Dear Liv: Editor's Hate Mail

Dear Liv: Editor's Hate Mail

by Liv | Published on October 7th, 2009, 10:38 am | Life

I get me share of email on this website. I generally keep most of it too my self, but this one was a gem.

Dear Liv,
After reading your website: Greensboring.com for the last few years, I felt I should make some suggestions for you based on my observations. I hope you don't take offense as they're purely constructive criticism.

First stop complaining. Your constant whining and bitching about America, you being too fat, and what's wrong with everything might make interesting reading, but makes you sound like a child in the kitchen kicking her hands & feet against the floor. You may think it's "cool" but to everyone reading it just makes you look stupid.

Stop trying to lose weight. Your fat, God made you that way, God loves you... now go shove another Johnson's Burger down your face.

Second. The British. Who the hell cares about them? You go and visit one foreign country and suddenly you think everything they do is better than America? Go visit the middle east and see how you feel. You'd be the first to be beheaded. I think you should be grateful for the country you live in. Even if you don't believe in the religion that most people in this country does, you should clearly be able to recognize that it's the ideals of that religion which have given you a tolerant, and forgiving country where you can live and raise a family. (though I'm not quite certain I understand the dynamics of your relationship.) If you're so adamant about leaving the U.S., then please go. I'll donate to the fund and then when you get there and realize it's not nearly as great as the U.S. don't cry to me or to anyone here in America.

Third. What gives you the right to think you can speak for me? Because you know how to run a website and I don't? That people read your website because you're "Weird"? I'm not like you, Greensboro is not like you. You always complain about our local paper, but that's what most people are. You preach to me, yet you and you're group of cronies think your British, atheist belief structure is independently perfect. Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

Sincerely
Della Davis
(Proud American)

[Sanjuro]

Your fat, God made you that way, God loves you

Your fat god made you that way??? LMAO!!!

Did she just insult your deity then say he loved you???

Oh wait, she didn't know the difference between "your" and "you're"

[Sanjuro]

The British. Who the hell cares about them?

Della is obviously French.

[Liv]

French.... mmmm.... butter.

[BecauseHeLives]

Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

HA! Exactly. I've been saying this for years yet none of you atheists have really given a good answer.

[Nfidel]

Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

HA! Exactly. I've been saying this for years yet none of you atheists have really given a good answer.

Today I drove no more than 5 miles but traveled on three roads named for churches, with the name ending thusly- "Church Road". I must have passed six churches, a Jesus Saves sign and a couple crosses. Given all that, you religious people still complain that there isn't enough belief in the country and complain that religion has been taken out of the schools. Yet when we have a small corner of the world where we feel comfortable enough to air our grievances it is considered whining by the non-reality based community.

When I told someone that monthly I attend what I call my atheist meetings, she asked why I felt the need to do this. Was this to re-enforce my "atheist beliefs". I ask if that was reason she attended church twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday.

Imagine if you woke up and everyone that were previously Christians and Muslims were Scientologists. Most of the politicians, doctors, policeman, teachers, CEOs, etc. are now Scientologists. But not you. Don't you think you'd be a bit worried that your children would be taught a false worldview, that laws would be made based on a false morality, that doctors would maybe not treat your symptoms with reality based medicine and indeed, the police might enforce a brand of law to which you don't believe. You don't think you'd have a problem with this and want to complain? Well welcome to my world, where politicians savor being heard talking to an invisible man, where some science teachers believe the earth was created long after other civilizations rose and died and some doctors base pubic health decisions on bronze age science. We've seen the fnords.

And why are we referred to as "so called non believers"? Is it really so difficult to believe someone could take their destiny into their own hands, to actually rely on themselves to make the hard decisions?

[Sanjuro]

Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

HA! Exactly. I've been saying this for years yet none of you atheists have really given a good answer.

