{"id":14,"date":"2009-03-01T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T05:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-04-21T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T18:31:09","slug":"to-the-three-yammering-fundies-at-the-borders-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"to the three yammering fundies at the borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This goes out to the three hyenas that were a paltry 12 feet away from my girlfriend and me as we tried enjoying some coffee and reading time at the Borders in Gresham this Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Dear ladies, i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciated having my ability to read and the conversations i tried having with my girlfriend interrupted by your absolutely insane, banal, DSM-IV quality fundamentalist ramblings. Yes, i&#8217;m genuinely sorry that you know someone who is having a drinking problem, but i want to gently contradict your analysis that the cause is, as you put it, &#8220;Satan, who hates all souls&#8221; forcing him to drink. I&#8217;d like to offer another, more plausible, explanation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYou see, your friend drinks because he probably has to put up with your fundamentalist, insane, divorced-from-reality proclamations, snake-handling insane bullshit. Add to this, the fact that apparently you cannot make any sort of conversation without using a volume that can only be described as being designed to force you and your idiotic beliefs onto anyone that might be in the same hemisphere with you. <\/p>\n<p>I tried being subtle. I tried giving you a few glances to let you know for all intensive purposes, you basically made us and the other patrons part of your banal delusions. At first i thought this a result of bad manners but after we made eye contact enough times that you could have given me a venereal disease, i realized you were fully aware of the volume and quantity of crazy that you were spewing. I then had to realize your talk about this god of yours, Satan, that you apparently spend a lot of time thinking about and obsessing over, was actually designed to help you believe your own snake-handling bullshit. <\/p>\n<p>You see, you&#8217;re like Ted Haggard or Larry Craig [perhaps minus all the dick cravings they have, but perhaps not- that&#8217;s not really an area i want to explore, ever] in that you&#8217;re doing your best to convince yourself you actually believe your own insanity by trying to force others to be a part of it. <\/p>\n<p>Stop it. Just fucking stop it you backward ass, anti-intellectual, snake-handling, fundamentalist fireship [a slightly obscure word that means &#8220;diseased whore&#8221;]. I&#8217;m from the south; i grew up with luddites like you. You wrap yourself in the flag, you believe using guns is a theological directive, you blame all that&#8217;s bad in your life in this fantasy that &#8220;satan&#8221; forced you to do something. Then you reaffirm your righteousness by being judgmental, sanctimonious, nationalistic and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jingoism\" target=\"_blank\">jingoistic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to live in a fundamentalist country where everyone wants to hear your insane ramblings, do us all a favor and move to Saudi Arabia or Iran. If that&#8217;s too much to ask, try to join the rest of us by showing some basic manners that the rest of us mastered when we were 15 or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goes out to the three hyenas that were a paltry 12 feet away from my girlfriend and me as we tried enjoying some coffee and reading time at the Borders in Gresham this Saturday. 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