Archive for Life These Days
Campus Idiots
And the college presidential offices they hold: 100 college presidents want to “debate” lowering the drinking age. But:
The article points out some statistics on the drop in teenage automotive fatalities due to drinking with increases in the drinking age. If it saves just one child it is worth it, right?
It is not fair that 18 year olds can fight and die for their country and vote, but not drink? Just chalk it up as another life lesson: life isn’t fair, get over it.
And this is interesting, they worry about binge drinking, but isn’t it just Darwinism in action? They believe in Darwinism, right? This is just a failure of under 21 year olds to adapt to their environment.
Occasionally It Needs To Be Said
Not As Interesting
Ted Kaczynski’s cabin in the woods is no where near as interesting as the idea of Mr. Fu’s “The Cabin in the Woods.”
They Need A Lawgiver Too
Apparently not all sheister lawyers follow the sheister lawyer law, “Sheister lawyer shall not betray sheister lawyer.” And some of them are upset about it. They were all so impressed with John Edwards:
Justice for everybody, yep, except for the parents who wanted to sue their doctors, but their child died. Or the people in rural areas who need OBs now but cannot get one because the sheister lawyers have driven the malpractice insurance rates through the roof. Oh, and increased the caesarian section rate through the roof too without lowering the rate of cerebral palsy one bit.
As we know most sincere people cheat on their terminally ill spouses and then send the spouse out to defend them against Ann Coulter. And everyone with a working class background who lives in a 28,000 square foot house really knows how to stay in touch with everyday folks. Especially after a $400 dollar haircut and a trip to LA to see the woman you are not seeing anymore.
Sad Lack Of Faithful Atheists
Amid their many charitable organizations of hospitals, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and pet rescue groups it is sad to think that there are not enough faithful atheists to come up with the scratch to purchase one simple bus advertisement. Even the though the ad seemed to be geared for not so faithful atheists, “There’s probably no God.” Probably no God? Way to take a stand!
It did generate some funny, some sad, and some clever comments:
They Want To Become More European
While some Europeans are just going off the deep end not to offend, especially potential criminals. Fortunately some are questioning the logic of extra politeness towards criminal suspects:
They Would Not Have Missed The Vote
If they had implemented an electronically distributed Congress. Think about it, link all Congressional representatives together over high definition video conferencing making it possible to:
a) record all their interactions
b) keep them in their districts or States for constant access by The People
Just think hope much fuel and money we will save by not flying Congress-critters back and forth between D.C. and the various States.
Going To The Bird
Wow, Hitchcock Barbie, golly. And they are going to re-make The Birds? Oh please. Like Robert Osborn said (paraphrased), “There are so many poor movies that could be great if they were re-made. Why re-make something that is already great?”
Morning Chuckle, Pathetic Association, Ray of Hope
So Mr. Fu cranks up the personalized iGoogle page, with the links to Digg. A link to “135 Famous People Who Struggled With Depression” appears, okay interesting. Then the BustedTees ad appears, funny and somehow cruel.
Looking over the list, Colin Farrell, actor in Alexander, well duh, considering that the movie bombed as bad as Hiroshima without going nuclear, who would not be depressed. And Janeane Garofalo? Oh the picture!?!?!? Mr. Fu disagrees with her politics, but she was cute in The Matchmaker and Mystery Men. What the heck happened to her? This is a tremendous warning against modern liberalism! Women, pay attention!
Depression is a serious condition. One problem with this list and one praise though. The problem is the inclusion of mass murders, though perhaps it does point out the depths one can reach while depressed. But on the positive side this list shows many accomplished people who suffer or suffered from depression. Some had tragic endings, but many, many of these individuals made such a positive impact on the world. Depression is serious, but treatable, and it does not have to be the only noteworthy thing in your life.
Democracy Overrated According To Some
Funny how most of the crap gets rammed through the courts as legislation, rather than say the legislatures. Mr. Fu, being a minority of one, is all for minority rights. But changing societal institutions cannot be forced by four people, whatever their sentiments or position. For there to be a legitimate change in a social institution, society kind of has to demand the change, are be given the chance to reject it in this case.
Whether you choose to believe it or not, certain social institutions have been created over the centuries to protect people in society. It does not take a rocket scientist to review recent history and come up with a dozen ways in which the disruption of historic institutions has brought pain, misery, and death to many people in our society.
A Frickin’ Elephant
Five year old learning to read:
Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,
“Look at this! It’s a frickin’ elephant!”
I took a deep breath, then asked…”What did you call it?”
“It’s a frickin’ elephant! It says so on the picture!”
And so it does..
