Is it rationally justified to pay for sex ?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

What someone chooses to do with their body is their own affair. Ethics and morality isn’t the province of the government. The only question that has any viability here is prostitution being a vector for disease. Of course, childhood prostitution should be outlawed and forcibly putting men or women in that activity should be illegal, but a government regulated business would work. I wouldn’t advise anyone to enter that profession and if I knew anyone in the that profession I would advise them to get psychological help, but who are we to tell consenting adults what they can do with their own bodies?

If results were guaranteed, would you want to be cryogenically frozen?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

If I was suffering from an incurable disease. Yes. Otherwise, no. I’d rather not have to become culturally proficient at sixty in 100 years from now.

In your opinion, what habit is most annoying about other people?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

Refusing to be a parent.

Would you agree with the following: All agnostics are atheists but not all atheists are agnostics?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

No. Their mutually exclusive conceptions.

The only responsibility business has to society is to maximize it's own profits. Agree or Disagree?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

All businesses have a responsibility to be accountable for the actions that affect the public good.

Has someone else’s strong religious belief ever had a major effect on your life?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

not a single person no, but a whole population yes. I grew up in SLC. I wasn’t Mormon and working around Mormons whilst I was growing up put a kink in my style.

Do you have a tattoo?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

No. I never saw the point.

What do you think

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

I think the chances of alien life are pretty good, but I don’t think we’re lucky enough or important enough to warrant visitation. Anything’s possible, but I’ve seen enough erroneous judgements from a court of law to know that’s not a very good standard.

Do you have a favorite philosopher or school of thought?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

Bertrand Russell

If you had to describe yourself in 3 fictional characters, what would they be??

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

Rooster Cogburn Frederick Abberline Nick Starkey

Is there a symbol I can wear for spiritualist which equates to the christian cross?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 26, 2017:

Empty Set

Happy birthday to the man who by the age of 30 had transformed the world.. Isaac Newton :-) ????????

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 25, 2017:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4058836

Happy birthday to the man who by the age of 30 had transformed the world.. Isaac Newton :-) ????????

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 25, 2017:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Newton was an overly religious man who was proud of the fact that he was a virgin upon his death. The worst thing is that he labeled Leibniz as a fraud by accusing him w/o proof of stealing his ideas about calculus.

Did you find calm when you left religion behind?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 25, 2017:

No. I was never involved enough to be relieved by leaving it.

Will there always be a dominant person in any given relationship?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 25, 2017:

Only if you want it to be.

Hello guys, well, my friend Shana told me that I should not be so open minded, in telling people ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 25, 2017:

I heard that often enough in the military. It was crap then, and it’s crap now. Let yourself be who you are.

how certain are you god does not exist ?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 25, 2017:

How certain? Frankly, I don’t care.

What’s something you know you do differently than most people?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Graph

I like Christian music. Do you see a problem with that?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I like Blues, is that inconsistent with being agnostic?

Happy Christmas to all my non-religious friends! (And also to any Christians who might be lurking ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Happy Yule

I would like to wish everyone a happy 25th of December.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Back at’cha

No longer will I use the term Christian because it describes a fairy tale person, there is no such ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

It’s worse than that. At least fairy tales are based upon folk religions. Christian views are entirely manufactured. Perhaps fraudulent people.

(my first topic) Are there any religions that you somewhat admire, if not for their belief in ‘a ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Catholicism: philosophical base.

Do you like rituals, routines, and traditions?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I’m a math teacher. Routines are part of the game.

Anyone else out there disabled?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

It feels that way sometimes.

What do you guys think about people vanishing from national parks and forests?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I think it’s the same thing as people coming up missing in every town in the country.

Is Judaism dying...?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I doubt it. It’s so throroughly tied to Hebrew culture that I doubt it will ever cease to exist.

What started the big bang?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

A match?

Topless men but not women on profile pics.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

If we do it, so do the girls!

Share with me how you demonstrate kindness to others, how can you do more?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I lived in Italy for three years in a little village called la maddalena. It’s off the coast of northern Sardinia on the island of la maddalena in the archipelago Della la maddalena in the boca di bonafaccio. Beautiful. There was this old woman, toothless, in rags, hideously dirty, w/o protective clothing that would wander the village. Every time I saw her, I stopped, spoke with and gave her some money to help her. I do the same for most down and out people that I meet within reason.

What's an unusual talent or skill you have that most people don't know about?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I’m very good at algebra.

I love this man! I normally wouldn’t agree with nobody to go to Hell, but I’d take in ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I disagree. I think it’s important to provide alternative points of view. Otherwise, you’re doing exactly what the dogmatists are doing, just in reverse.

