Luck is an interesting thing, isn't it? Even though it doesn't actually exist, you can get screwed over by it. I've had my fair share of bad luck, some including games, buying shit and other stuff. It's about 11:00 pm here, so I might go to bed/the gym and finish this later. Anyways, here are a few examples of my bad luck.
Mp3 fuckery.
So today I bought a new Mp3 player. It turns out that my old 250mb mp3 player was a piece of shit covered in bad so I thought it would be good for an upgrade. I strolled into radio shack and waited for some old guy to buy whatever he was buying so I could take a look at the mp3 players in the front glass thingy in front of the register.
I saw a zune, knew that I didn't have enough money for it, so I asked the dude what a good mp3 player was that had around 1gb and was about $50. He pointed me to a really really tiny 2gb mp3 player that I could actually choke on if I wasn't careful. I bought it, go online to troubleshoot (didn't know how to charge it, it didn't come with an AC adapter) and found that woot.com was selling it for 19.95. While I just spent enough money to buy a new game, I could have gotten it for so much cheaper. Major facepalms happened.
Three Extra Zeros
So, if you didn't know, I play EVE online. The incredibly boring spaceship simulator MMO. Today I went with my friend and some other guys, and went looting when they did missions. Actually, it was one guy missioning, another assisting in killing, another salvaging and me looting. After a short wait at a warp gate, they told me it was safe to warp in. I did, and when I got there I immediatly saw a npc rat(rat = short for pirate. as in, space pirate) right infront of me. Thinking that it wouldn't attack me, I typed "lol rat" and immediatly got targeted and attacked.
While trying to warp the fuck out of there in my slow hauler, I got killed and lots of parts destroyed. I warped back to home station, looked at the market to buy a new hauler and saw that the only one was 400,000,000isk. Four. Hundred. Mil. For a BESTOWER. I told my corpies and they laughed and said that it's bullshit, so I bought a sigil instead and kept looting. Later, when I was done and counting all of my shiny minerals I just reproccesed, I took a look at the market and saw that Bestowers have gone down to 500k. I was furious, told my corp, a guy made fun of me, I got pissed and I logged off. Now I am here telling you people, from wherever you came from.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
The Definition of Atheism
Hi. Not many updates for a while because I've given up (mostly) on debating theists. Whenever I do, it usually ends up 3 ways.
1. The Theist ignoring any and all evidence I have put forth and continuing to be ignorant
2. The Theist whining how all atheists are trying to convert you, even though they started the debate.
3. The Theist being a stuck-up punk that results to name calling rather than continuing with the debate.
Of course, my side has it's faults too, and I openly admit that there are bad atheists. The bad atheists are the ones on youtube, that think it's cool to mock someone because of their religion. Sure, I've mocked people before, but that's because they are incredibly stupid, not because they follow a religion that is equally stupid. In all, I usually mock the religion, not the followers. People just need to realize that there are bad people on each, on every side. It's just the way we humans are. Some a good, some are bad.
Anyways, onto what this post is about. I find it amazing how ignorant some people can be. They can't even open a dictionary and look up atheism! According to most fundies, the definition of atheism is "A cult of devil worshippers that hate everybody who is religious and has no morals", when in actuality it is this - "A person whom does not believe in any higher power or deityies." (well, that's my definition of it. Dictionary.com says
"–noun
An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in a deity. Simple. Atheism, in it's vahnella state, has nothing to do with Evolution, Abiogenesis, The Big Bang or any scientific theory. Just because a person is an atheist doesn't mean that they believe in Evolution. The fact that so many atheists do indeed "beleive" in evolution, abiogenesis, the big bang means that they are logical people. They look at the evidence, and see if it fits with our discoveries. They don't just believe something because it's tradition, or because an old book told them to.
I hate the term "Evolutionist" but allow me to explain the definition of that, too. An Evolutionist is a person whom believes/supports/accepts the theory of Evolution. Now, unlike Atheism, there can be theistic evolutionists. These are people whom believe god kick-started the process of evolution (of course, they have no evidence to back that up). Theistic Evolutionists are Theists and Evolutionists, but not Atheists. Simple.
How is it so hard to understand?
Atheist = Doesn't believe in a god
Theist = Believes in god
Evolutionist = Supports/accepts/believes in the theory of Evolution whether or not he/she is an atheist.
How the hell did fundies even get "Devil Worshippers" from "A person who doens't believe in a god", anyways? I guess we'll never know.
1. The Theist ignoring any and all evidence I have put forth and continuing to be ignorant
2. The Theist whining how all atheists are trying to convert you, even though they started the debate.
3. The Theist being a stuck-up punk that results to name calling rather than continuing with the debate.
Of course, my side has it's faults too, and I openly admit that there are bad atheists. The bad atheists are the ones on youtube, that think it's cool to mock someone because of their religion. Sure, I've mocked people before, but that's because they are incredibly stupid, not because they follow a religion that is equally stupid. In all, I usually mock the religion, not the followers. People just need to realize that there are bad people on each, on every side. It's just the way we humans are. Some a good, some are bad.
Anyways, onto what this post is about. I find it amazing how ignorant some people can be. They can't even open a dictionary and look up atheism! According to most fundies, the definition of atheism is "A cult of devil worshippers that hate everybody who is religious and has no morals", when in actuality it is this - "A person whom does not believe in any higher power or deityies." (well, that's my definition of it. Dictionary.com says
"–noun
| 1. | the doctrine or belief that there is no God. |
| 2. | disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings.") |
An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in a deity. Simple. Atheism, in it's vahnella state, has nothing to do with Evolution, Abiogenesis, The Big Bang or any scientific theory. Just because a person is an atheist doesn't mean that they believe in Evolution. The fact that so many atheists do indeed "beleive" in evolution, abiogenesis, the big bang means that they are logical people. They look at the evidence, and see if it fits with our discoveries. They don't just believe something because it's tradition, or because an old book told them to.
I hate the term "Evolutionist" but allow me to explain the definition of that, too. An Evolutionist is a person whom believes/supports/accepts the theory of Evolution. Now, unlike Atheism, there can be theistic evolutionists. These are people whom believe god kick-started the process of evolution (of course, they have no evidence to back that up). Theistic Evolutionists are Theists and Evolutionists, but not Atheists. Simple.
How is it so hard to understand?
Atheist = Doesn't believe in a god
Theist = Believes in god
Evolutionist = Supports/accepts/believes in the theory of Evolution whether or not he/she is an atheist.
How the hell did fundies even get "Devil Worshippers" from "A person who doens't believe in a god", anyways? I guess we'll never know.
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