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Confrontation

To be non-confrontational or not to be confrontational, that is the question. Most every atheist I speak to is very lax in their atheism. I, however, am the atheist that makes others think there is fundamentalism in atheism. Not only am I open about it when it comes up, I carry a copy of The God Delusion wherever I go, daring someone to ask about it.

When I moved to where I am now, I was still in the closet. The thing that caused me to 'come out' as I remember, is I found a… Continue

Added by D. E. Hall on December 18, 2008 at 10:45pm — 5 Comments

Waffling in Suburbia

Heart and head hurt
too young to be feeling this old
too old in my head to be so young and ignored
crying myself a river
wah! wah! wah!
I thought of another line,
but I forgot it because I'm losing my mind

Ah, I've missed writing bad poetry
Here's another, just off the top of my noggin:

Blasted bitches trading gossip
at the elementary school
That one, there, with the green hat.
Gonna go and give her a slap

Added by Your girl Friday on December 18, 2008 at 10:24pm — No Comments

Imagine Yourself...

To imagine yourself in a different time period is a really really hard thing to do. We are so encompassed in our own culture of thinking, like most people would say, "If I traveled in time in WWII I would've killed Hitler", those people would face a few soldiers or guardsmen, before even getting near Hitler in WWII. You would have to imagine a elaborate plot to do such a thing, but its waay easier to just say it, than imagine it!

Many people don't put in perspective the time of… Continue

Added by Jennifer W on December 18, 2008 at 9:17pm — 2 Comments

An Oppertunity exists.....

Been chatting with an old friend of mine. He's a wiccian. Now, I divide wiccians into three groups. The first group actually believes in the ideas of wicca. The second group uses it as an excuse to party, and as one rocket scientiest said, "I might see my ol'lady get it on with another women..." Third, they use it to explain their not fitting in with the main stream. And I mean "ANY" main stream.

He's still in the Reserves. He found out that the Army is looking for a Wiccian "priest" or… Continue

Added by Rick on December 18, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Like a chair, but with comfort.

I can't seem to find this piece written by Greta Christina elsewhere on the site, so hopefully I'm not stepping on already worn ground here. She articulates my feelings on the whole "you sassy atheists with your faded jeans and 80 dollar hair cuts must exist in constant misery what with the lack of a marshmallow dream afterlife forced into your thinker!" drudgery that a lot of us have run into. It may not be in those words exactly (or those words at all, ever, for anyone) but you follow what I… Continue

Added by Conor on December 18, 2008 at 4:45pm — 1 Comment

This atheist's Xmas

I was listening to a guy talk about how we, as atheists, shouldn't celebrate Christmas. His big issue was that we are still revering the symbols of Christianity when we put up trees and Santas, exchange gifts, etc. He did acknowledge the pre-Christian roots to these rituals, but, as they have been assimilated into Christianity, we are unwittingly worshipping Christ. At least, that is what I remember was his main thrust.

I would have to disagree… Continue

Added by Aaron Grow on December 18, 2008 at 3:01pm — 5 Comments

Another victory for the anti-Floodists

An exploratory geothermal drilling operation in Hawaii has pierced a large, shallow and unexpected active magma chamber. Wait, this is more interesting news than it may seem at first blush.

The top of the chamber is around 2.5 km below the surface of Kilauea lava fields on the big island of Hawaii. That is very shallow... only a little over a mile - about 12 Manhattan city blocks - which isn't much in terms of crust… Continue

Added by Planetologist on December 18, 2008 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

My Christmas Wish For You All

Since it's one week until Christmas I thought I'd send out my season's greetings to you all:

Added by Kate Holden on December 18, 2008 at 12:37pm — 3 Comments

I'm back!

And cold, too. But there are only a few centimeters of snow here, so it's not all that shocking. Still, going from the sunny tropics to Pleistocene Michigan in a day is still a fairly dramatic transition. All my flights went off more or less on schedule, which by itself almost qualifies as evidence of supernatural powers at work.

My wife and I had a great time in the Caribbean. We visited the island of Saint Barthelemy (St. Barth), which despite its reputation is not only a haven for… Continue

Added by Planetologist on December 18, 2008 at 10:49am — No Comments

Newsletter update on survey coming soon

Yesterday I emailed to Brother Richard about 700 words concerning the results from the survey, so you all can expect that soon. On the 1st I'll harvest the final data and begin crunching numbers using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). I'll limit my analysis of the quantitative data to frequencies and some cross tabulations, with some more sophisticated manipulation is the data merits. The meatier part of the data is the qualitative bit where I asked people to describe a… Continue

Added by tom arcaro on December 18, 2008 at 8:32am — 2 Comments

The Philosophy of Christ – “Vision of Life” project

Foreword.

