"You have nothing to believe in? How sad..."

[DeterminedJuliet]

So if you ever need help crossing the street~

...Or locating your fake teesh on the bus 

We got him a string for his spoon. Maybe we can get him a string for his teeth?

[OldGit]

^  ^^ Ratbags, the lot of you!   

[Sweetdeath]

^  ^^ Ratbags, the lot of you!   

[Asmodean]

^  ^^ Ratbags, the lot of you!   

Well, in The Asmo's case, gray rat droppings. 

[Sweetdeath]

^  ^^ Ratbags, the lot of you!   

Well, in The Asmo's case, gray rat droppings. 

Ew XD

[xSilverPhinx]

If you think rat droppings are bad, you should see cavy poops. They're like mini factories...

[Hector Valdez]

Eh, what's all this about now, eh?

[The Magic Pudding]

Eh, what's all this about now, eh?

Rat poop/guinea pig poop, a comparative study.

[cncracer]

This was a response i got today from my friend's friend. I went to high school with a boy named CJ. He's a nice dude who lives in my building. We went to see Spiderman today with HIS friend Tommy.

Tommy and i for some reason got into a discussion about religion. He sad he felt bad for me because i had "nothing to believe in."
He said he didn't understand people without religion, and don't want a connection to "God."

I didn't really know how to answer him, except "I just want to be left alone. I want to live my life. Take responsibility for my own actions. Leave it up to probability and chance, versus prayer and a 'miracle. I just feel no need to have a connection with something i feel does not exist. I feel no void. No emptyness. I make my own choices in life, not guided by a divinity, as most religious people seem to really need a crutch or else their lives don't feel valid. I don't need to be made valid by a supernatural being made up by old men who herded goats."


He didn't say much after that, except tried to ask where he thought my mother went after her death. I said "Nowhere. I guess she just doesn't exist anywhere, except in my memories and photographs."

I didn't mean for that to sound so 'cold', but that's how i felt.

I find it sadder when people look down at me with sympathy , saying they can't imagine a life without something to believe in.

Sorry for the mini-rant. It's been a day. I just want to stay home in the a/c. I really hate holidays X__x;;;

As Atheist we have truth to believe in. I personally believe in science, physics, and provable truths through the scientific method. I do not believe in myths and hopes based on primitive goat herding nomads who answered most of their questions on nature by reverting back to ancient sun gods.  If you friend takes the time to read his holy book and see how absurd it is he might wake up and see reality. 

[Amicale]

As Atheist we have truth to believe in. I personally believe in science, physics, and provable truths through the scientific method. I do not believe in myths and hopes based on primitive goat herding nomads who answered most of their questions on nature by reverting back to ancient sun gods.  If you friend takes the time to read his holy book and see how absurd it is he might wake up and see reality. 

Hmm. I understand exactly what you're saying, and I'm absolutely with you on the not believing in old myths. And I don't mean to nitpick, but I don't personally "believe in" science. "Provable truths" can change, and do. I accept current scientific theories that are well established given the current evidence we have for them, but if that evidence were to change and the scientific concepts/theories themselves were to be modified, I wouldn't be devastated. Even the atheist 'pet favourite', evolution - say in 25 years, scientists come out with concrete evidence that evolutionary theory as we previously knew it was either dead wrong or developed very, very differently than we'd thought, I'd accept it and continue on.

It's the process of science and critical thought that I personally value, not the specific conclusions themselves. Although, as theories/current conclusions go, I'd say we currently have some pretty good ones!  I do think that's part of the fun and the joy of appreciating science. We're always learning new things. We're not so wedded to the 'provable truths'/ideas that they can't change; in fact, science always refines its ideas based on new evidence... which is one thing religion never really does, unfortunately.

[xSilverPhinx]

Eh, what's all this about now, eh?

Rat poop/guinea pig poop, a comparative study.

Basic science (science for the sake of science).

Don't take this as me dissing basic science, btw. Um...something useful and practical might come out of it. 

[Hector Valdez]

Mathematics is better than science. [/Obvious inflammatory remark]

[Asmodean]

Mathematics is better than science. [/Obvious inflammatory remark]

The Asmo > math.

[xSilverPhinx]

Mathematics is better than science. [/Obvious inflammatory remark]

The Asmo > math.

How does the Asmo quantify himself?

[Ali]

^^My guess would be that he quantifies himself in comparison to whatever else is being discussed, with "greater than" being the constant.

Asmo>(insert anything here)

Asmo>Cadbury Creme Eggs
Asmo>lamps
Asmo>Quantum Physics
Asmo>those shoes that are supposed to give your bottom an extra workout while you walk
Asmo>pinatas

And so on.