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How many people have had the experience of having to deal with an AYA (Angry Young Atheist).

godef comments on Mar 15, 2018:

Beats an AOE (Angry Old Evangelical).

A Bunch of Religious People Think Stephen Hawking Is Currently Burning in Hell – Friendly Atheist

godef comments on Mar 14, 2018:

Looks like a bunch of us atheists believe they are ass-clowns. Unlike their notions of what what happens after death, we definitely know this to be true.

I recently heard that the Koch brothers (with a big assist from Pence) are trying to call for a ...

godef comments on Mar 14, 2018:

They just want to replace it with the 10 commandments.

BEAR HUMOR

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

He's smarter thsn the average bear.

Happy Monday!! :-)

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

Good band.

Immortality

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

Probably. Even knowing that one day I might get so bored that I want to kill myself... at least I'd have that option. Oh, and a 20-year old body (Jealous of Youth).

Income inequality

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

The world's wealthiest simply make way more money than they deserve. Yes, many of these are great people, but who on earth is worth billions of dollars? Only in their own eyes, and only through their corrupt conceit.

Boot camp

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

I thought boot camp was for computer nerds (like myself).

Do Antidepressants Work?- Results From New Comprehensive Study Shows Modest Results

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

One problem is that it is so hit-and-miss. Depression is caused by a variety of issues, and if the doc "guesses" the wrong cause, he/she may prescribe the wrong cure. No intention of dissing any therapists out there, it's a tough job.

If you could call yourself five years ago and had 30 seconds, what would you say?

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

March 22, Powerball #s ...

What is the sweetest thing you can say to a woman?

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

"Conquering" a woman? Seems like a 21st century atitude adjustment may be the rX for you.

Did They Really Believe That Nonsense?

godef comments on Mar 12, 2018:

Religion is a drug for reality. It's not going away soon.

Do you over-think and over-analyze?

godef comments on Mar 11, 2018:

I over drink and am always anal.

Men (sorry ladies) would you date a woman much taller than you?

godef comments on Mar 10, 2018:

I dream of Amazon women.

Have you ever pissed off your neighbors from being too loud?

godef comments on Mar 8, 2018:

Yeah, when I was young and *I* could still hear.

The Lovely Comments Republican Atheists Receives from Left Leaning Atheists - YouTube

godef comments on Mar 8, 2018:

OK, so when you think about extremist conservatism, what is one of the first things you think of? Religion. They go so hand-in-hand with one another that I have become to think of modern conservatism as a religion, to the extent that they are so willing to believe off-the-wall stuff that conflicts with reality to hold up their political ideals. I may stand corrected, but I wonder if very many conservative atheists went through any sort of catharsis when they became atheists, as opposed to just having been raised in an environment where religion was simply not pushed on them? Though I didn't realize it at them time, being raised in a conservative family and considering myself conservative in my early years, I became atheist because of my truly liberal sense of being, which I would describe as intellectualism - the ability to think and consider possibilities outside the box and look past the dogma, and I later turned liberal for the same reason. So in my mind, theist : conservative as atheist : liberal. Of course, there are always outlayers, conveyed by the apparent fact that only a small minority of those here who are conservative - it is my hope that they just have yet to complete the journey.

Tough question here! Why are so many people absolutely certain the bible has NO truth in it if they ...

godef comments on Mar 8, 2018:

Are you talking about "truths" or "universal principals". Don't doubt it has a lot of the latter mixed in with the crazy stuff, but the bible isn't the only source of universal prinicipals, and you hear so much of the crazy stuff all the time to understand that it's probably not the best source.

Vatican trains exorcists as demonic possession claims rise

godef comments on Mar 7, 2018:

Do they provide OJT?

If applicable, how did you quit smoking?

godef comments on Mar 7, 2018:

My brother has proven it's easy to quit smoking. He did it all the time.

Florida residents could soon get the power to alter science classes

godef comments on Mar 6, 2018:

Too much Disney World.

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

godef comments on Mar 6, 2018:

You can prick your finger, but you can't finger your prick.

