The rantings of a tired, brain-fried woman.

[40cakes]

EEEEEEE IT'S A TINY TIGER THAT WON'T GROW UP TO EAT ME LOOKIT LOOKIT SO SMALL AND CUTE Though admittedly, they just sort of look like orange tabbies with dark stripes.

Sometimes people ask me about something 500 times, and the 501st time, I want to punch them in the face. I even asked zuppy28 if she'd hold somebody back so I can punch them more easily.

Kirk and I watched Jesus Camp last weekend, and there was one kid who was homeschooled. The doc showed us he and his mom's "science" class, in which he and the mother concluded that global warming didn't exist. Now, I understand why the big fundie mouthpieces say it's not real, because they're in the pockets of the people responsible (cow farts). But why do Suzy Homemaker and Joseph Promisekeeper insist on denying it? Is it a fear of admitting that if things do change in response to environment, that means that things might EVOLVE, and we all know about the slippery slope called "logic" the devil prepared? I don't know.

[Poll #933861]

I was not actually wearing those things

EDIT: Anyone have $2500 I could borrow so I can buy a full-size Dalek? Did I mention that on 40th and Madison, there's a furniture store called "Dallek"? I think that's high-lay-ree-uss.

Comments

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Jesus Camp was great. And scary.

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

I think the tiger stripe pattern is distinguishable from the tabby stripe. I'd still rather have an extra healthy cat than a pedigree though.

That dalek seemed kinda old-school, I'd rather have a shiny new one.

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

"assless chaps and confederate flag undies."

Man who woulda thought we would have worn the same thing to work?

Although mine were union jack undies, slightly different

[dialogue.livejournal.com]

I just watched An Inconvenient Truth, so here's my two cents on evolution/global warming denial.

One of the biggest reasons I believe in Global Warming is because the authority figures I respect also believe in it. But another big reason is that I have seen evidence, and even if by some one in a million chance it's not as bad, or whatever, the consequences of ignoring it are SO HUGE that taking decisive action is well worth the while. We are talking about having a planet to live on, here. Why would anybody make that up??

But imagine that the authority figures you respect - in your church, in your community - tell you that global warming is false. There's probably a financial reward for spreading that myth - the big energy companies and such see it as a threat to their profits. But you're someone with strong belief in your faith (Which is fine and dandy in itself), and you don't trust scientists cause you've been told they're all atheists or whatever. It's not comfortable to have the things you believe in question. Why, if creationism is wrong, that could mean all my other beliefs are wrong! If I don't agree with every literal word of the Bible, I risk eternal damnation!

There's something there about absolutism vs. relativism - there is no truth but my truth, and if you disagree, you are wrong. I watched my father argue with his creationist cousin, and after about two hours neither's position budged an inch. I was shocked when I went to college and my first roommate toled me she had once walked out of a high-school science class because the teacher mentioned evolution. Yet she at least had some respect for me and my science-loving ways. I'm especially scared by a group that says not only is the world less than 10k years old, the whole Copernican model of Astronomy is a big conspiracy (to make it worse, probably perpetrated by Jews).

It's not the beliefs that upset me so much as way they are trying to cram them down my throat. Creationism doesn't belong in a classroom; bans on gay marriage only make sense if we are living in a Christionist country.

My fiance rented Jesus Camp, but I couldn't watch it. I knew it would upset me, and I'd end up yelling at the screen.

[dialogue.livejournal.com]

Omg. I just realized that I thought I was replying to someone else's post - there's someone on my friendslist who also uses a lot of I Hearth Darth icons and I thought it was her, XD. Everything I said still stands, but you're probably already aware of most of it....

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Dude, I looked at your icon and was totally all "OMG CHRIS SQUEE SOMEONE ELSE WHO LOVES HER" and then I saw who was commenting and was like "oh XD of course!"

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

I wasn't such a big Jesus Camp fan. Like Casey says about reality shows, "I see assholes every day, I don't need to watch them on TV too." You can't help but relate to america-hating foreign nations if their impression of the country is mutilatingly ignorant middle america.

[dialogue.livejournal.com]

I think it has more to do with the fact that the weirdos get so much attention and us normal people don't. And at the top of the list of both wackos and media attention receivers, you have our president.

Not to disagree completely, but as someone who lives in flyover country I wanted to stand up for my people.

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to accept that media whores get the whoring done, as opposed to quiet reasonable people. And surely you and doubtless several others you know are perfectly reasonable. But as a coastal guy, most of what I've seen to back up the crazies on the news is that they seem to have been getting comparably crazy laws passed.

[dialogue.livejournal.com]

I think that's at least as much of an inditement of apathy as it is of crazy. You have the people at one end who do the crazy stuff, the people at the other end who try to stop them, and then the 75% or so in the middle who don't pay attention or care enough to take action either way.

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

By all means, you are correct! Though apathy is no manner of excuse. Surely we can't individually change the world, but we can go to the polls a couple times a year and make sure our kids aren't taught the crazy. Apathy to destructive extents is like criminal negligence.

Then again, one of the nice things about being a Voting American(tm) is that you don't have to wait in long lines ^^;

[morgan78.livejournal.com]

I want a Toyger! Awesome!!