Deconversion

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Helping you with deconversion? Maybe it would help us if you could tell us what you were converted into and what you would like to be deconverted into.

What's a simple thing you did for someone that thrilled them?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 14, 2019:

It may sound like a cliché but I think that love is a flame and it's fuel is time. Time you spend for someone else, whether that someone else is there or not.

If the election was held today, who would you vote for and why?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 14, 2019:

This fall, since I'm a Quebec separatist, I'll vote for the Bloc Québécois and his new leader Yves-François Blanchet. In my riding, the Bloc candidate will probably be Stéphane Bergeron. (Oh! You mean the elections in the U.S?!)

Are there brands you don't use for environmental or other reasons?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 14, 2019:

I think choosing or not choosing to buy something is one of the most powerful political decision you can make. Probably even more powerful than when you vote. I think you change the face of the world every time you buy something. Will you encourage the local little guy, the fair and ethical workers coop or the creepy mega multinational billionaire? Of course, it's not always easy, not always obvious. Too often, the market seems to be tilted and rigged by the big guys. I'll certainly pick a credit union over a big bank. As much as I can, a local product instead of an imported one.

HONGKONG MASSIVE PROTEST AGAINST EXTRADITION LAW Professor Ian Grenville Cross, attends a forum...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

One country, two systems. Looks like this is not what Beijing has in mind after all.

10 Things To Know If You Love Someone With PTSD

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Someone I know is in the army. He spent three combat missions in Afghanistan, a total of two years. Let's say his head took a little more time than his feet to come back home.

Meanwhile in Canada....

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Don't they usually come by two?!

Canadians, thought of as peace loving, kind, and moderate people, must admit we have this dirty ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

The city where I was born, the city of Montreal, was founded in 1642 by a group of French catholic missionaries who had two objectives: to open an outpost for the fur trade and to convert the Mohawks and the Wendats (Hurons) to the catholic religion. I think that sums up pretty much what the European nations did on the American continent: to strip off the First Nations of everything they had, their land, their culture, their languages, their identities, their lives all in the name of a so-called supremacy and the reckless exploitation of the natural resources. Too often, the First Nations are like a third world within our own borders. To admit our wrongs is one thing, to bring back fairness is another. It takes political will and the funds to go with it, something that our leaders never even came close to have. It mostly takes the will to stand up against the corporations that sees the First Nations as an obstacle in their way of reaching for the resources of the land (mines, oil), the forests (lumber) and the rivers (hydro dams).

And that ended the baby shower pot lucks.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Holy guacamole!!!

My kind of place!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

I wanted to go to Nostalgia, but it's no longer like it used to be.

Family fun for everyone

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Have they made a scratch-and-sniff version of this?

Wonder what that one means?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

A blazing display of ambition!

Whoa! Dude!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Dude! That's deep!

Yeah I'll be wearin' those.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

They come with convenient handles to keep your feet in the air!

Let's hope not...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

How about some psychic poodles?

Names, people, names!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

There's no "i" in that team.

Sounds good to me.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Just let the middle section do the thinking!

Looks like I got on the right elevator.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 12, 2019:

I thought you needed to take a highway!

I have lived in urban areas my entire adult life.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

I spent my life going back and forth between the city of Montreal and its suburbs. I was born on the north side of town in a neighborhood called Villeray. When I was seven, my family moved across the Saint-Lawrence river in the southern suburbs in Longueuil. At the age of 20, I left my family's house and went back in the city, back in Villeray first, then in Hochelaga, then on the Plateau Mount-Royal, and in Rosemont after that. Later, five years ago, I found a job in the southern suburbs in Saint-Hubert, then I met a lady, also from Saint-Hubert. After a while, she gently offered me to move at her place. So, here I am. I live in a quiet and small neighborhood surrounded by fields and woods, about twelve miles from downtown Montreal. I must admit that I have mixed emotions about where I am. Sure, the place where I live is nice and quiet, but you know what they say, you can get a guy out of town but you can't get the town out of the guy.

Sad but true. Devolution?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Sad but true indeed.

I am an atheist, therefore I am.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Right on!

So, God is in control.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

My condolences. If God has a plan, it looks like the plan of someone who doesn't have a plan. Or the plan of someone who doesn't exist at all.

I am really sick of living in the USA. What country can I go to where they don't hate americans?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

"Don't blame the government, get rid of it" (Pierre Bourgault 1934-2003)

It's just sad really... ☹

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Racism is just wrong, no matter what race is targeted.

