That's OK.  Those guys are going to need a lot of bullion to hide behind when the revolution comes.

Wow, this may be the first time it goes to someone who is not in a tailor park. Hopefully they will not blow through it like so many of the others do.

Why do photo-ops always have boring lame-ass shit like bottled water and paper cups?  How about some Tsingtao or turkish coffee?

As if we needed more proof that there is no God.

This sort of thing doesn't prove there's no God. Just that organized religions are wrong in thinking that God gives a shit what happens to people.

I think you make a fair point about organized religion but I don't think an all powerful and all wise creator would allow all of the terrible things that humans have done and will continue to do

Why not?  An all powerful and all wise creator would understand that no matter how much he/she interfered, that humans will do what humans will do.  Forcing behavior or outcomes isn't in his/her best interest.

Why not?  Because an all powerful and all wise creator would have made humans much less prone to violence and evil.  Additionally if we are to believe in the judgmental deity of the judeo-christian style we should have been condemned and done away with a long time ago.

An all powerful and all wise creator would not have done as you say because what would be the point?  What's the point of making everyone the exact same?  What's the point of being a good God, if there is no evil?  You call us prone to violence, I say that's the nature of all animals (which it is, especially when vying for food sources).  And what point is there in forcing people to worship you?  Having them come to you of their own free will is much more gratifying and shows true faith.  Forcing them to bow down only shows weakness and lack of trust.  Also, God was an asshole in the Old Testament, not the New.  His son showed the way of forgiveness to all, more specifically the ability to forgive oneself.

Yes we are prone to violence and sure there is violence all over the animal kingdom but violence for the sake of violence and nothing else is by in large part the domain of human beings.  I don't want to get in a never ending theological debate - so if you don't agree that's cool with me.  I said what I needed to say.

Violence for the sake of violence is a human thing, no doubt.  There's just no need to believe that a supreme being would interfere in our lives, no matter how much we fuck it up.  If we are made in God's image, then it's easy to say that because we are scientists that he/she is the supreme scientist, so he/she knows better than to mess with the experiment in any way.  The problem seems to be those that believe he/she will intervene and save them, even when they haven't done anything to help themselves.

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if you posit the existence of the Devil (and that God has quarantined our system)  all the inconsistencies that you mention become explainable.  That's the theory in the "Book of Uranthia" from the 1920s, which led to a whole bunch of science fiction, including Star Trek.

We always nee a Yin to every yan.

I do not posit any of that superstitious stuff.  Human beings are capable of all kinds of good and bad without any help from mystical forces.

A Greenwich Wiffle Ball Tournament?

I had a kick-ass slider that would have made Louisiana Lightning proud.

Why do bad things happen to good people?  Fuck that, what I want to know is: Why do good things happen to assholes?

How do you know they're assholes?

Yes, because all rich people are assholes.

They should give the winnings to OWS!!!!

Fuck THAT! Spend it on woman and Boooooooze