Im getting to old for this sh**, my very own Murtaugh moment

Now to move on from my previous rants

(I apologise, I get easily riled up by people and also I have just been innformed that the person I was ragging on previously is a ‘troll’…. not literally, well maybe, but more so a troll in the sense he hangs around these discussion places and posts and replies and reposts for the sake of riling people up and not to stimulate any intellectual discussion on the subject, attention seeking I believe it is called.)

Anywho, went out last night and had a few to drink. And then a few more and some more after that. Consequently I woke up with a raging headache and a serious urge to stomach purge. I had a Murtaugh moment, see Lethal Weapon and How I met your Mother.

My body is still recovering from a night on the town, and not even an all nigher, I was in bed by 12, for shame!

Apparently I am mendacious

Yes I had to google the meaning of this word as my vocabulary is not that of an oxford scholar. From what I read it means, lies, falsity and dishonesty. Referring to my previous post about the unleashed forum on abc.net.au, I replied to this one person and thought I had made a fair argument, but from his reply it was full of untruths and general nonsense. My conclusions from this are;

1. This guy is probably a politics nerd and not of my sort, I am all for government and the function of the state and its regulation of people and their actions. I already dislike him.

2. From the above conclusion, the guy probably is someone who hasn’t left university yet, one of those people who does degree after degree but never actually gets a job. I also do not like these people.

3. Probably googled the word untruth to find its synonyms and came up with mendacious. Thought it sounded smart, just made him sound pompous.

4. Loves a good argument and himself because he has felt the need to reply to every person who has replied to him and simply profess they are all wrong and he is right. That is my job, he doesn’t get to be me.

5. This guy probably doesn’t have much of a life, but who am I to judge, i am posting on my blog as we speak at 10.30 on a saturday night. (to be fair though I did go out last night and had a great time)

6. That people like that is why I don’t regularly post to those sort of forums, they shite me to tears, especially when I don’t agree with them.

So to try and keep my ‘hulk’ tendencies at bay I simply replied that we will agree to disagree and I still do not understand his logic and never will because I am pro-choice and always will be. He is really lucky I just didn’t call him a douchebag, even though I really really wanted to.

The never ending story....Part Deux

Ok Ok, yes the never ending story (the movie version) did actually end but came back with a vengeance (no wait that was Die Hard). Anywho in my usual trawlings of the internet space I came across this lovely little article and accompanying public commentry on……..ab (wait for it) ………..ortion. The logical sequal to the debate on religion versus science.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2578418.htm

I love debate and I hate it at the same time, as mentioned before I think I am such a wonderful orater that people will all of a sudden change their minds because I have seduced them with my words. When this does not happen I get mad. You get mad, how mad? you ask, I get very mad, HULK style! Mad enough that I want to mash the keyboard in frustration and rip it out of the computer and throw it at the photocopier and then kick both of them and storm out of the office and push the pot plants as I leave. I am hardcore.

Back to the story though, I know some people are pro-lifers and that’s cool with me, sure you like babies and you like foetuses so be it, but start telling me that I am anti-life and I am wrong as a pro-choicer and you need to step-off, back off and for all I care f*** off. We all have different views and just because you don’t agree with me does not mean I am wrong or you are wrong and it certainly does not mean you should find some way to legally enforce your beliefs upon me, it’s undemocratic, unfair and uncool. I am pro-choice and very much so. Abortion, creation, religion, it’s all a big value judgement landfill, come dump your crap! These issues are moral, ethical, social issues that are made with our emotions not with rationality or reason, it is unreasonable to expect it to be anything but a personal decision.

I mostly do not like pro-lifers because they think they are all high and mighty and that their way is the right and only way. I am sorry you are so deluded but you are wrong and short of calling you retarded (oops just did), you really do not understand the issue enough if you are happy to make concessions here and there for certain circumstances and cannot consider all the surrounding factors regarding abortion.

• Pro-choice is not anti-life, we respect the right of the person to CHOOSE to keep or to abort.
• Pro-choice do not see abortion as an alternative to contraception, if a person is irresponsible and gets pregnant should they have an abortion? No, that’s why in WA a women must undergo counselling from their medical practitioner, who hopefully at the same time would be giving them a prescription for the pill or some such.
• Pro-Lifers are wishy washy saying that abortion is ok in cases of rape. Why? Because the women had no consent in the sexual act? Isn’t there still a life there according to your principles? Develop a backbone and take a stand its all or nothing right?
• A foetus is not considered a person until it is born, legally. If you want to believe otherwise that is your choice.
• Why should it be the womens choice and only the womens choice? I agree the man should have some say, maybe go to counselling with the women but ultimately the women is the one who will have to commit to 9 months of something growing inside her, kind of like tumour, its feeds off you, distorts your body, messes up your normal functions. The man also does not end up pushing that watermelon sized ball of flesh out a hole the size of a lemon.
• If abortion were illegal, it would make the incidence of a) backyard abortions increase leading to b) greater numbers of infections and death from complications and c) neglected children who are resented because they were not wanted or are a financial burden.
• If you wanted to stop abortions, teach kids about contraception, teach them to make informed choices. Don’t harp on to them about abstinence because we all know when you can’t have something you want it more and are more likely to try your darndest to get it and therein is the problem.
• If society says here you have a choice, it does not mean the whole of society advocates abortion but we respect each other enough as human beings to understand that we all have our own opinions and judgements and can make our own choices without fear of being criminally tried and convicted, possibly threatened or killed by extreme pro-lifers (it happens) or shunned by society.
• The reason issues such as this are regulated through law is because of the quagmire that it is, if abortion wasn’t regulated by the state you would have dodgy practitioners, dodgy operations, extreme pro-lifers doing extreme things and then argueing in court that it was all about protecting a life etc etc, people having abortions at a very late stage (in WA it is currently 20 weeks at the latest) becaus ethere is no legal framework or ramifications for doing it.

