I've explained my love of racist crazy people blogs before haven't I? Anyway the short version is they are crazy, I amuse myself by commenting on them, when they answer my life is filled with joy.
One of my best buddies is Alexander Cornswalled, now for the record, in case he turns out to be a fake, I'm not entirely sure he's for real. But regardless he posted a video from this guy who asked Intelligent Atheists 5 questions. I consider myself to be intelligent and I consider myself to be an atheist so the least I could do is answer this complete strangers Internet question.
I present this in the form of a mini live blog:
He hasn't asked me any questions yet.
Ok, he we go.
Question 1) I've never accused a Christian of using God to explain gaps in knowledge. I envy Christians and their belief in a higher power I would have liked to have a God to help me through hard times.
FUUUUUCK this guy is boring and condescending, I've answered the question move on!
2) I don't care why I'm here instead of somewhere else. I could be somewhere else it might be cooler cause its fucking hot here. He keeps sneaking in extra questions, you can't trick me annoying man! You get 5 and 5 only.
LOLz "Then there is the fact that the biological life bears the marks of Intelligent Design. Whether Intelligent Design is a fact or not that's not my point".
3) I get my morals from my upbringing, the law, my culture, the media etc. I believe that there has to be order 'cause Anarchism is retarded as is Libertarianism which is just Anarchism for people who aren't sullen teenagers anymore. I also believe that killing someone is wrong because this life is the only one they have. If I kill them they aren't going to go to heaven or be reincarnated they are just dead.
You are stupid annoying man, the description you gave of the atheist view of morality talked about the survival of the species, now you are saying that the atheist view of morality doesn't look to the future. You might want to get someone to check through your script next time.
4) I don't have to admit anything, first off. I don't care where society got its morals from, in fact I'm not sure that society has very good morals anyway maybe we don't have any? If atheists are a minority then why do we have so much crime? If religious people have such great morals why are there so many Christians in prison? Was that the question? I don't remember and I don't care. Next
5) I don't care how complex organisms come into being without God I'm not that kind of atheist. I just don't believe in God, I don't know where we came from, I don't why we are here, I don't know how the Internet works and I don't care. We are here. End of story.
I would like to ask you a question annoying man.
Why do you assume that all atheists are like Richard Dawkins, when most of us just want to live our lives in peace like everyone else and don't give a second thought about the world and why we are hear and all that shit that doesn't affect us at all?
Where are the resources for the "I don't care" kind of Atheist?
Friday, January 30, 2009
Why must strangers insist on solving my life?
Monday, January 26, 2009
or why I've started telling people my father is dead.
Here's a question for you. If you were having a small talk conversation with a stranger and they said to you "well I don't speak to my father", would you?
A) Assume something bad happened and drop it.
B) Ask "oh, why not"?
You would be surprised how many people decided to go with option B. As if there aren't a thousand good reasons that would be exceptionally awkward to bring up in French class. Or if you could solve the issues I've had with my father for 25 years in the 15 minutes we have in the lunch room.
Don't believe me? Here are some examples:
Setting: French Class, evening.
Fellow Student (man in his 50s): Will you be going on next year?
Me: Actually I'm planning to move to California next year.
FS: Oh, wow, for how long?
Me: (I explain briefly my plans for moving, how long, what I'll do, etc.)
FS: Do you know anyone in California?
Me: Well I was born there, my father still lives there but we don't talk.
FS: That's a shame it would be nice to have someone you know there.
Me: No, it wouldn't he's not a nice person.
FS: Well, it would be good to have someone to stay with.
Me: So, what are you doing next year douche bag.
Setting: Vague family party with many people I don't know.
Some Lady: Oh you have a bit of an accent.
Me: (I so don't but never mind) Yeah I was born in America.
SL: How long have you been here, other dumb questions...
Me: Since I was 4, my mum is Australian she moved back after the divorce, answer other dumb questions.
SL: So do you go back often?
Me: I've been to see my grandmother a couple of times and try to call her when I can.
SL: Oh what about your father.
Me: I'm not in contact with my father.
SL: Why not?
FUCK YOU!
What if the answer was "because he molested me", "he killed my mother" or "well maybe I'll see more of him now Guantanamo Bay is closing"? Wouldn't you assume that worst. Wouldn't you assume that the answer is not fit for small talk, people don't become estranged for shits and giggles its not an easy decision.
To be clear and fair (shudder) to the man that gave me half my DNA he didn't molest me, kill my mother or plan major terrorist attacks against the US (although he does work for one of the companies that ran Abu Ghraib). No my father's crime was that when I moved to Australia he forgot he had a daughter. Except for the times once every 6 months to 3 years he remembers I exist, tells me he loves me, he's sorry gives me the world for a few weeks then gets distracted and breaks all his promices. I decided I was sick of being jerked around and quit.
But despite the fact that the story isn't scandalous or terribly heartbreaking I still don't want to tell it to every random stranger.
So I decided at the end of last year to tell people he died in the Gulf War. My next daddy conversation went much better:
Woman at work: So what are you doing for Christmas?
Me: We only have 8 people, my mother and I will be doing it all.
W@W: What about your father?
Me: Oh my father passed away.
W@W: Oh my God I'm so sorry.
Me: Its OK it was a long time ago I didn't know him that well. So what are you doing for Christmas?
Done and done.
Why are people MORE comfortable with my early loss of a father at war than with a grown woman not talking to someone? Or a better question, why do they have to ask me at all? I don't know people are dumb and don't understand the rules of small talk. But hey, if it makes you feel better he's as dead as a doornail.