What is your favorite junk food?...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Quebec's proud contribution to fast-food: poutine! (nothing to do with the russian president) French fries + curds of squeeky fresh white cheddar cheese + hot brown beef gravy And that's the basic poutine because there are plenty of variations: Michigan poutine with spaghetti sauce, poutine with chicken, or smoked meat, bacon, steak, pepperoni. Some fancy restaurant came up with some foie gras poutine. I even saw a desert poutine in an ice cream parlour! The fries were made with donut dough, the cheese was replaced with marshmallow and it was topped with a butterscotch sauce. (Why do you call them FRENCH fries anyway?! They're not even French, they're more like Belgian. Anyway, in French, we don't call them French fries, we just call them fries, or in worst cases, fried potatoes)

I am really sick of living in the USA. What country can I go to where they don't hate americans?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Our governments treat us like livestock and those borders are our fences. They don't want some diseases to spread around like love, freedom, solidarity, democracy. They always want more free trade agreements and more freedom of movement for merchandise and money. But for people, it's walls, bullets and bombs.

[thegailygrind.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 10, 2019:

His butt must be jealous of what comes out of his mouth!

Ronald's personal fun house

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 10, 2019:

That's the secret of the Big Mac sauce!

I'm a strong supporter of free speech and the power of opinion.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 10, 2019:

You know what many people say: one person's freedom ends where another person's freedom begins. Or, good news: you're free, bad news: everybody else is free. I wonder if good ideas can stand and can be defended by themselves or is it always coming down to the reason of the strongest. I think when you go down on name-calling and insults, that means you ran out of arguments and you're losing the game. Whether you're doing a bad job defending a good idea or the idea you're defending doesn't stand a chance.

Well it is now 1:38 AM and I am starting the day of my 3 month anniversary on this site and big ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 10, 2019:

Level 7 in three months?! That's fast!

Just curious. Who would not have joined this forum if it was called atheist.com?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 9, 2019:

Atheist here.

How is your drinking water? [thefreethoughtproject.com]

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 9, 2019:

Our drinking water is great and fracking is banned in Quebec. Maybe this explains that.

Asking if there is no god, what is the purpose of life is like...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 9, 2019:

Debt can make you very obedient.

It would certainly be amusing.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

The length of the shorts is inversely proportional to the length of the socks!

I'd like to tell how I got to Agnosticism.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

Former Catholic here. Glad to have you with us. :-)

It pains me to block ladies. Women need to support each other.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

Too bad for her.

Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss for mens entertainment [metro.co.uk]

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

This is what they do in Montreal when something like that happens. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/kiss-in-planned-for-monday-following-reported-assault-of-gay-couple

The oleanders are a bit thin because of the lack of water this winter and spring.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

Even Quebec's famous sugar maples are threaten by climate change. https://www.cbc.ca/life/food/please-not-the-syrup-climate-change-could-extinguish-sugar-maple-growth-1.4496072

Too funny!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

He has beer... and an axe! (30 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5uxs4wQAhI

China's new high-speed train will 'float' over tracks to hit 370 miles an hour

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

The Maglev (magnetic levitation) trains have been around for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Operational_systems

Can artificial intelligence or robots become a threat in future ?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

It all depends on who's programing them. And for what purpose. That worries me a lot.

Right Wingers are gathering courage across the world Lesbian couple viciously beaten in ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

Something like that happened in Montreal a few years ago. A couple of lesbians were attacked outside a metro station. In response to that attack, the day after, they closed the street where it happened and hundreds of people, straights and gays, staged a huge kiss-in protest to show their support to the victims.

How does this guy figure out how to tie his shoes.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

He couldn't manage to find a laundry machine in Virginia Beach?!

I’m over-qualified.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

I wonder if, as far as human personalities goes, things are not like in outer space. What if there was no such things as ups and down?. Only distances and illusions of ups and downs?

I was going to get this shirt till I saw the bottom of it.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

It sounded great at the start, but the end was disappointing.

Andrew Scheer will win in the next federal election... Trudeau has messed Canada up to bad.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 8, 2019:

I knew Trudeau would never be fit for the job of Prime Minister. The way he quickly turned around about reforming the election system right after his election. For me it's just one more proof that he's nothing more than a puppet whose strings are pulled by the Toronto banksters cartel. Or when he signed the Paris agreement on climate, only to turn around and buy an oil pipeline pour 4.5 billions$! How about that SNC-Lavallin mess?! It's a private wing of the liberal corruption system! But talk about going from bad to worse: Andrew Scheer?! Is he going the declare martial law to pass his tar crap pipelines through Quebec and BC?!!! Is he going to ban abortions and to bring back death penalty? The 1950's have called. They want their outdated ideas back! Jagmeet Singh? He seems out of his element outside the Toronto area. Anyway, that's Canadian business. I'm voting for the Bloc Québécois. A strong majority of the Quebec seats for the Bloc and a minority government for the liberals or the tories, that would be funny.

