Friend Who Is Agnostic

Best "advice" offered so far. I'm currently in the same boat as your friend. People come to me and begin evangelizing it turns me all shades of defensive. Live your life how you think it should be lived according to your beliefs. If he likes what he sees in you, he may decide to look into it deeper. If he doesn't want to be a christian now, then just leave it the **** alone and quit bothering him with it.

Don't tell your friend how to live his life. It's his. Not yours.

As my mom used to say "Keep your own pile clean" What that means, I am not really sure but it was good advice.

I live in MA and half my family lives is TN... and I am agnostic and they are extremely religous... and everytime I talk to them they seem to ask me if "I have excepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior"

I hate having religion pushed on me... so my advice is to just let him figure things out on his own... the more you push the more you may upset him...

well god damn.. yall done got this all f'iguerrd out.

I also have a friend who is agnostic, not only that, he has no shadow and eats beans with rice for breakfast. I think he may also be italian. Since he is my only friend I don't mention these things to his face.

i too have an agnostic friend.
he is all pissed off that they are not portrayed correctly in hollywood..

something about wrong skin color..

Yeah, god forbid that someone asks a question in these forums that actually gets answered. :wink:

Stop it, you're killing me - oh my sides - guffaw - snicker - chortle... you guys should do stand up.

Oh, the humor - the levity - I can't stand it.

Well, they all look alike. That's the main problem with agnostics. They should wear name tags or something.

Not like us, with our laurel wreathes..

....as long as they don't start taking our jobs or running off with our women...

Or our men.

or both.

Three buddy


And I know it's just because I don't flaunt the Pink Floyd logo (but I do have an album cover avatar and distictly Floydian username). Another reason is I don't say anything about Floyd being 'my soul' or my life or anything, simply because they're not. I really enjoy their music (and many other bands'), so I shape my account according to my interests, that's all.

Glad we got that cleared up. :wink:

Hard to tell about crucifixes.

I was given one as a baby by a family my parents were very fond of, and now many years later with both my parents and those people buried I wouldn't mind having that little gold thing with pearls. I didn't wear it after I lost enthusiasm for belief, but kept it with family things in a particular box in my packing storage.

That one box was stolen, strange, ain't it strange, but that was the one with the silver...
and the two people who I suspect were both needy of stuff to pawn.

So now, all these years later, would I wear that?
Probably not, my neck is fatter that it was when I was a baby. But if it fit? Perhaps, to see if I was struck dead...

Still, I wonder about the variance of belief in those who wear all the crosses for display.

Sorry, can't remember why I started riffing on crucifixes.

Perhaps time for me to be quieter now.

Osso- I think that it is an interesting subject. Why do people wear religious symbols in general around their necks? Or even better, what do people wear around their necks, and why?

In fact, why don't you start a new thread on the subject?

Well, I suppose it would bring predictable answers, and I as well as many of us can almost say who will say what, and with what shading of irony or blitzing or cosseting.

Maybe in the morning, nag me.

I dunno 'bout Phoenix, but I sure wouldn't dare nag you, Osso.