(November 21, 2013 at 6:56 pm)Ivy Wrote: My brother and I are atheists. We have been best friends since we were in diapers. We told each other about being atheists about three years ago, I suppose. Maybe?
My sister told me - well, mentioned to me - years ago that she's an atheist after I told her I was, but that's as far as it's ever gotten in terms of discussion. She's a make-no-waves, I-don't-care-what-other-people-believe type atheist, I think. She works as a nanny and had ended up working for some pretty religious families (a couple very Jewish families and one pretty Christian one) that I would have a hard time with - not only not correcting the kids when they spout religious crap, but also following things like kosher rules and stuff like that that I think are bogus.
I overheard her telling my mom once that she took the Christian family's kids to a science museum and one of the kids asked some questions akin to "how did the universe get made?" and my sister turned the question back on her: "how do you think it was made?" and the girl said "god did it." And my sister didn't correct her, and, even more infuriating, my mom's response was "well, there's nothing wrong with that!" PUKE PUKE PUKE!! YES THERE IS!!!
I could never do what my sister does. And if I ended up in that situation with a kid I was looking after I could never keep my mouth shut like my sister did.
Quote:I respectfully asked her why the fuck she allowed her 8 year old daughter to start a FB account and respectfully asked her to fucking make her delete me from it.
A fb account for an 8 year old, really?
(November 21, 2013 at 7:20 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:(November 21, 2013 at 5:31 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I've marked up some of the sicker passages in the bible I have just for easy reference but I don't particularly find it necessary that I need to memorize the names of the books in order. To each their own in that regard - maybe you could look up a mneumoic to help you remember? There has got to be one out there somewhere...Lol...I'm not doing it intentionally! It's just happening. There's not a table of contents in mine (or any that I know of) so after flipping around aimlessly, they're just starting to stick!
Well, if you want to do it intentionally, I'm sure there is a mnemonic out there.
You know what? Scratch that idea: I just looked some up and they all suck. More irritating still are the songs I just looked up. Make up your own. :p (You know, that could be really fun: An atheist teaches you the books of the bible! HA!!)
Where are the Animaniacs when you need them?? Oh, they're making up songs that are actually worth learning...
I've had most of these memorized since I was a kid. They make up my Party Trick Arsenal.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
