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I am here for the community only. I find many of the discussions here interesting, but haven't really had much time lately to join in. I have been using my real name, and I think it is about time that I stopped doing that. Just the content of my posts and comments should be enough to judge me by, at least in this context.

I am rather left-wing. Voted for Nader, Bernie. At one point in my life, Angela Davis. I used to be anti-theist, but not as much lately. I am getting old. Yet I am learning more, hopefully.

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You are going to die, NOW.
AtheistReader comments on Oct 8, 2018:
"Thanks for the awesome chili!" I'd say that's not such a bad thing to be remembered by.
Is crime natural?
AtheistReader comments on Nov 1, 2018:
Is "criminal law" natural? Is societal prohibition of individual behaviors natural? I mean, if there was no need for a society to prohibit particular behaviors by an individual, then there is no need for criminal law, and without criminal law, there is no crime. Whether crime is natural is a misleading question, that places individuals apart from the social context. Crime is inevitable. The better question is why does a society need to prohibit certain individual behaviors, and what is the process in which it selects what behaviors to prohibit.
Finally, a reason to look forward to going to work. [meaww.com]
AtheistReader comments on Jan 18, 2019:
Lol. Now if I see a happy colleague at work.....
POEM: ISOLATION shivering and warm I have opened naked from the inside dormant for years and...
AtheistReader comments on Nov 12, 2018:
Wow. This is an original work! Nice!
Daily Blasphemy: To me, the very idea of the Holy Trinity is horse-shit.
AtheistReader comments on Jan 27, 2019:
Those are three of my favorites.
What does it mean if the dating profile says "looking for someone authentic"?
AtheistReader comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Ok. So it is as meaningless as I imagined. This world will be an awesome place if these dating profiles were in fact true. With so many sincere, genuine, intelligent, compassionate people who love to laugh more than anything else, you would think this dating thing would be a cinch. ;)
Sadly true.
AtheistReader comments on Nov 22, 2018:
Hmmmm. Then it is either I have a shitty heart, or all my friends are beggars, liars, etc.... Not sure which is the most offensive part about that statement...
What's your Haram score?
AtheistReader comments on Jan 30, 2019:
Hmmmm.. It would be much easier if I count the scores of the things that I had done within one hour period. Wait.... Ok, it's not that different...
The Classic Holiday Movie 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer' Is Now Being Called Abusive And ...
AtheistReader comments on Dec 6, 2018:
Most fairy tales are rooted in then existing social values, and therefore problematic when those values expire....
3 Signs you’ve Met your Twin Flame - YouTube
AtheistReader comments on Nov 3, 2018:
Groan.
Seeing that we are all atheists agnostics what makes a person choose good over evil?
AtheistReader comments on May 8, 2019:
Social conditioning?
The socialist snowplow...
AtheistReader comments on Feb 9, 2019:
We could use some socialist snow plows here in Seattle.
Greetings and welcome to our new arrivals.
AtheistReader comments on Nov 3, 2018:
Cyber Punk. Space opera sci fi
What is LOVE?
AtheistReader comments on Oct 19, 2018:
Love is a preference, and it is on a continuous spectrum, IMHO. :) There. My poetic and romantic definition of Love. But whatever it is, oftentimes it certainly ain't by choice.
Do you make the distinction between being skeptical vs. cynical?
AtheistReader comments on Sep 2, 2018:
A cynic is made as a result of the initial failure to exercise the judicious amount of skepticism in the first place.
"Donald Trump suggests Jews might secretly be committing anti-Semitic hate crimes on themselves so ...
AtheistReader comments on Oct 28, 2018:
FFS. Can I have just one day without that sack of shit saying something absolutely horrendous?
Today I received a second confirmation of what is wrong with my hand.
AtheistReader comments on Nov 19, 2018:
Ouch.
Activist Fraidy Reiss On Ending Forced Marriage In America [youtube.com]
AtheistReader comments on Oct 15, 2018:
Holy shit. Hmmm. This is hard to believe.... I need to do a research in Washington.
Well, I thought I'd get your guys' thoughts on this: Those of you who know me well enough know ...
AtheistReader comments on Dec 7, 2018:
To my understanding, psychopathy is not a mental disorder in DSM. It is a scale developed by Dr. Robert Hare, to categorize a special constellation of personality traits that he found to be meaningful, in measuring anti-social traits... It is said to be diminish with age. What did they tell you about this "diagnosis"?
I like this video, however I'm open to the idea I might be missing something. [m.facebook.com]
AtheistReader comments on Apr 1, 2019:
Same here. I thought it was solidly done. Good affirmative proposals...
Tonight my brother said "religion answers all the questions that science can not.
AtheistReader comments on Oct 14, 2018:
Whose? Elon's?
Ignorance is a Choice
AtheistReader comments on Jun 7, 2019:
I have to agree with those who say it isn't exactly a choice. I think ignorance is an artificially created condition, carefully orchestrated, but somewhat willingly consumed.
I would like to submit the idea that religion IS politics.
AtheistReader comments on Oct 7, 2020:
"The personal is political." - Carol Hanisch- It has always been political. I agree. "Politics" is not a four-letter word :) It is how the power and wealth are distributed and controlled. We can ignore it, but we can't avoid it.
Computer says "just friends"! lol
AtheistReader comments on Oct 14, 2018:
My surface pro would never "friend-zone" me. We are together until one of us dies, or until I upgrade to a better version. Whichever happens first.
I will vote.
AtheistReader comments on Sep 29, 2020:
There is a bit of "vote-fetishism" in this country. We are so indoctrinated into the concept of "market place of ideas" that we become passive consumers of political platform; they create it, and we choose the ones we like the most. We have to understand that we should be the creators of the political platforms and agendas. We are not passive consumers, but should be active creators of the public forum and opinions. In order to get there, we have to realize that we, to varying degrees, are prisoners of the shared beliefs that may or may not match with the external realities. In the 70's there was a popular slogan, "Question Authority." I think it should be, in our times, "Question Capitalism."
I’ve been dating this guy for a little over a month.
AtheistReader comments on Feb 14, 2019:
Yeah, well, I was always afraid that if I pushed too much too soon I would come across as needy. I don't know the level of communication you both have regarding each other. Would you say that you have both established that you are both pretty committed to each other in an exclusive or semi-exclusive relationship? I know I sucked in dating, but not knowing what the status is, I would be very careful about what to do in a relationship that is only about a month old..... It could simply mean that he didn't want to push it too much. But hey, what do I know.. take this with a grain of salt. But I don't think you should feel "shallow." I think "getting something" was more a symbol of deeper feelings. I don't think it is ever shallow to be wanted and loved.
It's so funny how people assume all atheists are liberal, arrogant, conceded, assholes who wants ...
AtheistReader comments on Nov 16, 2018:
I don't eat babies. I don't rape women. BUT, I am liberal, arrogant, conceded, and an asshole about half the time. So... 3.5 out of 6. I fit the majority of the profiling...
Red Dwarf was the absolute best science fiction TV series ever.
AtheistReader comments on Nov 9, 2018:
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast!
I came across the word "soul" in a book I'm reading and wondered if the word (aside from relating to...
AtheistReader comments on Jul 11, 2019:
This is a matter of materialism vs. idealism (or spiritualism), isn't it? Soul isn't necessarily a religious term, if a religion is defined by a belief in some higher beings. The idea of soul is that it is some non-material essence of a person, that may or may not continue to exist after death. I am a materialist, and that means I don't believe in "soul" as defined. What I believe to be "soul" is the "programming" of our natural and physical self. Intelligence and self-awareness based on the complexity and the organization of the arrangements of the matter that make up our bodies.

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