WTFF?
Oh, someone please help me. I'm going to kill everyone I meet for the rest of the week if this keeps up.
On the train today, I overheard two women in their forties-or-so discussing Intelligent Design (sort of), and the gist of their conversation is as follows:
W1: That Intelligent Design thing the Americans are so excited about, I don't get it.
W2: Me neither, but I don't understand the Americans much anyway.
W1: My uncle says it's all about atheists trying to deny the existence of god, and saying that there's no human soul.
W2: Oh, why can't the atheists just leave people alone?
W1: I know!
W2: It's so terrible, how they bully people. *tones of purest horror and delight* There's one at my husband's office, and did you know they even hate Xmas?
AK-47s for everyone, sez I. I want first pick, and stupidity-piercing ammo.
Also: Folks, if you've kept your WAY-right-of-mainstream beliefs quiet out of a fear of appearing uneducated and/or hopelessly simple, that's evolution in action. That's your evolved sense of self-preservation and social awareness popping up and saying, Um, Jerry? NO. It is a stupid thing to say. You can think it all you like, but you WILL be eaten by the intelligent people if you say that out loud.
In conclusion: if you've been quiet all this time so you didn't look like a fucking rube, that was the smart choice. STFU again, plzkthx.
On the train today, I overheard two women in their forties-or-so discussing Intelligent Design (sort of), and the gist of their conversation is as follows:
W1: That Intelligent Design thing the Americans are so excited about, I don't get it.
W2: Me neither, but I don't understand the Americans much anyway.
W1: My uncle says it's all about atheists trying to deny the existence of god, and saying that there's no human soul.
W2: Oh, why can't the atheists just leave people alone?
W1: I know!
W2: It's so terrible, how they bully people. *tones of purest horror and delight* There's one at my husband's office, and did you know they even hate Xmas?
AK-47s for everyone, sez I. I want first pick, and stupidity-piercing ammo.
Also: Folks, if you've kept your WAY-right-of-mainstream beliefs quiet out of a fear of appearing uneducated and/or hopelessly simple, that's evolution in action. That's your evolved sense of self-preservation and social awareness popping up and saying, Um, Jerry? NO. It is a stupid thing to say. You can think it all you like, but you WILL be eaten by the intelligent people if you say that out loud.
In conclusion: if you've been quiet all this time so you didn't look like a fucking rube, that was the smart choice. STFU again, plzkthx.