the maine thing

scottfriday:

it’s sad that gay marriage took a big loss in maine. it’s always sad when your team loses or things don’t go how you want.

the thing that really saddens me, the more i think about it, is that it was a completely valid loss. no one cheated, no one stole the election, there were no hanging chads. it was completely by the books (from what i understand) and the masses spoke out and said “no”.

losses are always easier to take when you can blame a person or small group of people, especially a politician, than when you realize that it’s a majority of people who just don’t agree with your stance. that’s when it’s a bigger problem, and frankly, more depressing.

Fact.

lastchatwithphontaine:

“Some have argued that because the universe is like a clock, there must be a Clockmaker. As the eighteenth-century British empiricist David Hume pointed out, this is a slippery argument, because there is nothing that is really perfectly analogous to the universe as a whole, unless it’s another universe, so we shouldn’t try to pass off anything that is just a part of this universe. Why a clock anyhow? Hume asks. Why not say the universe is analogous to a kangaroo? After all, both are organically interconnected systems. But the kangaroo analogy would lead to a very different conclusion about the origin of the universe: namely, that it was born of another universe after that universe had sex with a third universe. ”
— Thomas Cathcart (Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes)