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It didn't take long to realize that the umbrella was useless anyhow, since the remaining drizzle is coming down sideways.

... when rain coming sideways, turn umbrella sideways? That usually works for me... point the blocky bit towards projectile liquid.

First you shove flammable liquid down their craw, then you hold up a match. It's not a terribly complicated proposition.

I guess if we're throwing casual orientation stuff in there, I'd toss the nonexistent hat in as a token irreligious apatheist* that finds theology to be pretty.

I probably wouldn't really recommend Nietzsche to someone curious about atheism, though, roughly in the same sense I wouldn't recommend Dawkins. N's a bit heavier than someone wanting an initial primer probably wants to deal with. There's definitely a few folks that fall under the general umbrella of existentialism (Well, re: Nietzsche, anyway. I forget what dawkins is besides an acerbic atheist and somewhat iffy writer on the philosophy of biology) that could provide some interesting words on the subject, though. I can't actually recall any of them at the moment, but they're out there.

I'd probably say just... ask questions. Hopefully folks here can softball the subject enough to not have it turn shrill

*Predisposed against religious organization -- if not necessarily spirituality or individual worship -- and of the belief the divine, to whatever extent they do or do not exist, are irrelevant, for those that want the definition.

... that's not a beetle zaku at all. It... it has high heels. On a giant robot. Fifty foot fuck me pumps? It even comes with a curtain to hide illicit activities DX

Giant hooker robot, aaiiieee.

There's a morality to bringing up a judgment that's both largely wrong -- hobbes was straight up full of shit on the nasty, brutish, and short -- and only partially relevant to the current era, though. We haven't been dealing with the natural results of our fundamental nature since before we as a species sharped a freaking stick, and our natural motivations are so far by the wayside at this point they're a functional non-issue, except maybe to point at and mock.

Well, one of them is considerably less likely to disown and/or shoot you if you fuck a different colored person or turn out to be gay, so... maybe? Just maybe.

I mean, yeah, I know a lot of people that are kind and good hearted. So long as you aren't black. Or gay. Or muslim. Or non-christian. Or have the wrong length hair. But maybe get out of the area if you're any of those. There's just sort of this list of things that will cause them to spontaneously and irrevocably hate you and maybe take a swing or two, run you off with a shotgun, you know, those sort of things.

Maybe things are better where you come from FJ, I'unno.

"The human decision making process doesn't change, except that it does." (when dealing with sufficient external pressure)

... okay?

Human nature is a really shifty thing that likes to do rather odd things when exposed to new external variables. Base decision making heuristic holding steady or not, it's pretty bloody easy to, y'know, make that heuristic spit out entirely different results. So it's only marginally useful as a point of discussion -- our base neurology largely effects only the efficient method of achieving an end, not the possibility of it.