Anyone ever just get mentally fatigued and emotionally drained?

anglophone comments on May 1, 2020:

I have never been where you now are, so please treat anything I say with all due circumspection. It sounds as if physical proximity (e.g. your own neighbourhood) to somebody who is important to you might count more for you than social media proximity to somebody else who would otherwise have the same worth to you. From my own perspective, I have had fantastic emotional relationships with people who I have never been within 5,000 miles of. Perhaps I have an unusual approach. Have you ever thought of moving to elsewhere within the USA, or perhaps to another country? Would such an idea even appeal to you? Would it even be possible for you given your present circumstances (of which I am wholly ignorant)? As a very dear friend who is also physically close sometimes says to her own intimates "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.".

Review - Tom Holland "Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind" - History for Atheists

anglophone comments on May 1, 2020:

"The Internet is your friend". More seriously though, it seems William Wilberforce, having earlier become an evangelical Christian, was a driving force for the abolition of slavery. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilberforce_william.shtml for more details.

The test of a false god; Why I am an atheist.

anglophone comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Like many sane people, you are allergic to logical fallacies, in this case the logical fallacy of special pleading (for one particular god).

“If God isn’t real, what's the point of living at all when one day you’re just going to ...

anglophone comments on Apr 30, 2020:

"Good God! And exactly to which God do you refer?" (Slaps the imbecile about the face with a wet fish.)

Religious people have claimed that covid is due to the following but not limited to: -Gays ...

anglophone comments on Apr 30, 2020:

Yes. God sent covid19 to this planet and it seems to be doing a good job of infecting all those who believe in Him, thereby reducing the chances of the Orange Peril being re-elected to the Oval Office.

I just picked this up. Old stuff. Had to reread it lol [bbc.com]

anglophone comments on Apr 29, 2020:

The Muslim Terror is no different to the Christian Terror. (See also Ferdinand and Isabella: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Spanish-Inquisition )

How would you feel if someone gave you unsolicited advice about your appearance?

anglophone comments on Apr 29, 2020:

Good grief! Your body is exclusively your own property, and it would never occur to me to volunteer an opinion about it. If I am asked by anybody about their own body, I will provide an opinion. It can also come up as an incidental in conversation. One particularly large breasted women and I were talking about body size and health related issues, when I asked "How do you avoid backache?". Her response was "By having a good posture.". In terms of her own body image, it was essentially a non-event.

I will not die of stupid [tampabay.com]

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

"Mental mediocrity" - I *love* that phrase.

Need help reconciling my sons suicide and my ex wife's beliefs.

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

She could at least have some respect for you and your view of reality. If she feels the need for self-comfort by maintaining her delusion, I would suggest that is her prerogative. As painful as it may be, perhaps the time has come to have "that conversation" with your other kids, that conversation being about the nature of life, the nature of death, and the nature of religion in a rational and informed population.

Christian ‘historian’: People who don’t believe in God are scared of coronavirus because they ...

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

The man is delusional.

WOW! So much irrational hate toward Trump fans by some on here! Some much worse than those who ...

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

How can hatred of the attitude of those who support the dangerous brainless wonder of the Oval Office be irrational? (Please excuse me while I ROFL.)

Is the concept of a personal God needed in some individuals?

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

The evidence is clear: some people feel the need for a personal god. Other members have posted below their ideas for the reasons why. Speaking for myself, I find the concept of the God of the Bible to be absurd, and the idea that said god could be my personal god to be quite ludicrous.

I get so fed up with the bullshit.

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

Their observations (accusations?) that I refuse to buy into their absurd make believe is just like water off a duck's back to me. I have a habit of trouncing all the fallacious arguments that they present.

Read a comment that said being "atheist" was claiming there is no god.

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

It's a tired old and very absurd trope used by the God Mob. They misquote the burden of proof argument, which is correctly quoted as "The burden of proof rests with the one making the *existence* claim.". They also conveniently forget the fact that it is trivial to show that the God of the Bible cannot exist. The same goes for the God of the Torah.

Hey.

anglophone comments on Apr 28, 2020:

Do what works for you. You will be your own best guide when it comes to doing that. I bowl the following two questions at you, and I invite to ignore them or respond to them at a time and in a manner that pleases you: 1. How useful to you are the models of the natural world that are given to you by religion? 2. How useful to you are the models of the natural world that are given to you by the Scientific Method? (Hint: we would not have the Internet if the Scientific Method did not exist.)

