No matter how open-minded...

[Kingpopadopalus]

I don't get PETA, or anonymous, or any extremist group really.

I don't get why people complain about their problems and do nothing to fix it.

I don't get why my neighbor can claim disability checks and then build an addition to his house by himself.

I don't get why people hate ponies.

I don't get what the big deal is if homosexuals marry.

I don't get why I can't like COD and other popular games with out being labeled as a mainstream idiot by my "friends" while I still play games that I enjoy.

I don't get why people think that card games are for 11 year olds or virgins.

I don't get what the obsession is with beauty in our society.

I don't get what the over obsession is with sport and their athletes is.

I don't get why athletes get paid as much as they do.

I don't get why I can be beat up by a black man and him only be charged with assault but if I were to do it, it would become a hate crime as well.

I don't understand why the portrayal of male figures is so terrible/insulting in today's media yet women get to ***** up and down if there is something like the new Dr.Pepper commercial and no one says anything about it.

I don't get feminists who think they can do things better than any man. On that matter I don't get feminists who think the only way to create a well working society is to kick all the men out. (note: I support women's rights and that if they do an equal job as a man that they be treated no differently.)

On my last note, I don't understand why women wear revealing clothes if they don't want people to see that part of them.

Theres much more but I'll stop here.

You don't sound very open minded.

Open minded and not understanding are two different things.

They're pretty much the same thing, save a few subtle nuances.

No, they're not. I don't understand the thought process behind the ideas that I put out there. I accept them just don't understand them.

 

[SD-Fiend]

The religious, I dont get how people can overlook the barbarity and outmoded moral concepts thats rife throughout religion. I dont get how these people can then say they hold the moral high ground, that as an atheist Im spiritually dead and morally suspect.
If Im totally honest it makes me very angry.

Yeeeep. Religion and drugs for me.

Since religion was covered...drugs. I definitely want to risk permanent damage so that I can black out and wake up feeling like shit in some strange place. Sounds like a good time to me.

Drugs rule bro. Just gotta know yer way around them. When in doubt, do pot. Just don't overdo it and it's all good. And by drugs i assume you mean alcohol and cigarettes as well.

And people already beat me to religion as well. Hats off to Kopikatsu!

So other than religion. I guess football and ball-sports in general is something I cant wrap my head around and its fans are some of the most obnoxious pricks ever to grace the planet.
And the sports themselves are usually just a bunch of braindead degenerates kicking a round object around into a net like a bunch of dogs and then get paid ludicrous amounts for it. It's not like they are stopping worldhunger or curing cancer people. It's a bunch of reprobates kicking a ball around... Can we get out of the stone-age please?

that whole thing about sports? it was just... stupid

Oh no! Someone who doesn't agree with me! Ah-bloo-bloo-bloo!

if you didn't care then you didn't have to respond...and saying that about ball sports is just as bad as saying video games are for man children. can you grow up please? they get ludicrous amounts of money because it's entertainment for most people and lots of people would pay to see something they like.

 

[SD-Fiend]

The people who claim Final Fantasy X is good. I mean, it's characters are awful, peripheral gameplay is pure shit, and the writing is among the worst i've seen in games. What do people see in that hideous wart on the ass of gaming?

they like it i guess. subjectivity is a funny thing isn't it

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Faith. And I'm not just talking about religion, I'm talking about other people in general. You either know based on evidence or just making excuses.

This. Skepticism is healthy, people. Don't believe in ghosts, alien sitings, ESP, and new age medicine without evidence. And these same people tend to be skeptical about the wrong things. Evolution and global warming have more evidence then all of your little ghost stories combined.

 

[Thespian]

People who actually prefer and regularly engage in small talk over a meaningful conversation and/or shutting the fuck up and enjoying the ambience.

So many people saying they can't understand religious people. Here is a slightly logical answer:
If [insert deity here] does exist: you will go to heaven or be reborn as a cow or something.
If it doesn't exist: doesn't matter now that you're dead, does it?

