rudyharrelson

Perhaps my understanding of the term "antitheism" is incorrect. Though I checked Wikipedia before making my comment. Wikipedia's first paragraph says:

Antitheism [...] is the philosophical position that theism should be opposed. The term has had a range of applications. In secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to the belief in any deity.

Given the latter definition, I think I used it appropriately. Though it's apparently a spectrum, similar to atheism/agnosticism.

I stand by my assertion that the term "atheist" doesn't need the "agnostic" qualifier to specify that a given person isn't asserting that there is no god. In my experience, people incorrectly assume all atheists are de-facto antitheists and believe, actively, that there is no god, which just isn't the case. But the additional clarification by adding "agnostic" is certainly helpful in terms of clarity; I can't argue against that.

Atheists argue that there is no god that is either good or evil

Depends on the flavor of atheist, in my experience. I'm an atheist, but I've never argued that there is no god, because how the hell would I know that?

Some use the term "agnostic atheist" to describe this kind of atheist, but I'm of the mind that it doesn't need the qualifier "agnostic" since atheism is simply lacking a faith in any god, in contrast to antitheism, which is the active belief that there is no god. Antitheism is, ironically, a belief system rather than the lack of one.

I'm between jobs for the first time in my adult life at the moment. My last gig lasted nearly 10 years and it was a wild ride. I found it fulfilling for a time, but I eventually got promoted to a position I wasn't wholly satisfied with.

I started off at the very bottom rung, doing tech support for customers on the phone/chat/email. I was great at it and got promoted quickly to higher ranks of support, and eventually wound up managing the floor of tech support agents. Those were some of the best days of my life. Halcyon days.

Every day was like a really low-stakes episode of House, where in the course of helping agents solve technical issues for customers, eventually we'd encounter one really inexplicable, difficult, borderline impossible problem that nobody had ever seen before, so me and my team's brightest would walk and talk while hypothesizing and figuring out our next move.

After a year or two of managing the floor, I got promoted to a position where I was ultimately a code monkey. Then Covid happened, and my job became fully remote for 4 years straight. Which was great! It allowed me to do my work and also spend way, way more time with my infant son during his early formative years. I got incredibly lucky in spite of the pandemic. But over time, the burnout grew to the point where I knew I needed to find something else to do with my career.

I'm lucky enough to have enough in savings that I can take a bit of time to reflect and think about what I might want to do going forward with my admittedly limited credentials.

And "driver crash"

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

For me, it's probably "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

It's like a weird fever dream. Catchy tune though.

The orange cat voiced by Dom DeLuise trying (and failing spectacularly) to do the Lazy Eye is cracking me up. Haven't watched this in years.

Are the Goo Goo Dolls considered basic? They certainly got mainstream hype in their heyday, but I don't think that makes them basic. Iris was one of my first favorite songs as well (I was about 9 years old when I heard the song playing at a Hudson Belk thay my mom and I were shopping at).

I've seen them 3 times live in concert and they're great.

Even if you can't afford something, emergencies can come up where one might need to spend money they don't yet have. Battery dies in your car and now you can't get to work? Need to buy a battery ASAP or else you miss work. Put the battery on the credit card and pay it off ASAP.

I have no love for banks, but if you're savvy you can leverage credit cards in your favor over the years.

"You made a valid point and have changed my mind."

Ain't gotta sit alone in one's room to enjoy gaming. Just about the only time I game anymore is when I'm hanging out with my friends.

Clearly you aren't doing it right. Me buying shares is a death knell for companies. I'd be surprised if my broker doesn't give companies a courtesy call when I've bought a few shares to let 'em know the company's about to go under.