I'd rather them suddenly come to the realization of how insidious and hateful they really are. Burn them up in a fire, they think themselves martyrs. I want them to know what sort of worms they are.
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 (February 11, 2011 at 11:38 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'd rather them suddenly come to the realization of how insidious and hateful they really are. Burn them up in a fire, they think themselves martyrs. I want them to know what sort of worms they are. Oh wow, you do make a really strong point. Yes... But would they ever come to that conclusion, about how terrible they are? They may be too dumb to realize it. I've only seen one instance where a young woman left the church. But how many more people have?
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." Carl Sagan It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! Mark Twain "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." (David Bowie) "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." (Hypatia of Alexandria) "Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child-mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after-years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable." Hypatia 
It's a wish, not an expectation. Those douchebags, much like a Glenn Beck-worshiping friend of mine, have lapped themselves on the crazy track.
Yeah, D-P. A "cult" is a church that other people join.
(February 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: It's a wish, not an expectation. Those douchebags, much like a Glenn Beck-worshiping friend of mine, have lapped themselves on the crazy track. A Glenn Beck worshiping friend?! That sounds terrible.
Sarah M
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." Carl Sagan It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! Mark Twain "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." (David Bowie) "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." (Hypatia of Alexandria) "Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child-mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after-years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable." Hypatia (February 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm)IronicAlchemist Wrote: A Glenn Beck worshiping friend?! That sounds terrible. His worldview (which probably describes a lot of Fox cultists): Friend A is our age and screwing a 37 year old married guy with two kids. Friend B is our age and also screwing a guy around that age, but he's single. Friend B gets condemned, partly because he hasn't known her as long and partly because happens to know that Friend A "has a moral compass". Mind - he knows she's fucking a married guy. This is the thought process behind these freaks.
Sounds like that guy could be an idiot without Glen Beck.
But Beck surely helps!
Beck helps him hate Obama and the economy.
Obama's black.
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(February 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:(February 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm)IronicAlchemist Wrote: A Glenn Beck worshiping friend?! That sounds terrible. [snark] Hey, at least A isn't having sex outside of marriage. True, it's someone else's marriage but hey, it's still sex within a marriage of sorts. [/snark] Seriously, he's not alone. How many Republican sex scandals and reports of adultery have there been among "family values" politicians where these guys are still in office and being taken seriously as presidential candidates. A former friend of mine railed endlessly against Clinton's adultery and how it shows him to be untrustworthy yet worships Giuliani who is a known adulterer. Newt Gingrich is still being taken seriously by the family values crowd despite his serial adultery. He once reportedly said to his wife, "it's not important what I do but what I say" or words to that effect. Craig, Sanford, the list goes on. I can't comprehend their thought process either. (February 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Beck helps him hate Obama and the economy. There's another line of reasoning I can't comprehend. I remember how A-Theist was talking about how the stimulus hasn't worked and the economy is in terrible shape. What? Do you even remember what it was like just before Obama took office? The freefall? The panic? The massive financial corporations going under? The auto industry about to go bye-bye? Staring into the abyss of another Great Depression? Any of this ring a bell? He's not alone. Sluggish and unstable recovery > total economic meltdown. Pretty basic logic really. Why is that so hard to understand? And after 30 years of trying tax cuts to stimulate economic growth and failing to get results, can we stop pushing that failed idea now? "Government has a spending problem". Yeah, Reagan said this and yet somehow even when Republicans are in complete control they can never cut enough spending. There just isn't 700 billion in waste that can be painlessly cut out without touching defense spending.
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