Craigslist Files #32: I Believe in Craigslist
Because I just love it when people are so blinded by their own stupidity to understand context, I decided to embrace a recent post on Net Insanity's comments section. As any regular readers surely know, I have no problem antagonizing my commenters, especially when they decide to be stone-faced serious on what is obviously a humor blog. So, I present to you the following anonymous comment from the first Youtube Nation article.
"Dude, there is a God. You're just to stupid to realize that there is. Dumb atheist...."
And apparently you're too stupid to realize that there's a difference between "to" and "too". You might also note that, while I'm no fan of fundamentalists, I'm not an atheist. Those who have been paying attention might have noticed that I'm one of those liberal commie Jews because I mention it every five minutes. Still, the above comment got me thinking about the bizarre confluence of ignorance that is the Internet mixed with religion. What better place than craigslist to find a representative sample of the less reasonable side of faith online?
lets discuss the occult
I wanna discuss the occult with someone. Particularly how the planets operate in people's lives.
I know I pick on Jesus's stupid but well-meaning friends a lot, so I thought I'd start off with something a little less mainstream. I think this Community post demonstrates a fundamental problem with Internet spirituality. People log on to get information, but their sources are more often than not horribly unreliable. Sure, every superior-ass bone in my body wants to snark like no one's business about the time Jupiter got all up in my bizniz cuz my moon's in Cancer and I don't step to scrub fools who always b frontin', but then I have to take a step back and realize that this poor poster is going to be descended upon by all sorts of crazies because he asked a potentially spiritual question on freaking craigslist.
The religious overposter is back. Lets flag him back off (this category)
The guy that is posting tons of ads "spreading the word of god" is back. Now he puts a location for each one of his multiple posts.
I suggest that we flag all the ads (religious and non-religious if they don't actually give a time/place to meet. If it is just one long "rant" about how god is good and glorious and such then FLAG IT
I really don't want to give up this category (groups) and have it turned into a section where it is just religious rantings and not for what the category was/is intended for.
But what would Internet religion be without Internet atheism? There's a fundamental flaw in the way people like the above poster think. You can't base your sense of community on what you don't believe. Obviously this guy wants an e-pat on his e-back for his e-rant. So, screw it, I'm gonna start my own club of constantly outraged juveniles. We're the free-thinking rationalists who refuse to accept the idea of Moon Cheese. The fact that society still shows those old cartoons in which the moon is made of edible dairy products is an abomination that makes me want to puke. Let's all get together and show the world that we will no longer stand for that kind of stupidity! Who's with me? Who wants to make a more rational future? Who wants to come over to my house to play Sega? Anyone? I'm cool...
