{"id":531,"date":"2009-02-27T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2009-02-27T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:17:28","slug":"its-all-fun-and-games-until","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/its-all-fun-and-games-until\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all fun and games until&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new favorite web comic is <a title=\"xkcd\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">xkcd<\/a>. It&#8217;s a sometimes geeky, almost always insightful, and always funny comic drawn with mostly stick figures by Randall Munroe, a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Who knew physics geeks could be funny?<\/p>\n<p>So the comic below was just brought to my attention by a friend who&#8217;s also an xkcd fan and I thought I&#8217;d share it here since the subject of the comic is perfect for Rationality Now. It addresses (somewhat) the issue of why atheists give a rip about what other people believe. See if you can follow along. I&#8217;ll elaborate in a future post.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; and go visit <a title=\"xkcd\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">xkcd<\/a>. It&#8217;s funny <strong>and<\/strong> they have <a title=\"xkcd Store\" href=\"http:\/\/store.xkcd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">geeky t-shirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/154\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-534\" title=\"xkcd: beliefs (#154)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/beliefs_154-540x711.jpg\" alt=\"xkcd: beliefs (#154)\" width=\"540\" height=\"711\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new favorite web comic is xkcd. It&#8217;s a sometimes geeky, almost always insightful, and always funny comic drawn with mostly stick figures by Randall Munroe, a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Who knew physics geeks could be funny? So the comic below was just brought to my attention by a friend who&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/its-all-fun-and-games-until\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s all fun and games until&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,104,206,319,388,682,869],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief-and-faith","tag-atheism","tag-belief","tag-comic","tag-faith","tag-government","tag-religion","tag-xkcd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}