Random musings

[Diddy]

I understand exactly what you are saying. I don't see why a simple way to think about it like that isn't an option for people to avoid the BS and stop trying to legislate our children into stupidity in the name of religion.

Because people are afraid to admit they don't know everything.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

y'inz

[tlombard]

I understand exactly what you are saying. I don't see why a simple way to think about it like that isn't an option for people to avoid the BS and stop trying to legislate our children into stupidity in the name of religion.

Because people are afraid to admit they don't know everything.

That is a problem. I will admit that I don't know jack about much of anything but that doesn't shut me up. Yay Internet!!!

I also have a not quite fully baked yet entirely cynical on religion and it's origins. Back in the beginning before we had an understanding about how anything in the world works, the thing that made the most sense to humans was the idea of a god or gods. With no other knowledge it brought some kind of order to the seeming chaos around them. I get the appeal of religion then. However at some point science started threatening the power that religious leaders had so they actively started trying to stifle any science that would threaten their power.

I'm not trying to say that the leaders of your local church are on a power trip, they honestly believe and that's great for them and those they lead. I admit that I could be completely wrong about their not being a God. I'm really just more cynical about the church back a few hundred years ago when science started making more progress.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Post-modernists' penchant for saying "y'all." Yuck

English lacks the second-person plural informal - like "vosotros" in Spanish. "You guys" or "you all" is clunky. Y'all is very useful.

I don't have the ability to pull off y'all, I've found 'folks' works pretty well though.

[Numbers]

Post-modernists' penchant for saying "y'all." Yuck

English lacks the second-person plural informal - like "vosotros" in Spanish. "You guys" or "you all" is clunky. Y'all is very useful.

I don't have the ability to pull off y'all, I've found 'folks' works pretty well though.

I came from the Lead Belt and y'all was a little to sophisticated for us. We used you'ns

[Diddy]

I understand exactly what you are saying. I don't see why a simple way to think about it like that isn't an option for people to avoid the BS and stop trying to legislate our children into stupidity in the name of religion.

Because people are afraid to admit they don't know everything.

That is a problem. I will admit that I don't know jack about much of anything but that doesn't shut me up. Yay Internet!!!

I also have a not quite fully baked yet entirely cynical on religion and it's origins. Back in the beginning before we had an understanding about how anything in the world works, the thing that made the most sense to humans was the idea of a god or gods. With no other knowledge it brought some kind of order to the seeming chaos around them. I get the appeal of religion then. However at some point science started threatening the power that religious leaders had so they actively started trying to stifle any science that would threaten their power.

I'm not trying to say that the leaders of your local church are on a power trip, they honestly believe and that's great for them and those they lead. I admit that I could be completely wrong about their not being a God. I'm really just more cynical about the church back a few hundred years ago when science started making more progress.

I prefer to think of how amazingly brilliant, omniscient if you will, God is. Science just shows us how God created the universe.

[CardsofSTL]

Post-modernists' penchant for saying "y'all." Yuck

English lacks the second-person plural informal - like "vosotros" in Spanish. "You guys" or "you all" is clunky. Y'all is very useful.

I don't have the ability to pull off y'all, I've found 'folks' works pretty well though.

Y'all is great...like if you have more than one person aggravating you and you don't want to be bothered to curse them individually; you can just say EF Y'ALL....I use it frequently in various contexts.

[heyzeus]

"[expletive] Y'all" is basically the guiding ethos of Texas. It's our Magna Carta.

[thrill]

Post-modernists' penchant for saying "y'all." Yuck

English lacks the second-person plural informal - like "vosotros" in Spanish. "You guys" or "you all" is clunky. Y'all is very useful.

I don't have the ability to pull off y'all, I've found 'folks' works pretty well though.

Just binge watch Friday Night Lights and you won't be able to stop yourself from saying y'all.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Why are the shoelaces that come with a new pair of shoes always way too long?