The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[resincum]

Jesus Christ. Blood alcohol level was 5x the legal limit. The dr said she very easily could have died.

fuck man hope everything is ok

[Chankgeez]

DUDES???

[D.o.S.]

In less serious business we're out of heating oil at casa de DoS and it's brisk as fuck.

On the atheism thing, I just read an interview that touched on it in a pretty interesting way:

My primary interest has always been the psychology of belief. Partly religious belief, and ideology as a sub-category of religious belief. One of Jung’s propositions was that whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods. In a sophisticated religious system, there is a positive and negative polarity. Ideologies simplify that polarity and, in doing so, demonize and oversimplify. I got interested in ideology, in a large part, because I got interested in what happened in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Cultural Revolution in China, and equivalent occurrences in other places in the world. Mostly I concentrated on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I was particularly interested in what led people to commit atrocities in service of their belief. The motto of the Holocaust Museum in Washington is “we must never forget.” I’ve learned that you cannot remember what you don’t understand. People don’t understand the Holocaust, and they don’t understand what happened in Russia. I have this course called “Maps of Meaning,” which is based on a book I wrote by the same name, and it outlines these ideas. One of the things that I’m trying to convince my students of is that if they had been in Germany in the 1930s, they would have been Nazis. Everyone thinks “Not me,” and that’s not right. It was mostly ordinary people who committed the atrocities that characterized Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

http://www.c2cjournal.ca/2016/12/were-t ... -peterson/

[resincum]

you use a kerosene heater? are you a mennonite

[D.o.S.]

I guess this is one of those things that doesn't seem weird if you live around here but seems weird to everyone else?

[aedes]

I guess this is one of those things that doesn't seem weird if you live around here but seems weird to everyone else?

maybe in texas it is?? my wife and i have rented places with heating oil in both virginia and nc.

[jrfox92]

Do you live in Alaska?

[Strange Tales]

Hyper common in the Northeast. My grandfather has oil heating. It's apparently pretty cheap again now? Especially since temperatures haven't really gone below 35 yet here in NJ and heating water doesn't take any oil at all.

[aedes]

Jesus Christ. Blood alcohol level was 5x the legal limit. The dr said she very easily could have died.

jeez sorry man. hope she's ok.

[resincum]

huh I thought it was a mennonite thing like big fancy clocks

[Chankgeez]

Mennonite?

[resincum]

mennonites are a trip alright

[D.o.S.]

hallelujah, it's raining mennonites?

[lost in music]

Jesus Christ. Blood alcohol level was 5x the legal limit. The dr said she very easily could have died.

My wife doesn't drink a lot, but when she does it sometimes ends up getting ugly. She ended up consuming most of a fifth of vodka on Friday night. I won't get into the horrifying details of that completely shit evening, but I did get to wondering how close to the danger zone her BAC was. That's way more than I'd drink even back when I was in college and I'm over twice her size. She was mostly alright the next day though which pissed me off even more. Like God, if you're up there could you at LEAST give someone a punishing hangover when they make my life this miserable to give them some sense of shame over the things they can't remember?

[lost in music]

Also, live in Maryland and heating oil is very common in my particular neighborhood, although the town a few miles away where I grew up did not have it. We used to use it, but switched to a wood-burning stove for our sole heat source. I'd really like to get some kind of back-up.