May

25

Intergalactic Towel Day

May 25, 2010 by Brandon | 2 Comments

In honor of this most important day of the year, I present the following video.



Jan

23

True Story

January 23, 2010 by Brandon | 5 Comments

Wow. It’s been nearly a month and I’ve definitely been neglecting the site. I’m long over due I guess. A lot of big things have happened, but specifically there was an incident with a certain televangelist making what is possibly the most inane comment I’ve ever heard. Oh, wait. There’s this one. Forgot about that.

Well, at least one of those assholes is dead. Some might think me a terrible human being for saying this, but I truly look forward to the day that I will get to read that Pat Robertson is dead. I may even throw a party. He, Falwell, and all of those like him are the worst kind of predatory, greedy, hypocritical, and bigoted scum there is and the world will be far better with him dead than Osama bin Laden. It almost makes me wish there were a hell for them to burn for eternity in, and it makes me somewhat understand the desire that religious people have for some punishment in the afterlife for dickheads like these guys.

We can only hope Hugo Chávez assassinates him.



Dec

25

Touchdown!

December 25, 2009 by Brandon | 4 Comments

Merry Christmas!



Aug

29

I Can’t Take It

August 29, 2009 by Brandon | Leave a Comment

For better or worse, I’ve come to realize that my personality has somewhat been affected by my views. And by views, I’m sure everyone reading this knows exactly what I’m referring to.

I know for a fact, for example, that it is going to be difficult, if not near impossible, for me to ever have a relationship with a religious woman. This is mainly due to the fact that I cannot respect those beliefs, and inevitably that person is going to take offense to that. And that is mainly due to the fact that they inevitably are going to say something so stupid that I will not be able to let it go and will comment on it.

Religion aside though, I’ve also discovered I simply can’t tolerate ignorance.

Allow me to qualify that. I’m really not going to be bothered by someone who, let’s say, isn’t as intelligent as I am. And I am by no means suggesting that I’m some brilliant piece of work, whose genius casts such a shadow that it leaves everyone around me in a pitch shroud of perpetual fatuousness. Absolutely not. What I mean is willful ignorance; the type of stupid that someone harbors and refuses to relinquish, no matter how many facts, figures, or truths you have in your arsenal to bombard them with.

When someone states something as fact, but it’s actually incorrect and I know it is incorrect, I have the most difficult time refraining for correcting them. If such statements persist, eventually I’m going to speak up.

That being said, let’s make one thing clear: your preference for Coke or Pepsi is opinion. Your favorite color is opinion. Whether you like fall or winter better is your opinion. I will even accept being liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, socialist, libertarian, or what have you, is opinion. However, the age of the universe being between 13.5 to 14 billion years old is not an opinion. It is backed up by scientific theory and reproducible tests, such as measuring background radiation. And when all you can come back at me with is, “Were you there? You can’t prove it. Respect my opinion, opinions can’t be wrong,” I will flat out tell you that you are wrong.

And that’s if I really like you. If I don’t, I might lash out further. Perchance I may tell you that what you are confusing as opinion is not an opinion at all; it is the lazy, utter disregard for mountains of evidence simply because you feel like ignoring it. I might call you intellectually dishonest and willfully ignorant for your refusal to accept the proof in front of you because you, for whatever the reason, decided it wasn’t worth your time.

I could continue for several minutes with you, snarking on how horrible your life would be without the various theories that makes your daily life possible – theories that you seem to think are a matter of simple opinion. Because you seem to think a scientist woke up one day and decided, along with which color socks he preferred, that he just felt like making the universe 13.5 to 14 billion years old, never mind all that scientific mumbo-jumbo you can’t seem to wrap your head around.

I just can’t take it.

There was a time when I’d rationalize such behavior coming from individuals. I tried to convince myself it is the crazy beliefs and ideas they have which are ridiculous and unworthy of my respect, and I’d compartmentalize it away from the person in question, lest I’d judge their character based on the nonsense they were spouting. However, I’ve realized that there is no compartmentalizing it. The stupid things people think and believe, and their reluctance or outright refusal to enlighten themselves on the matters, does reflect on them.

At some point, I am going to begin to lose respect for you as a person when you boorishly stomp your feet and insist that the moon landings never happened, and present me with no evidence other than you think that’s the case. Or that 9/11 was an inside job. Or that there is no birth certificate. Or that evolution isn’t a fact. Or that… well, I think you get the idea.



Aug

26

Jailed Wiccan Alleges Discrimination

August 26, 2009 by Brandon | 1 Comment

As if Texas doesn’t have enough to deal with regarding religious discrimination and constitutional rights violations, a prison in the state is apparently refusing to accommodate a Wiccan man’s religious beliefs and practices while he is serving time.

Most prisons that I’m aware of will offer an inter-faith chapel that can easily cater to a prison population of Christians, Jews, and Muslims. However, Charles Arthur Roberts, a practicing Wiccan, claims he needs the aid of another practitioner for his religious rituals, a request that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has failed to uphold.

Frankly, I think that the requests are altogether retarded, for Wiccans, Christians, and whatever. Being in prison does not infringe upon your right to believe whatever you want to believe. The constitution does not, however, uphold your right to practice whatever you want to believe. There’s a big difference there.

I could say it is my sincere religious belief to sacrifice a lamb every day, but no one is going to accommodate that belief, nor should they.

Perhaps Mr. Roberts should have considered practicing his peaceful, nature-based religion, which has a core dogma of harming no one, prior to obtaining his five year sentence for aggravated assault. If he had, he wouldn’t find himself in prison to begin with. So I somehow fail to find myself being sympathetic to his cries of discrimination.



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What is Fractal Wrongness?

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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