My mother annoys me

[frankiej]

Don't worry, your mother annoys me too

[Napoléon]

Don't worry, your mother annoys me too

It's not her fault she won't give you any action because your willy isn't bigger than 3 cm.

[frankiej]

Don't worry, your mother annoys me too

It's not her fault she won't give you any action because your willy isn't bigger than 3 cm.

It is pretty cold up here y'know.

[Nine]

Don't worry, your mother annoys me too

It's not her fault she won't give you any action because your willy isn't bigger than 3 cm.

It is pretty cold up here y'know.

Yes it took a while but we finaly got to the mum jokes!

[frankiej]

I really thought I would have been too late for the joke, but no one seemed to have seized the opportunity.

[Nine]

I really thought I would have been too late for the joke, but no one seemed to have seized the opportunity.

Id say it was a win! nicely done

[Napoléon]

Why do you both have the same avatar?

[Rhizomorph13]

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.

[Napoléon]

so we talk about any other topic that might be of mutual interest

Yeah, that's exactly what annoys me.

[AthiestAtheist]

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.

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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.