Things You Don't Understand

[Schlosser85]

I don't understand why movies like Transformers do so well.

I don't understand how people like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt become such megastars when there are so many better actors, and even better-looking people, IMO, than them (and then there is Julia Roberts who in my opinion is downright unattractive, nor anything exceptional as an actress).

I don't understand why people give a damn about someone's sexual orientation, and actually think it makes you less moral to be attracted to the same gender instead of the opposite. Seriously, of all the petty shallow narrow ways to judge someone's character, you're going by who they think is cute? Seriously? And then you're going to claim to be people of God?

I don't understand how 24% could still think George W. Bush was a good present.

 

[Carcharodon]

Don't forget the soundtrack by QUEEN.

Did you read his post?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't understand why a story about living machines who fight an intergalactic civil war for supremacy fueled by foreign energy has to be a dumber franchise than flamboyant pirates and cursed wizard boys.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't understand why gays want the institution of marriage rather than simply accepting civil union benefits.

 

[[A]]

I don't understand marriage altogether.

 

[[A]]

Did you read his post?

He edited it rather quickly.

 

[thedeadite]

I don't understand why gays want the institution of marriage rather than simply accepting civil union benefits.

I don't understand why people call them "gays" instead of "people", like they're a different species or something.

 

[kedrell]

I don't understand marriage altogether.

I'm with you on that.

 

[kedrell]

I don't understand why so many people from so many different backrounds/political views/idealogical persuasions feel the need to control and influence the lives of others. Why can't people just leave each other the f*** alone.

 

[Carcharodon]

I don't understand why gays want the institution of marriage rather than simply accepting civil union benefits.

They're far from equal.

I don't understand why people call them "gays" instead of "people", like they're a different species or something.

 

[KevanG]

I didnt understand drunkeness before I get really smashed, wow I'm drunk woooo

 

[Aluchak]

I don't understand how someone could believe in god.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't understand how someone could believe in god.

How can you not?

The Earth is perfectly placed in our solar system for life. Any closer or further from the sun it would be a dead rock like the other planets. Look so many light years in any direction and all you'll find is dead space. But here we have a hospitable planet perfectly suited for us. This blue orb is a miracle in itself.

and how did pond scum come to evolve into what we now know to be human civilization. Another miracle.

The fact that life offers the moral choices that it does and we have the ability to communicate so much through human language and expression must be a gift from an intelligent designer. Just look at the diversity and complexity of the modern human experience.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't understand why people call them "gays" instead of "people", like they're a different species or something.

I don't understand why gays can't be identified by a title like other minority groups like blacks and Asians?

 

[Gilpesh]

The Earth is perfectly placed in our solar system for life. Any closer or further from the sun it would be a dead rock like the other planets.

Not to get into a huge off-topic debate. But using that argument shows very egotistical thinking. How come it isn't that YOU are perfectly suited for EARTH? Why is it that EARTH needs to be perfect for YOU?

 

[Carcharodon]

How can you not?

The Earth is perfectly placed in our solar system for life. Any closer or further from the sun it would be a dead rock like the other planets. Look so many light years in any direction and all you'll find is dead space. But here we have a hospitable planet perfectly suited for us. This blue orb is a miracle in itself.

Have you ever considered the possibility that we're suited for this planet, and not the other way around?

and how did pond scum come to evolve into what we now know to be human civilization. Another miracle.

An unlikelihood isn't necessarily a miracle. There very well could be a mechanistic explanation devoid of any supernatural involvement.

The fact that life offers the moral choices that it does and we have the ability to communicate so much through human language and expression must be a gift from an intelligent designer.

No, it mustn't. It could just as likely (if not more-so) be the product of evolution and natural selection.

What you're putting forth is a widely-recognized logical fallacy that at best demonstrates a lack of critical thought, and at worst discourages the type of critical thinking that has led to most of our progress and advancement as a species.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Not to get into a huge off-topic debate. But using that argument shows very egotistical thinking. How come it isn't that YOU are perfectly suited for EARTH? Why is it that EARTH needs to be perfect for YOU?

Because humans could be the end result of intelligently planned evolution not just a freak accident result of evolution.

 

[Sawyer]

I dont understand why people smoke cigarettes. If you smoke, congrats on the slowly killing yourself and everyone around you thing.

 

[Gilpesh]

Because humans could be the end result of intelligently planned evolution not just a freak accident result of evolution.

And we could be big urns for the spirits of dead aliens that some evil alien overload killed in a volcano. There's a lot of 'could be's. And most of the evidence that exists for what happened before us points to, "Earth was here first... and we became suited enough (not perfectly) for life here to proliferate."

And I'm done.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Have you ever considered the possibility that we're suited for this planet, and not the other way around?

potatoe, po-tah-to

An unlikelihood isn't necessarily a miracle. There very well could be a mechanistic explanation devoid of any supernatural involvement.

It is very strange coincidence indeed that pond scum would evolve into something capable of civilization and the conceptualizing of God.

No, it mustn't. It could just as likely (if not more-so) be the product of evolution and natural selection.

What you're putting forth is a widely-recognized logical fallacy that at best demonstrates a lack of critical thought, and at worst discourages the type of critical thinking that has led to most of our progress and advancement as a species.

Suggesting the rarity of Earth and it's perfect placement for life in general may be divine planning is not a fallacy.

Recognizing the possibly divine evolutionary chain from pond scum to human civilization is not a fallacy.

Assuming that natural selection could not be the creation of a God who wished to remain a mystery is at best closed minded and at worse excavates ones life of any divine purpose or understanding.

but I wish not to derail this thread so if you quote this post do so in the religious thread.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I don't understand why people thought Transformers was gonna be some kind of great epic. I hate to break it to you, but the original cartoon wasn't that good either.

 

[[A]]

I think it's a bit different.

 

[kedrell]

I don't understand why people thought Transformers was gonna be some kind of great epic. I hate to break it to you, but the original cartoon wasn't that good either.

Well no other film in history has had this level of disparity between how poorly it was rated by critics versus how much money it made. The DaVinci Code used to hold that record. That is where the hate comes from. There are plenty of films that are just as crappy as TF2 but they almost unanimously make less than 50M or so. TF2 has a decent shot at 400M and would be only the 9th film in all of history to get there.

 

[[A]]

I think he was only talking about quality, not BO

 

[Sam Fisher]

Pretty much.