Comments for Random Thoughts Of A Genius

Comment on 25 Ways To Be Awesome by molly

molly — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:48:24 +0000

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Comment on Wishful Thinking by Harriet Cotter

Harriet Cotter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:28:26 +0000

So can we break this circle? And if so, how?

Both of my senators and my representative are wealthy in their own right, and they all three (Republicans, of course) are in bed with the insurance industry.

Even as he sits in the House, my representative is already campaigning for the governorship of my state. And what’s worse is that he will almost surely be elected.

Tennessee doesn’t stand a chance.

Comment on Why Do So Many Think Agnostics Cannot Be Atheists? by dotlizard

dotlizard — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:49:46 +0000

Oddly enough, when I made my ‘coming out’ post, one person observed that though I identified as an atheist, that I might actually be an agnostic. I replied “there’s a lot of overlap in definitions, but, agnosticism is not incompatible with religion (and i am!), and it can even be used to describe people who are affiliated with a certain religion but disagree with certain aspects of it, and to me that feels a little ambiguous. i’d rather identify myself with atheism since the basis of the word is an absence of theism.”

The beauty of skepticism is that it is wonderfully flexible. If a god or gods made themselves known tomorrow, and there was a rational basis for proof of their godliness, any rational person would accept this.

But I choose the word ‘atheist’ mostly because it feels like a stronger statement. I am not confused, nor in need of being shown the light – so in the interest of clarity, I say atheist.

Sorry to be blathering my head off at you in all these different venues, I am just damn glad to meet you.

Comment on Don’t Believe The Hype!!! by The Aviator

The Aviator — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:09:53 +0000

Too bad you didn’t mention a company name or person we both know in your post.

Your $5000 figure in your post nearly opened a still stinging wound.

I’d like to chat with you. Please email me.

Comment on Why You Should Blog by Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:32:35 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. I started my blog up a while ago and then forgot about it. I’ve recently gotten back into it though and am quite excited to see where I go with it.

My main concern at this point is that “It’s my frikkin opinion about stuff” isn’t a viable category for many blog listing services.

I completely agree with you though, everyone who has an opinion and is afraid to get it out there, for whatever reason, is doing themselves a huge disservice.

Comment on Wishful Thinking by The Sexy Angie

The Sexy Angie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:16:59 +0000

I read your blog once more, showing off your jazzy sarcastic intelligence and it makes me jealous! Seriously. You brought up good points and have given me stuff to think about. Thank-You, Angie

Comment on apropo by The Sexy Angie

The Sexy Angie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:49:46 +0000

If you were to bump into me whilst I was walking.. like that.. I’d think you were flirting.. and well yea.. Probably get my heart broken, I like lost my train of thought.. well anyways yea.. hmm. I actually think a lot of what you said makes sense. Seriously! Nods.. I can’t remember.. well.. no that’s another subject I am going to shut up now.. I like people I think.. but then yea no I don’t.. But yet I am tired of being lonely!

Comment on Why You Should Blog by Julian

Julian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:14:46 +0000

Very true. I spoke out once about how much AVG 8.0 (the antivirus) sucked on my blog and got responses from the owners and employees at AVG. The offered a free license and to fix any problem I encountered. To this day AVG still hasn’t fixed the issue, and people still leave comments saying how much AVG sucks now.

Comment on Why Not? by Julian

Julian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:11:06 +0000

You misspelled God, its with a Capital G. And you have to refer to Him with a capital letter too, or else He will get mad at you. Don’t want His anger to upset you.

Comment on Why Not? by Savage

Savage — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:33:31 +0000

Allow me to further explain my statement.
Imagine I was an atheist telling a christian about my absence of belief 400 years ago. Their answer to that would not be that they will pray for me, rather they would most likely torture me, or burn me alive for my “heresy”. Now, granted this an extreme example, perhaps even a bit of hyperbole on my part.
But I would argue that the central point remains valid, that point being that a christian’s reaction to a confessed atheist is at best derision, and at worst outright hostility. The fact that nowadays this usually manifests as a hollow promise to pray for me (I’m sure they never really do) doesn’t change the fact that they are passively-aggressively judging me. Judging me to be evil, or sick, or somehow less than human.
Given that point of view, I don’t feel it’s necessary to lighten up.