Hellos from Quebec.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 7, 2019:

There will be a federal election in Canada this fall to elect the Prime Minister and the members of the House of Commons. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his liberal party will seek to be reelected and will be facing amongst others the Conservatives, the New Democratic Party (NDP, social-democrats), the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois (Québec separatists). To my opinion, a major stake in this election will be the expansion of the Alberta tar sands and the pipelines to deliver the oil on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts for exportation.

Is this real?? Please tell me this is real.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

I looks like a blender! Baby purée anyone?

I've done this very thing.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

... don't fit, you must aquit.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

Needless to say that when the war was over in France, the collaborators were not treated quite kindly.

Speaks for itself. thank you for your sacrifice

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

A great uncle of mine died in Italy in WWII fighting the fascists.

The threat is real.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

Land piranhas!

I hope you got good snacks!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

It's not in my habits to show up empty handed.

So very true.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

Nailed it!

Now your eyes might open in dixgust, but it is the truth ! IOL: Let's talk about your ubuntu - ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

South Africa and Canada have some similarities in their history. The same old story of Europeans with scurvy landing on another continent and being rescued by the local folks, etc.

The gay agenda.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 6, 2019:

You know what they all do, they bite you and you become one of them. No, wait, that's vampires.... and zombies!

Which is which?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 5, 2019:

It's often creeps against creeps.

Funny story.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 5, 2019:

Damn! Strong stuff!

How capitalism survives according to Richard D.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 5, 2019:

Sad but true. :-(

It's a sign!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 5, 2019:

Is it in Braille?!

Go ahead, whippet good.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM

A white horse walks into a bar, the barman says, thats a coincidence, we have a whiskey on the shelf...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

Wasn't that the horse with no name?

Power to the people ✊🏼

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

"My plan to conquer the world!!!"

How'd he get in there?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

Darth Vader had to take his helmet off to take a bite of his cookie. Or he's holding Spock's cookie.

Little known fact.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

They're like land-piranhas!

Seems fair....

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

Does a winggal does a better job than a wingman?!

Technically we were one of the smallest generations in history, but, whatevs.....

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 4, 2019:

And it's such a curse!

Feminist Wife Wants to be Dominated in Bed

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvfofcIE1Q

Feminist Wife Wants to be Dominated in Bed

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Is wanting to be submissive in bed some kind of a paradox? What if the submissive one was actually the one running the show and the dominant one was only there to serve?

"..... references to 2SLGBTQQIA people." Couldn't we simply have the acronym NHO?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Seems to me that acronym changes every day. Your idea seems simpler.

I can deal w disease and I can deal w trauma .

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

I hear what you say and I can assure you that I'm not amused at all by what you're going through. I worry about you. You can take some tough blows and keep going for a while. But at a certain point can come that one too many blow that will send you to the floor. I think what you just shared with us is a good beginning. To put it in words and to let some steam out seems to me like a good thing to do. In my humble opinion, the next step for you would be to better surround yourself. To find someone you can trust to share a bit of your burden, ears to listen to you, arms to hug you, shoulders to lay your head on and to cry a bit of it off. It could even be someone you don't know at all that might give you a completely outside point of view. No matter how chaotic, how heartless and mindless the universe may seem, remember that you, like everyone else, are a child of the sun and the stars. You are made to shine and you deserve to be happy. Don't let anyone hit you on the head, not even you! Big hugs.

I don't even have that much sympathy.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

No I won't say it. No I won't say it. No I won't say it. No I won't say it. No I won't say it. Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Aaaaaahhhh! TOLD YOU SO!!!!

We have all experienced hurt from hurtful people and it can be difficult to meet frowns with smiles ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

I think life is too short and too precious to waste it away with anger, hate and grudge. Of course, most of the time, anger is important, useful. Like a blinking light on the dashboard of a car, it can warn us that something is wrong. I guess what makes all the difference is how we respond to anger. We say "la colère est mauvaise conseillère", anger is a bad advisor. You might follow your anger and take a swift decision, make a swift move that your might regret afterwards. Or you could step back, take a deep breath, have a cold blooded look at the situation and come up with a better solution, less hurtful for you and everyone else.

[cnn.com] Carry a cup in your car as well.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

I work as a sorter in a recycling plant. I know that recycling is basically a good thing, but it's far from being perfect. Let's say it's a business where environmental good intentions goes in face-to-face collision with the brutal reality of globalized capitalism. Sure, it's better to recycle than to trash. But remember the three Rs. You see that recycling is not plan A, it's not even plan B, it's more like plan C. It's important to Reduce first, to Re-use second, only after that you Recycle. I may spend hours sorting plastic bottles, but I always have my own reusable water bottle by my side.

[goodnewsnetwork.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

I wonder if that carbon capture thing is for real or is it just some kind of alchimist-like hoax designed to buy time for Big Oil.

