Hello, interwebs

For once, the month-long lapse between posts was not my fault. Phone company basically fucked us over and for the last 4 weeks, roughly, I've been without internet at home. Which, as you might have cleverly deduced, prevents me from blogginating, amongst a fuckton of other things.
It did give me time to do a lot of other stuff, though. Like playing through Golden Sun 1 & 2 and Phantasy Star 4, rereading most of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, watching Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog a stupidly high number of times, and finally rewatching all of Firefly, plus Serenity. It's better the second time. Also, read too much Cthulhu mythos stuff and found my new god in Yog-Sothoth.

In other, more-like-the-usual-subjects-of-my-blog news, Kent Hovind recently published an interview with Ardipithecus. Yes. It's just as stupid as it sounds. Assuming you know who and what Kent Hovind and Ardipithecus are, cause if you don't it's going to sound more baffling than anything else. Anyway.

One of the best parts: someone who purports himself to be an an expert on evolutionary biology, indeed, more so than any actual evolutionary biologist, ridicules paleontology in general and considers it to be useless. Almost tops the fact that Kent motherfucking Hovind feels he can take the moral high ground. A lecture on how we're trying to use our beliefs as free moral licence is kinda empty when the lecturer is a convicted criminal due to the fact he thought his beliefs gave him permission to commit tax fraud.

Sorry about the rambling nature of this, I just needed to post something, get my thoughts in something vaguely resembling order and assorted etceteras.

Well this is fucked up

If you ever need an example of why basing morality in rigid laws set down thousands of years ago is absolutely retarded, read this piece from answers in genesis.
Apparently, since we are all going to die anyway, you shouldn't lie to protect Jews from Nazis. Delightful, isn't it?

I'd add something else, but frankly, I can't think of anything that would help show exactly how screwed up this is. It really stands for itself.

Euphrates

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So the Euphrates, river from the cradle of civilization, etc, etc, is drying up. And of course, this means the world is ending.

No, seriously. Turns out the book of Revelation (AKA "John's biblically proportioned trip") predicts the great river is going to dry, and obviously all the nutjobs came out saying this is proof we are in the End Times and Judgement Day is approaching and all the other shit commonly associated with the aforementioned claims.

Of course, if you take five minutes to think about it you realise that it's not particularly surprising he predicted the river would dry. Rivers dry, it has already happened once or twice in history, and I think John was aware of that. Euphrates = important river, important river drying up = catastrophe like the other ten thousand John predicted, and really, saying that a river will dry up at some indeterminate point in the future does not provoke a reaction of "HOW DID HE KNOW???!!!ASDFKHG" on me. Yes, asdfkhg included.

Not to mention, anyone who bothered to check the relevant chapter would realise there's a few things that have to happen before the river dries up. One would think we would've noticed if all the seas and rivers had turned into blood and all aquatic life had ended.

I wonder what they'd say if the Euphrates permanently dried up now. It would kind of screw with their prophecy, wouldn't it?

I'm so fucked up

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There's no other explanation for my actions.
OK, some background. I spend a large amount of my time on FSTDT, a website that collects quotes from fundamentalists all over the internet. I no longer visit the actual archive of quotes regularly, I spend my time mainly on the forums. However, I do vote on Public Administration, which is the system through which the quotes are approved. Part of that stupidity passes by in front of my eyes, while I check the sources and expose myself to even more stupidity to verify the quotes are in context. Anyway, point is, I volunteer to read idiocy from all around the web.
Today, I was bored, and went to 4chan, /b/ specifically. If you don't know what that is, google it or something, I'm not qualified to explain it completely. At one point, it struck me. I had two tabs open in my browser. One was Public Admin. The other was /b/. Why the hell do I continuously expose myself to crap like this? Do I have some sort of fetish for retardation? Am I a mental masochist? What is wrong with me?