Who here finds it hard to be liberal when it's apparently racist to hate Islam?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Hmmm. If you hate muslims because of their faith, then you’re a bigot, not a racist. But if you think their foolish for believing in god, then your possibly just an atheist. Being liberal doesn’t mean you have to accept someone else’s dogma as truth. You just give them the freedom to think what they want.

What do you think of people that think all you need is the Bible?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

I think hunk they need to forgo getting medical treatment.

Is there a specific city, state or country that you would recommend visiting? Why?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Italia, sardegna del nord. Sardegna is very rural and unspoiled. It’s honestly beautiful.

What do you think the world would be like if religious people were finally raptured?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Quiet

What's your biggest dream?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Law school

What are your theories about why the 3 major religions all started in the same place in the middle ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

The cradle of civilization was in the Nile valley, the Fertile Crescent and Indus Valley. It’s no surprise, really, that they developed her because the the native religions were very closely tied to nature. When the urban class began to question their simple cosmology, they developed more evolved religious frameworks-monotheism and dualism. It took a settled relatively urban environment.

What quells the feeling of insignificance that keeps us up nights?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Perhaps I’m being mundane, but the bric-a-brac of daily existence provides ample material to keep my mind busy and unworried about my existential significance. I studied philosophy in college and I came to the conclusion long ago that life has no real meaning outside the details of ones life, family and culture. I really feel for the flotsam of our society that have no fundamental connection to anything. Now that’s a question of existential significance. When you’ve been dumped on the trash heep of society and are being blown by the winds of chance, what meaning does your life have?

Hey.... Who else is disgusted by the yearly murder of trees every December? I hate this.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

I hate to break this to you, but trees are murdered year round. Not just in December. I would be more concerned about the whole scale destruction of the amazon rain forest. However, evergreens are ceremoniously slaughtered for tradition in December only to remind us that spring is coming.

If you could travel anywhere in the world right this second, where would you go?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Auchinbrect, Scotland

New Years

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

That’s almost a real dog. No. I find that whole thing silly.

In your relationships, does someone usually "wear the pants?"

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 20, 2017:

It really all depends on whether they own any pants.

Atheist/Agnostic idols, heathen heroes, who do you admire/look up to?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

Bertrand Russell, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Gotlieb Frege, Peino, Leibniz.......

What does it mean: "So and so TAGGED you"?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

In Italian that would be cosi cosi. It means medium, not great, not bad just so so.

Newbie here!

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

Welcome aboard.

UFOs 'Are Real': Ex-Navy Pilot Describes Encounter With Tic-Tac-Shaped Extraterrestrial

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

Are UFO’s real? Certainly, until they're identified.

I live in the south in a town that would threaten to string up a non believer, recently they did ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

I grew up in SLC, where religious peer pressure was a daily feature. Carry a big stick and don’t be afraid to use it.

Since many people rely on churches for socialization, if the religion part was taken out and people ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

I think so. It has to have some sort of basic meaning for a person’s life, but that could be done with basic education-taxes, social skills, communication.....

I have always had trouble with the Christian God drowning a planet full of people including children...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

I find it a little hard to believe. Where did all the water go?

What is your favorite beverage?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

I’m rather fond of dark Sumatran coffee. I quit drinking years ago. I didn’t care for the after-effects. Also, there’s a history of alcoholism in my family which makes me statistically prone to it. So, real cream, caramel syrup and rich dark coffee.

Are IDC s welcome here?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

Unfortunately it’s not the same thing, but you don’t have to care if you don’t want to.

Im not religious by any means but sometimes when Im at a family event they pray.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 19, 2017:

I was in the navy for twenty years. I was regularly subjected to prayer services. I just looked around to see if there were others not participating and ignored it as much as possible.

You know I am just as good a person without god as I was with god.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I find religion to engender unethical behavior, not the opposite.

where are you in the following meme-scale?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I’m in the heavens apparently.

Occam's Razor. What are you thoughts on this?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

It’s a good rule for scientific research.

I had several professors in college preach Christianity as if from a pulpit.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I’ve had several professors preach atheism and openly ridicule theists. I agree with them, but there’s a place for that and it’s not in a physics course.

This site REALLY needs an app. It keeps having me reset my password when I know exactly what it is!

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I just go through Facebook.

I believe that anyone who calls themselves a scientist can accept no other label than AGNOSTIC.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

No. Scientists can be stupid too.

What are peoples thoughts on death and does it scare you?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

It’s doesnt scare me, but I want to continue my existence.

Is it bad that I pity religious people?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

It’s not bad. I just really don’t care what everybody else thinks. If they choose to be self-deluded, then ok. Go ahead and believe in elves, trolls and forest sprites, just don’t give me a hard time when I choose to think about things rationally. That’s where the real problem lies.

Solstice

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I would but I live in Waco.

