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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
May 11, 2016 at 8:11 pm
(May 11, 2016 at 5:58 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: I'm a lot luckier than you, as soon as I junked christianity I never looked back, never had doubts and am not plagued by voices telling me I was wrong. The closest I've ever come is using the phrase "bless you" or Jesus as a swearword on occasion.
I dropped the "bless you" with no problem, I still proclaim on occasion, "jesus fucking christ!". The one I miss though, because I have yet to find a good replacement, is "what on god's green earth were you thinking?".
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
May 11, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Is there some reason you can't keep saying it?
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
May 11, 2016 at 8:42 pm
(May 11, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Losty Wrote: Is there some reason you can't keep saying it?
Just principles.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
May 11, 2016 at 9:15 pm
As a painter of language, I feel no compunction in using whatever words seem apposite to the situation at hand. Especially if I can make the reader google them to find out what they mean.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
May 11, 2016 at 9:45 pm
Yeah it's always fun making people do that. Then on the other hand I really ought to eschew obfuscation more often.