Why should we have children ?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

To continue the species? To enjoy the pleasure of raising a family? To have the depth of feeling only a child of yours can engender?

If you could have any supernatural power in the world, what would you choose?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Being unnoticeable.

Who else is having a white Christmas?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

I’m in TX.

What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Get more women?

I know, we're from all over the country, but I wish we could have a get together to meet, talk and ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

If you’d all like to come to TX, I’d be happy to attend.

I would like to start a new church.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

The church of gnosis

What type of death do you most fear?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

The one where I don’t exist anymore.

Conservatives Worry Feminists Are Using Witchcraft To Destroy Trump

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

One can only hope.

Should I attend a wedding at church as an atheist?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Why refuse to go into a church? If you’re truly atheistic, then it’s just another building.

Are you an open or closet agnostic/atheist, and why?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Open. Why? Life’s too short to hide your real self.

I recently posted about losing one of my cat family,and,got very little response.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I’m sorry you lost your cat. My cat and I have been together for 11years. That relationship is one of the longest that I’ve ever had.

What are the best things to do on Xmas eve and Xmas?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

If you’ve got a significant other, then the attempt to create future members of the human race.

5 things..

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

1. Children 2. Sumatran dark blend coffee 3. The ah-hah moment when I’m teaching and you can see the light go on. 4. The conclusion of a difficult proof. 5. Watching my daughter sleep peacefully.

Do the holidays lift your spirits?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Not at all.

If religion wasn't here, what would atheists bitch about?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Atheistic women nagging them about sitting around all the time and not arguing?

Hello, First I need to let folks know that I am a seminary student at a post-modern ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

The first thing you should do is to read “Why I Am Not A Christian” by Bertrand Russell, follow that by a reading of David Hume. Follow that by a course in comparative religions focused on a the history of middle eastern religions. Then you’ll be able to talk about it.

I don't believe in God or heaven and hell but I do believe in the supernatural like ghosts and also ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

If you disbeoieve in god, you’re an atheist. If you suspend judgement you’re an agnostic. Neither one would deny the existence of ghosts. The concept itself is not mutually exclusive with either.

As a "black" woman who left a terrible and abusive relationship with a man who went deep into the ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Work, distraction, children, ... not all men are like that.

Are We Born Atheist??

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I think not.

Who should be elected president in 2020?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Bernie Sanders

Please share one awesome thing about where you live. :)

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

It doesn’t get below 20 in the winter.

How many agnostics, atheists are out there who actually want to date another agnostic/atheist?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Me

The 700 Club is the worst show on television.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I thought that was Giiligan’s Island!

Where have the nice Atheists & Agnostics gone during the Trump times?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

They’re still out there, it’s just that Trump’s a pile of dog poop. Like all thinking people not chained to a single ideology, they have to object.

My dads entire life he was an Atheist.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I think your justified in being unhappy about her choice.

Fellow agnostics, how do you feel about believers joining?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I’m kind of undecided about it.

Are you on a path or a journey?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I’m on a journey with many winding meaningless paths.

I got into a discussion a few days ago with a religious person who had said, "everything happens for...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I think you mean by that there’s a reason for everything means that everything has a purpose. I would agree that everything has a cause, but nothing has purpose outside human culture. You could argue that certain animal societies display purpose as well, but it only has meaning inside its own culture. A rock at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is just a rock.

What brings you here?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Never a last ditch effort, but it’s certainly entertaining.

How do you tell religious people that you're an atheist?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

No. I generally tell them I’m agnostic, or, if they're selling their bs at my door, I tell them to go bother someone else.

Should the U.S. Army allow Turbans, Hijabs, Beards, and Dreadlocks?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

No. Uniformity is important. Beards would be fine, but they interfere with a face seal.

What are you most looking for in a relationship? Just your 1 Thing

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Companionship, intimacy, fellowship, friendship, company, interesting conversation.....and.....sex

xmas trees

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I have an 11 year old daughter.

Do you guys think morality is something inherent to the human condition, or is it something purely ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I think that morality is is a natural consequence of the human condition. That doesn’t mean it’s inherent. It means that in any combination of people, rules will developed to guide behavior. It’s true that there are apparently universal themes across cultures, but, beyond the fact of the systems of behavior codes, the systems are relativistic.

Greetings from the heartless-land, full of fascists for Jesus.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Welcome aboard

Would you raise your children religious just to fit in?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

No, but I would let them make their own decisions.

