(April 19, 2011 at 9:07 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I didn't want it to get into a debate about 9/11 - it just bothered me that Sae said something like that, is all.
Revvy does have a good point - and he always goes a step further to make people laugh, which I think would be key in getting people to loosen up and start looking around them with a more open heart and mind. Humor, if you have a sense of it, allows you to appreciate the utter absurdity.
And since Oro was sharing on another thread, I have to as well...
Lewis Black (on Islam): "You know a religion has no sense of humor, when a guy can stand up and say, ‘you know, if you commit suicide for Allah, after you die you will be met in heaven by 70 virgins,' and nobody in the room just goes, 'AHAHAHA! Son of a bitch! That was great!' They believe if they kill themselves that they will be met in Heaven by 70 some odd virgins. Imagine that kind of faith. To think that that would happen...when I haven't met one ON EARTH!"
If Black and Gervais can pass down a tradition of irreverent atheism that makes people cry they laugh so hard, something started by Carlin, I can only hope they'll convince others to reconsider too.
That is so true it hurts! I have a theory that having faith in modern religions requires one to lose all sense of the ironic. And I suppose it is this loss that causes the religious to lose their sense of humour as well.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