Is remote viewing fact or fiction?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 18, 2017:

Possible? Likely, depends.

Is there really such a thing as unconditional love?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

I love my daughter w/o reservation.

Do you vote?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

I vote yes

Hello I've seen this on Facebook a lot lately - putting myself on here to see if I can find a man in...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

I wish I lived closer.

Do you have to be religious to believe in the soul?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

Probably not.

How do you deal with people who don't respect facts in a discussion?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

Question their intelligence.

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE AMERICAN MEDIA AND THE TERM "FAKE NEWS"

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

There is fake news in the US. It comes from FOX News.

Will Trump be the cause of the republican party's extinction? I can only hope ????

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

Probably not. Money has a way of furthering politics more than any good meaning, moral desires for the betterment of mankind will ever have. As long as there are wealthy men/women that band together in groups to influence the body politic through the judicious use of money through political contributions, lobbying and outright bribery, the Republican Party will remain robust and healthy.

This is the correct way to pronounce "Bible". "Buy Bull".

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

Or Bi-Bl-Sht for short.

What are your most success methods used in conversation topics on a first date?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

Hi. My name is Rob. I have an 11 year old daughter and I’m a widower......oh......wait....where are you going?.......c.....o.....m.....e BACK!

Suppose someone said that their deeply held religious beliefs were in opposition to all war, and ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

Quakers were persecuted for it.

I would really like to start a club that focuses on the history of religion and the different Bibles...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

The history of religion is a very real thing, but most Christians don’t want to talk about it honestly. There are way too many problems with Christian history for them to be comfortable with it. I would join that group.

My wife was talking to a woman that was at a bar, dancing provocatively and sat at our table.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

My typical reaction to people when they ask if I believe in god is to ask which one. They typically get pretty mad. I generally follow this up with the questions: Thor? Indra? Coyote? Zeus? Tiamat? Ba’al?

Share your thoughts about NFL players kneeling during pre-game playing of national anthem.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

I think it’s a free country. If they want to kneel, let them kneel.

As a kid, I always felt uncomfortable at my relative's church.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 17, 2017:

My parents divorced when I was three. That was ‘64. My aunts and my uncles shunned my brothers and I afterwards. My mother wasn’t a good mother after all. But after my father died, they all felt the need to come out and save me. I remember quoting Little Tin God by Don Henley to one just before he thankfully left me alone again.

Need some social etiquette advice (not related to religion)

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

Just send the card and apologize for it’s timing.

I'm currently debating a Christian about carbon dating of dinosaur fossils. Can you help?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

Just refer to the kt boundary layer. All dinosaur fossils are found beneath that boundary. That’s dated at 66 ma.

How many people actually think about this when they go to those xmas programs and see this ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

Yes. I’ve thought the same thing. Jesus, was, after all, an ethnic Jew. He certainly didn’t look like the paintings of him in the Vatican.

I absolutely love the holidays.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

Of course

What do you think when people refer to abortion providers and pro-choice activists as baby killers?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

I think they’re intentionally stupid.

Creepy McCreeperson..

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

Hmmm. I find 21 year old girls very attractive, but out of my reach and beyond my interest. There’s just really no common ground. I would say outside of 40. But who am I to tell people who they should associate with? If you want to date a 21 year old, go ahead. Enjoy the inane conversation.

Ever been a victim of proselytizing?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

I grew up in SLC. It was a part of life.

What's the oil to your water: who would you hope not to be your cubicle roomie?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 16, 2017:

The loud, full themselves, opinionated, pushy narcissistic-You know, Donald Trump.

Can A.I. really become conscious?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 15, 2017:

Define conscious.

What would you buy?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 15, 2017:

I would invest in further education.

Do you expect to get the tax break we were promised?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 15, 2017:

No

I've generally regarded agnostics as atheists who want to keep their options open.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 15, 2017:

my agnostic position is based upon epistomogy, history and logic. I can’t speak for others.

Why is it that some of us do not believe in God?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

I think it has a lot to do with circumstance, familial pressure, peer pressure and a lazy attitude towards thinking. It’s easy to go along. I think innately smart people will eventually relegate religion to the trash heap of ideas, but I know that’s not true.

Compliments..

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

I honestly don’t know. I’m complimented occasionally, but I don’t take it very seriously.

Guilty pleasures?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

I happen to like churches, carols and certain Christian values despite the fact I think religion is full of crap.

I cant get over how ignorant some Christians can be.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

That’s what happens when you indoctrinate someone with the “truth” instead of teaching them to think critically.

When adult children choose religion

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

I let people think what they will until they try to stop me from doing that very thing.

An investor gives you "seed money" to start a business. What kind of business would you start?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

Co-op Brothel?

What do you do to help the Environment?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

I burn plastics.

Help! I'm surrounded by the density of god-fearing people who equate Atheist to black magic.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

You’ve found a haven here.

