Anonymous
04/27/2013 09:23
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
I know, right? The most innocuous sentence on DCUM ("That new restaurant is next to that church on the corner...") elicits numerous posts about "how I came to atheism", every one of them several paragraphs long. Well, and the nasty one-liners too, but those folks are angry little losers. This happens in person, too - just last weekend I went to someone's house to discuss how parents were going to organize something related to a kid sports team, and was treated to a five-minute rant on the history of her non-belief.
Newsflash: We don't care! Even though we pretend to be interested ... we're not!
Similarly, the people who cannot go five minutes without talking about "God's glory" or "His plan". I was just saying hello, I don't need a damn sermon.
These people are much, much less common, I find. It's generally by social class. PP, if you're as "elite" as I'm sure you think you are, it's probably just your admin who is doing this. But what's 8:47's excuse? And the trashy poster at 7:22, is there any excuse for her?
My admin? I have no clue what you're talking about.
Also, being annoyed by people who talk about "God's Plan" does not signify that I consider myself "elite". I guess you're equally upset by the posters who hate when atheists talk about their beliefs, right?
Anonymous
04/27/2013 09:21
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
I know, right? The most innocuous sentence on DCUM ("That new restaurant is next to that church on the corner...") elicits numerous posts about "how I came to atheism", every one of them several paragraphs long. Well, and the nasty one-liners too, but those folks are angry little losers. This happens in person, too - just last weekend I went to someone's house to discuss how parents were going to organize something related to a kid sports team, and was treated to a five-minute rant on the history of her non-belief.
Newsflash: We don't care! Even though we pretend to be interested ... we're not!
Similarly, the people who cannot go five minutes without talking about "God's glory" or "His plan". I was just saying hello, I don't need a damn sermon.
I can't even count the number of "friends" and family members that I have hidden from my newsfeed because of that crap. I don't want to unfriend people and cause hurt feeling. But I cannot read that shit every single day.
And I say this as a Christian and active Church member.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 09:19
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
I know, right? The most innocuous sentence on DCUM ("That new restaurant is next to that church on the corner...") elicits numerous posts about "how I came to atheism", every one of them several paragraphs long. Well, and the nasty one-liners too, but those folks are angry little losers. This happens in person, too - just last weekend I went to someone's house to discuss how parents were going to organize something related to a kid sports team, and was treated to a five-minute rant on the history of her non-belief.
Newsflash: We don't care! Even though we pretend to be interested ... we're not!
Similarly, the people who cannot go five minutes without talking about "God's glory" or "His plan". I was just saying hello, I don't need a damn sermon.
These people are much, much less common, I find. It's generally by social class. PP, if you're as "elite" as I'm sure you think you are, it's probably just your admin who is doing this. But what's 8:47's excuse? And the trashy poster at 7:22, is there any excuse for her?
Anonymous
04/27/2013 09:08
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
I know, right? The most innocuous sentence on DCUM ("That new restaurant is next to that church on the corner...") elicits numerous posts about "how I came to atheism", every one of them several paragraphs long. Well, and the nasty one-liners too, but those folks are angry little losers. This happens in person, too - just last weekend I went to someone's house to discuss how parents were going to organize something related to a kid sports team, and was treated to a five-minute rant on the history of her non-belief.
Newsflash: We don't care! Even though we pretend to be interested ... we're not!
Similarly, the people who cannot go five minutes without talking about "God's glory" or "His plan". I was just saying hello, I don't need a damn sermon.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 09:05
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
I know, right? The most innocuous sentence on DCUM ("That new restaurant is next to that church on the corner...") elicits numerous posts about "how I came to atheism", every one of them several paragraphs long. Well, and the nasty one-liners too, but those folks are angry little losers. This happens in person, too - just last weekend I went to someone's house to discuss how parents were going to organize something related to a kid sports team, and was treated to a five-minute rant on the history of her non-belief.
Newsflash: We don't care! Even though we pretend to be interested ... we're not!
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:59
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yikes, what's with all the stupid emoticons tonight?
How disapponting! 22:12, the Atheist, is really just incredibly shallow. Oh well.
NP.
Shallowness on DCUM? Impossible!
I'm an atheist. I was educated as a Catholic and went searching through multiple religions before finally accepting that I am an atheist. I tried really hard to be something other than atheist, but I just couldn't believe. I don't think Christians or other religious people are lost or confused. I think they are in denial. We are conscious beings living in rotting meat machines. When we die, we're done. There is no meaning to life, except the meaning that we create. That's tough stuff, and existential fear keeps many people from accepting the truth. I don't say this to people who believe, of course. It angers me when adults use religion to project their anxieties about death, sex and morality on other people in abusive ways. (Hello, Westboro Baptist Church!)
