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Texan and Atheist
Cego_Colher Offline
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#11
RE: Texan and Atheist
October 5, 2010 at 6:14 pm
welcome from... uhm, the state without sales tax.
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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 5, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Hello and welcome...although you'll have to go some to beat out the shitheads we have running Arizona.


http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard...a_stup.php

Quote:It's official. Arizona has its head up its backside, and it now has the trophy to prove it. Last night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher announced the winner of a four-week long competition to decide which of the 50 was America's stupidest state. And -- like there was ever a real doubt of the outcome -- Sand Land emerged victorious.

"There were a lot of strong contenders this year," snarked Maher on his show. "We thought Alabama might be the Cinderella victory. But it is Arizona. Arizona has won."
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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm
(October 5, 2010 at 4:25 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:
(October 5, 2010 at 3:42 pm)chasm Wrote: Welcome from Catholic Ohio! Er, wait, we might be Amish... I have no fucking idea...

Big Grin My father (some form of eastern european protestant) and my Jewish mother had no idea what Ohio was either (maybe that's why she moved to California in the first place)... does the rest of Ohio even know?

No, I don't think we know at all.
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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 6, 2010 at 3:37 am
Welcome
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 6, 2010 at 5:33 am
So you're the one, I'd heard rumors of such a thing.....

P.s hello from the western side of Australia.
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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 6, 2010 at 9:22 am
(October 5, 2010 at 2:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Welcome to you from the nearly-as-incomprehensible state of NC!

And the same from even more incomprehensible Georgia!

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot

"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm
(October 6, 2010 at 9:22 am)everythingafter Wrote:
(October 5, 2010 at 2:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Welcome to you from the nearly-as-incomprehensible state of NC!

And the same from even more incomprehensible Georgia!

Must be a Southern thing...

Great signature, btw - I'd be hard pressed to say who my favorite poet was, but Eliot would be a hot contender.
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#18
RE: Texan and Atheist
October 7, 2010 at 11:08 am
Thank you everyone.

(October 5, 2010 at 3:07 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: You mean you're an atheist AND you live in Texas? And you haven't been stoned by the Texas government or mob yet?

Haha, not yet. Though I believe the verdict is still out. Big Grin

(October 5, 2010 at 5:10 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Welcome! An atheist Texan? A glimmer of hope or the last spark of sanity?

Hmm...it's looking more and more like the last spark of insanity. Wink

(October 5, 2010 at 5:41 pm)theVOID Wrote: Welcome to the forums!

Have you been over to threadgills to hang out with the AETV crew? If i get to the states while they're still running that'll be a must Smile

No, I haven't. Unfortunately, I don't get down to Austin as much as I'd like, but I may be making a stop there the next time I do. Any food suggestions?

(October 5, 2010 at 7:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hello and welcome...although you'll have to go some to beat out the shitheads we have running Arizona.


http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard...a_stup.php

Hah! You barely beat us out. Big Grin

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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 7, 2010 at 11:35 am
(October 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Must be a Southern thing...

Most certainly.

(October 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Great signature, btw - I'd be hard pressed to say who my favorite poet was, but Eliot would be a hot contender.

Thanks! Yeah I discovered Eliot's poetry in my first or two year of college. Eliot the man seems to have had some hang-ups, but I never tired of reading "Prufrock" and others. I think I would list John Milton as my favorite poet. It's kind of like Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel ... even though some works deal mightily with religious content, that to me doesn't take away from the greatness of the works themselves.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot

"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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RE: Texan and Atheist
October 7, 2010 at 12:38 pm
(October 7, 2010 at 11:35 am)everythingafter Wrote: Thanks! Yeah I discovered Eliot's poetry in my first or two year of college. Eliot the man seems to have had some hang-ups, but I never tired of reading "Prufrock" and others. I think I would list John Milton as my favorite poet. It's kind of like Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel ... even though some works deal mightily with religious content, that to me doesn't take away from the greatness of the works themselves.

We had an advanced English course in high school and senior year was partially devoted to existentialism. We started with Prufrock, and I fell madly in love. To this day, I can pick up a book of his poems and they give me chills. It would be a hard race between him, Keats, and Whitman. A friend lent me Borges though, and that's been fun to dip into - a good study of Blake is next.

Biblical allusions, or any sort from any mythos, have their place in art and literature. Otherwise we'd have never had Jeff Buckley's rendition of Cohen's "Hallelujah", or Bougereau's sumptuous "Birth of Venus". Smile I recognize the role of religion in the past, I just don't think it has any place in the here and now... except in art and literature.
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