MY LIFE

This was left as a comment to a long-ago previous post;

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

YES!

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An awesome retort to be given in response to trash-talking, foul-mouthed conservative idiots (and cussing Christians)

“Did you learn that in church?”  <*snark*>

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Why is it that those funda-gelicals who are soooooo convinced of owning “eternal life” with God, and berate those who reject such a silly notion,  can’t manage to wrap their brains around an Earth older than 6,000 years?

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“Eternal Life” isn’t something you can obtain or relinquish.  There’s only one life, and we are already living it.  “Eternal Life” isn’t something you can acquire as if it were something you didn’t already have.   It is something you are already privileged to experience here briefly.   Life is eternal; you are not, and never will be.   And even “eternal life” isn’t really eternal, because life depends on the sun and the sun will one day burn out, and life will cease.   But several billion years from now, when the sun does finally burn out, humans as we know them (us) will have long since ceased to exist; as the last of the known hominids, our species will either become extinct completely, or will fully evolve into something other than homo sapiens.

(I recently read that as humans were evolving there were several other hominid species evolving during the same time period over several million years; we are the last remaining of our line; indeed over 95% of all animal and plant species that have ever existed in our planet have already become extinct or have evolved into something else.)

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Did any of you folks realize that the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha is also occuring during the Winter Holiday season?   When you say “Happy Holidays”, you are extending to others the wish for a pleasant holiday season, whichever holiday they observe: the same kind you wish to enjoy (i.e., “do unto others”).  When you insist on saying “Merry Christmas” you are saying “your holidays don’t matter; if you don’t celebrate my holidays, then fuck you.”

We have this discussion every year, of course, and some Christians (the most intolerant, unbending, unyielding people I’ve ever had to deal with)  still don’t grasp the concept that they are as obligated as the rest of us to share this earth with people who don’t follow their religion, and they have to participate in the process of facilitating peace with their neighbors.  Insisting on “Merry Christmas” is the antithesis of “peace on earth, good will toward all.”