Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 159 Editor's Choice: 9
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My pristine arguments, ruined by accursed LOGIC!
[Read the article: The disbeliever]
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My white-hot rebuttals, ruined by accursed posting problems!
[Read the article: The disbeliever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I was trying to finalize the purchase of the last of my Sisters of Mercy CD collection from Amazon.com and must have hit the wrong button...
Gene was quick to pounce:
"Anway, as always, let me state that there is no god, there is no soul, there is no afterlife.
The only being who could make such a categorical statement would have to be omniscient, and an omniscient being would be ..."
Well, crap... I guess that you're right. So God and Jesus and the flood and the parting of the REd Sea and Thor's hammer and Prometheus' re-growing liver and the Monkey King and Sauron must all be true then.
Not gonna buy it, gene.
Logic right back atcha! Can your omnipotent being create something that he cannot unmake? Zing!
Rob Anderson. Not such a big man when the shoe is on the other foot, are you?
Chas- thanks for backing me up re: the genetics thing. Testimony!
333- we already are taking pictures of thoughts.
To all those who keep saying that athiests can be as fanatical as spook-speakers. Well, duh. The big difference is that the athiests constantly point to things that are real and provable and such as that. Spook-speakers point to a bunch of crap they just made up. A difference worth noting? Perhaps not, but I'm noting it anyway.
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Fooling yourselves
[Read the article: Gay, godly and guilty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see that Oxymoron beat me to it, but since I NEVER get tired of saying it:
There is no God, no soul, no afterlife. And I mean YOUR god, YOUR soul, and YOUR afterlife. As depressing as that concept is for some people, the ideas of gods souls and afterlives are equally ridiculous. Have any of you people even bothered to think what an eternity of 'paradise' would be like? Or an eternity of torment?
Religion is a parasite that feeds off and weakens healthy societies, it is a way for a small group to use fear and ignorance to control a larger group. There is also usually a lot of banging of 14 year olds.
The numbers re: homosexuality are just too rich of a plumb for religion not to pick. What better way to stir up the faithful than by rooting out the sinners in their midst? With luck you've already got the faithful to hate and fear their own sexuality and so any scapegoat that seems even more depraved than they view themselves is going to be an easy target. And, what with the gays being only about 10% of a population you're almost always gonna win- and that will save you from having to resort to the whole 'we would have won if you people had had more FAITH' thing.
I feel great pity for the 'recovering' homosexuals, what with them squandering their precious time actually denying what makes them happy. Yeah, yeah, we make child molesters deny what makes them happy, too. ...well, all of us but the Catholic church, but I think you get my point.
Get a life, not an afterlife.
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I love it when
[Read the article: The riot quiets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All you whiney bitches start up in the letters section.
Check this out- Carlene Bauer wrote an article about a band she loved, the music that moved her, the politics she's interested in, AND a remarkable time of her youth, and got PAID for it.
Read that again, losers. Hell, I'll make it easy for you by just typing it again: Carlene Bauer wrote an article about a band she loved, the music that moved her, the politics she's interested in, AND a remarkable time of her youth, and got PAID for it.
I'll bet it's the 'paid' part that really gets to you, isn't it?
Good!
I love Sleater-Kinney. I will jump to Liz Phair's defense, however. There is a lot to be said about a woman who can sing dirty like she means it. But Liz ain't no Sleater-Kinney.
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When the tide turns-
[Read the article: Chemical engineering]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- I want to be the first to hold Imhofe's head under water 'til he busts!
I send him copies of National Geographic and Scientific American with all the environmental data clearly highlighted, but he just doesn't get it.
...maybe if I could highlight it with ca$h...
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The best of both worlds-
[Read the article: The lazy man's guide to Alaska]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- would be to hike around Alaska when your young, then cruise ship it when you're in the declining years. With any luck, by my declining years, I can jetpack it. Sweet.
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Rebecca Traister has the greatest job in the world
[Read the article: Touched for the very first time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, she does. Goes to concerts, writes about 'em, gets PAID to write about 'em, and Salon publishes them.
And, as she hangs around in a bathrobe all day, she occasionaly pops online to check out the bitch-fest in the letters section, secure in the knowledge that there will always be a bitch-fest in the letters section.
And don't forget, you whiney losers, she gets paid for it. Your clever/dismissive/insightful prose hits the screen for free.
It sounded like a fun concert.
Keep 'em coming Traister.