Why do people of the Abrahamic religions keep talking about dead people turning into angels? I can find nowhere in the Torah and nowhere in the Bible that suggests such a thing. It goes directly against numerous passages in both. It is directly against the Revelation of Saint John. As best as I can determine, the notion is pretty much blasphemy. ( Read more... )

Often when I have thoughts provoked by interactions I've had, I don't want to write about them, because I worry about negatively affecting people who were part of those interactions, even though I may not really mean much against them. But the line between inspiring thoughts and being held up as a negative example can be a problem. So, this is nice ( Read more... )

So, my phone has some legitimately annoying problems with it. For one thing, I can't seem to find a way to make it turn off and not accept calls. I even handed it to other people, and they couldn't find a way to make it do that either. This is a fairly basic feature for a phone, and it's quite problematic for it to not have this ability or for it ( Read more... )

I was reading something only somewhat related, and it made me realize how annoying what some people do is ( Read more... )

So, according to the most recent LJ news post, "As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority.". I'm not sure what this means, and I have asked for clarification. It reads like, advertising means more to us than anything else. I have trouble believing they would actually state this publicly. It seems possible that they feel this ( Read more... )

Why can't you be more like the Mormons? They always ring my doorbell at a decent hour. And they've always been polite ( Read more... )

The founding fathers of the US did not want to write a Bill of Rights initially. They knew that they could not list every important right and they were afraid that by listing several key rights, they would endanger whichever important rights they forgot. I think they did a pretty good job on the Bill of Rights including majorly important rights ( Read more... )

Today I am being annoyed about food coloring being present in so many foods. Food coloring, in general, isn't good for you. They are made out of a wide variety of things and some of them are really disgusting. And some food colorings cause serious health issues (often psychological ailments) in some people ( Read more... )

The ability to use big or uncommon words, especially when you seem to be using them specifically to use them, and often use them wrong ( Read more... )

In fact, it has two flavors. I think a problem I've seen in discussions about discrimination and privilege is that there are two very different ways that people can be discriminated against, and often people are talking at cross-purposes when someone is arguing that one flavor isn't there, and someone else says yes, discrimination happens, this ( Read more... )