bored

The novelty of facebook is finally wearing down a little bit; it's given me a good excuse to say hi to a couple of old classmates and even hook up with some other old friends from another place but it may not be long before I simply delete the profile.

It's sure one that isn't likely to last though; the whole "using my real name" thing just creeps me out a little bit. I don't care to hang around much of anyplace long enough to get too popular (blog for another day there ...hell, that could be a whole book), and I sure don't care for my name and personal info being attached.

So we'll see.

The few classmates I've said hi to won't last. As with the guy who was my best friend in High School ...after a conversation in which he told me that he thought that creationism should be taught in science class alongside evolution, I quickly figured out that we just really didn't have anything in common anymore.

Same thing with some of the others. I see some with some nice and gushy Christian sentiments, which I don't have a problem with as long as they keep it away from me. Crazy that if I were to post something promoting atheism, I'd more than likely really ruffle some feathers (or merely be taken off a friends list ...it's happened before, and I'VE even been the one to do it before when things got to be just a bit TOO obnoxious). There IS a double standard for sure. I remember a guy once telling me that he thought my father should disown me for not believing in the same god as he did, and yet was outraged when I suggested that all of his rhetoric about "family values" was reduced to only so much bullshit if he truly believed that.

granted I could have been a bit more polite about it, but it didn't make it any less true.