Atheism

Probably that little devil...




So, is that a bad thing to do? (There are cottonwoods aplenty here, but I'm cottonwood ignorant).

Cottonwood, according to an expert I know, burns hot and fast. There are better kinds of wood to burn.

Some banjos comes to mind....

Depends whose banjos you mean.

Today's first:

Have you got any ideas of your own hinge?

Christians don't believe in thousands of things. They have thousands of religions. Same with atheists really I suppose.

Precisely.

Hingehead's posts, at this point, are one of the only reasons I come back into this thread.

One might think you would have the manners to write his username as he gives it then liTTleK.

Seriously?

Only a little bit.

Well, more sad news on my life among the god botherers...

Yesterday, I received a chain letter (by email) from a born-again asking me to put Christ first in my life. Once I had done so I was to forward the letter to 12 people. One of those 12 was supposed to be the same person who originally sent the letter--his way of checking that I had done my homework, I suppose.

Does that happen often to the rest of you? I'm sure it must, but how often? I rue the day mankind ever gave birth to electronic mail.

(I have never heard of atheists sending around chain letters asking people to publicly renounce their beliefs in God.)

It's never happened to me.

Maybe you should try it.

I failed to report that yesterday at ten a.m. my doorbell rang, binnnnng bonnnng.
I failed to rise from my computer chair.
Well, it could be a neighbor, so I eventually checked; blank look through the hidey hole that came with the door and the house into the sands of our petroglyphic abodes. I opened the door, and paper dropped. Yes, yes, Jehovah's Witnesses.
Foiled them again, eh what?

I have a cousin and her husband that mean a lot to me. The way we deal with stuff, ever so maturely - I say sarcastically, is that, given we know all our multiple disagreements, we are by now glad each other are alive and kicking. Well, to be truthful, I'm not sure they fully get just how horrible I am, nor that I get just how fulminating right plus religious they are (he used to be a john birtcher, for example). I base my ability to go with this on my cousin's basic goodness (she rode to the cause back in the day in Mississippi, that plus many actions in the rest of her life.). Plus they both have accumulated wisdom - not that they agree with me more, but that there is some mutual acceptance going on.

So, to me, whom you all know as a dolt re computers and things like 'the cloud', although not entirely internet stupid (that's my ex, he still uses AOL) the whole thing of chain letters and a million not very cute jokes is a subject of concern.

I lost an acquaintance once from remonstrating with her about listing me among dozens of people on emails sans bcc. I suppose tone matters though I was trying to be nicey.
Alternately, I've helped a few catch on to how to use that.

I never respond to chain ****.
I told the cousins separately not to send me political jokes.
I actually like political jokes if they're good, from whatever side, but the swath was too much. A pal has the opposite tact, and engages with jokes back, but I don't want to go there.

So, Oylok, you have to figure out where you fall on all this, and then just say so.

I don't believe you are horrible osso.

I like you too, Spendi. Except when you aggravate the hell out of me, which is often. Once in a while even then. But not always.

Back to the rest of our atheist experiences..

I like Bernard Shaw's the best.