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Jan. 20th, 2009 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyI love PZ Myers,* I gotta say. He’s bombastic, aggressive, hyperbolic and can at times be a colossal douche.
He can also tear your logical fallacies up one side and down the other.
Every once in a while I get really steamed and want to point out some of the errors people are making in what we will generously call their thinking. But dear Jesus Prime in a tasteless magic cracker, it’s hard to keep up with this relentless pile of stupid. So I link to PZ because he says everything I’d have said, except perhaps with a bit more hyperbole.
There. I’m glad I got that off my chest.
*Yes, you’ve heard the name in the news recently: he’s getting mentioned along with the news that the Vatican has released its list of the worst sins EVARZ. And according to the Vatican, PZ Myers made news as one of the worst sinners in all of history—worse even than, to borrow a phrase from Eddie Izzard, genocidal fuckheads. What is this heinous crime, you ask? Well, PZ tossed a cracker in the trash. And not even a very tasty cracker, at that.
The backlash is enormous.
He can also tear your logical fallacies up one side and down the other.
Every once in a while I get really steamed and want to point out some of the errors people are making in what we will generously call their thinking. But dear Jesus Prime in a tasteless magic cracker, it’s hard to keep up with this relentless pile of stupid. So I link to PZ because he says everything I’d have said, except perhaps with a bit more hyperbole.
There. I’m glad I got that off my chest.
*Yes, you’ve heard the name in the news recently: he’s getting mentioned along with the news that the Vatican has released its list of the worst sins EVARZ. And according to the Vatican, PZ Myers made news as one of the worst sinners in all of history—worse even than, to borrow a phrase from Eddie Izzard, genocidal fuckheads. What is this heinous crime, you ask? Well, PZ tossed a cracker in the trash. And not even a very tasty cracker, at that.
The backlash is enormous.
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Date: 2009-01-20 08:19 pm (UTC)I was just smart, and artistic and sensitive, and taller, with bigger boobs than any of the other kids. Thusly I was bullied relentlessly, until I often was locking myself in the girl's restroom to cry and was thinking of suicide by the age of 11 or so.
The "YOU ARE SATAN'S CHILD, YOUR FATHER WAS A TRAITOR TO GOD AND YOUR MOM IS A DIRTY JEZEBEL" thing happened a bit after my dad died, around 13ish or 14ish.
I think I maybe went to church three more months after that (different church than the school was affiliated with) and then quit for good.