RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 11, 2019 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2019 at 5:53 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 11, 2019 at 5:10 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Unicornism isn't driving government policy, Benny, lol.
That's the semantic difference.
"Atheism" as a lack of theism doesn't make sense to me-- I don't see how you could be presented with a God idea and not answer "I think that's bullshit." But "atheist" as a lack of being theist-- that is meaningful. You recognize that many people are theist, and you're saying "I'm not one of those guys."
(March 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm)Shell B Wrote:(March 11, 2019 at 5:07 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Old ladies are quite often total bitches, because they think people will let them get away with it.
I think we have to be friends now.
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Quote:There's also a subset of men that are horrible. They're the "Fuck you, lady driver." gang. I can't count how many times a typical tough guy has done something absolutely batshit while driving and then acted like a complete asshole to me about it.
/offtopicrant
If a car spun out of control on an icy road, overall I'd want a young man to handle the mechanics of getting it under control: I really do believe that when it comes to reflexes, men have the edge. However, 99/100 times the person spinning out of control is going to be a guy, because he thinks he's a professional rally driver and is driving far too fast. And even if he can recover 90% of the time, that's a lot of people the cops have to scrape off the mountainside. (The Vancouver -- Whistler highway is absolutely infamous for rich dudes in their Porsche SUVs doing 50% over the speed limit on their way to their weekend villas, passing at high speeds around blind corners and such. It doesn't even earn a line in the local newspaper anymore when they crash.)
I do think women as an overall population are more likely to do dumb stuff, like panic and just slam on the brakes in the middle of a busy intersection. That's my wife's go-to signature move. But when a man panics, he's much more likely to gun the engine and take out a car full of kids. The last thing they'll ever hear is his goddamned car horn, which couldn't possibly help in any way, but by which he announces, "Get out of the way, this is your fault" just as he broadsides them at 100mph.
Give me women, and whatever little traffic quirks they might have or trouble with the mechanics of parallel parking or whatever makes men so smug, over an overconfident asshole any day of the week.
