Thursday, June 30, 2005

This is a random rant of sorts.
Creationists are fucking weird. I mean come on guys, you gotta be kidding me! Check out some of the comments on the site. Simply hilarious. Some of my thoughts on creationists:

1) You're definitely entitled to your beliefs. But please keep the word "science" away from what you believe in.

2) Ignoring for a moment the stuff about evolution, you have to admit that creationism is kind of lacking in the logic/reasoning department. I mean, assuming Darwin was never born and no one has ever heard of the word "evolution", selling creationism as a believable phenomenom to people with a decent amount of reasoning and judgement(a.k.a Non-Sheep) might still be kind of difficult I think?

3) Assuming that creationism is correct, this meant that the planet started out with every single kind of flora and fauna at the very beginning. Yep. That's right folks. We had walking fish, velociraptors and cheetahs all roaming together on the plains of planet earth. This means that the ecosystem at that time must have been massively fucked up. I mean, you had your pick of top predators from every single epoch on earth(from our post-evolution-theory planet) living together. Must have been a really hairy time to live back then. So god created a totally unsustainable ecosystem... that's pretty interesting. Kind of like me playing Sim Life back in the day. Where I'd populate the plains with 10 different superpredators and watch all of them die out due to lack of food. I guess (your)god's a sadist then...

One of the reasons I am writing this rant is because on the plane, this crazy-ass taiwanese american jesus-loving preacher sat beside me. And attempted to convert me over a duration of 12 hours(my flight time). Sadly for him, his efforts came to no avail. This person started off with small talk(they always do that) like,"How is Singapore's economy doing? I've been to Adam Road in Singapore! It's nice." And then proceeded with his main objective,"Ever go to church? No?! Oh you should! Especially for those studying science! You should go to church to widen your horizons!!" Then came the eventual comment that really pissed me off," Christmas. It's the most important day there is. Everyone loves Jesus. That's why EVERYONE in the world celebrates Christmas!" I'm not really sure about the "everyone" here. How about dropping this jesus-lover off somewhere in the non-christian sections of the West Bank. I bet people there would love to show him how they all love jesus.

I'm not done with my rant yet, bitches. Another thing that irks me about this particular religion(and other things...I'll get to that... you'll see) in Singapore:

It's almost used as a class distinction tool in the country. Quite a significant percentage of the higher ups, well-to-dos in society are in this religion. The language used is predominantly English(a sign of being upper-class?). Some of them also tend to look down upon those that speak Mandarin or other dialects. And for those that speak Mandarin or other dialects as their primary language, a large portion of them are not involved in this religion. I think that's pretty messed up. Personally, I feel it's really sad that society has degenerated into this current state. Religion aside, there is nothing low-class about speaking your own dialect or mandarin. People who are Chinese but can't read/write or speak their own language(a.k.a not English) should be ashamed of themselves. Don't give me this,"We are Singapore not China" bullshit. Most of you can't really speak and/or write English correctly either so you might as well shut the hell up. What's really happening in some cases is the desire to make a class distinction, either consciously or subconsciously. Both religion and language in this case have become tools for this goal.
I also like it how China is fast emerging as the next superpower. Sure, there are tons of problems with the country but it's always nice to rub news of her growing success into the faces of those who have dissed their own language and culture. You can see it in their eyes sometimes. The fear and paranoia of it all. Some of them shoot back with every possible argument they can think of, hoping to disprove the news. I find it hilarious. I find it hilarious because their arguments are often poor(I mean, these are folks who know next to nothing about China. There are loads of problems with the country but not the ones they mention due to uhm... lack of knowledge?) and are associated with the "I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! I AM COVERING MY EARS AND EYES TO EVERYTHING!" category. As I've said. You bastards amuse me. :)

2 Comments:

Blogger wifflewiffle said...

Completely agree.

However, it's still too early to say if China's growth is sustainable in the long run, I think.

6:17 PM  
Blogger oviraptor said...

Yo, as I said. I enjoy rubbing it in, agree with you on the long run sustainability issue,

7:28 PM  

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