(June 8, 2015 at 1:00 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 5:33 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote: “Everything happens for a reason.” One of my favorite idiotic phrases uttered by the religious imbeciles. Murders, rapes, cancer, people starving to death, people with no shot to even live/enjoy a life, etc.
I know someone who says that a lot, and for a period of time I believed it too
But it's such dumb baseless assertion eventually you have to realize shit just sorta happens, and it doesn't care why you think it does
Yeah, if you're capable of some of the lowest forms of critical thinking, then yes, you should be able to realize that after awhile. I sort of believed it too, but then after really seeing what was going on around the world and in space, I stopped believing it 7 or 8 years before I stopped being religious. I still believed in prayer most of my life as a religitard, but at least I learned to stop defending things against common sense, and learned to be open-minded, and look at things for what they really are.
Feels good!
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
