A quote from my travels about the hinterlands of the web which, though I know I've shared it before, seems to fit perfectly here:
Quote:Actually, you've got it backwards. It's you fundies who want to keep everyone in the dark. After all, doesn't the name Lucifer mean "light bearer"?
Okay, okay. I'm feeling slightly magnanimous this evening, so I'll give you another answer, one that's more in the spirit of your post. A better analogy would be you repeatedly shining a large flashlight directly into our eyes while
- not understanding that we actually can see just fine without it;
- not grasping the concept that a bright light shone directly into one's eyes does more harm than good;
- thinking we don't really mean what we say when we politely ask you to point your flashlight elsewhere (see points 1 and 2); and
- not understanding that it won't make any difference if we sit and hear you ramble on about how a flashlight shining into your eyes changed your life for the better and it'd do the same for us if we only allowed it to hit our eyes for a little longer, perhaps from a different angle than we're used to (see point 3);
- not grasping the concept that, even if the company that manufactured your flashlight printed explicit instructions for its user to go out and shine it in other people's faces, you following those instructions are still unacceptably irritating, and do not, in fact, deserve immunity from criticism simply because the flashlight manufacturer says it's okay.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