Hi, I am new here and writing this post to say hello to the community.

anglophone comments on Apr 27, 2020:

Welcome to this community. I commend to you all nine comments below. For me, your wager is wasted. Moreover, it begs the question of "Which religion?", with the follow up question of "Which god or gods?". Something for you to ponder: nobody has ever demonstrated the existence of any god or gods in the last 5,000 years. As such, all such gods must be regarded as fictional, and all claims based on their (non-)existence must be regarded as absurd.

Let's let the Satanic Temple and Project Blitz fight against each other! That should be fun! 😁 ...

anglophone comments on Apr 27, 2020:

The God Mob will merely redouble its efforts to impose its stupidity on everybody else.

Husband with blind wife plants thousands of flowers for her to smell

anglophone comments on Apr 27, 2020:

That is simply gorgeous!

[vice.

anglophone comments on Apr 27, 2020:

So some people were not being honest with their (allegedly) Significant Other? Well, ain't that just too bad.

I don't know what to think about this.

anglophone comments on Apr 27, 2020:

I think there may be much more to this than is reported in the article.

I think the definition of religion should be expanded.

anglophone comments on Apr 26, 2020:

I see it as a mistake to conflate the meanings of various lexical items that you mention. I disagree with your assertion that we all have certain basic spiritual needs. Religion does not satisfy any of my needs. I find it to be absurd. Racism does not in any way give me a sense of being valued because I am a member of a superior race. Moreover, I find the concept of a "superior race" to be utterly repellent.

Mat Staver: Church Lockdowns Are “Targeting” Christians Like Nazis Targeted Jews | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Apr 25, 2020:

He is telling outrageous lies to his followers who themselves lack the brains to realise that they are being lied to.

New Group!! Vintage Electronics from the Past.

anglophone comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Another one from the dark ages: apl\360 anybody?

New Group!! Vintage Electronics from the Past.

anglophone comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Who can identify the following language: "IF" ... "THEN" "BEGIN" ... "END"

LOL!!! Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant Into The Body To Treat Coronavirus [youtube.com]

anglophone comments on Apr 25, 2020:

The Chief Fuckwit of the USA then went on to claim that he was being sarcastic when he made that claim: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172x2ymy846816 . Not only is the man a lunatic, he is an extremely *dangerous* lunatic.

Gnostic Atheist, Agnostic Atheist, Agnostic Theist, or Gnostic Theist?

anglophone comments on Apr 24, 2020:

I am a gnostic atheist about both the God of the Bible and the god of the Torah. I am an agnostic atheist about all other gods.

What sayings would one have to stop using if they wanted to fully De God their life?

anglophone comments on Apr 24, 2020:

"By Jove!" "Jupiter Pluvius is at it again." Thursday. Wednesday. Friday. Saturnalia.

Dating religious people

anglophone comments on Apr 24, 2020:

I am picky. The reason that I am picky is that I do not wish to waste my time with delusionals as dates. I establish the other person's views on "the God question" before I would even contemplate going on a date with them. It does not matter to me how sexy they look, religion always gives me brewer's droop.

What can one do with a person who is too ignorant even to realise that he is ignorant?

anglophone comments on Apr 24, 2020:

To answer your question, there is nothing that can be done. Donald Trump is an extreme example of the Dunning-Kruger effect who also happens to be ineducable.

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies- delicious!

anglophone comments on Apr 23, 2020:

Yum!

Doing my first shift testing people for covid tomorrow wish me luck .

anglophone comments on Apr 23, 2020:

Stay safe. You know the routine.

How many of you feel religion negatively impacted your formative years?

anglophone comments on Apr 22, 2020:

I *know* that religion impacted negatively on me during my formative years. That is exactly why I am the raging anti-theist that I am.

CALLING ALL MODERATORS We only got 8 members as we are 2 days old, and now's a good time to get ...

anglophone comments on Apr 22, 2020:

That sounds like a request for moderators. If I am correct, and if you are so inclined, I am willing to be roped in as a moderator.

