Since Dragon freaked out so much and DELETED FUCKING EVERYTHING and left DA so quickly, I figure it was time to update my journal for Christmas.

I don't want to repeat anything, so here are two links to old Christmas journals.

Happy Holidays v Merry Christmas - [link]
Charity - [link]

Christmas is the time to celebrate with your loved ones. When I was little, I loved getting presents. I still enjoy it, but I don't even ask for much from my parents when they ask me what I want for Christmas. I always preferred gifts I could enjoy/use like books, giftcards, toesocks, and the like. but I don't make demands for fancy shit like a iPhone or some other expensive piece of shit. But it distresses me how commercialized Christmas has become. People are encouraged to spend exorbitant amounts of money on gifts, much of which end up being discarded or 'regifted' or such. So many people seem to not care about the heart of the gift, but how much you spend on it, as if the less I spend on someone's gift, the less I love them or some BS. And this crap is plied on us for over a month. Even before Thanksgiving there's ads for Black Friday and Christmas shopping.

Honestly, I have come to enjoy the Christmas parties and just hanging and chilling with loved ones. I keep my gifts to others sensible, like gift cards for their favorite place or some such instead of buying them something I'm not sure they need or would use. That way they can get what they want, my Christmas shopping is simplified, and everyone's happy. Less time spent on shopping means less stress over your loved ones. After all, the ones you love shouldn't stress you out. The holidays are meant to be a time of happiness, of bonding, of reassessing your values, of helping someone in need (though this should be year-round), of laughing and enjoying oneself than concerning yourself with how big of a pile of gifts you'll get or whether you have spent enough money on someone to 'rove' that you love them.

Have a happy and safe Holdays!

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This is quite a interesting fundie. He expressed negativity about homosexuality and thinking that everyone needs the Word shoved down their throats, so I left a polite but firm comment. He hid it, but I was able to save it. It is as follows (in response to several statements he made in a journal) and copypasta'd in its entirety.

"2) As a Coalition Member we are not to accept homosexuality as a lifestyle, yet refrain from discriminating or belittling those who are. Instead we are to be passive and pray for their awakening.

Homosexuality is not a 'lifestyle' to be 'accepted'. If it is, then being straight is also a lifestyle and I could just as easily make the decision to not 'accept' your straightness. And they don't need your prayers. Know who needs your prayers? Homeless people, abused people, enslaved people, and so on and so forth. There are so many things wrong in this world, and homosexuality isn't one of them.

2) Donate or work for charity in their Church Community.

Nice sentiment, but charity doesn't belong to the Church. One doesn't need to be a Christian to be a good person and do charitable works.

5) Participate in preserving Christianity in society. Spread the WORD!!!

Some people have already heard the 'Word' and have no interest in it whatsoever. Everyone (in America, at least) knows about Christianity, there's no longer any need to spread the word. Anyone who is interested in Christianity can check out their local church, seek out Christians and ask them questions about the religion, buy a Bible, or look it up online. There's been enough Word-spreading already, there are far more serious issues in this world to tackle."

His response? Again, copypasta'd entirely. (note, I am copying them here because he has hidden them)

"And I am about to tackle the most serious issue of all...your ears will bleed if you listen in...so I suggest refraining from challenging me with self preservation babble."

And this (he replied twice to my statement)

"BTW

Why did you come and crap on my page? Can't you smear filth somewhere else?

What, did you just randomly find me or are you defending someone?

Also,

Homosexuality at one point was a major wrong, to the point of being a mortal sin for those caught. The only reason it is not a major wrong is because Progressives have promoted it as being right. You've got to be yourself, feel good about yourself, right?

What if it makes me feel good to kill? What if it makes me feel good to rape?

Permissive reaction to one wrong leads to permissive reaction to another wrong. The Biblical teachings are their for a reason, to stop humanity from killing themselves off. Scrape away one thing after another and we will end up lawless and destined to extinction."

Crap? Filth? Comparing homosexuality with MURDER AND RAPE? The Bible saving humans from EXTINCTION???

Okay. So my response...

"Comparing RAPE and MURDER with homosexuality... tsk tsk. If I were to go out and rape/kill someone, that'd be you know... hurting someone. but if I choose to express my love with someone else - man or woman or whatever - no one else is hurt.

Also, the whole 'homosexuality will lead to other bad crap' thing is also crap. Whether gay or straight, it's about a relationship between two grown, consenting adults - not the relationship between a pedophile and the kiddies he molests, or a zoophile and the dogs he fucks, the necrophile and the corpses he gors after, so on and so forth. People said that interracial marriage would lead to all kinds of bad things, and even today, some people look down at mized-race marriages and the offspring that comes forth.

I'm far more concerned with gang activity, child abusers, wife-beaters, terrorists, and the like than what two guys (or gals) choose to do with one another."

What was his response, you ask? Again, all of my comments and his have been copypasta'd and not edited.

"You are a secular disease you realize this right? You come onto my page, spill your agnostic rhetoric and make a fool of yourself. Sometimes hell isn't hot enough for people like you. No, you must make a person's skin crawl. Be gone with you pest before I report for personal attacking."

... I'm a disease? How could my comments have made someone's SKIN CRAWL? Personal attacking? Where did I attack him for being a Christian or a dragon or his family or etc? So my response...

