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We'll never agree

Jun 10th

Posted by spellwight in [...]

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I wish people wouldn’t feel the need to beat you over the head with their opinion:

ME: Hot atheists and agnostics http://bit.ly/b37g57 Aren’t Agnostics just Atheists with a fear of commitment?

(Meant to be humorous)

Other Person: agnostics = there is a god! Athiests = there is no such thing as this god nonsense

To which I stupidly reply:

ME: Agnostics are just-in-case Atheists. You can’t have God without religion. Like believing in Huck Finn without Mark Twain.

Which in turn opens the angry floodgates:

OP: uhhhh… I’m agnostic. Yes, you can have spirituality without religion. You can’t be Christian without Christianity though.

OP: it’s more about abandoning religion than anything. Don’t tell me what I am.
OP: people don’t understand that spirituality and religion are two totally different things.

Oh, I had a reply but I refrained from comment there. I mean it’s twitter! Land of the quick comments not long discussions.

OP: that is like saying people of earthly (pagan) religions are athiests because they don’t believe in the Christian God.

My eyes are glazing over here…

OP: or that I am an athiest because I believe in and thank the universe for what I am blessed with. I am not Christian…

Fine, whatever you say dear. Go eat a cookie and calm down.

ag·nos·tic: (wishy-washy)

One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.

a·the·ist: (definitive)

One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.

Somehow I think believing in a Mother Nature type energy (pagans?) or Lady Luck or any sort of mystical energy is different than believing in God or Muhammad or Buddha. There is no big giant head controlling the entire universe.

I believe in my parking angel. I have an angel on my visor that if I rub her tummy and ask nicely a great parking space will open up as if by magic. It works nine times out of ten. Do I think she’s getting her power though God? Shit no. But maybe she’s tapping into some karma-luck energy field. Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Who cares.

Oh right, the subject of this post. I learned a long time ago there’s just no arguing with people. You state your opinion and leave it at that. What’s the point of defending your position over and over again? You’re not going to change someone else’s mind.

Drives me nucking futs when people do that. But not as much as when they can’t spell Athiest.

atheist, Internet, religion, twitter

LOST

May 24th

Posted by spellwight in Reviews

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I was a rabid fan the first season. I hit the message boards, I really got into the clues, I played the games. Ginnie and I loved LOST. By the second season I was still a fan but much more passive. I recorded and watched every week and made occasional comments about certain characters.

I’ve always disliked both Kate and Jack. I really don’t like emo characters. I’ve always liked Sawyer and Hurley the most. And over the years I appreciated the Ben character. He was brilliantly played.

But last night was a huge let down. The island as purgatory? You make peace with yourself and you finally move on? Fine if that’s what the show put out there in the first place. So what was the point of the rest of the entire series? I had noticed over the years that when a character “came to peace” they tended to die off, but that wasn’t carried across every character – just look at Rose and Bernard. And in the end Jack had to be convinced, Sayid needed to be led – it wasn’t a decision. Utter trop.

Ending the whole thing as a religious thing leaves me wondering what was the whole point of the adventures beforehand. What was the point of the numbers? Was every battle with the Others, the constant wonder of who was good and who was evil, the time travel, the… the… the… was everything a bunch of stupid metaphors?

I wish I had missed the final episode and been left wondering. It would have been more satisfying.