“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
—Stephen Roberts (via pilnick)
April 2009
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“Like a lot of people I have a bad habit of CMD-Clicking tab sets in my browser, which then spawns a dozen or more new panes of potential distraction, pointless horseshit, and 10,000 excuses not to focus on what I really want to be making right now.”
—Merlin Mann (via wctaiwan)
Everyone should be an artist.
- wctaiwan: my aunt wanted me to set up a wiki for her on the basis of "isn't that something web 2.0?"
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Aren’t you supposed to be tired after exercise? I ran about three miles today and rowed in a double for the first time ever. Being busy is the best feeling.
This is what I'm listening to right now on Pandora →
pandora.com
This song was selected because of its use of experimental sounds and a 12/8 tempo
“I remember sitting in the audience at a “pep rally” at my high school, watching as the cheerleaders threw an effigy of an opposing player into the audience to be torn to pieces. I felt like an explorer witnessing some bizarre tribal ritual.”
—Why Nerds are Unpopular
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Westboro Church protest meets students’ mocking →
chicagomaroon.com
“The students held a sign reading ‘Figs Doom Nations’ and planted themselves across the street from the WBC, drawing from a Biblical passage in which Jesus disparages a fig tree. ‘If you need scanty biblical evidence for anything, we’ve got it,’ said fourth-year Carmel Levy as he handed out flyers containing biblical citations that read: ‘Jesus rebuked the fig as an evil abomination’ and ‘God Promises Terrible Vengeance Upon Any Fig-Loving Nation.’ ‘We just wanted the world to know that God’s vengeance doesn’t just fall on the gay, but also on the fruit,’ said fourth-year Max Shron….”
So! Who’s for sending a bushel of figs to Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church? I’ll kick in a sawbuck!
I’ve got a friend who goes to UChicago and was involved with this. He wrote a Facebook note about it, too:
The signs were generally hilarious. Besides the straightforward “God loves equality” and “tolerance” signs, there were
- Cthulhu Hates Chordates
- Figs Doom Nations (citing Matthew 21:18-20, Mark 11:12-14, Jeremiah 29:17) [on the same note, Fig Enablers In Hell]
- God Hates Core Bio
- God Watched the Watchmen, And Thought It Was Shit
- Dog hates dyslexia
- God Hates Syntax
- God Hates Dial-Up
- God Loves Netflix
