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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 16, 2009 23:15:48 GMT -5
Maybe it represents Obama giving the finger to all those fascist conservatives fucks who spend their waking hours bitching and moaning about him. That would be a cool way to look at it, I think.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 16, 2009 23:14:00 GMT -5
It's not wrong. It's hilarious. I'd have pissed in some guys gastank just to be funny. Whip it out and have a contest. I'd have whistled or something, had some fun with it. I'm ugly as sin, well, my wife doesn't think so, but I think she has some mental problems, but that's for another time. Now, I'd never be caught dead naked, but I don't see any problem with anyone who does. It's their choice.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 16, 2009 23:03:20 GMT -5
I still like Eminem.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 15, 2009 22:20:23 GMT -5
To set things in perspectice: I'm a white heterosexual male, married, I'm 6'2'' and 280 lbs. with a ponytail that goes halfway down my back and a full beard. With that being said, I LOVE BUFFY! And Alison Hannigan (sp?) is fucking hot. I like fedoras. And the second movie I ever remember watching, when I was about 8 years old, was Homeward Bound, and I cried at the end when the cat and dogs got back home, especially the Golden Retriever, Chance, I think was his name. I just recently watched it again with my 3 year old daughter, and I realized that I still cry a little at that part. I never really liked D&D (but I still played it some), but I love White Wolf's games, especially Vampire: The Masquerade. Me and my friends used to sit around every night after work and play that for hours, and that went on for about 3-4 years, and we still played it at least once a week after that. Then they went and fucked it up with Requiem or whatever in the hell it's called.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 14, 2009 20:18:45 GMT -5
Predominantly agnostic. But I guess I'm what you might call a weak agnostic, in that, I believe that no god as yet has been proven to exist, but there might actually be one out there that we're not aware of, and the world's religions have just got it all wrong so far. But I also believe that, if there is a god, since it hasn't tried reaching down to us, then there's no real point in reaching up to it, or speculating about it, it's nature and attributes. Most of my beliefs follow a long line of philosophers, from Plato, the Stoics, Plotinus, to the empiricists, Immanuel Kant, the continental philosophies, to existentialism. Most who know me would say a nihilistic existentialism, due to my extreme pessimism, cynicism, and belief in fate. I think I just need to drink more. Who know. I also believe my Asperger's is due to the next step in evolution. At least that's what I tell myself. I hate religion, don't accept any particular view of god, or even if a god exists, but I have a love for mysticism. As such, I also like to study the Traditionalist school and the Perennial Philosophy. Now that I think about it, I guess that mostly makes me a Neoplatonist. Go me! I would like to add, that I'm also a Discordian, for whatever that might mean. If there is a god, it's Eris. If there is a "one", or a "monad" as the Neoplatonists teach, then it's chaos. I think on the old forums, I called myself an agnostic/stoic/fatalist/Discordian, which somehow works for me. So I guess if you add Neoplatonism, I'd be agnostic/stoic/fatalist/Discordian/Neoplatonism. So, in the long run, I can't be easily labeled.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 14, 2009 20:07:40 GMT -5
As an agnostic, I feel that I'm on the same quest for truth that both atheists and theists are. Just so you know, there are definitions of atheism that you qualify as already. "Atheism" is commonly used to mean either that there is active disbelief or that there is a lack of positive belief. Strong and weak are usually used to describe the two positions. Some people reject the "strong and weak" classification and use the word atheist to exclusively describe someone in either group. Or just in the strong group. It's also worth noting that Spinoza was a pantheist of sorts, yet in his time people called him an atheist. I guess my point is that being agnostic doesn't preclude yourself from being atheistic or theistic, though agnosticism tends to imply weak atheism in my experience. Really though, just labeling yourself with a term doesn't usually convey what you believe, especially if you've throught through the beliefs. I know I don't fit neatly into any categories unless you define "god" first anyway. I've always had a similar idea, that agnosticism tends more toward a 'weak' atheism, although I've heard of agnostic xtians, as well as agnostics in other religions that traditionally have a god belief. But I've seen that agnosticism can also be defined as either 'weak' or 'strong', the weak position stating that they don't believe in a god because there's not enough data presented to say either way, but that someday we might actually know, while the strong camp says that we can never know whether a god exists or not, because we can never have enough proof, so there's no real point in worrying about it. I actually feel that I fall somewhere in between, and might also consider myself an ignostic.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:58:05 GMT -5
While I hate the idea of not having freedom of speech, at the same time I wish there was something we could do about fucktards like Phelps and his incestuous family, as well as groups like the KKK and such. There's no easy answer, so for now, we just have to let them be, as long as they are not harming anyone. Fuck them. And I'm so jealous right not of the UK.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:52:55 GMT -5
