liquidgnome

Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher

news media: creating an url that ends in “doomsday_collider”.

unless the side effects of this are “uncontrollable shitting followed by painful death”, i could live with whatever other insanity a cancer-inhibiting drug could dole out. all hail lodamin, unless it is a farce.

fuck it, hail it anyways.

“I think [Obama]‘s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology,” [James] Dobson said.

“... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.”

isn’t that what anyone does? it seems a valid question to ask… “even if we all were christians, which interpretation of christianity would be the “prevalent” (can’t really call it correct) one?”

it’s a simple question, and one that, historically, would have gotten a person branded as a witch and burned to death. a recurring theme in Christopher Hitchens’ recent book god is not great is how religion historically has been highly resistant to questions of any kind. i think this is simply an extension of that, slightly modernized.

there is no rhyme or reason for selecting one set of verses from the bible as valid while discounting others. it seems to be very much an individual set of criteria, extensed by authority figures to be utilized by their congregations.

who is James Dobson to say that another person’s interpretation of the bible is incorrect? what makes him any more qualified to make statements about validity than anyone else? it’s all any religious authorities have done throughout history. simply claim provenance or divine authority, and disregard any line of questioning which could pose a threat as “confused”.

if there was a one question application you could fill out before someone could buy a pistol, a little girl might still have her father, and a nutjob would be out of the criminal justice system.

instead, sadly, that is not to be.

the question: “is there a vast conspiracy to harm you lurking in the shadows just outside of your peripheral vision?”

“In the picture, Wright’s arms are spread out in a gesture of apparent disbelief. He is holding a bag of garbage and some cooking utensils. He is wearing a polo shirt, shorts and sneakers.

Stermole told the jury that he interpreted the gesture as an invitation to a gunfight. He believed Wright was wearing a bulletproof vest, was packing two handguns and had a sniper backing him up.

“He was making a statement,” Stermole said. “He’s not there to take out the garbage. He’s there for me.”

all that’s really missing here are zombies.