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Why are you talking about /b/ as if it were a hive mind with a collective will and a singular purpose, instead of a random collection of anonymous Internet users who are all trying to one-up each other?

All religious rituals are equally absurd to atheists. The "official" Catholic sacraments are just as silly as the El Colacho festival, where grown men dress up in costumes and go for a distance long-jump over a line of babies on the ground, like Evel Knievel jumping over a bunch of cars. The practitioners of that…

Shame. This could have so easily been the intro to an episode of House. Football player gets tackled right before halftime, drinks Gatorade, gets funny look, says "I can't taste anything" to teammate or Coach, collapses clutching stomach in pain. Queue Massive Attack.

"Unusual" with respect to geological events in Iceland is either a cause for great concern, or none at all. Y'all are basically standing over a river of lava with one foot on each side, and the sides are moving farther apart.

One would hope that her personality is a violation of rule #2.

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The music in the first video is "Primavera" by Ludovico Einaudi and is an incredibly beautiful composition.

The Olympics belong on ESPN and ESPN 2 and all the ESPNs, even ESPN 8 "The Ocho". There are enough ESPNs to cover every event, and it sure seems like the entire purpose of the network is to broadcast sports, anyway.

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"With a large part of itself, [monotheistic religion] quite clearly wants us all to die. It wants this world to come to an end. You can tell the yearning for things to be over. Whenever you read any of its real texts or listen to any of its real, authentic spokemen, not the sort of pathetic apologists who sometimes…

My prediction for 2014: Somewhere on the planet there will be a major natural disaster, and it will be blamed on homosexuality.

James Randi posted this last week. Bonus points if you can figure out who is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Gingrich.

Not just Elizabeth. Rosalind Lutece and Daisy Fitzroy also.

Bioshock Infinite, anyone?

Wait, it's almost 2014 and hereditary titles are STILL a thing? Pathetic.

Facebook brought this on themselves by making privacy settings all but impossible to navigate or understand. If they had made it simple to restrict how much of your activity your "family" can see, this would not be happening. Too late now.

Jasmine wasn't interested in Aladdin until he showed her his fancy ride. She completely blows him off until she sees his magic carpet, and then she's all "take me for a ride, Aladdin!"

Do we need spoiler alerts for an adaptation of a classic book written more than a century and a half ago? If so, can it really be called an adaptation? Critics, what say ye?

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