Why You Should Not Try to Reason With Religious Nuts

Me: How do you know that this almighty God exists?

Other: The Holy Book tells us so.

Me: I understand that, but that was written ages ago. How do you know it's even based on fact?

Other: The Holy Book tells us so.

Me: Yes, yes, I know. But ponder for a moment the possibility of the Book just being a story, nothing more. I mean how can you base your evidence of the truth of the scriptures, on the same scriptures? Maybe they're lying, how would you know?

Other: It is the truth. The Holy Book tells us so. *starts quoting and speaking in tongues*

Me: *bangs head against wall and counts to a zillion*

Random, I Am in Truth a Marvellous Creation

I have two legs: To take me on a trip around the world, running silently through a forest, striding with vigor through the mountains of old, dancing the hours of the night away.

I have two feet: To walk in my own shoes without apologies, to choose my own paths without regret, fear or hesitation.

I have two arms: To hold a loved one close to me and never let go, to cradle a child in silent comfort, to catch a stranger if they should fall.

I have two hands: To create things of might and beauty, to sooth a tender neck, to caress a troubled shoulder, to hold another above the water. In no case will I let you drown if I can prevent it.

I have two shoulders: To carry some of your load if you let me, to lift the heavens themselves so they do not come crashing down on the defenseless, to way the scales of justice equally.

I have two ears: To hear a cry drifting in the night, to hear a plea, a pardon, an endearment, to hear the wind and the voices of the heart.

I have two eyes: To see clearly the world around me, to see truth and never blink at what I see, to wonder at the marvels of the world and cry tears of joy.

I have one nose: To smell the flowers in the summer air, the scent of newly baked bread made with love, to smell out the bad and know that it has no place in my presence.

I have one mouth: To speak softly, to sing gently, to whisper words of wisdom, to kiss a cheek, a forehead or expectant lips.

I have one mind: To invent new things of wonder, to think up fairytales and music, to understand that I am one, but not alone.

I have one heart: To open up to every single creature, to love without boundaries, to know what living is all about and rejoice at the wonders of the world.

I have one soul: That is what I am most grateful for, that is what I treasure most, that is my pride and joy. I have a soul and it knows me and all of you. I have a soul and so have you. We are one and that is the truest of all wonders.

Some Laws of Murphy for Your Amusement

lol. Came up with most of them myself, I think (It's hard to know with so many of them floating aroud the place. ;-) ) Enjoy!


*If you have taken every possible and impossible way of things going wrong into consideration and have backup and triple backup plans for every thing of course people will think you crazy, you will develop an ulcer and nothing will go wrong.

*When you have finally conceded the point that you are simply being paranoid and have started to relax the men in black will come and get you.

*If you have no life and are finally invited to a party, the party will be on the one night of the whole month when you actually have prior engagements you can’t get out of.

*If you have spent the day tutoring others on something, the moment the ’boss/teacher/other important person to impress’ gets around to check up on you, you have just had a meltdown and somehow, for the very first time, managed to fuck up what you previously could do so well.

*When you are joking, people will take you seriously. When you’re being serious -no one will believe you.

*The probability of the hottest guy/girl in the place actually striking up a conversation with you will be in direct proportion to how close it is to the time when you have to leave.

*If the hottest guy/girl you’ve ever seen asks you for a light, you’re a non smoker and don’t have one. You’re trying to quit, are having the shakes and snap at them. Your lighter just doesn’t seem to work no matter how cool you try to look while you click it again and again and a-fucking-gain!

*The best looking guys are always gay. The best looking girls are always taken.

*If you are never sick or ill, the chances of you catching a nasty cold or other unfortunate illness will drastically increase in proportion to how important it is for you to stay fit at just that moment.

*If you’re not one for gossip, but for once have said something bad about someone else the person you are talking about will be standing directly behind you.

*If you think you’re hot stuff, you’ll hear a rumor about what people REALLY think about you.
However if you think you suck you will immediately hear the opposite, but you will of course not believe it.

*Negative comments will always stay with you after you have forgotten the positive ones.

*If you act confident to cover how shy you are people will respect you too much to ask to hang with you. Of course if you act confident simply because you are, people will think that it’s just a mask and try and coddle you.

*If something in the back of your mind nagged you to do something, but you ignored that voice you will soon find out that you should have listened. If listening prompted you to bring something very heavy for a 10 mile hike you will never need that something and will have forgotten the thing you did need on the kitchen counter.

*Your commanding officer will always catch you napping.

*If you’re a model citizen and do something uncharacteristically illegal/stupid the law will come down on you with a vengeance to set an example. If you’re a hardened criminal you will get away with murder.

*If you’re a blushing virgin on a dare who tries to pick up a hooker, said hooker will be a vice cop.

*The person with a flag on their shirt in a clashing of racism/anti racism demonstration parties that you have summarily dressed down for five minutes for being a neo nazi will in fact be the chairman of the anti racism organization from across town.

*The person who asked you to hold the elevator whom you ignored because you were stressed out about your upcoming job interview will be the head of the company and the one performing the interview. Said head of the company will also be late to that interview because they had to grab the next elevator which got stuck halfway to the office.

*Adaptation of Murphy’s first rule: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong and at the most importunate time. Anything that can not go wrong will still go wrong just to spite you.

Text, The Price You Pay

Regular people seldom understand the price paid for greatness. It’s one of those things that you logically know about, but don’t actually know or believe. And that’s really as it should be because if you knew, really knew about the prices paid by people for their greatness you wouldn’t envy them so much anymore, if at all. And that, believe it or not, would take away some of their shine. People are golden as much because we see them that way as because of what they actually do. Of course people can be great without being seen as such, but they won’t have the greatness.

Although great people are golden for a reason. Much of that shine is only surface deep. Though their ideas can be brilliant, their compassion, their love for the world and so on there is much darkness inside the golden ones. It’s one of those balance issues with how the world works. For something to shine on the outside it needs perhaps to be dull on the inside or extremely sensitive, be extremely hard or frail or have a history of roughness. Great people have this balance in their life. Constantly in one way or another. For many it’s a past that keeps them up at night or irrational fears about being a fake. Others have trouble letting people inside, keeping lovers and friends close. Others still are so afraid of failure that they can’t enjoy for a minute what they have for fear it will slip between their fingers. And of course there are those who just work too hard to ever be able to fully enjoy life, always working for a better part, a better thing, a better world.

They say the brighter the light, the shorter the flame burns. This is also true in some cases. But as we all are different people, so we all pay a different price for the life we lead, be it great or not so great. It’s strange really how few people would ever recognize their own greatness if they saw it in the mirror. Which they do, every day. But it’s so easy to believe everything bad that’s ever said about us, to us, around us. We as people have a tendency to soak everything negative up like a sponge and once it’s inside us. It stays there. We often starve for affection or recognition and we soak that up as well, but strangely enough it never gets a hold on us quite as good as the bad stuff. It takes a lot of work or much innocence to be able to believe the good things people tell us or just to enjoy the good things that happens to us, the good things that we see or experience.

That’s why it’s so important when looking at great people to remember that even a diamond was once a piece of coal and to end up a diamond it would have had to endure incredible pressure under a long time. That’s a good thing to remember about all people you meet actually. We all have had our difficulties and we are all in one way or another on our way from coal to diamonds with all of the tempering of our souls that comes with it. So be gentle with your fellow man. Too much pressure and the cracks might go deeper than time can mend.