Atheist!

[Carmenica Diaz]

Americans are very religious people; explains why they love Halloween so much.

And a large percetage of the world's porn comes from the US.(Where is Literotica based again?)

It is interesting that the American brand of God not only hates Muslims but is also male. It's interesting how religious people design their own God. Very useful trick.

 

[kendo1]

Just a thought...
Does it have to be black and white?
There is a God. There is not a God.


Me? I'm an atheist.
I believe in myself.

 

[Carmenica Diaz]

Just a thought...
Does it have to be black and white?
There is a God. There is not a God.


Me? I'm an atheist.
I believe in myself.

Amen! (Wooops!)

 

[hmmnmm]

And if you'll notice, 'antagonist' has an approximately similar effect as does the word 'atheist'.

 

[CharleyH]

And a large percetage of the world's porn comes from the US.(Where is Literotica based again?)

Hardly LOL - the greatest consumers are Americans, though.

 

[hmmnmm]

christians would be lost without satan.
just as american politicians would have no careers without the creation of terrorist propaganda.
if god does not exist, then satan can't exist.
where then is the necessary conflict, real or imagined?

 

[yui]

christians would be lost without satan.
just as american politicians would have no careers without the creation of terrorist propaganda.
if god does not exist, then satan can't exist.
where then is the necessary conflict, real or imagined?

Missed you, hmmnmm. And your wisdom.

Hope all is right in your world (I'm trying not to mess with it ).

Peace,

Yui

 

[CharleyH]

christians would be lost without satan.
just as american politicians would have no careers without the creation of terrorist propaganda.
if god does not exist, then satan can't exist.
where then is the necessary conflict, real or imagined?

Politicians always have careers - we seem dumb enough to elect them because we are too stupid to do without them? God can't exist without Satan? We see it every day. Both exist in the minds of the scared.

 

[hmmnmm]

It was late late last night and I was on the way over to the halloween story support thread to ask a question, because I've had an idea for it, but time is not an ally... then I was going to go to bed.
Then I saw that one word, Atheist! (yes, with the exclamation) and the poster or threader... Something whispered, "don't do it! don't click that link!" but as usual I failed to heed and...
well, it's been fun and educational, but I gotta trot along now.
nice to see friendly familiar names and avs.

And if everyone's atheists and agnostics, then I'm an agnostic lesbian missionary trapped in a backsliding christian man's body.

Night

 

[Pure]

i wonder

if all of us--the hard headed 'facts only' persons--who are patting ourselves and each other on the back don't have some beliefs that are held without regard to evidence? possible examples:

that all humans are equal;
that women are as smart as men;
that our lives will get better in the next 5 (or10) years;
that what we (one person) do makes a difference;
that 'honesty is the best policy'--i.e., has the best payoffs (though
not necessarily in money)
that we can equip our children to make a bit better choices for
themselves than we have
that [by] being careful we can avoid serious bodily injury;
that we will be alive, tomorrow--

aren't we all 'persons of faith'?
---

PS Did everyone choose his or her 'mate' or 'love match' based on good evidence? (i.e., which would convince any rational person that this is the best choice).

 

[Equinoxe]

... that we will be alive, tomorrow--

Hmmm. There is a good chance this post will not make sense.

 

[yui]

that women are as smart as men;

And I'm pissy enough to say, wtf?

Cos, in the end, I'll pit my smarts against any man's; sure, peeing standing up creates a problem, but if I don't mind my shoes, I'm good.

 

[rgraham666]

And I'm pissy enough to say, wtf?

Cos, in the end, I'll pit my smarts against any man's; sure, peeing standing up creates a problem, but if I don't mind my shoes, I'm good.

Ha! But can you pee out of a car window?

 

[cantdog]

I'm certain it's not hardheadedness, for me, but a reluctance to credit authority. The authority of any other human being is small and contingent; I never begin by accepting it. And the authority of a deity has been borrowed to bolster some truly foul ideas. If there were a god, I could never worship it. And it clearly isn't in the mood to grant favors.

God is useless to me; I don't need it. And believers are frequently my enemy. Hardheadedness has nothing to do with the question.

 

[CharleyH]

And I'm pissy enough to say, wtf?

