Blooming Psycho’s New Strange World Today

May I say that one thing I have become intolerant of in this world (aside from pedophiles, rapists, and murderers) are people who think that only they are right. I will be the first to admit that I have no idea what the fuck is really going on, I only know what I have experienced and what makes sense to me. And the beliefs of any kind of true, trve, or troo believer tend to make no sense to me at all because they have shut their minds to all other possibilities besides that which they have chosen to believe. Of course those who believe that gay marriage is horrible, sinful and yucky confound the fuck out of me. Why is it so horrible/sinful/yucky? How is it a threat to heterosexual marriage. Are the big bad homos forcing you into a same sex marriage? No? Then shut the fuck up already.

I tend to try and tread lightly around other people’s beliefs, but I am in a shit mood and came close to offing myself this morning. Some of you may wish I’d succeeded. Well, I stuck around to piss you off. Because you’re that important and I care about you that much. Your opinion is gold and you shit rainbows. I think about you all the time.

Seriously. I do.

I am fucking sick to death of closed minded “troo believers.” Because I know I can never get rid of them, I can do the second best thing. I can bitch about them. I’m an expert at this.

Keep in mind, people–I am not going off on everybody who is a (fill in the blank.) Only on the ones whose minds are closed and constipated and who state that their subjective opinion is FACT, DAMN IT!!!! I can hang with someone whose belief system is very different from mine, who may be in fact convinced that their belief is the way it is, but who leaves the door open for the slight possibility that they could be wrong and who respects my right to believe what I do. Then we are all good. But the instant you start spouting about how evil/stupid everyone else is for believing differently than you do, then fuck off and die. Your mind is as constipated as the colon of someone who hasn’t taken a dump in their lifetime.

In alphabetical order, in the realm of spiritual beliefs, here are the TROO BELIEVERS that piss me off the most. I’m sure there are many that I haven’t met yet. The Irritating Pick of the Day is…

ATHEMENTALISTS

These are atheists who do not simply state that “I can’t believe in deities or spirits because I can’t see any solid evidence that either could exist.” Fine, I’m down with that because it is a sensible statement and if I had not had certain experiences in my life, I would be among this lot. No, rather than being open minded, or at least polite, the Athementalist will state that people who have any spiritual beliefs are STUPID AND BACKWARDS IN THEIR THINKING. The idea that there could be some kind of power/powers greater than ourselves is STUPID. The idea that living things do anything but live, die, and rot is STUPID. They cite the fact that when someone dies, there is no more brain activity. This is true. But this only indicates that there is no more electrical activity in the brain. The body has ceased to function. The body will rot (unless cremated.) True. Completely and undeniably true. But this does nothing to prove whether the personality has ceased to exist or departed and is hanging about somewhere else. We currently lack equipment that would be able to help prove this one way or the other.

I concede that the belief that the personality ceases on the death of the body may indeed be true and all experiences that I’ve had that would indicate otherwise only indicate that I am fucked in the head. However, there is also the possibility that something may be going on that we do not entirely understand. The only thing we know for sure is that we don’t know. People once scoffed at the possibility that we would one day land on the moon. Then again, there are those that believe this was an elaborate hoax as well. There are people whom it is just not worth arguing with. Myself, I like to keep an open mind. Certain things may be highly improbable, but I don’t like to label anything impossible. With our current level of knowledge there are things that can’t be proven at this time but they may be in the future. Or they may not. Who knows? I only know that I do not in fact consider it to be a very scientific attitude to slam your mind closed. A scientist is always open to possibilities.

I can only hope that maybe the athementalists will cease to exist when their bodies die. Then they’ll get to be right and I’ll get to not deal with them in the afterlife.

Again, it is not the atheist belief that deities/spirits seem impossible that bothers me. It is the arrogance and snottiness of the Athementalist that rubs me the wrong way. Science H. Logic! To believe anything but what they believe is STOOOOOPID! If you believe anything but what they believe, you are STOOOOOOPID!!!!!!! And do not forget, you are STOOOOOOOOOOPID!!!!!!

Their attitudes have a lot more in common with the attitudes of other Fundies than they would like to believe. After all, they are RIGHT and the other Fundies, and everybody else who doesn’t believe as they do are WRONG. And STOOOOOOPID!!!!!!

Next time we’ll pick on everyone’s favorite, the Fundie Cuh-riss-chun. As opposed to the peaceful follower of Christ, the Cuh-riss-chun believes in Gawd, Gutz, Gunz and Amerikkka, (as opposed to America) and their motto is Hate and Intolerance.  See you then!

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