So you’re saying out children shouldn’t read fairytales because they teach that the proper way to deal with conflict is violence?
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. Chesterton (via gattogrigiobjd)
I love Anderson Cooper so much. He was talking to a lady who was defending the pastor who said gays and lesbians should be put behind electrified fences and die out. This happened:
- Cooper: I imagine if it was putting Jews behind electrified fences, you'd be saying something different.
- Pritchard: Now, here we go again. We all know that's not gonna happen--
- Cooper: Actually, that has happened. It's called the Holocaust.
If you can’t see poetry in law, beauty in engineering, love in medicine, or romance in business, then perhaps you need to open your eyes more.
The most important thing to remember is that people never really are who they pretend to be.
- A rare moment of wisdom on my part (via ethanwearsprada)
I’m actually a straight latino atheist who loves sports and hates math, turns out.
In Germany, police fired 85 bullets in all of 2011.
In the U.S., police fired 90 shots at one unarmed man in Los Angeles.
Not to mention, they hit him only like 10 times. Spray and pray as always, LAPD.
The Norwegian police has fired 79 shots since 1994.
>The Norwegian police has fired 79 shots since 1994.
So how’d that work out with Andrei Brevik.
I don’t even understand why everyone is obsessed with identifying with a sexuality.
Like, fuck and fall in love with whoever you want.
Why do you have to name yourself like that.
Saying you’re straight or bisexual or gay or whatever doesn’t make you more straight/bisexual/gay/etc.
So why are you bothering.
By creating cognitive labels we actually do affect our own actions and proclivities. We can’t change things radically, but identifying as something does cause a positive feedback loop that makes us more like we say.
MoveOn’s list of top POTUS achievements. What’s your vote for #1?
1. Possibly overturned by the supreme court
2. Though of course cuts in welfare and raised taxes on the middle class seem to be all the rage.
3. So minimal that executive bonuses are higher than pre-crash highs
4. War in Afghanistan: escalated
5. Bailed out expensively, and BTW it was really only the decrepit Detroit auto industry that was having trouble
6. Great, now we can send more gay people to Afghanistan.
7. What, he didn’t reverse the trends of the past thirty years? How revolutionary.
8. And failed to address the sheer scale of the problem
9. And didn’t actually do anything.
10. How’s that working with Iran?
In my experience religion consists primarily of doing what I believe to be right regardless of what I’m told. But of course in those cases I’m being told by someone other than God and what I believe is right is based on what God tells me. The problem with this rhetoric is that it assumes people treat each source of moral guidance with the same credulity. Maybe the reason people get angry about things is because they make absurd assumptions about how people think?Morality vs. religion.
This is (part of) why atheists are so angry >:( Although religion has helped the world, it has also put everyone through so much shit. Bah.
No wonder atheists are so angry.