Cos, in the end, I'll pit my smarts against any man's; sure, peeing standing up creates a problem, but if I don't mind my shoes, I'm good.

ROFLOL

 

[CharleyH]

Hardheadedness has nothing to do with the question.

Yet? Ones belief system has made many a war and is that not an example of hard headedness?

 

[Guest]

Ha! But can you pee out of a car window?

dont ask how i know but yes, she can



its all in the angle of the dangle.

 

[cantdog]

I don't think my belief system, whatever it is, has made even one war.

The long history of God-believers killing people in massacre, torture, war, razzia, pogrom, inquisition, arenas-- you can point to it until your fingers fall off and never even cause a single believer to own it, let alone change their minds about anything on account of it. It's futile to list it. Other crimes abound, too, besides massacre and war. Churches forbade emancipation; they forbade anaesthesia; they forbade geology, astronomy, history, anthropology, biology. They currently forbid equality for women, for gays, for members of certain other religions. That list too can be extended. Some of it you can get them to admit to and take responsibility for, but it still doesn't change them.

Because the component of it which causes the wars and all the rest is not the religion, not the belief, but the attachment of that belief to an US/THEM value system. Nationalism or racism could garner almost as lengthy a list of past crimes. It is US/THEM systems which cause the pain, the crimes and the wars, not religions or beliefs per se.

Good and decent adherents of faiths exist in every tradition.

 

[izabella]

Why is "atheist" a pejorative term to most Americans?

Atheists cannot be controlled by religion or religious beliefs or religious leaders. Therefore, we are reviled, sometimes by those who are already controlled and sometimes by those who would like do the controlling.

 

[TriggerHippie]

edited for content.

 

[yui]

Ha! But can you pee out of a car window?

With the proper motivation and lack of audience ... mebbe.

Can you? Gee, men have it so over women on the peeing thing. Again I suggest, that is why men ruled the world for so long ... the ability to pee standing up.

ROFLOL

My sweet, innocent Charley … how I’ve missed you.



Good to see you, Pretty. Hope all is right in your world.

dont ask how i know but yes, she can



its all in the angle of the dangle.

<Confused German Shepard head cocking> Angle?

<More puppy confusion> Holy help me … dangle? I’m charmed and lustful.

 

[past_perfect]

Again I suggest, that is why men ruled the world for so long ... the ability to pee standing up.

Certainly, as it implies the ability to pee on someone else's leg - since the distances increased during the evolution of man, we resorted to do this figuratively.

The real question is: If God doesn't exist, who is that chap George W. is talking to?

 

[NoJo]

As long as children are left alone to reason it through themselves as best they can with what each has to work with and both the fundamentalists and atheists refrain from prejudicial input. But really, I don't put much stock in what anyone says they believe unless or until they have reached a certain age, gathered a share of experiences and data, and they can convince me that what they have concluded they have come to on their own, rather than reading books by other humans, christian or atheist.

My dream is for each person on the earth - atheist, christian, muslim, etc... to be able to say just once, "maybe I'm wrong after all."

I'm sure I'm wrong about most things, but I continue to examine.

My dream is of a world populated excusively by hmmnmmms (and a couple of rgrahams too, and lots of really hot chicks)

 

[shereads]

I doubt if most Americans know what an athiest is, Joe. Most of us can't name one Supreme Court justice or find Washington DC on a map. You'll be safe here as long as you didn't kill JonBenet Ramsey.

 

[kendo1]

that all humans are equal;

that women are as smart as men; *snerk*

that our lives will get better in the next 5 (or10) years; A few weeks in my case

that what we (one person) do makes a difference; Yep.

that 'honesty is the best policy'--i.e., has the best payoffs (though
not necessarily in money) Yep.

that we can equip our children to make a bit better choices for
themselves than we have I try.

that by being careful we can avoid serious bodily injury; Not necessarily.

that we will be alive, tomorrow-- Yep.

aren't we all 'persons of faith'?
---

PS Did everyone choose his or her 'mate' or 'love match' based on good evidence? (i.e., which would convince any rational person that this is the best choice).


My wife was leaning over a piano at Nicky Tam's - a cellar bar in Edinburgh in the 1970's. She was wearing a low cut t-shirt, so the first thing I noticed was her cleavage.

I reckon I made the right choice on the evidence available at the time.

Kendo