Well, there was this thread up on my facebook page attacking Richard Dawkins and I felt the need to defend him because there are few enough people out there making the atheist case, so I said something flippant and then when I went back to check the thread a half an hour later of course I got one or two replies from people whose sensitive feelings I’d hurt, saying we should all be respectful of other people’s beliefs and whatnot, but beyond that there were about 30 more comments, some of them really, really long and almost all of them completely devoid of humor.
There was one really interesting one from somebody who claimed to know Dawkins personally, said he’s a really brilliant guy with very limited social skills, which would make him something like Ralph Nader or Mark Zuckerberg. The world needs that kind of people, even if they are a serious pain in the butt sometimes.
Anyway, I abandoned the thread because life is too short and, while I sometimes enjoy a spirited conflict, I don’t enjoy arguing with people who get offended whenever you disagree with them and take it personally that some people don’t share their worldview.
I realized that there is a law at work here, a formula: The more seriously somebody believes in their position, the less likely they are to have a sense of humor about it. PETA, radical feminists, extreme Christians, libertarians, teabaggers, and so on.
So, here’s me: an atheist, pothead, with left of center politics (even by European standards, by American standards I’m off the charts), a serious advocate of space exploration who believes that aliens are definitely out there and we should be trying to find them, and a believer that 9/11 was an inside job.
You have full permission to make fun of any and/or all of my positions. If I get offended, well, then, fuck me.
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