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When will my face Stick like this? or 2 Short stories for you February 4, 2006

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The people of Taiwan are not afraid of their police. I used to think it was a bad thing that Americans are scared of theirs, but now I realize that fear is not a bad thing. The random beatings and shooting by the LAPD show us that we better do what they say. Here, the police are pretty much ignored, but I promise that would change if they would shoot a person or two.

I saw two Mormons bike by me today as I walked back to my quarters. I hollered, â€œLDS?” That was my first mistake. They stopped and said yes, and began to proselytize, which I should have realized they would do. Maybe I did and wanted a diversion as I walked. Regardless, as they continued preaching at me, I said, “Let’s stop before someone gets offended.”

â€œOh we won’t offend you.” (That was a weird response.)

â€œI know… I meant that I would offend you.” I considered them warned.

They began to talk at me about travel and the amazing world. I informed them I’m an atheist and I don’t have any evidence of a god, thus I don’t believe in one. The less talkative one insightfully added, “So you don’t have any evidence that there ISN’T one either.”

“True bu…” Before I could start explaining the scientific principle of Occam’s Razor, and keeping things as simple as possible, the first one interrupted, â€œSo this is all from your own judgment then?”

â€œYes of course, isn’t that all we have?”

He made a scoffing sound. â€œNo…” Now it was my turn to interrupt.

â€œBrigham Young is your main leader?”

â€œNo, Joseph Smith.”

â€œRight, Smith. So you would trust his judgment over your own?”

â€œYes.” He said this in a way that made me feel ‘No’ was an impossible response; as if Yes had no negative counterpart or it wasn’t a member of a binary system.

Here I made what could be seen as my 2nd mistake. â€œWell that is what makes you F#$%ing retarded!”

“WHOA HEY WHOA HEYHEYWHOA SIR. That language is not appreciated.”

I interrupt again. â€œI warned you I’d offend you.”

â€œYou didn’t offend us.” (I didn’t?)

I chose to finalize things. â€œIf you choose to continue this conversation, I will choose to use whatever language I prefer.”

And with that they biked off to try and ensnare some other poor bastards. The point of this story relates back to a conversation my family started to have during a dinner before I left the states. It involved religious belief about what happened after death.

A) This topic shouldn’t have been brought up, as the rule about politics and religion exists for a good reason.

B) I found out my step-father stands pretty far from the Judeo-Christian mythology.

C) It bothers me that people accept things without evidence, then use, “Well you can’t prove it’s NOT right” as a reason to keep believing it.

Let me state this clearly. There are an infinite number of explanations we can accept about Life, the Universe and Everything. The problem is that since all explanations are effectively equally acceptable, what allows one to logically accept one over the other? Occam’s Razor demands we take the simplest explanation and science demands we accept nothing without evidence. In terms of simplicity, there is little choice. What is more simple: to accept none of the non-evidenced explanations, or to accept an infinity of them? In terms of evidence, there is NO scientific evidence for ANY super powerful beings. I mean spit in your eye, slap you on the ass, There’s GOD standing there, evidence.

Whew, long post, probably should delete it now, but I won’t.