"... Personal attack? I didn't say there was anything wrong with you being Catholic, nor did I say anything negative about your family, job, appearance, and what have you.

It's funny how you condemn personal attacking when you're the one calling me a 'disease', a fool, that hell isn't hot enough for 'eople like me', a dog."

(Ne called me a dog in his response to the comment I left on his deviation, not his frontpage) So what was his response?

"You are spamming my page. Consider yourself blocked."

No, really. SPAM. And he called me a dog and accused me of PERSONAL ATTACKS. He couldn't even make a decent response to my calling him out on his 'ersonal attack' bullshit.

... The irony is delicious. Like cake.



Also, I couldn't help but notice this in his signature... "Putting the fear of God into the Godless" It's a rather apt way of how he sees himself - perhaps this is why he chose to resort to personal attacks - and the way he views others. Fascinating.

EDIT as of 10:30 PM tonight... He freaked out so bad after insulting me once again here in my journal and trying to defend his hypocrisy and saying he would get me banned that he actually deactivated his account. No, really. After he had been so vitriolic at first and so eager to insult others for not being homophobes, I don't know if he realized that he was in a losing battle or that the admin got back to him and said they weren't going to ban me, but this is the first time I've ever see a fundie actually close their account after being pwnt. I genuinely am surprised that he actually did this though after being all INTERNET TOUGH GUY and threatening people with hell and being all self-righteous about it (Just like DBoyWheeler) at first.

My friend just noted me and told me that Dragon's wife also got her account deactivated. Right before he deactivated his own acct, he had a journal saying that he and his wife were gonna leave DA. Now, Dragon leaving the site - I can't say I feel bad about that, since he was a jerk and Internet Tough Guy who saw fit to condemn people to Hell, but I had visited his wife's page and she had some nice art. I wasn't planning to leave any comments for her - this was between Dragon and me - and I don't pull innocent bystanders or spouses into conflicts. It actually makes me sad that some guy would freak out so hysterically at having his homophobic BS called out on that he would have his wife delete HER account. She deserved more attention and exposure, she had talent, it's a shame that her husband won't allow her to show it on DA anymore.

A company fired four people. Why, you ask?

Playing fantasy football at work. No, really. [link]

I've never had a high opinion of organized sports, and I have a pretty abysmal opinion of FANTASY sports. I mean, really? Why not go out and play sports yourself instead of creating some made-up team of guys who are in better physical shape than you are and probably will ever be? And then to play this shit at WORK. When you're supposed to be like... WORKING. Yeah, don't cry to me about being fired if you're so addicted to fantasy football that YOU JUST COULDN'T WAIT TILL YOU WENT HOME to play. You were asking for it, bitches.

And the comments on this article are also really lulzy. People are getting butthurt over the fact that people got fired for NOT WORKING and are crying about BOYCOTTING the company. Have people really become so stupid? ;_;

Boycott a company that penalizes people for gambling and playing on company time? Granted, a suspension or some kind of reprimand/warning could work just as well, but a firing should keep the other employees of the company in line. Goodness knows if I owned any kind of business I wouldn't want people piddling around on MY dollar.

[link] Remember this from last week?

I thought that after the guy left, it was over. Bot no. Now they're sending their offspring after me. I kid you not. Two young women approach my manager, who is working nearby. They ask for (insert name here) and I look up, wondering who they were. One of them is like 'you talked with my dad last week...'

I knew right away who she was. I knew right away why they were here. This time, they had a DVD for me. When the guy talked to me before, I was polite, but acted neutral to what he said, not encouraging him before he left me alone. I had thought that he would take a hint, but apparently not. And then when this young lady (about my age) introduced herself, I was thinking, 'Oh dear god! (pun intended) You Christian nutters just can't leave me alone!'

But she was surprisingly friendly and warm. She wasn't all 'if you're not one of us, you're going to hell!' She spoke of the tragedies in the world, and then asked if I would like something better. I know what saying 'yes' would entail to, but I did not say 'no' either, and talked very briefly about my own beliefs - that I was raised Christian but now didn't believe in any one thing - and they were being peaceable and not frowning or anything. I told them that I didn't really care about what anyone believed in and that I was more concerned about being a good person, in response to her comments about the murders and other tragedies etc happening. To my surprise, she seemed like she actually agreed with me.

I don't know if Dad is making his daughter do this, but if anything, she seemed more open-minded than he was. She gave me a DVD (I suppose religious pamphlets are easier to pass around electronically in this age) and asked for my email. Since this girl seemed open-minded, I decided to give it to her. She then invited me to Bible meetings and the like, and even offered to drive me to them or come over to my house to discuss it further.

...Eh, shoot. Just when I thought she would bow out gracefully. Oh well, she had to try, right? She was very nice about it.

I won't be going to any Bible meetings, but I've never really interacted personally with a JW, so I think I'll take the opportunity to learn more about the religion from a member of that religion (instead of all the stories going around about JW's... though all religion has stories going around it, I suppose) I've had talks about religion with Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Why not add JW to my list and take a chance to learn something new.

If I gain any insights from what she has to say to me, I will be sure to share.

But still, holy shit. Fundies sending their kids after me!

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This man is doing a petition to get divorce banned in California. What??? you might ask. Well, click the article and read why. This is BRILLIANT and thought-provoking.