No matter how open-minded...

[GenericAmerican]

Remember, an open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.

Also I cannot grasp why religious people and evolutionists have to fucking bicker all the time; I don't see the importance in either of your "religions" so just stfu and gtfo.

 

[IrishSim]

Anti-marijuana laws, and the morons who defend them.

Pro-marijuana laws, and the morons who advocate them.

 

[IrishSim]

Personally, I do'nt understand why, this day in age, we glorify gang culture. Why would being low-life scum be cool in any way,shape, or form?

 

[Da Orky Man]

People who can't play a music instrument. What I mean is, someone who listens to a piece of music they adore so much that they don't have the urge to 'join in' by playing an instrument/sing/dance or some other way of expression.
They must be dead inside.

Also, people who believe freedom of speech is a forcefield in which they can hide behind whilst being prejudiced without consequence.

Hypocrites/Irony makers. Very prominent in Politics and On-line competitive gaming.

No Englishman having the knowledge of the Welsh struggle to establish its identity as a separate country. What? The Welsh voting in a complete majority against flooding a village to form a reservoir to provide England with water and it goes ahead regardless never happened? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Celyn When Britain built bomb-schoolswhere they taught children how to build bombs during the world wars, they listened to protest groups in England but not in Wales [link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penyberth[/link]. The language being suppressed. A political party promising to create Welsh language channel and then going back on their word. None of this happened. Because they English don't care enough to teach other English people about this. And so we get sheep-shagger jokes whilst they wonder why the Welsh dislike the English.

Black and White stance of Religion. Both extremes I don't understand. Both accuse each other for being ignorant and closed minded. Surely then both sides are? The Atheists who refuse to believe in a deity with poor reasoning and the people who blindly believe without reflection and criticism. A middle ground is a good place to start. But never go too far to one end. It leads to stagnation and a stubbornness to accept change.

People who criticise people's grammar or spelling on-line without punctuating properly. I.E. no starting capital letter and no full stop (MMOs and general gaming text logs).

The Welsh language is hardly being suppressed. I was born in Aberystwyth, have lived in Wales my whole life (17 years), and we were taught Welsh up to GCSE with optional A-level. If anything, they're encouraging it. It may encourage us to actually learn it should more than two small countries in the world actully speak it.

 

[LiquidGrape]

The rampant misogyny of the internet. I see so much of that crap online I'm starting to wonder exactly how many people secretly hold those views but only have the guts to make them known in the safety of world wide anonymity.

Seriously. Aren't we better than this?

 

[Pandabearparade]

Pro-marijuana laws, and the morons who advocate them.

No one is advocating 'pro-marijuana' laws. Decriminalizing something doesn't imply that it should be encouraged or subsidized.

 

[hotacidbath]

Laziness in my field. Being a zookeeper is a physical job that requires you to work on holidays, get shit at on a regular basis, requires tossing 50-75 lb feed bags around, working in all types of weather, and is not a get rich kind of field. It is a job that you do because you love it and I just don't understand people that get into this and become lazy fucks. I was in an unpaid internship with someone who worked really hard to make sure she did as little work as possible. If you're going to act like that, than why even take the internship? It's not about your personal comfort, it's about making sure the animals are clean, healthy, and happy no matter what.

I also can't comprehend people that don't like being outside. Part of the reason I became a zookeeper is because I get to work outside and most of my friends love camping, mountain climbing, fishing/hunting, hiking, etc. and so it boggles my mind when people prefer the indoors. I'm happiest when I'm in the woods.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

People that hate on Bronies.

Ok you don't like it. I understand. Don't need to be al up in my face about it.

OH.
And the "cool people" who smoke behind the school.
Hahahaha no.
I don't care where you might be in 10 years, this is where you are now, and it's not good.

 

[The-Bad-Blooded]

people saying they belong to a faith, yet only believe SOME parts, (which are usually the parts that make them sound better) and not the whole faith.
or people who mold their faith to fit their lifestyle... that's not how it works people.
you mold your lifestyle to fit your beliefs, not the other way around.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I don't understand how some people can ignore or reject their intellectual curiosity as they get older. No, I'm not referring to those who do not seek a higher education. I am referring to those who chose to live life knowing as little as possible about the world, regardless of how much or little it affects them and their existence.

I have always been fascinate with the unknown and have always asked questions since I was able to speak regard my curious interests. Throughout my quest of intellectual enlightening, I have learned so much about the world that I would not have known if I did not seek it myself. I believe that I have become more tolerable and understand of the world we live in and hope for the best possible outcome to any problems that we might face.

 

[Lazier Than Thou]

I don't understand people that don't think. I don't mean people that act impulsively, I do so and it's not hard to figure out why you would do something foolish based upon the emotion of the moment. I mean people that don't consider, well, the most important things in life.

A specific example of this would be an apatheistic. Someone who is apathetic to theistic stuff. Not an atheist or theist specifically, but someone that just doesn't care. Consider the fact that you'll spend more time in the duration of the universe dead than alive and you can clearly see the ramifications on knowing what you believe and why.

But this also applies to people that blindly follow anything. I believe in God and am a religious person, but I've never been content to just say "'cause the Bible says so." Why does the Bible say so? What caused that individual to put those words to the page?

But it also applies to people that don't have faith. They get to the same question I get to and stop and I don't understand why. Just because you don't have a reason for something doesn't mean it's not true. It's neither shocking, nor particularly unusual to not know something. We are mortal, flawed by design, and our "knowledge" is puny, almost entirely insignificant when compared to the glut of knowledge and information theoretically obtainable. To write something off simply because you nor anyone you know has an answer is completely without merit.

