Should upload the whole discussion if you can find it, I hate when they just cheery pick what one person said regardless of who it is.

This may have been touched on in some other posts, but I think Atheism a bit of a circle jerk for VS. And I don't mean that in a bad way. A lot of us are surrounded by the blatant and sometimes dangerous ignorance exuded by the religious community. So we come to VS and find a bunch of like minded people and we vent, and sometimes say mean and/or intolerant things. I don't think any of us is thinking of the nice people who go to church, or say God Bless you when you sneeze, and worry they might have offended by saying that. I think of the ones that knock on my door telling me I'm an abhorrent who will spend eternity in damnation unless I say I give myself to some attention starved god who's more worried about whether I like him or not than what kind of person I am. Or the ones that cheery pick which bible verses to interpret loosely or literally so they can rally their peers and oppress those who have a dissenting opinion no matter how based in fact that may be. A lot of us are just blowing off steam and finding comfort/sanity in like minded people.

For my part I try to avoid using all encompassing words such as 'all Christians', and direct my derogatory remarks towards those who've demonstrated their douchebaggery. I do remember seeing a video with a rather sensible priest expressing his views on religion which many VS atheists praised. So we're not always ready to launch at the throat of everyone flying the banner of religion.

Scottish? I was so sure this was American... it has that painfully bland cheery fresh-faced non-threatening commercial Top 40 sound. Plus no discernable accent.

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This guy is a cheery sort. Don't listen to people who are super sure of the answers. Listen to the ones who have ideas but doubts.

This is what many Sifters are supporting. Cheery.

Sometimes people are so open-minded that their brain falls out.

I never understood this strange naive loyalty alot of Americans express towards their president and their government. He is an elected official accountable to the people. Not the reverse.

Respect towards the president has to be earned not simply given once you attain the position of power, the exact reason why I didn't understand the sheer jubilation of Obama winning (okay maybe McCain losing/black president was a good reason), but he still has several key litmus tests to pass (constitutional rights being key).

To say that Bush wasn't the only one to want to go into Iraq is to AGAIN forget the fact that the administration cheery picked information to convince and fear monger the whole nation to go to war (10 Downing Memo, mushroom cloud being a smoking gun).

I would hate for a few years to pass and all that Bush has done to be forgiven, to be written off, to be rephrased and reanalyzed in saying that the man dealt with a difficult situation so we should all cut him some slack.

That is unacceptable.

Bush represents a failure of leadership. A failure to adequately frame a coalition against fighting terror that would be more depended on international cooperation between internal intelligence agencies instead of fighting unilateral wars.

A failure to rally the American people through words, to reiterate that a single attack did nothing to a great nation such as the US, to outline a just course, instead of fear mongering, elimination of basic rights, and going to war.

>> ^bluephoenix:
what is this from?


Der Untergang(Downfall). Cheery little film, that one.

Such a cheery little chorus... "we're all going to die if McCain is elected"

It's kind of catchy! Such a cheery critique of homosexuality!

Hey Swampgirl, thought I'd share this conversation I had with Schmawy; were your ears burning? >
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In reply to this comment by critttter:
"Hey, Schmaw, I posted the Peggy Lee lyrics to my cheery little song."

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
"Let me take a wild guess, the next line is "is that all there is"? I agree that would be an excellent cover for The Shat."

In reply to this comment by critttter:
"I can hear it in my head now, this must be what it feels like to be Swampy...not bad!"
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I can hear it in my head now, this must be what it feels like to be Swampy...not so bad!

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Let me take a wild guess, the next line is "is that all there is"? I agree that would be an excellent cover for The Shat.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Hey, Schmaw, I posted the Peggy Lee lyrics to my cheery little song.

Let me take a wild guess, the next line is "is that all there is"? I agree that would be an excellent cover for The Shat.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Hey, Schmaw, I posted the Peggy Lee lyrics to my cheery little song.

Hey, Schmaw, I posted the Peggy Lee lyrics to my cheery little song.

May I point you all to this long version of the same cheery song, live?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Long-live-version-of-Discovery-Channels-Boom-De-Yada

Maybe you should check out this forum as another option: http://dailystrength.org/c/Mental-Retardation/support-group

In reply to this comment by choggie:
no man, you misconstrue-I am no more bitter or agitated than I ever was-Don't take it personally, you have developed a singular personality here, unlike some lazy fuckers(can name 10 off the top) who simply stay around like a damn dick wart.-I am only rascist when it comes to my fellow euro-mutt bretheren of light coneplection, who have no idea of what funny is, and whose idea of comedy is one of those dead-dog skits on snl, that keeps kicking the same joke over and over-That and folks who think BillMaher and Jon Stewart are the funniest men alive-I have always hated cheesy white-folks comedy-my own especially-

Life is suffering, so the boodah says, and seeing the rabble around this site, is pudding-proof of the veracity of that fat man seated on his ass-you have your moments, as do we all, you .....steadily dripping faucet of a mouth, you!!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Why so bitter all of a sudden? And so racist? Anger leads to suffering, suffering leads to pain, pain leads to the indignant bitter nerd side.

In reply to this comment by choggie:
for me anyhow, you embody the new direction of the sift my friend-congrats on your upcoming 250, I suppose......It may seem like this old timer has had it easy getting to the big 500, but then again, I pick and choose, and lose carefully, the vids I find to post-You represent the new and improved, best of the worst wih most of your contributions, and a general dumbing-down of the place in general.....IMLTHO

cheery-o, toodles, you "Remorseless Little White Boy."

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Be sure to check out the comments on vimeo. It seems EVERYONE is impressed by this cinematic masterpiece, too. I'll remember never to stray on Vimeo again lest their stupidity is communicable by the internets.

Comments:
http://www.vimeo.com/127381/