Posts by recordari
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...you seem to be arguing that certain kinds of rationally unjustified belief (religion) should enjoy the same sort of respect as a rationally justified one, and I can't agree with that.
My difficulty with this is far more rational people than I have believed. Should I think lessor of them because of this? Our generation has the 'luxury of disbelief', because it just doesn't seem relevant in this 'world in which we live'.
And your comment makes your (our) current rational system by rights superior to all those that came before.
Are we adding Chronological Imperialism (After, and therefore superior) to Cultural, Colonial, Corporate, Dogmatic, Scientific and any other form that already dictates our inability to just 'get along?'
Of course for the hell of it, give your $20 bucks to a slogan on a bus. I'd rather buy another Stroke CD, some food for the City Mission (Oh, sorry, those religious do-gooders!) or piss it into the toilet after a good night out.
Each to their own... Oh yeah, now I get it...
PS What if the slogan said 'There might be a god, so stop worrying and enjoy your life', would it actually be any different? Rationally speaking.
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Isn't it wonderful how we are all so much more enlightened than our god fearing, religiously indoctrinated forebears.
I'm so pleased that I don't have to participate in a community based, institutionalised religion that dictates moral behaviour, kindness to others and tolerance of peoples differences. Ok so that is perhaps in the ideological purist sense of some religions, and certainly not the reality of this fundamentalist world we live in.
However, if we must respect these attention seeking people for their active non-belief, surely we have to extend the same respect to those who have belief. Otherwise we are just being bigoted.
Secular Humanism, which the guy dropped on TV, is a much broader and complex ideology than a slogan on a bus.
'Secularism in society' is in fact the only way individuals with conflicted belief systems can co-exist without killing each other. Government, social institutions and blogs discussing religion should be secular by definition. But that doesn't give one belief (or non-belief) system a priori (Ok sorry for that but it worked) dominance over others.
This is all a bit much for 7.45am, but it left me feeling like I'd just read a whole lot of posts by rebellious children who needed to feel superior to their 'god bothering' parents and grandparents. Perhaps we should seek the positive, and enhance it.
Rapua te pai, akiakitia.
Arohanui.
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Go check "stroke" and see what wonderous things have been accomplished, and are being quietly accomplished.
Absolutely. I had a pile of these (I bought five in the first week) and dished them out to family and friends that came over.
Have they re-stocked, as need some more for Christmas.
Frankly, I can't think of a better present. It gives twice, or maybe dozens of times...
Oh, and go the Frank Zappa!! It's Zapparific! Is that one?
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Damn. I went away from this thread and missed the fireworks. My reason for dipping out was my early attempts as one of those 'new posters' to express an opinion. I think I used the word 'denier' and 'delusional' in the same sentence, which in hindsight wasn't so clever, and someone called me on it.
So I've been reading the blogs, trying to pick up some tips on etiquette, and dipping into the 'Word of the Year' debate, which is just light and tasty, and seemed safe enough.
Clearly my fears were unfounded because I don't think I'd know how to offend people as much as some of the posts in this thread.
In the midst of all this is some serious stuff. It is a shame that the mode of debate overshadowed the debate.
I'm not wanting to kiss arse, but isn't this Russell's house? So perhaps we should stop crapping on the carpet... We've had enough 'gentleman of league' indiscretions for one year.
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Inadvertent gets its umpteenth airing
Oh, I can't wait for the 10 minute detailed news item on this one...
'Exclusively, we talk to the driver of the self drive ministerial vehicle, and discover that the vehicle doesn't drive itself at all, you actually have to drive it! More shocking revelations, exclusively, at 7.'
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What happened to textes?
How do you write that sound you make when you go 'hewwwuhuh' while involuntarily shaking?
That word is right up there with 'Exclusively'.
Just remembered my favourite, all purpose noughties word;
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Riding a motorbike carries with it a very high probability of an accident that leans heavily on the health system, so a decent insurance premium seems justified.
There is still debate over accountability, but being a Scooterist, I'll declare a conflict and move on. Still, you can only ride one motorbike at a time, so is it fair when someone has a collection of motorbikes for them to have to pay the levy multiple times?
This is a topic for a whole different discussion.
'Bikoi' Gets my vote.
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By way of comparison, the Global Language Monitor words of the year were.
1. Twitter
2. Obama
3. H1N1
4. Stimulus
5. Vampire.
Top phrase is 'King of Pop'.Used in a sentence that's;
'Twitter Obama gives H1N1 stimulus, and Vampire is King of Pop'.
Which is almost funny, sort of, if you squint... Too soon?
And finally, one more for top phrase. 'No we can't!'
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Brian Tamaki-make-ore.
I am the supercity!
Too convoluted?
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GrammarNazi
Octo-grammarian - educated in the eighties.
Sorry, I'm just making it up as I go along...