As Agnostic, are you more inclined to believe in higher power (of any kind) or more inclined to deny...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 23, 2017:

It really depends upon your definition of a higher power. If we’re talking about demigods or gods, I’d say no. If we’re talking about advanced aliens, I’d say yes. Of course, I do, actually, believe in higher degree polynomial functions.

Do you think politics in the west will be the downfall of the White race, culture, traditions and ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

What white race are you talking about?

Why do people here hate Christmas?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

Who here hates Christmas?

How do you define agnostic, atheist, and theist?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

Agnostic: a person who has determined that it’s impossible to know god or prove that god exists/doesn’t exist. I would also add that it’s a ridiculous question w/o merit.

Does it make anybody else nervous that the earth wobbles as it rotates on its axis?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

Since it’s been doing so all of my life, not at all.

Am I the only person on the planet who has to work today?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

It’s worse. I’ve got two weeks off!

If you could ask "god" just 2 questions, what would they be ?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

#1-why did you allow 6 million of you’re chosen children to be murdered in Germany’s death camps. #2-why aren’t you morally relative?

What are you doing this Christmas Eve?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

I’ll take my daughter to her aunts place for dinner, come home and place presents under the tree and sleep.

Apart from religion, why human beings invented "marriage" What is the purpose of making a legal ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

In order to legally take advantage of men?

What objective media do you use to get updated on current events?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

Google news

What objective media do you use to get updated on current events?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

MSNBC

What cha want in life??? Dont be SHY?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

A revolving door of beautiful women? Really, further education and future security for my daughter.

God said let us make man in our image. Who was he talking to?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

I would venture to guess that that refers to an earlier polytheistic stage in Judaic religion.

A Boom or a whimper?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

Anything is possible, but chances are we will get done in by an incurable virus.

Should we embrace the true spirit of Christmas, you know how it was celebrated up until about 200 ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

I celebrate Christmas for my daughter. If not for that, I’d just ignore it. But I wouldnt substitute one make believe entity for another. It’s kind of funny to annoy Christians with liking Santa Claus to Odin, but I wouldn’t worship Odin, Yahweh, Tiamat or Horus. There way to much in life to be amazed by instead worrying about ancient pagan rituals.

Has anyone ever been successful in de-converting a religionist?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 22, 2017:

Why try? That reminds me of the crazy people trying to reprogram kids out of homosexuality. Let them be who they are. You could always send them to college. That generally wakes a person up.

What are your sociopolitical interests? Are you an activist?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

I would like to be, but I’m a math teacher. Being a counselor you should appreciate the amount of time I have. I’m also a single dad. I do actively vote.

A friend of mine just got a new kitten.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

Maybe he could name him Yahweh. He’ll never answer after that.

This meme was making the rounds last year on FB.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

I have had many religious friends. I accept them as they are and we’re friends despite that. It’s only the assholes who try to push their agenda that you can’t be friends with. I had a gf who was Christian and we broke up for that. It was her choice. I was happy to let her think what she wanted w/o criticism. Sigh.

Why do you think people who are agnostic turn to God?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

To get Christian girls?

Comparison: Zoroastrianism to Christianity and Islam.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

I think that understanding where something comes from historically is a big step towards convincing people they believe in myths.

So,we know how big the Universe is,and,how far away celestial bodies are,what are the chances that ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

It’s already outside. Voyager

Hi everyone! This is my first post, so please be gentle ;-) Have any of you had experience of ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

Welcome aboard baldy. ????

We will always have believers if we allow them to force their children to go to church and believe.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

We could outlaw religion? The sovereign ets tried that and it didn’t work out very well.

I liked these descriptions.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

Mathematics is like being in a dark room looking for black cat with night vision goggles on and walking around the room backwards just to make things interesting.

Do you use deity based profanity?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

God fucking damn it? Not very often.

Where are all the normal people?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

I’m normal. Well, maybe not normal, if theism is normal, or being uneducated is normal. As normal as I can be I suppose.

Bible reality t.v

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

I like horror movies, but even that’s too much for me.

I never saw attitude (positivity) affect outcome. Nurse since 1975.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

Good luck. I’ve been there. I’ve had at least 5 mri’s for an injured back. I hope you feel better.

What do you think?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

Sure. Existential angst is a real problem.

God is a ____________?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

Dead

I'm new and don't quite know how to work this thing.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 21, 2017:

It’s not why would god make a rock that he couldn’t lift, but rather the definition of god is faulted because you can make that observation. You equally say: god could create a fart so loud and so forceful that he couldn’t stand against it. The problem lies with omnipotence.