It goes further and deeper. The people that acknowledge A = B and that B = C, but never put A and C together. People that cloud their thoughts with emotion, assigning personal significance to individual words. People that will not listen, just because they don't like the package it comes in. People that hear an argument, but don't bother trying to understand it.

I understand laziness. I understand apathy. I don't understand willful ignorance.

 

[Titan Buttons]

I don't understand the 'hate' of a child being in a public place, are we ment to lock them away somewhere or forbid families from taking their children out of the house until they stop crying and replace it with screaming actual words?

I don't worry too much about what others think: we're all different.
Some things piss me off, though, at times. -_-
Stereotyping things/people is an important one.

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.

I agree with what you're saying and see where you're cong from, being a very opinionated atheist as well, but even I have to admit to understanding that some people have faith simply as a comfort. Although I also see that as a huge weakness.

Also, I agree with this. Religion gives that comfort some people need. And if you're strong, you don't need that comfort.

I don't understand how you relate the comfort a religion can potentially give to an individual to strength? For example, you can be the strongest person out of everyone you know and still scared of death.

 

[Nickolai77]

No matter how open minded i may be, i can't understand how this thread has made it to 22 pages... :/

 

[gonzo20]

VERY LONG POST

i suppose i see your point, i can be pretty close minded about things so i make points and dont have the means to back them up and i do think that maybe they should ask the prisoners why they decided to do the thing they did and possibly help them out with the problem and teach them stuff that helps them live a standard human life

 

[repeating integers]

...I just read a news story about a woman who put her neighbour's cat in a microwave in revenge for this neighbour supposedly "destroying her relationship". She only got 168 days in prison for it.

Fuck, I need to stop reading these stories. I will never understand the minds of crazy people.

 

[3aqua]

Sadists and those who hurt other for no reason more then 'just because I can'

 

[Grunt_Man11]

I'm sorry but that is just so very stupid I had to reply.

Warning, rant ahead.

Religion implies faith. Atheism is the lack of faith in a religion. Atheists do no have to believe in ANY of the things you just said.

And let me make this as clear as possible, I don't care if I sound like a dick. EVERY SINGLE RELIGION IS WRONG. There has not, is not, and never will be a religion that doesn't contain a massive amount of contradictions and ridiculous claims with no evidence that make anything they claim either paradoxical, and thus impossible or just stupid and wrong. It is in every way perfectly acceptable to mock people who are wrong and refuse to accept that they are wrong.

And why doesn't anyone ever consider what faith means (at least the way it's used 99 % of the time)? Faith is the believe in something without reasonable evidence for the validity of said thing. Faith is illogical.
Your religions are illogical.

The atheists who complain are people who are annoyed by that kind of thing.

And have you perhaps considered that people might get angry at the several religions that insult, mock and belittle them?

Am I not allowed to get mad at a book that says all of my accomplishments mean nothing because I do not believe in god?

Am I not allowed to get mad at a book that says one of my best friends will go to hell for all eternity because hes gay, and calls it justice?

Am I not allowed to get angry at the fact that people follow this book like everything (well not actually everything, just what they've nitpicked) it says is fact?

I should just say nothing about any of this, because it's polite?

I'm sorry but no. Screw you, screw your faith, and screw that.

Thanks for proving me right, and thanks for proving Atheists as the most bigoted and intolerant people on the internet.

You claim what I said was "stupid" yet your post is filled with the same kind of idiotic ignorance, hatred, and arrogance as displayed by the Crusaders, Spanish Inquisition, and Third Reich.

Now on to those "books" you ranted about. Have you, or your friends, ever tried ignoring them? I mean if you don't believe in what they say, then what they say should have no affect on you right?
Unless of course, you're not actually an atheist and do believe in what they say. If so, then I suggest you come to terms with that as soon as possible.

No you are not allowed to hate someone because they don't see eye to eye with you. It's not socially acceptable anymore. This is the 21st century after all. Just the same as it's not socially acceptable to hate someone because they have a different skin color then you.

There is no constitutional right that says you have the right to rage at, and bully, people who follow a religion that differs from your own. (Yes, I just called Atheism a religion again. Don't like it? Too bad, cry more tyrant.)

In fact, you're violating the Constitution and Bill of Rights with your illogical bashing of other religions, and those who believe in them. It's called the Freedom of Religion. They have just as much right to believe in God, as you have to not believe in God.

But by all means keep up the illogical hatred, you're making Hitler proud.
However you're making the rest of us logical people who accept the fact that everyone is different, and are willing to tolerate them believing in something we might not believe in, ashamed to be of the same species as you.

(The preceding was NOT brought to you by some religious nut. It was brought to you by a rational human who is sick of seeing douchbags, who refuse to learn from history, trying to justify intolerance and hatred.)

 

[IamQ]

I can't get how people can hurt other people, who they have nothing against and have never meet, and enjoy it. I mean, if I'm really angry at someone, and I hit them, most likley I feel good, because then I think they deserved it for doing whatever they did towards me. But if I've never even seen them or met them before, I would feel horrible. I'm always thinking about it when reading about those places the U.S send people to be tortured in (Because if the torture isn't in the united states, then that means they can still say that they don't support torture. Hypocrits.). I mean, somehow they find people who are willing to hurt people to extreme lenghs, every day, for years. How are they thinking when doing such things? I just can't wrap my head around it.

 

[IrishSim]

Pro-marijuana laws, and the morons who advocate them.

No one is advocating 'pro-marijuana' laws. Decriminalizing something doesn't imply that it should be encouraged or subsidized.

True, however I still think it is a bad idea to legalize weed. So I have my opinion and you have yours, leave it at that and let's see what happens.