Can We Stop Handing Out Keyboards to Absolutely Everyone?

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I always thought of Dartmouth as one of those places where smart people congregate. Sam Buntz, at theDartmouth.com, has proved me wrong.*



Atheism is a hip new craze so hip and new that Ben Franklin was into it!, according to a recent article in The New York Times, and has supplanted such prior fads as pogs and Pokemon trading cards and Magic the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons! (“More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops**,” April 26). But the nice thing about atheism is that it is easier than pogs and Pokemon yes, being more hated than any other group, is easier than Pokemon. jackass., because you don’t really have to do anything. headdesk You just have to maintain that you don’t ever think something. my forehead will never be the same. i don't ever believe something, which is entirely different from thinking something. let me put it this way: i'm straight. i, a woman, sexually desire men. i also occasionally have sexual thoughts about other women. yes, i'm an atheist, but i do think about supreme beings from time to time. spleenweasel.

The Times accorded this new propulsion warp factor 6! behind non-belief to increased atheist alliances on college campuses. They reported that “The Secular Student Alliance***” currently has 146 chapters — up from 43 in 2003. I’m not sure if we have any similar group at Dartmouth — perhaps all of their events and picnics centered on having not thought a particular thought slipped under my radar i now officially hate you— but there is certainly a noticeable proliferation of atheism and nihilism wtf?! what. the. fuck. does atheism have to do with nihilism? nothing!. I feel that our culture has become so thoroughly unromantic, so disengaged from the religious stories (fictional or not) that have nurtured humanity since the immemorial past, that I can’t conceive of a more irrelevant time to be writing and creating. so don't. i'm sure the world will carry on without your pretentious crap.

I don’t really have a problem with atheism, except that it’s dull and boring. well, i'm sorry we're not sufficiently entertaining for you. next time i'll put on tittie tassles. I’d rather hang out with someone who believes a total lie, as long as it’s a creative, coherent, sophisticated and interesting lie.

you know, i didn't like this sort of pretentious, asshatting, college student beatification of insanity when i was a pretentious, asshatting college student. essentially, he is saying that delusion is more valid than truth sheerly because delusion is interesting. yes, i would find it interesting if somebody actually said that they sincerely believe there is an invisible pink unicorn in their basement. i would not find it admirable.

If you need to lead your life by some narrative no, i don't, hence the atheism, there are a hundred more convincing and interesting narratives than “This all just happened to happen, so let’s adjust ourselves to the joys of binge drinking, presidential elections, the gym and blocking out the utter hollowness of life by humming a merry tune.” ah yes, "atheists are all miserable". that meme is getting a little old. current annoyance aside, i am not depressed, i do not binge drink, yes i totally vote in presidential elections (thought i'm happy sam apparently doesn't), and when did physical fitness become nihilism? The aesthetics of the idea are loathsome. atheism is not aesthetically pleasing enough to you? that's how you decide what the truth is? somebody get me the cattle prod.

next we descend into the "atheists are all mass murdering baby rapers" meme.

I recall reading a debate between Bertrand Russell and a Roman Catholic bishop regarding God, morality, etc. At one point in the argument, Russell concedes that his morality is based on his feelings. As Peter Blair ‘12 noted in his last column (“Missing Morality***,” April 22), from the atheistic perspective, if you get your rocks off from rape and murder, that’s cool. There is no imperative to follow any evolutionarily imprinted idea of morality — especially if it makes you feel good not to. The Columbine killers found it gratifying to mow down their fellow students. They were just following their bliss.

what you are referring to is psychopathy, not atheism. atheists act just like everyone else. try actually researching your offensive opinions next time.

His solution to the problem? A new religion that has more "interest", sufficient "interest" to capture the attention of psychopaths and the mentally ill. No, really. (I have never seen anyone quite so into delusion.)

Many people (myself included) have a problem with this idea. However, I do not blame the spread of nihilistic morality on atheists, but rather on religious people. We simply haven’t furnished an updated story. The Bible and the Koran both need some heavy-handed revision. When the Japanese author Haruki Murakami studied the sarin gas attacks carried out on the Tokyo Subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, he came to the conclusion that most of the cult members were just normal people who hadn’t found an interesting enough story in the sterile, secular world of modern-day Japan. They ended up turning to a fantasy story that quickly evolved into a doomsday scenario straight out of Stephen King’s “The Stand.” Murakami’s conclusion was that we, as a society, owe it to other people — and to ourselves — to provide a fresh, adaptable story that can help us lead wholesome, decent lives.

I don't even know what to say about this. it's ridiculous. it's insane. more to the point, it's fucking stupid. Stooopid.

*crap, has he "proved" me wrong, or "proven me wrong"? I'm so annoyed, I don't even know.

** thanks for making me link it, lazy asshat.

*** links, you lazy asshatting asshat!