The world still finds ways to confound your wisdom and circumvent your insights.

[dave_littler]

Sometimes, no matter how well you think you’ve learned your lessons, the world still finds ways to confound your wisdom and circumvent your insights.

Take my friend Brett, for example.

A fellow atheist, he has it as a simple, basic, fundamental rule in his life to never, ever date christian girls. They can’t be trusted. This is a known fact. Ask

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[dave_littler]

Yeah, it's really something. He'd slept with about eighty women in the previous two years (this is not him bragging, I don't think; it was received by those of us in his social circle as a sign of mental illness), and yet this one, he was with for five months, uninterupted by anyone else. For him, to have been thinking about the future in this way, must have been something rather significant. It's a shame it turned out to be all artiface and pretense on her part.

I wonder if that specific dimension of betrayal factored into her cost/benefit analysis.

[hentaikid]

Yeah I've been thinking recently about the ethical doublethink inherent in religious beliefs. Lot of it about, it seems.

[dave_littler]

Just so, my good sir.

When you build your logical structure on a foundation of ephemera and illusion, it's prone to instability and collapse with very little pressure.

[fallenthropy]

Christopillars?

Christopillars?

Damn it man, I am so glad I didn't have a drink at that exact moment or there would be one hell of a mess to clean up off my monitor.

I really do have to work that into a conversation with someone just to see their reaction. Thanks for making my day!

[dave_littler]

I was pleasantly surprised when I was reading over the comments in the christian community I posted this in, and even a couple of THEM LOLed on it. I believe this one will be getting adopted into my vernacular tut suite. :)