There’s not much I can say that Stephanie hasn’t already said in this blog.
I can’t believe that a movement with the name “pro-life” goes around murdering people against them. I think about how many people are pro-life and pro-death penalty. Arguing how pro-life vs. war isn’t really the issue, as you can make a different argument about saving liberties and etc., but murder is murder is murder is murder in the way that you believe that all abortions are murder, you’re murdering. Murder. Why the fuck do I talk so much about murder on my blog?
Again, moral relativist speaking here. It’s hard for me to understand people who condone one behavior flatly without considering the individual situation, and yet, when it comes to a similar action, consider that immoral.
Is it because a baby is “innocent” and a criminal is “corrupt”? What is innocence? What is corruption?
Okay, theists, are some of you this stupid?
Atheism: The idea that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason what so ever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. Makes perfect sense.
Without getting into a debate about whether or not there is a God, and whether or not you believe in God, this is not what atheists believe. The quote is just ignorant and doesn’t make a funny statement like you’re attempting to do.
I guess it’s trying, and failing, to imitate George Carlin’s rants on religion. I find his original rant a little obnoxious too, but more moderately truthful (and not just because I’m an athiest, but because he actually seems to understand the concept of Christianity, unlike this quote’s author).
I must agree with something Carlin said though: “If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.”
I’m sick of being poor.
When I was working at the library I worked at back in 2007, I was working four days a week and making enough money that I could pay rent, eat out at least once or twice a week, buy whatever games and movies I wanted, and still had enough to save up some.
Now, with my super-part-time job and school, I don’t even have enough to get my phone turned back on. I can’t afford to buy groceries more than us eating peanut butter and jelly and tuna fish sandwiches. A large part of this is that I’m trying to feed three people on two hundred dollars a month (plus use some of that money to use the train and stuff).
It’s really frustrating and sometimes I can’t remember why I quit my job to go to school. Other times I realize that I was as high as I could go, and I had to go to school in order to progress any higher on the library totem. My goal is just so far away and I’m sick of scraping by. It’ll still be another year until I have my B.A. and probably around 3 before I have my M.L.I.S. but it’s really the only way.
“Any movie with smoking should be rated R,” he said. “And if they worry about an R rating hurting their profits, then they should work with studios to remove smoking from films that hurt youth.”
Really, guys? I’m honestly surprised that there are activities that are legal that people believe we should not even be able to show in movies. I can understand that smoking kills people and shit. I really do. My grandfather died of lung cancer after being a smoker for sixty years. I used to smoke myself. (I never was addicted and quit for multiple reasons. I don’t miss it.)
But saying any movie with smoking should be rated R is kind of ridiculous. I doubt people actually look at smokers anymore and think of them as cool. My assumption, by the way I and my friends started smoking, is that people smoke because they are offered cigarettes by real life people and it’s peer pressure. No one I have ever met has ever said they started smoking because of someone in a movie or television show.
Kids see their parents smoking and it’s much more likely they’ll smoke than most other options. They get curious. (Again, I’m not basing this on studies, just anecdotal evidence. Sorry for that.) They want to smoke and they can get their hands on cigarettes through them. It’s not smoking in order to emulate movie stars.
Especially using Wolverine as an example. Any kid who wants to be like him is probably more interested in having regenerative powers and saving the earth than lighting up a cigar.
I am constantly infuriated by the amount of people, both women and men, who have no idea what the words feminist and/or feminism mean.
I just cannot comprehend anything when I listen to someone talk about how Lifetime is a feminist channel. This same person was also ranting about the phrase “As a woman, I…” which…yeah. I just have to point out that everyone in the world is ignorant of everything in and beyond the world. (I am included in this ignorance.)
For some reason, for the new Transformers movie, they have “Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms.” I’m a candy-a-holic. I had to try them. And the verdict is that they’re ok. I wouldn’t rush out of my way to buy them again, but if they were there, I’d eat them.
It made me think about shit like chocolate Skittles and Pepsi Blue. Sometimes these random flavors to try to entice people to buy your products work, and sometimes they don’t. Thing like white chocolate Reese’s cups and Thingamajigs (instead of caramel like Whatchamacallits have, they have peanut butter) really work. Chocolate Skittles suck a fuck.
Maybe I just like peanut butter too much.
There’s something about Christian music that really does it for me. I don’t know why. Raised a Jew, currently a semi-Buddhist, semi-nihilist, moral relativist. But for some reason, when I listen to groups like Take 6, I go crazy for them.
I think it might be the talent in some of the groups. Some of it might be that I never was Christian enough (I have been to church quite a few times in my life because my dad’s family is Christan — though he converted to Judaism before he married my mom — and the woman he remarried is Catholic) to get to sing hymns in church. I was never there enough to know what to sing. Also, when you’re fifteen, singing in church is kind of embarrassing.
But for some reason, without having any kind of interest in the faith, I love singing song about Jesus. My particular favorite is “Jesus, I Lift My Eyes” by Jars of Clay. Any time I feel a little down, I just put on this song and I instantly feel better. Not sure why.
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