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My mother annoys me
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RE: My mother annoys me
February 21, 2012 at 9:08 pm (This post was last modified: February 21, 2012 at 9:15 pm by AthiestAtheist.)
(February 21, 2012 at 12:21 pm)Napoleon Wrote: The fear is what I don't understand most of all. I don't see coming to the conclusion that god isn't real as something to be fearful of. It makes me feel a hell of a lot better to know that some jackass experimentalist isn't going to 'judge my soul' and send me to burn for eternity.

But I guess that fear of hell is more what probably makes people not willing to use their brain.

This. So much.
(February 21, 2012 at 8:47 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: To the OP,

In situations like these I find that it is best to try to empathize with the person you disagree with. It seems hard for you to understand how your mom might feel. I have been in the same position with my own mom. she is a Christian who never reads the bible or thinks about her religion much if at all. It is more like an assumed position, as it is with many Christians: "Of course there is a God, how could there not be one?" To understand it I would have to substitute a belief that I actually have, "I like meat, it is tasty why would I NOT eat it?"

Then I imagine a vegitarian or vegan hanging out with me and trying to talk to me about meat eating. How long would I suffer a person spouting off that meat was wrong? Not long at all! The subject would be of such little interest that even if the veggie/vegan was very well behaved and rational I would summarily dismiss the subject as worthy of my time. With my mom it is the same way, we have talked about it a little and found that we are both intransigent in our positions, so we talk about any other topic that might be of mutual interest, like I would with any other of my friends.

That is a bit of a different situation, as I have highlighted the inconsistencies above. You are comparing a person who doesn't think about religion to a meat eater, but, (I don't know about you, but) I think about meat every time I eat it. So it would be like a non meat-eater who doesn't eat meat, because they just don't, not because the believe it is wrong like vegetarians. If you ask me, not thinking about God is 1 step away from being atheist.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."

-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
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My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 20, 2012 at 4:21 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 4:31 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 20, 2012 at 4:37 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 4:38 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 20, 2012 at 4:43 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 4:53 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Strongbad - February 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Xavier - February 23, 2012 at 11:50 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 24, 2012 at 5:01 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Strongbad - February 24, 2012 at 1:33 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by bozo - February 20, 2012 at 4:47 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by MarkOfEnglandshire - February 20, 2012 at 4:58 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 20, 2012 at 5:04 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by MarkOfEnglandshire - February 20, 2012 at 5:05 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 5:24 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 20, 2012 at 5:26 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by MarkOfEnglandshire - February 20, 2012 at 5:29 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 5:30 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Shell B - February 20, 2012 at 5:33 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 5:36 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 20, 2012 at 5:31 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 5:33 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Shell B - February 20, 2012 at 5:34 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 20, 2012 at 5:46 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 21, 2012 at 3:15 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 20, 2012 at 5:33 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by padraic - February 20, 2012 at 6:56 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Shell B - February 20, 2012 at 5:39 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 5:40 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by MarkOfEnglandshire - February 20, 2012 at 5:41 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 20, 2012 at 5:41 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 20, 2012 at 6:04 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by MarkOfEnglandshire - February 20, 2012 at 6:10 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Shell B - February 20, 2012 at 5:41 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Cosmic Ape - February 20, 2012 at 5:42 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Shell B - February 20, 2012 at 5:43 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 20, 2012 at 5:45 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Voltair - February 20, 2012 at 6:25 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 20, 2012 at 9:43 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 21, 2012 at 9:38 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 21, 2012 at 12:21 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 21, 2012 at 12:26 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by AthiestAtheist - February 21, 2012 at 9:08 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Rhizomorph13 - February 21, 2012 at 9:58 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by AthiestAtheist - February 21, 2012 at 10:37 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 22, 2012 at 7:06 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 22, 2012 at 7:32 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 22, 2012 at 8:13 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 22, 2012 at 12:01 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 22, 2012 at 12:05 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 23, 2012 at 2:16 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 23, 2012 at 9:00 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 22, 2012 at 8:00 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by frankiej - February 21, 2012 at 7:11 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 21, 2012 at 7:20 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by frankiej - February 21, 2012 at 7:22 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 21, 2012 at 7:25 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by frankiej - February 21, 2012 at 7:27 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 21, 2012 at 7:33 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 21, 2012 at 8:07 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Rhizomorph13 - February 21, 2012 at 8:47 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 21, 2012 at 8:51 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by abc123 - February 21, 2012 at 9:19 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by KichigaiNeko - February 22, 2012 at 8:15 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 22, 2012 at 8:23 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by KichigaiNeko - February 22, 2012 at 8:24 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 22, 2012 at 8:52 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 22, 2012 at 9:36 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by KichigaiNeko - February 23, 2012 at 5:32 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by LastPoet - February 23, 2012 at 8:04 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 23, 2012 at 9:58 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 23, 2012 at 8:23 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by LastPoet - February 23, 2012 at 10:01 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Faith No More - February 23, 2012 at 10:05 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 23, 2012 at 10:11 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by thesummerqueen - February 23, 2012 at 10:18 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by Nine - February 23, 2012 at 10:23 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by LastPoet - February 23, 2012 at 11:09 am
RE: My mother annoys me - by The Grand Nudger - February 23, 2012 at 1:27 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by Napoléon - February 23, 2012 at 2:49 pm
RE: My mother annoys me - by tackattack - February 27, 2012 at 3:57 am

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