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[uberreiniger]

One Mel-less day out of the way, eight more to go. Yeah, I can do this! Things went off without a hitch this morning in terms of getting her onto her flight and back home to Allerbammer. Then I came home and enrolled in my benefits plan for another year. Life is serene, but everyone and their foolish little causes seems determined to damage my calm. I'm sick of Republicans and Democrats, but they get off easy this time as I'm no more sick of them than usual. I'm sick of religious fudamentalists trying to force their beliefs on other people and I'm sick of atheists trying to take away Christmas. I'm sick of people getting angry over Intelligent Design - an idea, which if taught in a classroom, broadens one's perspective and doesn't hurt anybody. And I'm sick of people getting angry over Evolution - an idea which, when taught in a classroom, likewise broadens one's perspective and doesn't hurt anybody. Shut the hell up, all of you.

I'm cranky, I guess. People need to learn to chill out and not be cranky. That way I will not be cranky. You're all lucky I will be in a tryptophan-laced coma come Thursday night.

Comments

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

I was cranky yesterday...but I think I feel pretty good today. It's amazing what some sort of illness followed by feeling good can do for the soul. I have been dizzy for 5 days, on and off...and today I woke up and it seems to be gone. My blood pressure is back to normal...I might make it!
So, get yourself in the mindset to be thankful for what you have...a wonderful girlfriend, good friends and life. And let the crazy people drive someone else into a bad mood :) *HUG*

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

crankypants

Hulk Smash Evolution!

[zombiecowboy.livejournal.com]

Oooooohhh!! Evolution makes me so crazy angry! It gets in my coffee and sprouts new life! Little civilizations floting like so much flotsum attacking the libertine jetsum and their wicked godless ways! But since the jetsum are inf facy godless, they are the ones who invent the laser beam first, and obliterate the sanctimonious flotsum! All hail Slobbocus! Emperor of Jetsumonicus!

Or that may be just undissolved powdered creamer.

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything wrong with stores changing to "Happy Holidays" in favor of "Merry Christmas." You know, goodness forbid we acknowledge that there are more religions in the world than just Christianity. I'm not for taking away everything Christian, just for the inclusion of everything else.

[ghaidin.livejournal.com]

Wadda ya mean, chill? I want fire! Let's burn all those heretic evolution crazies! FIRE FIIIIIIIIIRE!!!!!!!!

In the name of my God, the one, only and the coolest of them all... FIRE!

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda hoping for that tryptophan induced coma myself!!!!

I'm sure you will be ok Mel less for a short period. And just think how great it will be when she gets back!

[ksracxe.livejournal.com]

I hate people - creationism? Show me a good reason and I'll think your POV is funny. Evolution? Show me a good reason and I'll think your POV is funny.

It's all hilarious if you step back and view it from a distance ;)

[kakita-shisumo.livejournal.com]

A couple of thoughts (which may provoke crankiness - if so I apologize in advance):

1) Intelligent Design is not science. I mean that in the most literal of senses: the scientific method literally cannot be applied to ID because ID provides no testable hypothesis. Whether or not you choose to believe that there was Someone guiding the development of life on this planet, there is no debate - even amongst IDers, at least on the surface - of the mechanisms involved in that development. Those mechanisms are described in the theory of evolution. Therefore, this is quite literally a nonissue - ID and evolution should have nothing to do with one another.

2) The Messiah, if Yeshua of Nazareth was indeed him, was almost certainly born either in late April or early May. (Even on the Mediterrean coast, shepherds don't typically stay out overnight with their sheep in the middle of the winter. It's unpleasant.) The religious holiday in question is Christian only by virtue of adaptation on the part of Christianity - the holiday's most direct ancestor is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, but winter solstice festivals are literally worldwide. (I think the Arabs don't have one because they're basically desert-locked, but Islam's the only major religion I can think of that lacks such.) Besides, as Bertrand Russell would be all too quick to tell you, you need not be religious at all to appreciate an annual celebration of fellow-feeling, charity and gift-giving.

[digitalbombdog.livejournal.com]

Evolution vs. The Bible.
Cause lets face it. The people who want Intelligent Design taught in the classroom don't want just any intelligent design taught, or every Intelligent Design theory taught; they want their ID theory taught.
They would get just as pissed if we started teaching the Hawaiian story of how Maui, who lived with the race that came before the human race in underground caverns, once found a crack leading to the surface, and it being just the right size, made love to it. One of the gods wandering on the surface saw Maui's penis sticking out of the ground and she sat on it, impregnating her and giving birth to the human race.

Evolution is a SCIENTIFIC theory. Leave that in the science classroom. Yes it's a theory. Say it's a theory.

And teach the Bible in the appropriate classroom. GASP! What??? Teach the bible? In public schools? Yes. I read the bible in high school, In ENGLISH CLASS. It's a book. We read it during our mythology semester. Along with Greek mythology. I wouldn't have minded some other religions as well. I think a whole class dedicated to the study of religions (PLURAL) would be a good idea.

But what do I know? I also think we should make high school kids vote, and follow politics in their Social Studies classes every year. Then maybe Politicians would pay a little more attention to long term effects of their decisions rather than pandering to people who are going to die in 5-7 years. And maybe kids would get used to the idea of voting and being politically aware when they become adults. Then maybe they would stop voting in the idiots who remove creationism from the classroom.

[blkhmster.livejournal.com]

yeah gotta open my atheist mouth here *LOL*.... Happy Holidays is to include. Atheists aren't taken Christmas away from anyone. Christians on the other hand took Yule from the Pagans and made it their own (as they did Spring Soltice [easter] and Samhain [halloween] as well). call it what you want, nobody's gonna tackle your ass in the mall, straddle you and scream "say Happy Holiday bitch..say it!!!" *lmao* ...make it what you want :) ...but yeah i agree with the rest of the stuff...i'm tired of fundies and politicians too :)