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[txxxpxx]

There used to be a segment on a popular (although trashy) television programme called "What Cheeses me off". I noticed Good News Week has a similar segment.

I kind of like the idea of a bit of a rant so I invite you to comment....

What cheeses you off?

Comments

[txxxpxx]

You know what cheeses me off? People who claim to be so open minded, educated and enlightened who bag all religion & spirituality.

I mean I thought part of the concept of being open-minded was to accept that other people have different views to yours. If you disagree then debate them - vigouously if you choose.

But to call all people who have a belief in any religion or spirituality, uneducated morons, brain washed idiots, a product of bad education & dismissive of science is down right wrong.

Hypocritical at best, zealotous (is that a word?) at worst.

I think lack of tolerance & bigotry has done just as much harm as any one religion has ever done.

Go get over yourselves you self serving, self opinionated, closed minded hypocrites.

[greylock]

People who claim to be so open minded, educated and enlightened who bag all religion & spirituality.

Guilty as charged, I fear.

[txxxpxx]

I disagree. I think you would allow for the option of others believing differently to you. I can imagine you would argue your case but I cannot imagine you dismissing a person completely based on one difference of opinion.

If that were you then we wouldn't be speaking because I often post about my spirituality & beiefs surrounding them.

[missmalice]

What a timely rant this is, given we have just had the Atheists out in full force their Dawkins circle-jerk convention.

[greylock]

Basically my entire LJ is a rant.

[sly_girl]

What cheeses me off?

Capitalism, commercialism, the pursuit of wealth.

[txxxpxx]

Define wealth. Is it wrong to pursue a standard of living above the poverty line? And who decides how far above the poverty line is acceptable?

Wealth is a subjective term.

[sly_girl]

Yes it is.

I dislike the pursuit of wealth at the expense of others, who end up falling below "the poverty line". And I dislike a system that encourages and glorifies this. I abhor those who pursue wealth for its own sake, and I despair that luxuries are considered to be comforts.

[frou_frou]

What cheeses me off? That our world is not fair. That life isn't fair. That bad things happen to good people. That as much as I like to believe in karma, it only goes so far.

...also, when you say "cheeses you off", I can't help feeling guilty about all the goats cheese that I buy and then don't eat before it expires. I really don't like wasting food, especially when it's nommy food.

[txxxpxx]

Your cheese if off. Hahaa, not quite what I was looking for but it made me smile.

Karma is an interesting thing isn't it. I wonder whether we have created the concept to make us feel better about the bad things happening to good people, specifically at the hands of others.