Re: Random Thoughts: The Randoming

[reboot]

"Hey! You going to be home this afternoon? My friend is coming by and picking up a pistol" - Only from Rooms would this be a perfectly normal request

[Hirundo Bos]

There's someone whose face I've seen in the media, featured in a documentary about comment section warriors, and in connection with the Norwegian branch of Pegida, who looks a little like my nice second floor neighbor, and I've been thinking (and hoping) it can't be her, can it, and it's not the kind of thing you ask. And today I saw a story with that person again and she is indeed a completely different person. I should maybe stop identifying people primarily by their hair?

[Guest]

[BasedBuzzed]

Findom seems like a bubble, with lots of performers from solo/camming jumping the bandwagon(best $$$/physical and mental toll ratio?), but the ones flourishing the most combine it with other kinks instead of the generic "hurr you're worthless and will never get anyone, now pay for my everything" variety.

[Guest]

Ludwig on NG+6 is such a pain .

[Caffeinated]

I'm a bad person. I know this. But this is a thing that happened this morning and I didn't want to make my comment on facebook because then all my friends and acquaintances will know I'm a bad person (probably my real friends already know). Anyway, someone shared a video of an incident of Islamophobia where it's a town meeting in somewhere like Spotsylvania about a new location for a mosque and this guy gets up and starts telling the presenter to shut up and that all Muslims are terrorists and evil, and people in the room are nodding and clapping, and it's a total shitshow.

But the atheist in me sees this and thinks, why can't they just convert, it's only switching from one made-up belief system to another made-up belief system? And the very slightly less rude atheist in me thinks, under the hood all religions are pretty much the same, I mean, the golden rule and all that, so who really cares about the brand name? It's like if I go to a restaurant and ask for a Coke and the server says they only have Pepsi, I'll drink a damn Pepsi because it's all cola so who really cares? And if I'm that intent on drinking a Coke and not a Pepsi, I'm not going to haul my own drink cooler into the restaurant, I'll just go eat somewhere else.

[Werel]

<mod>Caffeinated, blanket statements about how all religions are the same and false across the board is pretty on the line for forum guidelines, even with an "I know this is bad but I'm still saying it" caveat. Try and keep it respectful, yeah?</mod>

As a non-organized-religion person, I don't really get the inclination to paint all organized religions as "the same under the hood." Maybe if you have very, very little information about any religions (like, nothing beyond "god(s) and/or supernatural systems exist"), sure, but with a tiny bit of digging there is much more than the golden rule to most of them (and the golden rule is really kind of a just-some-Abrahamic-sects thing, no?). It's not Coke and Pepsi, it's Coke and a roast beef sandwich.

More importantly to this instance, though, is that it's not all about religion per se. It's not about disputes on the finer points of monotheistic doctrine, it's not about which animals are unholy to eat, it's not about who the messiah was. It's about hating people who belong to a different culture than you. The fundamental question you're posing is "why don't people just surrender their cultural identity under pressure and/or threat from the majority?" And that's... not a question that's historically been asked with any good results.

[Caffeinated]

<mod>Caffeinated, blanket statements about how all religions are the same and false across the board is pretty on the line for forum guidelines, even with an "I know this is bad but I'm still saying it" caveat. Try and keep it respectful, yeah?</mod>

Sorry.

[Jayce]

Through all my years of bubble gum chewing, I could never blow a bubble. How are you supposed to blow a bubble with the gum??

Well it turns out what I was chewing was chewing gum, and not bubble gum.

Hmmm, no wonder I couldn't do it.

[WJMorris3]

All these kids around at this birthday party confirm that even if I was fully straight (which I'm not), there's no way I'd have them.

[Wondering]

Feminist Frequency changed their logo, and it's all pink now. Sigh.

[BasedBuzzed]

When good old Friedrich talked about rebalancing the idiotic moral stances of "look how tough and strong I am, everybody else is weak" vs. "look how wounded I am and how the world conspires against me, everybody else is evil", I'm sure he didn't mean combining the two into the moloch that is "look at these scars you have unwittingly inflicted upon me, you are pathetic for not having endured all the pain which has made me so pure and strong".

[sky]

The generic "great value ultra strong" toilet paper is way softer than AngelSoft. Either this is unfortunate marketing on somebody's part, or perhaps angels are actually scratchy?

[WJMorris3]

I'm starting to think that Amazon.com selling a menorah made out of challah should be a bit less phallic.

[Wondering]

Why do we consider Europe a continent? I mean, if you look at a map, it's not a separate landmass from Asia. Seems pretty culturally motivated to me.

[Werel]

My 11 year old cousin said to me last night, "I feel like a lot of stuff is going bad in the world right now, like everything we did in the past is coming back to bite us. Like stuff's going to go really wrong."

I thought he couldn't possibly say anything more heartbreaking. But then he started telling me about how he wants Trump to become president.

[WJMorris3]

Rumor has it that Santa met his wife at Conjunction Junction.

They're very good at hooking up words and phrases and Clauses.

[BasedBuzzed]

Reminder to self: you don't need to listen to someone lecturing you about how they're not going to give you a lecture. Remember that German teacher who spend half of the class berating the pupils? You opened your textbook while tuning it out. This is the same situation. No-one owes you an education but you wouldn't want one anyway from a person not qualified to teach. Toss the terms into Google and read a blog post by someone who has actually taken the time to ponder the topic and work out how it slots into the rest of the political framework. If the person is really annoying, do so in front of them.

[Hirundo Bos]

Hi, someone on the street who recognize me from lectures almost fifteen years ago. A small chat about how it's going and what we're doing now is nice. But when you go from that to asking me what I think about the penal system, then in a confrontational voice whether I trust the System capital S, then in a lower voice what are my thoughts on how Lucifer is afoot and turning people into vampires, all in less than a minute, I'm going to have somewhere else to be even if you "thought I would be cooler than that". You probably need someone to talk to, but I'm not that person.

In earlier times, I would have been stuck for a long time in that kind of conversation. You people here are more than a little of the reason why I'm so much better at walking away.

[bomaye]

That time I was browsing one of my regular internet haunts and saw a high quality anime-style illustration of a Nazi naval captain being tentacle... sex'ed (???) by the... wait for it...

Spoiler:

[waxingjaney]

Took me longer than it should have, but I mailed the payoff check for the mortgage today. Goodbye debt.

[BasedBuzzed]

It's a competition, but only with yourself. Beat yourself, don't beat yourself up, beat yourself off whenever frustration sets in.

[Enail]

I think it says something about me that I'm at least as relieved as I am disappointed that my plans for New Years' got cancelled.

[Guest]

So, recently i picked up safety razor shaving. My shave game still weak as fuck and went to hard on the razor today, I legit made a cut on my chin instead of the usual nicks. ;c

But at least my aftershave isn't alcohol based!

[Werel]

And maybe now you'll have some kind of badass facial scar!

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