Southern accents of any kind. They just make people sound stupid. You could be giving a lecture on particle physics but if you have a southern accent you'll sound like a blabbering idiot. People that live in rural areas of the north that somehow have a southern-like accent...bothers the hell out of me. Just because you live in hick country doesn't mean you need to speak like one. And "black" accents. Not to sound racist but just because you're black doesn't mean you need to talk like you're from the ghetto (even if you are). I've met plenty of black people where I live that speak perfectly normally but then there are those that walk around spouting a bunch of nonsense and talking like their tongue is 3x too large for their mouth. Long story short...people need to stop trying to sound like morons.
Because atheists are (generally) intelligent and we debate using logic and information. Whereas most religious beliefs are highly illogical and obviously based on faith (usually) in direct opposition to fact. You need to pick your battles wisely, as they say, and facts will always trump faith. It's simply a losing battle that most of the time leaves both sides feeling very frustrated. I can't speak for the religious but I know whenever I argue faith with a religious person I end up walking away from it dumbfounded by the voluntary, blissful ignorance of the other party.
I'm a supervisor for UPS and I have problems with them all the time. Said this in other threads but... Shipping with: UPS - generally on time but possibility of being opened/damaged (opened not meaning anything was taken/lost...just an opened box). Long distance shipping is incredibly quick because of our logistics department. Smalls/envelopes become lost quite often and are subsequently late. FedEx - generally late but few damages due to their automated sorting system. Ridiculously slow long distance shipping. Smalls/envelopes about 50/50 chance of being lost. USPS - moderate blend of both damages and late packages. Moderate long distance shipping times. Smalls/envelopes are rarely lost. Obviously there are exceptions but, if you can, choose your shipping company based on size of the item and distance travelled. And even though we do have a moderate number of damages at UPS you can insure everything but paper/lightbulbs for the full value and if you pay for expedited shipping and it's late anyway we refund the full amount. FedEx has a limited number of things you can get fully insured. And I honestly have no idea what USPS' insurance policies are like. As far as smalls/envelopes are concerned UPS is working on a new sorting/transit system for them to improve shipping times etc. And pretty soon here we are implementing a new scanning system worldwide that will completely eliminate miss-loads (your package being sent to the wrong hub because someone isn't checking their zip codes while loading). And so you know; just because your tracking says it's stuck somewhere doesn't mean it actually is. It's quite possible that whoever loaded it just didn't scan it for whatever reason and it actually is on it's way.
Considering I don't talk to a single person I went to school with anymore (and you probably won't either eventually) I'd have the exact same number of friends I do now.
Einstein believed in a God, but it wasn't a God of prayer, the God Einstein believed in was one that would not meddle into human's everyday life, or to be more accurate, He believed that God simply created a universe with a few simple laws and let the universe run on its own.King-gamer
Not to go way off-topic but Einstein was an atheist and I do not appreciate you saying otherwise. Einstein believed in the "god-like" perfection of mathematics and equated his awe toward natural law and the magnitude of existence as being like that of a religious person's toward god. In no way did he believe in a god of any kind and in fact the evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.
[QUOTE="Masterx1220"][QUOTE="DocDelicious"]Neither. 10k on a decent car. 40k on something that *doesn't* brand you as a tool. can't see how having a 50k car makes you a tool. Amount of money spent doesn't play as big of a part as the kind of car or what you do to it. If you drive a sports car, a truck, anything modded, if it has rims, or is loud enough that you can hear it running from over 40ft away...you're a tool. Only times it's acceptable are if you're a retired mechanic driving a classic car or you drive a truck and have a job that *legitimately* requires it. And that doesn't mean "I'm work on a construction site but only use my truck to get there and back; I don't actually haul anything." If you don't understand this as a driver/human being then you most likely fall into the aforementioned categories.
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