urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv i refuse to bicker with you morons. thelusiv 2005-02-08T03:18:03Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:2675 2005-02-08T03:18:03Z 2005-02-08T03:18:03Z the lonesome american choo-choo don' wan' stop here any mo' recently one of my very good friends has gotten into christianity. rather than argue with that person i will just post my beliefs on the subject here.<br /><br />the problems with christian beliefs starts at its core, the bible. this document has a lot of problems, ranging from small inconsistencies to direct contradictions. <a hef="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html">there are lists of them on the internet.</a> some of its content could be easily classified as mythology and fantasy. it is not a correct book - just a fun book to read.<br /><br />some of the biggest problems of the bible come with what's in it - such as the idea that it (itself) is absolutely, perfectly correct. thus the bible can be used to "prove" just about anything - as long as it says so in the bible. you can "prove" that gays should be killed, and that blacks should be slaves, and that women aren't as good as men. the bible contains some serious moral contradictions - a moderately sensible person can see these things are unacceptable. consider this argument:<br /><br />gays should be killed.<br />why?<br />because it says so in the bible.<br />but how do you know the bible's right?<br />because in the bible, it says that it is right.<br />well i question the voracity of the bible.<br />it says not to do that in the bible. it says if you do that, you will go to hell.<br />i don't want to go to hell!<br />well then you must believe what it says in the bible.<br />why?<br />because it says so in the bible.<br />...<br /><br />some might say, the bible is not to be taken completely seriously. one should pick the good parts out, and believe those. that jesus guy, he said a lot of good things. well, the bible defines a christian as a person who believes <b>all</b> of what it says. so, if you only believe some of what it says, you're no longer a true christian are you? you merely have similar beliefs to a christian.<br /><br />still others say, well i believe everything in the bible, but i have my own interpretation of it. well, everyone has their own interpretation of it, and everyone's interpretation is different. did the original authors of the bible (presumably god) intend to leave it open for anyone's interpretation? if so, and the bible says that it is a perfectly true document, but anyone can interpret it to mean whatever they want, then the bible can be used to prove <i>anything</i>, including those things that <b>aren't</b> in the bible!<br /><br />thus the bible can not be trusted to prove anything true. sure, it may be a good read (if that is your opinion), and there may be some good things in it. however, if you believe that you are a christian, then you believe that everything in the bible is true. if you also believe that "all people are equal", then you do not truly believe everything in the bible, and thus you are not a christian either.<br /><br />unfortunately, the bible tells christians that non-christians are in grave danger and need to be saved. christians thus are constantly trying to convince their non-christian relatives or friends that they need to be saved and should believe the things in the bible. this is a big problem for non-christians because they have such strong moral convictions, including things like "all people are equal".<br /><br />for this reason, non-christians don't often feel the need to convince their christian friends that they are wrong, as christians do. they do not wish to try to convert others to their ways, they simply wish to be allowed to have their own beliefs. they don't wish to drive away their family and friends who believe differently from them. they don't wish to try to take on the rest of humanity and tell them all what to believe.<br /><br />i don't consider myself a christian. this doesn't mean i don't have morals. i simply don't have a religion. there is an interesting movement on the internet someone introduced me to called <a href="http://www.the-brights.net/">the brights</a>, whose purpose is to serve as an umbrella for people who hold a naturalistic (non-supernatural) worldview. this is not however, my religion, i only agree with the things they say.<br /><br />that's what i believe, take it or leave it. i respect everyone else's right to believe what they want. all i expect in return is for everyone to respect my right to do the same. can't we all just get along, regardless of what we believe? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:2555 2004-08-21T16:32:23Z 2004-08-21T16:32:23Z silence All are invited to this fall's first Installfest. <a href="http://clug.parl.clemson.edu/">The Clemson Linux User Group (CLUG)</a> and <a href="http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/">Clemson Linux Initiative (CLI)</a> are co-sponsoring this event to promote the use of Free software at Clemson. <br><br><br /><br />The event will start at noon and last five hours on Saturday, August 28, 2004. We will be in the first floor of the M wing of Martin hall, above the computer lab. There will be a short presentation on installing Linux and using your computer with Linux. <br><br><br /><br />Not only will we be installing Linux, we will also help you set up any special hardware your computer has, such as wireless cards, printers, cameras, etc., to work in your computer. There are also certain software titles you can get for Linux through Clemson licensing. <br><br><br /><br />Apple users that attend can get help setting up wireless, and installing Clemson-licensed software on their Mac OS X computers. We can set your computer up to run Linux or to dual-boot Linux and another operating system. <br><br><br /><br />Check out the <a href="http://clug.parl.clemson.edu/staticpages/index.php/installfest-20040728">Installfest page on the CLUG web site</a> for more information. <br><br><br /><br />The details, again:<br><br />Clemson Linux Installfest<br><br />Date: Saturday Aug 28, 2004<br><br />Location: Martin Hall M101-M105, 12:00 pm<br><br />Price: Free<br><br />CLUG Web site: <a href="http://clug.parl.clemson.edu/">http://clug.parl.clemson.edu/</a><br><br />CLI Web site: <a href="http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/">http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/</a><br> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:2086 2004-08-10T15:05:50Z 2004-08-10T15:05:50Z i saw this written in a bathroom stall this morning.<br /><table><tr><td valign="top" align="center"><br /><b>O</b><br />p<br />e<br />r<br />a<br />t<br />i<br />o<br />n<br /></td><td valign="top" align="center"><br /><b>I</b><br />r<br />a<br />q<br />i<br /></td><td valign="top" align="center"><br /><b>L</b><br />i<br />b<br />e<br />r<br />a<br />t<br />i<br />o<br />n<br /></td></tr></table><br />then i laughed. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:2046 2004-07-19T05:17:52Z 2004-07-19T05:17:52Z eric the half-bee i have wondered what <a href="http://everything2.com/?node=grunties">grunties</a> are since i heard the monty python sketch <a href="http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/are_you_embarrassed_easily.htm">are you embarrassed easily?</a> from <i>monty python's previous record</i> (1972). i have finally found that grunties are a british euphemism for testicles. isn't that lovely? now i will try to use it in a few sentences.<br /><br /><i>he had trouble hurdling over the electric fence because one of his grunties was caught on the barbed wire.</i><br /><br /><i>today i took my dog to the vet, so they could remove his grunties.</i><br /><br /><i>i once met a man who was a hermaphrodite. he had a cooter under his grunties!</i> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:1758 2004-07-19T03:58:37Z 2004-07-19T03:58:37Z finally, i have proved it. using two ridiculous american myths, i have proved that God is a fag! yes, that's right. since rainbows are for homosexuals and God lives in the sky, God therefore must be a homosexual. this photograph i took provides irrefutable proof.<br /><center><a href="http://sqrville.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=photos&amp;id=100_1501"><img src="http://sqrville.org/gallery/albums/photos/100_1501.sized.jpg" alt="God is a fag."></a></center> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:1336 2004-07-16T06:57:15Z 2004-07-16T06:57:15Z my bloody valentine - soon <a href="http://www.freemars.org/jeff/2exp100/answer.htm">this is a wonderful way to relax your brain.</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:1095 2004-07-15T16:09:15Z 2004-07-15T16:09:15Z primus - my name is mud i woke up early this morning (early as in 9:15). i took a shower and started doing some chores around the house. noticing that several of the trash cans were full, i gathered up the bags and took them outside. i opened the trash bin and was greeted with the usual trash bin kind of smells. blech. i deposited my bags of refuse in the bin and then started to wheel it to the dumpster. i was arrested not two steps away by the acrid stench of death. i looked down to my feet and there were lots of flies...but i couldn't make out what they were on. then i remembered the sound of the lawn mower from earlier this morning, and the dead bird that hit the neighbor's window about a week ago...and i guessed that the smell i had just encounteed was that of a week old dead bird, puréed by the minimum wage mower man on his industrial strength ride-on lawnmower. that guy makes some sort of mess for me to clean up in the yard every week, i swear.