” A f r i c a n Elephant “
Well Duh, But Wrong
Headline: Study: Most Americans say many religions can lead to eternal life
That’s a surprise? And it is also no surprise that this majority view is wrong. All religions, even atheism, leads to eternal life.
The Joy Of Universal Health Care
Welcome to your free health care, now die. This is a tragedy. Do people fall through the cracks in a free market health care system? Yes. But they are not denied tests by policy that they might otherwise be able to obtain. This poor girl probably could not even pay for the tests herself under the British health care system.
Only 64 Years Ago
There were some Democrats that invoked God’s name in a positive light. My how things change.
Ihre Papiere, bitte!
Reports are coming in on a program in Washington, D.C. where neighborhoods will be cordoned off by police and papers checked to see if you live in the neighborhood or have a good enough reason to be there.
Looks like Mr. Fu’s plan for manufacturing and distributing the FP-45 Liberator Pistols once again may be near at hand. Vasily Borodin is going to be disappointed, “No papers?”
In Need Of Some Wilson Fu!
Wilson Fu trained office workers would have been quicker to respond to this:
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Your Fifteen Minutes
In discussing this quote:
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
- Andy Warhol
MISS SERIOUS was wondering if you got that all at once or could spread it around some? She also wondered if that was an average for humanity and that some would not get their fifteen minutes that others might have a bit more fame?
I think almost everyone who exclaims “Oh My God!” doesn’t have a god … oh no, of course, they do … it’s themselves …
Isn’t the saddest part of being an atheist knowing that if you are right you’ll never be able to say “I told you so”
“Agnostics are intellectual cowards.”
..which paraphrases Dawkins. But strictly speaking an atheist is someone who believes that God does not exist (OED:”To deny the gods/God” also see Enc. Brit.). Even Dawkins admits that this is unproven and unprovable, and which means that a genuine atheist’s belief is irrational.
Indeed Dawkins says there is a vanishingly small chance of the existence of God which means he is effectively a quasi agnostic
Strange that. It would seem that agnostics are intellectually sensible compared to atheists: and Dawkins is one of them.
(Strictly an agnostic believes that it is impossible to prove the existence of God, which may be true, but see below why that is irrelevant.)
The irony is that while atheists often define faith as “Belief without knowledge”, which fits their own position nicely, religions themselves define faith as an act of assent to God’s proof/revelation of Himself: in other words actual knowledge, and reasonable. And for the asking, so says Christ, if sincere/persevering :”God, if you exist, please reveal yourself”, not that any true atheist could say that prayer.
Many atheists attempt to define themselves as “lacking belief”, which their strong anti-religious presumptions betray is not really true, and which is a quasi agnostic position in any case. Poor presumptuous mites. “To hell, to hell, it’s off to hell we go”…to misquote a film I saw once.
Dear Sir/Ma’am
Atheists have a lot more faith than I have, believing that nothing/nobody made something out of nothing.
I find it much easier to believe that Somebody made something out of nothing, when “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1
Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Yes, but one might reasonably enquire as to who the gardener is.
Two goldfish in a bowl get talking….
Gold Fish 1 says “Do you believe in God?”
Gold Fish 2 replies: “Of course I do. Who do you think changes the water?”
This week, I am mostly believing in Zeus. Put that on a bus, someone.
The scientific probability of the existence of a God is 50/50, that is if you listen to Hawkings and other scientist’s multi-universe theories.
These guys are attempting to prove that there are an infinite number of universes because the constants of the universe have only fairly small margins in which any thing more than a random soup of hydrogen could exist, and the multiplied probabilities mean that the chance is so extremely small that either there are an infinite number of universes or else a God (of some sort). Without further data: 50/50.
So that bus advert is in any case misleading.
There is a similar problem with evolution in that the probability of the kick off requires astronomically more than 14 billion years even with such a large universe, indicating an intervention. If you don’t know: most Christians are not biblical literalists and can accept evolution. Only a small minority are the Creationists so beloved of Dawkins.
Many people will spend money on something in which they believe: Only a small number would spend money in an idea that they are not sure that they want to believe in.
“Support the signwriters stri..”
As I always say “Thank God I’m an atheist.”
“One man’s fish is another man’s poisson”
Dawkins’ favourite quote:”Isnt it enough to see that a garden is beautiful….”
A garden doesnt just happen.. any gardener knows that it takes hard work, dedication, and yes …..DESIGN to make a beautiful garden.
Dawkins is “perishing” and his eyes are blinded by the ruler of this world.
I heard everyone needs something to worship I guess with the atheist its money
I agree with the statement “There’s probably no God” since I cannot prove there is no god. That makes me an AGNOSTIC.
Stop staring at this advert and keep your eyes on the road.