I was listening to this week's show of The Atheist Experience and Matt asked the co-host to define a...

anglophone comments on Apr 21, 2020:

Head: God is that non-existent entity that created the universe. Heart: God is a judgmental bastard who will throw me into hell for even questioning His existence. Outcome: It is far too late to punch in the face the vile bastard that put the fear of his god into me. He has probably been dead for 40 years.

Wow, six planets in almost perfect resonance! What a rare find! "Six planets: a super-Earth and five...

anglophone comments on Apr 21, 2020:

Interesting!

This morning I went to Browse for the first time and clicked on Members.

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Greetings. Your post (not a fence post) is wonderful. "Something". Bisexual people have twice as many opportunities when compared with heterosexual people. "The content of your character is far more important to me than the age of your body or your racial inheritance." /pace/ Martin Luther King. Go well.

Pascal's Wager = a straw man argument?

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

But there are still femtocephalics in the world who regard Pascal's Wager as a good reason to believe in the Christian God. (And I feel very sorry for His Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, PBUH.)

Pastor Flouting Stay-At-Home Order Remains Defiant After Parishioner's Death

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Such pastors are far too arrogant to feel any guilt. He is answerable to only his Dog, you see.

This is one of the good ones I post where I know Christians are reading .

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Such people either suspend their critical thinking or they are wholly incapable of critical thinking. I have no time for such mental midgets.

L.A. Affairs: I was the world's pickiest dater. And no guy could ever stack up

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Sigh. She specified the *physical* appearances of what she wanted. It wasn't until she was given a bloody great shove that she realised that she should have been looking for personality.

Well, it seems to me that some of those pesky, annoying God-bothering Kerb-side Preachers have not ...

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Such people are a real and present danger to other people. They need to be stopped. You did the right thing by the people who are in their wrong minds.

So, tonight my husband got called an apostate whose after-death destination will be hell.

anglophone comments on Apr 20, 2020:

"Yes, I am an apostate, and I am proud of it!"

Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die

anglophone comments on Apr 19, 2020:

What? Go to heaven and spend the rest of eternity singing praises to that genocidal maniac with catastrophic anger management issues known as God? No thank you!

Corona virus has shown us once again how useless religion is.

anglophone comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Common sense is non-existent in the case of those religious fanatics.

I am a believer.

anglophone comments on Apr 19, 2020:

How very droll!

I was over on the r/debateanatheist subreddit and formulated a lengthy and thoughtful response to a ...

anglophone comments on Apr 18, 2020:

Science produces useful models of the natural world. Religion produces useless models of the natural world. Does anything more need to be said?

Which religion and culture do you dispise the most and which do you "like " the most? Tell me why.

anglophone comments on Apr 18, 2020:

I see it as a mistake to conflate religion with anybody's personal values. There are good people and there are vile people who identify themselves as Christians. There are good people and there are vile people who identify themselves as Muslims. There are good people and there are vile people who identify themselves as atheists. (And just in case anybody is wondering about that last one, I cite Joseph Stalin.)

Ok, so here goes agnosticism versus atheism 101 gnostic has to do with knowledge Theism has ...

anglophone comments on Apr 18, 2020:

Your post would benefit significantly from additional analytical thinking.

My explanation of Atheism NOTE This is my personal view, it is shared by many but I don't wish to...

anglophone comments on Apr 17, 2020:

My atheism: "You make the existence claim of your god? You demonstrate that existence, sunshine!"

It seems like with so many different beliefs and religions in the world it would be impractical if ...

anglophone comments on Apr 17, 2020:

It is the responsibility of the person making the existence claim to provide falsifiable evidence to support that claim. The burden of proof rests with the claimants, and no nobody else. Job done! :)

This is my opinion.

anglophone comments on Apr 17, 2020:

On what basis do you claim that agnostics are unsure of their honest beliefs? Morality and ethics are ultimately driven by evolution.

Well, I made someone’s naughty list today ! Look what showed up in the mail ! A CD!!!!! Mercy ! ...

anglophone comments on Apr 17, 2020:

The local religious lunatic was for a while in the habit of dropping God Mob CDs into my letter box. I suspect that he is now gone to the Great Big Pulpit in the Sky.

Hospital worker shreds trumpers blocking hospital entrance

anglophone comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Welcome to the vile and evil stupidity of the Trumpsters.

So.

