we religionists are all the same. Right?

Categorization of people feels convenient, but categorization of persons hardly ever works.

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« Reply #1984 on: September 08, 2010, 06:43:02 PM »

Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)

What if instead of God we were referring to WMD?  Would that make a difference?
Weapons of Mass Destruction?  Would the group be that you didn't believe that they exist in general, or in a specific location?  Big difference.

Who wants to join any of the new clubs I'm starting. One is for people who don't believe in ghosts.  Another is for people who don't believe in aliens.  Another is for people who don't believe in bigfoot.
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« Reply #1985 on: September 08, 2010, 07:15:53 PM »
Drop it, folks.  Too personal for healthy debate.

So let's look for common ground instead: I think we can all agree that Clapton is not God.

Now let's all spoon.
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« Reply #1986 on: September 08, 2010, 07:21:25 PM »
See, actually, if belief in Bigfoot were a nearly-unquestioned dogma despite the lack of any compelling evidence, and if various strands of Bigfootist doctrine were routinely used to justify government intervention in people's private lives, and questions of morality and ethics were continually reduced to interpretations of the words Bigfoot supposedly dictated to some goat herders 2000 years ago, and everywhere you looked people were held up as transcendantly wise men because of the depth of their faith in Bigfoot while dissenters from Bigfootism were commonly held to be inherently immoral, corrupt, and de facto unfit to hold public office --I think there might be a market for an anti-Bigfoot group.  As things stand though, anti-Bigfootists probably just don't feel it's all that important.
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« Reply #1987 on: September 08, 2010, 08:10:55 PM »
It drives me nuts when people say, "I know it's hip to hate on ________". Sometimes I guess it applies, but just now at work someone said, "I know it's hip to hate on MADtv, but there are some decent skits on there....". It's not merely fashionable to dislike that show, there are some very valid reasons! >:(

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Re: Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)
« Reply #1988 on: September 08, 2010, 09:02:37 PM »
Drop it, folks.  Too personal for healthy debate.

So let's look for common ground instead: I think we can all agree that Clapton is not God.

Now let's all spoon.

I'm coming in late to this argument, which is probably over, but for the record: a) Clapton is a douche, and 2) my god is Money.

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« Reply #1989 on: September 08, 2010, 09:13:57 PM »
I hate motherfuckers who don't believe in ghosts.  They are fucking scary!
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« Reply #1990 on: September 08, 2010, 09:33:17 PM »

Weapons of Mass Destruction?  Would the group be that you didn't believe that they exist in general, or in a specific location?  Big difference.



In a specific place, Andy. 

I'm pretty sure "WMD" as a commonly known abbreviation only started after the marketing campaign.

Similarly, if you had said "KFC" before their marketing campaign, most folks wouldn't have known what you were talking about.  Now, the majority of Americans do.  The chicken was always existed.

Are you trying to steal my energy? 

I'll give you some for free.
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« Reply #1991 on: September 09, 2010, 07:09:34 AM »

Weapons of Mass Destruction?  Would the group be that you didn't believe that they exist in general, or in a specific location?  Big difference.



In a specific place, Andy. 

I'm pretty sure "WMD" as a commonly known abbreviation only started after the marketing campaign.

Similarly, if you had said "KFC" before their marketing campaign, most folks wouldn't have known what you were talking about.  Now, the majority of Americans do.  The chicken was always existed.

Are you trying to steal my energy? 

I'll give you some for free.

Kent Fitness Clubs?

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« Reply #1992 on: September 09, 2010, 10:58:07 AM »
I heard they had to change it to WMD because there wasn't any chicken in it.
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« Reply #1993 on: September 09, 2010, 11:09:19 AM »
I heard they had to change it to WMD because there wasn't any chicken in it.
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« Reply #1994 on: September 09, 2010, 04:06:54 PM »
Here comes the NFL to steamroll over every moment of sports coverage and/or social interactions I get to deal with for the next four months. Hooray! It's like, fine, I can understand an NBA fan rolling their eyes at all that doe-eyed baseball mythology whenever Spring Training takes over what sports news cycles aren't usurped by March Madness, and I can sort of kind of almost sympathize with people who were baffled at suddenly having to try and figure out what the deal was with the World Cup earlier this year. But there's something weirdly alienating about being the guy who's ten times more interested in the September pennant races than the early hype cycle of a sport that only plays once a week and fills the rest of the time with pseudoanalytical noise emanating from the gullets of the least interesting people imaginable. I like watching Adrian Peterson deke defenders out of their shoes and all that, but it's not my God-given American duty to do so.
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