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Boy, you need something to get that splintery broom handle out of your ass.

Listening to you makes my inner hate drift away like whisps of fading frost on a bright April morning.

? truth in numbers? As I recall, there was a time when everyone believed that the universe revolved around the Earth. That's where deviants come into their own.

How about a nice, tall glass of toluene instead? You didn't get the memo? In your case, one can always hope. It's not exactly "The Greatest Story Ever Told", but then again it's not "The Passion" ,either. Sorry, didn't catch that. My screen turned into a screeching wombat for a while there. Ah, go grow an opposable thumb, will ya? The Leo Buscalia of CC reveals his happiness secrets. My black heart absorbs all light.

bullshit. you can try to "define down deviancy" all you want, but I ain't drinking the Kool-Aid. We've got a thread here with a bunch of self-righteous, atheist religion bashers spewing off their fucking bullshit as if *they* have some answer. What answer is that, pray tell? we are accidents of nature destined to be nothing but worm food? Your life and consciousness is snuffed out, end of story? yeah real inspiring. and all the more so, when it is accompanied by obvious pain and escapism - including excessive hallucinogenic drug use. I'm so inspired by this hopeful message, and the obvious happiness of its purveyors. Truly we must all "evolve" to think this way, and make appropriate, concomitant, "liberating" choices in our life that will make us oh so much happier. just look how happy it makes its proponents who are so sure of their beliefs that they react with explosive vitriol at any suggestion that God exists. and as for those crazy Christians we keep hearing about - trying to "force" everyone to believe... Sorry, but I don't see anyone here giving sermons trying to convert and force their beliefs. the only zealots I see here are the hate-filled atheists. Nauh, dis funny. We gotz da haite fil' ath'ist, we' gotz da crazy chrisht'nz, we got it awl heah own dis saht, butt wun thang we can' recreate, wit awl owuh bo-shi n such, z da feelin wayin da triple K wayz own iahn wit hiz supah-wizdum. Mahn, dat katz gottit goin' on. He cut tru ebbybodies awgumin, straight up, no chasuh. Da wizdom o dat dood...why don' he run fo gob'mint?

The 50 Foot Woman vs Condi:

at the Orbit Lounge.

Yep, each other and all the other current expressions of the pool of planetary DNA our lives completely depend on... That's exactly what I meant.

The beauty of atheism is that, once you determine that we are alone, you also realize that all we have is each other.

That's for sure.

I don't know, the survival of religion makes sense to me in both an evolutionary and practical sense. Survival of the fittest in hierarchical social groups (humans) requires stratification, subjugation, and commonality of belief. Religion is tailor made for that. It is the perfect justification for the top dogs to remain on top. Practically speaking, we still have the same brains we had 50,000 years ago when language supposedly sprang into being. This same brain is still producing and believing in imaginary universes in its spare time, just as it always has.

I would augment this by adding that this survival by grouping required the ability to create a "social universe", ie., one that is subjective and separate from the actual physical universe. Humans took that ability and created all kinds of additional universes; language, art, religion, science, which reinforced our success in both the social and physical world. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way the latter became corrupted.

An Atheist's translation of Christian doctrine. C: We want to save you so you can gain access to heaven. A: We want to gain access to your savings. C: Whether or not you know it yet, you are one of God's children. A: You don't know who your daddy is, do you? C: If there is no God, how do you explain his glorious mountains? A: Why the hell didn't he make them closer to the pub? C: Jesus died for our sins. A: And I'm dying to sin again. C: God does not approve of the gay lifestyle. A: Twelve apostles and not a single woman? C: Accept Jesus as your personal saviour. A: Jesus, what I really need is a personal assistant.

I lay claim only to the purity of nothingness. Left lane blocking provides an opportunity for community...of my front bumper to their back bumper.

So far you are the only one who has framed such a statement on this forum. oh come now, don't play coy. here's the obvious: I'll leave it to your seemingly capable intellect to glean out the rest of the similar sentiments, although really i couldn't give a lesser crap as to what one's sentiments are in the end. we all go to our own grave in various states of enlightenment and ignorance. I skip over shit like that, oh Enlightened One. It is a mere pebble in the eight fold path. Obviously there are more despicable human traits. Left lane blocking comes to mind.

"reinterpreted", That's a different topic. Notice I always use "God's Word" As if it was straight from God, untouched by 2000 years of human interpretation, agendas, and multiple translations. Riiiiiight.

Prayz Jebus! That would be some sweet assed salvation!

LuCY! LuCY! LuCY! Shrub wouldn't last 5 seconds in Pliocene Africa.

I never said I didn't like Dr. J, but the example set by his life has been somewhat, er, 'reinterpreted' by the vast majority of his followers.

What if they're really hot?

Or the pastor could have said "Being gay is OK. Don't worry about it. God loves you just the same." But the church, or at least a lot of churches, do not believe that choosing who you want to love because it's right for you is OK, do they? Yet another basis for my 'prejudice'.

So far you are the only one who has framed such a statement on this forum.

You just captured a basis for my 'prejudice', which I would recast as a 'lack of respect for overly pious.' We non-believers do not need your example to lead a good and moral life, thank you. We can well manage on our own. And if that means the Lake of Fire (LOF?) for me, well, that's where all my friends will be.

You're interpretation contains more than a spoonful of sugar. If interpreted against the backdrop of so much Christian anti-gay teachings, I'd say what the pastor was really saying was "It doesn't matter if I dissapprove; I'm just a man. It's the Big Guy that disapproves of your lifestyle." I.e., "You're fucked, little girl."

I can say with absolute certainty that that is extremely unlikely. Yeah, not too many people think they are the love child of a mermaid and an alien space-faring pirate Shhhhhhhh. They're monitoring us. Daddy was a pirate? Even cooler. And hey, mine's as good a religion as any.