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[greg]

Identity politics in a nutshell:

"Do you own a cat?"
"No, a dog"
"So you hate cats?"
"No I just prefer dogs"
"But dogs hate cats"
"Yes but that doesn't represent me"
"But you chose to own a creature which hates cats"
"I chose the dog because I love dogs, not because they hate cats"
"But you knew it hated cats when you bought it didn't you so how can you argue that you don't have some form of animosity towards cats?"

[Ken B]

https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1130901917477904384

[greg]

https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1130901917477904384

Is that a boy or a girl?

[Ken B]

A thug.

[Florestan]

Is that a boy or a girl?

This is a sexist, possibly homophobic question. 

[Papy Oli]

Alternatively :



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[greg]

This is a sexist, possibly homophobic question. 

Or maybe it's a xhe/xher? Ah, forgot that one. 

(I honestly can't tell at all).

[Florestan]

Or maybe it's a xhe/xher? Ah, forgot that one. 

I think it's zer. We should ask Jordan Peterson. 

(I honestly can't tell at all).

Neither can I, nor do I care.

[Wakefield]

Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

-- G.K. Chesterton: St. Francis of Assisi, chapter 5, "Le Jongleur de Dieu" (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933), 88.

[drogulus]

Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

     Thankful atheists are the least likely to thank no one. It's a bitter great falsehood.

     

[Wakefield]

     Thankful atheists are the least likely to thank no one. It's a bitter great falsehood.

     

As an aside, I searched for that Rossetti's quotation; but it's a misattribution or merely a Chesterton joke, I don't know. At least, it seems that thanking is good for our health, according to positive psychology (gratitude-attitude and all of that). 

[drogulus]

As an aside, I searched for that Rossetti's quotation; but it's a misattribution or merely a Chesterton joke, I don't know. At least, it seems that thanking is good for our health, according to positive psychology (gratitude-attitude and all of that). 

      I would thank you for that but I'm an atheist.

[Wakefield]

      I would thank you for that but I'm an atheist.

Rossetti (or Chesterton) doesn't say atheists are ungrateful people, but that they don't have anybody to thank in a cosmic level. Here at a domestic level, I'll receive your thanks to allowing you to train your gratitude attitude, good atheist. 

[prémont]

Rossetti (or Chesterton) doesn't say atheists are ungrateful people, but that they don't have anybody to thank in a cosmic level.

Thank God that there is no one to thank. 

[Wakefield]

Thank God that there is n one to thank. 

Somebody has to do the work! 

P.S.: I didn't find any answer worthy of your typographic skills! 

[prémont]

P.S.: I didn't find any answer worthy of your typographic skills! 

Typo, edited.

[prémont]

Somebody has to do the work! 

I can go so far as to say:

Gosh knows if there is anybody to thank. 

[Wakefield]

I can go so far as to say:

Gosh knows if there is anybody to thank. 

At some degree, I agree with you. All of this it's quite mysterious.

I have always liked a lot that Jewish legend of the 36 righteous men:

https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2012/05/19/the-legend-of-the-36-righteous-men/

Leon Bloy wrote it down admirably too:

I recall one of my oldest ideas. The Czar is the leader and spiritual father of a hundred fifty million men. An atrocious responsibility which is only apparent. Perhaps he is not responsible to God, but rather to a few human beings. If the poors of his empire are pressed during his reign, if immense catastrophes result from that reign, who knows if the servant charged with shining his boots is not the real and sole person guilty? In the mysterious dispositions of the Profundity, who is really Czar, who is king, who can boast of being a mere servant?

[Ken B]

We don't have a thread for pearls of stupidity so this one will have to do.

https://mobile.twitter.com/UnionSeminary/status/1174000941667880960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1174000941667880960&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falthouse.blogspot.com%2F

[Florestan]

We don't have a thread for pearls of stupidity so this one will have to do.

https://mobile.twitter.com/UnionSeminary/status/1174000941667880960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1174000941667880960&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falthouse.blogspot.com%2F

I just love Nick's and Thomas Dierson's comments.