I don't know if that is what you believe, or if you were just providing a logical answer... I won't presume either one is true.

But I believe a counter to that is that, just because logically it might serve you best to believe in a god, doesn't mean you will believe in it.

I am a firm believer in logic but things don't always go that way. I can't make myself believe in something just because it would benefit me. Besides, believing in a god because it might get you into heaven and there's no disadvantage isn't really faith so much as it is savvy business sense.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

People who are dicks to others, specifically towards people with religions. They have a religion, get over it. Or just dicks in general, as why they need to be a dick I don't see a proper motive at all. No matter how made I am or upset I can't take it out on someone. No matter how stupid or ignorant someone is I bite my tongue. Maybe mommy and daddy just taught me good manners.

This right here.

Atheists are the worst about this. The number of "religion" replies in this thread is evidence of that.

Every time the subject of religion comes up you get atheists who hop on with their "GOD DOESN'T EXIST" trolling. It's old people, really old. Most of the intolerant, bigoted, and hate filled comments involving the subject of religion on the internet come from atheists. Then they have the nerve to whine when they get the same treatment in return.
Reap what you sow.

I know that not all atheists are like that, and I sure hope most aren't like that, but the same is true for all religions that suffered from the curse of over-zealous members. (And by that I mean all of them.)

Which brings me to a nice bit of irony. Atheism is a religion.

It may not involve the belief in/worship of a theoretical deity(s) or entity(s), but it still involves the belief in/worship of something. Religion is about having faith.

Atheists have faith in science, technology, human ingenuity, and human creativity.
Thus atheism is a religion.

Now many will be angry and upset that I'm calling their believe system a religion but I must ask, why?

There is nothing wrong with atheism being called a religion. Too many have spent too much time trying to demonize the word "religion." I don't understand why they do that though. It just doesn't make sense to me.

It's okay to have faith in something. It doesn't matter if you can physically prove it exists or not. It's perfectly okay to have faith in science, technology, God, Buddha, Ala, Talos, Ponies, the Triforce, Thrall, Spider Man, C-130 cargo planes, a rock, or anything else.

I don't understand why more can't grasp this. It's okay to have faith. It's not okay to belittle people who have faith in things you do not.

Atheism isn't a religion. You could make the argument that certain branches of it require belief (anti-theism, positive atheism), but negative atheism has nothing to do with belief. And the "you have faith in science and technology" argument is, to be blunt, dumb. Science encourages skepticism and places emphasis on evidence above all else. And this is coming from a positive atheist.

 

[Zero Serenity]

Faith. And I'm not just talking about religion, I'm talking about other people in general. You either know based on evidence or just making excuses.

This. Skepticism is healthy, people. Don't believe in ghosts, alien sitings, ESP, and new age medicine without evidence. And these same people tend to be skeptical about the wrong things. Evolution and global warming have more evidence then all of your little ghost stories combined.

I mean when people say they have faith in something. That isn't really true.

 

[PhantomEcho]

Are people still talking about religion? Personally, I was more interested in countering that Final Fantasy X one. Because hey, I thought it was just as moderately entertaining as every OTHER Final Fantasy game I have ever enjoyed. The characters are all just as mediocre and over-the-top as any game in the series, and the writing was right about on par too.

In fact, there was nothing about Final Fantasy X that I wouldn't call utterly 'classic'. It's a perfect example of the series. A game which I enjoyed despite itself.



Now, I do have to reiterate what I said earlier. Religions aren't bad. Religions aren't bad just like ECONOMIC and SOCIAL STRUCTURES aren't inherently good or bad.

Even a despot can be a benevolent. An elected official can be a slimy crook.

It's humans. It's all about humans, and our cruel and inhumane natures.

Some might call this a flaw, others might see it as a strength. Whatever you think it might be, it's certainly worthy of noting.

