The Ranting Room

Edited by mystic fred - December 15 2008 at 08:40

Man Erg wrote: chopper wrote: I'd like to rant about shoelaces. I mean, all a shoelace has to do is stayed tied up, so why are they all made out of this slippery stuff that comes undone all the time?   Or is it just me? Top Tip No. 97 Hi Alan, If you don't do so already; When polishing your shoes also 'polish' the laces. The polish adds grip to the material and the lace(s) tends not to cpme undone.

wax is grippy?  I would never have thought of that.

Edited by Dean - December 15 2008 at 11:25

Man Erg wrote: chopper wrote: I'd like to rant about shoelaces. I mean, all a shoelace has to do is stayed tied up, so why are they all made out of this slippery stuff that comes undone all the time?   Or is it just me? Top Tip No. 97 Hi Alan, If you don't do so already; When polishing your shoes also 'polish' the laces. The polish adds grip to the material and the lace(s) tends not to cpme undone.

Why is it that the colon foll wed by a right bracket has become the rep for a smiley face. Surely the normal face is two eyes above an upturned mouth. Does this notation mean that they have died with a smile on their face?? (or sometimes as I have seen one eye shut )

manofmystery wrote: KIDS THESE DAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYZ!!! BURRG! *shakes fist wildly about the air*

chopper wrote: I'd like to rant about shoelaces. I mean, all a shoelace has to do is stayed tied up, so why are they all made out of this slippery stuff that comes undone all the time?   Or is it just me?

Christ, what shoe laces are you using?
I haven't ever had the shoe laces come undone by themselves on my current shoes ever.

^I don't need velcro, for some the laces that came with my skateshoes just never untie by themselves ever.

And just don't watch, and you won't get angry at guys stealing your nickname:P

I was considering making a separate thread for this, but I don't imagine it would be the sort of thing to stay alive for too long without being euthanized. Good old Ranting Room.

Now, since I have been mostly away for however long I have been mostly away, I have been reading quite a lot. Guess what I'm reading? Atheist books. Religion, atheism, philosophy, all of this fascinates me. What fascinates me more is how religion cannot be talked about critically and seriously. My years at PA should have made this eye-poppingly obvious, but in any case, now I know.

I believe, thoroughly, that taking things on faith is horrific and dangerous. (However, some minor things have to be taken on faith. I cannot spend all of the day investigating whether everything everyone tells me is true or not. This is not the dangerous kind of faith, though.) Is there anything scarier to a rational mind than someone who cannot be guided by reason and who believes in paradise after death? I believe religion is incompatible with science an rationality. Some say that Christianity now is moderate and is compatible with scientific and rational thinking. These people delude themselves. If you do not follow your religion strictly, you do not follow it. You cannot pick and choose which verses to believe, ignoring the horrific ones. Moderates in religion have split personalities, guiding themselves mostly by reason (maybe augmented with some faulty ethics from a book) for most of the week, then for an hour or two on Sunday, listen to a reiteration of their faulty ethics from an authority they should not trust.

All who want to tip-toe around religion, never discuss it for fear of offending someone, annoy me greatly. This is surely one of the reasons I get so frequently angry at Prog Archives. You're all intelligent people, and I like you, so it's the perfect setting for discussion. But alas, prog is the order of the day and issues that really matter are given the hard shoulder.

I am scared for rationality and for this world. I think I will plan on discussing my athistic agnosticism with my parents after the New Year, and continuing discussing ethics and philosophy with my friends. Do I necessarily want to convert everyone to my position? Yes an no. I want everyone to think rationally and accept facts. Whether that leads them to a different specific place than me doesn't matter.

manofmystery wrote: I assume by your signature that you are a "liberal", which means you make political decisions based on faith instead of reason.

I am quite liberal, but I'm not a democrat. I should probably get rid of that signature because people always mistake my intentions.

was hardly taking it seriously, was just making an reasonable assumption based upon it