Rainbows? I can't stand those freakin' things!
Stuff ya ponder when you have nothing else to do:
So I saw this sign on the way home from work. It read, "Without rain, there would be no rainbows." Now, the classic "how would we know good without a bad to compare it to" aside, and for that matter, the fact that it's completely false aside, why does rain always get such a bad rep? Why is everyone so afraid to be hit by little tiny dropplets of water that fall from the sky? What I REALLY don't get is, by contrast, why are the streams of HOT water that pour from your shower head seen as better somehow? I think this might all be part of the "nature BAD" mantra that so many people are signing on to. "Sure is windy, eh, Bob?" And what of it? Why is wind a big deal? Why is it worth mentioning in that half-warning tone? Why do we, at the slightest breeze, feel the need to shoot radio waves into the sky to see if it's going to sprinkle soon? And what if it does? What if it pours? It's just little drops of water. "But you'll get WET!" people say. "But, you voluntarily got wet this morning. Much more wet than you'll be getting if it sprinkles," I reply. "You're an asshole, you know that?" they retort.
But anyway... rainbows. Ok... Supposedly, god made them as a sign of the covanant to Noah and all future generations that god would not wipe us all out with a flood ever again. But, this story would be REALLY easily debunked. All we have to do is find a pre-flood account of a rainbow being sighted. Also, rainbows, other than that they're a sign of no-floody-ness, serve no purpose at all. In fact, they do little more than serve as scientist bait. You heard me. God is calling you out, scientists. He's taunting you. "All you people who can't stand not knowing how things work... check THIS out!!" *huge splash of color in the sky* If god truely did make us, then he knows how curious we are. He knows that we'll stop at nothing. As such, it was rather irresponsible of god to make something so freakin' interesting. Either that or, he WANTED us to push out beyond our understanding. Wow... This should blow the minds of all kinds of religious fanatics. God WANTS us to be scientists. I'm sure the religious nuts would prefer that to the other possible reason for doing it: "God's an asshole, or at the very least, a very cruel tease."
So I saw this sign on the way home from work. It read, "Without rain, there would be no rainbows." Now, the classic "how would we know good without a bad to compare it to" aside, and for that matter, the fact that it's completely false aside, why does rain always get such a bad rep? Why is everyone so afraid to be hit by little tiny dropplets of water that fall from the sky? What I REALLY don't get is, by contrast, why are the streams of HOT water that pour from your shower head seen as better somehow? I think this might all be part of the "nature BAD" mantra that so many people are signing on to. "Sure is windy, eh, Bob?" And what of it? Why is wind a big deal? Why is it worth mentioning in that half-warning tone? Why do we, at the slightest breeze, feel the need to shoot radio waves into the sky to see if it's going to sprinkle soon? And what if it does? What if it pours? It's just little drops of water. "But you'll get WET!" people say. "But, you voluntarily got wet this morning. Much more wet than you'll be getting if it sprinkles," I reply. "You're an asshole, you know that?" they retort.
But anyway... rainbows. Ok... Supposedly, god made them as a sign of the covanant to Noah and all future generations that god would not wipe us all out with a flood ever again. But, this story would be REALLY easily debunked. All we have to do is find a pre-flood account of a rainbow being sighted. Also, rainbows, other than that they're a sign of no-floody-ness, serve no purpose at all. In fact, they do little more than serve as scientist bait. You heard me. God is calling you out, scientists. He's taunting you. "All you people who can't stand not knowing how things work... check THIS out!!" *huge splash of color in the sky* If god truely did make us, then he knows how curious we are. He knows that we'll stop at nothing. As such, it was rather irresponsible of god to make something so freakin' interesting. Either that or, he WANTED us to push out beyond our understanding. Wow... This should blow the minds of all kinds of religious fanatics. God WANTS us to be scientists. I'm sure the religious nuts would prefer that to the other possible reason for doing it: "God's an asshole, or at the very least, a very cruel tease."