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Old 07-27-2014, 08:31 PM   #71 (permalink)
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I don't think atheists have much of a negative stigma where I live. It's worse if you're religious.
That must be nice.
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Old 07-27-2014, 08:40 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Today was some sort of BDSM festival celebration. There's a couple every year, the biggest is the Folsom Street Fair and I guess today's is related to that?

Anyways, lots of beared, burly, pierced dudes in leather chaps and short shorts on the train today. A small group of people were protesting it, handing out flyers and saying "Jesus loves you!" and some guy was like "**** YOU I'M AN ATHEIST *******!"

Made me think of this thread.
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Old 07-27-2014, 09:39 PM   #73 (permalink)
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So no hot chicks in leather bustiers?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 07-27-2014, 09:47 PM   #74 (permalink)
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A couple here and there but mostly dudes. I wasn't there for the actual parade part I just caught the aftermath on my way home from work. The Folsom Street Fair is usually pretty evenly queer and straight couples so there were probably more women, just not that I saw.
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Old 08-04-2014, 02:30 PM   #75 (permalink)
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I thought Norway was supposed to be a religiously conservative country.


Oh and... TORE!!!! Where U been, Cracka Supreme?
My part of the world isn't particularly religious, but the leading church here is protestant.



As for where I've been .. Moved, got a job, got a house, got busy being elsewhere
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Old 11-10-2014, 04:18 PM   #76 (permalink)
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The reason I'm willing to make the logical leap that God actively doesn't exist, as opposed to simply not having a belief that he/she/it exists is that humanity has shown a willingness to see agency in everything from the changing of the seasons to the spilled intestines of ritually sacrificed cows that is so extreme and nearly uncontrollable that without any compelling evidence as to his existence I think it is logical to come to the conclusion that the whole idea was made up by people who just can't help but see faces in the leaves.
Reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

This thread's been a fun read.
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Old 11-15-2014, 04:09 PM   #77 (permalink)
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Not many religious people where I live. And my atheist colleagues proudly proclaim their position.
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Not many religious people where I live. And my atheist colleagues proudly proclaim their position.
Damn you. I'd kill to not have to assume that half the people you meet don't believe in evolution. Specifically I'd kill that.
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Old 11-15-2014, 04:55 PM   #79 (permalink)
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i tell people i'm atheist if they bring it up then we might get into it a little bit but ultimately i take the position that i think the stories are fake but i don't know at the end of the day and i don't really care if they want to believe in it. it really hasn't been an issue for me so far and i live in the middle of the bible belt. i do meet people who believe what i consider to be dumb **** but it really doesn't bother me that much, i just find it a bit strange.
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Old 11-15-2014, 04:56 PM   #80 (permalink)
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Just move...countries.
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