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We’ll never agree
Jun 10th
I wish people wouldn’t feel the need to beat you over the head with their opinion:
ME: Hot atheists and agnostics http://bit.ly/b37g57 Aren’t Agnostics just Atheists with a fear of commitment?
(Meant to be humorous)
Other Person: agnostics = there is a god! Athiests = there is no such thing as this god nonsense
To which I stupidly reply:
ME: Agnostics are just-in-case Atheists. You can’t have God without religion. Like believing in Huck Finn without Mark Twain.
Which in turn opens the angry floodgates:
OP: uhhhh… I’m agnostic. Yes, you can have spirituality without religion. You can’t be Christian without Christianity though.
OP: it’s more about abandoning religion than anything. Don’t tell me what I am.
OP: people don’t understand that spirituality and religion are two totally different things.
Oh, I had a reply but I refrained from comment there. I mean it’s twitter! Land of the quick comments not long discussions.
OP: that is like saying people of earthly (pagan) religions are athiests because they don’t believe in the Christian God.
My eyes are glazing over here…
OP: or that I am an athiest because I believe in and thank the universe for what I am blessed with. I am not Christian…
Fine, whatever you say dear. Go eat a cookie and calm down.
ag·nos·tic: (wishy-washy)
- One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
- One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
- One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
a·the·ist: (definitive)
- One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
Somehow I think believing in a Mother Nature type energy (pagans?) or Lady Luck or any sort of mystical energy is different than believing in God or Muhammad or Buddha. There is no big giant head controlling the entire universe.
I believe in my parking angel. I have an angel on my visor that if I rub her tummy and ask nicely a great parking space will open up as if by magic. It works nine times out of ten. Do I think she’s getting her power though God? Shit no. But maybe she’s tapping into some karma-luck energy field. Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Who cares.
Oh right, the subject of this post. I learned a long time ago there’s just no arguing with people. You state your opinion and leave it at that. What’s the point of defending your position over and over again? You’re not going to change someone else’s mind.
Drives me nucking futs when people do that. But not as much as when they can’t spell Athiest.
What a weekend!
Feb 21st
The Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm concert was MARVELOUS Thursday night. Absolutely and totally worth the bullshit we went through before it actually started. MadCrap MadCap Theaters is THE most horrible venue I’ve ever ever been to. It’s a testament to how much I love JC and the boys, that I’d EVER go back there again. Why would anyone want to go there? They don’t give a shit about the customers, they have extremely lousy organizational and communication skills, and I’m guessing they spend hours wanking each other off rather than cleaning up the theaters. The whole experience is practically abuse and we’re paying them to do it.
Friday night was the usual #evfn, except E and Sheila weren’t there and neither was the guy they had organizing it in their absence. So of course I take up the slack and try to make sure everyone is taken care of and the newbies are introduced around. I don’t think I did a very good job as certain people walked out. Oh well, there’s always next week.
Kira and I hung out Saturday night and this morning we wandered over to a new (for us) McDonald’s, shopped at WalMart and took the light rail to downtown Tempe (yes, I live here but I’d promised Kira we’d take the train one day) to check out #comiccreate.
And tonight I get a following notification on FourSquare (a social geolocation application) for Earl Newton! Now I’ve met the man at D*C a couple of times, and maybe he would friend me on twitter where you’re getting occasional light-hearted updates/comments from people. And maybe on Facebook which is pretty much the same thing. Likely because of my connection to Evo and less on my own merit I think. Twitter/Myspace/Facebook are places you “friend” anyone you’ve ever met and then some. But wouldn’t you only follow people on a location-based application that you might, maybe, kind of EVER thought you’d actually want to know where they are? Earl Motherfucking Newton wants to know where I am? That’s soooo fucking cool. I feel like somebody now.
And Earl? If you’re a googling fool and come across this post, please don’t explain or get freaked out or delete me or anything. This is me after a couple of drinks – FREAKING THE FUCK OUT because someone of your caliber clicked on me as a connection somewhere, that’s all. Let me have this. Carry on and I’ll never bother you again.
Oh yeah, I got paid for work I did! Actual money instead of possibilities.
What a great weekend.
Where am I?
Jan 7th
Do you prefer Brightkite, Gowalla or FourSquare?
What am I talking about? There are applications to keep track of where your friends are and to let them know where you are. Hey, sometimes you’re hanging out somewhere and you think, “maybe a friend would drop by and hang out with me if they only knew where I was!” Voila! Or if you’re meeting up with a group they can see who is already there.
I use FourSquare because it let’s you sort of compete with your friends and earn points and mayorship of places, stuff like that. But if a place isn’t already in their database you have to manually enter it, which is a pain in the ass on your phone. Asking a business what their complete address is so you enter it right, and then making sure you spell and get the name perfect? Nope.
So then I turn to Brightkite because it pulls it’s information from google. You can almost always find where you are with few clicks. But there’s no extra incentive.
I’ve noticed people using Gowalla, which seems like a combination of both. A searchable database of locations so you don’t have to enter the information yourself AND points and great icons and it says you get perks from the places you visit. I dunno.
And all these link with your twitter/facebook so you can get the information out instantly. I think they all have regular text access too so you don’t need a fancy phone for them.
So before I sign up for Gowalla I thought I’d check with you. Which do you prefer?
