Out of the Blue

[Jul 17, 2011, 5:10 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

I got a few reports about some sort of phony antivirus warning popping up that seems clearly related to an ad here. They seemed to come around a concentrated period, but since I haven't been able to contact the engine room at advertising high command I have yoinked the ad code until I know things are straightened out. Apologies for any problems this situation has caused.

Yoinked Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Underground Invasion. Wheelbox - The Fallen Star.
Science:	Dawn probe orbits asteroid Vesta. Gene link to 70% of hard-to-treat breast cancers.
Images:	World War II in Photos. Thanks nin via Rob Sheridan.
Media:	Trailer for Martin Scorsese's Hugo. Thanks scorcese.fan.
The Funnies:	xkcd: Cell Phones. Thanks j.c.f.
Follow-up:	The Worst Has Happened: Life After the Death of My Children. Thanks nin via Digg.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 18, 2011, 17:11

Animals for Crackers

I don't sweat anything. Bullshit. Your privilege is showing. Random chance has been kind to you; the reason why you're able to blithely proclaim "I don't sweat anything.". Under different circumstances, I highly doubt you'd be able to maintain such ideological purity. Must be nice to enjoy such a luxury, eh? It is sorta hilarious and cute that you attribute such a quality to yourself and not the general agreeableness of your surroundings though. One of my grandfathers died ~ten years ago (I was in high school) and my mother was pretty torn up. I played the stoic son for a time not out of sympathy or empathy but because that was the easiest way. I didn't run around exclaiming bull shit. "Oh, he's with god now. Oh, he's gone on to a better place." This horseshit is what placates the masses, and I'll not be party to delusional lines of thought. Deferring to God in times of tragedy is delusional and offensive to me as well; if anything it shows an utter lack of empathy towards other living, breathing, feeling, sentient beings. As if to say, hey, the senseless deaths of loved ones are part of God's grand plan! Isn't that just WONDERFUL? Isn't GOD JUST WONDERFUL? Yetch. I'm reminded of death cults...but I guess those are just people expressing empathy in the only way they know how. Fortunately, your what-I-assume-to-be unintentional straw-man isn't an indictment of human empathic thought but of religious/superstitious thought and how it co-opts perfectly normal human behaviors and twists and perverts them into something rather nasty and devaluing to overall human dignity. Thank dog that isn't empathy. This comment was edited on Jul 18, 2011, 18:38.

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	1.	Jul 17, 17:53	RE: Follow up	CommunistHamster
	2.	Jul 17, 19:30	Re: RE: Follow up	nin
	3.	Jul 17, 19:49	Re: RE: Follow up	Capella
	6.	Jul 18, 00:36	Re: RE: Follow up	UConnBBall
	4.	Jul 17, 23:10	Re: Out of the Blue	heroin
	7.	Jul 18, 00:38	Re: Out of the Blue	Creston
	8.	Jul 18, 02:11	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	9.	Jul 18, 02:42	Re: Out of the Blue	shihonage
	10.	Jul 18, 04:51	Re: Out of the Blue	xXBatmanXx
	12.	Jul 18, 07:36	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	13.	Jul 18, 08:46	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno
	14.	Jul 18, 12:23	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	15.	Jul 18, 13:07	Re: Out of the Blue	Sepharo
	16.	Jul 18, 13:17	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	17.	Jul 18, 13:35	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
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	20.	Jul 18, 16:09	Re: Out of the Blue	shihonage
	21.	Jul 18, 16:43	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
>>	22.	Jul 18, 17:11	Re: Out of the Blue	Animals for Crackers
	23.	Jul 18, 18:07	Re: Out of the Blue	Beamer
	11.	Jul 18, 06:55	Re: Out of the Blue	Dr. D. Schreber
	24.	Jul 18, 18:33	Re: Out of the Blue	Creston
	25.	Jul 18, 20:40	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	19.	Jul 18, 14:35	Re: Out of the Blue	heroin
	5.	Jul 17, 23:30	Re: Out of the Blue	xXBatmanXx
	26.	Jul 20, 11:21	Re: Out of the Blue	Verno