3216: Tristessa
Oh, oh, I almost forgot my huge dissertation D= ...well, okay, it's more of a write-up, but still!
Though I initially told [someone] that I had no time for Ustream, when I discovered that Spike was doing some, I checked her out on a lazy night [when I was animating and would be glued to the computer ANYWAY]. I wasn't particularly interested, until I realized there was sound* D= and... holy crap.
*I intentionally keep headphones plugged in or sound turned off, so I'm generally pretty clueless about what has sound until I hear it.
Spike is like listening to unclekage's Story Hour, but different subject matter. [One of the chatters called her the Bob Ross of comics.] So I got into the habit--an all of three viewings habit--of listening if not watching, and it's pretty cool. Not that I necessarily agree with everything she says, but how she says it is still entertaining even if I disagree... sort of this weird, "I don't agree, but I kinda want to...?"
One of the more important topics that came up as a total non-sequitur of the actual broadcast was the matter of the birthers, specifically how they compare to religious zealots. Paraphrased:
This is what birthers [and, I would add, conspiracy theorists in general] are like. There is NOTHING that can prove to them that President Obama's birth certificate is real, no amount of hard evidence will shake their conviction.
What offends me specifically about this mentality is that failure to admit the possibility of fault. God is faultless, whether you believe this or not, but God being faultless translates to belief in God making one faultless; therefore, a religious zealot is faultless via proxy. It's like the atheist observing no such power in the universe greater than [arbitrary measurement of power] 9000. Yet the religious zealot can say, "God's power level is OVER 9000!!!1 I win, you lose! LOOSER!!1!"
--which is vanity at an offensive level, to be sure |=p As I said, it's "My dad can beat up your dad!" all over again. Nobody's dads are beating up anyone else's dads if they're being mature. JESUS HIMSELF FUCKING TOLD YOU THIS FOR FUCK'S SAKE. DX[/soap]
Anyway, that's what Ustream offers--Spike TV =p and tongue-lashings at conspiracy theorists, because all that the lot of them do is meddle X/
There was also Hax chat [I forget where specifically but it's searchable] about how marriage itself--the notion of being tied to one person FOREVAR until death--is the anomaly, not the notion of divorce. While people are primally inclined to mate, have kids, then part ways when the kids are grown, society and the concept of ownership made it inconvenient to have to keep dividing property up; therefore, marriage [presumably] uncomplicated things by forcing people to stay with ONE partner.
So, really, all of this "sanctity of marriage" stuff is about "keep it simple, stupid" and how gays and interracial marriage and divorces make it hard and hard is annoying and so you are BAD if you make it complicated for people who don't want to go through the hassle of explaining how Jim is John's half-brother's half-brother.
I get that. I just... don't get that.
Though I initially told [someone] that I had no time for Ustream, when I discovered that Spike was doing some, I checked her out on a lazy night [when I was animating and would be glued to the computer ANYWAY]. I wasn't particularly interested, until I realized there was sound* D= and... holy crap.
*I intentionally keep headphones plugged in or sound turned off, so I'm generally pretty clueless about what has sound until I hear it.
Spike is like listening to unclekage's Story Hour, but different subject matter. [One of the chatters called her the Bob Ross of comics.] So I got into the habit--an all of three viewings habit--of listening if not watching, and it's pretty cool. Not that I necessarily agree with everything she says, but how she says it is still entertaining even if I disagree... sort of this weird, "I don't agree, but I kinda want to...?"
One of the more important topics that came up as a total non-sequitur of the actual broadcast was the matter of the birthers, specifically how they compare to religious zealots. Paraphrased:
- If you ask an atheist, "What would it take to get you to believe God exists?" the atheist will reply, "First, this would have to happen, then this, then this," etc. Bottom line: There would be a list of things that would convince an atheist of the existence of God, upon proof of which the atheist will have to say, "Okay, I was wrong."
- If you ask a religious zealot,** "What would it take to get you to believe God does NOT exist?" the religious zealot will reply, "NOTHING." Nothing will convince such a person that God does not exist, and there is absolutely NO room for, "Okay, there's a slight possiblity I might be wrong."
This is what birthers [and, I would add, conspiracy theorists in general] are like. There is NOTHING that can prove to them that President Obama's birth certificate is real, no amount of hard evidence will shake their conviction.
What offends me specifically about this mentality is that failure to admit the possibility of fault. God is faultless, whether you believe this or not, but God being faultless translates to belief in God making one faultless; therefore, a religious zealot is faultless via proxy. It's like the atheist observing no such power in the universe greater than [arbitrary measurement of power] 9000. Yet the religious zealot can say, "God's power level is OVER 9000!!!1 I win, you lose! LOOSER!!1!"
--which is vanity at an offensive level, to be sure |=p As I said, it's "My dad can beat up your dad!" all over again. Nobody's dads are beating up anyone else's dads if they're being mature. JESUS HIMSELF FUCKING TOLD YOU THIS FOR FUCK'S SAKE. DX[/soap]
Anyway, that's what Ustream offers--Spike TV =p and tongue-lashings at conspiracy theorists, because all that the lot of them do is meddle X/
There was also Hax chat [I forget where specifically but it's searchable] about how marriage itself--the notion of being tied to one person FOREVAR until death--is the anomaly, not the notion of divorce. While people are primally inclined to mate, have kids, then part ways when the kids are grown, society and the concept of ownership made it inconvenient to have to keep dividing property up; therefore, marriage [presumably] uncomplicated things by forcing people to stay with ONE partner.
So, really, all of this "sanctity of marriage" stuff is about "keep it simple, stupid" and how gays and interracial marriage and divorces make it hard and hard is annoying and so you are BAD if you make it complicated for people who don't want to go through the hassle of explaining how Jim is John's half-brother's half-brother.
I get that. I just... don't get that.