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Ah, religion, always a good subject to bring out the nutters and ranters…


Now I’ve got no problem with religion as a concept, and other than being confused as to why so many seemly intelligent people believe in it then I’m pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. That said, those weirdy-beardy types who think that because other people who they’ve never seen, spoken to, or even met believe in something ever so slightly different to themselves, then they should blow themselves up on public transport and seriously inconvenience my commute into work, aren’t top of the list of people I would want to have a swift half with.

It does seem that the vast majority of religious people are such because:
a) they were brain-washed into it as children, or
b) they have had to face their own mortality and can’t deal with the thought of nothingness,
neither of which they are responsible for.

[I know brain-washed is a pretty strong phrase, but what else would you call believing in something that you have absolutely no proof of, which defies the laws of biology, logic and plain commonsense just because your parents did?]

Clearly I’m not a fan of the god.

However, the science thing doesn’t explain everything to me either. Somebody with a much better way with words than me (perhaps that should be ‘I’???) once wrote: First there was nothing, which exploded…
(Pratchett according to google).

Furthermore life has been evolving on this plant for the last few billion years, and possibly a lot longer if the original spark came from elsewhere. Therefore, at the risk of sounding somewhat species-bigheaded, we are the end product of literally billions of years of design improvements, upgrades and patches. We’re quite literally the frogs willy of life. The bestest ever. We’re so advanced we use a whole range of specially designed tools to move food from plate to mouth. This is simply fact.

Which unfortunately leads us to the impossible question:

As I am a super-being at the cutting edge of creation, why the F’ are my sideburns ginger?
(Digstar fu#king loves biscuits, Thu 19 Mar 2009, 18:36, 2 replies)

ha ha
you've got ginger sidies

nice post though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 19 Mar 2009, 18:54, closed)

Very roughly...
there are three genes for hair colour, which affect the top of your head and each side of your face respectively. They can be different colours.

You think you have it bad? I have a friend with one ginger sidie.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:02, closed)