God thinks you're an idiot. So does Shikamaru.

I bought a Time magazine issue tonight because the cover feature was about the increased fervor in the debate of evolution in schools.

I started reading it in the car, but when I got to the map showing which states had started to enact the predecessors to anti-evolution measures at which political levels, I threw it down in disgust and drove home. I'll finish later, I'm sure.

Meanwhile, it made me want to do what I want to do when faced with this kind of imbecillic stuff (or other imbecillic stuff) that comes from religious groups: throw this song in their face. Not because it indicates any religious belief on my part (hah!), but because if I were a religious person, I'm pretty sure this would be my take on it. It's an attitude of healthy skepticism I wish I'd see more in the masses that do subscribe to belief in higher beings.



EDIT:... further thought:

When I was in early adolescence, around the age of 12ish to 16ish, I really wanted to ingore religions, especially deity-based ones. You know, pretend it doesn't exist since it has little to no bearing on me anyway. Sometime in going from 15 to being an adult I came to terms with some inescapable facts:

a) I may not believe in a god, but lots of people do and they probably won't "get over it"

b) I want to function in the world and be friends with and possibly date some of the abovementioned people. Also, more than half of my family are those people too. Hard to get away from that.

c) Religion seriously influences politics and ideology and where people put their money, and since political science is my major and I want to be in public service, religion isn't something I can ignore.

d) It's p-c acceptable in conversation to say you're an atheist, but it's not p-c to admit that you secretly think most of the people in the world have to be kind of stupid to believe in anything that absurd in the first place. Also, saying that hurts people's feelings, which makes you feel crappy and stuff.

e) Having accepted the fact that religious belief is part of the world we live in, I really ought to put some effort into educating myself about it more simply so I can know what the frell people are talking about beyond the most basic of Biblical references.

f) Knowing that other people believe doesn't really help me understand why they do the things they do in the name of their respective gods. I don't understand why women get the crappy deal in most religions, I don't understand fundamentalism that leads to violence, and I don't understand the rejection of science that betters the lives of all human being. I highly suspect that I could read all the Bibles and Quarans and the ancient Hindu texts and I'd still not understand these things.

I raise my orange B&J winecooler to you, LJ!

I woke up today and LJ had given me 100 icons instead of 50.

Um... thank you?

Would you like my total worship for the duration of my paid account? Cause you have it.

Actually, this brings home something I've thought for a while: although sometmes LJ eats my replies and occasionally there's technical problems, all in all LJ is really nice to us, and I keep using it as a blog BECAUSE it's still nice to us and like it so much. As a user to maintainer relationship goes, I like it better than FF.net by acres, better than the AS boards, and better than Hotmail.

ARE YOU LISTENING, LIVEJOURNAL? Because I wanna say that when you give me things, I love you. Yes, my internet love can be purchased. It can be purchased through consistant site quality and random gifts of bribery, both of which you're pretty good at providing.

EDIT 1: What am I going to DO with 100 icon spots?! I can have bunches of Tutu icons, and FMA icons, and icons that make fun of Sasuke, and Ninja of the Night icons, and Spuffy icons... and I'll STILL have more! It's insane! ...notthatI'mcomplainingoranythingcauseI'mtotallynot.

EDIT 2: I've been listening to this song since all day yesterday and OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Thank you octopedingenue. Really, thank you.

EDIT 3: I'm realizing that a lot of these icons I saved back when I didn't believe in crediting people cause I thought the whole crediting thing was a vanity project. I still think it's a vanity project, but I have since caved to peer pressure. So a lot of the older icons say "by unknown".

EDIT 4: Who made the "Squishsuke!" Sasuke icon? Cause I have 50 extra spots, you see, and I want it. Got it!

EDIT 5: I can jump from icon community to icon community, and grab everything then show off to my friends! It's BAAAAAAD AAAAAAAAASS.

A lot of y'all got 50 new icons, so SPAM ME WITH YOUR PRETTIES!

Give me a character or pairing (that I'm familiar with) and a word, and I will write you one line of fic here.

That's right. So when you comment include 1) character(s) or a pairing and 2) a word.


I make no guarantees on the quality of sentences written. Meme completely stolen from riddering.