Mah, this issue gets me all annoyed because nobody can tell me what or what not to do (unless of course it is legislated) otherwise I do what I want.

Hudson Godfrey had the most sensible reply out of everyone and this Adz inc character cleraly has way too much time on his hands because he keeps putting his two cents in and making himself look like a arrogant fool. Notice how he is is ‘he’ only a stupid man could be so stupid.

Transition is complete…….’HULK MAD, need to smash!”

The never ending story....

The above is not in reference to the movie with Jonathon Brandis or Falcor, I am refering instead to the great debate between religion and science. The link below is an article about a skeleton being touted by some in the scientific world as the missing link

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25510652-5011761,00.html

I won’t rant too much about the article itself, its pretty self explanatory, I will make mention that for some random reason it has not been classed as front page news, or world news but has been lumped in the WTF (Weird True Freaky) section. Apparently not as news worthy as the front page article on children’s television viewing habits. Yes kids watch stupid shows but that’s because they have absolutely no idea what is going on, if it is furry, cuddly, colourful or sings then they will love it. Look at the Wiggles!

My main gripe is in fact the reader’s comments for the article;

http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,25510652-5011761,00.html

In such short time, what could have been a insightful debate about fossils and skeletons and evolution, turned into a crapstorm of insults, falseties and general nastiness between the two sides. I think I only saw one comment that commented on the article itself and what interesting news it made without making an opinion or taking a side, it could just have been a sarcasm that i have misinterpreted though.

Now I am all for science and I do believe in evolution but I am not going to try and make anyone else believe what I do (even if I do think the world would be a better place if everyone listened to me, but if this happened I would in fact be god and throw my own theories of evolution out the window, catch 22) and I wouldn’t start insulting anyone because they believe what they do. I think in this day and age and even as history shows, when we disagree and we try and make others think as we do, we argue, get drunk, throw punches, stab people with swords and go to war and if you’re really ambitious you get genocidically homicidal (if people aren’t alive they can’t disagree with you).

The debate and disagreement on this subject will never end and it will continue, as sure as the earth is round and revolves around the sun (science has of course been useful in the discovery of somethings), if people keep trying to come out on top as ‘right’ and ‘knowledgable.’

It’s a case of “I know you are but what am I?” that strange game you used to play in primary school when people said you were a poohead or a garbage man and failing any evidence contrary or lack of linguistic skills you replied, “I know you are but what am I?” And they would say you were a poohead or a garbage man again and you would bring out those magical words, “I know you are but what am I?” And the cycle would repeat until someone got bored and found something else to do.

I did have to laugh though, some of the comments were quite hilarious in both stupidity and irony.

Mr. Logic Link claimed that science can’t explain the nothing of the BIG BANG or how the universe could expand if it doesn’t exist yet (which one was completely off topic) but secondly shows they don’t really know much about quantum mechanics or physics because if they have this theory they are conceptualising ‘nothing’ as something. For the theory to work, ‘nothing’ is not simply a lack of doing, being or seeing, it is non-existant. The universe can expand because there is ‘nothing’ stopping it from doing so and ‘nothing’ means it has somewhere to go. There is no space or universe outside the universe.

Kate of Adelaide used a wonderful analogy of ‘technological evolution’ of the IPOD, again sarcasm? I am not sure.

There was a nice little something from Kev from NT, who believes that Darwin renounced his theories on his death bed, any self-respecting media sponge would have read wikipedia and found out that wasn’t true!

There is a lot of research into the human genome and animal DNA and I am pretty sure that when you check human DNA and pretty much any animal that there is a 80-95% match, that is why scientists feel that we all developed from single celled organisms. Primates are considered our closest relatives or evolutionary ancestor because we have a greater percentage match.

Personally if we evolved from bears it would be more exciting. Why bears? Why not?

I can't talk about it right now, it'll just make me mad.

I like most people get frustrated at things, many many things. Today the top 3 things that are my Jekyll/Hyde triggers are; 1. The ‘YES’ voters. Suck it up people, we don’t want daylight savings, deal with it. If it had been the other way around and you guys had won, us ‘NO’s’ would have to put up with it. Stop playa hatin. 2. Rugby, group sex and Matthew Johns. Apparently group sex is endemic in rugby culture and apparently it is ok for the players to just say sorry to the girl they humiliated because she ‘consented.’ I think it is absolutely disgusting that in this day and the progress made for womens rights, the girls involved are still being labelled sluts, whores, tramps etc. Just because she may have been willing at the time does not make what those turds did ok, when you’re half cut with booze you pretty much will say yes to anything. Yes the girl should take responsibility for their actions (stop drinking so much and looking for 5 minutes of WAG fame) but the players need to man up and realise women shouldn’t be treated in this way, it’s humiliating and degrading. 3. Liberal politicians. I have been nerding it up and reading some of the Hansard logs for sessions in the House of Representatives. Yes, I will admit Labor are blowing their own horns half of the time and I was never a Liberal fan but liberal politicians are spineless, idiotic twits. Get a backbone and develop a goal, a plan, a policy, something and maybe admit that previous Liberal governments are really the reason we are in the mess we are. They drove business and profit at the expense of the public and forced interest rates up and didn’t bother implementing any grand plans for future infrastructure. Greasy and slimy. Ok I have had my whinge for the day, hopefully this will keep the ragemonster at bay.

Doppelgangers, we all have them