I want to add something here; you don't necessarily have to go to a fundy xtian board to find an great deal of xtian fundamentalists. I've found that Yahoo News, World of Warcraft offtopic boards, GameFAQ's, Topix, and even City-Data have their fair share of fundamentalists, enough even, I think, that you never have to go to an explicitly xtian site. And, for the record, that's both sad and scary at the same time.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:50:39 GMT -5
The 'Fighting Fundamentalist' boards are good for some lulz. Any conservative Baptist or Pentecostal board will be, as well as any Catholic board, especially the "traditionalist" Catholics who think that Vatican II was a liberalizing of the Catholic church. Also look for sites that claim to be "confessional". These are sites that are conservative movements within mainline christian denominations who think that the liberalism in their churches has gone on for long enough. Those are some good search tools to start off with.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:46:10 GMT -5
While I have to agree with Lady that it's not uniquely funny, I do find it hilarious that fundy xtians have seemed to given this man a demi-god status, and that he is the be all and end all of real science, much less fundy science. Remember, these are the same people who were ready to do to Dubya the same thing that the Romans were ready to do to Caesar, to declare him a god.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:41:51 GMT -5
As an agnostic, I feel that I'm on the same quest for truth that both atheists and theists are. However, when it comes to the real world, and what we know, I think that, if I had to choose between atheism and theism, I would have to go toward atheism. Theirs is just the more logical point of view between the two. With that being said, I don't think there's anything wrong with strong atheism, and no, I don't think it's an arrogant position to take. I know that agnostics get the brunt end of the stick from both ends, but I see no reason to condemn a point of view (atheism, particularly strong atheism), that's based in real world knowledge and experience. And yes, for those who wonder, I am also "agnostic" about other things as well, such as fairies, leprechauns, UFO's, ghosts, and Bigfoot (I must add here, that I don't actually believe any of these things exist, apart from the human mind and legend and folklore, but some of the stories seem to have a tinge of credibility to them, and, while I don't agree with the common definitions of such things, I do admit that I think there's a possibility that there is a world out there that we cannot see, however, I don't think that this world has anything to do with a divine entity, or even spirits and magick and such, just that there might be something else there that we, as of yet, don't understand).
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:33:02 GMT -5
This just seems odd to me. I know that it's pretty much anti-fundy to to have sex, well, almost at all. They seem to frown upon it some even in marriage. I'm aware of the obvious paradox and inconsistencies with their other theologies in this post, but there's something else here that's strangely odd, and I just can't put my finger on it. Or maybe it's because I'm sitting here drinking vodka. But it almost seems like they want these young people to fail. Of course, that goes along with their "humans aren't worth shit" theology. Maybe that's what it is. But I'm not even going to dare click on that link. My blood pressure is already a little bit high as it is.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:22:17 GMT -5
Well, I've already admitted on another thread that I like some post-'Black Album' Metallica. That's pretty bad right there. But it gets worse. To hear me talk, and to see me dress, I'm nearly indistinguishable from a conservative (for those who know, I don't consider myself a 'full-fledged' liberal, I'm just left of center, I'm more in the moderate range than anything). Let's see, I've also already admitted that I believe there was a historic person named Jesus of Nazareth, who probably was a wise sage or mystical rabbi. Hm...I know, I like 80's era pop-metal, like Poison, Ratt, L.A. Guns, Guns n Roses, Twisted Sister, Scorpions, etc. I'm not a rationalist, I'm an empiricist (for those who haven't studied philosophy, yes, there is a major difference). I'm probably the last person left on the planet who believes whole-heartedly in philosophical fatalism. I'm agnostic, I hate most organized religions, and yet I find myself strangely obsessed with mysticism, which is why I also identify with the Neoplatonists (who were mystical philosophers without all the baggage that religion carries with it). I don't know, I'm actually pretty straight-laced. Must be due to my Asperger's.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:13:56 GMT -5
So I take it the word isn't 'bastard'?
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 13, 2009 22:10:07 GMT -5
What's odd to me is that they represent one of the smallest subsets of xtianity, and yet their views are the ones that you hear of the most. They're the ones causing the most trouble in society, and yet there are really very few of them. What's even more odd is that the xtians sects that disagree with them are doing next to nothing to stop them. I've thought about trolling their boards, but then I realized that all that would do is piss me off to an even greater degree towards them than I already feel, and realized that it's not really worth it. I have all the RR I can handle on FSTDT.
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