<br /><br /><a href="http://sqrville.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=photos&amp;id=100_1583"><img src="http://sqrville.org/gallery/albums/photos/100_1583.sized.jpg"></a><br /><center>the bird, last week, directly after death</center><br /><br />so i scooped up the remains of the bird with a shovel. the dismembered chunks of meat had attracted a lot of flies - the nasty looking kind with the shiny purple backs that only seem attracted to the really stinky shit - they must have accumulated as the rotting flesh baked in the hot morning sun. after gathering most of the bird's remains along with some dirt and grass for good measure, and dumping it into my trash bin, i proceeded to the dumpster.<br /><br />when i got to the dumpster i encountered yet another noxious fume. this time, however, it was one i immediately recognized - poo. not your average-grade standard poo, no, this was something stronger, like...dog poo or horse poo. i stopped dead in my tracks, eyeing the scene carefully, not wanting to plant my foot into some canine's well-marked territory. not seeing anything in the grass, i proceeded to the dumpster door but was met by an unnavigable mess of flies. they must have smelled it too, big horse flies buzzing like hell. i went around to the other side of the dumpster and, holding my nose, opened it and my trash bin. i quickly deposited the contents of my bin into the dumpster, shut the door, picked up my lid and left without looking back. the flies could keep the smell, whatever it was.<br /><br />so that's what i get for getting up early and taking a shower. from now on i'm going back to waking up at 11:15. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:872 2004-07-13T06:24:20Z 2004-07-13T06:24:20Z elevator jazz i have recently written an article on my web site about <a href="http://sqrville.org/article.php?story=269">the philippic</a>. it was an underground newspaper we ran at <a href="http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/hillcrh/">hillcrest high</a> about the idiotic dress code, our idiotic principle talmadge gray, our idiotic fellow students, and more. this story tells about our daring escapades distributing the paper, our exciting time writing for it, and the orgasmic fountains of sarcasm we writ therein. you can find all four original issues of <a href="http://sqrville.org/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=12">the sarcastic hillcrest high school underground anti-dress code principal gray hatred lovechild paper</a> there also. enjoy. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:596 2004-07-09T23:24:25Z 2004-07-09T23:24:25Z here is a list of songs i like from the 90's...my friend <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~siamesesem/">siamesesem</a> wanted my help but my list was too long for a comment. this is a list of good songs that got played on the radio or mtv for at least some period of time ("hits"). i tried to group them by bands but they are in no other particular order than the order in which i remembered them.<br /><ul><br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"<br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock"<br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm"<br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"<br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"<br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "Tonight, Tonight"<br /><li>Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"<br /><li>Stone Temple Pilots - "Creep"<br /><li>Stone Temple Pilots - "Plush"<br /><li>Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Empty"<br /><li>Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song"<br /><li>Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby"<br /><li>Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart"<br /><li>Radiohead - "Creep"<br /><li>Radiohead - "High and Dry"<br /><li>Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"<br /><li>Hum - "Stars"<br /><li>White Zombie - "More Human Than Human"<br /><li>Foo Fighters - "I'll Stick Around"<br /><li>Veruca Salt - "Seether"<br /><li>The Flaming Lips - "She Don't Use Jelly"<br /><li>Beck - "Loser"<br /><li>Beck - "Where It's At"<br /><li>Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun"<br /><li>Soundgarden - "Fell On Black Days"<br /><li>Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name"<br /><li>Rage Against the Machine - "Bulls On Parade"<br /><li>Ben Folds Five - "Brick"<br /><li>Self - "Cannon"<br /><li>Tori Amos - "Cornflake Girl"<br /><li>Alice in Chains - "Would"<br /><li>Alice in Chains - "Rooster"<br /><li>Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box"<br /><li>Alice in Chains - "I Stay Away"<br /><li>Alice in Chains - "Them Bones"<br /><li>Tragically Hip - "Ahead by a Century"<br /><li>Poe - "Trigger Happy Jack"<br /><li>Jane's Addiction - "Been Caught Stealin'"<br /><li>Jane's Addiction - "Jane Says"<br /><li>Porno for Pyros - "Pets"<br /><li>Red House Painters - "Rollercoaster"<br /><li>Cake - "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle"<br /><li>Cake - "The Distance"<br /><li>Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"<br /><li>Liz Phair - "Supernova"<br /><li>Liz Phair - "Whip-Smart"<br /><li>Local H - "Bound for the Floor"<br /><li>Eels - "Novocaine for the Soul"<br /><li>10,000 Maniacs - "Because the Night"<br /><li>Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"<br /><li>Red Hot Chili Peppers - "My Friends"<br /><li>Green Day - "Basket Case"<br /><li>Green Day - "When I Come Around"<br /><li>Green Day - "Longview"<br /><li>The Rentals - "Friends of P"<br /><li>Elastica - "Car Song"<br /><li>Elastica - "Connection"<br /><li>Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot"<br /><li>Garbage - "Queer"<br /><li>Garbage - "Only Happy When it Rains"<br /><li>Hayden - "Bad As it Seems"<br /><li>The Jayhawks - "Blue"<br /><li>Marilyn Manson - "Lunchbox"<br /><li>Marilyn Manson - "Sweet Dreams"<br /><li>Marilyn Manson - "The Beautiful People"<br /><li>Marilyn Manson - "Tourniquet"<br /><li>Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"<br /><li>Nine Inch Nails - "The Perfect Drug"<br /><li>Blind Melon - "Galaxie"<br /><li>Blind Melon - "No Rain"<br /><li>Bjork - "Human Behavior"<br /><li>Bjork - "Army of Me"<br /><li>Bjork - "It's Oh So Quiet"<br /><li>REM - "Losing My Religion"<br /><li>REM - "What's the Frequency Kenneth"<br /><li>REM - "Man on the Moon"<br /><li>Matthew Sweet - "Sick of Myself"<br /><li>Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"<br /><li>The Magnificent Bastards - "Mockingbird Girl"<br /><li>The Stone Roses - "Love Spreads"<br /><li>The Breeders - "Cannonball"<br /><li>The Cure - "Friday I'm in Love"<br /><li>Toad the Wet Sprocket - "All I Want"<br /><li>Toad the Wet Sprocket - "Fall Down"<br /><li>Tool - "Sober"<br /><li>Tool - "Stinkfist"<br /><li>Tripping Daisy - "I Got a Girl"<br /><li>Tripping Daisy - "Pirhanas"<br /><li>Cracker - "Low"<br /><li>Cracker - "Euro Trash Girl"<br /><li>Cracker - "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"<br /><li>Folk Implosion - "Natural One"<br /><li>Our Lady Peace - "Starseed"<br /><li>Pearl Jam - "Black"<br /><li>Pearl Jam - "Yellow Ledbetter"<br /><li>Pearl Jam - "Corduroy"<br /><li>The Cranberries - "Zombie"<br /><li>The Cranberries - "Linger"<br /><li>Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun"<br /><li>Weezer - "Buddy Holly"<br /><li>Weezer - "Undone (the Sweater Song)"<br /><li>Everclear - "Santa Monica"<br /><li>Deadeye Dick - "New Age Girl"<br /><li>The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"<br /><li>Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel the Pain"<br /><li>Aphex Twin - "Come to Daddy"<br /><li>Beastie Boys - "So What'cha Want"<br /><li>Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"<br /><li>Bloodhound Gang - "Fire Water Burn"<br /><li>Sponge - "Plowed"<br /><li>Sponge - "Molly (Sixteen Candles)"<br /><li>Sponge - "Wax Ecstatic"<br /><li>Candlebox - "Far Behind"<br /><li>Dave Matthews Band - "Ants Marching"<br /><li>Dave Matthews Band - "Satellite"<br /><li>Dave Matthews Band - "Crash Into Me"<br /><li>PJ Harvey - "Down by the Water"<br /><li>Nada Surf - "Popular"<br /><li>Local H - "Bound for the Floor"<br /><li>Local H - "All the Kids Are Right"<br /><li>Ween - "Push th' Little Dasies"<br /><li>Blur - "Girls & Boys"<br /><li>Blur - "Song 2"<br /><li>EMF - "Unbelievable"<br /><li>Tom Petty - "You Dont Know How it Feels"<br /><li>Tom Petty - "Mary Jane's Last Dance"<br /></ul> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thelusiv:505 2004-07-09T17:23:03Z 2004-07-09T17:23:03Z silence. i swore i wouldn't get a livejournal but now they're free, so whatever. i don't really want to get involved in any of the bullshit drama that goes on here. if i insult you, just grin and bear it, because i won't be responding to your replies.