MarleySkye840 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think hippies are dumb, lazy and free loaders.

Do you mean people who believe in the idea of "live and let live"? People who aren't so wrapped up in the rat race that they forget to just live? Because I don't see the correlation.

Most people like that are happier and smarter because they have found peace and acceptance and it isn't in the form of cars, houses and shit they don't need. The people I know who are "hippie" types still work and hold down actual jobs but they are not constantly trying to climb the ladder. Is that really all that terrible?

So you're saying you're a hippy?

I think Malia and her sister should be kept out of the public view unless they can act more grown up and poised.

I think Kraft cheese products are awful.

I don't think pornography is free speech , rather it is hate speech against women and should be banned.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell...

1. The Second Amendment should be repealed
2. Anyone who listens to Fox News "opinion" shows or right-wing radio is a complete moron
3. Religion of any type is the biggest farce in history

+1

And, I have tried for years to find a way to move to Canada. I am so tired of the US - the capitalistic selfish shit, the military worship (excuse me - you volunteered!), the stupid anthem, the pledge of allegiance, and the "we are the greatest nation in the world" fiction.

Wish I would have mentioned this...agree 100%. They have my gratitude, but most of these guys did not sign up for the honor, they signed up because they didn't have any other options.

I completely agree with this.

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I'm sorry, but you are implying that Christians are respectful to other people with other belief systems. LOOK AROUND! Christians attack people all.of.the.time for not sharing their beliefs. If atheists respond in kind, it is because they are in the minority and most have been the recipient of some pretty nasty comments on the part of Christians.

No, I don't mean to imply that at all. Many Christians are disrespectful and it makes me cringe. What promoted my initial comment is that I frequently see atheists coming off as angry and insulting to Christians (without prompting, sometimes). But, I completely agree that Christians who tell others they're going to hell, etc are wrong and disrespectful, too.

Sorry, correction bolded.

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I'm sorry, but you are implying that Christians are respectful to other people with other belief systems. LOOK AROUND! Christians attack people all.of.the.time for not sharing their beliefs. If atheists respond in kind, it is because they are in the minority and most have been the recipient of some pretty nasty comments on the part of Christians.

No, I don't mean to imply that at all. Many Christians are disrespectful and it makes me cringe. What promoted my initial comment is that I frequently see atheists coming off as angry and insulting to Christians (without promoting, sometimes). But, I completely agree that Christians who tell others they're going to hell, etc are wrong and disrespectful, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question:

Why do so many atheists seem to be so angry and condescending? In my life, I've seen only one atheist who isn't disrespectful to believers and others who don't share their belief system. Why?? Why can't atheists disagree respectfully?

I tend to agree. I'm an agnostic, but my cousin is a hardcore atheist who is always shoving her non-belief down others' throats and ridiculing believers. Isn't that just as bad as religious people who proselytize zealously and talk about "hell and damnation"? How is it different? It's not.

Thank you for agreeing. It's frustrating to me. I'm a Christian and I'm finding a lot of atheists behavior to be so insulting, whereas I can't imagine being that way to someone else. I have no problem if you disagree with my belief system, but why cants you be respectful about it?

I'm sorry, but you are implying that Christians are respectful to other people with other belief systems. LOOK AROUND! Christians attack people all.of.the.time for not sharing their beliefs. If atheists respond in kind, it is because they are in the minority and most have been the recipient of some pretty nasty comments on the part of Christians.

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I fully support gentrification in DC. It's time to rid this city of the riff raff.

Serious question: Where is the riff-raff supposed to go? If you kick all the poors out of Anacostia, where do you suggest they live instead?

Not the person who posted this but I agree with them. I really don't give a damn where people "go" once their neighborhood becomes gentrified. It's not my problem. I don't see the issue here in DC yet but the protests against gentrification in San Francisco REALLY upset me. A guy dared to open a successful restaurant in a gentrifying neighborhood and the useless hippies harassed him until he left. And they said he didn't belong there. If poor people moved into a richer neighborhood and were treated the same way, EVERY civil rights activist in the Western Hemisphere would descend upon that city and there would be protests and hell to pay.

I mean, are we really going to stop real estate values from rising and stop neighborhoods from becoming BETTER? And safer with less crime, and with more amenities, and nicer housing stock, and likely better schools? It's such a friggin' backwards attitude, I can't even stand it. Do people realize they're fighting to make their neighborhoods stay semi-crappy?

The bolded statement is kind of hilarious. PP does not seem to understand that poor people *can't* move into rich neighborhoods because they can't afford it. And the rich know that, which is why they put up with high property taxes -- because they want their neighborhood to be cost prohibitive.

So poor people live in cheaper neighborhoods. But then wealthy people move in, and even the poor people who have managed to buy a house and maintain can no longer afford the property taxes and get pushed out, which was the wealthy plan all along. So then where do the poor people go?

And that leads to the elephant in the room. Some people just want the poor to disappear altogether. But they don't actually want to *help* poor people move up the ladder. They just want to get rid of them.

So when people say that gentrification "improves" neighborhoods, they are wrong. Gentrification *replaces* neighborhoods. I have yet to see a gentrification model whereby the people who originally inhabited the neighborhood, the poor people, find their lives getting better with gentrification as opposed to just being moved to some other location.

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Anonymous wrote:1. I think less of people who don't breastfeed (at least TRY, at least do it for three months if you physically can).
2. I think less of people who have lots of plastic toys in their house.
3. I think less of people who can't keep their homes or cars clean.
4. I think sushi is gross.

Why #1?

I agree with 1 and 2, but 3 and 4 are beyond comprehension. Then again, I am a Type B.

Anonymous wrote:1. I think less of people who don't breastfeed (at least TRY, at least do it for three months if you physically can).
2. I think less of people who have lots of plastic toys in their house.
3. I think less of people who can't keep their homes or cars clean.
4. I think sushi is gross.

Why #1?

Anonymous wrote:Oh you poor poor Christian. I don't agree with insulting anyone's religion, but I don't think you get it because you are a member of the majority religion. How would you feel if your money started to read "In Batman we Trust", or if every town you drove through had at least three Batman Churches, but only one Christian church every 200 miles? What if you were considered rude for saying that Batman's birthday shouldn't be a Federal Holiday? What if you didn't want your children to have to say "One Nation, Under Batman, Indivisible" in school? What if the story of Batman ended with him being blown up with a grenade and everyone wore little grenades around their necks? What if you had to swear into court on the first Batman comic?
What if you knew, for a fact, that people would elect anyone who believed anything about Batman, but would never elect you because you didn't belong to any of the Batman sects?

Yeah, like that. That is what makes some atheists rude. Because we are swimming in it and can barely breathe. But I would never be rude to you, and I would never play the victim like the Christians do.

I'm the PP/Christian you're responding to. I understand your POV and, honestly, that's something I hadn't thought much about. Thanks for not being rude. Please understand that not all Christians play the victim.

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I'd like to encounter this "lot" of respectful atheists. Even within this thread people have been very insulting to believers. As a Christian, all I ask is that you give the same respect that you'd want for yourself.