Of course they have. The 5 year survival rate of localized lung cancer is about 50%. Unfortunately many don’t know they have it until its spreads and the survival rate is much lower then. Same with pancreatic cancer. That is especially bad because most don’t know they have it until it is too late. But those few that manage to catch it early enough can treat it. Its still much better to have treatment available and have a shot at surviving.
The Silmarillion by Tolkien is less interesting than watching paint dry.
This made me realize what my own blasphemous thought is – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is boring as indicated by the Harvard Lampoon take-off Bored of the Rings.
And, a bit flabby, with no corresponding bosomism.
The age of consent should be around 12-13, teenagers aren’t children. Parents have way too much power over their kids to the point that they are basically property. If you were born rich there almost zero chance you are not a horrible human being.
As always, in threads like this, most of the “blasphemous” thoughts aren’t particularly daring, and many are shared by a solid MAJORITY of people.
I have no use for David Sedaris and little use for Beyonce myself, but really, will I stand out like a sore thumb if I say publicly that Sedaris isn’t funny or that Beyonce’s music is forgettable? Nah. Heck, even if I say “The Beatles were incredibly overrated*,” hardly anybody is going to get truly outraged.
There is NO movie, actor, author, musician, performer or celebrity of ANY type who is so universally beloved and admired that any of us would face any real repercussions for saying “They stink.”
And depending on who you are and where you live, even seemingly controversial opinions can seem surprisingly mainstream." MOST of the regulars here who state that God doesn’t exist and that religion is evil live and work in circles where almost nobody bats an eyelash at such talk.
Most of what’s being presented as “blasphemy” here is mighty tame stuff. Some of it merely FEELS controversial or blasphemous if we live and work among certain classes of people. If you live and work among nerdy middle aged males (I do; heck, I AM a nerdy middle-aged male), you may FEEL blasphemous for saying, “***Dr. Who ***is a stupid show” becuase it SEEMS as if everyone you know is watching it. But in reality, it’s a cult show with a tiny audience. It takes no reall cojones to say that.
*A mere hypothetical- SDMB regulars know I love the Beatles
The vast majority of babies are not cute. They are also not the slightest bit interesting. Asking if I want to hold your baby is as pointless as asking if I want to hold your waffle iron, except the waffle iron most likely doesn’t smell as bad, so is actually preferable.
For that comment I challenge you to light sabers on the plains of Malastare at dawn sir! :mad:
Whilst some extremists will argue that the only true pizza is a Margherita, anchovies are a perfectly common and valid topping here in Italy. I agree that there’s nice on pizza. No fucking pineapple, though.
I want to play, but I don’t know if I have any really blasphemous opinions.
In the context of this board, I guess - I believe that consciousness is qualitatively different than the ‘computer model’ of the brain - it is more than a meeting of energy and matter. There is a self-awareness in animals that machines will never be capable of.
That is pretty blasphemous to a significant portion of the cognitive scientist population. Good choice.
I agree that it is truly difficult to find anything universally blasphemous in all belief structures. Maybe if I were to advocate raising children as food? I don’t know. I know cannibalism, human sacrifice, child slavery have all had their advocates in the past. But now, not so much.
There are no tapes of the Wannsee conference. There are, however, audio tapes of Heinrich Himmler (the Posen speeches) saying the following:
And on killing Jewish women and children:
Himmler said all this, we have it on tape, and we have tons of eyewitness and documentary evidence of the Holocaust. Irving is way, way wrong.
Also, the waffle iron probably won’t heave large amounts of partially digested breast milk all over you.
Sean Connery was not the greatest James Bond. Pierce Brosnan was.
George W. Bush did not deliberately lie about WMDs in Iraq. He was mistaken, and as surprised as anyone when none were found.
The sooner we get over our fetish over the Founding Fathers, the better. They were slave-holding aristocrats who would be completely lost if they suddenly appeared today. Who gives a shit what they would think about gun control?
Nobody should ever say the Pledge of Allegiance. People who agonize over non-existent threats to remove “under God” from the Pledge have no business voting.
Nobody is qualified to home school their children. Children need to learn from a variety of adults with different perspectives and knowledge.
Citizen Kane was one boring ass movie.
Most right wing fundamentalist politicians are privately not very religious at all.
Being in the military does not make you a better or a worse person and there is no need for me to admire you.
The space shuttle was a colossal mistake and there is no reason to send humans into space.
Jennifer Aniston is not all that pretty. She barely qualifies as average.
True, true.
And, everytime that Yahoo! or some other page talks about her changing her hairstyle, I can’t see an effing difference!
I sit on the floor and pick my nose
And think of nasty things…
I loved that book!
True blasphemy! She is drop dead gorgeous!
It’s bad enough that in 2005she got her own neuron. At least you can’t say she’s witless. (yeah, that was a stretch, but I had to do it)