Thank you for all the years,
Robert Logan Reep







Proud agnostic here.Black Claw wrote:No we don't pray to worship some god except God. Well those we know who are christians but that's your decision.


Biker gangs are so last decade Midnight.Midnight wrote:We're a gang? Wish someone had bothered to tell me earlier. Now I'll have to roust out my old bike leathers and see if they still fit...

You say "last decade" like it was last century...Aki wrote:Biker gangs are so last decade Midnight.




A lot of it comes down to the fact that it is easier to accept what everybody else says than to actually study things out. I've noticed a LOT of old people complaining that Obama is Muslim, but the truth is, he is SOUTH AFRICAN, or partly so, and the garb that Rightists put out was South African and NOT tranditional Islamic dress. Even though they eventually announced thier "error", I still here people stating those things.Scott Gardener wrote:Us a gang? It's a strange notion, even a silly one, except that someone's actually making real-world decisions based on it. It's amazing how many parents put bizarre restrictions on their children based on rules that make no sense except to the rule-makers themselves. I knew one kid who was told a number of years back that he had to stay away from me because I "talked funny." When I pushed further to figure out what that was about, it turned out that my being a smarter and more educated kid scared that parent, who didn't like my lack of casual mannerisms. I question the quality of parenting that that particular father had in mind for his kid, if diversity and intellectualism were to be presented as a threat rather than something to be welcomed and embraced.
I sometimes get really scared and depressed when I read random opinions in the news, because a lot of voting is done here in the U.S. with equally screwy belief sets. I won't go into Obama versus McCain; just don't vote for Obama because he's young or McCain because he's white. There are, I kid you not, a number of people perfectly convinced that Obama is the Antichrist. It would be funny, except they're voters. It's stupid, but it's having real world consequences. There's a number of people afraid of Obama because they believe he is Islamic. First, most Islamics aren't terrorists any more than most Christians aren't part of the Inquisition. And second, if Obama is Islamic, then why is he also getting flack for things his Christian minister said? Conclusion: Muslims attend Christian services, as long as the pastors make inflammatory racist remarks.
And, remember back in the eighties, when AIDS first hit the news? Everyone who had it was homosexual, but it was also dreadfully contagious. People thought they could get HIV from hand shakes and toilet seats. Conclusion: Shaking hands or using public toilets makes you gay.
Absurd, but people are acting on these notions, making real decisions.