Today I drove no more than 5 miles but traveled on three roads named for churches, with the name ending thusly- "Church Road". I must have passed six churches, a Jesus Saves sign and a couple crosses. Given all that, you religious people still complain that there isn't enough belief in the country and complain that religion has been taken out of the schools. Yet when we have a small corner of the world where we feel comfortable enough to air our grievances it is considered whining by the non-reality based community.

When I told someone that monthly I attend what I call my atheist meetings, she asked why I felt the need to do this. Was this to re-enforce my "atheist beliefs". I ask if that was reason she attended church twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday.

Imagine if you woke up and everyone that were previously Christians and Muslims were Scientologists. Most of the politicians, doctors, policeman, teachers, CEOs, etc. are now Scientologists. But not you. Don't you think you'd be a bit worried that your children would be taught a false worldview, that laws would be made based on a false morality, that doctors would maybe not treat your symptoms with reality based medicine and indeed, the police might enforce a brand of law to which you don't believe. You don't think you'd have a problem with this and want to complain? Well welcome to my world, where politicians savor being heard talking to an invisible man, where some science teachers believe the earth was created long after other civilizations rose and died and some doctors base pubic health decisions on bronze age science. We've seen the fnords.

And why are we referred to as "so called non believers"? Is it really so difficult to believe someone could take their destiny into their own hands, to actually rely on themselves to make the hard decisions?

Just quoting your text in my post since BHL chooses to put people that say things which scare him on his "ignore list" and would therefore still think there wasn't an answer to his question. Then again, since he buries his head in the sand by doing the aforementioned, I'm sure he will do the metaphorical version of that after actually reading your comments.

[A Person]

Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

HA! Exactly. I've been saying this for years yet none of you atheists have really given a good answer.

We have of course, however taking time to answer is in itself is spending so much of our "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't get read.

This is one of those 'have you stopped beating your wife' arguments. If you do not respond then they win by default, yet by responding you are authenticating their idea that there is something to debate.

BHL hedges his bets though, since he can conveniently ignore responses by claiming they aren't 'good' answers.

[BecauseHeLives]

Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

HA! Exactly. I've been saying this for years yet none of you atheists have really given a good answer.

We have of course, however taking time to answer is in itself is spending so much of our "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't get read.

This is one of those 'have you stopped beating your wife' arguments. If you do not respond then they win by default, yet by responding you are authenticating their idea that there is something to debate.

BHL hedges his bets though, since he can conveniently ignore responses by claiming they aren't 'good' answers.

Excellent non-answer AP. You went to great lenghts to prove my point. Thanks.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

Tell me this, if you believe there's no such God then why do a group of so called non-believers spend so much time of their "precious" little human lives talking about something that doesn't exist?

HA! Exactly. I've been saying this for years yet none of you atheists have really given a good answer.

We have given you honest answers that tell you accurately why we do what we do. My guess is that you don't consider them "good" answers because what we say doesn't fit your prejudices. That makes it YOUR problem, not ours.

[Hugh]

Politics aside, I honor your culinary wackiness and eclectic palate. What is a "Johnson's Burger"? Is it that acquired taste Tatar Sauce thing?

[Liv]

Johnson's is what happens if Jesus opened up a burger stand in North Carolina. It's Divinity on a bun.

[eddiebuckle]

Politics aside, I honor your culinary wackiness and eclectic palate. What is a "Johnson's Burger"? Is it that acquired taste Tatar Sauce thing?

http://greensboring.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9530

[Serendipitous]

Dear Liv,

Please stop posting anything different from what I want everyone to think, feel, believe. Differences are scary. We should all be the same. Everything should be sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows!

And please stop doing me the favor of negative or whiney threads/posts that might direct me away from wasting my hard-earned cash on products or businesses that don't live up to what their marketing promises. I like to lose whatever is left over of my 90% of my paycheck.

Please just let me live happily in a delusion.

You're friend,
[pick a name]

Ugh... that killed me but I had to balance the "your" with a "you're"