Jesus Christ had seen many problems with Old religion Judaism as a young man of whom seemingly was a free thinker. Of who not only questioned his own religion but those of other surrounding cultures?

Israel was not cut off from the world traders from Asia and from the Roman empire would relate their own cultural beliefs when on their travels to and throw in the middle east. Greek philosophy and the philosophy’s of Asia would of course be a conversational norm in… Continue

Added by Robin Johnson-Perkins - Babel Fish on December 17, 2008 at 8:36pm — No Comments

Pastafarianism Kicks Ass!

Hello! Though you may HEAR that I am atheist, it is not true. It is obvious that I DO have a religion! And that, my good friends(?) is pastafarianism! Yes. I am part of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti monster. And it is fun! you should join. All the cool kids do it. Are YOU one of he cool kids? Didn't think so! >:(

Added by Maia The Bee on December 17, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Damn I love science

Added by Krista on December 17, 2008 at 6:29pm — 3 Comments

Xmas time again....

I'm off this coming weekend to go with my girlfriend and visit her family in LA (the state, not the city). Fortunately there isn't going to be anything "Religious" in the visit. Now, her family is Catholic but they seem to be rather open minded. Like the Les cousin and her significant other, a few children born out of wedlock. But she has a tendency when telling her family about me that I'm an atheist.

I'm not going to deny it. No one has ever gotten nasty or ugly with me. I've never known… Continue

Added by Rick on December 17, 2008 at 3:00pm — 7 Comments

Reverse Pascal's Wager

I was trying to parse out the saying of Jesus from the Bible. I came across this link.

A large part of the article is a comparison between Jefferson’s and Hamilton’s vision of a future USA. That is a conversation which is interesting in it,’s self. As an aside, I mostly side w/Hamilton

The last paragraph has an interesting suggestion. [sic] …it is time we inverted Pascal's famous wager to… Continue

Added by Fr33think3r on December 17, 2008 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Atheist Sign Stolen from Illinois State Capitol Rotunda

Here's a link to the original story:

http://www.sj-r.com/news/x1720697940/Atheist-sign-stolen-from-Capitol-rotunda

This kind of action brings other freethinkers and atheists out of the woodwork.

In the end I added a comment thanking the Freedom From Religion Foundation for their efforts at representing rational thinking people.

Springfield, Illinois may… Continue

Added by Atheist Insurgency on December 17, 2008 at 9:08am — 3 Comments

Hell House

I started out watching The Root of All Evil on youtube tonight. When I got to the part where Dawkins is witnessing a church's plans to put together a Hell House, I had to stop watching, to think. Things just hit too close to home for me. I found a documentary following the creation and execution of a hell house, and rented it to watch. It brought back some memories, things I had tried to forget. I found myself breathing with great difficulty throughout the film. (If you aren't sure what a hell… Continue

Added by Andrea on December 16, 2008 at 10:00pm — 24 Comments

Come all yea unfaithful - Co-author a new book to shock the world of theists (well at least put some on a more accepted track)

As out spoken Atheist we are always bitching about the stupid things we see in the Christian Bible (well I do, lol).

A few weeks ago I was thinking well look this guy Christ I can believe he walked on earth 2000 years ago. But magic no, I have seen how such tricks are done it’s all slight of hand, lol But of course I throw coins sometimes in to a wishing well and have a vague idea that I have a 1000000 to 1 chance of my wish to come true. Other than being the King of England of… Continue

Added by Robin Johnson-Perkins - Babel Fish on December 16, 2008 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Reposting a facebook note

This was a facebook note I published on November 12, 2008 under the title "The boy who saved my life", it's a more detailed story about how what kind of theist I used to be:

I'm sitting here in my room. It's 6:31 in the morning. I should be asleep. Instead I'm playing Samson on my guitar, arpeggiating every chord in a haphazard but emotional way. I'm not a very good player. I've only been playing for less than a year, but it's not the point. It's the most beautiful… Continue

Added by razzmatazz on December 16, 2008 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

First blog post

I signed up for this website after hearing about it on the non-prophets radio show, I mostly forgot about this website, but I keep getting friends requests in my e-mail... What troubles me is that all the friends requests have been from boys. I can think of two possibilities as to why this is so:

1) There are substantially more boys than girls on this website

or

2) My profile is slutty.

I suppose I'm not too worried. I think I'll whine about what's on my mind right now… Continue

Added by razzmatazz on December 16, 2008 at 6:58pm — 2 Comments