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RE: Hello rationality
August 1, 2015 at 5:20 pm
Welcome aboard Mora!
It's always interesting to hear from ex-muslims!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: Hello rationality
August 1, 2015 at 5:29 pm
Welcome. I hope you find the community you're looking for here.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Hello rationality
August 1, 2015 at 5:47 pm
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Hello rationality
August 2, 2015 at 1:21 pm
So did you check them out? It's always nice to find others with similar backgrounds. Being an atheist is much harder in some parts of the world. But even without the threat of being beheaded it is certainly easier being a white atheist in America, like me. But if you are black or Arab and an atheist it has to be even harder.
Most I get is ", Commie," or " You are going to burn in hell". Black atheist is more likely to be shunned by family and community, and even if you were still a Muslim, your background is seen as suspect.
The funny part when religious people worldwide accuse an atheist of bigotry is when they do that after you point out those in their camp whom left.
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RE: Hello rationality
August 2, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Welcome, Mora
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: Hello rationality
August 2, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Allah will smite you, smote you, and smitten you. And Santa will put coal in your stocking.
