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So here is another thing I hate about people in general. Most of them for some reason seem to think I want to know what THEY think. I say most people, and I will clarify shortly.

My first question is “Why should I care what everyone else thinks?” It seems to me that when most people start to talk about something they think is important, they are trying to convince me they are right. This has a problem from the start; odds are, they are wrong. The problem lies in the fact that they don’t know it and could never be convinced of it. I know what you are thinking, (’if you are so sure they are wrong, how can you know you are right?). EXACTLY! I’m not forcing you to listen to my mindless prattle, dutifully recited from last Sunday’s sermon, about why you think same sex marriages should be illegal because you believe they are “wrong.”

(I don’t want to get into the whole ‘Same Sex Parents as opposed to Heterosexual Parents’ thing right now. Come back when you are done abusing your daughter you ‘Straight MOFO.’)

The real problem with people like this, and it is demonstrated over and over daily, is that people can’t handle the fact that they might be wrong and find ways to reassure themselves by trying to ‘convert’ others to their ‘belief/truth.’ It is cute that you are so sure that you are right but what makes you think you have the right to force others to accept your mythology?

If you haven’t guessed, I am alluding to religious beliefs. Why? Because they are so pervasive in our world and so passionate in our world, that people of all nations and creeds are willing to kill other people in the name of their god. That right there tells me (yes me) that they are wrong. Don’t want to believe me? Well fuck off then and leave me alone. The fact that you think your god is the one and only by no means requires me to believe he IS the one and only. You can feel sorry for me if you want. You can tell all your friends how sorry you are that I won’t be sharing your blissful eternity if you want. You can even pray for me (or whatever you call it) if you want. But you can’t force me to capitulate to your beliefs simply because you think they are right.

So how did I get from something I hate about people to your religious beliefs and my lack thereof? The answer is simple. Religious beliefs are the most common example of how people are unwilling to live and let live. If you think something is wrong, form a group of like minded people and don’t do whatever ‘it’ is. Don’t force me to join, and don’t stop me from doing it. Of course this comes with the obvious (to sane and even partially intelligent people) caveat, don’t harm others. Beyond that, it is my choice so leave me the fuck alone unless I ask.

Who said life is fair?
- Uncouth

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So we have idiots running our government. Yes they deserve a raise and the people who work at McDonalds don’t. After all, all they do is make your food. Are you stupid? Oh wait, we already know you are… Who in their right mind treats someone badly who prepairs your food; someone incredibly stupid and naive.

Here is my call. Lets start electing smart people. What am I saying? So many people are stupid that there is no chance of them recognizing a smart person, let alone figuring out how to vote for them without invalidating their ballot in some god-forsaken inane way. It is becoming clear how and why this country will burn it’s future into the ground. Now I know how Nero felt. Give me a violin…. I’m going to have to watch it burn….

Here’s to Nero; raise a beer; play a mournful tune…

Who said life is fair.
- Uncouth

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I don’t want to get married, gays and lesbians do, too many other people continue to, who gives a rat’s ass.

The only people who seem to have a problem with gays and lesbians getting married is the religious coagulation. I really don’t care if they think it is wrong or right. If you don’t like it, don’t do it. If you don’t agree with it, then get the religious group you belong to and that agrees with you to not do it. Why do you have to force your beliefs on those around you. Are you really that different from the ‘religious fanatics’ around the world that you claim to abhor? They want you to do and believe what they think is right…

This is an excellent example of our faux tolerent nation and culture. I can not fathom how we can honesty debate an issue to constitutionally ban gay marriage along side a core statement of all men are created equal. Since when did we become a live and let live as long as you want to live like me nation? I don’t try to convict anyone of cannablism for eating human flesh (transubstantiation) so why can’t you leave gays to themselves? So you belive your bible declares it wrong? Don’t do it. If it is consentual and is not harmful than you have no right to interfere. And you don’t always get to decide what is harmful…

So go pray to your intolerant god, let the poor gay bastards voluntarily and knowing rot in hell and get your self-richous self back to church and try to convince yourself that your alcoholism, or your cheating on your wife, or your child neglect, or your drug habit, or your any-other-unhealthful-habit makes your ‘cooler’ in your god’s eyes.

It’s odd that, even in the bible, “god’s people” seem to be the most intolerant.

Who Said Life is Fair
-Uncouth

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So what is it about fiction that makes people so uncomfortable? I think a famous writer said it best… (sorry to slaughter…) but ‘me thinks the right wing bible beater doth protest too much.’

I went to see a recent movie release the other night only to be greeted by some religious fanatics protesting the film by standing outside the cinema with signs.

I understand standing up for something you believe in but what I have a hard time accepting is that these people actually know what they think. For starters, do they know that fiction is not ment to be taken as fact? It is a common practice for authors, IMHO, to use real events to lend a feeling of reality to works of fiction. This makes the ’suspended disbelief’ of the reader/viewer easier to practice. For a certain amount of entertainment, one can imagine something other than reality.

In any case, I keep hearing the argument that this story/movie/book is causing people to lose their faith. This too boggled my mind until just now. It finally hit me, as I was typing this, that people who have little ability to think for themselves could be easily mislead by someone who can create a crafty, some what believable story. It would not be right, moral, or ethical to take advantage of people in such a inferior capacity. They need to be protected. They need to be told what is right and what is wrong. They need to be shown how to live a better life. How to not be … How to watch a movie about cartoon characters, depicted as real people, with godlike powers, and then go to church the next day and pontificate about the evils of fictional stories that mislead people into beliving something so obviously untrue that they can’t realize it for themselves…

-Who Said Life is Fair
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