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Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:19 am
So I've been thinking about how I don't really fit into any boxes when filling out forms.
Box 1 racial identity: Black (which is what I mark to shut people up. Most other people of color sneer under their breath if you do otherwise, much less fuss just to do it)
White, Asian, Hispanic, Native American
Where the heck is the box for half creole, quarter Hispanic Cuban, quarter Afro-Cuban?
Box 2 sexual orientation : gay / straight
Where is the box for the pieces of the Kinsey scale I think I kinda broke it?
Box 3 religious views: atheist , agnostic, theist
Why can't I just not believe in stuff that I think is bull. Where is box that says I believe in the soul without being into "woo" or foreskins.
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:23 am
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(March 18, 2014 at 5:19 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Why can't I just not believe in stuff that I think is bull. Where is box that says I believe in the soul without being into "woo" or foreskins.
I agree 100% with the boxes, except the soul stuff, that is bull as well.
Personally, I'm white as cheese and atheist enough to check the box. I also seem to be pretty straight, although probably only a 6 on the dawkins scale of straightness.
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:27 am
(March 18, 2014 at 5:23 am)Alex K Wrote: (March 18, 2014 at 5:19 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Why can't I just not believe in stuff that I think is bull. Where is box that says I believe in the soul without being into "woo" or foreskins.
I agree 100% with the boxes, except the soul stuff, that is bull as well.
Personally, I'm white as cheese and atheist enough to check the box. I also seem to be pretty straight, although probably only a 6 on the dawkins scale of straightness.
I don't believe in the soul with all that metaphysical crap but as an artist I always go to this deep part of myself that most would refer to as a soul.
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:30 am
Meh.
I'm Spanish/French from my dad's side, Mexican from my mom's side, and was born in the USA. I check Hispanic.
I'm bisexual. I check bisexual.
I'm atheist. I check Atheist or no religion.
If I could check "atheist" twice, I would, just to make a point.
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:32 am
(March 18, 2014 at 5:27 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I don't believe in the soul with all that metaphysical crap but as an artist I always go to this deep part of myself that most would refer to as a soul.
Then, if given the chance, you definitely shouldn't check the
[ ] I believe in the soul
box, because that would be misunderstood as metaphysical crap 
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:34 am
What's the Dawkins scale of straightness I thought he only had a scale for atheism?
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:35 am
(March 18, 2014 at 5:34 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: What's the Dawkins scale of straightness I thought he only had a scale for atheism?
I was just half-joking, because I don't know exactly how the Kinsey scale works, so I just took the analogy to the Dawkins scale of belief
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:40 am
(March 18, 2014 at 5:35 am)Alex K Wrote: (March 18, 2014 at 5:34 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: What's the Dawkins scale of straightness I thought he only had a scale for atheism?
I was just half-joking, because I don't know exactly how the Kinsey scale works, so I just took the analogy to the Dawkins scale of belief
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 5:45 am
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(March 18, 2014 at 5:40 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: (March 18, 2014 at 5:35 am)Alex K Wrote: I was just half-joking, because I don't know exactly how the Kinsey scale works, so I just took the analogy to the Dawkins scale of belief
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Thanks, very good! Dawkins probably stole the idea from there, he likely even mentions it and I forgot. So is anyone a 0 on that scale without fooling themselves?
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RE: Do I really want a box?
March 18, 2014 at 6:01 am
I don't think anyone is a zero or six
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