"Electric Companies Won’t Go Green Unless the Public Takes Control" "Private electric utilities ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

In Quebec, we have Hydro-Quebec, a public utility owned by the province that holds a monopoly over the production (97% hydroelectric) and distribution of electricity. Our power bills are amongst the lowest in North America.

What happens after you die?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

The hospital staff clean up your room and another patient is brought in.

What happens after you die?

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Your matter and your energy scatters away.

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest threat to my health is... me!

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 1, 2019:

Welcome to the club. I guess there's a whole bunch of us.

It Turns Out Christians Have More Abortions Than Any Other Religious Group In America [mtv.

QuidamOutrepont comments on Jun 1, 2019:

Another case of "don't do as I do, do as I say."

Diamonds Are NOT A Girl's Best Friend

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 30, 2019:

Looking good.

True dat!!

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 29, 2019:

She's leaving you a chance to rethink what you just said.

Abuses show Assange case was never about law

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 29, 2019:

He shouldn't get a sentence, he should get a medal!

Can't just keep ignoring global warming, or can you?

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 29, 2019:

Politicians, bankers and CEO's are getting away way too easily with it. The pressure will have to come from the street.

Why aren't i level 2

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 29, 2019:

Looks like you made it now.

"The betrayal of the public is unsustainable in the long-term." [thesun.co.uk]

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 29, 2019:

It think it's a mistake to put all nationalisms in the same basket. It's a mistake to say they're all good or all bad. I think some are good and some are bad. If you feel good and you care about where you come from or where you live, that's good. If you start to hate, attack and try to get on top of anybody else, that's when nationalism becomes a problem. The European Union has the potential of being a good thing. But if the deal goes all wrong, if some powerful global financial interests put way too much weight in the balance, some nations might feel left out. Some nations might feel they have too much to lose in the EU, they might ask for some major change or even want to leave the Union all together. In some cases, no deal at all may be better than a bad deal. For example, I'm a Quebec separatist. I think that Quebec would be far better off as a country of its own than to remain one of the ten provinces of the Canadian confederation. It doesn't mean that we hate the rest of the world and that we want to clamp down on ourselves. We just want a better kind our relationship with our neighbors and the rest of the world.

What if Jesus DOESN'T love you? What if he's sick and tired of your bullshit?

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 29, 2019:

What if Jesus, as he was described in the Bible, never existed at all? And what if all that christian crap was all made up?!

Something for the trek fans.

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 28, 2019:

Fascinating.

What thoughtful gift touched your heart?

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 28, 2019:

I'll never forget the day I turned 50. My favorite soccer team, the Montreal Impact in the Major League Soccer, played a game on that day, and my girlfriend, my family and friends gave me a surprise party in a private suite at Saputo stadium. We watched the game, enjoyed drinks and snacks. I loved every moments of it.

Why Beer is better than Jesus

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 28, 2019:

I wonder what a beer baptism would look like.

Here's a paradox.

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 28, 2019:

Sterility is one thing. Impotence is another. Depends on what you want.

Before I present this question I would like to say I have never seen an object in the sky, night or ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 28, 2019:

I suppose if they're clever enough to make it all the way here and they don't want to be seen, how can some car keys toting apes like us are supposed to be able to see them?! It must be like the Prime Directive in Star Trek I guess.

This convinced me...

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 27, 2019:

Is that a case of speaking in tongue?!

A big plus indeed

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 25, 2019:

I can you tell a Swiss is poor? He's the one washing his Mercedes himself!

So they say im less than 400 point away from level 7.

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 25, 2019:

I'm 4,320 points away from level 7! Same foe, same fight!

PETE BUTTIGIEG GOES NUCLEAR Mayor Pete claims Trump faked disability to avoid draft ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 23, 2019:

War is for the poor.

The US has the largest military force on this planet, in history - uncontestable military might.

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 23, 2019:

Who's freedom are they really fighting for?!

Would anyone like to caption this?

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 22, 2019:

Never mind the freakin' snacks! Just open the goddamn door!

Broken toe update. Can't hike until fire season?

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 22, 2019:

Take good care of yourself. I'm stuck home recovering too. Two weeks ago, I got hit by a car while I was riding my bicycle to work. Good thing I had my helmet on. Surprisingly, no broken bones. Just a sprain in the back of my neck. It gives me some stiffness in my back and on my right shoulder. I'm unable to sleep in my bed so far so I must settle for a recliner. I'll need a few more weeks to recover. Rest, heat, medicine and physiotherapy.

‘We won’t be complicit’: Italian dock workers refuse to load Saudi arms ship over Yemen war...

QuidamOutrepont comments on May 22, 2019:

Well done guys!