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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 11:59 am
Yeah, I spotted a few alterations. How Adamsesque of you.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 12:25 pm
(June 4, 2015 at 11:38 am)whateverist Wrote: (June 4, 2015 at 10:11 am)Exian Wrote: It was that translating ear fish argument, wasn't it?
Umm .. I'm being thick here. Not sure what the ear fish argument is but I'm intrigued.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 12:33 pm
I don't think you're ready for retirement, whatevs. Did you even pack your towel? This Galaxy is gonna eat you up.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 12:41 pm
I'm pretty sure Adams must have been an atheist, therefor everyone should be or else they suck. Adams had the most brilliant way of carving up everything with satire while working it into the story seamlessly, so if you didn't get the joke, you wouldn't even notice. I never got the "babel" reference until many years later and realized it was a religious piss-take. I used to have them all on tape and listened to them to death, then into the afterlife.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 12:58 pm
I saw him do an old TED talk (or something) on evolution, where he picked apart this quirky little Australian bird. I won't even attempt to tell that story IRL anymore because I invariably forget that one very important nuance that makes the whole damn thing. He was brilliant at that. He's hard to recreate.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Oh yes, Douglas Noel Adams - DNA for short - was very, very atheist. He's the origin of the sentient puddle analogy.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 3:33 pm
I was born an atheist I was just forced into Catholicism but never really went to church or really cared about religion so about 3 years ago I declared myself as an agnostic but then about a year ago or something I declared myself an atheist.
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
June 4, 2015 at 4:06 pm
the main thing that made me become an atheist is religion
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
September 16, 2018 at 11:12 am
Searching and questioning in my 20s is what made me give up the supernatural. The "god of the gaps" argument really caused a spark to go off in my head. Also, when I started studying evolution on my own and found out what I thought I knew about it was wrong.