Are snakes with apples always up to no good?

godef comments on Mar 6, 2018:

Almost as bad as clowns with toupees.

Newt Gingirch is claiming that athiests pose a bigger threat to American than does ISIS.

godef comments on Mar 5, 2018:

We slready know he's an idiot.

What are some social etiquette rules everyone should know and follow?

godef comments on Mar 5, 2018:

Dot your T's and cross your eyes.

Breasts

godef comments on Mar 4, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-zMZnY76Qk

Newbie to the community writing poetry hoping someone will notice me. Hey hey hey.

godef comments on Mar 4, 2018:

Was that a Fat Albert impersonation?

Would you eat lab-grown meat?

godef comments on Mar 3, 2018:

I'd have to undertand the science behind it... if it's a cloning kind of thing, or some replication of a mostly natural phenoema, I might be more inclined, as opposed assembled artificially where you get into the whoe processed food thing.

What would be the most memorable travel adventure you have experienced?

godef comments on Mar 3, 2018:

OK, so imagine projecting yourself 10 years in the future and finding yourself travelling in a Russian taxi cab on the beltway around Moscow at 4 in the morning... before knowing you would be hitched to a Russian women who you met while she was visiting her childhood figure skating coach in Massachusetts. And then bringing her grown son to come attend college, only to see him strucken with a brain tumour whic he would not survive, which would lead her devastated and eventually wanting to adopt a Russian child. When I think back on it all, it was quite a journey. We're no longer together unfortunately, another story I'd rather not get into.

Can physical attraction truly be unnecessary in finding a potential relationship?

godef comments on Mar 3, 2018:

It's called friends.

Lay down, lay down, lay it all down!

godef comments on Mar 3, 2018:

Melanie, a favorite of mine a long time ago. Late 60s, early 70s?

What is something you have tried, but will never do again?

godef comments on Mar 2, 2018:

Skydiving. I had one of those Acme parachutes that open on impact... just kidding. But I did lose my concentration on the way down and failed to turn myself into the wind and landed hard, breaking a bone in my calf.

PTSD, roadblock to relationships. How many of us deal with this issue in our lives?

godef comments on Mar 2, 2018:

It may be in some cases people don't even know what they're suffering from. Sure, it may be more evident to someone who has been through battle, which is the biggest PTSD stereotype we've heard about. But by it's very nature, the root cause of PTSD is often buried deep in the psyche of those affected, and only manifests itself as strange reactions to mundane events. My adopted son was physically abused as a child before we adopted him when he just turned seven; on occasions when I'd get upset with with him over something minor, he would often run off and I'd find him hiding behind his bedroom door... I can't begin to imagine the terror he experienced as an adolescent.

Review of More Than 130 Studies Provides Powerful Evidence That Gun Control Saves Lives

godef comments on Mar 2, 2018:

It's common sense, isn't it. Yet, like a religion, people (gun nuts) want to believe the opposite. Their religion is guns. Agruing to them for gun control is like arguing an evangelical about the existence of god.

Atheism as per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [plato.stanford.edu]

godef comments on Mar 2, 2018:

It's all definitions, which are often arbitrary. If someone wants to define atheism to the extent that I am therefore not atheist, that's their privilege. I don't believe in god(s); label me how you want.

As of now I'm Agnostic. Wondering if I should fully convert to Atheism. Thoughts?

godef comments on Mar 1, 2018:

I'd say don't "convert" to atheism for the sake of it. It you come to truly believe there is no supernatural beings that guide us, then in fact you are automatically an atheist. Otherwise, you just make it sound like another form of religion, which it is not.

BIRDER EXPERTISE LEVELS 1.

godef comments on Mar 1, 2018:

It's a bird! It's a plane...

How well do you listen actively?

godef comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Not as well as I talk, unfortunately.

Scientific society is starting to believe there is only 50-50 chance of this world to be real.

godef comments on Feb 28, 2018:

Mularky!

Any Doctor Who fans?