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Why I Don't Believe
Why I Don’t Believe
So, I’ve been doing a lot of studying and thinking lately. The main thought I’ve had was this: “Had I been born in to any other time or culture, my beliefs would have been completely different, and I’d have been completely convinced that religion was the only true one, the only way to god(s/esses)” When that thought formed fully, I was left with a few choices – change my beliefs, decide to…
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Women's Bodies
Women’s Bodies
It’s incredibly sad that in this day and age, women are still not treated with respect or equality. A group on Facebook had a nurse-in to protest against Facebook’s strange policy of allowing sexual pictures of women and sometimes very young girls. They allow “joke” pages that advocate and threaten rape and violence against women. They say those pages don’t violate their policies. However,…
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Why I Believe Marriage Equality is Important.
Obviously, the majority of my friends on facebook aren’t going to agree with me on this, but I think it’s high time I came out in support of marriage equality. Everyone deserves to be with the person they love, to have rights regarding that person, to be listed in their will, to get married if they want, to have kids together and both have parental rights. I think granting the LGBTQ folks their…
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Complaints
This is kind of a rant post. I haven’t told my family, yet, that I’m atheist (hence the blogging anonymously). And already, since they know my beliefs are evolving, my brother’s going crazy. He said he didn’t worry about me, because I’m an adult, but it’s my daughters he’s worried about. Gee, thanks, bro. You think hell’s a real place and you’re not worried about me. Yep, I’m feelin’ the…
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Christians are ...
Christians are …
Christians are not the persecuted minority, but the persecuting majority.
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Hey do you min…
Hey do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have heard. All the elements in your body were forged many many millions of years ago in the heart of a faraway star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went.…
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My Kids
Since I’m blogging anonymously, I need to come up with “handles” for my daughters. “6 year old daughter” and “1 year old daughter” are a bit unwieldy. After much thought, I’m going to call my six year old “Ms Action”. She goes from the minute she wakes to the very second she falls asleep. She wouldn’t go to bed if I let her stay up. Honestly, she wears me out just watching her. She’s a sweet…
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Hi, Again!
So, it’s been nearly six months since my last update. I promise, I’ve not fallen off the face of the earth.
We’ve been quite busy, as we’re moving *again*. This time, to the east coast, to a state that has not yet legalized gay marriage (BOO), a state that doesn’t have friendly laws for breasfeeding moms(Yes, Ms Piggy is still breastfeeding).
Have you guessed yet? Yep, it’s a southern state. …
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Above is an excerpt from ‘Personhood’ by Lauren Zuniga, which can be viewed here.
comedy gold
it just keeps getting better
Owl you can fly
but he can’t knot.
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
This is a tradition in this country when people are able to go ahead and kill Black people because they got sassed, because we were inconvenienced, and we become a victim of a fantasy,” Williams said. “It is not a Black problem. It is a white problem. This is an American problem. This is a societal problem where people should be outraged when a man is able to instigate an interaction with kids and then shoot them when it doesn’t go well,” he continued. “It should be an outrage for everybody.
Jesse Williams on Michael Dunn Case: ‘This is Not a Black Problem, This is a White Problem’ - Atlanta Black Star (via 5feetoffury)
"It is not a Black problem. It is a white problem."
THANK YOU. Parents with non-white children should not have to fucking coach them on how to behave around racists so they don’t get hurt or killed. How about white people STOP SHOOTING PEOPLE and teach their white children to NOT SHOOT PEOPLE.
This is not a “black problem.” This is our fucking problem. ~JJ
(via teachthemhowtothink)
Are you fucking kidding me?!
9 Reasons You Defend Spanking Your Kids (and why you’re wrong)
Why Does Everyone Pretend There is a Spanking Debate? (because there’s no “debate”)
Why stop at spanking? Why not stone them?
And finally one of my favorite quotes about hitting kids: “I stand on the moral side of the spanking issue that says putting hands to people who cannot defend themselves or fight back is wrong. If we find ourselves threatened by the morality of non-violence, perhaps we should consider why were are complicit in violence against children.” ~Barrel of Oranges
(Can you tell everything is making me angry today? Grrrrr.) ~JJ
I love the way you used statistics and not just spewing vague terms to prove your point about Stand Your Ground laws, but with no disrespect, I as an American citizen feel safe knowing if an intruder were to enter my home I am justified to use force, possibly deadly, to protect my family. I am in no way justifying attacking unarmed people because they look threatening, I am instead justifying my right to protect myself from people explicitly threatening me safety in my home.
I understand your feeling, and the feeling is real and important, but our gut feelings are often incorrect.
Like, to give you an analogous example: I feel like I am going to die every time I get onto an airplane, but this gut feeling I have is wrong. Maybe I will someday die on an airplane, but if I need to go to Los Angeles for some reason, I am statistically far safer flying than I would be driving, so if one of my big goals is not wanting to die (and it is!) then I should fly, even though I feel less safe than I would if I were driving.
Similarly, you are much more likely to be murdered if you have a gun in your home than if you don’t have a gun in your home. So you may feel more safe, but statistically you are much less safe.
More importantly: Due to Stand Your Ground laws, more people are dying than would otherwise die. We know this with almost total certainty. So even if the Stand Your Ground law were providing your family some protection from a hypothetical home intrusion, I fail to see how this would justify the deaths of hundreds of non-hypothetical human beings.
And most importantly: The laws we are discussing do not involve the so-called “castle doctrine.” In almost every state in the U.S., it’s legal to shoot someone who has broken into your home. (This may be a bad idea when it comes to minimizing your chance of dying, but it’s not a crime.) The Stand Your Ground laws being publicly debated in the U.S. right now apply to locations outside your home.
"My body, my choice" only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.
reblogging for commentary
But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”
And that is gross.
This has been added to since I last saw it, so reblogging again.
Busted wide open.
It’s unfortunate how many people didn’t take this message away from the debate.
Bill Nye was just SO ENTHUSIASTIC about the topic. You could tell.
For God’s sake, the man was trying to teach people about photosynthesis when asked what his favourite colour was. That’s a man that ADORES science and absolutely loves teaching people.
Suddenly, I was 12 and watching a Bill Nye The Science Guy episode at my grandma’s school while she was decorating the gym.
Bill Nye is like the Mister Roger’s of science
he legitimately cares about what he is talking about and enthusiastically encourages people to take something positive away from it
Bill Nye is the Mister Rogers of science
Bob Ross is the Mister Rogers of art
and Mister Rogers is… well, Mister Rogers
what if they could join forces
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