And for me... it's the one thing I can't quite get my head around.


How can we be such a brilliant species, and yet be so terrifyingly stupid and malicious? I wonder where and when those attributes would have ever come in handy for us.

 

[Ipsen]

This thread is turning to a crucifixion of religious people. For fucks sake, knock it off. I don't care if you don't understand why I have deities. But you don't have to be such an asshole about it. You people assume all religion-based morals are bad and that all religious people hate gays and don't believe in evolution. Did it occur to you people that there's more than one religion and more than one way to follow a religion? Of course it didn't. Because you people don't think. You just look for any excuse to hate those who are different from you. You're no better than the particular kinds of religious people you criticize.

And that's what I don't get. People who assume the worst of all religions and faiths and clearly have never heard of "hypocrisy". Tolerance is a two-way street.

Know what I don't get? Why are not more responses like this.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

HA! I'm going against the norm (at least, I think, but 20 page thread maybe not)! I don't understand people who won't give a certain type of a music a chance. I'm in California, and here people absolutely despise country music, which happens to be my favorite genre. Now, they haven't heard a single song, yet they automatically assume that I'm now a redneck that hates Jews, blacks, gays, democrats, and that I'm one of the "FUCK YEA 'MUHRICA" type of people.

I mean, I really dislike rap, but at least I tried to listen to it. Hell, I even had a phase where I kind of liked it. Then I learned about different kinds and realized that this new music was far better.

 

[Macgyvercas]

The Ponies.

You might want to expand on that so you don't get hit with a low content warning.

OT: For me, it's rap and hip hop. I can't get how people can honestly like that stuff.

This is how

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1HZp4ClFXY

Okay, that was cool.

I guess I should say about 99% of rap, since I make an exception for parody and things are sufficiently nerdy/geeky.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

And the Westburo Baptist church, I understand them a hell of a lot LESS than the above mentioned. Why would you so enthusiastically believe in a God, which may not even exist just like all other Gods, that seeks to bring doom to us all? Why would you be preaching doom and hate so enthusiastically? Why do you seem to ENJOY hateful standpoints? What the hell is wrong with you? Why do you seem to WANT suffering and why do you PRAISE it when it occurs?

Now, UNLEASH THE QUOTES!

As a local resiednt of Kansas, the home state of Westboro:
1. I hate it when people assume EVERYONE HERE MUST be like them.
2. It has been said time and time again here...They ONLY do it to get media coverage, to get their 15 min. of fame (which is WAY overdue to stop now), and some people here also believe that they do it as a front for anti-American activity. There have been many times that they stomp and/or burn American flags, call Americans rather...just wrong things, and have been otherwise effective trolls to everything America stands for.

However, dont believe Mr. Phelps ruse. Again, as a local, I can tell you truthfully, he must be scared out of his mind. My bus driver has a friend in the Patriot Guard (the anti-Westboro people) who has told him that more than once Phelps has WORN A BULLETPROOF VEST TO RALLIES! To that I have to say "If you are preaching Gods 'true word' there, Mister Phelps, dont you think he would protect his messenger? Come on what you afraid of, some Marine going to snap when your protesting his buddies funeral and grap an AR-15 from his car to end you?"

Interesting post, I never knew that.

What pisses me off more is the fact that these people are teaching their hate TO CHILDREN.

No matter their reasons for their hate speeches, that is unforgivable.

 

[CulixCupric]

So what's your one thing that you can't grasp?

illogical fear. Anything that isn't real, like horror movies and games, don't scare me. amnesia the dark descent i played Halloween night, with all the lights off, and it didn't scare me, and i got through the whole game. I find steven king's IT to be hilarious, and i'm going to have to agree with beetlejuice on his view that the exorcist is funny, but mainly it's the priest facial reactions that make me laugh. I'm kinda weird.

