by Dongtini — Episode 103
March 14, 2014 in Podcast by dongtini
On this episode: our mixed and complicated emotions around Daylight Savings Time, our mixed and complicated emotions about God’s benevolance, you can learn juicy shit about your guy friends from the Lulu app, Simone yelled at a litterer, email forwarding idiocy still exists after all these years, and we are amused by irresponsible abuses of the 911 system.
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Story on Iris Law taking ecstasy at Danny Goffey’s son’s party.
- Simone was the guest on episode 10 back in December! She sang a lot more than she ever should. Click the image to listen!
- This lady’s need to get boned is an emergency.
Closing song: Weird Al Yankovic — “Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me”
I didn’t become an Atheist over just one thing but definitely one of the biggest factors for me was the stuff you guys discussed here. I liked the God in the Bible, that guy may have had his faults but at least he showed up and took action in response to need. I grew up loving that God, I wanted to become a pastor because I believed in that God. But that God doesn’t exist, that much is pretty clear. Whenever something happens it’s because someone either did something for themselves or someone else did something for them. God only seems to show up afterwards to demand all the credit for shit he didn’t do. Why not just cut out the middle man and admit we are alone in this and we only have our fellow humans to depend on?
If God can’t actually intervene then he’s not God. There is this modern God I keep hearing about who sits among us in our brokeness and hurt and weeps with us. Fuck that shit. You know who can weep about the brokeness of the world? Me. Also everyone else. An impotent, toothless, weepy god is worthless, I don’t see why you would even want that. We are already sad and powerless enough, we don’t need gods to join this club.
So the biggest reason I’m an Atheist today is because the more I looked for God the more I found people. I don’t think it’s an unfair conclusion that God is just something we use to justify our best and/or worst ideas. I realised I could do fine without and my life got no better or worse for it.
Yes. basically I’m an Atheist who is mad at God for not existing!
Coincidentally I’ve been growing a beard for the exact reason Simone mentioned! Shaving is a chore and no one in my life cares about my facial hair so I decided, screw it, I’m giving up shaving for lent. It’s itchier than I thought it would be…