If you could re-live one year of your life, what would it be and why?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

The year my wife died. Why? So I could make different decisions. Maybe she’d be alive now if I had made those.

What is you earliest remembrance of questioning religion? & what religion was in question?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 14, 2017:

I had a friend of mine who was African American Mormon when I was in elementary school in SLC. When I found out that he couldn’t join the priesthood at in the Mormon church I was completely offended. I can still see the look his face. I was 10.

When times are tough, with no god, how do you make it thru the night?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

Get undressed, climb in bed and check in on Agnostic.com, of course. And rest in the knowledge that my life is in my hands and not some mythical malignant being making decisions about my fate.

Would you move into a clothing optional community?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

And get the chance to walk around beautiful naked women?! Of course!

Study finds that children raised without religion show more empathy and kindness

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

Shocker. You mean they don’t possess the me and them dichotomy that comes from being in the crowd who’s in the know?

Do you feel detached from your own culture?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

No. I feel antagonistic to it.

Is there evil in the world or is it all relative?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

The question assumes evil exists.

Movie suggestions

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

Se7en The Shawshank Redemption Gran Torino Million Dollar Baby One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Lawrence of Arabia Manhunter Unforgiven Raiders of the Lost Ark braveheart Dances with Wolves Tombstone Pulp Fiction No Country for Old Men Inglorious Bastards Reservoir Dogs The Thing Fight Club Aliens I hope that helps

What is your dream job? What job would you never like to do?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

Dream: lawyer Nightmare: sewer maintenance.

Is mankind inherently good, or born evil?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 13, 2017:

Neither. Good and evil are ethically center conceptions that vary from system to system.

Everybody has their own preferences.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

Minding your own business is a lost art.

Love / romance scammed

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

Unfortunately, no one’s tried to love-scam me since my marriage. Maybe the women on the dating sites that I virtually meet sense my romantic cynicism.

Would like to hear from anyone who's had a successful dating experience on this site.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

Well, no. But maybe we could change that?

Do You Like My Decorations? - YouTube

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

Hilarious

So the far righteous Right Wing Judge Roy Moore running for the Alabama Senate seat said, "the ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

If it was, it wasn’t his god.

Is this a dating site or a site that promotes reality? Cannot tell.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

Would you like to find out?????

hi i don't belive in god but am i still an atheist if I believe in ghosts?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

They’re not mutually exclusive. You can believe in rakoshi, elves, kachinas or coyote man if that’s what flips your switch.

I agree with Ben Franklin with the words Mind Your Business.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

In logic we trust

Why do you allow the religious here! GAH! If I want to be subjected to drivel about an afterlife, ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

W/o that, wouldn’t it be boring?

If you could bring a fictional character to life, who would it be and why?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

Eowyn, LOTR; why, I like pretty blonde women with blue eyes that can use a sword; no pun intended.

I have a friend that is Christian and has been in a series of terrible relationships.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

You don’t have to be a Christian to be addicted to assholes

Christmas lights on palm trees ... ;)

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 12, 2017:

I see where you’re mind is going.

If you were to write a book, what would it be about?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 11, 2017:

A philosophers murder mystery

Can you be an agnostic or atheist and still believe in angels, demons, ghosts and life after death?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 11, 2017:

Not in my case, but there are all kinds of things that we don’t know. I seriously doubt that angels/devils exist, but their existence is far more plausible than god.

What is the bible to you?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 11, 2017:

A collection of myths and speculative bs of historical significance and cultural importance.

I think what goes on here is mostly "preaching to the choir", boys and girls.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 11, 2017:

I disagree. No ones trying to convince anyone of anything. We’re all pretty much going In the same direction. But it gets old being a single voice in the wind.

What would you call those moments when life hands out serendipity?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 11, 2017:

Chance

Would love to have a date for New Year's Eve.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

Would you be willing to fly to Dallas?

Why are we here?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

Purpose, I’m afraid, is really restricted to human action. Outside of that, purpose is meaningless

Well, this changes things a bit.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

And suddenly there emerged a new religion in Jerusalem based on Tiamat.

What percentage of people in the world would want to join a colony in outer space if one was ...

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

I can think of a number of Christians that I would recommend sending as missionaries.

Where are all the good, tolerant, creative, funny, open-minded and available men?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

Well, there’s one in Lorena TX, but the I’m not so sure anyone’s interested.

Kudos to Nicki Haley for her comments this morning on one of the Sunday shows.

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

I’m fairly certain that that she’s just playing politics. If it actually came to fruition, she’d be right there with Sanders calling the accusers liars.

1. Which is more important, people or dirt (or planet)?

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

They got the idea that they could shove their crap down everyone’s throat-post ww2

Captain Picard sings "Let it Snow!"

Gatovicolo comments on Dec 10, 2017:

????