So the message of High School Musical 2 seems to be that you should care more about what your friends think than about your own life and goals.
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
People who have made the pioneer woman's cold noodle salad, would it be crazy to make it 24 hours before serving? I have already sliced up most of the veggies, but have not cooked noodles or put the dressing on.
My atheism has become more hardline over the past year. I've found my tolerance for religious people has become strained. It's kind of isolating.
My atheism has become more hardline over the past year.
Why do you suppose that is?
I think my atheism has intensified in recent years, but pretty much just the nutjobs I read about on political blogs piss me off.
I really don't discuss my atheism that much with my friends. And I'm still not out to my family about it.
Me too, Allyson. But one of the very best things about living in Brooklyn is that there are a LOT of other atheist Jews around. (Granted, there are also a lot of ultra-orthodox Jews around. But they mostly keep to themselves.)
Preakness winner - relaxing after the race.
Do you think it's in response to the craxy from the religious right that gets craxier all the time?
But not us, right?!?! Loves on athiest buffistas.
For me, it was just a matter of turning 30 and letting go of a bunch of mental litter I'd been carrying around. Agnosticism was one of many things I finally discarded.
Pantheists represent. I am one with all the universe and all humanity, and man, part of me is freaking CRAZY, yo.
These days, close-mindedness in general pisses me off more than religious nutbagerry. It's the climate-change denialism, the conservatives who won't face reality but instead engage in magical thinking about the budget, etc., and the whole anti-science thing on the right (and somewhat on the left, but the political effects of that are nowhere near as bad).
Sometimes I think we're just too stupid as a species to survive. We evolved to deal with short-term threats, and it seems we as a nation (and world) just can't prepare for the long-term threats.
Anyway, just rambling here....