 

[xWestie]

One thing I don't understand, is when people get so very, /very/ easily offended by the simplest things. Like.. you look over at someone, however innocently and they quickly shout "What you staring at?" or "Keep looking at me like that and I'll drop you." or whatever.

Or people that can't accept that they're wrong. Even if it's just a simple matter of admitting they've moved something when they're the only person what could have moved it. (Like my dad =/)

 

[coldfrog]

...you try to be, there's always that one thing you can't wrap your head around.

For me, it's people who aren't moved by music, people who are fine with listening to the radio or club music because it's easy to dance to or it's simple, people who don't go looking for music that inspires them or brings out all manner of emotion/feeling to the surface (be it joy, excitement, anger, passion etc). These are the things I can't accept/understand, no matter how wide I open my mind.

So what's your one thing that you can't grasp?

Actually, it's that very thing. Part of it was that I grew up playing and listening to all kinds of music, but also most popular stuff is just... shallow. I remember this was a huge issue between my last girlfriend and I; and what was worse, I tried to understand, but most of the time, if I asked her why she liked it, she'd say either "I just do" or "I can dance to it". Similar when I'd ask her why she didn't like something I liked. She had no music background, but even so she could barely even give a single thing about the music she liked or disliked. And I wanted to try to, I dunno, make her understand, but I guess she just didn't care. I mean, what am I going to do, teach music theory? Explain why a song with complex or unique chord progressions are more interesting than others, and how to recognize that stuff? I dunno. It's just so frustrating to me.

Anyway, I completely agree with your item.

 

[iFail69]

Drugs (tobacco included).

Why would you submit yourself to something that doesn't even feel good (What I tried a few years back, was NOT good so I stopped as soon as I started), will destroy your bank balance as well as your physical condition and generally bring you to harm.

Just, why?

 

[Corporal Yakob]

The whole sympathy for paedophiles thing that goes on around here. I mean whenever it comes up and people naturally get angered by a child being abused, social/tribal creatures that we are, you always get some whiny, bleeding heart oik spouting "You're just like the people that hate homosexuals!"

Because apparently despising those that molest children or entertain the thoughts of doing so means I'm on the same level of people that hate two consensual adults having sex. Then there's the whole "They can't help what they are attracted to!" Well so fucking what? You don't let a pyromaniac burn stuff down because they can't fight of the urge to do so and say "they can't help it, oh well". No you ship them off to therapy and help them with their problem. Same with Kleptomaniacs, you have an impulsive, uncontrollable urge to steal things? Therapy, off you go.

Yet because a Paedophiles issue is sexual in nature I'm being a biggot?

Well personally I wouldn't shed a tear if we just lopped off the genetials of child molesters so maybe I'm more bigoted then you in this horribly offensive way.....

That we live in a world where some people will disrupt soldier's funerals with signs like "Thank God for IEDs" and "God hates fags" and not only will other people not beat some respect into the scum with a heavy iron bar, they will defend their "right" to be so vile.

 

[repeating integers]

The whole sympathy for paedophiles thing that goes on around here. I mean whenever it comes up and people naturally get angered by a child being abused, social/tribal creatures that we are, you always get some whiny, bleeding heart oik spouting "You're just like the people that hate homosexuals!"

Because apparently despising those that molest children or entertain the thoughts of doing so means I'm on the same level of people that hate two consensual adults having sex. Then there's the whole "They can't help what they are attracted to!" Well so fucking what? You don't let a pyromaniac burn stuff down because they can't fight of the urge to do so and say "they can't help it, oh well". No you ship them off to therapy and help them with their problem. Same with Kleptomaniacs, you have an impulsive, uncontrollable urge to steal things? Therapy, off you go.

Yet because a Paedophiles issue is sexual in nature I'm being a biggot?

You're confusing paedophiles and child molesters. The former is a group of people with a sexual attraction towards children. The latter is the group that has acted on that attraction.

There are a couple of the former on these forums, IIRC.