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

People accept the claims of Bible, or at least what other people claim to be in the Bible, because of their own catastrophic cognitive deficiencies. The notion of of asking for falsifiable evidence to support the existence claim of their particular god is beyond their mental capacity.

This is from an old school friend that I grew up with, we have had a back and forth about religion ...

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

Projection, much?

If this god thingy made Mary pregnant.

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

Are you trying to annoy the crap out of religious fundamentalists by asking them to use their (god-given) brains?

Have you wondered if perhaps the godbotherers of the US love trump because he does truly represent ...

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

Those godbotherers love Trump because because he has a lot of similarities to the God of the Bible. Which also explains why I loath and detest the man.

If you're an atheist having sex & you scream "Oh God!" when you cum, does that make you a ...

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

No. But if you were to scream "Oh Zeus!" ... ;)

Does anyone have any recommendations on good books on non belief I'm new to this community and I ...

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270835186_RICHARD_DAWKINS'_THE_GOD_DELUSION_AN_ATHEIST_SCIENCE_CONFRONTS_A_SUPERSTITIOUS_FAITH

Saw this on Facebook.

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

The truth that I have from religion is that there are billions of people who accept as fact the ridiculous claims of religion.

I have a tendency to delete any post I make that hasn't gotten any replies within a few hours.

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

Some of my posts never get any response. Other posts draw quite a lot of responses. I am me and you are you. The number of responses that I do or do not get is unimportant to me. My cat sleeps on my bed at night, and she often purrs, specially when stroked. Your post explains why I saw that one of your posts had been deleted when I chose to read it. Time zones matter, you know.

...What is this place? I like it, Think I may stay a spell. Who are you?

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

I am detested by the God Mob. I am ruthless in the debunking of logical fallacies. I make no apologies for having a brain and making use of it. As a number of other people would say "Welcome to the asylum. I hope you enjoy your stay.".

Got on my states list for volunteers medical personal as back up in emergencies .

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

Your a good man, Robert.

What was your journey into becoming an Atheist/Agnostic?

anglophone comments on Apr 16, 2020:

The merest whiff of reason and logic is quite sufficient to kill any god.

Pat Robertson: God May Have Created the Earth in Six “Universal” Days | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

anglophone comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Pat Robertson has less intellect than an inebriated paramecium.

We’ve never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated. - The Washington Post

anglophone comments on Apr 15, 2020:

The more I see of Donald Trump, the more I see him behaving like a petulant little boy.

Trump withdraws funding from the world health organisation and accuses them of a cover up ...

anglophone comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Donald Trump is a dangerous simpleton.

An international scam that nearly got away with diddling the German government into paying fifteen ...

anglophone comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Would it be appropriate to put the scammers into a Covid-19 infested group of people and keep them there?

Coronavirus: Trump will 'halt' funding to World Health Organization

anglophone comments on Apr 15, 2020:

To call Trump an idiot would be a grievous insult to all idiots.

i am a test post

anglophone comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I am a post test.

Two of the most religious states, Mississippi and Louisiana, are hit by tornadoes on Easter Sunday.

anglophone comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Exhibit A: The wages of sin is death. Exhibit B: The wages of stupidity is religion.

Does anyone else have a memory of when they fully became what a Christian would call a "hard hearted...

anglophone comments on Apr 13, 2020:

I have no issue with being called a "hard hearted atheist". Moreover, I make no apology for my ruthless application of reason and logic to "the God question". If people want to be so soggy brained as to claim the existence of their particular god in the complete absence of any supporting falsifiable evidence, then that is entirely their choice.

Sleep deprivation was a key factor in the loss of my faith.

anglophone comments on Apr 13, 2020:

My deconversion had nothing to do with sleep deprivation. It was in my case the ruthless application of reason and logic to the claims of the God Mob. It took me 20 years to do what seems to have taken just 20 days for you to achieve.

Part of my indoctrination as a believer was that humans have souls and other creatures do not.

anglophone comments on Apr 12, 2020:

I once believed that I would see my deceased pets in my own afterlife, this as a result of having been told as child manifest untruths from the adults who were around me at the time. If I was to have such liars at my mercy now, I would hold each and every one of them in durance vile until such time as they each demonstrated the existence of the god which they claimed.