I appreciate the artist analogy, but I would add this. I can look at a painting that includes fairies and dragons and angels and appreciate it for its beauty (if it's well done), but that doesn't mean that I believe in ACTUAL fairies and dragons and angels. I like to read fantasy novels. That doesn't mean that I believe in elves and dwarves. Marianne Moore described poetry as creating real toads in imaginary gardens. Religion tries to insist that the imaginary garden that it creates is real.
I don't find atheists to be pedestrian souls who don't appreciate beauty or meaning. The world is an amazing, diverse place. It's beautiful and full of more strangeness and wonder than anyone could ever appreciate in one life. People are fascinating - capable of both extraordinary good and extraordinary evil. What more could I want?
Very well said, PP. I feel this way too...raised Catholic, and am now agnostic. I wish I could believe that there's someone watching over us and that good behavior will grant me entrance to some fantastical afterlife, but I've always known in my heart that that's not the case. I find religion fascinating, especially in a historical context, and I find most religious people to be lovely, multifaceted human beings - just like non-religious people.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:58
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
Right, unlike religious people who are just SO tight-lipped about their beliefs.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:54
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Atheists who feel the need to tell you all about it...
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:47
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yikes, what's with all the stupid emoticons tonight?
How disapponting! 22:12, the Atheist, is really just incredibly shallow. Oh well.
NP.
Shallowness on DCUM? Impossible!
I'm an atheist. I was educated as a Catholic and went searching through multiple religions before finally accepting that I am an atheist. I tried really hard to be something other than atheist, but I just couldn't believe. I don't think Christians or other religious people are lost or confused. I think they are in denial. We are conscious beings living in rotting meat machines. When we die, we're done. There is no meaning to life, except the meaning that we create. That's tough stuff, and existential fear keeps many people from accepting the truth. I don't say this to people who believe, of course. It angers me when adults use religion to project their anxieties about death, sex and morality on other people in abusive ways. (Hello, Westboro Baptist Church!)
I appreciate the artist analogy, but I would add this. I can look at a painting that includes fairies and dragons and angels and appreciate it for its beauty (if it's well done), but that doesn't mean that I believe in ACTUAL fairies and dragons and angels. I like to read fantasy novels. That doesn't mean that I believe in elves and dwarves. Marianne Moore described poetry as creating real toads in imaginary gardens. Religion tries to insist that the imaginary garden that it creates is real.
I don't find atheists to be pedestrian souls who don't appreciate beauty or meaning. The world is an amazing, diverse place. It's beautiful and full of more strangeness and wonder than anyone could ever appreciate in one life. People are fascinating - capable of both extraordinary good and extraordinary evil. What more could I want?
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:21
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:I would lose my shit if my daughter wanted to marry a Muslim man. I just would. I really keep this to myself because I have a lot of Muslim friends and generally see myself as a very open person. But deep down...
As would I. I'm very tolerant. I think diversity is one of the greatest things about living in this country. I am very much in support of gay marriage. I wouldn't bat an eye if one of my kids married someone from a different race or religion.
Muslim is the exception. I don't buy into the PC crap about Muslims. I see ALL of them as cult members, extremists, and potentially dangerous.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:13
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Women who got their "MRS" degree.
There is no such thing in 2013.[/quot
Wrong you are sister. Woman are still looking for men. If you do not knock down a husband in law school or grad school at the latest you are in trouble buoy do not have to marry them fast but you have to snag them Eventually they will marry you
Otherwise you are out there competing for a limited supply of good men
Wrong. Did not meet my husband in undergrad or law school. Met him at 27. So there.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:05
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:the feminization of education and the workplace
I agree that having children taught and administrated almost exclusively by women (the exception often being: Dad the Principal, Dad the School Superintendent). Sadly, this applies in the most of the helping professions where women tend to flock: it by default creates lower rates of pay, less prestige and then most men simply opt out. I wish we had male nurses, psychologists, teachers. Especially in lower SES communities where so many male children do not have fathers in the home, a solid male teacher to have daily contact with would go a long way. I know it is not the school's job to parent, but it often does.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 08:01
Subject: Re:Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
People who wear shoes in the house. It is just gross (tracking in dirt, shit, allergens, and whatever else is out there), and I just do not understand how that is the norm in certain households. When we host parties we do not make people take off their shoes (we want them to be comfortable in our home and fully understand that some people are more comfortable wearing their shoes), but I have almost everything steam cleaned after they leave.
Anonymous
04/27/2013 07:22
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yikes, what's with all the stupid emoticons tonight?
How disapponting! 22:12, the Atheist, is really just incredibly shallow. Oh well.
Ah, nothing like the smell of a rotting, poor-spelling, hypocritical Christian in the morning! Won't someone please empty the garbage?
Anonymous
04/27/2013 01:44
Subject: Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:
I would lose my shit if my daughter wanted to marry a Muslim man. I just would. I really keep this to myself because I have a lot of Muslim friends and generally see myself as a very open person. But deep down...