IM Logs with westcalxvandy on 2009-05-31

eytang8@yahoo.com http://keepplaying.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/2girls1cup-essay-page-2.jpg?w=590&h=804

westcalxvandy this person will obviously follow the footsteps of _______________

westcalxvandy give me a second while I try and recall who I'm referring to..

westcalxvandy Larry C. Flynt

westcalxvandy there we go

eytang8@yahoo.com I don't know who that is

eytang8@yahoo.com unfortunately

westcalxvandy cool guy

westcalxvandy started Hustler magazine

westcalxvandy made fun of that preacher who blamed the gays for September 11th

westcalxvandy went against the Supreme Court for pornography in the US

eytang8@yahoo.com speaking of which http://www.westborobaptistchurch.com/

westcalxvandy this is parody right?

eytang8@yahoo.com I...

eytang8@yahoo.com um.

eytang8@yahoo.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

eytang8@yahoo.com in a word, no

westcalxvandy kinda sickening

westcalxvandy but nothing I haven't seen before

westcalxvandy I love that the UK was just like "stay the fuck out"

eytang8@yahoo.com +respect for them

westcalxvandy ugh how lame

westcalxvandy Approximately twenty WBC members demonstrated in Washington D.C. with anti-gay signs at the January 20, 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama.

eytang8@yahoo.com At least it's only 20

westcalxvandy sadly, there are more elsewhere

eytang8@yahoo.com Hopefully they'll die out over time

westcalxvandy fundamental Christians are the largest growing demographic in the US

westcalxvandy don't count on it

eytang8@yahoo.com I guess we need an apocalypse of some sort

westcalxvandy probably only strengthen them

westcalxvandy Free speech is cool and all, but people abuse their rights to ridiculous excess.

eytang8@yahoo.com It's not really an abuse

eytang8@yahoo.com Just what they're saying...

westcalxvandy they're abusing their rights in that they're using their freedom of speech to penetrate the individual's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

eytang8@yahoo.com Depends if it sticks to words or not

westcalxvandy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell#September_11th_attacks

westcalxvandy The shoving of signs in people's faces at people's funerals

eytang8@yahoo.com Pretty douchebaggy

westcalxvandy I don't really care for the idea of funerals, but still the people are reflecting the death of a loved one and they stand their yelling that that person is damned for living according to their happiness and that they themselves are hated by God. Whether or not they believe in any of it, that is abuse of the freedom of speech, when they cross that line into breaking the right to their happiness and ridiculing their emotions.

westcalxvandy People are stupid...

eytang8@yahoo.com Unfortunately, we only have the right to pursue happiness...

westcalxvandy we have the right to live and the right to our freedoms and the right to be happy

westcalxvandy all freedoms should abide by the freedom to do anything so long as it does not violate those natural rights

westcalxvandy or any individual

westcalxvandy **of any individual

eytang8@yahoo.com yes...

westcalxvandy stupid stupid people

westcalxvandy but today I really don't find it that angering

westcalxvandy it seems all that hatred towards stupidity is implied nowadays

westcalxvandy why are people so dumb?

eytang8@yahoo.com People are imperfect

westcalxvandy doesn't mean they could be less dumb

eytang8@yahoo.com Well, they could

eytang8@yahoo.com maybe

westcalxvandy wait...

westcalxvandy their imperfection does not inherently conclude that people, out of their imperfection, can not be smarter

eytang8@yahoo.com Perhaps our education is incompetent

eytang8@yahoo.com or societal values

westcalxvandy it seems like religion is the largest breeder of the illogical, superstitious, and downright stupid.

eytang8@yahoo.com Or maybe people who are already illogical, superstitious, and stupid are just drawn to it

eytang8@yahoo.com a symptom, not a cause

westcalxvandy people who aren't taught about religioin

westcalxvandy or brainwashed at a young age

westcalxvandy or related at youth of teachings similar to religion

westcalxvandy do not become religious

westcalxvandy I bet Andrew Winslow would realize evolution was true if his parents didn't brainwash him that creationism was right.

westcalxvandy be back in 5 gonna go eat

eytang8@yahoo.com 'k

westcalxvandy are people naturally superstitious?

eytang8@yahoo.com Religion was invented by people

eytang8@yahoo.com So possibly

westcalxvandy because other answers didn't exist yet

westcalxvandy now religion is failing

eytang8@yahoo.com Perhaps not, then

eytang8@yahoo.com But superstition still exists

westcalxvandy because people ignore it

westcalxvandy they prefer the dream world

westcalxvandy it's nicer

eytang8@yahoo.com So that might be innate illogical tendencies

westcalxvandy but if you don't get pressed on at a young age that the dreamworld really exists

westcalxvandy then you'd see logic first

eytang8@yahoo.com At a young age, you don't have all the answers

eytang8@yahoo.com and can't be taught logic fast enough

westcalxvandy I believed in the Christian god when I was in elementary school just because that's what everyone else believed in and it made sense

eytang8@yahoo.com Intriguing

westcalxvandy then I grew up and realized how little sense it made

eytang8@yahoo.com I never did

westcalxvandy I used to pray too

westcalxvandy my dad's an atheist and my mum's part of some asian cult rip off

westcalxvandy they never said anything about religion

eytang8@yahoo.com We need reassurance, don't we?

eytang8@yahoo.com that there's something that loves us and protects us

eytang8@yahoo.com from everything

westcalxvandy protects us?

westcalxvandy selfish.

westcalxvandy protects us but not the millions starving

westcalxvandy and dying

eytang8@yahoo.com So?

eytang8@yahoo.com It's hard to comprehend that

westcalxvandy it's easier to believe

westcalxvandy God exists

westcalxvandy and is protecting you and your family

eytang8@yahoo.com And think that even if something does happen

westcalxvandy because your life is good, and there's no reason to think about anyone else's

eytang8@yahoo.com there's a reason

eytang8@yahoo.com Even if something happens to you

eytang8@yahoo.com you can pretend it's somehow justified

westcalxvandy somehow

eytang8@yahoo.com God's Plan

westcalxvandy maybe my dad was killed in a car accident just because the driver was sad and drunk. maybe god isn't trying to teach me a lesson. maybe something unfair just happened in my life completely irrespective of the fact that a metaphysical being might or might not have control over everything.