Uh-oh. Sycamore has the lube and Griff is drunk. Does anyone else see where this is going? lol!!!

I simultaneously think that Jesus was great, but Christianity is ...not.

Sarcasm noted.

The dangerous other side if that coin is, by your logic, someone pissed me off, so I killed him - it was his fault.

Same here.

Ya know, Griff's wife goes by the name "Pete" here on the Cellar...

Reckless comments fella! The mother of my babies is not a man! Not that there's anything wrong with that...

No matter how guilty she feels about the death of the kids, the mom's not responsible in any way. The drunk is.

Sweet family, Griff. :)

Griff,
That setting looks so real that it almost has to be artificial, like one of those indoor studio settings. Maybe that's just a result of the lighting and depth of focus.

Thanks. The pic was taken on my deck. Pete was an Art major in college so blame her for the camera settings. ;)

:p I just realized my comment "sweet family, griff" doesn't really go well with the thread title "unpopular opinions..."

that "orange" is pronounced R-nge

I want to buy your women. How much for the little girl? [/Jake Blues]

wonderful pic, Griff!

No, it's valid, I'm not ignoring you.. I'm just lazy. :p
In your example, you're proud of your hard work. You're proud of your action. The fact that your commendable action resulted in a good outcome is gravy. It's fully appropriate to be proud of your actions, in my world view. :comfort:

Kewl! I guess I just misunderstood this part:

:)

Nah, it's your fault you took the action of killing him, and it's his fault he got killed. Everyone's to blame!

My unpopular opinion of the day: No way is my house worth what it's going to sell for (an offer in 2 days!) I sure as hell wouldn't buy it. Being old != "character."

You're selling your house? Aren't you the one who had to jackhammer out like 50 tons of concrete to make a backyard? Growing family, huh?

Congrats Clod, that's great!

Oh yeah, Congrats on selling the place! I guess in this market that isn't so easy.

Yeah, but it was a fixer-upper, the point was always to sell it again in a few years. Mr. Concrete and Friends just made that take longer than expected. :)

People who believe that creationism is a science are lunatics.

Oral sex is terrific; anal sex is fantastic; the combination of the two makes me swoon.

Don't kill nothing that don't need killing.

combination? you mean analingus or both at once?

Neutron bombs? All for 'em, much more humane than nuclear.
Internment camps? Let's dust off Manzanar and put it to good use.

There is no need to limit yourself.:p

Dat true, but legality has nothing to do with it.

Fake photo...you pulled that from a picture frame at Wal-Mart.

The "obesity epidemic" is an exaggerated beat-up manufactured by pharmaceutical corporations and weight-loss clinics.

If you are moderately overweight, eat properly and get regular exercise, you will be healthier than a slim person who eats junk and doesn't exercise.

The Atkins diet is a weapon of mass destruction, and should be treated as such.

The only diet that works is one that you are willing to stick to for the rest of your life.

O'Bama's church structure is racist... just racist... that's it.

The Atkins diet is criminal.

Religion is often a very good force in the world.

Organised Religion is more often a destructive force in the world. :-P

Because it does good, makes me feel good/happy, tradition, etc... are not reasons for religion.

Why not?

It is not rational... if your neighbor came out and said "I have a car sized diamond in my back yard, sure am happy" & you said, "Wow, how do you know?". Then he says "because I don't want to live in a world without a car sized diamond in my back yard", do you think of that man as a rational one? Would that be a reason for him to go on a shopping spree?

Hey, I trick myself into sleep sometimes pretending I am on a Polar expedition who have only just made it back to base - all warm and cosy and snuggly and ALIVE and that's all that matters.

Whatever gets your through the night.

I thought you accepted people's beliefs weren't the problem - only their actions were? So if your neighbour gets off on his "diamond" good for him. Just don't beggar the family spending the mortgage payment because of it.

Religion isn't rational--that's kind of the point.

Oops. I apologize. I just realized which thread this was, and that questioning unpopular opinions is not good form here. Carry on.

I think spectator sports are pedestrian.

I think pedestrians should be spectator sports.

Anyone who bought a house or refinanced in the past three years is in for a surprise.

I never questioned anyone's right to believe what they wanted to, just how they acted on it.
This thread is about unpopular opinions and mine is that religion is unfounded, not helpful, can be replaced by far more productive activities and irrational.

--OJ did not kill Nicole and Ron...BUT HE KNOWS WHO DID.

--80's cheesy metal is actually pretty good.

--The native Americans deserve compensation

--native black Americans do not

--The first slaves here were Irish (indentured servants) and they were never "freed".

--talking on a cell phone while driving should be illegal nationwide..

--convicted criminals deserve a cell, bed, shower, toilet, 3 meals a day, a drab jumpsuit and slip on shoes.

--they don't deserve TV, computers, "regular" clothing.

--Iraq was not a war for oil

--country music was better then than it is now.

Tell that to the guys who just built a museum in KY.

I think there should be limitations on spending in College sports. It should be a fraction of what is spent on any educational department.
Also, the amount spent should be leveled between sports and genders.

That'll show em, instead of those cherry orange ones they have now.

Yeah. But indentured servitude was generally timebound: either a specific number of years service, or service to pay off a specific amount. African slaves were simply property, with no future manumission in sight for most, and certainly no rights as people in court(many southern states actually outlawed the freeing of slaves). Their children were also property. Indentured servitude shared certain characteristics with slavery (e.g masters using coporal chastisement and limited right of movement), however in several very fundamental areas there was no comparison.

There was plenty of Irish property in the Ivory Coast and Caribbean.

Ohio is doing a very stupid thing bailing out the folks who took out absurd morgages.

What is a native black American?

Women that are considered to be "far too thin" by the media can still be totally hot.

My idea of "hot" derives from about 75% of their attitude/mind and 10% personal hygiene & style. I am really not exaggerating. The rest is, usually, based on how curvy they are, notice that 85% of their personality can over-come that easily.
However, truly thin women tend to be a bit high-strung and obsessive for reasons I cannot fathom.

LoL. I hadn't spotted that.

We ate them all, didn't we?

I have no burning desire to discuss religion, or politics on the Internet.

I think that deserves some prize, for most unpopular opinion.:D

I agree!
It would be awesome, the day when people behave in a way that it makes it unnecessary.

Another unpopular opinion of mine... if you want to treat one group with a slight melanin difference differently, either positively or negatively, it matters not, you are clearly a racist.

And the winner so far....

My opinions:

- History that does not affect me or people I commonly interact with is utterly useless.
- Most of what I am learning is school will be forgotten eight seconds after I hand the test in and never remembered in my life ever again.
- Popular people at school are usually jerks.

You're right if you learn nothing from it.
You're right if you learn nothing from it.
Yes.

Says the man with over 20,000 Cellar posts. :D

I'm bedridden today, what's your excuse Bruce? Slacker.