also, setting aside the question of alleged hypocrisy and what not, why not find a new job before quitting your old one? I mean, for frig's sake, it's not a nice economy out there

QuoteNext Friday I will set up camp outside of my friend's house (with full approval from his girlfriend, of course). I've got a little bit of savings, a nice set of "I'm-competent-and-you-should-hire-me" clothes, and enough resumes to dam a river. Finding a job will be my new full-time job. As I said, I don't think my skills warrant much more than low hourly wage, but I know any manager will see that I am trainable.

If you're curious about any particular point during the span of time before we can chat, let me know and I will do my best to clarifyote

Er dude, excuse me but in the UK you have to have a proper address to hold a job. Living in a tent outside my friend's property probably won't cut it. I hope that the same does not apply where he is camping

There is no further evidence needed to prove that Stefan Molynuex is a reckless man, whose unconscionable exhortations to live HIS values (no, they are not your own, the podcasts are a common cult programming tool, known as 'information overload'), consequences be damned, actually destroys lives and careers. The only upside here is, this guy wont be donating any money to Stef for a while, perhaps never again.

Conrad,

Is there really any need to use blasphemy as a title of a thread? Does it really achieve anything other than disgust those of us for whom that name means something? Maybe you are deliberately provoking Christians on your site but I would hope that's not the case. I thought higher of you than that.

Jumping Jesus H. Christ on a fucking pogo stick.

Now that's blasphemy. Simply saying "Jesus," or even "Sweet Jesus," as an exclamation is not. Taking the Lord's name in vain does not mean simply to utter (or write) it, but to invoke it as if you were speaking on His behalf, or to swear oaths or make vows deceitfully, invoking God's name to gain another's trust, which you intend to break.

So, save your piety for Sunday School, man.

There are thousands of Mexicans named "Jesus." I just assumed Conrad was referring to one of them.

(Back on topic--that is one of the saddest FDR posts I've seen and I've seen some pretty sad ones.)

In general I do very much try to avoid language that I know will needlessly hurt somebody or will otherwise offend them, and so I have for example substituted more secular swear phrases for those involving religious figures/actions, but of course there is a balance: some phrases I find funny and relatively innocuous and I want to express them, thinking that (in this case) religious people may not particularly like it, but it's not really offensive either. Somebody I know will use the short sentence 'jesus.' often after having expressed or described some baffling, annoying or frustrating situation and I have no idea why or how I find the use of that sentence unfailingly hilarious, the fact that the sentence starts with a lower case letter and ends with a period. I don't know. Same thing with the repeated use of 'Should I do such and such. should I.' (so with lower case and without question mark at the end). I just find it very very funny, have no idea why, and it gets funnier with every new use.

yeah, so for me it's a trade-off between civility and respect on the one hand and comedy-gold on the other, and for me this particular usage is defendable, while other uses, even though they may be funny are not.

I fail to see where it makes any sense at all to stand by quietly while others spout totally unsupported and unsupportable nonsense and push it off as the truth. I've heard the thought that there are two kinds of lies, those of omission and those of commission. It seems to me that remaining silent in the face of the fraudulent use of bullshit used for the purpose of gaining advantage or power is similar in nature to a lie of omission. Just as it is politically incorrect to question his holiness the Obamanator, so it is with challenging christian mythology. It's a duty to challenge such crap. Lies are lies whether they are pretty or not. It does not help the course of human progress to wallow in falsehoods.

- NonE

I'll be pius wherever I please thanks Dylboy! Blasphemy is that and MORE though. Your definition is incomplete. It is ANY misuse of his name.

Well I just think it says a lot about quite a few of you that you have no problem using words which you know will be offensive to certain other people. To then use them again is merely provocation and that won't work. I'm not going to lose my integrity over the likes of you.

And as for your latest attempt to jump into a conversation you didn't need to join NonE I suggest you either put some arguments up for scrutiny or accept the fact that no-one will ever be able to take a word you say seriously. Calling certain knowledge claims to be lies, falsehoods and crap without any justification or reference to what you're talking about is just as good as farting in the wind. Now we all know you're good at that but when it comes to theism I don't think I've seen you bring up one serious argument as yet so there's precisely NOTHING to respond to. Only the chip on your shoulder and that doesn't need philosophy - that needs psychology!!

Cartestian, you've almost entirely dislodged Conrad's original thread. I find that more rude than his possibly-inconsiderate-but-entirely-forgettable use of your diety's name. I mean, if it really bugs you so much when people say "Jesus" as an exclamation, then you probably have a hard time living in this world. I'm more sorry for that, than for the word's pedestrian appearance here.

As for the original post: Yikes.

I wouldn't strictly blame Molyneux for this guy's behavior. After all, I don't think the man has ever said anything like "Go live in a tent, and reject your wordliness!" I'd like to think that Molyneux would counsel this dude to stop being such a twit, but who knows?

I recognize this kind of reaction to philosophical conundrums. It's pretty common, and it's as old as anything. People who find the world disagreeable with their moral considerations, especially their new moral considerations, often express strong desire to utterly abandon the way of life that they find so objectionable. I'm thinking religious ascetics, Thoreau, The Unabomber, etc.

I still think that JC Hewitt's mental meltdown takes the cake for saddest stuff.