OT: religion

[CA renter]

Sounds like you have a real winner of a wife. 🙂

[NotCranky]

O.K one of my new religions has hit a snag.” Deep Ecology” is a fundamental value of pantheism …couldn’t it just be mild conservationist views or something like that? I don’t want a G-d that wants to destroy the earth, but I don’t want to worry if grilling organic beets is unfair to micro biotic life forms that live on them….probably can’t even wash the beets or break the soil to plant the seed in the first place without killing millions.

Sex is good with pantheist so no more guilt about the normal stuff but just hate yourself for being alive in the first place.

[scaredyclassic]

Go deep go deep.

The bugs will live inside you.

[scaredyclassic]

well, the supreme court decided today that you can start all legislative sessions with an appeal to the divine guidance of pretend deities and their kids, so long as you don’t threaten anyone present with damnation or explicitly try to convert.

lame.

[FlyerInHi]

Finasteride/propecia works best for thinning hair. Less well for bald spot at the top, and not so well for receding hair. I keep my hair a little longer than a regulation haircut.

I have been reading some more on the side effects and they are scary. but pretty much all drugs have potential side effects. That’s how the drug makers cover their asses.

Good thing this is the only drug I’m on. I wouldn’t take finasteride if it didn’t have prostate benefits over the long term. 5mg finasteride for BPH causes low sex drive in 7% of men. So 1mg for hair is very negligible.

Anyway, prostate enlargement is a problem that almost all men will suffer at one point or another. You are lucky if you avoid it. I have friends/colleagues in their 50s who need to visit the bathroom frequently and they are not treating.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic]well, the supreme court decided today that you can start all legislative sessions with an appeal to the divine guidance of pretend deities and their kids, so long as you don’t threaten anyone present with damnation or explicitly try to convert.

lame.[/quote]

I hope it comes back to bite them in the butt one day when a city has muslim prayers or atheist sermons.

[scaredyclassic]

Just be so Christian it freaks out the christians.

Bring your rattlesnakes.

Speak in tongues.

Roll on the floor screaming Jesusjesusjsdyskjckthedeviloutofthishouseofmanmadelawbringintheholydpiritholyjolyholyhoooooooieeeeeajesyssoulsagbbhkfdjbvfh….

One man’s prayer is another man’s seizure

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Just be so Christian it freaks out the christians.

Bring your rattlesnakes.

Speak in tongues.

Roll on the floor screaming Jesusjesusjsdyskjckthedeviloutofthishouseofmanmadelawbringintheholydpiritholyjolyholyhoooooooieeeeeajesyssoulsagbbhkfdjbvfh….

One man’s prayer is another man’s seizure[/quote]

That works. I hope theater people arrange prayer sessions before city councils. I would go just for the entertainment.

[scaredyclassic]

Traditional Haiti an vooDoo and peyote prayer ceremony should go over well in the heartland.
Could have people who believe they are Jesus come to say acfewxwords.

[CDMA ENG]

I am Italian…

Italian men NEVER lose their hair…

It just migrates south…

CE

[NotCranky]

Go Madison Wisconsin! Just say yes to those who say no to G-D.
I want to post this on my face book page but I have deleted everyone who posts blatant pro- religious or political stuff so that would be hypocritical on my part.

https://news.yahoo.com/america-beginning-accept-atheists-214209363.html

[NotCranky]

This is an interesting development. Minor but interesting none the less.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0305/Young-conservative-and-atheist-A-test-for-the-GOP

[zk]

[quote=Blogstar]Go Madison Wisconsin! Just say yes to those who say no to G-D.
I want to post this on my face book page but I have deleted everyone who posts blatant pro- religious or political stuff so that would be hypocritical on my part.

https://news.yahoo.com/america-beginning-accept-atheists-214209363.html%5B/quote%5D

The title of that article is:

“Is America beginning to accept atheists?”

Sad that our nation (and our species in general) is reluctant to accept people because they don’t live their life according to a fantasy. A fantasy that originated before humans had the ability to explain the sun and the moon, but which has persisted among the unable-to-accept-reality crowd (most humans) since. A fantasy which most christians (and probably lots of other religious people) only favor their particular flavor of because a hundred and fifty or a thousand or two thousand years ago somebody coerced or tricked or forced their ancestors to at least pretend they favored that flavor. A fantasy that, while it generally claims to be informed by an omnipotent being, does, in most cases, change over time.

There must have been some evolutionary advantage to believing what you want to believe, rather than believing what the evidence tells you. And there was a rather obvious evolutionary advantage to not accepting people different from you. Add those two up, and I guess you get modern humans. Religious, and not willing to accept the non-religious. But just because that’s the way humans are, doesn’t mean it’s good.

[scaredyclassic]

we tried to raise our kids with religion. Church every week, sunday school, baptisms, etc. One random day in church, our then 5 year old turned and said, “Mama, there is no G-d. This is not true”.

No idea how he spontaneously and unprompted came to that conclusion at 5.

I believed in the value of a religion as a way to control the kids and maybe provide some comfort or guidance through early years and was hoping they wouldnt figure that out till 25 or 30 if ever….

[zk]

[quote=scaredyclassic]we tried to raise our kids with religion. Church every week, sunday school, baptisms, etc. One random day in church, our then 5 year old turned and said, “Mama, there is no G-d. This is not true”.

No idea how he spontaneously and unprompted came to that conclusion at 5.

I believed in the value of a religion as a way to control the kids and maybe provide some comfort or guidance through early years and was hoping they wouldnt figure that out till 25 or 30 if ever….[/quote]

Very interesting.

My mom was catholic. Having been skeptical since I could remember, I asked her on the way home from church one day when I was 6 or 7 where god came from. She said, “he’s always been there.” I pressed for a better answer, but none was forthcoming. I’ve been basically an atheist ever since.

I understand about providing comfort or guidance. Well, comfort, anyway. Sometimes I think maybe I should’ve shown my daughter religion for that purpose. I know her quite well, though, and I don’t think she would’ve fallen for it.

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