March 21, 2012

• You're smarter than 95% of the World's Climate Scientists?

  Someone explain to me how otherwise rational people think that somehow they're smarter than 95% of the World's Climate Scientists?  95% of the World's Climate Scientists say YES Global Warming/Climate Change IS real and it is happening now at an even more accelerated rate than we originally thought, yet there are people who aren't even scientists who think that all these Climatologists are wrong.  I just don't get it.  Here we are at the end of the 4th warmest Winter on record.  Here scientists have shown that the world's temps have increased dramatically since 2000 even - and yet these people would rather bury their head in the sand.

  And they'd rather belittle me for it AND THEN expect ME to apologize??? 

  I stopped going to Facebook once about a year ago when someone whom I thought of as a close friend (not anymore) wrote a comment on a political article I'd posted: "Dude, I thought this was Facebook, not Political Book."  Yes, I am passionate about politics.  When one of this country's two major parties has spent decades telling everyone how evil gay and lesbian people are and used us as scapegoats to raise money, after a while you don't sit back quietly.  You start fighting back and show how fake that party is as often as you can.  When it's your own livelihood, your own freedoms, hell even you're own safety that is constantly being jeopardized by a political party, you're going to fucking fight back and expose their lies as much as possible and wherever/whenever possible.

  I saw that many other people were posting political articles and comments on Facebook, so I started doing the same.  But then I get called on it by a friend???

  Here's a suggestion.  Don't read the article.  Ignore what I posted.  How many freakin' Farmville and Mafia War postings did I ignore?  TONS!  I didn't complain about all of them, I just ignored them.  But no, I had several friends who felt the need to say something by commenting either on my Wall or on something I'd posted.  To me, that's the same as coming here to my blog and telling me why I'm wrong.  You can bet I'm not only going to be insulted, but I'm going to remove your remarks.  Make them on your own Facebook page, on your own blog.

  Yet another friend did the same thing when I posted about how ridiculously weird this Winter has been and how I can't believe there are people who don't think Global Warming is real.  He belittled my status update with the comment "It's just weather, dude."  And then went on about how "he'd let my posts go on too long without saying something."  And it escalated and I thought, "If you don't believe what I'm posting DON'T FUCKING READ IT.  It's like when you don't like the show on your TV.  Change the channel or turn the TV off.  But DON'T call the station and complain that you don't like their show and you want it pulled off the air because it's too damned inconvenient for you to lift the freakin' remote and change the channel."

  This is why I again stopped going to Facebook.  And now that I've been without a phone for 6 days, I care less and less about Facebook.  But I posted something akin to what I've written above on Facebook about why I'd been gone since people were asking and within a couple hours, not only did that friend privately message me about what I'd posted, but demanded that I apologize to him for how I'd insulted HIM on my Facebook page during that whole Global Warming post.  WHAT!?!?!?  I wrote him back and said, "Are you kidding me???  You belittle what I have to say by commenting on my own status update, I fight back and I'M the one that has to apologize to you????  You've already made me regret coming back here."  So, within two hours of my saying I'll come back to Facebook, I was belittled once again via private message, and now I have no desire to come back at all.

  Change of subject - I managed to get all of Act I of "The Gin Game" blocked last night in 90 minutes.  None of this spending two hours drilling the same half page over and over and over again.  ALL of Act I blocked and done, thank you.  I hope to do the same with Act II tonight, especially since we're now losing Thursday night's rehearsal.

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