More a ramble than a rant

[svenonius]

I've spent this morning doing battle with my car, the bulb in the headlamp had packed in. On my old cars this wasn't a problem, but with my current heap of shit if you have fingers even marginally less slender than those of ET changing the bulb becomes, almost, a physical impossibility. I managed it in the end, but today, your correspondent is

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[asru]

I don't think I know this community centre. I find what you describe quite creepy, so I am glad I don't know it.
Did you ever begin to accept what your girlfriend was saying about Christianity, or did you remain the sceptic that you were before? You obviously thought a lot of her, and she was intelligent - did it make you begin to reconsider your own views?

[asru]

I was more of a sceptic after going out with her. Obviously we spoke about it alot, but here were gaps all over the place. I remember alot of her beliefs being contradictory. Also, when you asked for evidence or proof about things that are taken as indisputable fact by Christians the 'evidence' would go so far before being tolf 'aahh, thats where you need faith'. I was left with the view that it is a religion that requires alot of acceptence of baseless statements and makes lots of people unhappy.

That and the over hype of pesto

[asru]

I had a similar experience with a girl I worked with recently - she was a Hare Krishna, and she knew an awful lot about her faith. In fact she knew it so well that when she talked about it, it sounded as though she were actually reciting passages of the Baghavad Gita from memory (and perhaps she was). The rest of us in my office find it hard to believe anything without facts to back it up, and we had many conversations which revolved around us asking where her proof was on certain issues (for example, she denied that evolution could have happened), and her response was always 'you should have faith'. She went one better though, and claimed that if we were more intelligent, we'd see God's wisdom

[svenonius]

Its weird, it infuriates when people have these views, but they are so firmly entrenched that it is impossible to have a reasoned discussion with them.

As for the Pesto thing. Stoaty knew about it, and my friends who i used to work with still remind me about it. As a foodstuff I find it quite pleasant. But when it was included on a shopping list for on ill judged holiday I got spectaculary angry, in a highly comical way, in front of work colleagues. I'll explain when I next see you

[stoaty]

On the contrary - i believe his views were reinforced by the over hype of pesto.

[svenonius]

Hehe, I love you, you are so funny