First of all, I love my state to a certain degree, but this kind of shit pisses me off to no end. I even tend to favor myself as moderate on the issue in a "live and let live" sort of way, but you're crossing the motherf*cking line when you start doling out subversive amendments under the guise of "we need to be open to other theories concerning the age of the universe," when you've got your hand down your skirt rubbing a bible on your labia.
There's a lot about science that demands constant re-evaluation and study, otherwise we'd still believe veins were full of air and flies spontaneously appeared in feces and rotting carcasses (things that were legitimately believed at some point in human history). But let's face the damn facts - we can pretty easily point out things with relative assurance, and the age of the universe (give or take some years) is one of them.
On the other side of the coin, there's no argument that can be religiously stated that can defeat that. None. I've heard them all, and they are all wrong, and I'm amazed that there's even a discussion(s) going on. "Maybe God made things with age." That's the best one I've seen in recent years, and even THAT is ridiculous, because it defeats the entire idea of God being omnibenevolent, since creating things with age simply to fool people isn't exactly the hallmark of a just being. Much like the argument of "Where was God on 9/11?" when all the forwarded e-mails were talking in this flowery language about things like "God held up the building so people could escape," which implied at some point he got bored or turned weak and sent it tumbling below. In short: you don't even realize your arguments are actually destroying every last possible shred of thought regarding your deity.
So f*ck that noise. Where's the public discussion on this? Where's the uproar? I see nerds at Digg.com throwing a circlejerk party to make themselves feel superior, but that doesn't solve shit. Take your ego balms elsewhere, preferably up your ass.
It suddenly seems like there's nothing more to say other than - again - some nonsense about appeasing those with different viewpoints. You want to tell your kids the universe is 6000 years old? Fine. Hell, I wouldn't really mind the teacher halfheartedly saying, "Other people believe differently" and leaving it at that. Criminy. But taking it into a tax-backed educational campus and having teachers say it because you're too much of a shitty parent to actually talk with your children when the government can do it for you? Choke on your bodies of Christ.
Also, please remind me why I can't attack Bristol Palin. "She's just a kid."
THAT. The moment you are in the spotlight, you prepare for the assault and inquiry and scrutiny, and too bad if it's purely because your redneck mama shot a damn moose and then said she totally knew the king of Russia, or whatever other dumb shit crawled out of her mouth. I guess I can cut them some slack since she was picked via the equivalent of drunk dialing your ex, so you didn't really have time to prepare, but this aint November no mores.
So double THAT if you're going to go around a few months later and be a mouthpiece for something that not only have you demonstrated to be bullshit policy at best, but then TO CHAMPION IT. Let's wake up and stop kidding ourselves - we glorify sex, it's all over the place, there's no turning back, I'm thinking about it RIGHT NOW. It infests every last corner of media and entertainment, and Freud believed our entire lives are devoted to the pursuit of it. These people who talk about abstinence with one hand and then turn around and refuse alternative methods are insane.
That redneck who knocked her up might be a tool, but he at least came out today and said that we need more than abstinence (even if it did sound like he was reading a script).
Yeah, my damn head hurts. I wanted to rant. About politically charged subjects. I'd do it on a blog on here, but maybe I wanted other people to actually read these words.
There's a lot about science that demands constant re-evaluation and study, otherwise we'd still believe veins were full of air and flies spontaneously appeared in feces and rotting carcasses (things that were legitimately believed at some point in human history). But let's face the damn facts - we can pretty easily point out things with relative assurance, and the age of the universe (give or take some years) is one of them.
On the other side of the coin, there's no argument that can be religiously stated that can defeat that. None. I've heard them all, and they are all wrong, and I'm amazed that there's even a discussion(s) going on. "Maybe God made things with age." That's the best one I've seen in recent years, and even THAT is ridiculous, because it defeats the entire idea of God being omnibenevolent, since creating things with age simply to fool people isn't exactly the hallmark of a just being. Much like the argument of "Where was God on 9/11?" when all the forwarded e-mails were talking in this flowery language about things like "God held up the building so people could escape," which implied at some point he got bored or turned weak and sent it tumbling below. In short: you don't even realize your arguments are actually destroying every last possible shred of thought regarding your deity.
So f*ck that noise. Where's the public discussion on this? Where's the uproar? I see nerds at Digg.com throwing a circlejerk party to make themselves feel superior, but that doesn't solve shit. Take your ego balms elsewhere, preferably up your ass.
It suddenly seems like there's nothing more to say other than - again - some nonsense about appeasing those with different viewpoints. You want to tell your kids the universe is 6000 years old? Fine. Hell, I wouldn't really mind the teacher halfheartedly saying, "Other people believe differently" and leaving it at that. Criminy. But taking it into a tax-backed educational campus and having teachers say it because you're too much of a shitty parent to actually talk with your children when the government can do it for you? Choke on your bodies of Christ.
Also, please remind me why I can't attack Bristol Palin. "She's just a kid."
THAT. The moment you are in the spotlight, you prepare for the assault and inquiry and scrutiny, and too bad if it's purely because your redneck mama shot a damn moose and then said she totally knew the king of Russia, or whatever other dumb shit crawled out of her mouth. I guess I can cut them some slack since she was picked via the equivalent of drunk dialing your ex, so you didn't really have time to prepare, but this aint November no mores.So double
THAT if you're going to go around a few months later and be a mouthpiece for something that not only have you demonstrated to be bullshit policy at best, but then TO CHAMPION IT. Let's wake up and stop kidding ourselves - we glorify sex, it's all over the place, there's no turning back, I'm thinking about it RIGHT NOW. It infests every last corner of media and entertainment, and Freud believed our entire lives are devoted to the pursuit of it. These people who talk about abstinence with one hand and then turn around and refuse alternative methods are insane.That redneck who knocked her up might be a tool, but he at least came out today and said that we need more than abstinence (even if it did sound like he was reading a script).
Yeah, my damn head hurts. I wanted to rant. About politically charged subjects. I'd do it on a blog on here, but maybe I wanted other people to actually read these words.
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