This Virus is it Mother nature culling the human race ? Or is it man made ?

anglophone comments on Apr 12, 2020:

Neither. It is just plain old-fashioned evolution at work.

Is God okay with babies being smashed against rocks?

anglophone comments on Apr 12, 2020:

Don't broadcast it! The Evangeloons of Trumpty Dumpty's America are already thinking along those lines!

Since we like verses so much.

anglophone comments on Apr 11, 2020:

"The Bible is completely accurate, specially when thrown at close range."

I have to say that baby dedication ceremonies are by far on top of one of the most cultish aspects ...

anglophone comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Which god?

I see videos of people praying to god to end the coronavirus.

anglophone comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Did Yahweh/God/Allah put theists on this planet for the amusement of atheists?

You know those good people that have it set in their heart, they are going to share their salvation ...

anglophone comments on Apr 11, 2020:

The logic bomb of "Where is your falsifiable evidence to support your existence claim of your god?" shuts them up completely every time I ask it.

I DECLARE I will choose reason over faith! I will focus on what can be demonstrated to be true.

anglophone comments on Apr 11, 2020:

I am not sufficiently irrational to have faith as part of my life.

I'll never fathom out the way Christians think! I can understand how the Jewish establishment of ...

anglophone comments on Apr 11, 2020:

The answer to your implied question lies within your own words: Christians cannot be said to think.

The prose (?

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

The source appears to be https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1248704168925093888.html

Please do not let this madness fool you.

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Whoever created that poster is several billion grey cells short of a brain.

Louisiana Pastor: 'True Christians Do Not Mind Dying' Of Coronavirus If Infected At Church | ...

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Sigh. Religious fuckwits are incapable of learning ... it goes against their religion, you see.

Oh shit, I should've it would too good to be true.

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

It's a wonder that said Evangeloon forgot to mention gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, Muslims, Jews, Rastafarians, Pastafarians, Satanists, Druids, Shinto and Dreamtimers. Perhaps he is nothing but an ignorant tw@t. Or perhaps is waiting to be raptured (or ruptured).

Pictures from my window in quarantine.

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

I am sorry to hear that you are in quarantine. How long have you left?

How Religion Spreads COVID-19 [patheos.com]

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Thus the God Mob continues to deny the medical evidence.

Pence bars coronavirus task force members from appearing on CNN: report | TheHill

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

The right wing nut jobs currently in power will use very dirty trick in the book to ( 1 ) remain in power, and ( 2 ) impose their baleful views on the rest of the population.

Now with Corona Virus tearing through America like a wild fire in dry and dead forest, PotUS 45, ...

anglophone comments on Apr 10, 2020:

The World Health Organisation has everybody in the world as part of its remit. This is quite unlike the right wing evangelical Christians that adore Trumpty Dumpty's extreme narcissism.

New here- just joined so apologies if this has been addressed before but I get so sick of everyone ...

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

It reminds me that “Easter” is taken from the Teutonic goddess of fertility and spring – Eostre, hence oestrus, though I guess many Christians conveniently forget that aspect.

If god needs to be protected - then god depends on the protector.

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Welcome to the insanity of blasphemy laws. Legislators that promulgate and pass such laws suffer from catastrophic cognitive failure.

With all these churches having services and spreading a deadly disease, it feels like survival of ...

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Be that as it may, Catholics have a God given to multiply like rabbits and thereby increase the level of stupidity in Homo sapiens.

‪Pastor says his worshippers would rather die than miss his services [the-sun.com]‬

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Arrogant opinionated self-important tw@t!

What in your opinion is the worst set of words in our common(US/UK english) language.

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

"It's always been done this way." :( :( :(

Job Opportunity- Wanted: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process ...

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Cobol, a load of old cobollocks. Good Grief!

This is old news, but it's just too funny.

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Such people were given their non-existent brains by their non-existent god.

Hello, I've been MIA for some time but today i needed to be on here.

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

She is becoming arrogant.

Well I’m glad I’m not a Christian! [m.huffpost.com]

anglophone comments on Apr 9, 2020:

He is a real and present danger to his community, which is typical of all right wing nut jobs.

I hear this kind of excuse “working in mysterious ways” and it’s insane that people can accept...

anglophone comments on Apr 8, 2020:

It is a mark of the mentally enfeebled that they accept all sorts of absurdities.