Comments on: Misplaced Priorities http://homebrewedtheology.com/misplaced-priorities.php Celebrating life, faith, and good beer Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cousinavi http://homebrewedtheology.com/misplaced-priorities.php/comment-page-1#comment-412 cousinavi Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:51:55 +0000 http://csalafia.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-412 PS. If you find a way to ensure that only "rational" people (whatever that means) get the message, my objection is weakened. I suspect we differ on how common rationality might be among the population at large. PS. If you find a way to ensure that only “rational” people (whatever that means) get the message, my objection is weakened.
I suspect we differ on how common rationality might be among the population at large.

]]> By: cousinavi http://homebrewedtheology.com/misplaced-priorities.php/comment-page-1#comment-411 cousinavi Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:50:29 +0000 http://csalafia.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-411 No way man. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You, being a decent, moral, kind-hearted fellow, reads that little cliche and thinks, "Yeah...that's the ticket! When something is wrong and no one is fixing it, it's God telling ME to do something about it!" And then YOU help the old lady across the street, pick up the litter in the park, and volunteer to shovel snow off the walk of the crippled chap across the street. I don't have nearly your degree of faith in the inherent goodness of humanity. There are FAR too many people who see things that they are convinced...that they f'ing well KNOW...are wrong (and plenty of them, if asked, would insist they know it's wrong BECAUSE God said so - quoting some out of context bible verse as so many do). They don't see anyone else preventing those women from murdering their babies, stopping the fags from getting married, objecting to a black Muslim non-American in the White House, desecrating a consecrated host...and happy little cliches like that, while well-intentioned, is the nail that breaks the hammers handle - causes them to lose their grip. "Yeah! YEAH!" they think, "No one ELSE is doing what needs to be done! That's GOD telling ME to DO SOMETHING!" As George Carlin said, "Imagine how intelligent the average man is. Now realize that half the people are dumber than that." I'm not sure those backward bags of thermite need anything even remotely resembling a spark. No way man. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
You, being a decent, moral, kind-hearted fellow, reads that little cliche and thinks, “Yeah…that’s the ticket! When something is wrong and no one is fixing it, it’s God telling ME to do something about it!” And then YOU help the old lady across the street, pick up the litter in the park, and volunteer to shovel snow off the walk of the crippled chap across the street.
I don’t have nearly your degree of faith in the inherent goodness of humanity. There are FAR too many people who see things that they are convinced…that they f’ing well KNOW…are wrong (and plenty of them, if asked, would insist they know it’s wrong BECAUSE God said so – quoting some out of context bible verse as so many do). They don’t see anyone else preventing those women from murdering their babies, stopping the fags from getting married, objecting to a black Muslim non-American in the White House, desecrating a consecrated host…and happy little cliches like that, while well-intentioned, is the nail that breaks the hammers handle – causes them to lose their grip.
“Yeah! YEAH!” they think, “No one ELSE is doing what needs to be done! That’s GOD telling ME to DO SOMETHING!”
As George Carlin said, “Imagine how intelligent the average man is. Now realize that half the people are dumber than that.”
I’m not sure those backward bags of thermite need anything even remotely resembling a spark.

]]> By: csalafia http://homebrewedtheology.com/misplaced-priorities.php/comment-page-1#comment-410 csalafia Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:58:17 +0000 http://csalafia.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-410 If that's the your immediate response to my saying that, then I submit that it is you who have the problem. Do you honestly think that's what I meant, or how 99% of rational people would interpret that in its context? Sad, avi. Seriously. Think about it and reflect on it without looking through your biased lenses. Then, perhaps, you'll get it. Movements that have changed the world for the better have often started with one person being pissed off about something that nobody else seemed to give a rip about. If that’s the your immediate response to my saying that, then I submit that it is you who have the problem. Do you honestly think that’s what I meant, or how 99% of rational people would interpret that in its context?

Sad, avi. Seriously. Think about it and reflect on it without looking through your biased lenses. Then, perhaps, you’ll get it.

Movements that have changed the world for the better have often started with one person being pissed off about something that nobody else seemed to give a rip about.

]]> By: cousinavi http://homebrewedtheology.com/misplaced-priorities.php/comment-page-1#comment-409 cousinavi Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:58:42 +0000 http://csalafia.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-409 <i><b>A wise man once said “If you’re pissed off about something and it seems like nobody else is…… that’s God telling you that YOU are supposed to do something about it.”</i></b> Great. You've just given every mad, angry, insane, blithering fuckwit Supreme Justification for taking matters into their own hands. Brilliantly shallow. Utterly myopic. Narrow and self-serving...until things get out of hand and doctors fall to snipers, and those who don't confess are burned at the stake. Jumped up Jebus on skis...can you really SAY something like that with sincerity? A wise man once said “If you’re pissed off about something and it seems like nobody else is…… that’s God telling you that YOU are supposed to do something about it.”

Great. You’ve just given every mad, angry, insane, blithering fuckwit Supreme Justification for taking matters into their own hands.
Brilliantly shallow. Utterly myopic. Narrow and self-serving…until things get out of hand and doctors fall to snipers, and those who don’t confess are burned at the stake.
Jumped up Jebus on skis…can you really SAY something like that with sincerity?

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