(October 31, 2012 at 12:10 am)cato123 Wrote:(October 30, 2012 at 11:41 pm)Spectrum Wrote: Your entire post can be discounted, because you don't even know what a hipster is. There are essays and discussions all over the net about it.
You should take your own advice about embarassing yourself
I'm so tired of this hipster bullshit. What's worse is reading that someone is giving another soul shit for not knowing what it is.
Hipster is nothing more than the modern day nerd, dork, geek, twerp, spaz, etc.
It's simply the label that conformists of the same age give to people that are different in order to denigrate those that are independent in mind.
Not sure if I agree with this. First off even when I was less educated I was still one of those "dorks" the jocks picked on, so unless you were one of those jocks, this might not be the best metaphor for what you are saying.
BUT again, if they insist on using the word "hip" as a slur, it is quite common for the person or people they aim it at and own it. I certainly do with the word "atheist", which up until recently was widely used and is still used as a slur to demonize us.
So again, if "hip" means popular, so what. I see nothing wrong with the truth of reality being popular. It makes no sense to demonize DNA and the fact that it takes TWO sets to manifest into a baby. So the only logical and rightful statement to the claim of a baby born of a virgin is simple "bullshit". If that makes me "hip" damned right.
Otherwise we cowtow to the insecuriteis of others becaase of some stupid sense of nostalgia, which I am glad we as a species have not consistiantly bowed to that, otherwise women couldnt vote and blacks would still be slaves.
This is simply an internal slur used by atheists who are too insecure themselves. The individuals I value, are not strictly atheists, but the ones unafraid of the battle and hold no ill will while having it.
Instead of masking their insecurities with such dishonest tactic, what they should say is "You know, I don't like it when you do that". Then I respond with "fine, you don't have to like it, but I don't owe you a loyalty on all issues all the time merely because we share the same label".
