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Thanksgiving and Family
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 (November 29, 2019 at 5:49 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote:(November 29, 2019 at 5:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Justcook them a little slower.Boil or slow roast? Roast, of course. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
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 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione  (November 29, 2019 at 11:02 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: How did you deal with religious family members? Tell them there is a time and place for discussions about religion, and family get togethers should not be one of them. Tell them firmly and politely, "I do not want to discuss this now. I would be more than happy to have this discussion at another time, one on one". Remember, you don't have to take part in any discussion you don't want to. You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.  (November 30, 2019 at 6:07 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(November 29, 2019 at 11:02 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: How did you deal with religious family members? I don't know how well that would work. 'We will now say grace.' 'I do not want to discuss this now. I would be more than happy to have this discussion at another time, one on one'. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Imagine Thanksgiving dinner of George and Kellyanne Conway.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 (November 29, 2019 at 11:02 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: How did you deal with religious family members? Better than I deal with non-religious family members 
"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
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari 
This year I just stayed home with my honey. My religious family members are also Trumpers. I look forward to joining them next year, after the election, when I think it'll be easier to avoid both politics and religion.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Thankfully, my entire immediate family are non-theists. This year we changed it up and had actual Thanksgiving day dinner with friends who are conservative Jews but even so, non-judgy and keep their beliefs to themselves. Other than the meal being kosher (and vegetarian) and the yarmulke on the man of the house, there was no sign of their beliefs. We all had a great time. And the food was even delicious. On Saturday my stepson single handedly cooked up a small dinner of turkey and traditional fixings that one and all agreed was the very best we've had together yet.
We even had a small gift exchange, as the step kids will probably spend Christmas with their Dad ... so that is even out of the way. Every now and again, something in my personal life is not some kind of clusterfuck ... this is one of them. |
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